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Former Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shallah
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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Biden VP candidate: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have been 'quietly' educating themselves about Black Lives Matter by holding meetings with community leaders and people involved 'at every level', royal expert claims
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/07/2020 10:51 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Of all the possible, hard earned derision that goes along with the title 'expert' these days, how much worse must it be to be a 'Royal expert'?
Posted by: Cesare || 06/07/2020 12:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Fellating Boosh, no doubt.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/07/2020 12:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Attention whoring as she finds her life choices were not what she expected after scoring the big ticket and birthing the paycheck for life Archie. Your were a brief shiny thing after pissing on the Queens leg but now you are just another fading pretty thing whose grifter character has ruined a clueless royal who was trying to find relevance...
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 06/07/2020 12:45 Comments || Top||

#4  They deserve each other. "Royal" worshippers deserve them too...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/07/2020 13:40 Comments || Top||


-War on Police-
VIDEO: Liberal Minneapolis Mayor Kicked Out of Protest and Taunted When Refuses to Defund Police
Posted by: 3dc || 06/07/2020 02:06 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Antifa


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
in 1966 the USSR nuked a burning oil well
[Twitter]
Strange stuff you never knew or suspected.

Posted by: 3dc || 06/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Got an spare nukes lying around? Darvaza gas crater
Posted by: Spike Tojo6844 || 06/07/2020 6:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe plan to nuke the Centralia coal fire an hit gubberner Woof instead?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/07/2020 11:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Did it work?
Posted by: Skidmark || 06/07/2020 14:18 Comments || Top||

#4  yes
Posted by: 3dc || 06/07/2020 18:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Sounds like a John Wayne move.
Posted by: Chuckles Gray6110 || 06/07/2020 23:08 Comments || Top||


Europe
Killing Free Speech in Switzerland
[GatestoneInstitute]
  • ECRI's
    the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance
    monitoring of Switzerland, since its first report about the country was published in 1998, is an illustrative example of the organization's persistent efforts -- and considerable success -- over the past two decades in limiting free speech in Europe.

  • Already in its first report on Switzerland, in 1998, ECRI -- despite admitting that "a decrease in manifestations of racism and intolerance has been noted over the last 2-3 years" and that "overt manifestations of [racial prejudices and xenophobia] are rather rare," told the Swiss media to promote specific narratives...

  • "ECRI is concerned that a climate of intolerance or xenophobia towards non-citizens and those who are different from the native Swiss population appears to persist". No substantial documentation was offered as basis for the allegation -- ECRI even criticized in the same report that "little information is systematically collected in Switzerland regarding the extent of racism and discrimination" -- but none seemed to be needed, as ECRI's motivation appeared to be political...

  • Throughout the years, ECRI has stressed the media's central role in promoting specific, politicized agendas.

    ECRI noted that Swiss journalists already have a code in place that states that they "must avoid any allusion by text, image or sound to a person's ethnic or national origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation as well as to any illness or physical or mental handicap that could be discriminatory in character."

    As for the Internet, ECRI noted that Swiss authorities had informed the organization that they were "seeking cooperation with relevant Internet service providers to improve the identification of authors of hate speech and to have such content removed as quickly as possible..."

    ECRI has done a good job helping Europeans kill free speech.
  • Posted by: Clem || 06/07/2020 09:19 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI)
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/07/2020 10:39 Comments || Top||


    Home Front: Politix
    Hickenlooper Guilty on Ethics Charge
    [FREEBEACON] A state ethics committee ruled on Friday that former Colorado governor and current Senate candidate John Hickenlooper
    ... former governor of Colorado, yet another of 2020's innumerable Dem candidates. His selling points include being less grabby than Biden, less Cherokee than Warren, assuming that's possible, and taller than Gillebrand...
    (D.) violated a ban on accepting gifts while in office.

    The Colorado Independent Ethics Commission decided that Hickenlooper's flight on a campaign donor's private jet, as well as his attendance at a conference in Italia, violated the ban, according to the Colorado Sun. Hickenlooper initially refused to appear at the hearing, prompting the condemnation of a federal judge and members of the commission.

    "If we allow this kind of special privately financed treatment for elected officials it just accentuates the cynicism in the public that led to Amendment 41," one commission member said. The amendment, adopted in 2006, placed a ban on elected officials accepting gifts while in office.

    The commission unanimously voted to hold Hickenlooper in contempt of court after he refused to appear at a remote hearing. He became the first person in the state to be held in contempt by the commission, and he eventually appeared on Friday.

    Hickenlooper defied both a judge's order and a subpoena from the commission to appear at the hearing. He claimed the remote format, adopted because of the 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...
    pandemic, would not lead to a fair trial.

    His Senate campaign spokeswoman also called the complaints "politically motivated."

    Posted by: Fred || 06/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Hickenlooper's flight on a campaign donor's private jet

    Was it Epstein Air?
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/07/2020 0:25 Comments || Top||

    #2  John Hickenlooper (D). I'm shocked.
    Posted by: Clem || 06/07/2020 10:03 Comments || Top||

    #3  Exonerated on appeal because ghey...
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/07/2020 14:06 Comments || Top||

    #4  Well lets hope this closes the door on the Dems in Colorado Senate race, allowing Gardner to keep that one for the GOPers
    Posted by: Chuckles Gray6110 || 06/07/2020 23:07 Comments || Top||


    NRCC turns up heat on vulnerable Democrats over Omar's call to abolish police
    [THEHILL] Republican operatives are attempting to link vulnerable Democrats to progressive members’ calls to disband police departments and reduce their budgets as they look to flip key swing districts in November.

    Top progressive politicians and outside groups have called for substantial changes to the structure of U.S. law enforcement after the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in Minneapolis who died during an arrest after a police officer knelt on his neck.

    Rep. Ilhan Omar
    ...Somali-American Dem representative from Minnesota. She was apparently married to her brother and may be her own grandmaw on her mother's side...
    (D-Minn.) tweeted Friday: "The Minneapolis Police Department has proven themselves beyond reform. It’s time to disband them and reimagine public safety in Minneapolis."

    Rep. Alexandria Boom Boom Ocasio-Cortez
    Dem Congressgirl from da Bronx in Noo Yawk and leader of the Mean Girl Caucus in Congress. One of the Great Minds of the 21st Century, she is known as much for her innaleck as for her dance moves. She is all in favor of socialism, even though she's fuzzy on the details. She was the inventor of the Green New Deal, though she doesn't talk about it much anymore...
    (D-N.Y.) also took to social media to blast New York’s police budget, tweeting: "If police budgets bought peace, the $6 billion NYPD budget would’ve bought the most sophisticated de-escalatory operation in the world. Clearly, it didn’t."
    Posted by: Fred || 06/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Hey, Boom Boom - why doncha comment on "The ar on Poverty"?
    Posted by: Bobby || 06/07/2020 0:33 Comments || Top||

    #2  Search for "pounce" returns no hits?



    Ocrazio-Cuntez: "If police budgets bought peace, the $6 billion NYPD budget would’ve bought the most sophisticated de-escalatory operation in the world. Clearly, it didn’t."

    Cool, so you won't need any money from the rest of us.
    Posted by: charger || 06/07/2020 1:03 Comments || Top||

    #3  Send us money message coming from Paul Ryan and Justin Amash right quick now..
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/07/2020 13:28 Comments || Top||

    #4  Abolish police?? Every major city doing this would be given over to the criminal element. I'd give it no more than a week without police before these progressive politicians would be begging for the police to return.
    Posted by: JohnQC || 06/07/2020 14:58 Comments || Top||

    #5  I wish they could "defund" these chump politicians. The NYPD turned their backs on Wilhelm how many years ago now?
    Posted by: Clem || 06/07/2020 15:02 Comments || Top||

    #6  Abolish Police? I'm going long on Rope futures (the trees already exist)
    Posted by: Frank G || 06/07/2020 16:03 Comments || Top||


    Val Demings’ Orlando police career could hurt — or help — her chances to become Joe Biden’s running mate
    "Only time will tell!"
    [ORLANDOSENTINEL] Val Demings’ meteoric rise from the Orlando Police Department to the halls of Congress and a starring role in the impeachment of President Donald Trump
    ...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election...
    has reportedly landed her on the shortlist of contenders to join former Vice President Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
    ...Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant...
    atop the Democratic ticket this fall.

    But Demings’ background as a former police chief at a department that has been accused of using force excessively, including during her tenure, could prove a challenge on the national stage, particularly when people across the country are protesting in the streets against police brutality.

    To national Democrats, Demings is a rising star who has already once taken on Trump. In Central Florida, she’s half of a political and law enforcement power couple, along with husband and Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings, himself a former Orlando police chief and county sheriff.

    "One could argue she is uniquely qualified to help find solutions [and] help craft policies for departments across the country struggling to overcome the image that many of them use force recklessly, particularly against African Americans and other minorities," said Aubrey Jewett, a professor of political science at the University of Central Florida.

    But, Jewett cautioned, many progressives "are already not that comfortable with Joe Biden. And if he picks someone who was a police chief — even though she’s an African American woman — that might be a deal-breaker for some of those voters."

    As the nation has been roiled by protests since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of police, Demings, 63, has touted her law enforcement credentials but also framed herself as a reformer with a strong connection to marginalized and minority communities.

    "What happened to George Floyd should not have happened under any circumstances," Demings told the Orlando Sentinel on Friday. "It certainly was not a deadly force situation, yet deadly force was used."
    Posted by: Fred || 06/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  "What happened to George Floyd should not have happened under any circumstances," Demings told the Orlando Sentinel on Friday. "It certainly was not a deadly force situation, yet deadly force was used."

    Unfortunate, yes. Was the restraint part of the Minneapolis Police training?
    Posted by: Bobby || 06/07/2020 0:35 Comments || Top||

    #2  Demings hubby and wife pretty much run Orange County, which will vote blue anyway, so I don't see the vote pickup here.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/07/2020 13:04 Comments || Top||

    #3  Safe to say neither Jerry nor Val would be elected in the surrounding counties except Hillsborough.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/07/2020 13:06 Comments || Top||

    #4  Of course, "some people" want another Valrangoutan influencing what goes on in the Oval Office...

    I will surely get busted for this...
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/07/2020 13:11 Comments || Top||


    The FBI’s Investigation Into Trump and Russia Now Looks Even Worse
    [Bloomberg] Rod Rosenstein says he was kept in the dark about important parts of the probe.
    He must now know who pulled down the shades. As a demonstration of his pure-hearted anger, a full and detailed list would be welcome.
    The FBI’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign has taken a beating in the last six months. Late last year, the Justice Department’s inspector general found the bureau’s application to eavesdrop on a former aide to then-candidate Donald Trump
    ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves...
    ’s campaign was riddled with factual errors and omissions. The surveillance court that approved that warrant has barred the agents who submitted it from appearing before it. And last month the Justice Department dropped its case against former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

    Continued on Page 49
    Posted by: trailing wife || 06/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  "Worse" you say?

    "Worse" than what? Worse than Waco, Ruby Ridge, 9/11, Nadal Hasan, the Tsarnaev Bros, Roger Stone, the FBI investigative team sent to Benghazi, the DNC IT repairman - Shahid Imran Awan & family, the Clinton 'home brew' IT servers......?
    Posted by: Besoeker || 06/07/2020 7:45 Comments || Top||

    #2  The are really getting to the bottom of this, aren't they? /sarc
    Posted by: Clem || 06/07/2020 7:54 Comments || Top||

    #3  Besoeker, you forgot Whitey Bulger.
    Posted by: Cesare || 06/07/2020 8:08 Comments || Top||

    #4  Fast and Furious guns to the cartels.
    Posted by: JohnQC || 06/07/2020 14:33 Comments || Top||


    Maxine Waters Freaks Out: Remove Trump ‘Before this Would-Be Dictator Takes Us All Down’
    [BREITBART]
    Posted by: Fred || 06/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Don't worry dearie. Your idiot constituents, where you don't even live, will still reelect you.
    Posted by: Spike Tojo6844 || 06/07/2020 6:48 Comments || Top||

    #2  Hey, Maxine, can you give us all an update on Putin's invasion of North Korea? Thanks in advance.
    Posted by: Clem || 06/07/2020 6:50 Comments || Top||

    #3  Crazy.
    Posted by: Dacama || 06/07/2020 7:24 Comments || Top||

    #4  if by 'all' you mean the scum infecting Congress for the last 50 or so years (like yourself), that's why we elected him, sweetie
    Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 06/07/2020 8:07 Comments || Top||

    #5  I understand she & her hubby have a nice little shack. Hmmm, benefit much from legislation there, Maxine?
    Posted by: Clem || 06/07/2020 8:11 Comments || Top||

    #6  Slappy Maxie should be a target of BLM cause she gives that whole idea a bad name.
    Posted by: AlanC || 06/07/2020 8:39 Comments || Top||

    #7  That ditsy broad gives the human race a bad name.
    Posted by: Clem || 06/07/2020 9:25 Comments || Top||

    #8  Somethin' somethin' use your face to make gorilla cookies.
    Posted by: Raj || 06/07/2020 11:56 Comments || Top||

    #9  If Trump were the dictator that Mad Maxine and others claim he is, most of them would have disappeared long ago. Or be found hanging from lampposts.
    Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/07/2020 12:07 Comments || Top||

    #10  Idiots such as Maxine, Nancy, et al., can't formulate any logical (winning) arguments, so it is just the usual use of emotional words (dictator, racist, xenophobe). When you hear that rubbish, you know they've lost the argument. But sadly, people out there believe that nonsense, the ones who [re-]elect these a-holes.
    Posted by: Clem || 06/07/2020 12:11 Comments || Top||

    #11  FBI malfeasance / malpractice: Didn't work
    Media malfeasance / malpractice: Didn't work
    25th Amendment: Didn't / won't work
    Large asteroids spotted by NASA: Won't work
    COVID: didn't work
    Forever quarantine: Didn't work
    Race Riots: Not working, petering out.
    ...Next?
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/07/2020 12:41 Comments || Top||

    #12  They'll circle back to Covid-19; us Star Trek fans call that 'rotating the shield frequencies'.
    Posted by: Raj || 06/07/2020 14:04 Comments || Top||

    #13  Jeez - can't believe I just cracked my first beer...
    Posted by: Raj || 06/07/2020 14:05 Comments || Top||

    #14  Can we have someone take her out? Preferably to the nut house.
    Posted by: DarthVader || 06/07/2020 22:58 Comments || Top||

    #15  If Trump were Hitler as she claims, she'd be hanging by her ankles with her throat cut.
    Posted by: Marilyn Tojo7566 || 06/07/2020 23:17 Comments || Top||


    Hillary Clinton asks appeals court to help her dodge Judicial Watch deposition on emails and Benghazi
    [WASHINGTONEXAMINER] A three-judge appeals court panel heard arguments this week from 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. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
    ’s lawyer and Judicial Watch as the former secretary of state seeks to avoid a deposition about her private email server and the Benghazi attack talking points.

    Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, argued Tuesday that the depositions of Clinton and Clinton's former chief of staff, Cheryl Mills, ordered by a D.C. district court judge was necessary to understand whether Clinton attempted to avoid the Freedom of Information Act when she improperly used a private server to conduct her State Department business and whether the agency adequately searched for all her emails.
    "We have no recollection of any of it"
    "I haven't asked you anything yet"

    Continued on Page 49
    Posted by: Fred || 06/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:


    #2  I question how anyone 'with a beating heart and a working mind' supported HildaB.
    Posted by: JohnQC || 06/07/2020 14:31 Comments || Top||


    Home Front: Culture Wars
    Estee Lauder Employees Demand Ouster of Ronald Lauder for Trump Donations
    [PJMedia] Employees of the cosmetic giant Estee Lauder have written a letter to Chairman William Lauder demanding that he fire board member Ronald Lauder because of his contributions to Donald Trump
    ...dictatorial for repealing some (but not all) of the diktats of his predecessor, misogynistic because he likes pretty girls, homophobic because he doesn't think gender bending should be mandatory, truly a man for all seasons......
    and conservative causes. They are also demanding the $3 billion company show more support to black groups, including Black Lives Matter.

    The company told employees they were doing all they can and that Ronald Lauder does not speak for Estee Lauder.

    Seeking to destroy Ronald Lauder — a distinguished public servant who served as ambassador in the Reagan administration and is president of the World Jewish Congress — is an exercise in activist politics. Who will be targeted next?
    Posted by: trailing wife || 06/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  Shakedown.
    Jesse Jackson's PUSH, on steroids
    Posted by: Lex || 06/07/2020 0:50 Comments || Top||

    #2  Excellent. Management now has a list of candidates for the next round of layoffs.
    Posted by: Zhang Fei || 06/07/2020 2:51 Comments || Top||

    #3  The world is certainly awash in confusion as to the nature of the proverbial totem pole and one's location upon it.
    Posted by: Cesare || 06/07/2020 8:02 Comments || Top||

    #4  Fire them.
    Posted by: Abu Uluque || 06/07/2020 9:55 Comments || Top||

    #5  Shitcan 'em and tell them to 'learn to code', bitchez.
    Posted by: Raj || 06/07/2020 11:21 Comments || Top||

    #6  There's no law against political discrimination, fire them all and laugh like hell.
    Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/07/2020 11:53 Comments || Top||

    #7  They should read that article about all the interns at the major financial firm who turned in a petition complaining about the dress code and they wanted to wear sneakers like this one woman there. 25 of 26 interns signed it. Well, turns out the woman in sneakers was a vet injured by IED's and it was a medical accommodation and every intern that signed it got shown the door. #26 was smart.
    Posted by: Silentbrick || 06/07/2020 11:54 Comments || Top||


    Government
    Minneapolis Mayor Asks Trump For Aid After Riots Cause At Least $55 Million In Damage
    [DAILYWIRE] The Minneapolis mayor is asking for federal help cleaning up and rebuilding his city after rioters caused at least $55 million worth of damage through looting, burning, and defacing public and private property.

    That cost estimate is likely to increase in the coming days as government officials continue to tally the damage done in the wake of George Floyd’s death, Mayor Jacob Frey said according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the state’s congressional delegation are also pushing the Trump administration and Congress for funding.

    On Tuesday, city officials released an initial estimate of $55 million in damage done to at least 220 buildings. The mayor said that the number was likely a lowball estimate and that the total cost of the riots across Minneapolis and the state capital of St. Paul is likely to be "tens, if not hundreds of millions" of dollars.

    "We will do everything we can as we shift to recovery mode," Frey said, according to the Star Tribune. "We’re recovering from crises sandwiched on top of each other, from COVID-19 to the police killing and then the looting which took place afterward."

    City and state officials are attempting to get financial support from Congress or through the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Neither option looks promising, Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN) said.

    Posted by: Fred || 06/07/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [16 views] Top|| File under:

    #1  In the words of the mayor of Chicago, "It begins with F and ends in u".
    Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 06/07/2020 0:13 Comments || Top||

    #2  $55 million should be easy to raise. All you need is $1 mil each from rich people and the Foundations. Gates can start the ball rolling.
    Posted by: Klem Kadiddlehopper || 06/07/2020 0:34 Comments || Top||

    #3  Get the Antifa people to pay that. They caused the riots, make them pay.
    Posted by: Seeking Cure For Ignorance || 06/07/2020 1:02 Comments || Top||

    #4  City employees are paid as much as $191,000. And there are thousands of city employees. The Mayor is paid about $156,000.

    So what you have is a bunch of crooks running and working for the city whose only goal is to reduce services, increase pay checks and run up a huge deficit ($1.6 billion in debt) with no rainy day savings for emergencies.

    Emergencies like riots. Riots that Velma Korbel, Director Civil Rights, is paid $158,531 to prevent.
    Posted by: Crins Throlusing3119 || 06/07/2020 2:13 Comments || Top||

    #5  Raze the buildings and salt the earth.
    Posted by: Beau || 06/07/2020 2:39 Comments || Top||

    #6  Ask Soros.
    Posted by: Spike Tojo6844 || 06/07/2020 6:26 Comments || Top||

    #7  I say the state governor should cough up some dough. Then, maybe some virtue-signalling CEO's (Target?) and celebrities and athletes can pitch in.
    Posted by: Clem || 06/07/2020 8:05 Comments || Top||

    #8  residents may start moving back to Mogadishu
    Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 06/07/2020 8:05 Comments || Top||

    #9  Too late for that Somali killer cop to move back.
    Posted by: Clem || 06/07/2020 8:09 Comments || Top||

    #10  The classic perp who murders his parents then throws himself upon the mercy of the court because he's now an orphan.

    You let it burn. You clean it up.
    Posted by: Procopius2k || 06/07/2020 8:47 Comments || Top||

    #11  Ten $100,000 salaries of bureaucratic functionaries is $1,000,000. With benefits and pension promises maybe $2m? So dump 250 admins and section heads.
    Posted by: Skidmark || 06/07/2020 10:45 Comments || Top||

    #12  All that matters is, people in 49 other states had no say in your comfy union deals. Taxation without representation? We do have it now, but it's not a forever thing.
    Posted by: M. Murcek || 06/07/2020 13:19 Comments || Top||

    #13  Use the cash you're de-funding the police with.
    Posted by: bbrewer126 || 06/07/2020 14:35 Comments || Top||

    #14  Hopefully the Feds won't cave. Out here in the rural counties of MN, though we're still screwed. State gov't almost top to bottom Democrats - guess who'll end up paying for Mppls rebuild? Reminds me of a line I read in Churchill's History of the English-speaking People: "They were almost entirely democratic and much given to robbery."
    Posted by: Mercutio || 06/07/2020 14:36 Comments || Top||

    #15  That's smacks of a shakedown. Riots---> money. Reinforcing bad behavior. We are and have been paying the bills for these poorly managed leftwing money pits for a long time. The looting, violence and burning should have been stopped; such things tend to be costly. Perhaps when the citizens of Minneapolis have to pay this bill, it won't occur again. Maybe they won't elect the dingbat politicians who are simpatico with the mobs, street thugs and criminals.
    Posted by: JohnQC || 06/07/2020 14:49 Comments || Top||

    #16  "We’re recovering from crises sandwiched on top of each other, each one of which we have bungled beyond comprehension..."
    Posted by: Tom || 06/07/2020 16:46 Comments || Top||

    #17 
    Posted by: 3dc || 06/07/2020 18:55 Comments || Top||

    #18  Minneapolis city council just disbanded the police department. Considering they technically did this when they ran out of the police station they are making it official. Lots of homes for sale in 5,4,3....
    Posted by: Airandee || 06/07/2020 20:04 Comments || Top||

    #19  SWEET. Everything's 100% OFF!
    Posted by: Frank G || 06/07/2020 21:00 Comments || Top||

    #20  Insurance rates ought to be interesting, as well as ADT (alarm company) stock if no cops to respond.

    They'll replace 'em with some other entity, perhaps.
    Posted by: Clem || 06/07/2020 21:11 Comments || Top||

    #21  Been trying to imagine this "community public safety" the moonbats are talking about. Near as I can figure it'll end up being gangs of officially recognized vigilantes.. or more like the Mafia families.. This is our turf - stay out. Can't see that there's be much actual city oversight or co-ordination between "territories".
    Posted by: Mercutio || 06/07/2020 21:19 Comments || Top||

    #22  How about Hell's Angels. Antifa seems allergic to them.
    Posted by: Spike Tojo6844 || 06/07/2020 21:21 Comments || Top||



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