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Pakistani Taliban have called off a ceasefire mediated with the help of the Afghan Taliban
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-Great Cultural Revolution
Kamela Casts Tie-Breaker Vote
[Epoch Times] Vice President Kamala Harris cast a tie-breaking vote on Wednesday to confirm Biden’s nominee Rachael Rollins
...one of the Soros collection of district attorneys...
as U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts over the objection of all 50 Senate Republicans.

Rollins was previously the District Attorney (DA) for Suffolk County, and in that role Rollins was exceedingly lenient, refusing to prosecute those charged with several violent crimes.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) objected to the nomination on the Senate floor, calling Rollins a "left-wing prosecutor."

"Many Americans have probably never heard of Rachael Rollins," Cruz began. "But they are becoming very familiar with the kind of lawlessness and dangerous crime that radical left-wing district attorneys like [Rollins] have generated."

Cruz continued, "Under their watch, we’ve seen looting, and larceny, and violent crime rates rise in cities all over the country the past couple of years." DAs like Rollins, Cruz said, "see it as their job not to prosecute crime, [but] to protect criminals."

In fact, cities across the country have seen a rise in crime and a drop in enforcement of the law since the summer of 2020.

In a 2019 memo from Rollins’ time as DA, she gave her staff a list of 15 common offenses which she said "should be declined or dismissed pre-arraignment without conditions. The presumption is that charges that fall into this category should always be declined."

In other words, Rollins used her position of power to refuse to enforce the law for a laundry list of crimes, including, among others, trespassing, shoplifting, larceny, disorderly conduct, receiving stolen property.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/11/2021 09:19 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "see it as their job not to prosecute crime, [but] to protect criminals"

... plus enforce tyrannical decrees and prosecute the law-abiding as "terrorists" and "insurrectionists."

Don't forget the tyrannical part of Anarcho-Tyranny
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/11/2021 9:42 Comments || Top||

#2  *Nonpartisan and uniting* Brandon Biden Administration strikes again
Posted by: magpie || 12/11/2021 10:37 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Oak Ridge National Laboratory suspends Biden's vaccine requirements
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/11/2021 09:57 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Y12/CNS did to. The key word is 'suspends'. I think the Supreme Court has to have their say. And then..
Posted by: Black Bart Schwarzeneggar5441 || 12/11/2021 15:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Very interesting. Non-For-Profit Battelle Memorial Institute (BMI) HQ't in Columbus, OH used to have a very big footprint in the National Labs. I have waiting for BMI to comment on the Plandemic. No one is talking....until now. Also have a contact in the UK at PD. He's not commenting either. Leads one to believe they may know something that we do not.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/11/2021 15:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Ah'm assuming staging the multiple dose accumulation is preferred to a fatal single dose innoculation which may or may not shield one from the known upcoming terminal variant.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/11/2021 15:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Hey, Skid....I'm headed in to finish watching the game.

* You know how to get a Naval Academy grad off your porch? Pay for the pizza and thank him.

Go Army !
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/11/2021 15:57 Comments || Top||

#5  Navy cheer:

""Way hey, blow the man down!
"Give me some time to blow the man down!"
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/11/2021 16:44 Comments || Top||


P resident Ron Burgundy Strikes Again
[Rumble] 37 seconds from a Joe Biden speech at the link.
Courtesy of Besoeker, the YouTube version can be seen at Weasel Zippers, which titles it “President Applesauce Brains Accidentally Reads Instructions His Staff Gave Him During Speech About Bob Dole
Posted by: Flatch Wittlesbach3456 || 12/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Jeebus! The man has oatmeal for brains
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/11/2021 6:56 Comments || Top||

#2  I am amazed he's lasted this long.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/11/2021 7:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Will Magoo blinder into a war with Russia or China?
Or both?
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/11/2021 9:43 Comments || Top||

#4  *blunder (while wearing blinders)...[and] Depends
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/11/2021 9:44 Comments || Top||

#5  "End of quote."
-Biden

Of sound mind and body, in the flex of his ability, most successful politician in history.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/11/2021 10:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Yes, but he said it with feeling and gravitas.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/11/2021 12:13 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Deafening Silence: Top Democrats Hush as Left-Wing Kellogg's Company Set to Replace American Union Workers
[Breitbart] House and Senate Democrats who have claimed to be champions for labor unions are silent as the Kellogg Company, whose largest shareholder is the left-wing W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is set to replace about 1,400 American union workers who have been on strike since October.

American union workers employed at Kellogg’s have been striking as of October 5, protesting what they say are grueling working conditions at plants in Battle Creek, Michigan; Omaha, Nebraska; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and Memphis, Tennessee.
Grueling conditions at a cereal plant?
The workers and their union, the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers, and Grain Millers’ International Union (BCTGM), allege that Kellogg’s executives have threatened to move manufacturing to Mexico in an effort to bust up their striking.

In October, a BCTGM union representative said Kellogg’s "continues to threaten to send additional jobs to Mexico if workers do not accept outrageous proposals that take away protections that workers have had for decades."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/11/2021 00:02 || Comments || Link || [12 views] Top|| File under:

#1  While Biden lets illegals flow into the USA.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 12/11/2021 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I meant wetbacks.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 12/11/2021 0:15 Comments || Top||

#3  They are not members of the Teacher or Civil Service unions so they are expendable
Posted by: magpie || 12/11/2021 2:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Easier said than done. Any Union member who has any sort of dealing with this company will certainly display a gnarly stink eye towards them. Flat tires and all sorts of mischief.
Posted by: Dale || 12/11/2021 3:23 Comments || Top||

#5  We have a in the Augusta GA area.
(Right to work state)
The line worker reviews a read like a Production Sweat Mill.

Devil advocate chiming in: Look at what you are paying now for corn flakes.

Now imagine union scale wages and demands factored in?


Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/11/2021 6:33 Comments || Top||

#6  Those are the risks of going on strike.
Posted by: Mercutio || 12/11/2021 8:54 Comments || Top||

#7  I haven't bought cold cereal in over 30 years, after I read a lab report which found that rats were better nourished by the cardboard boxes containing the cereal than they were by the cereal itself.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/11/2021 10:00 Comments || Top||

#8  $5-6 per 12-oz box.

Thank you Brandon and Kommissars Powell and Yellen. We peasants are so grateful that it's only temporary.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/11/2021 10:03 Comments || Top||

#9  I stopped buying cold cereal years ago when it was priced the same as block cheese and cold cuts...
Posted by: magpie || 12/11/2021 10:39 Comments || Top||

#10  Almost every morning I do have oatmeal, using rolled oats at 70 cents / lb.
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 || 12/11/2021 10:41 Comments || Top||

#11  Bubba -- was the report written by a golden lab or chocolate lab? Because that's an old, old urban legend. Corn flakes may not be the best thing, but they're actually food.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/11/2021 11:26 Comments || Top||

#12  Good lord, and you stick with pure starches anyway...
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/11/2021 11:26 Comments || Top||

#13  Kids need cereal. Lots of vitamins along with whole-grain carbs. The sugar's needed to induce them to actually eat it.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/11/2021 11:36 Comments || Top||

#14  Another case of union members pricing themselves out of their jobs. This is red on red. Actually, if you hire the Mexicans to work at jobs in Mexico then maybe they won't immigratecolonize here.

And, no, I don't believe that kids need Kellogg's sugar. When the kids get hungry, they'll eat and then it's up to the parents to make sure they eat something healthy. Give them toast and butter or oatmeal with raisins.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/11/2021 12:22 Comments || Top||

#15  Growing up we were not allowed to have any sugary cereal. "Too much sugar" Mom said. "It's not good for you." The only cold cereal we had was Corn Flakes. They were cheap but they don't stau crispy for long.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 12/11/2021 15:42 Comments || Top||

#16  Maybe they can get away with making cereal, but are the union truckers going to haul it?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/11/2021 15:56 Comments || Top||

#17  The only cold cereal we had was Corn Flakes. They were cheap but they don't stau crispy for long.

That's when happens when cold milk meets cereal.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 12/11/2021 20:48 Comments || Top||

#18  My wife can't understand why I hate cold cereal. Too many years of that as breakfast. And it's all pretty bland without sugar. Don't like oatmeal either. Rather have nothing or an egg and a piece of bacon or sausage. Or hash browns with onion, green pepper, etc.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 12/11/2021 21:09 Comments || Top||

#19  ^ Mmmmmm
Posted by: Frank G || 12/11/2021 21:47 Comments || Top||

#20  Food has emotional resonances that only are logical from the inside. My siblings and I were picky eaters, so my father (the organic chemist) tarted up a crêpe recipe until it contained 100% of the US RDA except for fruits and vegetables. Mama’s housekeeper made up a big batch every two weeks, wrapped in tin foil and frozen in individual portions. We ate those six mornings a week. Sugary cereal is a special treat for me to this day. So are normal crêpes.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/11/2021 23:58 Comments || Top||


De Blasio 'on cloud nine' with Letitia James out of the gov's race
[NYPOST] Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserved him...
was elated by the news Thursday that Attorney General Letitia James had dropped out of the 2022 gubernatorial race — seeing her exit as a chance to jump into a less crowded Democratic primary field with only one other progressive, according to sources."They’re on cloud nine!" said a source close to de Blasio about the lame-duck mayor and his political advisers.

While de Blasio hasn’t made his run for governor official, he created a candidate committee and is expected to make the announcement in January.

"I’m going to be going around the state of New York, starting next month, talking to the people of this state," de Blasio said on MSNBC Thursday when "Meet the Press" host Chuck Todd asked if he was going to rethink his gubernatorial race after James bowed out.

"I want to stay in public service. I want to address the issues I’ve been focused on, fighting income equality, getting more kids access to better education. I have a lot of energy to do that and I’ll have a lot more to say in the coming next few weeks," de Blasio said.

Shortly after James broke her unexpected news, de Blasio attended a ribbon-cutting at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Posted by: Fred || 12/11/2021 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The people there really hate themselves. I give him even money odds.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/11/2021 9:02 Comments || Top||

#2  In a 2020 Dem Prez field crowded with repulsives like Beto, Gillibrand, Harris and Steyer, de Basio actually stood out.
Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/11/2021 20:25 Comments || Top||

#3  DeBlasio is an asshole's asshole.
Corrupt Moron squared.
Posted by: Merrick Ferret || 12/11/2021 22:33 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Sat 2021-12-11
  Pakistani Taliban have called off a ceasefire mediated with the help of the Afghan Taliban
Fri 2021-12-10
  Bandits Raid Another Mosque In Niger State, Shoot 15 Worshippers Dead
Thu 2021-12-09
  French cops foil 'ISIS' Christmas knife rampage as they arrest two
Wed 2021-12-08
  Syria Says Israeli Warplanes Hit Latakia Port Containers
Tue 2021-12-07
  Iraqi forces, Kurdish Peshmerga retake northern village from ISIS fighters
Mon 2021-12-06
  Turkey Agrees to Withdraw Foreign Forces from Libya
Sun 2021-12-05
  'Horrific, cold-blooded murder': Sialkot blasphemy lynching
Sat 2021-12-04
  Philippine Troops Kill Suspected Leader of IS-linked Group in Mindanao
Fri 2021-12-03
  Biden officially RESTARTS Trump's 'Remain in Mexico' policy
Thu 2021-12-02
  Record of Waukesha massacre suspect's $1,000 bail hearing missing
Wed 2021-12-01
  Waukesha massacre suspect Darrell Brooks faces new charge for death of 8-year-old boy
Tue 2021-11-30
  Turkish lira skids again after Erdogan orders manipulation probe
Mon 2021-11-29
  Iranian arrested in Kenya for planning attacks against Israeli targets
Sun 2021-11-28
  Police fire tear gas at anti-government protesters in Burkina
Sat 2021-11-27
  Hamas banned in the UK


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