[HOTAIR] It’s likely true that this very public food fight might not have come about if it weren’t for that piece in New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... Magazine. I read it earlier this week and began working on a column about it, but eventually decided against it. It’s a very long piece from a news hound who was invited to spend family time with the Mosbys on multiple occasions and really dig into their lives. Much of it is flattering, painting the couple as victims of circumstances in some ways, but it also delivers some fairly damning indictments against the state’s attorney. When she revealed that she felt Mayor Rawlings-Blake might have been at fault for some of the handling of the Freddie Gray police trials, though, that seems to have been a bridge too far for the Mayor.
The faults cited by the Mayor won’t come as any sort of shocking revelations to anyone who’s been paying attention. The idea of "bowing to political pressure" is a bit of a misnomer because Mosby’s decision to almost immediately file charges against the coppers was initially more a case of bowing to the demands of the rioters threatening to destroy the city. That’s rather ironic, since it was Rawlings-Blake herself who initially bowed to that pressure when parts of the downtown district were starting to go up in flames. But her accusation of rushing into the process before a full investigation of Gray’s death could be conducted is clearly true. More surprising was her revelation that Mosby had wanted her to hold back information on the Freddie Gray incident from the public, a request which she refused. That led to the trial taking place in the media long before a jury could ever be summoned.
The very public scrap between these two is probably just a symptom of their struggles to maintain some sort of relevance. Rawlings-Blake landed a plum speaking slot at the Democratic convention and is now (somehow) considered a power player in the DNC after the exit of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz ...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish... . She’s also a regular feature on cable news as an election commentator. But with the ghost of the Freddie Gray riots and subsequent trials hanging over her head it’s tough to imagine her finding her way to higher office absent an appointment of some sort.
Mosby appears to be done, with no career lifeboat to jump into. But the reality is that both of them share in the blame for the ongoing disaster in Baltimore, where the violent crime rate continues to spiral out of control, even if it’s overshadowed by the ongoing apocalypse in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown ... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,... . Seeing the two of them in an embarrassing public spat like this is simply a side-show.
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in thr NYT piece Mosby says the riots were the result of Mayor's misinformation and then gives as an example of the misinformation, the fact that the mayor said the police vehicle Freddy Grey's was in stopped 3 times when it actually stopped 4 or 5 times. That's such a trivial piece of misinformation, it implies Mosby had no legitimate complaint. Of course the Mayor did give the police the order to let the mob destroy stuff but Mosby didn't bring that up.
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Similar bullshit is going down in Tulsa.
They're prosecuting an officer for shooting (once, not a dozen times) a criminal who was not responding to lawful orders and who reached into their vehicle (thus triggering the shooting by the officer).
Fuck the victim--the officer has a right to go home at night. I can't believe that there hasn't been more support for her.
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They're prosecuting an officer for shooting (once, not a dozen times) a criminal who was not responding to lawful orders and who reached into their vehicle (thus triggering the shooting by the officer).
Careful Crusader, I've seen that video several times and the windows were closed, no way he was reaching in. Also she had backup there that was going for his taser. There were several people yelling/screaming at the guy and it is quite possible that they were yelling conflicting things.
It looks to me that the woman cop panicked. She supposedly had drug recognition training and thought the man was on PCP and was afraid for her life.
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Slightly off topic. I got shot through my helmet 1969. Flattened a piece of my skull. Infantry, no blood, you're fine. Many years later, I start having seizures. A first class civ hospital finally does MRI. Serious damage. They send me to the VA hospital with a DVD of the MRI. A clearly AA doc takes my DVD, brings it HOME, and loses it. That was 2010. New doc, sees damage on new MRI, calls it. 6 years to get it right. AA. Is real. Now you know why I am off.
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[McClatchy Report] WASHINGTON, A senior intelligence official has settled with the federal government after he alleged that he was punished for disclosing that the Pentagon's watchdog had shielded former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta from allegations that he'd leaked sensitive information.
Daniel Meyer, who previously oversaw the Defense Department's decisions on whistleblower cases, also accused the Pentagon inspector general's office of targeting him for being gay.
As part of the agreement, the Pentagon inspector general's office said it would give Meyer an undisclosed monetary settlement, according to three people with knowledge of the negotiations. They asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the matter.
The inspector general's office also promised to give Meyer two awards in "recognition for his services," a Sept. 19 settlement document obtained by McClatchy says.
Meyer, who is now the top official overseeing whistleblower retaliation complaints for the intelligence community, agreed to drop the complaint he’d filed with an administrative panel that handles grievances by federal employees.
Meyer had accused his former Defense Department bosses of "manipulation of a final report to curry favor" with Panetta.
[PJ] A General Services Administration inspector general released a scathing letter Thursday accusing White House operatives of slow-walking open records requests and wrongly punishing conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. Meanwhile, the watchdog group revealed on Thursday that the FBI had no plans to question Clinton's aides in its "half-baked" email investigation until it was clear that Judicial Watch was going to, and then the FBI used JW's own redacted FOIA documents to question them.
Via the Washington Times:
The GSA botched several high-profile open records requests, delaying them for months while political appointees got involved, Inspector General Carol F. Ochoa said. The findings were released while the administration was facing charges of slow-walking open records requests for Hillary Clinton’s emails, as well as other requests.
In the case of Judicial Watch, the order to strip it of media status came from political operatives with long ties to Democratic causes -- and even from the White House.
[Wash Times] Pledging to make public service a hallmark of her would-be administration, Democrat Hillary Clinton proposed Friday a 5 million-member "national service reserve" project that would train Americans to respond to natural disasters, health emergencies and other crises.
The program, Mrs. Clinton said, would allow citizens to continue working in their full-time jobs but essentially would put them on call if state or local governments need more bodies.
"If you join the national service reserve, you will receive some basic training, just like you would in the military reserves. And then when your city or state needs you, you’ll get the call," Mrs. Clinton said at a rally in Florida. "Say a natural disaster strikes and the Red Cross needs all hands on deck,
...legitimate...
or maybe like the water crisis in Flint [Michigan], and clean water has to be distributed every day to a lot of families.
...covering for government malfeasance...
Or maybe your city launches a major public health campaign to reduce drug abuse or promote mental health.
...utterly ridiculous. These are matters for health ministry ad campaigns, not dragging people away from their paying jobs to march up and down in sandwich boards, handing out flyers -- for free. In any other contest she would be laughed off the stage for saying this aloud.
You will then be sent into action."
Sounds rather like a recent government plan. In Venezuela. We can all see how well that country works...
Mrs. Clinton did not talk about how much it would cost to establish and run such a program, nor did she say where the money would come from.
No, she's always a little light on those sorts of details...
She said her goal would be to have 5 million members spread across all 50 states.
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"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
Just another part of that stupid piece of paper to be ignored, espoused by the party of the original slave owners. They never seem to get that out of their DNA do they? See 'volunteer' enter the Newspeak dictionary with a definition that is totally non-pre-21st Century.
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Actually not a bad idea at all until you read the campaign thing. Then it sounds more like Putin Youth
Posted by: European Conservative ||
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Week-end warrior Roosevelt CCC camp scheme. They'll get a sign-on bonus, some free training, party indoctrination, and chow, along with a monthly stipend for life for continuing to vote democrat breathing.
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I propose the Democrat Relocation Program. Democrats will be sent to their socialist paradise, Venezuela. This will be their new permanent home, where they can revel in the feeling of how much the government loves them. And if they live longer than 6 months, they will each receive a shiny, $20 gift card to Starbucks.
[DONSURBER.BLOGSPOT] And among those earning less than $35,000 a year, Hillary leads by 10.4 points. He leads among those making $35,000 or more.
My reader stated in an email: "Can we therefore conclude that the 'college grad or up"' Hillary supports are all useless-to-society low-paid SJW-studies majors (English, History, Women/Black/Latino/etc Studies, etc.)?"
Yep.
I would add journalism to the list of worthless SJW degrees.
They are not educated. They are indoctrinated.
Trump by the way has 16.9 percent of the black vote and 33.8 percent of the Hispanic/Latin vote.
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IMO voting for HRC doesn't have much to do with money. Being a lefty and voting for HRC is simply a mental disorder. It also demonstrates suicidal thoughts.
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Without seeing the numbers, my guess is that this demographic skews heavily female and is probably over-represented by single mothers, which as a demographic is up there with blacks in terms of strategic importance for Democrats.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] USA Today has never taken sides in a presidential race until they un-endorsed Donald Trump by recommending that people not vote for him. You would think this would make anti-Trump Erik Wemple of the Washington Post very happy. Instead Wemple is now in a panic mode.
It wasn't enough for him that the USA Today editorial board recommended that people do not vote for Trump. What has Wemple really riled up is that they did not flat out endorse Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as America's Blond Eminence and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Abel P. Upshur ... . Instead they recommended that people vote for anyone but Trump, including besides Hillary, Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, write-in candidates, or even no one at the top of the ticket. To Wemple all this does is dilute the anti-Trump vote as you can see in his panic attack:
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[GP] The Minneapolis Housing Authority passed legislation this week that will allow migrants to skip their monthly rent in Minnesota when they travel back home to East Africa.
The move was sought by local East African immigrants. Immigrants traveling for 30 to 90 days could apply for a hardship which will reduce their rent to $75 a month while they are gone.
Public housing residents in Minneapolis will no longer need to pay their normal monthly rent when travel abroad erases their income, a change particularly sought by East African immigrants. The board of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority approved this week reverting to its previous policy of collecting only minimal rent during extended absences. The change takes effect once approved by federal housing officials, which is expected by year’s end.
Abdi Warsame, a City Council member, told the board that the policy in place for the past five years works a particular hardship on elderly East Africans who must save for long periods if they want to visit their homelands.
I'd also have to save for a long period if I wanted to do extended overseas travel...
He said that many receive federal Supplemental Security Income, which is halted when the recipient is outside the United States.
Which is current Federal law. If you're flush enough to travel overseas you likely don't need SSI. Then again, someone is going to have to explain why a foreign national is getting SSI in the first place...
Yet the policy required people to keep paying rent, which is income-based. Travelers gone for 30 to 90 days could apply for a hardship, which meant that they paid the minimum $75 monthly rent during their absence, but were required to make up the difference between that and their normal rent over the next year or two.
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So basically we, the taxpayers, get to pay for a 90-day vacation for 'migrants' to visit their homeland.
And you know that right now they say 'east africans' but it'll be expanded to cover just about every third-world country - or at least the Islamic ones.
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If anyone who came from a foreign country to the US as a refugee returns to their country of origin, we should declare whatever crisis they were fleeing to be over and send *ALL* the refugees from that country back.
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#3 So basically we, the taxpayers, get to pay for a 90-day vacation for 'migrants' to visit their homeland.
Hey, jihadist training ain't cheap!
So pay the jizgeld, peasants!
Why do you think your masters let you live in the first place?!
#8
are these people former refugees who settled in Minnesota?
If so their returning home suggests they no longer qualify as refugees, and have no basis for readmission to this country.
If not, why were a large number of people from this area resettled here?
[Daily Caller] Seventeen political Obama appointments across eight different agencies converted to career positions without receiving the required Office of Personnel Management (OPM) approval.
After President Obama leaves the White House on Jan. 20, 2017, over 4,000 of his political appointees also vacate their government offices as well. Federal employees prepare for new administrations by converting some of the outgoing White House’s political appointees to permanent career civil servants.
According to a Government Accountability Office (GAO) report released Friday, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had the most unapproved political to career conversions with six, followed by Health and Human Services (HHS) with three, and the Department of Energy (DOE) with two.
All of these agencies made seven of these conversions in 2010, when OPM’s previous approval policy was first established, and made two conversions in 2015 (through October 1).
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[HOTAIR] It’s likely true that this very public food fight might not have come about if it weren’t for that piece in 
The faults cited by the Mayor won’t come as any sort of shocking revelations to anyone who’s been paying attention. The idea of "bowing to political pressure" is a bit of a misnomer because Mosby’s decision to almost immediately file charges against the 
[PJ] A General Services Administration inspector general released a scathing letter Thursday accusing White House operatives of slow-walking open records requests and wrongly punishing conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch. Meanwhile, the watchdog group revealed on Thursday that the FBI had no plans to question Clinton's aides in its "half-baked" email investigation until it was clear that Judicial Watch was going to, and then the FBI used JW's own redacted FOIA documents to question them.
[NEWSBUSTERS.ORG] USA Today has never taken sides in a presidential race until they un-endorsed Donald Trump by recommending that people not vote for him. You would think this would make anti-Trump Erik Wemple of the Washington Post very happy. Instead Wemple is now in a panic mode. 
[GP] The Minneapolis Housing Authority passed legislation this week that will allow migrants to skip their monthly rent in Minnesota when they travel back home to East Africa.
