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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Duke lacrosse rape hoax accuser''s confession teaches a lesson the left won''t learn
[NYPOST] The left can't stop hitching its narrative to bogus stories.

Late last week, Crystal Mangum — the accuser at the center of the notorious Duke lacrosse rape hoax — admitted for the first time that she lied about being brutally assaulted by David Evans, Collin Finnerty and Reade Seligmann at a party in 2006.

From prison, where she's serving time for murdering her boyfriend in 2011, Mangum asked for the three men's forgiveness: ''I testified falsely against them by saying that they raped me when they didn't, and that was wrong.''

She's not the only one who should be groveling: At the time of the trial, Evans, Finnerty and Seligmann were mercilessly dragged through the mud by rabid progressives with an ax to grind.

The players had the audacity to be well-off, white and male: The media responded like sharks to a bucket of chum, framing the young men as vicious, racist, misogynistic monsters.

Duke professor Houston
...a city in Texas, named after Sam Houston, who would drop deader than he is now if he could see how it turned out...
A. Baker, Jr. decried the ''drunken white male privilege loosed amongst us.''
Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Ran a search on this BLM & Race Pimpers poster child's name.

It seems they and the MSM omitted that she already had a laundry list of arrests, convictions and SERIOUS Physical alterations, prior to 2006.

Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/18/2024 5:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Three wealthy Duke students who have the pick of the litter, rape guttersnipe ?

Illogical from the day-1.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/18/2024 6:43 Comments || Top||

#3 
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/18/2024 10:14 Comments || Top||

#4  She said she was raped atop a broken glass tabletop. Yet she had no scratches or cuts. It was obvious shit from the start. I would've hoped Nifong would've exited the earth by his own hand
Posted by: Frank G || 12/18/2024 11:35 Comments || Top||

#5  I lived in Raleigh during this hoax. The lacrosse players were lucky that their families had enough money to hire good lawyers. Also, Mike Nifong's behavior in prosecuting this case was so egregious that the governor appointed a special prosecutor to handle the case. Nifong was later disbarred for his conduct.
Posted by: Rambler || 12/18/2024 16:02 Comments || Top||


-Great Cultural Revolution
‘Why don't you go to Amazon and buy a spine online and take a stand?’ Kennedy yelled at Baker.
[FoxNews] NCAA prez suggests onus on female athletes to use other facilities if uncomfortable sharing with trans players. Charlie Baker calls notion that biological males have physical advantages over females 'debatable' before changing answer.

NCAA President Charlie Baker sent a message to women's college athletes who are uncomfortable sharing locker rooms with transgender athletes on Tuesday, putting the responsibility for their own safety squarely on the women themselves.

During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing over legalized sports gambling, Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questioned Baker about the NCAA's policies that have allowed trans athletes to compete on women's teams. Hawley confronted Baker about the NCAA policy that states "transgender student athletes should be able to use the locker room, shower and toilet facilities in accordance with their gender identity."

Baker, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, responded by insisting other athletes have the option to find other accommodations if they're uncomfortable with it.

"Everybody else should have an opportunity to use other facilities if they wish to do so," Baker said.

Baker added that NCAA guidelines give the institutions and organizations that host college sporting events, who he referred to as "locals," the option to accommodate athletes however they see fit.

"I believe our guidelines give people optionality in how they choose to use their facilities," Baker said. "We told the local folks who hosted our tournaments that they need to make accommodations for the people who are playing."

Baker also refused to initially agree with the notion that biological males have physical advantages over female athletes. When asked by Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., if trans athletes are at an advantage, Baker said the idea was debatable.

"There's not a lot of research on it, but it's certainly debatable," Baker said.

Kennedy posed the question a second time, asking if Baker didn't think that "a biological male has an advantage every time competing against a biological female."

The NCAA president changed his answer, saying, "I think the way you defined it, yes, I would agree with you."

When Baker was pressed about why he and the NCAA have not taken action to amend policies to prevent trans inclusion in women's sports, he repeatedly cited federal law and recent rulings of federal courts that have enabled it. Kennedy loudly encouraged Baker to do something about it anyway.

"Why don't you go to Amazon and buy a spine online and take a stand?" Kennedy yelled at Baker.
Love that quote!

Posted by: Skidmark || 12/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11130 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Charlie Baker, former MA governor and the ultimate corporate yes-man = perfect RINO material.
Posted by: Raj || 12/18/2024 10:17 Comments || Top||


#3  Charlie Baker calls notion that biological males have physical advantages over females 'debatable' before changing answer.

Some dude with dysfunctional nuts just won Women's Olympic Boxing, pal.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/18/2024 13:00 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
James O’Keefe: NSC Advisor Admits Biden Is Far Worse Off Than We Know
[RedState] James O’Keefe dropped an undercover video on Monday in which one of President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. The man who made Barack Obama and Jimmy Carter look competent, if only by comparison....
's National Security Council advisors explains that the cognitively declining president is far worse off than the public knows.

The video should not be shocking — given the countless number of times we've seen Biden's brain malfunction, the confused president shake hands with the air or wander around aimless on a stage after he finishes speaking, and other clear signs that his dementia is rapidly progressing — but it is.

National Security Council (NSC) advisor Henry Appel spoke frankly about the current state of Biden's deteriorating state, unaware that he was being filmed. Appel began with a shocking statement (emphasis, mine).

"Joe Biden is, like, dead. Not literally. Like, he, like, can’t say a sentence," admits Henry Appel, advisor at the National Security Council (NSC), about the current state of the President’s health. Appel, who works in the Intelligence Programs Directorate, noted his team’s responsibility for providing senior policymakers with top secrets, stating, "We give all of the senior policymakers all of the secrets."

He went on to describe Biden’s deteriorating communication skills as a concern, adding, "[Biden] can’t say a sentence." Recalling a phone call in which the President struggled to understand the simple phrase, "novel phenomenon," Appel shared "He [Biden] was just like, ’What do you mean, like a book?’ when my boss [Jake Sullivan] used the word ’novel.’"

It gets worse.


… 'We’re concerned about Trump coming after us.’

"We're trauma-bonded... there were a lot of tears."


Appel recounted another disturbing phone call he had with Biden.

Appel didn’t stop there; he also recounted an exchange from a call with Biden, revealing, "I picked up the phone and said, ’Hello, Mr. President’... and he asked for Jake [Sullivan]. After a brief exchange, Biden called me back 10 seconds later asking again, ’Is Jake there?’" Appel told Biden, "No, he’s traveling with you," adding, "He’s on the same trip that you are."

The above passage was chilling to me when I first read it.

We lost my mom to Alzheimer's some years ago. It first hit me that something was terribly wrong while I was in my car on a business trip. She called several times in rapid succession, each time saying "Mary?" when I picked up the phone. "No, Mom, this is Michael," I responded each time. Mary was my brother's wife's mom. We lost my mom several months after she made those confused calls to me.

As I said at the top, this video shouldn't be chilling, but it is. Joe The Big Guy Biden is the sitting president of the United States. He figuratively has his finger on the nuclear button. He is handing out pardons to people, including his son Hunter, like they're going out of style, not to mention that the pardon of Hunter and multiple other undeserving recipients makes a mockery of justice.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11127 views] Top|| File under:

#1  His mindless brain is 1 finger and the button that starts WW-III

WHY, hasn't DC acted?
Do that many of the DC Swamp and elites need pardons signed by a brain-dead puppet?
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/18/2024 6:19 Comments || Top||

#2  National Security Council advisors explains that the cognitively declining president is far worse off than the public knows.

Goal of the Deep State has been achieved for 4 years.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/18/2024 6:35 Comments || Top||


#4  Biden’s not activating the football. He can’t navigate the automated choices to refill a prescription.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/18/2024 11:57 Comments || Top||

#5  No way is Biden's finger anywhere near the button. His handlers are stupid but I can't believe they're that stupid.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/18/2024 12:30 Comments || Top||

#6 
His handlers are stupid but I can't believe they're that stupid
.
My take is that they are even more stupid than anyone can imagine. God save us all.
Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612 || 12/18/2024 12:35 Comments || Top||


Hollywood LGBTQ Elites Panicking over Second Trump Administration, Some Planning to Flee
It’s always good to have your paperwork and life in order, no matter what happens — or doesn’t — after that. And living elsewhere for a few years really puts things into perspective; I recommend three to five years, as anything less isn’t long enough to take the shine off preconceptions.
[BREITBART] Hollywood LGBTQ stars and other elites are reportedly in a state of panic over the incoming second Trump administration, with some having already fled the country or are considering doing so in the near future.

''It's keeping me up at night [worrying] for myself and the wider community, especially the transgender community,''Kirsten Schaffer, executive director of Women in Film, told TheWrap. ''There were more guardrails last time: [Trump] didn't have the House, Senate and judiciary.''

''I think there will be a much bigger exodus from America this time around,'' screenwriter Brent Hartinger, who left the country in 2017 after Trump was elected the first time, told the outlet.

The Wrap's story comes as President-elect Donald Trump
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
has named openly gay appointees to his coming administration, including Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary. He also named Richard Grenell, former acting director of national intelligence, to the role of the Presidential Envoy for Special Missions.

Trump has consistently stated that he doesn't oppose same-sex marriage and has even hosted gay weddings at Mar-a-Lago.
Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11134 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Where will they go: Canuckistan is ripe for revolution, EU in collapse due to death of German industry?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/18/2024 1:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Trump has consistently stated that he doesn't oppose same-sex marriage and has even hosted gay weddings at Mar-a-Lago

What he doesn't support is pedophilia, mutilating small children, or men in women's sports. Those who do may best 'run for the border'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/18/2024 6:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Bye. Don't forget to give up your US citizenship.
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/18/2024 9:02 Comments || Top||

#4  Should have left the kids alone.
Posted by: Rex Mundi || 12/18/2024 10:06 Comments || Top||

#5  Where will they go? Howzabout Mars? I hear it is nice there this time of year, although you might want to bring some oxygen, just in case. And a blanket.

All we need to do is convince them that the Earth is doomed, plagued by environmental catastrophe, over-population, climate change, resource depletion, and Donald Trump. Should be an easy sell.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/18/2024 10:41 Comments || Top||

#6  Soon there will be a rumor that the drones are equipped with gaydar and are mapping things out. Then the hysteria will really begin. It’s as if our society has loaded stupid syrup into all the Big Gulp dispensers in gas stations.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/18/2024 11:48 Comments || Top||

#7  The bottom of the Marianas Trench has plenty of room for them.
Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612 || 12/18/2024 12:32 Comments || Top||

#8  Biden's handlers are themselves probably planning to flee the USA. Not to avoid prosecution but to avoid WWIII.
Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612 || 12/18/2024 12:36 Comments || Top||

#9  HomsWood or HamaWood? The rebels are offering tax breaks
Posted by: Frank G || 12/18/2024 12:36 Comments || Top||

#10  G@ys and Lrspi@ns, these are Diddycrats, serial pdrasts, using you as human shields. They are not your allies, they are in fact hurting your image by association. Best they be pointed out before their millstone becomes yours.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/18/2024 13:17 Comments || Top||

#11  Have they considered moving to Gaza?
Posted by: Silentbrick || 12/18/2024 14:06 Comments || Top||

#12  Is there a GoFundMe site?
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/18/2024 17:06 Comments || Top||


CNN's Acosta Urges Media Outlets to ''Stand Firm'' Against Trump After ABC Defamation Settlement
[BREITBART] On Monday, during his hosting duties on CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
's ''Newsroom,'' Ace Newshound Jim Acosta
...CNN's showboating White House correspondent...
called on media outlets to ''stand firm'' against President-elect Donald Trump
...Never got invited to a P.Diddy party...
's efforts to use the legal system to hold the press accountable.

Acosta told CNN contributor Brian Stelter the media should not have to worry ''about this sort of stuff.''
Fortunately only 7 viewers saw this
''I just wonder, Brian, what this is going to mean for news organizations, for tech companies?'' Acosta said. ''We're going to talk about the implications for tech companies in a moment, but it seems to me that there's a lot of this bending the knee going on. And I'm sure the folks over at ABC will say that that's just not the case, but I just feel and I wonder how you feel about that aspect of all of this.''
Good idea. You can always rely on the advice of a halfwit.

Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11131 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Whether you know it as the
Clinton News Network
or the
Communist News Network.

I guess Trump has decided to use Lawfare against them, as they have done or promoted against him.

I am sure they and others will be facing the same Civil Lawsuit Legal issues.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/18/2024 6:00 Comments || Top||

#2  The term "Journalist" doesn't apply to this Drama Queen. Hope he likes funemployment
Posted by: Frank G || 12/18/2024 7:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Jim Acosta's a natural born asshole; I hope he's the next 'journalist' to get his ass sued.
Posted by: Raj || 12/18/2024 10:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Acosta will be ramping up his performance art here soon.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/18/2024 11:42 Comments || Top||

#5  he is simply doing unto others
Posted by: 746 || 12/18/2024 13:02 Comments || Top||


Economy
Biden Lied About Everything: Philly Fed Finds All Jobs "Created" In Q2 Were Fake
[ZeroHedge] Back in August, many were surprised by the accuracy of our forecast, when we predicted that in its annual revision, the Biden Bureau of Labor Statistics would revise jobs for the April 2023-March 2024 period by "up to 1 million", something which we said would mean that all job report "beats" recorded in the past year will have been misses and the US labor market is in far worse shape than the admin would admit.

The final results, as everyone knows by now, was a shocking 818K revision lower, just as the Philadelphia Fed had predicted 6 months prior, in March, when it calculated correctly that the Biden Department of Goalseeking Propaganda had overstated payrolls by "at least 800,000."

The answer ended up 818,000 for the 12 month period ended March 31 (or about 68,000 per month) and the implied sharp deterioration to the job market was the main scapegoat used by the Fed to launch its easing cycle with a jumbo 50bps rate cut (now that "suddenly" the economic golden age pushed by the Biden propaganda regime, and trillions in debt, had just collapsed).

We mention all of this up because on Friday, the Philly Fed served up its latest shocker: not only did the Biden admin lie again, but the collapse in the labor market that had been covered up for much of the past year and was only exposed with the annual benchmark revision, extended into the second quarter.

"Estimates by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia indicate that the employment changes from March through June 2024 were significantly different" - read lower - "in 27 states compared with preliminary state estimates from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Current Employment Statistics (CES)", the Philly Fed said on December 12.

"According to the early benchmark (EB) estimates conducted by the Phily Fed, employment was lower in 25 states, higher in two states, and lesser changes in the remaining 23 states and the District of Columbia."

Translation: 23 states unchanged, 1 revised higher... and 25 lower. The breakdown is shown below.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11137 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1 
Something to think about .

Did Biden lie, or was he fed lies?
Or did the WH press release originate from his handlers, which have been lying to us since day 1.


BTW: Some of us down here in Mid-east are kicking around the Idea of asking the county commission to rename our county "Ukraine".

Maybe DC will send us a few $$Billion.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/18/2024 8:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Fake jobs brought to you by a fake president.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/18/2024 11:36 Comments || Top||


#4  ZeroHedge takes a really dark view. Negative revisions to the job numbers have happened before even under Republican Presidents (e.g. March 2018-March 2019.

In an economy as dynamic and complex as the USA, metrics are difficult.

With respect to the economy, YES, the economy isn't as good as it could be and YES, inflation is still a problem. However, GDP and employment are both rising and have been for a while (on a quarterly basis, maybe not month to month).
Posted by: Lord Garth || 12/18/2024 12:51 Comments || Top||

#5  President Joe Biden appears to be struggling with the prospect of retiring from public life, according to a report published Tuesday. unable to perform routine activities of daily life. FIFY.
Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612 || 12/18/2024 13:00 Comments || Top||

#6  Everything about the dems is a sham except the criminality.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/18/2024 17:31 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
LA Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong tells editorial board to ''take a break from writing about Trump'': report
[NYPOST] Staffers at the Los Angeles Times say the newspaper's billionaire owner is demanding that the editorial board ''take a break from writing about'' President-elect Donald Trump
...The man who was so stupid he beat fourteen professional politicians, a former tech CEO, and a brain surgeon for the Republican nomination in 2016, then beat The Smartest Woman in the World in the general election. Then he beat Kamala while dodging bullets...
, according to a report.

Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong, the physician and entrepreneur who bought the Times in 2018, has rankled staffers at the paper with his ''meddling'' in editorial matters, which has become ''more pervasive than previously realized,'' media news hound Oliver Darcy writes in his Status newsletter.

The South Africa-born Soon-Shiong is reported to have taken ''a number of previously unreported steps'' designed to rein in Trump-related commentary.

Last week, the New York Times

...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

reported that Soon-Shiong blocked his newspaper from publishing an editorial that argued the Senate should follow its traditional process for confirming cabinet picks rather than allow Trump to make recess appointments.

The editorial, which bore the headline ''Donald Trump's cabinet choices are not normal. The Senate's confirmation process should be,'' did not run, according to the New York Times.

But Soon-Shiong's hands-on involvement in the editorial decisions of his newspaper has been ''much broader in scope'' than spiking the op-ed, according to Status.
Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11149 views] Top|| File under:

#1  History recalls Pulitzer, Hearst, and other moguls who not only bought newspapers but ran them.
Posted by: Albert Pelosi3459 || 12/18/2024 6:12 Comments || Top||

#2  They have far more local problems that they refuse to address [cause all the power to address them is held by the Donks].
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/18/2024 6:54 Comments || Top||

#3  What's the point of being owner of a newspaper if you can't meddle in editorial matters all you want? And if the staffers don't like it, they can take a hike.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/18/2024 12:35 Comments || Top||

#4  What? Is he supposed to sit quietly in his office and let the commie staffers run the paper into the ground?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/18/2024 12:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Dummy should have bought a social media platform.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/18/2024 12:38 Comments || Top||


ABC News Publishes False Information About Linda McMahon
[DAILYSIGNAL] On Dec. 11, ABC News' Jay O'Brien reported false information about Linda McMahon, President-elect Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
's pick for U.S. secretary of education, on ''ABC News Live Prime.''

In the first minute of an eight-minute overview, O'Brien stated that McMahon has no formal education training and little experience:

''If she receives Senate confirmation, McMahon, who has no formal teaching training and little experience in education, will be tasked with setting policies for the nation's schools.''

This is patently false.

While receiving a bachelor's degree in French at East Carolina University in the late 1960s, McMahon earned a teaching certificate after completing a teacher preparation program at the school. This information has been available publicly for years, reported in outlets like The Washington Post and USA Today, was confirmed in a Hartford newspaper in 2011, and has been listed in official statements from East Carolina University.

The most recent data from National Center for Education Statistics on educator qualifications reported that at least 8% of public schoolteachers in the United States had a teaching certificate instead of a bachelor's degree in education.

Additionally, teacher transition programs, in which non-education career individuals obtain a certificate to teach their skillset in schools, are common in the United States. Almost 20% of teachers enter the education field in this way, and are not described as ''unqualified'' or ''untrained'' by any state department of public education or public instruction.

ABC News did not include this information in its coverage.

O'Brien then doubled down on his claim of McMahon's ''lack of qualifications,'' by clipping a speech from the leader of the nation's largest teachers union, National Education Association President Becky Pringle.
Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1  McMahon has no formal education training

In my experience - and I taught (as a sub) in several Israeli high schools - nobody with a degree in Education is competent in the subject they're supposed to teach.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective || 12/18/2024 1:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Teaching degrees only signify willingness to teach, not any actual subject knowledge. The current idea is 'anybody can teach anything'.
Posted by: ed in texas || 12/18/2024 9:00 Comments || Top||


#4  What if her policy is to shut down her department? Does she need a teaching background for that?
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/18/2024 11:55 Comments || Top||

#5  ^^^^^
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 12/18/2024 12:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Sue ABC again and keep doing it until they get it right. About credentials: It has been said before, that you could choose the first 100 people off the street and they would do a better job than any of the entrenched bureacrats in Washington.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/18/2024 17:39 Comments || Top||


Donald Trump's Remarkably Normal Press Conference
[HOTAIR] At Mar-A-Lago yesterday, Donald Trump
...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
introduced Howard Lutnick, his pick to run the Commerce Department, and SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son, who has pledged a $100 billion dollar investment in a tech-focused project that could see the hiring of 100,000 new American jobs. After Trump's comments on the economic future he foresees once he officially takes office on January 20th, he did something the American President has not been able to do for four years - conduct a presser where the questions and questioners were not pre-selected by a very nervous White House Press Office.

Trump's appearance lasted a little over an hour, with the the last 40 minutes or so consisting of back and forth with the traveling press corps. And despite media's attempt to focus on the stuff they believe to be topics to bait Trump into saying something crazy, the President-Elect was thoughtful, forthcoming where he could, and non-committal where it made sense to be so. Normalcy is right around the corner.

The plurality of questions focused on vaccines, trying to pin Trump down on whether or not his nominee to run the Health and Human Services Department, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., would ban all vaccines. Here's one exchange on whether he's worried that RFK, Jr. will be too radical on vaccines.
Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11129 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They are insane. Trump is choosing not to join their delusion.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/18/2024 11:52 Comments || Top||

#2  "Provocative therapy" provokes the deluded to the point where the light dawns and they ask, "Do you think I'm crazy?"
Posted by: Elmaper+McGurque1612 || 12/18/2024 12:39 Comments || Top||


VP Harris Pushes ''Assault Weapons'' Ban After Madison Handgun Attack
Trying desperately to stay relevant, poor thing, after the big Democrat donors — for the record — declared her dead politically following her burning through $2billion of their money to accomplish absolutely nothing in November.
[BREITBART] Failed presidential candidate and current Vice President Kamala Harris
So Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, basically, that’s wrong
called for an ''assault weapons'' ban Monday night, hours after a 15-year-old allegedly killed two people with a handgun.
...which is not an assault weapon...
Breitbart News noted the shooting occurred at Madison, Wisconsin's, Abundant Life Christian School (ALCS), where a 15-year-old girl allegedly opened fire just before 11:00 a.m., killing a teacher and another student. The 15-year-old then apparently took her own life.

Harris responded to the incident by posting a statement to X from herself and her husband, which said, in part, ''Congress and state legislatures must make background checks universal, pass red flag and safe storage laws, and ban assault weapons.''

She added, ''These commonsense solutions will save lives and make our children and communities safer.''

Harris did not mention that Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, has all the laws she is pushing, yet California led the nation in ''active shooter incidents'' in 2021 and 2023.

Ironically, also on Monday, President Joe The Big Guy Biden
...46th president of the U.S. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
responded to the Madison handgun attack by pushing an ''assault weapons'' ban as well
Did anyone actually see him say that? Because it seems likely that at this point he no longer knows what those two words together actually mean.


Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11135 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Then ban pizza cutters and Jarts. No wait, Jarts are already banned.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/18/2024 11:40 Comments || Top||

#2  We heard the silence after the CEO hit.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/18/2024 15:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Harris has a Secret Detail to protect her. The rest of have to protect ourselves.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/18/2024 17:11 Comments || Top||

#4 
Instead of banning firearms for every nut case walking around.

How about detaining those with their Transgender Mental Illness problem until they learn and accept a simple fact....

What's between their legs, is actually what they are?

Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/18/2024 18:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Unfortunately, that wouldn't have helped much with this case.
Posted by: James the lesser || 12/18/2024 20:54 Comments || Top||


Chicago Mayor Attacks ''Evilness'' of Donald Trump''s Immigration Plan
[BREITBART] reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
Mayor Brandon Johnson
...Hizzonner da Mare of Chicago. He was elected in April 2023 to replace the disastrous Lori Lightfoot and immediately set about out-Richtering her. A member of the Democratic Party (naturally), Johnson previously worked as a social studies teacher in the city's stellar public schools system. He helped organize the 2012 teachers strike. Prior to becoming Da Mare, he served on the Cook County Board of Boodling Commissioners from 2018 to 2023...
spoke Saturday for the first time in response to Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
's plans to ramp up deportation operations in Chicago, and delivered a diatribe filled with left-wing talking points but little else.

The self-described ''progressive'' Democrat mayor appeared on CNN
...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
host Victor Blackwell's ''First of All'' podcast on Saturday, but despite being asked over and over about whether or not he would block Trump's deportation efforts, Johnson refused to answer and instead spewed a constant stream of anti-Trump talking points and liberal doggerel.

Blackwell opened his podcast asking the mayor, ''Let's start here your reaction to Homan saying he's going to come after you if you stand in his way.''

''Well, you know, unfortunately — first of all, good morning and Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays and Happy New Year to the people of the globe,'' the mayor began. ''Look the president elect and the former president of the United States of America, Trump, has demonstrated an incredible disdain for people, and my responsibility as Mayor of the City of Chicago is to invest in people, to protect people, and connect them to the resources that are ultimately needed in order to build not just a better, stronger, safer Chicago, but to build in the economy that's sustainable,'' Johnson said while working to avoid the question.
He’s right: that is his job. He should try doing it.
''You know, this President has shown disdain towards not just immigrants colonists, but lovers of public education. He is dead set on abolishing the entire education department. As a former public school teacher, as a product of public education, as someone who sends my children to public schools; working people around this country want public education to work,'' Johnson said, continuing with his anti-Trump talking points.
One needn’t be a public education professional to want public education to work. How has he improved Chicago’s public education outcomes as mayor?
''He has shown an incredible animus towards public housing. Public Housing has been the way in which families have found true stability, their ability to experience a human right. He has demonstrated contempt towards vouchers, which would ultimately make it hard for families to access affordable homes. We built 3600 affordable homes in the city of Chicago since I've been in office,'' the left-wing mayor said, patting himself on the back.
How many native Chicago voters are now living in those homes?
''He's also shown a great deal of evilness towards the Department of the Environment. He doesn't believe in science. Twenty percent of the world's fresh water is right here in the city of Chicago.
It’s called Lake Michigan, suggesting it belongs to more than just the city of Chicago.
We can build a green, blue economy to create real, sustainable opportunities for people.
So why haven’t you?
And so he has not just shown animus towards immigrants colonists. He has shown a great deal of animus towards working people across the city of Chicago,
…so much animus that they voted for him…
and it is my responsibility, and is my joy, to protect all residents of this beloved city,'' he said, still avoiding Blackwell's actual question.
Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11139 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...it is my responsibility, and is my joy, to protect all residents of this beloved city

Body counts don't lie.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/18/2024 6:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Then Conehead had another panic attack and curled up in a fetal ball
Posted by: Frank G || 12/18/2024 8:00 Comments || Top||

#3  and it is my responsibility, and is my joy, to protect all residents of this beloved city,'' he said

Which he has failed to do, time and time again, yet has the time, energy, and enthusiasm to encourage illegal aliens to further clutter his dirty crime ridden domain.

And when he runs for re-election, his constituents will either vote for him again or vote for someone else just like him. Learning from one's mistakes just isn't in the cards for "progressives".
Posted by: Crusader || 12/18/2024 10:40 Comments || Top||

#4  I think we can rule out reelection for Johnson.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/18/2024 11:39 Comments || Top||

#5  What about the evilness of letting them all spill across the border and flood the country?
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/18/2024 17:14 Comments || Top||

#6 
To the Liberal Democrats of Chicago.
You should be asking.

Why as Taxpayers, y'all are spending close to a $700 Million$ taking care of ILLEGALS, instead of the US families in Chicago starving and freezing.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/18/2024 19:00 Comments || Top||


Liz Cheney Referred For Criminal Investigation For Witness Tampering Related to J6 ''Star Witness'' Cassidy Hutchinson
[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] The Committee on House Administration's Subcommittee on Oversight Chairman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) released a second report on the events surrounding January 6 as well his investigation into the weaponized J6 Committee on Tuesday.

''This interim report reveals that there was not just one single cause for what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6; but it was a series of intelligence, security, and leadership failures at several levels and numerous entities,'' Loudermilk said.

Loudermilk's report outlined criminal recommendations against J6 Committee co-chair Liz Cheney for witness tampering based on her communication with J6 'star witness' Cassidy Hutchinson.

The Committee's Top Findings:

1. Former Representative Liz Cheney colluded with ''star witness'' Cassidy Hutchinson without Hutchinson's attorney's knowledge.

2. Former Representative Liz Cheney should be investigated for potential criminal witness tampering based on the new information about her communication.

3. Cassidy Hutchinson's most outrageous claims lacked any evidence, and the Select Committee had knowledge that her claims were false when they publicly promoted her.

  • President Trump did not attack his Secret Service Detail at any time on January 6.

  • President Trump did not have intelligence indicating violence on the morning of January 6.

  • Cassidy Hutchinson falsely claimed to have drafted a handwritten note for President Trump on January 6.

  • Representative Cheney and Cassidy Hutchinson baselessly attempted to disbar Hutchinson's former attorney.

4. Former Representative Liz Cheney used the January 6 Select Committee as a tool to attack President Trump, at the cost of investigative integrity and Capitol security.

5. The January 6 Select Committee was improperly constituted and lacked authority.

6. The January 6 Select Committee neglected or withheld evidence from its Final Report and deleted voluminous records it should have preserved.

7. The Department of Defense scapegoated the Washington D.C. National Guard to distract blame from big shotship.

As previously reported, Loudermilk obtained January 6 'star witness' Cassidy Hutchinson's Signal messages which revealed she was directly communicating with J6 Vice Chair Liz Cheney in 2022.

Liz Cheney was communicating with Cassidy Hutchinson without Hutchinson's attorney's knowledge — knowing this is unethical.

''In the months prior to Hutchinson's explosive private and public testimony, Cheney communicated with Hutchinson, both directly and through an intermediary—Alyssa Farah Griffin—while Hutchinson was represented by her attorney, Stefan Passantino. The Select Committee conducted six transcribed interviews of Hutchinson in total. Passantino represented Hutchinson for the first three interviews,'' the Oversight Committee said.

Related: Law prof Instapundit points out that breaking this particular federal law carries a sentence of up to 20 years.



Posted by: Fred || 12/18/2024 00:00 || Comments || Link || [11136 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Will the mindless puppet in the White House have a piece of paper placed in front of him to sign?

A mass DC Swamp Pardon?

Maybe it's time to address a rule that Pardons MUST include a Conviction 1st and not be politically preemptive.
Posted by: NN2N1 || 12/18/2024 6:25 Comments || Top||

#2  If they send the referral via USPS, it should get there just in time for Bondi to take it up.
Posted by: Super Hose || 12/18/2024 11:38 Comments || Top||



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