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Belarus opposition leader demands end to violence, free and fair elections
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Posted by: Fred || 09/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  We could use some of that here.
Posted by: Skidmark || 09/19/2020 7:39 Comments || Top||

#2  ... and a pony
Posted by: European Conservative || 09/19/2020 17:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Nothing like a chick with a clenched fist.
Posted by: Clem || 09/19/2020 19:18 Comments || Top||


Economy
BLM Riots Could Cost Insurance Companies Up to $2 Billion
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 09/19/2020 03:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Just another 'tax' as everyone else's rates go up. Though most insurers are state regulated, so its the citizens of the states who'll pick up the tab.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 09/19/2020 6:55 Comments || Top||

#2  State insurance regulation is the original skin-back proposition. In Trump's second term, eliminating it should be a top priority.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/19/2020 8:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't forget all those little 'nuisance words' in a lot of policies that allows the insurers to deny coverage related to “illegal acts”.

$2B is just the tip of the iceberg.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 09/19/2020 9:14 Comments || Top||

#4  You should have known angry minorities would rip up your business / home / neighborhood / life.

That clause.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/19/2020 9:17 Comments || Top||

#5  And people talk about oligarchs elsewhere...the deck is so stacked here it is sickening.

So we have police, defunded or not, that are not bound to respond to individual calls for help, and then there's possibly the insurance companies can deny coverage to those who required assistance. Gee, isn't that nice?
Posted by: Clem || 09/19/2020 9:19 Comments || Top||

#6  #1, ZMan calls it "the tax on being white..."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/19/2020 9:20 Comments || Top||

#7  They don't even need to deny, the insurers can simply drag their feet with manufactured internal bureaucracy. Besides, how many have insurance for insurrection?
Posted by: Cesare || 09/19/2020 10:04 Comments || Top||

#8  /\ Besides, how many have insurance for insurrection?

At the personal level, I am 'self-insured.'
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/19/2020 10:07 Comments || Top||

#9  The typical bodega barely makes it. Insurance is a fantasy. The big box stores have such large policies their carriers won't even consider rocking the boat.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/19/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||

#10  At the personal level,

A white person is in Bonfire of the Vanities territory these days. Amazing that Tom Wolfe saw that coming way back in 1987...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/19/2020 10:13 Comments || Top||

#11  We, (insurance company), file suit for damages against (corporation) for their continuous support, in spite of overwhelming evidence concerning arson and vandalism, of the BLM organization.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/19/2020 12:32 Comments || Top||

#12  At the personal level, I am 'self-insured.'

12 ga insurance. :-)

Also, anyone involved in the riots ought to be responsible for reparations for what they destroyed.
Posted by: gorb || 09/19/2020 12:56 Comments || Top||

#13  They CAN sue BLM and ANTIFA and the Seattle Mayor who openly supported the destruction.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 || 09/19/2020 12:57 Comments || Top||

#14  ALL mayors and Governors in Dem riot areas should have massive lawsuits against them.
Posted by: Vespasian Ebbereng3110 || 09/19/2020 13:04 Comments || Top||

#15  #11, that's called subrogation. In this instance the lawyers won't touch it.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/19/2020 13:26 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
McConnell confirms eight federal judges in three days, keeping his promise to 'leave no vacancy behind'
Especially meaningful given Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s death yesterday.
[WashingtonExaminer] The Senate, led by Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, confirmed eight federal judges in just three days as the Republicans' efforts to reshape the courts continue.

Eight of President Trump’s judicial nominees will take to the bench in Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, and Illinois as the total number of judges nominated by Trump and confirmed by the Senate reaches 216.

Disruptions caused by 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 exacerbated a judicial emergency in the Central District of California. Each judge in the Central District Of California was responsible for nearly double the national average of cases prior to the pandemic, but officials say there will be a "significant backlog of trials" when the pandemic is over. The then-chief judge in the district sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee and the White House asking Washington to speed up the process of appointing new judges.

Iain Johnston and Franklin Valderrama were confirmed to the Northern District of Illinois. Stephen McGlynn and David Dugan will sit on the bench in the Southern District of Illinois.

John Holcomb, Stanley Blumenfeld, and Mark Scarsi are headed to the Central District of California, the most populated federal judicial district in the nation, which is headquartered in Los Angeles. Todd Robinson was confirmed to the Southern District of California.

In June, Trump broke a record after 200 of his nominees to the federal judiciary were confirmed by the Senate. There are currently 68 vacancies across the federal court system. The president has nominated candidates for 42 of those positions.

"When we depart this chamber today, there will not be a single circuit court vacancy anywhere in the nation for the first time in at least 40 years," McConnell said ahead of the confirmation of Judge Justin Walker, Trump’s 200th judge.

"My motto for the year is 'leave no vacancy behind,'" McConnell told Hugh Hewitt in February. "That includes district courts as well. So, we're a long way from being finished with doing court confirmations this year."
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And five the week before, plus three more on the calendar for next week. But we’ve list a lot of time due to virus nonesense, now things will shut down for a SCT nominee.
Posted by: Speng Snaviting6874 || 09/19/2020 9:46 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Motorway Rape Case: Wife of Abid Malhi says she is unaware of his whereabouts
[DAILYTIMES.PK] Law enforcement agencies have recorded the initial statement of the wife of the key suspect in the motorway gang-rape case, Abid Malhi, officials said on Thursday. She was taken into custody on Wednesday night.Hasnain Haider, a deputy superintendent (DSP) of the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA), said that Abid Malhi’s wife was arrested from the house of the suspect’s parents.

In her initial statement, she said that she was unaware of Abid’s whereabouts who — according to her — escaped when law enforcement officials conducted a raid. After Abid escaped, his wife came to Manga Mandi in Lahore.

According to sources the police had received information about the arrival of Abid Malhi in Raja Jang area in Kasur, the main accused involved in the motorway gang rape case. The accused came in the area but on suspicion of police presence fled into the fields.

According to Dunya News sources, due to incompetence of Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

police, Abid Malhi, the main accused in the motorway gang rape case, has once again got out of hands.



Posted by: Fred || 09/19/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


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Two weeks of WOT
Sat 2020-09-19
  Notorious RBG dead at 87
Fri 2020-09-18
  RBG Kicks The Bucket
Thu 2020-09-17
  Minnesota man charged with providing material support to Islamic State
Wed 2020-09-16
  Bloomberg: Libya’s PM Al-Sarraj will Resign
Tue 2020-09-15
  Airstrikes kill “Huras_al_Din” commander in Idlib city
Mon 2020-09-14
  Police Shooting of Suspect Charging Officer Armed with A Knife Sets Off Rioting In Lancaster Pennsylvania.
Sun 2020-09-13
  Erdogan: My entire nation is an army and we're not afraid to sacrifice martyrs
Sat 2020-09-12
  Antifa have called off their planned Friday night direct action (DA) riot in Portland
Fri 2020-09-11
  Nineteen Years. Never Forget.
Thu 2020-09-10
  Donald Trump nominated for 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
Wed 2020-09-09
  Centcom: ‘The US has decided to reduce our troop presence in Iraq from about 5,200 to 3,000 troops during this month’
Tue 2020-09-08
  Turkish lira has hit a record low against the dollar
Mon 2020-09-07
  BLM protesters in DC are calling for the White House to be burned down, cops killed.
Sun 2020-09-06
  Jihadists net $140 mn from Burkina gold mine raids
Sat 2020-09-05
  Thousands Antifa/BLM Flood Rochester, Threatening and Smashing Restaurants, Customers Flee in Terror

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