[FOXNEWS] Private armed security outfits have been hired to patrol a popular section of Portland known for its bars and nightlife after the city slashed police funding and saw a year of violence in the area.
"My job is to get you home safe," one guard for the Ravencrest Force Protection Group, Jean-Pierre LaFont, told Willamette Weekly. "Unless you’re the perpetrator. The only way for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing. So I’m going to do something."
"This once was a great city," he added. "This is a great city. It’s the best. We just forgot."
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No, NN2N1, it is not funny. It is elder abuse, not that I have any sympathy for this particular elder. He wanted it so let him have it. But, no, it isn't fun to watch.
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[FoxNews] President Joe Biden departed the White House for a vacation in Wilmington, Delaware as multiple crises escalated Thursday, most notably the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan that has forced the Pentagon to send troops to the country in a desperate attempt to help Americans there escape. If only President Klain knew
But the security situation isn't the only crisis the U.S. faces as Biden heads to Delaware for his summer break, as it was also revealed Thursday that more than 212,000 people were encountered crossing the border in July. That number was a 13% increase over June and represented a two-decade high, dampening White House hopes that the summer heat would cause migrants to rethink the dangerous trek.
The situation at the border has only been worsened by the highly contagious delta variant, with reports of thousands of COVID-19 positive migrants packing detention facilities before they are released to their destinations throughout the country.
The delta variant has resulted in a renewed surge in COVID-19 cases across the country, particularly in southern states such Arkansas and Mississippi that have recorded new highs in hospitalizations.
Meanwhile, a key inflation measure surprised economists by hitting yet another record high, with producer price inflation rising 7.8% over the 12 month period ending in July. That number was the highest recorded in the over ten-year history of the metric, raising fears inflation could stick around longer than some predict.
The evolving crises have put pressure on Biden to rethink his vacation plans, delaying his departure and forcing him to spend some time at Camp David.
In total, the president plans to spend about two weeks away from Washington.
#5
^^^ #3 - answer - No - Biden left WDC, yesterday by 'coincidence' the new CCP "ambassador" to the USA was met by a State Department Officer yesterday.
#6
^ I doubt if the ambassador is offended. Surely he was briefed before he left Beijing about the president's condition.
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in 204 days in office he has gone back to Delaware for long weekends 17 times, and now is taking a vacation in Delaware? Sun-downing is increasing and the cumulative effects of juicing and stress are showing? This guy won't make it another 6 months...and they get The Jackal for a year then a massive sweep of the House and Senate by the right, followed by impeachment?
#8
JRB, jr. aka Joe - has had 17 vacations at his home since taking office, about once every 12-14 days on average. No one knows who visits joe at his home, even though a log is kept.
Joe became known as the guy who campaigned from his basement. A large number of Americans were stunned that he won the election.
Well, wild thought, what if Joe has something in his basement that he really needs to keep going ?
[FOX] Several lobbying firms with connections to President Biden experienced a sharp increase in cash during the first six months of 2021, with some raking in four times as much revenue over the same time period in 2020.
One firm cashing in on the Biden administration is headed by the brother of a senior White House official, and another bought a lobbying group owned by a top official from the presidential campaign. Two other firms are linked to lobbyists who worked under Biden when he served in previous offices.
The influx of cash to these firms "illustrates the extent to which lobbyists are engrained in the way things get done in Washington," Daniel Auble, a senior researcher at the Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks money in politics, told Fox News.
The most glaring instance of increased revenue through access lies with Washington, D.C.-based firm Ricchetti Inc. Jeff Ricchetti – the brother of Steve Ricchetti, Biden's former campaign chairman who now acts as a counselor in the White House – helms the firm.
Ricchetti Inc. hauled in $1.6 million in lobbying revenue during the first half of the year, a drastic increase from the $365,000 it had pulled in over the first half of 2020, lobbying disclosure forms show.
How about foreigners get their nose out of our politics and mind their own business? Omar is a complete America-hating fuckface, but nobody deserves this, even her.
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^Rantburg was threatened with being blacklisted once before and the way the event was handled was disappointing during its otherwise stellar existence over the years.
#6
If I'm not mistaken the lovely and charming Ms Omar was born in Somalia and came to the US at around age five. I don't care enough to go look it up. While Minnesota was probably cultural shock, apparently you can take the girl out of Somalia, but you can't take Somalia out of the girl. Pity.
#8
Oh come now. AIPAC isn't under the control of Israel? Let us be adults here.
It's just a matter of time until that PayPal button on the bottom of the screen leads to an error page. Everything they did to Alex Jones, they'll do to you, too.
Knuckles Slererong5344, I send Mr. Pruitt a check or cash through the mail whenever he blegs. I don’t have a PayPal account, so their nonsense has no impact on me.
^Rantburg was threatened with being blacklisted once before and the way the event was handled was disappointing during its otherwise stellar existence over the years.
Eh? When was that, Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589?
#10
During the Obama Regime years. When a left wing private law firm was threatening right wing blogs with expensive law suits based on content and even the comments of their readers. Fred got one of their letters. Fred mentioned the expense to fight would be too expensive for Rantburg. Matt Drudge refused to comply and that resistance eventually led to their demise back when DrudgeReport was hard right and would not be intimidated but this site and many others capitulated for a short while.
#14
And the minute PayPal refused to accept my contribution to Rantburg will be the minute I stop using PayPal for anything.
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When a left wing private law firm was threatening right wing blogs with expensive law suits based on content and even the comments of their readers. Fred got one of their letters.
Do you mean the so-called copyright enforcement company, Righthaven? Fred originally posted about it here. I would have described the situation as attempted blackmail rather than blacklisting — except for boycotting articles from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, adding site attribution in square brackets at the top of each article, generally posting only the key paragraphs of articles from American sources, and Fred developing Auto Translate, we carried on as before. That problem went away at the end of 2011, when the court ruled Righthaven had no standing to sue for infringement; the company subsequently went bankrupt. We kept the practices as defense against future attempts, and because some of the autotranslations preserve accumulated knowledge about various players on the board.
We separately developed a rule about not saying things that appear to threaten American citizens, but that was to keep from causing Fred problems from his peers.
#19
Precisely TW. Seemed as though only yesterday but it was 10 years ago. It was a rather aggressive campaign by the left via that "entity". I will never forget that very troubling incident.
I think in the end Fred did not pay, Mr. Slomorong Thraiger7030. But until the courts ruled against Righthaven, preparations had to be made — and it wouldn’t have been right to let him bear the burden alone.
Thank You for the key to "Fred's Basement"
Anyone can do an archives search, dear Sonny Spomoth2776. Just under the dark blue bar above the articles list, above the list of recent commenters, there is a Search button above a box for your search terms. And at the top of the page, to the right of the most recent dates, is a hotlink for the Archives, arranged by date back to 2001.
[AmSpectator] A coalition of faith groups joined with a Moslem American solidarity group known as the Shoulder to Shoulder Campaign to accuse Senate Republicans in a letter Monday of being motived by "anti-Moslem animus" in their hesitancy to confirm Biden nominee Dilawar Syed as deputy administrator of the Small Business Administration.
Their letter also implied the Republicans were violating the Constitution by using a version of an "ethnic or religious test" to prevent Syed — who would be the highest ranking American Moslem official in the Biden administration, the same old faces in slightly different places, the same old ideas, the same old graft ...knaves, footpads, and adjusters employed by the Biden Crime Family. They leave a trail of havoc everywhere they turn their attention, be it the nation's borders, the Keystone XL Pipeline, or epidemics, sometimes on purpose, most times through sheer arrogant ineptitude. They learnt this stuff in college, you know... — from holding office. "No one should be denied the ability to hold office because of what they look like or how they choose to worship," they wrote.
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[The Hill] Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas) was heckled by a fringe Senate candidate at a GOP fundraiser in Illinois on Wednesday evening for firmly rejecting unfounded conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was stolen from former President Trump.
During the fundraiser in Rosemont, Ill., Crenshaw was asked by another attendee if he thought the 2020 election was stolen.
"There's certain cities with problems, but don’t kid yourself into believing that’s why we lost. It's not. It's not," Crenshaw said.
Bobby Piton, a long-shot Republican candidate running for Senate in Illinois who has claimed without evidence that Trump will be reinstated to the presidency this year, then yelled repeatedly, "You're wrong."
"I'll tell you openly. I'll tell you, and I'm not wrong," Crenshaw pushed back.
"Yes you are. I have plenty of proof. I have proof in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia," Piton responded, citing the audit of ballots cast in Maricopa County, Ariz. "And guess what, it's going to turn out and it's gonna flip. You watch. You're gonna see firsthand."
"It won't. It won't," Crenshaw said dismissively. "And you've gotta flip all five states."
Crenshaw then sought to make clear that Republicans shouldn't buy into conspiracy theories that Trump lost reelection because of widespread voter fraud.
"This is something you gotta accept. Is there a lot of voter fraud? Yeah, there probably is. Enough that Trump won? No, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Five different states? Hundreds of thousands of votes? You're kidding yourself," Crenshaw said.
Unlike most House Republicans, Crenshaw voted to certify President Biden's electoral victory on the night of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
But Crenshaw did sign onto a lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that attempted to invalidate the election results in four swing states — Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin — that Biden won.
The Supreme Court ultimately rejected Paxton's lawsuit and stated that "Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections."
#6
Another "best thing since sliced bread, real deal, gonna save us all" phony.
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There are some decent people out there who suspect we're headed to civil war. They can't accept that happening because they know the pain and suffering it will bring. Same thing happened back in 1776. Some knew the regime in London was wrong but could not bring themselves to accept the break.
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/\ The tipping point may be federal law enforcement (LE) intervention and conflict with state and local LE and/or National Guard. It could come quickly and most violently.
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/\ Perhaps we should be on the lookout for the re-structuring of local gov't, mobilization exercises involving the airlift of brigade size elements to distant trouble spots, tactical aircraft landing and taking off on public roadways, and.....
#15
Have to wait until Milley purges all the white supremacists from the military. I think after that they'll need to integrate some of the recent, ahem, immigrants into the ranks.
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Texans have been wise to Republican wannabe Dan for a while. Not sure he will be going back
[NATIONALREVIEW] The Texas Senate voted to advance a major Republican voting bill on Thursday in an 18-11 vote, along party lines.Senate Bill 1 passed after state Senator Carol Alvarado finished a 15-hour talking filibuster in an attempt to delay the vote. Filibuster rules prohibited Albarado from eating, sitting down, leaning on her desk, taking a bathroom break or speaking about subjects unrelated to the bill.
The all-night filibuster came one day after Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan, a Republican, signed arrest warrants for 52 Democrats who did not return during the fourth day of the House’s second special session. The Democrats’ absence left the chamber eight members short of a quorum.
As Republicans hold the majority in both chambers, Democrats do not have the votes to stop the bill from passing. Instead, they have been working to delay the vote since June, when Democrats walked out of a legislative session to deny a quorum for Republicans to advance the bill.
Last month, 57 Texas House Democrats traveled to Washington, D.C., on private chartered jets, using their physical absence to deny Republicans of their needed quorum. They planned to hide out in the Capitol and fight for federal voting legislation until the Texas special legislative session expired.
Democrats have opposed the legislation, accusing Republicans of trying to suppress votes. However, Switzerland makes more than cheese... Republicans have repeatedly said the bill is meant to make it "easier to vote and harder to cheat."
The bill aims to mandate that voters write their driver’s license or other identification number on absentee ballots, bans state officials from sending out unsolicited mail-in ballots, and bans 24-hour and drive-in voting.
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☺Darn...
next thing you know them Texans will be chaining shut the Graveyards Gates and denying the Zombie Vote.☺
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^ The story I heard, can't remember where, is about LBJ when he first ran for Congress and his campaign staff was collecting names from headstones one night in a Texas cemetery. The people under the headstones would then be registered to vote.
One staffer said he was having trouble with a headstone because the name was covered with moss.
"Skip it," said a senior staffer.
"Now, hold on," said LBJ. "That man has right to vote!"
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the story I heard ends with Lyndon's boss saying,
"That man has as much right to vote as anyone else in the cemetery"
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[USATODAY] President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call brilliant... or is that an act?... said Wednesday his administration is taking steps to crack down on illegal activity that might be contributing to a rise in gas prices.Biden announced that the National Economic Council has asked the Federal Trade Commission to use "every available tool" to monitor the U.S. gasoline market and look for any illegal activity that might be causing gas prices to jump while the cost of a barrel of oil is going down.
"That’s not what you’d expect in a competitive market," Biden said from the White House. "I want to make sure that nothing stands in the way of oil price declines leading to lower prices for consumers."
The administration's actions come as gas prices have jumped more than energy prices over the past year. The price of gas has jumped 42%, while energy has risen 24%, according to the Labor Department. The average gas price in January was $2.326, almost a dollar less than what the average gas price was last month.
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Yeah,
It's called Fiat Government by Executive Order.
Do You Joe KNOW the Contents & Implications of the E.O.s YOU signed....
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.
[FOXNEWS] Private armed security outfits have been hired to patrol a popular section of Portland known for its bars and nightlife after the city slashed police funding and saw a year of violence in the area. 
...knaves, footpads, and 
[The Hill] Rep. 
/\ Perhaps we should be on the lookout for the re-structuring of local gov't, mobilization exercises involving the airlift of brigade size elements to distant trouble spots, tactical aircraft landing and taking off on public roadways, and.....
...46th president of the U.S. Old, boring, a plagiarist, fond of hair sniffing and grabbing the protruding parts of women, and not whatcha call 
