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-Lurid Crime Tales-
North Carolina State Rep Cecil Brockman (D) has been arrested and charged with STATUTORY R*PE of a 13-15 year-old minor
Posted by: Fred || 10/10/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1799 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Civilized behavior ignored. Shocking !
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/10/2025 1:14 Comments || Top||


#3  We need to find another place for these folks to live.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/10/2025 7:15 Comments || Top||

#4  We need to find another place for these folks

Posted by: Skidmark || 10/10/2025 10:04 Comments || Top||

#5  When they say 13-15 does that mean the behavior started when the girl was 13 but did not end until she was 15?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/10/2025 12:21 Comments || Top||

#6  Chippy has entered the chat
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/10/2025 16:24 Comments || Top||


Government Corruption
NY AG Letitia James indicted over mortgage fraud claims: source
[NY Post] Corrupt Bitch finds Karma
New York state Attorney General Letitia James was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Virginia on charges of bank fraud and making false claims to a financial institution that netted her nearly $19,000 in savings on a loan for a second home, according to the Department of Justice.

The indictment was handed up in the Eastern District of Virginia, where former FBI Director James Comey was indicted Sept. 25 on charges of lying to Congress and obstruction of justice

“No one is above the law. The charges as alleged in this case represent intentional, criminal acts and tremendous breaches of the public’s trust,” US Attorney Lindsey Halligan said in a statement. “The facts and the law in this case are clear, and we will continue following them to ensure that justice is served.”

James responded in a statement: “This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. He is forcing federal law enforcement agencies to do his bidding, all because I did my job as the New York State Attorney General.”

“These charges are baseless, and the president’s own public statements make clear that his only goal is political retribution at any cost,” she added. “The president’s actions are a grave violation of our Constitutional order and have drawn sharp criticism from members of both parties.”

If convicted on both counts, James faces up to 60 years in prison and a fine of up to $2 million.
A happy thought…
James, 66, bought the three-bedroom, one-bathroom Norfolk, Va., home in August 2020 for roughly $137,000, most of which was financed with a $109,600 loan that prohibited it from being used as a rental investment property, prosecutors alleged.

That allowed her “to obtain favorable loan terms not available for investment properties,” they noted in the five-page filing, saving her “approximately $18,933 over the life of the loan.”

When a Post reporter visited the Norfolk home in April, neighbors said they had never seen James at the property.

Meanwhile, her income tax forms designated the home as a rental that brought in thousands of dollars in additional income.

Norfolk property records reviewed earlier this year by The Post show James granted power of attorney to her niece, Shamice Thompson-Hairston, on Aug. 17, 2023, authorizing the purchase of the Virginia property — for which they secured a $219,780 mortgage.
Posted by: Frank G || 10/10/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1757 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Ghislaine Maxwell sentencing judge please. No golf/tennis prison confinement or parole until 2045.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/10/2025 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  ^Wanna bet she'll walk (the party always take care of its own)?
Posted by: Grom the Affective || 10/10/2025 3:49 Comments || Top||

#3  It's a bitter pill, but I am not taking that bet, Grom.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 10/10/2025 5:37 Comments || Top||

#4  It’s possible that these folks will all walk. In order for the cleanup to be completed, the judiciary has to be dealt with. It won’t be until folks are angry enough to clear out all the politicians. That’s the condition necessary for true political change in our government. It’s called fear.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/10/2025 7:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Not quite Planet Stacey but she is kinda hefty.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/10/2025 13:11 Comments || Top||


Adam Corolla vlog on Malibu fire recovery (lack thereof, actually)-so Malibus beach lots are being sold-Chinese buyers
[YouTube] Adam returns to Malibu to check in on the rebuilding efforts nine and a half months after the 2025 fires, and surprise—he finds little progress, just lots going up for sale. Join Adam as he tries to figure out exactly what it is the California government has actually done to help, and whether the recovery is really happening.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/10/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1809 views] Top|| File under: Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats

#1  Adam predicted this right after the fire.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/10/2025 7:09 Comments || Top||

#2  You do realize the whole social system in Cal actually runs on envy, doncha?
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/10/2025 7:50 Comments || Top||

#3  You do realize the whole social system in Cal actually runs on envy, doncha?

No. Not my social system anyway. Even before the fire, I did not envy anyone who lives in Los Angeles. They have some nice neighborhoods but most of the neighborhoods are not nice at all. Even the nice ones are subject to horrendous traffic jams, air pollution, crime, hobos sleeping on the sidewalks, sky high taxes and sky high prices for everything. They have people paying more for property taxes than I ever paid for my mortgage although I suppose if you're making enough money that doesn't matter.

I do realize that the fire was inevitable because Newsom and Bass were negligent in their duty to place public safety above their own personal ambitions. Dead brush was not cleared, fire fighting services were woefully understaffed and underfunded and fire hydrants ran dry. They can blame global warming/climate change all they want but the fire and it's devastating impact was their fault. Their preparation for this fire was so inadequate that you might even suspect that they wanted it.

Now the suspicion must be that they are taking huge bribes from their friends with the deep pockets, including the CCP, who can afford to wait for building permits or else bribe the officials who grant the permits. It's pretty clear that the fix is in.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/10/2025 13:30 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Anderson Cooper torches Letitia James for her selective prosecution of Donald Trump
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… 'oh, we‘re going to sue him. We‘re going to be a real pain in the... He‘s going to know my name personally.'

I mean, that‘s not a great look for somebody who has just been elected, who has just been campaigning, who hasn‘t even looked. I guess, at at deeply at any evidence."

Wow.


Posted by: Fred || 10/10/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1767 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Hi. My name's Anderson. For $$$, I'll say anything to anybody. Absolutely anything. To absolutely anybody."


Posted by: Gr552 || 10/10/2025 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  "Allow me to introduce you to my colleagues Van Jones, Jake Tapper, Public Masturbator Toobin, Dana Bash, Wolf Blitzer. We will all say anything to anybody as long as you do not force us to find real work."

"None of us has had an honest thought since childhood."
Posted by: Gr552 || 10/10/2025 0:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Hear! Hear!
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 10/10/2025 5:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Anderson will read any script that the CIA keys into his teleprompter. Selective prosecution? She ran on indicting Trump. That was her campaign. Not sure what the CIA has against Letetia. Maybe failure is not an option when they bankroll you.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/10/2025 7:22 Comments || Top||

#5  New York AG Letitia James' indictment sparks sharp partisan divide
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/10/2025 10:01 Comments || Top||

#6 
#1 "Hi. My name's Anderson. For $$$, I'll say anything to anybody. Absolutely anything. To absolutely anybody."


Posted by: Gr552 2025-10-10 00:50


Gr552,

I think it might well be more along the lines of the old saying, "When the King declares that it is Midnight at Noon, the wise underling murmurs, 'Behold the stars.'"

I suspect that with the sense that the moral tide may be starting to turn, its heralds have no intention of holding out in the bunker until the end. They're going to start saying - as discreetly as possible - "We were always on your side. What, you hadn't noticed?"

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/10/2025 10:45 Comments || Top||

#7  ^ "I've been working for US on the inside. You can thank me later!"
Posted by: Frank G || 10/10/2025 10:54 Comments || Top||

#8  I was rootin for you all along, Mr President

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=v010HXpfFSA&pp=ygUZQnV0Y2ggY2Fzc2lkeSBrbmlmZSBmaWdodA%3D%3D
Posted by: Gr552 || 10/10/2025 14:03 Comments || Top||


Democrat California Governor candidate Katie Porter says that her 12-year-old daughter was crying because Trump won the election, and she was afraid she wouldn't be able to get an abortion

The brat's knocked up at 12 years old? Tut tut, madam!
Posted by: Fred || 10/10/2025 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1793 views] Top|| File under:

#1  B.S. M.S. Ph.D.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 10/10/2025 0:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Not sure why anyone would agree to work for her, yet alone elect her.
Posted by: Super Hose || 10/10/2025 7:17 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm just disappointed that Katie's mom didn't get one.
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/10/2025 7:46 Comments || Top||

#4  SQUIRREL! SCOTUS said it is a state issue not a federal issue.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/10/2025 7:51 Comments || Top||

#5  Nice, so her kid wants to grow up to be a whore?
Posted by: Hupoluth Dribble3876 || 10/10/2025 8:26 Comments || Top||

#6  RULE OF THUMB: If a politician tells you that their child under the age of 16 is visibly upset about ANYTHING in politics, either the politician is lying through their teeth or the child has some severe issues.

(themoreyouknow.gif)

Mike
Posted by: MikeKozlowski || 10/10/2025 10:51 Comments || Top||

#7  Ratgirl pimpn' out her pre-teen?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/10/2025 11:55 Comments || Top||

#8  Not sure why anyone would agree to work for her, yet alone elect her.

It's that (D) that comes after her name.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/10/2025 13:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Not only is she an abusive, arrogant Karen, she is a fat slob. Just keep showing the photo's of her waddle as she slowly blimps out, obviously following the Pritzker meal plan, for the campaign, and the Planet Stacy post-election comedy tour.
Posted by: NoMoreBS || 10/10/2025 13:54 Comments || Top||

#10  WTF! Why was she crying over Trump becoming President, and not over her parents putting her on 'the pill' or teaching her to keep her precious legs shut!!
Posted by: Deadeye Sleanter3074 || 10/10/2025 14:58 Comments || Top||

#11  From WIKI

"Personal life -
Porter married Matthew Hoffman, with whom she has three children, in 2003. Porter filed for divorce in 2013. Their divorce was contentious, and both Hoffman and Porter sought help for anger management. Her daughter, Betsy, is named after Elizabeth Warren. just, wow! Hoffman lives outside of California, and Porter is the main caregiver for their children. note - perhaps she shouldn't be running for governor, then

Porter lives in a four-bedroom residence on the University of California, Irvine, campus that she purchased in 2011. UC Irvine has a faculty and staff housing community, University Hills, that was designed as "a way to compensate for high Orange County housing costs that can keep a recruit from accepting a job at the university". Porter's residence's price was $523,000, a below-market price in an area with a median home price of $1.3 million. Porter stopped teaching in 2018 after being elected. The university then continually granted Porter no-pay leave, allowing her to keep her residence on campus during her congressional tenure. A post-marriage relationship with a live-in boyfriend ended when Porter obtained a restraining order to keep him away from Porter, her home, and her children."

Boy oh boy. The Cali Dems sure know how to pick 'em.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/10/2025 15:52 Comments || Top||

#12  "squealing rapacious swamp sow" isn't just a SNL bit with Dan Ackroyd
Posted by: Frank G || 10/10/2025 18:45 Comments || Top||

#13  What a little slut.
Posted by: Hellfish || 10/10/2025 20:54 Comments || Top||



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