[NYPOST] It’s a "devastating turning point" and possibly the "beginning of the end" of Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo’s 30-plus-year political career.
That’s the profound impact of US Attorney Preet Bharara’s corruption probe of Cuomo’s longtime friend and top aide Joe Percoco -- who was tighter with the governor than even members of his own family, top state Democrats told The Post.
"Joe was even closer to Cuomo than [girlfriend] Sandra Lee, closer than his sisters and even his brother Chris. Joe was always there with him, for God’s sake,’’ said a prominent Democrat who has known Cuomo for years.
In a move widely seen as a pre-emptive effort to put his own "spin’’ on the federal probe, Cuomo announced late Friday that an investigation was being launched into "undisclosed conflicts of interest by some individuals which may have deceived state employees’’ involved in economic development programs.
The announcement, which came as Bharara’s probe of Percoco became public, stunned many close to Cuomo because it appeared that the governor was, as a Cuomo administration source put it, "just throwing Joe under the bus, which seemed incredible to everyone and suggested how serious all of this is.’’
Administration insiders quickly began asking if Percoco -- whose career and relationship with the governor goes back to the days of Gov. Mario Cuomo -- could have, as Sherlocks suspect, illegally pocketed some $150,000 from contractors without Cuomo knowing about it.
Extra-special bonus points if the Clinton Foundation has any fingerprints on this...
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Bus undercarriages have proved very helpful to other prominent Democrat politicos, why not Cuomo?
[WASHINGTONTIMES] States can impose their own stiff penalties on illegal immigrants colonists -- or others -- who steal someone’s identity in order to get a job, a federal appeals court ruled Monday, upholding Arizona’s strict law and dealing a setback to immigrant rights advocates.
The decision is yet another victory for Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and, more broadly, for Arizona, which has been a pioneer in trying to find ways to punish illegal immigrants colonists, stepping into a void left by the Bush and B.O. regimes.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said that while there are still some questions about how police and prosecutors use the identity theft laws, on their face they do not violate the Constitution, nor do they trample on the federal government’s ability to set national immigration policies.
As long as the laws apply to anyone, including U.S. citizens who steal someone’s identity, they are allowed -- even if the legislature intended them chiefly as a way to strike at one of the symptoms of illegal immigration, the judges said.
"In this case, Arizona exercised its police powers to pass criminal laws that apply equally to unauthorized aliens, authorized aliens, and U.S. citizens," Circuit Judge Richard C. Tallman wrote in the unanimous opinion. "Just because some applications of those laws implicate federal immigration priorities does not mean that the statute as a whole should be struck down."
The identity theft law was one of a series of changes Arizona passed over the last decade to try to put pressure on illegal immigrants colonists.
The Supreme Court has already upheld a state law requiring all businesses to use the federal E-Verify program to check their employees’ work authorization, while the justices split on another law, SB 1070, striking down Arizona’s stiffer penalties against illegal immigrants colonists but upholding the part that orders police to check the legal status of those they encounter in their regular duties, and who they suspect are in the country illegally.
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[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] Known as the Chappaquiddick Incident after the Massachusetts island where it took place, scandal broke the Kennedy grip on the White House
Edward had been driving back from a party when he veered off a bridge
Kennedy swam ashore to save himself but left passenger Mary Jo Kopechne to drown - and did not report the incident for nine hours
Film will now revisit events in 1969 that appalled millions of Americans
Australian-born 'Zero Dark Thirty' star Jason Clarke will play Kennedy in 'Chappaquiddick'
There was never an autopsy of Ms. Kopechne. Ponder that and then ponder the most obvious reason why a Senator would have a car accident while driving with a young woman...
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Be interesting to see how they pin the blame on Reagan.
#5
Well I always love a good remake so how about-
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
The Awful Truth (1937)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1953)
Captains Courageous (1937)
Chicken Run (2000)
Dead of Night (1946)
Don't Look Back (1967)
Every Man for Himself (1980)
Farewell, my Concubine (1993)
Fatal Attraction (1987)
His Girl Friday (1940)
I Know Where I'm Going (1947)
I Want to Live (1958)
I'm All Right Jack (1960)
It Happened One Night (1934)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Night Moves (1975)
Of Mice and Men (1940)
On the Waterfront (1954)
The Ruling Class (1972)
Ruthless People (1986)
The Scoundrel (1935)
A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
They Were Expendable (1940)
Unforgiven (1992)
Yellow Submarine (1968)
Zero for Conduct (1933)
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No autopsy because Miss Kopechne might have had something other than sea water in her mouth (thinking blue dress here)? Yes, that might cause a distraction to driving with the unfortunate result of veering off a bridge.
#9
Booze-back Mountin'... Whisky for Horsesasses...
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Enchanted by visions of Camelot,
Maid Mary Jo yields to her Lancelot.
Their unbridled idyll
Would win her no title,
But Teddy was knighted Sir Swamelot!
#11
Diving many moon sdown into the reject pile...
Ted Kennedy often regaled 'em,
"That intern was smokin' in Salem!
She stifled a cough...
And about bit it off...
Said she never could stand to inhale 'em."
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No autopsy? Ponder the most obvious reason? OK, dunno if we're on the same track but I'll make a guess. I always figured he was just drunk and foolin' around in the Kennedy family tradition and didn't report it until he could sober up but, no autopsy? Was she pregnant?
#19
There once was a Senator from Mass
Who craved a strange piece of ass
He lucked out and found it
He screwed up and drown it
And now his future is passed
#23
If Kennedy was driving a van bug he might have been president some day. Bugs float.
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There once was man from Nantucket
With a dick so small she couldn't suck it
Ted didn't get his blow
So off the bridge went Mary Jo
And all the senator said was Phuck it
#25
Wait for the movie to come out and somewhere in the world will be an intense anti-American riot. The leading D's of the day will blame the riot on extremely upset Oldsmobile loyalists......
[WASHINGTONPOST] President B.O. is poised to declare the first-ever national monument recognizing the struggle for gay rights, singling out a sliver of green space and part of the surrounding Greenwich Village neighborhood as the birthplace of America’s modern gay liberation movement.
While most national monuments have highlighted iconic wild landscapes or historic sites from centuries ago, this reflects the country’s diversity of terrain and peoples in a different vein: It would be the first national monument anchored by a dive bar and surrounded by a warren of narrow streets that long has been regarded the historic center of gay cultural life in New York City.
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So the confederate flag is out, the rainbow flag is in. Confederate monuments are out, 'gay' monuments are in....
[COURIER-JOURNAL] A Jefferson County Circuit judge on Monday issued a restraining order to block removal of the controversial Confederate monument near the University of Louisville.
"You can't just erase history by tearing down monuments. That's what the Taliban does, that's what ISIS does. We don't do that in America."
Judge Judith McDonald-Burkman issued the order Monday morning against Mayor Greg Fischer and metro government, barring them from moving, disassembling or otherwise tampering with the 70-foot-tall monument.
GOP congressional hopeful Everett Corley filed the temporary restraining order in Jefferson Circuit Court to stop Fischer and U of L President James Ramsey from removing the monument from the school's campus. Also listed as plaintiffs are the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Kentucky Division, and its "Chief of Heritage Defense," and political activist Ed Springston.
A hearing is set for Thursday at 10:30 a.m. to consider their motion for a full temporary injunction.
"This restraining order is about respecting veterans," said Corley, a real estate agent, who argued it was the "equivalent of a book burning" and smacked of political correctness gone awry.
Jefferson County Attorney Mike O'Connell said he would fight the restraining order, which he said took him by surprise. He said no one from his office was at the hearing, and his office is seeking a continuance so that lawyers have more time to prepare for the hearing on the full injunction. A hearing on that motion is set for Tuesday morning.
"We'll obviously comply with whatever those orders are ... but we will move to immediately set this aside," he said. "This is a question of law and a question of facts. I'm not over here to politically grandstand like this gentleman is," he said, referring to Corley.
Thomas McAdam, an attorney for the plaintiffs, said the suit is based on several arguments in hopes of turning the order into a permanent injunction to keep the monument in place.
He said the basis of the lawsuit is that the mayor violated several laws, including not going through proper local, state and federal laws including historic preservation procedures. Because of the monument's placement on the national register of historic places, he said, notifications and hearings are required. The suit argues the move also violates the Kentucky Military Heritage Act and other state laws.
"We expect our elected officials to follow the law. The mayor has not followed the law," he said. "All we want is a fair hearing, all we want is to let the people know that this is part of our heritage, and you can't just erase history by tearing down monuments. That's what the Taliban does, that's what ISIS does. We don't do that in America."
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Yeah! Don't just remove the monument under the cover of darkness! Blow it up in the middle of the day with massive press coverage! That'll teach all those dead white guys.
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I believe it's on the National Register of Historic Places so it will take a court order to move it.
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#2 is correct. Being on the Nat'l Register creates all sorts of barriers to do anything with it other than leave it be
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"This is a question of law and a question of facts. I'm not over here to politically grandstand like this gentleman is," he said, referring to Corley.
Lying bullshiter
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Trumpkins, you bought him, you own him. And all the stupid and progressive/liberal things that he has said and will say.
Good luck with that, you cannot say you were not warned.
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The sky is falling. Oh my god! Yes, us trumpkins will get what we wanted. We want out government to listen to us. We want out leaders to stop raiding our national treasure, we want to take care of our vets, balance the budget, put some integrity back in the White House. We want a president that bows to no one but God and mother. We don't really give a damn if he leans a little to the left. Most of America is in the middle anyway. We care that the America we leave for our kids is a strong one, an honest one, a nation that other nations respect and fear. A nation we can be proud of. If that means turning DC on its head for 4 to 8 years I'm all in. The alternative of more of the same will lead to this once great nation failing. Now is the time and no other political candidate wants to fix it, they just want more of the same.
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And I want auto correct to read my mind. Sorry bout the out/our errors.
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I will always remember this as a turning point in understanding that so many 'conservatives' are like so many socialists who like the facade of democracy but who really only want power to impose their will on others. There are 'true believers' but they are too few to actually accomplish their articulated 'wishes'. Someone actually articulated what so many believed and felt for so long and all he gets is trash talk. First there was the Porkbusters, then the Tea Party and the establishment ignored them or at best paid lip service to them, undermining their candidates time and again. This they can not ignore. They created it. They own it. They have played nice with those who back stabbed them at every opportunity in the Beltway. They only found the will to fight back against those they claim to represent. Those who they claim, no longer buy their weasel rationalizations for not taking the fight to those with their hands on power.
Dear troll, if Cruz couldn't make it to the convention on the primary system, he wasn't going to win in the general election. It would have been Berry Goldwater all over. You need a coalition to win, not ideological purity. Any one of the numerous Trunk candidates could have preempted all of this by openly articulating as Trump has done, but, as with so many Trunks, were/are so afraid of being called racist, heartless, mean, xenophobic. They made him.
I suspect strongly that he will not achieve the office, not because of the vote, but because of a high possibility of assassination driven by the hatred and fear of so many. Welcome to Rome.
#7
* I believe this will be the dirtiest campaign in our lifetimes.
* I believe Trump will win in a landslide akin to Reagan's.
* I believe I will change registration to Libertarian.
#9
The presidential debates will be interesting. At least Trump isn't going to be driven by his 'consultants' and refrain from taking the beast by the throat and beating her with Benghazi, Email-gate, Protecting a sexual predator, etc...
Personally I was for Cruz, anyone who will stand on the senate floor and call the Republican leadershit liars has balls of steel. But for me Trump isn't bad.
#10
The way to beat Hillary is to get people to see Hillary for what she really is.
Trump knows it and he's going to go all out for her.
If only the GOP had the guts to do the same they wouldn't be wondering how trump won.
#11
Trump started loosing ground after attacking Cruz's wife and going after Megan. Cruz hammered Trump by saying he is afraid of strong women. The Donald realized his mistakes, met one on one with Megan and said he was out of line attacking Mrs Cruz. From then on he won all contests easily.
The secret here is the power of women voters. Trump will have to convince women voters to choose him over another woman, Hildabeest.
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If he can learn to be presidential, but retain his toughness, he's in. If he can be flexible and adaptable, that'll be a big help! [but not wishy-washy or spineless - I am trying to define a fine line!]
Maybe he just needs to be able to say, "I made a mistake" and make it sound like he means it.
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What MAN is going to vote for Hillary?I've spotted more than a few Hillary stickers on Volvos, gen 1 Priuses (Priusii?) and early bugs/microbuses driven by swishy-looking man-purse dragging creatures and those with unkempt wild hair and bugged out stares here in the Northwest....Concentrated in Bellingham.
[BIGSTORY.AP.ORG] Donald Trump took a major step toward sewing up the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a victory in Indiana's primary election, dashing the hopes of rival Ted Cruz and other GOP forces who fear the brash businessman will doom their party in the general election.
Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as The Liberatress of Libya and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another Edmund Randolph ... and Bernie Sanders ...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords... were vying for victory in the Democratic primary, though it was too early to call the race as votes were being tallied. Clinton already is 91 percent of the way to her party's nomination.
While Trump can't mathematically clinch the GOP nomination with his victory in Indiana, his path now becomes easier and he has more room for error in the remaining primary contests. The real estate mogul will collect at least 45 of Indiana's 57 delegates, and now needs less than 200 more in upcoming contests.
Cruz, who hasn't topped Trump in a month, campaigned vigorously in Indiana, securing the endorsement of the state's governor and announcing businesswoman Carly Fiorina as his running mate. But he appeared to lose momentum in the final days of campaigning and let his frustration with Trump boil over Tuesday, calling the billionaire "amoral" and a "braggadocious, arrogant buffoon."
Trump responded by saying Cruz "does not have the temperament to be president of the United States." Earlier Tuesday Trump had rehashed unsubstantiated claims that the Texan's father, Rafael Cruz, appeared in a 1963 photograph with John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald -- citing a report first published by the National Enquirer.
Cruz has vowed to stay in the race through the final primaries in June, clinging to the possibility that Trump will fall short of the 1,237 delegates he needs and the race will go to a contested convention. But he now could face pressure from donors and other Republicans to at least tone down in attacks on Trump in an attempt to unite the GOP heading into the general election.
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Sanders beat Mrs. Ineveitable
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The Hildebeast will not be the Dem nominee. The weight of past crimes and future indictment coupled with her absolute failure as a candidate will cause the Dem leaders to do something drastic. Sanders is not an option. My prediction: Right before the convention, she will have a "health scare" and remove herself from the race. Joe Biden and Liz Warren will swoop in with her blessing to grab the nomination. For her efforts, she will receive a pardon allowing the dems to have the first female in office (VP), and a Champ 3rd term.
This also circumvents all the research the Pubs are doing on her and will not have time to build a case against "Gropie Joe"
#3
Warthog that was magnificent. Could easily happen. I have been preoccupied with Trump for some time now. I see great things happening. I go as far as to say this will be the new Camelot. My concern is the Communists and Left will do as they have done in the past. He will most likely be assassinated or they will seriously make an attempt. Trump is many things but his loyalty to God and Country are historically strong. Strong foundation from family the basic ingredient.
#4
"This also circumvents all the research the Pubs are doing on her and will not have time to build a case against "Gropie Joe"" as well as a much shorter "drip, drip, drip" period for the fake injun...
#5
Biden has run for president a whole bunch of times and never gotten anywhere. Biden was a buffoon before Trump made it cool. Biden made it to VP on Obama's coattails. As a Plan B candidate he might be the best option the donks have but that's still not good.
#8
Should Trump pick Newt for Vice President contract with America here we come(so to speak). Newt however has shown no interest. Hannity has made this suggestion some time ago and Newt has not responded but with Trump showing so much support from the American people from all walks of life I think he could be drawn into the fray. Most effective pick I can imagine. One of the most productive Vice Presidents I am certain. Trump will certainly task him.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Hillary Clinton ... sometimes described as For a good time at 3 a.m. call Hillary and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as Another John Marshall ... said Monday that it was a "misstatement" when she claimed earlier this year that she would put "a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business."
The moment occurred after coalminer named Beau "called out" Clinton at a roundtable event in West Virginia for her earlier remarks on the coal industry.
"I just want to know how you can say you're going to put a lot of coal miners out of jobs and then come in here and tell us how you're going to be our friend, because those people out there don't see you as a friend," he said.
Clinton responded by saying, "I don't know how to explain it other than what I said was totally out of context from what I meant because I have been talking about helping coal country for a very long time, and I did put a plan out last summer."
"And it was a misstatement, because what I was saying is that, the way things are going now, you will continue to lose jobs. That's what I meant to say and I think that that seems to be supported by the facts," she added. "I didn't mean that we were going to do it, what I said was, that is going to happen unless we take action to try to help and prevent it. So I don't mind anybody being upset or angry."
Clinton boasted at a CNN town hall event in March that she has plans to boost the economy using clean energy resources.
"I'm the only candidate which has a policy about how to bring economic opportunity using clean renewable energy as the key into coal country," she said.
"Because we're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business," she said with a slight smile. "And we're going to make it clear that we don't want to forget those people. Those people labored in those mines for generations, losing their health, often losing their lives to turn on our lights and power our factories."
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That statement is no longer operative. How delightfully Nixonian!
No links, but I have a vague recollection of that being an applause line for her.
#8
Notice how Baraq never gets specific about why Trump is not equipped. He has no specifics and yet he expects people to accept what he says as proven fact and with the MSM to cover for him he gets away with it. But it's a weak, unsubstantiated allegation with no facts behind it...just like Baraq himself is a weak, unsubstantiated little man. He sounds good reading a teleprompter but after more than seven years in the White House he still hasn't done anything right. You want some facts: Baraq has run up more debt than all the presidents before him, he's made a mess of the Middle East, he refuses to secure our border with Mexico and now even the insurance companies who thought they'd make a fortune are backing away from ObamaCare, etc, etc, etc. Yeah, that's a legacy alright.
#10
I think that there isn't enough pockets to pick for both the Clinton and Obama foundations to meet projected revenue projections.
Would champ ego rather be the go to whiner for the left under a Trump presidency or play second chair to the Beast?
#11
Hyena, encountering Jackal:
"Equipment!" He grabbed it. A cackle.
The black-backèd barker
Just laid down a marker:
"Can't match my Red bed-wetting tackle!"
#12
only thing barry is qualified to do is mimic the old fashioned yard art of the little black lackie that held the family sign; red pants and checkered jacket if I recall. but that be raycyst......
#13
Eh, that may actually be racist, but what the hell...
His figure survives O's disasters
To pose before plastic pilasters:
Such iron in the manner he
Stands, out of Flannery,
Holding the mounts of his masters!
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.
[BIGSTORY.AP.ORG] Donald Trump took a major step toward sewing up the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday with a victory in Indiana's primary election, dashing the hopes of rival Ted Cruz and other GOP forces who fear the brash businessman will doom their party in the general election.
were vying for victory in the Democratic primary, though it was too early to call the race as votes were being tallied. Clinton already is 91 percent of the way to her party's nomination.
Hillary Clinton
