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TGIF, It’s been a while since I’ve worked on a Friday.
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The First Family’s 529 Windfall.
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Aren’t you supposed to be working?
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I know y’all think I’m surrounded by hordes of limp-wristed, feckless left wing fools up here in Baghdad on the Hudson. This story exposes a different reality.
Meet New York’s Fulton County Sheriff Tom Lorey:
Despite the Empire State’s fame as a jurisdiction unfriendly to private gun ownership—or, really, any activity beyind the reach of government officials—Lorey isn’t alone in his views. The New York State Sheriffs Association and individual sheriffs are already on record opposing tightened gun laws and suing the governor to block their enforcement. But Lorey goes a step further, and urges his constituents to defy the state’s handgun permit law.
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#5 – Well RIGHT ON Sheriff Lorey!!!!!!!!!!
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The FBI issues a “Uniform Crime Report,” but does not require individual police agencies to supply them with info on police shootings, even justifiable homicides, so most agencies simply keep that info to themselves. According to the Salt Lake Tribune, police agencies in Utah reported 18 justifiable homicides by law enforcement from 2007-2012, contrasting with the Tribune’s review identifying 59 homicides over that same six-year span. If there’s no data, did it happen?
On a national scale, the Wall Street Journal studied data from more than 100 of the country’s largest police agencies and found the internal data added up to “about 45% more than the FBI’s tally for justifiable homicides in those departments’ jurisdictions” and also noted that “nearly all police killings are deemed by the departments or other authorities to be justifiable.”
Thin Blue Line, my a$$. This is like a massive Blue Wall of obfuscation. I’m opposed to most any new law unless it consists of overturning previous laws, but I’ll make an exception here and state we need comprehensive, accurate data on all police shootings anywhere they happen.
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Washington Secrets : Law
Documents: Cops wanted to hit ‘Meet the Press’ then-host David Gregory with gun charge.
In an affidavit, the investigator wrote that “there is probable cause that the offense of possessing a ‘high-capacity’ magazine was committed in the District of Columbia. Therefore your Affiant requests the issuance of an arrest warrant for Gregory, David Michael.”
Despite the request, D.C. attorney general Irvin Nathan declined to prosecute in the case. He said that his office “determined to exercise its prosecutorial discretion to decline to bring criminal charges against Mr. Gregory, who has no criminal record, or any other NBC employee based on the events associated” with the broadcast.
Legalinsurrection.com’s William A. Jacobson wrote: “The short version is that the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department warned NBC News that it could not possess an actual high-capacity magazine, but NBC News went ahead and did it anyway. The MPD recommended a warrant for Gregory’s arrest, but that request was nixed by the D.C. Attorney General Irvin Nathan because — my paraphrase — Gregory was just too nice a guy and had no other criminal intent.”Emphasis mine.
First of all the law is ridiculous and unconstitutional but putting that aside, what do you think the prosecutor would have done if you or I broke this law? Would we be considered “just too nice a guy with no other criminal intent.”? -
Aren’t you supposed to be working?
Work started @ 7 AM, cooling my heels in a BORING meeting now. 😉
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Super Dave
Apparently, the hopelessly corrupt AG Nathan and David Gregory’s wife produced together a swell and swanky benefit for the local Shakespeare Theater group several years ago.
Irwin Nathan and the Gregorys are clearly friends and there were a number of photos with them at the event. Legal Insurrection published at least one from the theater company’s annual report.
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#10 SD
Isn’t it frowned upon at your workplace to be tapping away on your device during a meeting? My last job, all devices were to be taken out of the pockets, turned off, and placed face down on the table. 🙂 -
#11 TP : Would you be so kind as to highlight the money page so we don’t have to cut through all 76 pages on a mobile phone?
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#11 – Cmonnnnnnnnn Brother – 76 pages? Can ya narrow that down?
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#9 SD : Are you implying that there is cronyism and corruption in DC?!? I am shocked; shocked I tell ya.
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13 & 14
When I opened the PDF, there was the cover page, the second page and 74 blank pages.
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oops.
I was wrong. It took about 20 minutes of the page being open before the PDF loaded.
I thought they had erased or blocked the contents somehow.
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There is frequent complaining here about how the news media ignore all but the most heavily funded Republican candidates for national office.
They do the same thing to Democrats. Face it, editors and reporters are going to cover whomever pays attention to them and only pols with money and staff can sustain that kind of promotional onslaught.
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The smoking ban carries $100 fines for a person who smokes a cigarette, natural or synthetic marijuana, or e-cigarettes in “public places.”
Public places include aquariums, laundromats, parking structures, trailer parks, condos, restaurants, shopping malls, outdoor stadiums and amphitheaters, libraries, theaters, lobbies, and more.
The ordinance applies to private clubs, private and semi-private rooms in nursing homes, places of employment, correctional facilities, school buses, and all schools and colleges.
The ordinance goes further to banning smoking in many outdoor areas, including construction sites. Outdoor recreational areas, including amusement parks, athletic fields, beaches, fairgrounds, gardens, golf courses, parks, plazas, skate parks, swimming pools, trails, and zoos, will also be affected.
Smoking will also be banned within 25 feet of parks and bus stops.
Violations are filed as a “public nuisance.” A second violation carries a $200 fine, and a third, if committed within the last year, can be as high as $500. Businesses can also have permits suspended if they allow smoking on their premises.
New Orleans residents will also no longer be able to smoke in their cars while waiting to use an ATM
New Awlins make a smart move to boost tourism and keep their citizens happy. – not.
http://freebeacon.com/issues/new-orleans-bans-smoking-pretty-much-everywhere/
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Mid-January and it was 40F this morning. Yippee. 🙂
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Texanadian
We’re still waiting for Mohammed the Snowman.
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Texpat
Thin Blue Line, my a$$. This is like a massive Blue Wall of obfuscation. I’m opposed to most any new law unless it consists of overturning previous laws, but I’ll make an exception here and state we need comprehensive, accurate data on all police shootings anywhere they happen.
Why? As Hillary would say, “What does it matter””
/snark offI have argued that the “comprehensive crime report” we are treated to is bunk. Lately or for the past 6 months or so, I have been hearing how the crime rate is down. Really?
Individual police departments have so much wiggle room in how they report along with what they ignore altogether I would suggest the crime rate is much higher than what is reported.
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#7, 22: As we have long known, the inflation, unemployment and GDP numbers are bogus. Now we are finding that the local PoPo don’t have to report all the shooting and killing in which they engage. It sure does make it a whole lot easier to cause the political opponents to get disappeared now doesn’t it. Especially those radical types that actually believe what The Constitution says and like to grow their own food and maintain the means to protect themselves.
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http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/21/bombshell-irs-has-active-contract-for-millions-with-company-hhs-fired-over-botched-healthcare-gov/
I can’t recall if I ever got this posted. The irs has hired the very same company to do tax work re Obamacare that did such a great job designing the website. The Onion wouldn’t dare do a spoof this bad because no one would believe it yet truth is even more bizarre than fiction. -
Transvestites and cross-dressers are simply people with bad fashion taste, who choose to dress that way.
What has happened our Sunday go to church suits? or how yoga pants and sweat clothes destroyed Americuh. The dressing down of americuh.
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Correct me if I am wrong but local police have no real state or federal oversight, only the local council or commissioners court. Those entities should be demanding that these records be compiled and maintained. And the states should have uniform mandatory guidelines on reporting.
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#27: I sooo glad that NBCLSD chose not to pander to minority group in a lame-azzed attempt to boost ratings.
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sarc off.What a bunch of pathetic losers. This is the same bunch that put bombs in gas tanks to make sure that the vehicles would explode in a collision.
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Squawk – Shannon – Hamous
You each have 5 minutes to explain what Tommy is saying here.
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I will never vote Republican again. Not for any reason. Today, the Republican Party stands for dragooning children into an inferior educational system designed to make them good little worker bees; for sending taxpayer dollars to its own clients; for funding Obamacare but promising to undo it Tuesday if you’ll give them a hamburger today; for blessing Executive overreach because hey, President Bush III may want to do some cool stuff, too; for brutally crushing its base at every opportunity; and for helping grow a larger and larger government behemoth that must topple of its own weight some day, so long as its elected members can get a piece of the lobbying pie first. But most of all, today the Party stands for indifference in the face of a man-made cataclysm of flesh and blood, and for apathy toward good and cooperation with evil. RedState was founded — waaaaaay back — to promote conservatives in the primary and Republicans in the general, but always, always the pro-lifers. It is now clear, to me, that this is a hopeless cause. What that says about the possibility of peacefully reforming our legalized regime of mass murder, I leave to others.
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We all either know or should know that government statistics are not reliable for any purpose what so ever. So, if we passed another law, what makes one think the new numbers would be any better than the old ones? If murders get reclassified to armed robberies to make the murder rate go down are we really accomplishing anything? So long as we have the political class directing traffic, nothing will change.
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Shannon;
From your linked article:
Today’s Republican Party just killed a bill in the House of Representatives that carries the supermajority support of Americans nationwide; that would make it harder for the very worst butchers to hide late-term elective abortions as the result of rapes; and that would spare that tiny number of babies killed after viability and pain perception set in. A fraction, a tiny fraction, of the children killed every year from convenience, from fear, from anger, from misunderstanding, from a thousand different killers of mother and baby, would have lived; and now they will die, because the House Republican caucus suddenly understood that Republicans in the Senate may have to pass this bill, and all of their promises might suddenly matter.
Erik Erickson weighs in:
The Pro-Life Movement Must Stop Being Whores of the Republican Party
Maybe it is time for a third party to give the GOP competition. Yesterday, the GOP threw its base under the bus. The Republicans who claim to support the pro-life movement, including Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC)51% who claimed she’d vote for the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act after she ensured it would not pass, need to be beaten. Rep. Renee Ellmers (R-NC)51%, in particular, must be ruined politically even if it means the pro-life community sends a pro-abortion Democrat in her place. They’ll still have improved the seat by replacing Ellmers with someone who is not a damnable liar.
In short, the pro-life movement must stop being the whores of the GOP. The Republican Leadership knows the pro-life movement is in its pocket. They have nowhere else to go. They have no one else to vote for. As much as Republicans look at black voters and tut-tut that they are being taken advantage of by a Democratic Party that knows black voters will not go anywhere, the Republicans are doing precisely the same to pro-life voters.
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So, if we passed another law, what makes one think the new numbers would be any better than the old ones?
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Texpat
Squawk – Shannon – Hamous
You each have 5 minutes to explain what Tommy is saying here.
Someone is late for breakfast at the Arab Spring cafe with free wifi and he alone understands why?
#analogyfail
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Billionaire Jeff Greene, who amassed a multibillion dollar fortune betting against subprime mortgage securities, says the U.S. faces a jobs crisis that will cause social unrest and radical politics.
“America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence,” Greene said in an interview today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “We need to reinvent our whole system of life.”
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#12 Naw, I look up from my lap-top with a serious look on my face and ask a question about the up coming test so they assume that I’m looking at the same TPS that they are, little do they know, I’m just not interested in hearing about everything except what really matters to the outcome of said test.
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Dr. Death Makes a Comeback.
Legalizing physician-assisted suicide is receiving fresh support, but doctors should think twice before signing on.Also, as Ian Dowbiggin showed in “A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America” (2003), physician-assisted suicide was periodically championed in the 20th century yet rejected time after time by American voters when its practical harms were comprehended. As recently as 2012, Massachusetts voters defeated an initiative to legalize assisted suicide.
There are two essential harms from the practice. First: Once doctors agree to assist a person’s suicide, ultimately they find it difficult to reject anyone who seeks their services. The killing of patients by doctors spreads to encompass many treatable but mentally troubled individuals, as seen today in the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland.
Second: When a “right to die” becomes settled law, soon the right translates into a duty. That was the message sent by Oregon, which legalized assisted suicide in 1994, when the state-sponsored health plan in 2008 denied recommended but costly cancer treatments and offered instead to pay for less-expensive suicide drugs.
These intractable, recurrent drawbacks are but one side of the problematic transaction involved with assisted suicide. The other, more telling side is the way assisting in patients’ suicides hollows out the heart of the medical profession. -
#34 – Pure D insanity!! (I hope that Lady winds up OWNING that god forsaken little town!)
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A relative of ours reports snow in Kerrville this morning.
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#30 Shannon
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Sobering.
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#34 TexCan
Can you spell vendetta? -
Ahem, don’t mind if I do: 42!
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#30 Shannon
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
I would like to take this opportunity to welcome Mr. Crown to the club.
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44 SQK
Curling got boring. Just spicing things up a little bit.
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Re: My #30
What did the writer mean when he said, “and thanks for all the fish” ?
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Shannon
Could it be? -
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It’s a line from Hitchhiker’s Guide. -
Thanks, Harper.
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What the dolphins said (or tried to say) to us humans as they left right before the Earth was destroyed in the book The Ultimate Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. -Urban Dictionary
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The words were inscribed on crystal bowls that were left behind.
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This pales in comparison to what I would personally like to do. In response to Netanyahu accepting an invitation from the Speaker of The House, after the White House snubbed him again, they claim this:
HEADLINE: Netanyahu ‘spat in our face,’ White House officials said to say
I think Netanyahu refuses to be treated like JugEars beyotch and JugEars simply doesn’t know how to handle it.
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If you like your ISP you can keep your ISP, unless Bronco and the Thugs decide otherwise.
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Obammy’s thugs sure are reacting like thugs to Netanyahu’s visit to the Congress. “Price to pay”, huh?
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So which washed-up ’70s smarmy cocktail musician are we sending to Saudi Arabia for the king’s funeral?
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#56 Couchmaster: Most amusing sir. Thanks, I needed that.
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So which washed-up ’70s smarmy cocktail musician are we sending to Saudi Arabia for the king’s funeral?
My first thought was Throbbing Gristle (which is a real 70s band). But then I got to thinking Howsa bout Jackson Brown. Now there is a lefties leftist if ever there was a leftist. But then it struck me…… like a thunderbolt out of the sky……………
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So which washed-up ’70s smarmy cocktail musician are we sending to Saudi Arabia for the king’s funeral?
Sheeet, boys.
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Shannon
I really did think about “that guy” but I could not force myself to post it.
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Guess who’s not going to dinner at the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz?
http://twitchy.com/2015/01/23/big-game-on-obama-blowing-off-70th-anniversary-of-liberation-of-auschwitz/ -
SQK
I won’t apologize for loving his music from back then.
It’s too closely tied to young loves and good times. -
Shannon
Hey no apologies needed. I did not like the guy back then either. Another duo I could not stand was Seals and Crofts.Summer breeze blah blah blah, blow a little blah blah blah
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Seals & Crofts
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Shannon, I appreciate a talented musician and Jackson Browne qualifies with stars. I don’t know about his politics and I don’t care to, I enjoy the music, particularly acoustic versions. Thank you sir.
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Seals & Crofts
Oh goodness. Pretty Bad.Native Texans, both.
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I didn’t post the Jackson Browne but he was another one that the girls loved, so we put up with it.
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Seals & Crofts
Oh goodness. Pretty Bad.Native Texans, both.
Small exoneration.
I really have never been one to let my politics influence my entertainment, especially in music. I have been a fan of CSN for years and those guys have always canceled my vote. And Arlo Guthrie…. whoohoo.
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Enough!!!
I need a vaccination from this soft stuff. -
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tire tracks across your back, I can see you’ve had your fun.. -
Shannon prolly sits around grooving to this.
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Billionaire Jeff Greene, who amassed a multibillion dollar fortune betting against subprime mortgage securities, says the U.S. faces a jobs crisis that will cause social unrest and radical politics.
“America’s lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence,” Greene said in an interview today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “We need to reinvent our whole system of life.”
As soon as Jeffy Grerenbacks does this I’ll take him seriously.
One thing you lack,” he said. “Go, sell everything you have and give to the poor.”
Otherwise just another liberal, blowhard, rich hypocrite.
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71 SQK
No, never got into Capt & Tennile.But I admit to liking the Carpenters.
/hanging head in shame.
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Do I have to do all the thinking around here ?
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Send Helen Reddy singing I Am Woman.
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These are some kiddo test answers that I found many of them quite funny.
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74 Texpat
You win.
I hate you.
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#76 Mharper
😀
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1979
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If the song fits
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1973
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80 Phil.
Sweet.
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81 Katfish
Aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh
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OKBabe
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I know they sure shook ME up!
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Worst quality, yet best version.
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Good chilly morning Hamsters. Back home again and greeted by 43, windy, rainy, and a generally miserable afternoon. This morning it’s clear and 33 with light frost on the pastures but a forecast for increasingly lovely days ahead. We’ll take it.
We along with spouse’s brother and wife from Madison have been on an almost 2-week Caribbean cruise, with the main attraction being transiting the Panama Canal. Other nice places were thrown in for good measure.
Good to be home and catching up on the news we couldn’t get while gone. We did have the Noo Yawk Times digest 8-page rag daily on board, but that was only helpful for weather news, (unless they were bleating about climate change or global warming), some sports news, and editorial rants so you could reverse everything they said and figure out what their problem in the real world was. Also some rather sketchy financial news was included that was maybe helpful to some readers. Did have Fox News Channel to sorta balance (ha) the lunatic news outfits.
More later.
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