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Obama could still force Merrick Garland onto court during ‘intersession recess’
Post Date: 2017-01-02 20:32:20 by cranky
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President Obama will have one last chance to force Judge Merrick Garland onto the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday — but it’s a legal gamble and one that has so many pitfalls that even those who say he could get away with it believe it isn’t worth the fight. Mr. Obama’s moment will come just before noon, in the five minutes that the Senate gavels the 114th Congress out of session and the time the 115th Congress begins. In those few moments the Senate will go into what’s known as an “intersession recess,” creating one golden moment when the president could test his recess-appointment powers by sending Judge Garland to the high court. A smattering of ...
Dumb Female Sports Reporters
Post Date: 2017-01-02 18:21:16 by no gnu taxes
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Is there anything more inane than the token female sports reporter doing a halftime interview? "Coach, you're behind 31-0. Do you think you need to do better next half?" I keep hoping the coach will say, "Oh, shut up and go make me a sandwich." But I guess they want to keep it classy.
Kicking Money Out of Politics: Trump Boots Koch Brother from Golf Course
Post Date: 2017-01-02 16:55:50 by cranky
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President-elect Donald Trump told a critical biographer and guest of billionaire David Koch to leave his West Palm Beach golf course on New Year’s Eve, forcing Koch to leave with him. Trump’s gesture was another slight against the pro-amnesty, pro-“free trade” billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch, who opposed Trump during the Republican primary season and refused to help him during the general election. It also signals Trump will not necessarily play nice with the GOP political establishment and Beltway right. The Kochs swooped in during the Tea Party revolt in 2010, training amateur political activists and trying to channel populist energy against the Obama ...
Is Donald Trump Going to Take Away Your Gun?
Post Date: 2017-01-02 14:23:52 by Willie Green
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Pro-gun Trump vs. anti-gun Trump After all, this is the man who argued all through the 2016 campaignthat he is "a 2nd amendment person," that he is "against gun control," and who even advocated "making all concealed-carry permits valid in every state." Is this really the kind of guy who might take away your gun? Well, it's essential to recognize that Donald Trump has flip-floppedon gun control before -- and could do so again. For example, in his 2000 book The America We Deserve, Trump declared unabashedly: " I support the ban on assault weapons and I support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun." Trump recanted his position on ...
John Derbyshire: Israel Is NOT That Important To America
Post Date: 2017-01-02 13:40:32 by nativist nationalist
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It's not an illegal settlement in the Gaza Strip, it's a colonia in Texas. When Christmas and New Year’s both fall on a weekend, that week in between is the silliest of all silly seasons in the Western world. Unless there’s a natural disaster, or some non-Western lunatic tries to start a war, nothing happens. So I’m going to write at length about the one newsy thing that did happen this week: the fuss over the U.S.A. not using its veto in the U.N. Security Council to take down a resolution critical of Israel. I don’t think it’s half as important as it looks. To judge from my email bag and donation logs, I have a surprising number of readers in Israel. I ...
Puerto Rico's new gov seeks statehood to help end crisis
Post Date: 2017-01-02 12:55:19 by cranky
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Pro-statehood supporters await the arrival of Puerto Rico's new governor at the seaside Capitol in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, Jan. 2, 2017. Ricardo Rossello was sworn in Monday as the U.S. territory prepares for what many believe will be new austerity measures and a renewed push for statehood to haul the island out of a deep economic crisis. Puerto Rico's new governor was sworn in Monday, promising an immediate push for statehood in a territory facing a deep economic crisis. Gov. Ricardo Rossello, 37, proposed several measures aimed at alleviating the crisis shortly after he was sworn in at midnight. Among them is a proposal to hold a referendum that would ask voters whether ...
Conservative Christians pan 'prosperity gospel' Trump inaugural preacher [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2017-01-02 09:54:21 by Willie Green
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Prominent conservative Christians are up in arms about President-elect Trump's choice of a controversial televangelist to deliver one of the prayers at his inauguration on Jan. 20. Florida's Paula White, age 50, will join Franklin Graham, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and other religious leaders in participating in the Trump inaugural festivities. Unlike the others, White is a proponent of the "prosperity gospel" — the belief that God blesses the faithful with health and wealth — who has come under attack for her theology, marital history and finances. "Paula White is a trinity denying heretic," wrote ...
Laws Don’t Apply to "Heroes"
Post Date: 2017-01-02 07:01:01 by Deckard
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Here’s a video documenting another case of law enforcers not enforcing the law… on law enforcers. A man who had been issued a ticket – that is, ordered to hand over a sum of money as punishment for violating the law requiring both a front and a rear license plate – went to the local police department parking lot, where he video’d several vehicles without front license plates (and one – a Chevy Tahoe – with no license plates at all) but no tickets being handed out. A law enforcer was present, so the man approached him to ask why he wasn’t doing anything to enforce the law which was enforced without mercy on him. As they talk, the SUV with no ...
DA drops DUI charge for man who tested positive for caffeine
Post Date: 2017-01-01 21:46:23 by Hondo68
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Joseph Schwab pulled over while driving on I-680 Updated: 8:47 AM PST Dec 29, 2016 SOLANO COUNTY, Calif. (KCRA) — The Solano County District Attorney's Office decided Wednesday to drop a DUI charge against a Fairfield man who only tested positive for caffeine. The charges were dropped more than 16 months after Joseph Schwab, 36, was pulled over on Interstate 680 near Gold Hill Road as he drove to his Fairfield home."After further consideration, without a confirmatory test of the specific drug in the defendant's system that impaired his ability to drive, we do not believe we can prove the charge beyond a reasonable doubt," District Attorney Krishna Abrams said ...
CONFIRMED – NBC Caught Reporting FAKE NEWS to Lie About Israel For Obama
Post Date: 2017-01-01 21:43:36 by Gatlin
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On Thursday, NBC based an article on Israel entirely on factual inaccuracies, making it fake news. They said, “For decades, Israel has pursued a policy of building Jewish settlements on occupied territory Palestinians seek for a state.” The truth is that Israel removed all of its settlements from the Gaza strip more than ten years ago, way back in 2005. This isn’t just fake news, it’s old news. Maybe that’s why they thought nobody would notice. They added another whopper by implying that the Golan Heights are part of a future Palestinian State. Golan Heights is claimed by Syria and is an entirely different matter than the settlements in Gaza. Some are ...
'Policing For Profit' Goes To The Next Level
Post Date: 2017-01-01 16:57:16 by Deckard
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It’s bad enough getting arrested – especially when you didn’t do anything to warrant it. This happens all the time, because the the threshold for arresting someone is very low. It can be done by any cop, pretty much anytime – without much in the way of legal justification. He has the gun – and the handcuffs, after all. If he wants to arrest you, he will arrest you. Maybe the courts will sort it out later; eventually you are released, your record “cleared.” This isn’t new – or news. What is new – and ought to be news – is that several states have begun charging people “processing” and “incarceration” ...
Donald Trump Smooching and motorboating a drag-clad Rudy Giuliani
Post Date: 2017-01-01 16:47:39 by Deckard
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Clinton Foundation CEO Declared ‘Missing’ By the Internet After Going Public Saying ‘Follow the Money’
Post Date: 2017-01-01 15:19:05 by Deckard
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Twitter users have started the hashtag #WheresEric in reference to Eric Braverman, the former CEO of the Clinton Foundation, because some think he has been a possible missing person since before the November 2016 U.S. election. Braverman’s last public activity, accessible via the internet, was an October 12 retweet. A common understanding of the events surrounding Braverman’s possible disappearance centers around his abrupt resignation from the Clinton Foundation in January 2015, which many thought was caused by his discovery of internal corruption at the non-profit organization. Braverman named was CEO in July 2013 during the immediate aftermath of Hillary Clinton’s ...
Cop’s Body Cam Catches Him Brutally Attack & Taser Man Walking His Bike on the Sidewalk
Post Date: 2017-01-01 14:31:39 by Deckard
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Mesa, AZ — Attorney and former police officer Anthony Ramirez says he was at first skeptical of his client’s claims of police brutality — until he obtained body cam footage showing an Arizona officer pulling up to Joshua Dombrowski, shoving him to the ground, and performing a vicious arrest. Dombrowski had been walking his bicycle down the sidewalk in a straight line on August 14, when a Mesa officer pulled up, jumped from his cruiser, and slammed him onto the ground — an act the man says happened for ‘no good reason.’ Ramirez acquired the Mesa Police Department officer’s report stating Dombrowski “forced two pedestrians” to “move off the ...
Anthony Bourdain on Sichuan Peppers, Sex, Eating Dogs, and Political Correctness
Post Date: 2017-01-01 14:19:56 by Deckard
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An exclusive post-election interview with the culinary celebrity host of Parts Unknown. From Iran to to Hanoi to rural New England: Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown on CNN has covered a lot of territory, like No Reservations before it. More than 15 years since his best-selling memoir Kitchen Confidential gutted New York's culinary underbelly, the former junkie and chef continues not to give any fucks. Bourdain has also just published Appetites (Ecco), his first cookbook in over a decade, co-authored with longtime collaborator Laurie Woolever. New Zealand–based writer Alexander Bisley reached the traveler and chef by phone the day after the Electoral College confirmed Donald ...
Trump tells Schumer he likes him more than other GOP leaders
Post Date: 2017-01-01 12:55:09 by Willie Green
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Donald Trump told Democrat Sen. Charles Schumer in a phone call he likes him more than his GOP brethren House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a source close to the transition team said. During a recent phone call, the president-elect “said to Schumer he likes Schumer more than Ryan and McConnell because they both wanted him to lose,” the source said. “They are Republicans and Trump knows they didn’t support him.” A rep from Schumer’s office would not comment on private remarks between the two men. Trump ridiculed Ryan on Twitter and at rallies during the campaign and teased both Republican leaders, saying they “weren’t in ...
impromptu news conference
Post Date: 2017-01-01 07:02:40 by BobCeleste
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They, the lying Fake News, had a chance to start to vindicate themselves, but, true to form they were more interested in propping up obama then getting to the news. Last nights impromptu news conference. Poster Comment:gonna be nice to see them replaced by Right Side, Sean Hannity, Alex Jones and Breitbart
How Many Blacks And Hispanics Were Killed By Police Officers In 2016?
Post Date: 2016-12-31 18:44:39 by cranky
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As of Friday, United States police officers shot and killed 957 people in 2016, according to a Washington Post database that tracks police shooting incidents throughout the year. Although the number is still considerably high, it’s still 36 deaths shy of 2015’s number of people shot and killed by police, which accounted for 991 deaths.Along with more deaths in 2015, there were more black people shot and killed by police last year. In 2015, 258 black people were shot and killed by cops while only 228 black people were shot and killed in 2016.The number of Hispanics shot and killed by police was higher in 2015 as well. There were 156 people who were fatally shot by officers in 2016 ...
Report: 3 Miami officers fired over target practice 'jokes'
Post Date: 2016-12-31 18:36:21 by cranky
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Three new police officers were fired for making comments on a group chat about using Miami's primarily black neighborhoods for target practice, a newspaper reported Friday. Officers Kevin Bergnes, Miguel Valdes and Bruce Alcin were let go on Dec. 23, after an internal affairs investigation concluded that they violated department policies, said the Miami Herald (http://hrld.us/2hxDZZp), citing documents it obtained. The remarks angered local civil rights activists keeping tabs on a department that is currently scrutinized by the U.S. Department of Justice for a pattern of excessive force. "It's indicative of the casual conversations and comments that young and even more ...
The only real Communists left ... are the North Koreans --- the faculty at major U.S. universities.
Post Date: 2016-12-31 17:07:36 by BorisY
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To: CGASMIA68 Communism? The Communist Party of China is not even Communist any longer. The only real Communists left are the North Koreans and the faculty at major U.S. universities. 19 posted on 12/31/2016 10:36:59 AM by Petrosius Poster Comment:maumaublackAfrican3rdworldmarxism
It’s time to starve the BEAST!
Post Date: 2016-12-31 16:55:34 by Deckard
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Whoever does not do their part to starve the BEAST has no right to complain about it. Patriots of the Republic Given the shocking lack of respect that the Democrat voters have shown President-elect Trump, as well as the common folk who populate his nationalist patriot movement, it’s clear they need to be taught a hard lesson. Liberals/Progressives/Lefties really are all the things that they call the Trumpsters. They are highly prejudiced against the working people and narrow-minded to the extreme. They exhibit levels of hypocrisy and hubris that can be head-shaking. Their so-called Democrat peace party has morphed into an American version of the Bolsheviks. America has never ...
Alex Jones Instrumental In Changing Russians' Perception of Americans
Post Date: 2016-12-31 13:31:29 by Hondo68
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Published on Dec 30, 2016 Another excerpt of the Russian TV show "Our Point of View" on the Tsargrad.tv channel. Here hosts, Alexander Dugin and Andrey Afanasiev proclaim that Alex Jones is solely responsible for radically changing the perception of Russians' view towards Americans
The Unnatural World: New BBC wildlife show uses fake animals rigged with spy cameras to reveal never-before-seen behaviour - including monkeys grieving after thinking they KILLED an imposter
Post Date: 2016-12-31 09:52:14 by cranky
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34 animatronic Spy Creatures have been dispatched across the globe in a bid to reveal animals' emotionsThe production team want to see beasts displaying love, intelligence, friendships and mischiefIn one scene langur monkeys try to revive their robot companion when they think they have killed it A chimp tries to keep a kitten as a pet while a tortoise also tries to mate with the shelled imposterThe new four-part series Spy In The Wild will be start airing on January 12 on BBC One The BBC is sending an army of undercover robot animals into the wild in a bid to capture never-seen-before footage In one of the most innovative natural history series ever presented, Spy in the Wild deploys ...
Trump’s Border Wall, Deportation Plans Face Pushback From Mainstream Reconquista Republicans
Post Date: 2016-12-30 22:09:19 by Hondo68
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents fly near the U.S.-Mexico border on a helicopter patrol on Oct. 18, 2016 near McAllen, Texas. Photographer: John Moore/Getty Images Republican critics in Congress chafe at his deportation calls GOP leaders in House, Senate want fencing, not a ‘wall’ Donald Trump’s pledges to deport undocumented immigrants and build a U.S.-Mexico border wall helped fuel Republicans’ surprising election victories, but they now face growing challenges from fellow party members.Three Republican senators are working with Democrats to shield about 750,000 young undocumented immigrants from deportation if Trump cancels a 2012 order from ...
Trump's Pick For Attorney General A Big Fan Of Civil Asset Forfeiture
Post Date: 2016-12-30 20:42:38 by Deckard
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from the status-quo-maintenance dept Efforts to rein in civil forfeiture have been moving forward around the country. Several states have passed laws that remove some of the perverse incentives that have allowed law enforcement agencies to seize cash, cars, homes, and whatever else might be laying around without criminal convictions. Very few efforts have gone as far as to make convictions a requirement in every case, but most have at least closed the federal loophole that allowed agencies to bypass more restrictive state laws to take control of citizens' assets. The federal government's use of asset forfeiture still remains untouched. The equitable sharing program that helped ...
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