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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Man mugs 93-year-old a month after being released without bail
[NYPOST] A 29-year-old with a lengthy arrest history was released without bail on an assault and robbery case — only to mug a 93-year-old man in Lower Manhattan a month later, according to police and court records.Ahmad Tucker was arraigned on robbery and assault charges Wednesday after his latest scrape with the law, with police reporting that he knocked the elderly victim to the ground in Lower Manhattan and stole $30 and the man’s MetroCard.

The victim was counting the money outside 274 Grand St. when he was attacked on Sept. 28, according to court records.

Tucker was arraigned from the Bellevue Hospital prison ward, where he was ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation, prosecutors said.

He was already awaiting trial on an earlier robbery charge in August, records show.

In that case, Tucker is accused of grabbing a 32-year-old man at the corner of Chrystie and Rivington streets on Aug. 11 and taking his mobile phone and a pair of Apple AirPods. They were quickly nabbed by cops from the 5th Precinct.
Such people need to be locked up to protect society.
Tucker was arraigned on a third-degree robbery charge and released without bail, pending a return court appearance next month.

Prosecutors could have requested bail under state bail-reform laws since Tucker had a pending case. It was unclear why he was released.



Posted by: Fred || 10/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Such people need to be
locked up crushed to protect society.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/04/2020 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  The system that allows this is no system at all...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/04/2020 0:33 Comments || Top||

#3  It was unclear why he was released.

Nay, forsooth! Not unclear at all. Very clear - ay, crystal clear
Posted by: Harry Black6036 || 10/04/2020 0:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Of course - it's why he was released to begin with.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/04/2020 4:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Incarceration should be for haters like Nick Sandmann (oops, that didn't turn out so well) Julian Assange, Kyle Rittenhouse, Donald Trump and so on....
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/04/2020 8:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Way to go (again), Wilhelm.
Posted by: Clem || 10/04/2020 8:49 Comments || Top||

#7  In fairness to Ahmad, those octogenarians can be feisty, so he figured he'd start with something a little easier.

Baby steps.
Posted by: charger || 10/04/2020 11:15 Comments || Top||

#8  Man?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/04/2020 12:14 Comments || Top||


Economy
Pollak: Nancy Pelosi's Airline Switch Proves She Hurt the Economy for Political Gain ‐ Again
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/04/2020 09:13 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


#2  /\ Roosevelt was in his fourth term as President when he died. Just say'n.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/04/2020 9:24 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ And died with his mistress at his side, not Eleanor.

Meanwhile, that senile old bag Pelosi....Geeesh.
Posted by: Clem || 10/04/2020 9:26 Comments || Top||

#4  It would be simple to take one issue for financial relief for the public, make a bill put it through a.vote and a signature from the president. Then go on to the next issue. Etc etc. solve problems in a timely fashion and take the politics out of it.

But Pelosi’s goal of control is to throw borrowed money at her agenda and the hell with the people.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/04/2020 11:56 Comments || Top||

#5  #3

...and she'll pass with a pint of ice cream still in her even more cold hand.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/04/2020 13:41 Comments || Top||

#6  No bailouts. Let em die. Demand will be picked up by new agents.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/04/2020 18:11 Comments || Top||

#7  No bail outs...for any entity, but especially the airlines. If they thought doing stock buy-backs was the thing to do, let them live with it.
Posted by: Clem || 10/04/2020 18:36 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Andrew Cuomo's latest nursing home deception
This POS won't take responsibility for his stupid decisions that killed probably 12,000+ vulnerable nursing home captives residents. He's trying to go on a victory tour. Don't let him
[NY Post] Gov. Cuomo just won't let up on his nursing-home deceptions. Even as his minions refuse to share the true COVID-19 death total in nursing facilities ‐ a figure plainly inflated by his health czar's March 25 order that homes admit patients with the virus ‐ he's still pitching lies.

Asked by a radio host this week about families who blame the order for their loved ones' deaths, he erupted: "That's just incorrect, untrue and frankly it's mean."

Then the real chutzpah: "That situation never came to be in New York state, because we flattened the curve so effectively, we always had available hospital beds," he insisted.

More: "And we never needed nursing home beds, because we always had hospital beds. So it just never happened in New York where we needed to say to a nursing home, ‘We need you to take this person even though they're COVID-positive.' It never happened."

What bull. When the order went out, no one knew how bad things might get. Just as New York never wound up needing the thousands of ventilators it demanded (and got), hospitals never needed as many beds as they'd feared.
see also

'IT NEVER HAPPENED': CUOMO DENIES CAUSING 6,500 NURSING HOME DEATHS
But the push was on to clear them. And the order did just that: Team Cuomo's own July report admitted that more than 6,300 recovering COVID patients got sent to nursing homes. Fifty-eight nursing homes didn't have a single case of the virus ‐ in residents or staff ‐ before their arrival.

And the state still refuses to say how many died after getting infected in a care home. The full count, including deaths after transfer to a hospital, is likely twice the 6,600-plus who died in the homes.

Lawmakers and others have been fighting to get the data ‐ which Health Commissioner Howard Zucker admits he has ‐ for months. Senate Health Committee Chairman Gustavo Rivera (D-Bronx) has a bipartisan bill to force out the info, though the gov's allies may keep it bottled up.

The Empire Center filed a freedom-of-information request for the numbers back on Aug. 3. Nearly a month later came word they won't be available until Nov. 5 ‐ though the Health Department collects them daily.

Cuomo's publisher just released the cover for his coming book, declaring: "Real leadership, he shows, requires clear communication, compassion for others and a commitment to truth-telling ‐ no matter how frightening the facts may be."

All true. Which makes the governor no real leader.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mr. Cum-oh.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/04/2020 8:05 Comments || Top||

#2  This pig should hang.
Posted by: Clem || 10/04/2020 8:48 Comments || Top||


MSNBC's Joy Reid suggests Trump is faking COVID diagnosis to 'get out of the debates'
[FOXNEWS] MSNBC host Joy Reid raised eyebrows on Friday for suggesting that President Trump was fabricating his 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...
diagnosis to "get out of the debates."

President Trump shocked the world late Thursday night when he revealed that he and First Lady Melania Trump had contracted the coronavirus.

However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
hours before it was announced that the president was being transported to Walter Reed Medical Center for a lengthy hospital stay, the "ReidOut" host echoed claims that her "friends" were sending her via text.

"Here’s how wrecked Trump’s credibility is at this point: I’ve got a cellphone full of texts from people who aren’t sure whether to believe Trump actually has covid. 'He lies so much,' one friend just texted. 'Is he just doing this to get out of the debates?' others are texting," Reid tweeted on Friday morning.

Reid was alluding to the fallout from Tuesday's chaotic presidential debate and the growing tensions between the Presidential Debate Commission and the Trump campaign over potential rule changes including allowing moderators to cut the microphones of disruptive candidates.
Posted by: Fred || 10/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Yes. Trump doesn't want more debates.

Bwahahahhahahahahaahhhahahahhhaaaaaa
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/04/2020 0:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Last two debates will be 10 and 5 days before election.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/04/2020 0:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe she should go visit him in his hospital room.
Posted by: gorb || 10/04/2020 3:11 Comments || Top||

#4  No! Her Stupid could be contagious
Posted by: Frank G || 10/04/2020 6:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Let loose The View Dogs of Babble.
Notice I avoided the B word describing this TV panel of dedicated menopausal whiners

We can all pretty much guess the process this will take ... The Liberals, Socialist and Democrats will break out their Agenda Play and start up.

Since Trump tested Positive it means a few things:

1.) He "could" has been exposed.

2.) It "could" be a False Positive result, which we already know happens about 1 in 4 tests.

3. He is actually infected and developing symptoms over the next few days. The severity to be determined by the C-19 Strain Variant he "MAY" have.

So "IF" he is seriously Infected

What we are waiting to see how bad of case he has. As many of us know the C-19 strain variant ORF1A of February is not the primary strain any longer. As less to much less lethal strain variants like ORF1B, S, ORF3 and other ...-> are now in the mix of strain variants now being found. (https://nextstrain.org/sars-cov-2/)

Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/04/2020 6:40 Comments || Top||

#6  Trump will come out of quarantine one day early just to rub COVID religionists raw.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/04/2020 7:33 Comments || Top||

#7  It's tough to find anyone more returded than that kurva Joy Reid.
Posted by: Clem || 10/04/2020 8:35 Comments || Top||

#8  ^ I admit she'd get to the Stupid Playoffs, but I don't think she can hang with the really Elite Stupids like Maxine Waters or Patty ("Osama's Day Care Centers") Murray.
Posted by: Matt || 10/04/2020 9:43 Comments || Top||

#9  /\ I guess I should have clarified in the MSM, but, no doubt, competition would be stiff with the luminaries you mentioned.
Posted by: Clem || 10/04/2020 10:00 Comments || Top||

#10  The debates are a waste of time under the current set-up. The debates draw moderators who try to tip the scales in favor of the Dem candidate.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/04/2020 12:27 Comments || Top||

#11  The moderators have adulterated the process by becoming 'The News'.
Posted by: magpie || 10/04/2020 12:35 Comments || Top||

#12  Don't forget the Guam will tip over comment by Uber Liberal Democrat Rep. Hank Johnson of Atlanta..

BTW: His Metro-Atlanta District voters even re-elected him 4+ more times after that 2010 asinine comment.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 10/04/2020 18:38 Comments || Top||

#13  Hey, moron Joy, I suppose President Trump leaving Walter Reed is fake, too? Boy, you MSM'ers continue to reach new lows in idiocy. I suppose if you keep going half way each time, you'll never reach total idiocy.
Posted by: Clem || 10/04/2020 19:33 Comments || Top||

#14  Way to many people equate Covid with Death.
Trump getting back to work almost right away should change that thinking.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/04/2020 23:18 Comments || Top||


Left Wing Governor Of Washington State Freaks Out As Boeing Moves Production To South Carolina
[AMERICANLOOKOUT] Jay Inslee
...Governor of Washington state, failed candidate for the 2020 Dem presidential campaign, mainly because nobody outside the state and some inside had ever heard of him. He complained, complained, complained that the Trump administration wasn't doing enough to help the state, then returned an Army field hospital and 400 ventilators that didn't get used...
, the left wing governor of Washington State, is freaking out because Boeing has decided to move production of its 787 airplane to the more conservative and business friendly South Carolina.

Who can blame Boeing for making such a move, especially if it benefits them financially?

Besides, in Seattle, leaders have shown that they will allow mobs of left wingers to destroy businesses.
Posted by: Fred || 10/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When Boeing moves it's corporate HQ out of Chiraq I'll maybe pay attention.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/04/2020 1:08 Comments || Top||

#2  I believe that the South Carolina plant is not unionized as well.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/04/2020 1:49 Comments || Top||

#3  All she had to do was pay attention. Too difficult it would appear.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 10/04/2020 4:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Which leaves one big program left in Seattle - The 737-Max... Think about that Jay Inslee.
Posted by: 3dc || 10/04/2020 9:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Indeed, you are beyond an idiot, but that is the best psych label we have.

Posted by: Clem || 10/04/2020 9:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Here's Seattle Commie Councilcritter Sawant seven years ago, threatening expropriation of the Boeing plant:

Now Boeing is threatening to take those jobs to other states. “That will be nothing short of economic terrorism because it's going to devastate the state's economy,” she said.
Sawant is calling for machinists to literally take-possession of the Everett airplane-building factory, if Boeing moves out. She calls that "democratic ownership."
“We can re-tool the machines to produce mass transit like buses, instead of destructive, you know, war machines."
Posted by: Matt || 10/04/2020 10:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Or re-tool them to make ventilators for COVID patients. Remember that brilliant idea? Anyone? Bueller?
Posted by: Tyranysaurus Bumble3098 || 10/04/2020 10:22 Comments || Top||

#8  I applaud the move out of Washington state, but Boeing execs should still hang due to how they dealt with the 737 Max...FAA pukes, too.
Posted by: Clem || 10/04/2020 10:29 Comments || Top||

#9  In that photo, above, Inslee kinda sorta looks like Wilhelm. Just sayin'....
Posted by: Clem || 10/04/2020 10:38 Comments || Top||

#10  When your Sim Citizens start moving away, it's a sign you're losing the game.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/04/2020 11:16 Comments || Top||

#11  They're counting on a Harris/Biden win to bail them out.

The fraud this year will out of this world.
Posted by: charger || 10/04/2020 11:17 Comments || Top||

#12  Move one 737 assembly line bay to SC in a newly constructed building. Strip out one bay in Renton. As things pick up in the 737 production line build the second bay in SC strip the guts out of Renton remaining line and pull the plug out of WA. QED.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 10/04/2020 11:29 Comments || Top||

#13  I would love to see 3M pull out of Minnesota, too.
Posted by: Clem || 10/04/2020 11:31 Comments || Top||

#14  What a world-class doofus. What did he expect?
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/04/2020 12:24 Comments || Top||

#15  Typical Socialist Fantasy™ that capital can't relocate...
Posted by: magpie || 10/04/2020 12:38 Comments || Top||

#16  Maybe they can retool it into a skate board and spray paint factory.
Posted by: Slappy || 10/04/2020 14:54 Comments || Top||

#17  As I recall, the recent airworthyness/ stop order that was called on the new Boeing airtankers specified "from the South Carolina facility".
So things are not all sunshine and roses there.
(Lotsa FOD items in fuel tanks, general sloppiness.)
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/04/2020 15:10 Comments || Top||


Former FBI Official Proposes 'Bipartisan Commission' to Vet Presidential Candidates Like Trump
[AMGREATNESS] A former top FBI official on Thursday proposed that a "bipartisan commission" be created to vet presidential candidates so people like President Trump can never be elected again.
Like Iran has...
"We got this wrong, and this can’t happen again," said Frank Figliuzzi, who was briefly the assistant director of the FBI under President Obama.
When the FBI gets to say who can run for president it's time to disband the FBI.
During a discussion on MSNBC about Trump’s taxes Thursday morning, Figliuzzi opined that the president’s supposedly dire financial situation made him "vulnerable" to certain entities like {{{Russia}}}.
First he was briefly — ie not long enough to be confirmed, even by President Obama — the assistant director of the FBI, and now he is an MSNBC contributor, where he is no doubt making equivalently impressive contributions to the national understanding...
"He is the most vulnerable president in our history in terms of compromise and potential exposure to those who want to help him dig out of this financial pit in return for a price," Figliuzzi said. "And that’s where the national security problem comes in."

The former G-man added—without evidence—that the president was "entangled with Russia and the former Soviet Block," therefore he was potentially involved with Russian organized crime figures too.

"We need to have a national discussion about how we vet a presidential candidate," Figliozzi declared. "We screwed this up."

He suggested that the media in 2016 didn’t dig "deeply enough" to find dirt on Trump, and added "it’s time to have a discussion about a bipartisan committee that demands tax returns. Make that a requirement."

Figliozzi said the task of the committee would be to expose "financial pictures"of the candidates.

"We got this wrong, and this can’t happen again," he concluded.
Posted by: Fred || 10/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Had a co-worker who kept a plaque on his desk that said "God so loved the World He didn't send a committee." I used to jerk him around by asking "Who were the 12 apostles, then?"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/04/2020 7:37 Comments || Top||

#2  deep stateian commission to exclude non-puppets.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/04/2020 8:28 Comments || Top||

#3  "Who were the 12 apostles, then?"

Posted by: Skidmark || 10/04/2020 8:37 Comments || Top||

#4  I really just find some of this sh!t insane beyond belief. Figures it would come from a G-man. That speaks volumes. They also can't get over the fact that Trump can't be bought.
Posted by: Clem || 10/04/2020 8:39 Comments || Top||

#5  They only want their "approved" people to be voted for. That speaks volumes for what Trump is doing.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/04/2020 8:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Trump v Deep State. It's a cage match.
Posted by: Clem || 10/04/2020 8:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Vetting? I thought the bureau had that nailed down with people like Carter Page, James Comey, Peter Strzok. Was there a problem ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/04/2020 8:53 Comments || Top||

#8  Much like Iran indeed. Only officially sanctioned cannidates allowed.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/04/2020 11:14 Comments || Top||

#9  "We got this wrong, and this can’t happen again," said Frank Figliuzzi, who was briefly the assistant director of the FBI under President Obama.

Who the bloody farking Hell are you to dictate what's "wrong" or "right" for the rest of us?

I look forward to the day when arrogant, totalitarian assholes like this guy are all dangling by the neck from lampposts.

We already have the only vetting committee we need: it's called the American People.

Deal with it.
Posted by: Dave D. || 10/04/2020 12:09 Comments || Top||

#10  Who was more vulnerable -- a billionaire who owes money on profitable deal estate, an abusive womanizer, or a drug-user who goes for guys on the down-low?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 10/04/2020 12:11 Comments || Top||

#11  "We got this wrong, and this can’t happen again," said Frank Figliuzzi, who was briefly the assistant director of the FBI under President Obama.

Glad, the guy is no longer assistant director of the FBI. Hopefully, he is gone from the FBI. The FBI got royally fokked-up under Obummer.

Echo the comment above: When the FBI gets to say who can run for president it's time to disband the FBI.

We, the citizens/voters will do the vetting of a candidate for POTUS.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/04/2020 12:21 Comments || Top||

#12  its time to disband the FBI
Posted by: 746 || 10/04/2020 12:38 Comments || Top||

#13  Of course, first we'd have to form a committee to vet the vetters. Or we could just, I dunno, have a vote.
Posted by: Matt || 10/04/2020 12:54 Comments || Top||

#14  Who vetted Frank?
Posted by: Airandee || 10/04/2020 14:12 Comments || Top||

#15  According to Wikipedia, Mr. Figliucci is no longer formally with the FBI:

Following his FBI service, Figliuzzi joined General Electric and served for five years as Assistant Chief Security Officer for investigations, insider threat, workplace violence prevention, and special event security for GE's 300,000 employees in 180 countries. Figliuzzi is currently a frequent National Security Contributor for NBC and MSNBC News.

Separately, it sounds like he was reasonably heroic as a Delaware state trooper. A pity he picked up bad ideas of ruler vs ruled as he rose through the ranks at the FBI.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/04/2020 14:14 Comments || Top||

#16  Obama raised salaries to the level of Kings and Queens for deep state and then brought in loyalists. They are just trying to protect their gravy train.
Posted by: Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589 || 10/04/2020 18:48 Comments || Top||

#17  First, how about a Peoples Tribunal, outside of the internal government organs (aka DoJ), for senior government officials that somehow escape other punishment for lying under oath, filing false official documents, or leaking information.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/04/2020 19:17 Comments || Top||


Hey Joe Biden, If Antifa Is an 'Idea,' Who Is Burning Down American Cities?
[PJMEDIA] In the first presidential debate on Tuesday, Democratic nominee Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden
...Candidate for president in 2020. When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'...
cited FBI Director Christopher Wray in claiming that "antifa’s an idea, not an organization." The Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) released a powerful ad exposing just how absurd Biden’s statement was, in light of the violent mostly peaceful and deadly riots across America this summer."If Antifa
...the armed wing of the Democratic Party...
is only an idea then who is burning down our cities, assaulting our law enforcement officers, and causing the violence we’ve seen over the last four months?" Adam Piper, RAGA’s executive director, asked in a statement.

"Biden’s remarks don’t come as a surprise to anybody who has paid attention to the Democrats’ recent rhetoric. As lives and livelihoods are being destroyed by lawless liberal mobs across the country, Democrat attorneys general are either encouraging the violence or downplaying its existence," Piper warned. "Voters this November must hold Democrats up and down the ballot accountable for their recklessness and incitement of this violence."

The ad begins with the damning debate footage of Joe Biden.

"I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about antifa and the Left," 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...
begins.

"Antifa’s an idea, not an organization," Biden responds.

"Oh? You gotta be kidding me," Trump says.

Then the ad zeroes in on the destruction of the riots. As rioters burn buildings and attack coppers, text on the screen asks, "Can an idea... burn down buildings? Can an idea... commit violence?"

Rioters shout, "Death to America!" and burn the American flag.

"An idea didn’t create this anarchy. An organization did," the text reads. "Why won’t Joe Biden condemn violent mostly peaceful left-wing organizations?"

Then the ad powerfully concludes with Biden’s declaration, "I am the Democratic Party
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
right now."



Posted by: Fred || 10/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Antifa/BLM

#1  It is an "idea" by design. Who is the leader of Antifa in the sense of the leader of an organization? Who is the second in command of Antifa in an organizational sense? What Biden did was slip up. He told the world that Antifa is a concept that he and the rest of the Democrat elite understand so well that Antifa was most likely an idea conceived and directed from the shadows by them.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 || 10/04/2020 2:11 Comments || Top||

#2  An emergent organization, inspired and supported by the "progressive" wing (Soros, Bernie, AOC) of the Democratic Party.

The traditional Dem wing tries to maintain plausible deniability re Antifa even as they stoke Antifa-BLM violence which can then be attributed to Trump and his "chaos."

This resembles what the CIA has done repeatedly with subversive organizations in Latin America and what State Department's Victoria Nuland & others tried to do in Kiev and Moscow.

Look up McFaul's recent piece about how Democrats can learn from these examples of fomenting "color revolutions" and apply them to their own insurrection here in the US.
Posted by: Phiting Phaigum3961 || 10/04/2020 3:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Freedom is an idea too. So are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The arena of ideas is a cage match. No wonder the toadies in academe want ideas that might hurt or kill their desired outcomes banned.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/04/2020 7:12 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Police arrest 38 anti-Netanyahu protestors in Tel Aviv
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/04/2020 06:02 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Government
Doctors: Trump Could Be Released As Soon As Tomorrow
[HotAir]
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/04/2020 14:02 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nice! Glad to see with the proper treatment, an older man can beat it right quick.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/04/2020 15:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Good. Next we need another debate in a few days. And I want Trump to go over and shake hands with Biden, maybe even give him a peck on the cheek.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 || 10/04/2020 15:08 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: gorb || 10/04/2020 15:19 Comments || Top||

#4  The COVID-19 vaccine should be tested on politicians first.

If they survive, the vaccine is safe.

If they don't, then the country is safe.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/04/2020 15:36 Comments || Top||

#5  maybe even give him a peck on the cheek.

Lean in, bend slightly and offer Joe a sniff of the coif

"Breathe deep
The gathering gloom
Watch lights fade
From ev'ry room
, and...
SUCK ON IT, BITCH!"
Posted by: Bob Wittlesbach5741 || 10/04/2020 17:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Funny how the media practically had him on death's door. So, for the umpteenth time, the lame-stream media may/will have egg on their faces. And make Trump look even better.
Posted by: Clem || 10/04/2020 17:17 Comments || Top||

#7  NYT said he was on oxygen: a fucking LIE.

Said his condition "worsened": another fucking LIE.

They characterized the situation as "chaotic": more disgusting obvious wretched fucking LYING.

And now they're pretending that, even though he's about to be discharged from the hospital and never has anything remotely like emergency treatment let alone intensive care, his condition has "worsened." Fucking despicable, shameless LIARS.

The final cherry on their shit-sundae: Thomas and Haberman ends her Pravda piece with this gem:
The briefing came a day after a messy and contradictory presentation on Friday about whether Mr. Trump had serious medical issues.

It was never "contradictory," you mendacious cunts. The president was never in any serious danger and his mild symptoms have only improved. You're the lying assholes who pretended that he was on death's door.

Fuck you, and here's hoping Lin Wood and Nick Sandmann nail your pathetic lying shit-for-brains to the wall when you appear for your defamation trial.
Posted by: Craper Oppressor of the Hatfields2917 || 10/04/2020 17:35 Comments || Top||

#8  Gum would want him tasered.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/04/2020 17:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Comeon Craper, don't hold back, tell us how you really feel!

Now I suppose the media will be all up in arms about how Trump is putting everyone at risk for not spending the next 6 weeks in strict quarantine.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 10/04/2020 18:39 Comments || Top||

#10  Breaking: Trump's out.

Media whores bitch-slapped again.
Posted by: Vespasian Fillmore8792 || 10/04/2020 18:51 Comments || Top||

#11  Fear mongering loses again. COVID fear is overblown - we have treatments, and its not an automatic death sentence. All the masks did was push this activity into the fall from the spring and the summer. Disrupting the economy first, and now the elections? Was that the plan all along?
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057 || 10/04/2020 19:53 Comments || Top||


President Donald Trump's regulations to protect Americans from Congress's huge H-1B job-outsourcing program are flying through the regulatory process, a top official told Breitbart News.
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/04/2020 09:15 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Chamber of Communism and Bidness Rountable wants their legal slaves.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/04/2020 17:53 Comments || Top||


Trump says “I think I’ll be back soon” in a video filmed at WalterReedHospital UPDATE: Docs say maybe as soon as Monday

[PUBLISH.TWITTER]

Update at 1:50 p.m. ET:
President Trump could return to WH 'as early as tomorrow' if conditions continue to improve, doctors say

[FoxNews] Trump's physician Dr. Sean Conley gave an update

White House physician Dr. Sean Conley, alongside Walter Reed’s Dr. Sean Dooley and Johns Hopkins’ Dr. Brian Garibaldi, said President Trump could return to the White House as soon as Monday, Oct. 5.

President Trump could be released from the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as soon as Monday, his medical team said in an update Sunday to members of the White House press pool, as the president continues his treatment on dexamethasone and Remdesivir to fight 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...
Dr. Sean Conley said Trump has experienced two episodes of transient drops in oxygen levels. From Thursday into Friday morning, Conley said Trump was doing well with mild symptoms and oxygen levels in the high 90s. By later Friday morning, the president had a high fever and his oxygen levels began dipping below 94%.

At that point, Conley recommended supplemental oxygen treatment due to concerns about the possible rapid progression of the disease. Trump was adamant he did not need the treatment, but it was nevertheless administered for about an hour at the White House.

He began showing milder symptoms and began moving about his residence at the White House, but, despite these improvements, Conley said the medical team determined the best course of action was to transfer Trump to Walter Reed in Bethesda, Md., by Friday afternoon for a more thorough evaluation and monitoring.

Dr. Sean Dooley, a pulmonologist at Walter Reed, said the president has remained without a fever since Friday morning and his cardiac, kidney and liver functions are all still normal. He said Trump has not shown signs of shortness of breath and was walking around his medical unit without limitation or disability.

Dr. Brian Garibaldi, with Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, said Trump has completed his second dose of Remdesivir and has exhibited no side effects as far as his team can tell. His team will therefore continue plans to keep him on the medication over a five-day period. In response to transient low oxygen levels, the president also has begun dexamethasone therapy and was given his first dose Saturday.

Garibaldi said the president feels well Sunday and the team plans to have him eat and be up and about as much as possible to be mobile, and "if he continues to look and feel as well as he does today, our hope is that we can plan for a discharge as early as tomorrow to the White House where he can continue his treatment course."

Before the presser, Trump campaign senior adviser Steve Cortes described the president as "upbeat and assertive as ever" as he fights the coronavirus in an appearance on "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace.

He added: "This president is going to recover, we are highly confident of that."

White House chief of staff Mark Meadows said on "Justice with Judge Jeanine" Saturday night that the president was experiencing symptoms that had his staff "real concerned" on Friday, including fever and low blood oxygen level, but that he has since improved.
Posted by: Fred || 10/04/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Got to be amusing. Secret Service trying to keep CIA plant out of POTUS hospital room.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/04/2020 0:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump aide Luna tests for coronavirus
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/04/2020 5:53 Comments || Top||

#3  COVID religionists, of course, hunger for Trump to die for the cause.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 10/04/2020 7:06 Comments || Top||

#4  He looks pretty sick.
Posted by: cingold || 10/04/2020 11:06 Comments || Top||

#5  As does anybody with the flu.
Posted by: Clem || 10/04/2020 11:33 Comments || Top||

#6  No professional makeup applied and flu -- we'd look bad too.
Posted by: magpie || 10/04/2020 12:33 Comments || Top||

#7  I felt a disturbance in the force. It felt as if a million SJWs suddenly cried out, then fell silent.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/04/2020 15:58 Comments || Top||

#8  I added a long screed about all this in the Opinion section, above.

https://rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=10/04/2020&SO=&HC=4&ID=583895
Posted by: cingold || 10/04/2020 16:15 Comments || Top||



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