[Federalist via Bongino] New York’s nursing homes — were compelled by a state regulation to take in recovering coronavirus victims, many of whom were likely still contagious.
The implication of this rule — which was apparently strictly enforced and similar to the order issued by California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration — was that facilities filled with exactly the most vulnerable population had no choice but to admit carriers of the contagion. The results of this blunder were as brutal as they were predictable. As of last week, New York’s Health Department estimated the number of nursing home patients who had died of COVID-19 to be 3,500, a total representing more than 20 percent of all the state’s fatalities. Government is a name for the things we do together
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I really do not dig Ivanka and Jared's involvement in the Trump administration. That said, it's out in the open, unlike Hugh Rodham's antics. If Mr. Cum-oh ever runs for prexident, watch CNN contort to explain how Fredo can be allowed to remain on the air.
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#3 How many times you read here in 'burg staff along the lines "we must not destroy the future of millions of young people to preserve a few months of life for the a few old"?
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No, IIUC, based on what the nursing home operator is saying it seems an open and shut case: this goof sent people who were infectious back into the nursing homes.
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Be aware that the "If it saves just one life" crowd is automatically silent when an innocent person is killed in a no knock drug raid at the wrong address, so stick the "trade old lives for young" straw man in the furnace.
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While a hospital ship with lots of beds floated nearby empty. While most of those elderly probably had family somewhere in the area and could have been encouraged to take them in.
So avoidable. They knew that either the tests were bad or that the virus returned. Either way you don't put the sick back among the most vulnerable populations.
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The political presumption is that every additional person who catches this might not only die but also might infect multiple others who also might second verse same as the first. It's not. Even bubonic plague didn't do that. We're not being told that.
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Well, the WHO said it wasn't contagious, didn't they? So let's see how the MSM picks and chooses what parts of the WHO narrative fits theirs. And Facebook/Google censorship, too.
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Why would a man who has no problem killing premmies have any reservation on killing those on the other end of their time line? Besides, they'll still vote Democrat.
[Free Beacon] To the casual observer, it's clear that the mainstream media operate under a default assumption when it comes to women who accuse political figures of sexual assault: The ones who accuse Republicans are inherently more credible than the ones who accuse Democrats.
This bias has become so obvious as the media struggle to handle Tara Reade's credible allegation of sexual assault against former vice president Joe Biden—especially compared with the hysterical coverage surrounding Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's allegation against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh—that even members of the media are beginning to notice. They are shocked—SHOCKED!—that critics of the media's handling of Reade's allegations might have a point.
"For Biden's opponents on the right, the issue regarding Tara Reade doesn't seem to be that they actually believe her. In fact, I don't know if they do," Sam Stein, politics editor at the Daily Beast, wrote on Twitter. "It's that they feel the left is engaged in an insane degree of hypocrisy and political convenience over when to believe women."
Stein delivers this "insight" with the scientific self-confidence of a nerd watching sports for the first time and observing in his little nerd notebook that fans' opinions of the referees can change dramatically depending on which team benefits from a given call. The casual observer might have a different response. "No s—," for example.
[BREITBART] An illegal alien has been charged in Polk County, Florida, for possessing more than 200 video files depicting child pornography, some involving toddler victims.
Nabor Molina, a 45-year-old illegal alien from Mexico, was arrested on April 27 by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office on 125 counts of possessing child pornography, including depictions of child rape and sexual battery.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd described the files allegedly in Molina’s possession as "horrific displays of children being forced to expose their genitals, forced to perform sex acts — images of children being raped."
"Nabor Molina has access to children; at this time in the investigation, it doesn’t appear that any of them are victims, but we will continue to investigate whether he has abused any children he’s had access to," Judd said in a statement. "But Molina is a part of a child pornographic exploitation distribution pipeline that victimizes children across the world. His behavior is disgusting."
Molina had been residing in Lakeland, Florida, when it was revealed that he had allegedly been downloading hundreds of files of child pornography. Investigators first took on the case in February.
"The video files consisted of male and female victims, some as young as 18-36 months, being sexually battered by adults or other children and/or exposed in a lewd manner," Polk County officials said in a news release. "After making a connection between the videos to Molina’s residence, internet service, and cell phone, detectives were able to obtain a search warrant for his home."
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Thought for a second this might be about Married Bro Omar.
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As utterly sick as this may be (akin to Anthony Weiner's "sexting" where he didn't do anything physical), if this suspect just has this filth on his computer, then who cares? But if this weirdo lays one finger on a child, THEN you hammer him and hammer him good. Yes, it's disgusting, but in the end, there was no actual abuse by this sicko.
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What about the gentle citizens of Polk County ? Does this sit right with them ?
Where are the Florida Men when the children need them ? No such action is perfect, but with enough brainstorming and good follow through, every thing can be achieved by a committed network of honest people. Just saying.
People disregard these things growing in their vicinity, until they strike one of their own children. When they do, they're whisked off in cars where the taxpayers money protects them and feeds them. And then it's the same dance of despair to the music of black robed reality. It's not fair.
[PJ Media] The University of Delaware must release presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s Senate records, according to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request the pro-Trump super PAC Great America PAC filed on Thursday. Great America PAC insisted that former Biden staffer Tara Reade’s sexual assault claims made it even more important for the university to release the papers — which are already public record. Reade claims Biden digitally penetrated her in 1993, claims the presidential campaign denies — but which Biden has not personally addressed.
"While Democratic leaders and the national media can try to protect Joe Biden by ignoring this serious allegation, the University of Delaware cannot do the same," Ed Rollins, the PAC’s chairman, said in a statement. "As a publicly funded university holding public records, they must immediately release these critical documents in the public interest. Furthermore, since Joe Biden claims the allegations are false, he should want these records released to help clear his name. If Biden blocks their release, what is he hiding?"
In the FOIA request, the PAC contends that Biden’s Senate records are public to begin with, and they are now in the possession of a state institution, which is regularly cataloging and managing them.
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All politician's writings are the property of the public that paid them. If they didn't want it in the public domain they shouldn't have written it down. Of course their egos are diametrically opposed to that common sense rule.
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[THEHILL] Roger Stone's lawyers told a court on Thursday that they intend to appeal the right-wing wardheeler's 40-month prison sentence and a judge's decision to deny him a new trial.
Stone was convicted in November following a jury trial on charges of lying to Congress and witness tampering in a case that stemmed from his efforts to serve as a backchannel between President Trump's 2016 campaign and WikiLeaks.
After the verdict was pronounced, his lawyers alleged that one of the jurors was biased against Stone because of political beliefs she had voiced on social media. They argued that her bias had prejudiced the jury and was grounds for granting Stone a new trial.
Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an Obama appointee, denied Stone's motion earlier this month, saying that a juror's criticisms of the president are not evidence that she was biased against Trump's former adviser and confidant.
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Last night on Tucker Carlson’s show he noted that Stones order to report to federal prison this weekend was delayed for a month by the Federal Bureau of Prisons at the last minute. WhuFlu delay or something more significant. I don’t recall anything about blanket delays in intake?
[REALCLEARPOLITICS] If you want a preview of Democrats’ agenda should they gain more political power this fall, look no further than coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... legislation that 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... released last month. That bill includes an array of liberal spending provisions out of sync with the American people’s priorities — including taxpayer funding of plans that cover child sacrifice abortion.
One costly provision in Democrats’ 1,404-page monstrosity would significantly expand the Obamacare ...aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read... insurance subsidy system. These provisions, which Pelosi wants to enact under the guise of the coronavirus emergency, would raise federal spending on these insurance subsidies in perpetuity — without attempting to pay for this new spending.
This expanded subsidy would quietly allocate additional federal dollars subsidizing insurance plans that cover child sacrifice abortion. Already, Obamacare contains no meaningful restrictions on taxpayer funding of child sacrifice abortion coverage. Expanding the law’s subsidy without enacting pro-life protections would mean additional taxpayer money flowing to plans that cover child sacrifice abortion.
Not too many years ago, pro-life Democrats supported restrictions on taxpayer funding of child sacrifice abortion via the Hyde Amendment. Named for pro-life Illinois congressman and enacted every year since 1976, the provision prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars to fund child sacrifice abortion, except in the cases of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.
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[Fox News] Internal FBI documents unsealed Thursday indicate that Peter Strzok -- the now-disgraced anti-Trump former head of FBI counterintelligence -- ordered the investigation of former national security adviser Michael Flynn to remain open even after it was slated to be closed due to a lack of so-called "derogatory" information.
The materials surfaced just a day after explosive FBI communications revealed that top bureau officials discussed their motivations for interviewing Flynn in the White House on January 24, 2017 -- and openly questioned if their "goal" was "to get him to lie, so we can prosecute him or get him fired."
Those handwritten notes -- written by the FBI's former head of counterintelligence Bill Priestap, Fox News is told -- suggested that agents planned in the alternative to get Flynn "to admit to breaking the Logan Act" when he spoke to then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak during the presidential transition period. The Logan Act has never been used in a criminal prosecution and has a questionable constitutional status; it was enacted in 1799 in an era before telephones, and was intended to prevent individuals from falsely claiming to represent the United States government abroad.
In late 2017, Flynn pleaded guilty to making false statements to Strzok and another agent during that White House interview. But he has yet to be sentenced, as his team has sought to withdraw his guilty plea, citing "egregious" FBI misconduct. (The other interviewing agent, most likely Supervisory Special Agent Joe Pientka, has been scrubbed from the FBI website after Fox News asked the bureau about him, and he has largely evaded scrutiny -- despite his key role in both the Flynn probe and Carter Page investigations.)
Thursday's document release shows that on January 4, 2017, weeks before the fateful January 24, 2017 White House interview, the FBI’s Washington Field Office issued a "Closing Communication" indicating that the bureau was terminating "CROSSFIRE RAZOR" -- the newly disclosed codename for the investigation of Flynn.
According to the January 4 memo, the goal of CROSSFIRE RAZOR was to determine whether Flynn "was directed and controlled by" or "coordinated activities with the Russian Federation in a manner which is a threat to the national security" of the United States or a violation of federal foreign agent laws.
In pursuit of information on Flynn, the "Crossfire Hurricane" team investigating the Trump team "conducted a check of logical databases for any derogatory information" on Flynn. The January 4 FBI report states that "no derogatory information was identified in FBI holdings."
The memo also discusses additional FBI efforts to check information on Flynn, apparently through other US agencies. Just like the FBI, they also found "no derogatory information" on Flynn.
The FBI’s investigation of Flynn also included reaching out to a confidential human source (CHS) and an analysis of Flynn’s travel. The CHS informed the FBI of Flynn speaking at an event, which remained redacted. The CHS further stated that Flynn had dinner and drinks with those in attendance and took a cab and a train with an unidentified individual whose "father may be a Russian Oligarch."
That may be a reference to Svetlana Lokhova, a Russian academic and author who has disputed any ties to Russian intelligence and has defended her brief interactions with Flynn, including in interviews with Fox News. It appears the FBI found no concern for any of Flynn’s ties to Lokhova.
Based on the lack of derogatory information, the Washington Field Office concluded that Flynn "was no longer a viable candidate as part of the larger CROSSFIRE HURRICANE umbrella case."
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With Osama Bin Obama running it from on top. It's Clapper's, Comey and so ons relations with Barry. White House visitor logs done to an event timeline.
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If ever there was or is grounds for a triple damage rico case, the conspiracy against Flynn justifies one against the whole former (and present?) FBI leadership, along probably with the Mueller investigation honchos, and maybe lots of others, such as members of his law firm.
By the way Flynn would make a good successor to Wray in the FBI, although perhaps his former position would bemore appropriate.
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Do us all a favor you POS, eat a gun. How many lives have you torn apart?
[Federalist] Former FBI Director James Comey once bragged about launching an operation to frame former Trump White House National Security Advisor Michael Flynn during a 2018 interview with NBC's Nicole Wallace at a 92nd Street Y conference.
"You look at this White House now and it's hard to imagine two FBI agents ending up in the Sit room, how did that happen?" Wallace asked.
"I sent them," Comey said plainly. "Something I probably wouldn't have done or even gotten away with in a more organized investigation, a more organized administration."
Comey pointed at previous administrations under Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush where the FBI director would have gone through a series of protocols before interrogating senior staff.
"In both of those administrations there was process, so if the FBI wanted to send agents into the White House itself to interview a senior official, you would work through the White House counsel, and there would be discussions and approvals of who would be there and I thought it's early enough, let's just send a couple guys over," Comey said. "And so we placed a call to Flynn and said ‘Hey, we're sending a couple guys over, hope you'll talk to them.' He said ‘sure.' Nobody else was there, they interviewed him in a conference room at the White House situation room and he lied to them."
Wallace followed up, asking Comey what he though Flynn thought the conversation was going to be about.
"I don't think he knew," Comey said. "We didn't tell him."
Comey's comments come on the heels of new Federalist reporting from co-founder Sean Davis that FBI documents reveal that the federal law enforcement agency's goal was to get Flynn fired.
Handwritten notes from the FBI obtained by The Federalist reveal that the agents investigating Flynn under Comey's direction sought "to get him to lie so we can prosecute him or get him fired."
As Comey admitted, Flynn was questioned by federal prosecutors in 2017 without being told what he was being interrogated for and without an attorney present about conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Last fall, a former Comey assistant published a book accusing the FBI chief of abusing his power to flout protocols in order to create a perjury trap for the White House security advisor.
"We just decided, you know, screw it," Comey said according to Josh Campbell.
While the individual identity of the FBI notetaker in unclear, they wrote that agents were alternatively seeking to indict Flynn on charges for violating the Logan Act, a 1799 law prohibiting private citizens from speaking with foreign diplomats widely viewed as unconstitutional.
"It's clear now that James Comey will go down in history as the most corrupt FBI director in American history," Davis said on Fox News joining Laura Ingraham on Wednesday. "He has destroyed the FBI's reputation through his actions, his arrogance, and his corruption."
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I'm fast reaching the point where FBI agents should be wired for video and sound 24/7. The moment they commit any crime, misdemeanor or not, justice is carried out by a 1/4 of C4 wired to the back of their head.
That's too easy. He needs to be tried, convicted and jailed for a good, long time. An example needs to be set and the trial would show the whole world what Trump has been up against. It all needs to come out in the open.
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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.
[Free Beacon] To the casual observer, it's clear that the mainstream media operate under a default assumption when it comes to women who accuse political figures of sexual assault: The ones who accuse Republicans are inherently more credible than the ones who accuse Democrats.
[BREITBART] An illegal alien has been charged in Polk County, Florida, for possessing more than 200 video files depicting child pornography, some involving toddler victims.
[PJ Media] The University of Delaware must release presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s Senate records, according to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request the pro-Trump super PAC Great America PAC filed on Thursday. Great America PAC insisted that former Biden staffer Tara Reade’s sexual assault claims made it even more important for the university to release the papers — which are already public record. Reade claims Biden digitally penetrated her in 1993, claims the presidential campaign denies — but which Biden has not personally addressed.
[THEHILL] Roger Stone's lawyers told a court on Thursday that they intend to appeal the right-wing 
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
