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Don’t forget to vote the bums out. You know who they are, and they know who they are. Time is growing short.
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But they’re all bums, Homey.
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Heh. Mr. Moai is drawing another one of Bonnie Prince Barry’s “red lines”. Pooty must be askeered to death.
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Does anybody think that VladyP’s military “exercise” is anything other than a nekkid attempt at intimidation? I think the rooskies would be more successful at herding cats than getting the Ukrainian Geenie back in the bottle.
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An unusual lineup in a constitutional criminal procedure case — Kagan, Ginsburg, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito (against the criminal defendant’s claim) vs. Breyer, Sotomayor, and Roberts (in favor of the criminal defendant’s claim). From Justice Kagan’s majority opinion in Kaley v. United States…
The majority ruling:
In this case, two indicted defendants wishing to hire an attorney challenged a pre-trial restraint on their property. The trial court convened a hearing to consider the seizure’s legality under Monsanto. The question presented is whether criminal defendants are constitutionally entitled at such a hearing to contest a grand jury’s prior determination of probable cause to believe they committed the crimes charged. We hold that they have no right to relitigate that finding.
The dissent by Chief Justice John Roberts, joined by Sotomayor and Breyer:
An individual facing serious criminal charges brought by the United States has little but the Constitution and his attorney standing between him and prison. He might readily give all he owns to defend himself.
We have held, however, that the Government may effectively remove a defendant’s primary weapon of defense — the attorney he selects and trusts — by freezing assets he needs to pay his lawyer. That ruling is not at issue. But today the Court goes further, holding that a defendant may be hobbled in this way without an opportunity to challenge the Government’s decision to freeze those needed assets. I cannot subscribe to that holding and respectfully dissent.I firmly agree with Roberts, Sotomayor and Breyer in their dissent.
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Whew, while I was reading the piece, looks like a duplication in #6 was corrected. I was very puzzled trying to understand the issue.
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#7 mh42
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In December, up 183 just north of Austin:
Austin Community Newspapers Staff
A group of Cedar Park SWAT police were seen with guns drawn Dec. 20 at Josh’s Used Tire Shop.
Assistant Police Chief Mike Harmon said police are serving a search warrant to recover evidence relating to a case. Having SWAT police secure the area was necessary because of the size of the building, he said.
Harmon said a man called police saying he had work done on his vehicle and may have received used parts that were considered new.
The business is located on the 1900 block of North Bell Boulevard.For heaven’s sake, it’s a damned used tire shop. These cops are completely out of control in this country.
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It looks like I am not the only one who holds the Senate Majority Leader in contempt of humanity; Doug Powers on Michelle Malkin’s site has this:
HEADLINE: Had a bad experience because of Obamacare? Harry Reid says you’re a liar
The first few comments after the article echo my feelings.
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Hank Jr. has the ANSWER!
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#6 – Obviously a couple of the justices didn’t get the memo. With their assets frozen, criminal defendants are still eligible for defense attorneys – the only difference being who pays for them. If their assets are frozen, they are indigent and attorneys are appointed to represent them. If they were allowed to select their own counsel and pay for it themselves, the government might obviously lose control of certain components of the case, and more importantly to the government, be faced with having to prove their case in the face of a competent defense. This way, the government remains in complete control of all facets of the criminal case, and the issue then become one of pleading out the best deal possible, regardless of the evidence or lack thereof. More corrupt government takeover of the system. As to the Chief Justice, he proved himself unworthy of any trust whatsoever early on and forever damaged his court for the remainder of his life.
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Ronan Farrow is getting the Barak Obama treatment in that he is receiving an award for no apparent reason.
HEADLINE: Farrow, After Three Days on the Air, Receives Cronkite Award
The left wing fawning and slobbering all over each other is really disgusting; kind of like a big bucket of slugs in a mate fest. Now where’s the salt?
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D*n had a major brain flatulence on Twitter. Seems he has flip flopped on teh gay marriage issue..
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For heaven’s sake, it’s a damned used tire shop. These cops are completely out of control in this country.
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BTW, Harry Reid says that I’m a liar, but my Part D prescription drug coverage just doubled at the first of the year under Obamacare – premium plus co-pays is twice what it was on December 31 for recurring medications. I suspect there will be more surprises in store for me as I access the system from time to time.
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Texpat
But this guy is a heroine dealer.
Watch the video and see how many guys they sent in. Is it not ironic that they use SWAT to capture the guy and then bond is set allowing him to get out. It seems to me they are hoping to kill the drug lord in a shoot our or something.
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Forget the Wall of Kansas – let’s build a huge, bird killing, low hum producing – Louisiana Wall of Turbines!
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RE: The Cedar Park Tire Shop Raid
Go to the link here, click on the photo in the upper left hand corner and look at the cops in military combat gear, rifles up, skulking around the tire shop.
If it weren’t so dangerous, it would be laughable.
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Here is a question for the couch. Should SWAT or is it Constitutional for the SWAT team tp just take over your house to gain a tactical advantage.
Florida homeowner Deborah Franz was outraged after she said a SWAT team used her home to gain a tactical advantage — without her permission and without notifying her — during a six-hour standoff with her neighbor this weekend.
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#18 Squawk: 6.1 grams of smack could reasonably be considered a supply for personal consumption, not that for distribution. Just look at the Philip Seymore Hoffman dude, he had way more than 6 grams on hand. The other real evil stuff was a handgun (which would be legal under any other circumstances other than the fact that there was smack on the premises) and a whopping $115 in cold hard cash. Blatant overkill for such triviality.
The thing that bothers me is that the handgun is considered illegal when there is smack present, what is to stop the overlords from declaring ammo illegal and that any firearm present with ammo is thereby illegal? Like you, I don’t put anything past these thugs. -
#19 TT from your link:
For example, had there been 78,000 turbines spread across a wide swath of Louisiana coastline when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans in 2005, the turbines would have reduced the wind speed by between 80 and 98 mph and the storm surge by 79 percent, the study showed.
78,000 wind turbines?!? Just how much does one figure that would cost and how far out into the gulf would they have to be to reduce the storm surge? Sheesh, why not just build a wall of $100 bills for cryin out loud.
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Ben Shapiro. Man with Cajones.
Braving hundreds of anti-Israel speakers and protesters, Breitbart Senior Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro, a UCLA alumnus, took the microphone and delivered a fiery lecture to the student council and the protesters, exposing the true motive of the so-called Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement: Jew-hatred.
My name is Ben Shapiro. I’m an alumnus of this university I’m also a local talk show host on 870 [AM] in the morning, and I got out of bed and left my one-month-old baby there when I saw what was going on here tonight. I’ve never been more ashamed to be a Bruin. I’ve never been more ashamed to be an alumnus of this university than to see this divestment petition being considered at this level.
To pretend this is about occupation, to pretend this is about peace, to pretend that this anything other than vile, spiteful Jew hatred is a lie!
There is only one reason we are discussing Israel and not discussing Saudi Arabia. There is only one reason we are discussing Israel and not discussing Iran. There is only one reason we are discussing Israel and not discussing Palestine. There is only one reason we are discussing Israel and not discussing the vast bevy of human rights violations that happen every day in the Middle East, exponentially worse that what happens in Israel.
Any gay or lesbian that is targeting Israel in this room seems to have forgotten how high they hang gays from cranes in Iran. Every person of liberal bent who suggests that Israel is the problem in the Middle East seems to have forgotten that there is only one country in the Middle East that actually has any sort of religious diversity in it. The countries that are apartheid countries are those that are Judenrein[free of Jews] – like, for example, Palestine.
So, for us to sit here and pretend that Israel is somehow on a lower moral plane is a direct manifestation of anti-Semitism. And to hold Jews to a different moral standard than any other country or group on the face of the earth represents nothing but an age-old and historic hatred for the Jewish people. All the folks here who are pretending that the B.D.S is about anything other than that – I would like to see a poll of those folks, and see how many of them actually believe in the existence of a Jewish state, qua-Jewish state, not as a state like any other, but as a Jewish state. They don’t. They don’t acknowledge that existence. They don’t believe in that existence. They don’t believe in peace. All this is about, pure and simple, is a desire to target the Jewish people. -
Here is a question for the couch. Should SWAT or is it Constitutional for the SWAT team tp just take over your house to gain a tactical advantage.
No.
Third Amendment of the Bill of Rights:No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
If the local voters, or their representatives, want to approve a law allowing soldiers, LEOs or other government agents to occupy private homes under specific circumstances, then it is their perogative.
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The Cato
prostituteInstitute has a white paper on the increasing militarization of the police. they also provide a real nice visual of BOTCHED SWAT raids since 1985. -
#20 TP: What is so galling is that, at worst, this is a civil complaint no violence is alleged so why the goon squad? At worst there would be a fine to pay no possibility of jail time. This is an abuse of resources and it serves to desensitize the populace to these overly aggressive tactics so that when they are used closer to home the alarms don’t go off.
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#6 #9 I agree, only three on the court got it right and one was John Roberts?!
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OK, some of you can relate to this, I know that I can; Conference Call in Real Life.
I got a minute or so into it before I realized that there was only one guy in the room. 😉 -
#27 BC
This happens because these trigger-happy little boys are playing cops and robbers with governmental immunity. These people need to grow up before too many more get killed. -
Bonez
6.1 grams of smack could reasonably be considered a supply for personal consumption, not that for distribution.
I do not care, what is bothersome to me is how the search warrant was executed. However you bring me to yet another point. There are way too many laws that can be described as “degrees of felonies”. One law provides for stricter penalties for distribution of substance while the other lesser penalty for simple possession. either the stuff is illegal to have or it ain’t. A person that has the stuff is prolly gonna share it anyway so now we enter the realm of distribution.
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#26 Squawk
Back on Lone Star Times, after the huge Obama stimulus funding was underway, I researched and published a long, detailed article about small and medium police departments across the nation getting these huge grants to buy military grade assault gear and equipment for their departments.
It was insane then and it is insane now.
I also became the only LST contributor to ever be invited for an on air interview at Pacifica Radio 90.1 in Houston about what I had written. -
BTW this is a quote form the Cato white paper.
Police say that Diotaiuto’s concealed-carry permit indicated he was potentially dangerous, which necessitated the involvement of the SWAT team.
This is one reason why I will NEVER have a concealed carry permit. My cousin in law was pulled over by DPS and before the Trooper asked for license, registration and insurance the Trooper demanded to see his CCL and the weapon he carried. What would have happened if my cuz had not had his CCL and weapon with him?
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Texpat
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Oh and one more thing before I bow out for the day, it is my opinion that bragging about having a CCL, as I have so often seen happen in various forums, is damn dumb. The question of “does he or doesn’t he” is a very powerful deterrent and tactical advantage. I do not want anyone to know if I carry, when I carry or what I carry. The thought that I might carry is a very powerful position to be in. Doubt in someone else’s mind is good high ground.
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This is one reason why I will NEVER have a concealed carry permit.
Yes indeed. If one concedes the fact that one needs permission ie a permit to carry then one willingly surrenders his 2nd amendment rights. One thing that is extremely positive about D*n P*trick is that he codifies the castle doctrine: one’s vehicle is an extension of one’s home; no permission is required to bear arms in one’s home and now by that explicit codification – one’s vehicle.
I will never get a CHL for this reason, that and it identifies me as first on the list to confiscate. -
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I was wondering why Cedar Park even had a SWAT team, till I checked its stats. The Cedar Park I knew north of Austin in 1980 had 3500 population. Today it is 60,000. -
These are projected crime rates for 2014 based on past FBI stats for Cedar Park, Texas. Their violent crime rate is well below the national and Texas average.
Aggravated Assault 42
Arson 3
Burglary – 219
Forcible Rape – 14
Larceny and Theft – 898
Motor Vehicle Theft – 42
Murder and Manslaughter – 3
Robbery – 13
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#37 – Trust me – Cedar Park aint no little country town any longer – more like a northern suburban extension of Austin (and the traffic there is as bad as anywhere in the Austin metro area)
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They don’t need a SWAT team. They need good cops out catching petty thieves and burglars.
That is simply no way to grab headlines and vie for slop at the federal money trough. Your suggestion requires hard word and dedication to the task, and it requires one to actually serve the citizenry and we simply can’t have that sort of thing catching on for crying out loud.
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#39 KF
I know, but the very idea that a small, suburban affluent town needs to have a SWAT team is absurd, ridiculous and a waste of public time and money.
It is obvious given the stats in #38 and these below:
Cedar Park, Texas 2012 Citing US Census Statistics
Median value of owner-occupied housing units $189,000 / Texas – $128,000
Per capita money income in past 12 months (2012 dollars) $31,715 / Texas – $25,809
Median household income $76,118 / Texas – $51,563
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The site was home to minor league baseball teams at Busch (Buff) Stadium from 1928 until 1961. The Finger family purchased the property, built a grand furniture showroom in 1965 and expanded it in the mid-1970s. They showcased sports memorabilia in the Houston Sports Museum in a portion of the store, which closed in late 2012. The Finger family’s sponsorships of the Buffs, the Colt .45s and Astros were part of the display.
I remember going into Finger’s and standing on the plaque embedded in the floor where homeplate used to be in the old Buff Stadium.
Property sold this week. -
Median household income $76,118
I guess gentrification forced all the cedar choppers further out.
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#41 – Brother I’m with YOU on this 110% – my comment was merely relative to size / growth – nothing more
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Methinks this is the point in the soap opera where the actor who’s contract is nearly up suddenly coughs in the middle of a conversation.
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#44 Katfish
Me, too. I had no idea that Cedar Park had grown so much. Truth is, I never really knew where the town proper was. I was out that way pretty often visiting a friend in the country, but her place was reached by country roads off of 183. -
#45 Sarge
If he leaves, I wonder how horrified we will be by the next POS in that office. -
#45: I wonder ifn they made him cough up his full deductable for that Horspistal visit? You know based on the OCare mandate they forced on we serfs.
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#47
If he leaves…
Am I remembering correctly that there’s a lawsuit against Holder now, by a group of black pastors?
This may be a case of conveniently removing a potential problem. I think there’s still some room under that big ol’ bus that TBO has. -
Texas’ very own Ministry of Silly Walks…
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BREAKING NEWS!! Hitlery will not be running for POTUS in 2016 due to the brain tumor that was discovered during her recent colonoscopy.
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I’m surprised they could get a camera by all the feces stuffed in her body.
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You know, ‘cuz she’s all full of wiss.
So much so that it shows up as cankles among other things.
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Russia rewards thier Olympic medalists, while the USA taxes them. Ya just can’t make this schizzle up now can ya?
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while the USA taxes them
All together gang
MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE
SWEET LAND OF SUBSIDY
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#Double nickle: Careful, someone may get the idea that you have become disheartened and jaded to our system of Constitutional Governement. . . . .
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Sheesh, kilt again?
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There’s no cat ever going to help you solve a murder or find $10 million dollars.
A talking parrot has helped Indian police crack an intriguing murder mystery and led the cops to arrest the killer.
In the western Indian city of Agra in Uttar Pradesh state, a 45-year-old woman and her pet dog were found murdered at her residence on 20 February.
The victim, Neelam Sharma, was the wife of Vijay Sharma, the editor of a Hindi daily.
The city police had been baffled by the murder mystery till Neelam’s husband got a clue from the parrot, which showed a change in behaviour whenever a relative, Vijay’s nephew Ashutosh, visited the house after the incident.
“During discussions too, whenever Ashutosh’s name was mentioned, the parrot would start screeching. This raised my suspicion and I informed the police,” Sharma told the Times of India.
Police interrogated Ashutosh and he confessed to the crime, according to the city’s senior superintendent of police Shalabh Mathur.
“We checked his call details and took him in custody,” Mathur was quoted as saying by the paper.
“He accepted his crime and informed us that he was accompanied by an accomplice. They had entered the house with the intention of taking away cash and other valuables,” he added.
Ashutosh stabbed his aunt as he was afraid she would recognise him. He then stabbed the pet dog since it started barking.
However, the nephew failed to notice the parrot who was silently watching the crime, the police said.LOS ANGELES – A Northern California couple out walking their dog on their Gold Country property stumbled across a modern-day bonanza: $10 million in rare, mint-condition gold coins buried in the shadow of an old tree.
Nearly all of the 1,427 coins, dating from 1847 to 1894, are in uncirculated, mint condition, said David Hall, co-founder of Professional Coin Grading Service of Santa Ana, which recently authenticated them. Although the face value of the gold pieces only adds up to about $27,000, some of them are so rare that coin experts say they could fetch nearly $1 million apiece. -
The parrot story was quite amazing, but it only worked out because the perp confessed. I had not heard that a dog was involved in the treasure find. Prolly digging a hole in the yard. Harrumph.
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Yabbut cats can do this.
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