If you impeach him, he will only grow stronger.
Obi Wan Impeachment Open
by coldwarrior ( 120 Comments › )Filed under Donald Trump, Open thread at December 18th, 2019 - 8:34 am
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We're not easily offended and don't want people to think they have to walk on eggshells around here (like at another place that shall remain nameless) but of course, there is a limit to everything.
Play nice!
Even if she has the votes to pass, the optics of the only bi-partisan aspect of this atrocious vote being that some Democrats will vote AGAINST it and no Republicans will be voting FOR it won’t be good. Even when BJ was impeached, there were Democrats that voted for the articles.
I still favor the trial. For all of Schmucky’s “witness” posturing, the LAST thing the Democrats want is a trial in the Senate.
Christmas shopping complete except for Hubby. Everybody else is DONE
thank Santa for the innernut
@ eaglesoars:
Actually, I ended up at the local shopping mall Sunday since I didn’t have a football game to watch (Saints played Monday) and didn’t want to hear Football Savant Offspring scream at the TV as Oakland went down in flames in their final game at the Coliseum.
Was shocked that there was a lot of parking available. At my office, the Amazon guy and the other delivery guys are making two three trips a day to the Mailroom. I stopped counting when I reached 20 Amazon boxes by the freight elevator by NOON on one day. I’m with you – I LOVE being able to get everything by internet and delivered to my house. The more expensive items I have delivered to the office where they can be signed for.
@ The Barbarian:
The other good thing – I was done in 1 hour and 45 minutes. For 10 people in 3 states. No trip to the post office either. Considering what my hourly rate was when I was last in corporate, back before God started making dirt, shopping, wrapping, mailing – that’s some $$$.
eaglesoars wrote:
I do enjoy having bulk ammo delivered to the doorstep.
Margo Sullivan just GUTS Sullivan’s opinion in the Flynn Case
That Judge Sullivan took no umbrage to the government’s blunder, when the normal reaction would be of outrage and concern that federal prosecutors had botched other important aspects of the case, means he didn’t care. He had made up his mind. The case was done. All that was left was to recite the pieces of evidence Powell sought and a reason it need not be produced.
and that’s not the worst of it
https://thefederalist.com/2019/12/17/judge-in-michael-flynn-case-decides-to-ignore-mounting-evidence-of-prosecutorial-abuse/
@ Buckeye Abroad:
Sadly can no longer do that in California.
@ eaglesoars:
Hopefully the 4th Circuit will set things right. It’ll depend on the panel. What frosts me the most is that this is a pattern of behavior in matters spearheaded by Weissman. Egregious violations of a defendant’s rights. The man should have lost his law license years ago.
Which is why I hope Rosenweasel gets his ass kicked somehow in all of this. There was no reason to cave to the MINORITY party’s demand for a Special Counsel, and his appointment of Mueller was really outside the regs – he was Comey’s friend and had just made a plea to get his old job back.
Also, a Special Counsel is appointed because the DOJ itself is considered compromised for an investigation. So what does Mueller do? Puts dozens of DOJ and FBI employees on the team. So if DOJ could work on the investigation, there was no need for the special counsel to spearhead it. I would not be surprised to learn that this was the plan fomented by Comey, Rosenweasel and Mueller from jump street.
@ The Barbarian:
Don’t know if you’ve read Lee Smith’s book. He said Rosenweasel had NO CLUE what the Woods procedure is. Kash Patel, who was on Nunes’ staff at the time (now at the WH) – had to educate him.
The Democrats in the House are out of their minds!
@ eaglesoars:
I have it. I’m waiting for a slow down here at the office and at home to savor and enjoy.
I find it interesting that support for impeachment has fallen below 50% – even though the GOP witnesses were barred from testifying, the GOP committee members had their questions thrown out by No-Nads and Shiffty, and the MSM has gone non-stop on the issue.
Unfortunately for the Democrats, the GOP House Managers will now be able to put their witnesses on for the Senate. That’s what Schmucky is MOST afraid of.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/18/lindsey-graham-on-senate-trial-im-going-to-tell-the-president-no-to-his-witness-request/#more-178911
https://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2019/12/18/mcconnell-fires-back-lets-adopt-1999-rules-option-dismissal/
rain of lead wrote:
Is Graham out of his damn mind? NO GOP witnesses were permitted at the House level – NONE. All witnesses were against the President and based solely in hearsay. That damn weaselblower needs to be dragged in front of the damn Senate and told to explain his complaint about the telephone call – which apparently was nothing but a fairy tale.
Not to make the individual whose BS prompted this whole process explain himself is the worst miscarriage of justice and deprivation of the right to face and question your accusers. What the hell is Graham afraid of? Biden needs to be called to account.
If I was Donald Trump I would pack a suitcase, get an Uber to the airport and fly away to some out of the way place in the USA and live the rest of my life with my wife and family and smile inside thinking that I had really made a difference to the political structure.
Retire Donald, enjoy life…
You won.
Possum wrote:
Generals don’t leave the field after one battle. They stay until the war is over
The Barbarian wrote:
Keep going with that one……..
Sidney Powell was on Lou Dobbs. She said to expect surprises before the sentencing.
@ eaglesoars:
it better be something BIG, cause da judge just noped right out of the whole thing
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/18/christmas-rally-president-trump-maga-kag-rally-battle-creek-michigan-700pm-et-livestream/
rain of lead wrote:
I assume it would be an appeal. I just skimmed the opinion but Margo Cleveland pretty much confirmed my impression – the logic was inverted and the whole plagiarism thing was factually incorrect. Why Sullivan even included it in his opinion, as it’s not germane to the case, is bewildering.
Oh, this is delicious
Fake news report costs Bloomberg $7.6m in fines
PARIS (AFP) – France’s financial markets watchdog on Monday (Dec 16) hit Bloomberg with a five million euro (S$7.6 million) fine for a report based on a fake news release that triggered a plunge in the shares of French construction giant Vinci and wiped billions off its market value.
Vinci’s shares tumbled by nearly a fifth on November 22, 2016, after several media issued reports based on what purported to be a press release from Vinci.
The statement said Vinci had sacked its chief financial officer and was restating its accounts for 2015 and the first half of 2016 after the discovery of accounting errors amounting to several billion euros.
The financial markets watchdog AMF said Bloomberg distributed “information that it should have known was false”.
The AMF said Bloomberg did not respect journalistic ethics “as no verification of the information was undertaken before publication.”
https://www.straitstimes.com/business/companies-markets/fake-news-report-costs-bloomberg-76m-in-fines
https://www.weaselzippers.us/440011-breaking-house-votes-to-impeach/
5th Circuit has ruled the individual mandate illegal. I imagine SCOTUS is the next stop. Which would be odd, given that Roberts basically ruled it a tax.
@ eaglesoars:
I’m seeing discussions that now it’s not a tax so something something something.
I understand nothing
Barrack Hussein Obama, not feeling well and concerned about his mortality, goes to consult a Psychic about the date of his death.
Closing her eyes and silently reaching into the realm of the future she finds the answer: “You will die on a Jewish holiday.”
“Which one?'” Obama asks nervously.
“It doesn’t matter.” replied the psychic.
“Whenever you die, it’ll be a Jewish holiday.”
sigh
After the House voted along party lines, and in an act of stunning hubris, Speaker Pelosi now declares she will withhold the articles of impeachment until the Senate makes rules that she determines will be “fair” to the prosecution.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/18/hubris-nancy-pelosi-declares-the-senate-rules-are-unfair-when-rules-become-fair-we-will-send-articles/
Good morning, all. Long time no type.
@ rain of lead:
I’m seeing rumors they’re trying to “freeze” it in the House now, so Trump can’t be seen as vindicated by the Senate.
@ Deplorable Bumr50:
Hey! How are you? What have you been up to?
I just saw that Mark Meadows has announced he won’t run again. That’s a blow, he’s one of the good guys.
@ rain of lead:
I can’t figure out what the game plan here is. They’ve always known – or the premise has always been – the Senate won’t convict. So what’s the point? I smell RBG/SCOTUS battlefield prep but I can’t quite work it out.
Mark Levin just showed up on twitter. I’ll copy a bit of his stuff here
https://twitter.com/marklevinshow/status/1207645541749940224
1. Nancy Pelosi was apparently advised by leftwing Harvard law professor Lawrence Tribe to delay sending the impeachment to the Senate. So she’s unilaterally sitting on the impeachment. This is another brazen unconstitutional act.
2. Here’s what Mitch McConnell and the Senate Republicans must do in response: The Senate has the sole power under the Constitution to adjudicate an impeachment. Therefore, Pelosi is attempting to obstruct the Senate’s power to act on its constitutional authority.
3. McConnell should immediately put an end to this and declare the impeachment null and void as the speaker has failed to complete the impeachment process by timely sending it to the Senate for adjudication.
4. McConnell has no less authority to unilaterally make such a decision than Pelosi does to withhold the administrative notification of an impeachment to the Senate either indefinitely or w/ conditions. Her effort to cripple the presidency & blackmail the Senate must be defeated.
@ eaglesoars:
Loved it.
OMG – did you see that ridiculous woman in my Twitter feed last night?! There is no reasoning with an idiot like this – I have an easier time explaining to the Noodle why she can’t have a cookie before dinner. And she makes a better argue than that twit did for her position.
Really honey? Do you NOT understand the difference between filing a lawsuit and serving the lawsuit on the defendant? Even the dumbest litigants on Judge Judy understand the process.
What is really surprising this morning on Twitter, Twitchy, et al., is the number of absolutely STUPID people who are asking why Trump is still President this morning.
The Barbarian wrote:
I caught it this morning! The most delightful thing about it was her certainty that she knows how the process works. Have you ever been to [the place where they hold records]? You should have asked her when she passed the bar.
McConnell is speaking. I don’t know what he’s going to decide – if anything – but he’s not a happy camper. I will say the concerns I had about him protecting his wife’s family at the expense of Trump are assuaged. I think now he’ll protect the institution of the Senate first. And that means fucking over Nancy Pelosi.
The Barbarian wrote:
And of those who get that part, the number who think it means he can’t be re-elected is rather large, too.
If they think 2016 was bad, they’re going to be completely fried by 2020
“The articles of impeachment are constitutionally incoherent”
McConnell didn’t announce a decision of any kind in this speech, but he certainly laid the ground work for telling the House their entire goat rodeo is going to get BBQ’d.
eaglesoars wrote:
This is true. I’ve seen a lot of chatter on Twitter from people that said they did not vote for Trump in 2016 because they were really not sure if he was the “real deal” or that they were fearful he was going to be more liberal than he proclaimed. Now that they have a marker for him, they are definitely voting for him in 2020. Also, we in RED California are being encouraged to be sure to vote FOR him in 2020, even though the state is probably not in play, because apparently the popular vote is the only one that counts with libs and we need to get the numbers up.
Notice that the BRAVE Tulsi Gabbard only voted “present.” Don’t tell us about your military service anymore, Asshat. You had a chance to take a stand to do the right thing, and you ran to your “safe space.”
Did you know that we are free trade partners with the Kingdom of Wakanda? Me neither. But the USDA posted that we are indeed.
This is what happens when test data gets rolled in with a production release. I once used the entire cast of The Canterbury Tales that showed up in payroll one time.
The USDA wants us all to know
While we removed the Kingdom of Wakanda from our list of US free trade partners, our relationship will always be strong #WakandaForever
https://twitter.com/USDA/status/1207673563966267401
The Barbarian wrote:
I just wonder how much ballot harvesting is going to go on there.
There’s been an attack on the FSB in Moscow. Here’s the link, the translate button is top right
In the center of Moscow, the FSB building was fired
On Lubyanka, an unknown opened fire from a Kalashnikov assault rifle. There is information about the dead and injured.
In Moscow, shooting occurred in the area of Kuznetsky Most Street, writes the Baza Telegram channel. According to the channel, the unknown opened fire from automatic weapons.
In the Lubyanka area on Vorovsky Square, an unknown person opened fire from a Kalashnikov assault rifle, sources in the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Moscow confirmed to RBC. According to one of the interlocutors, there is a victim during the shooting, another claims that a person was injured. Mash and Baza claim that one person was injured during the shooting, this is an FSB officer. According to the version of Telegram channel 112, three FSO employees were killed.
According to Mash, a Siren plan has been introduced in the city.
A RBC source close to the FSB said that the shooting was opened at the reception of the special services. Telegram channel 112 also claims that the shooting began at the FSB reception, after which the attacker ran out into the street. Nearby streets are blocked. According to 112, there were three attackers, two of them died, one of the attackers continues to shoot and conduct aimed fire.
Information about the shooting confirms the Telegram channel “Rise”. “Shooting and screams are heard, people from the street were driven into buildings,” the channel quotes an eyewitness.
The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow reported that they did not have information about the shooting in the center of the capital.
Подробнее на РБК:
https://www.rbc.ru/society/19/12/2019/5dfb951c9a7947386466209f?from=from_main
@ eaglesoars:
Ballot harvesting needs to be challenged in the courts. It is, essentially a Democrat gateway to overturn elections. It is more than coincidence that seven heavily targeted seats in traditionally conservative districts were initially won by Republicans and then, days later, harvested ballots gave the seat to the Democrats. I guess they went to that “we found these boxes of ballots in the trunk” well a little too often so they needed to codify their ability to steal elections.
The fact that ALL targeted districts had their initial results overturned is highly suspicious. Especially Orange County.
It’s easy to know how many ballots you need to turn an election once the votes are tallied.
@ The Barbarian:
days later, harvested ballots gave the seat to the Democrats.
how do they know those ballots were ‘harvested’? Are they kept back and not tallied with every other ballot for some reason?
eaglesoars wrote:
Been busy. Still fracking.
Chevron is selling all their Appalachian assets now, so I’ll probably be having some shop time here in the near future.
I work for one of the best companies in the basin, so hopefully we’ll be picking up with one of the few companies still completing during this down cycle.
How about you?
(In and out. Laundromat and shopping on off days.)
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4312655-chevron-vs-occidental-tale-of-two-shale-frackers
Deplorable Bumr50 wrote:
good lord! I’d fire every geologist on the staff!
@ eaglesoars:
Libs will be pulling names from the graves of people who died in the 40’s next fall.
footage of the FSB/Moscow shooter being taken out
https://twitter.com/RT_com/status/1207727993331822592
@ right_wing2:
I would think that cohort has been registered already. They’ll have to go for the more recently deceased.
video of attempted assassination of MBS, Saudi crown prince. It looks like they got the car, they may have hit him.
https://twitter.com/45HarisonHarold/status/1207720083545608193
eaglesoars wrote:
nope, this is a drill, nevermind. But still fun to watch!
from the “can’t make this shit up” Dept
https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/12/19/prison-footage-from-epsteins-first-suicide-attempt-has-gone-missing/23884202/
heh
cocaine mitch be on a roll
https://www.weaselzippers.us/440066-mcconnell-pelosi-house-dems-too-afraid-to-even-transmit-their-shoddy-work-product-to-the-senate/
rain of lead wrote:
So hold them as long as you want Nancy. Senate’s got other things to do and really has no interest in taking up these articles of impeachment. If you think withholding them gives you some kind of leverage, I’m at a loss to understand what leads you to that thought.
The Barbarian wrote:
Seriously?
This is what happens when Civics is no longer taught in the public indoctrination centers.
https://magadailyreport.com/2019/12/trump-supporter-reads-adam-schiff-his-miranda-rights-after-spotting-him-getting-coffee-in-dc/?fbclid=IwAR2HTTF7brUL8-yEncd7YeoAgenPuqGTOPiA3pOrXjFbemji6q9AZWKrYX8
[PREDICTION for bookmark: Upon return in January Speaker Pelosi will refuse to allow impeached President Trump to deliver a State of the Union address in the House.]
@ rain of lead:
Fine. He can give it in the Senate. Hell, he can give it from the Oval Office.
@ AZfederalist:
Even the Democrats’ expert – Edelman – says that until those articles are transmitted to the Senate, there is NO impeachment.
@ The Barbarian:
maybe the Repubs should just “deem them” to have been transmitted
And this is the third-highest elected official in our government…
The Barbarian wrote:
Or a poop-filled street in Pelosi’s district with all the derelicts in broad daylight.
“This is what the Democrats create”
The Barbarian wrote:
That is all over the place now. Pelose fucked up. If Levin is correct, she listened to Laurance Tribe to pull this stunt. And Tribe is supposed to be a Constitutional expert worthy of SCOTUS. Bet he hangs out with Krugman.
eaglesoars wrote:
With backdrop pictures from Ilhan Omar and Talib’s districts.
Russian pilots have been lost engaging w/UFOs? (Tucker is interviewing Tom Rogan on UFOs)
AZfederalist wrote:
Are they bad?
@ eaglesoars:
Omar’s definitely is as it is populated by Somali refugees. Also the terrorist capital of the US
https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/18/ilhan-omar-district-terror/
Tlaib’s district is part of Detroit — ’nuff said
AZfederalist wrote:
true.
The global pig population is being absolutely decimated by a disease that does not have a cure. African Swine Fever, also commonly referred to as “Pig Ebola”, is raging out of control in dozens of countries all over the globe. It has a mortality rate of close to 100 percent, and once it hits an area even the pigs that are able to survive the disease are killed off in order to prevent it from spreading elsewhere. Unfortunately, African Swine Fever just continues to pop up in more locations. As you will see below, it is now sweeping through the heavily-populated nation of Indonesia.
“Pig Ebola” Is Now Running Wild In Indonesia, And Has Already Killed A Quarter Of The World’s Swine
https://www.zerohedge.com/health/pig-ebola-now-running-wild-indonesia-and-has-already-killed-quarter-worlds-swine
The Barbarian wrote:
You. Have. Got. To. See. This. “Maine Antifa”
Me waking up knowing trump is no longer president as of today!! We won the fascists lose!!! RESIST
Not only do I not know what color that is, and don’t even know what THAT is.
https://twitter.com/Miskwahya/status/1207760841749286912
@ eaglesoars:
Color seems like raw salmon.
/lurk
@ CynicalConservative:
You’ve been eating farmed salmon.
I decided it’s cotton candy
I have an idea for Trump’s State of the Union. He could turn it into a campaign ad
Take every state, one by one, and do a video with him green-screened in talking about how he’s made the state better or how the Dems have ruined it.
It could be a 60-minute commercial.
The libs would go bat guano.
https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2019/12/19/rep-adam-schiff-has-more-evidence-this-time-implicating-mike-pence-in-ukraine-scandal/
Schiff, who likes to say he has concrete evidence of things, teased that he has some classified information that implicates Vice President Mike Pence in President Trump’s bribery of … um, extortion of … um, withholding of … abuse of power regarding Ukraine.
@ The Barbarian:
Don’t even give an address- just send the report to the House and Senate, and release a copy online.
rain of lead wrote:
I saw that. Apparently this moron believes that somehow the SENATE is going to remove Trump and then Pence. Which then makes Pelosi President.
Uh. No. Even if Trump were removed, at that moment Pence does become President. He is allowed to select a VP right away, to be confirmed by the Senate. That VP would become President if Pence was removed.
I think Schiffty is really SO delusional at times that he really believes he was going to make Nancy Pelosi President and that she would appoint him her VP. I mean, all you need to see is that fairy tale synopsis of the Ukraine call to realize the man is NOT rooted in reality.
I am officially dying. I hope this comes through:
Sean Davis wins the soundbite of the day.
The Barbarian wrote:
I laughed so hard when I saw that last nite I frightened the beagles.
Anybody else think it strange that Christianity Today, the mag founded by Billy Graham, would call for Trump’s removal?
Check this out. They’ve been calling for an immigration reform plan that goes right back to – GUESS WHO??!!
Soros.
On November 9, Stetzer and Christianity Today published Matthew Soerens of World Relief promoting the reform plan. Soerens is the US director of church mobilization for World Relief.
World Relief is heavily involved in earning revenue from its involvement in working with refugees. According to research published in Michelle Malkin’s new book, Open Borders Inc.: Who’s Funding America’s Destruction? from Regnery Publishing, World Relief received at least $215.3 million (65 percent of its total funding) from government funding for refugee resettlement.
As we’ve reported many times, the Evangelical Immigration Table led by Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention was founded by the National Immigration Forum, a group funded by George Soros to promote the free movement of peoples, another way of saying open borders. Russell Moore appeared at the National Immigration Forum meeting with former president Barack Obama’s Faith Advisor last week.
Why are so many in Big Evangelicalism promoting Soros backed Immigration plans?
https://pulpitandpen.org/2019/11/11/christianity-today-and-stetzer-partner-with-soros-immigration-invasion/
Franklin Graham has responded
@CTMagazine released an editorial saying @POTUS Trump should be removed from office & they invoked my father’s name, so I felt I should respond. Yes,
@BillyGraham founded Christianity Today; but no, he would not agree w/ their piece. He’d be disappointed.
https://twitter.com/Franklin_Graham/status/1207924386944241665
Was at Lowe’s this AM, early enough that a ton of contractors were in line, etc.
They were laughing at the dems and impeachment. Laughing at it.
Line of the day: Whadda bunch of jag-offs.
@ eaglesoars:
GOD inc. ™ (r)
coldwarrior wrote:
they probably didn’t watch the debate last nite because the guys at Lowes have to actually get up in the morning and go to work – but wait till they find out that Joe Biden is willing to throw them out of work for ‘green economy’ ‘Jagoff’ won’t be the word that comes to mind
@ eaglesoars:
I’m thinking the words that would come to mind would please a 20-year Navy man.
@ eaglesoars:
“Five monkeys trying to dry hump a doorknob.”
This is an interesting interview with Chad Underwood, the Navy pilot who shot the ‘tic tac’ UFO video.
The thing that stood out to me the most was how erratic it was behaving. And what I mean by “erratic” is that its changes in altitude, air speed, and aspect were just unlike things that I’ve ever encountered before flying against other air targets. It was just behaving in ways that aren’t physically normal. That’s what caught my eye. Because, aircraft, whether they’re manned or unmanned, still have to obey the laws of physics. They have to have some source of lift, some source of propulsion. The Tic Tac was not doing that. It was going from like 50,000 feet to, you know, a hundred feet in like seconds, which is not possible.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/tic-tac-ufo-video-q-and-a-with-navy-pilot-chad-underwood.html
eaglesoars wrote:
from the comments:
I can tell you what it will be……………………….it will be the “Highly Secretive” = TR-3B Aircraft, or indeed a ‘variant’ of it! The “TR-3B” doesn’t exist officially. It is part of an “Ultra-Secret” Govt Black Ops programme.
It uses highly pressured mercury accelerated by nuclear energy to produce a plasma that creates a field of anti-gravity around the ship. The TR-3B can perform all manner of rapid high speed maneuvers along all three axes. Interestingly, the plasma generated also reduces radar signature significantly. So it’ll be almost invisible on radar & remain undetected
mercury? somebody go fetch dorian, please.
The Barbarian wrote:
I can just imagine his mother watching TV, waiting proudly for her son’s first appearance on Tucker Carlson’s top rated show.
And her little darling pops THAT out. She probably wants to kill him. Slowly. In the oven.
@ eaglesoars:
And no doubt ALL of her friends were invited over for bundt cake and sherry to watch as well….
Two cruise ships just collided in Cozumel (where is Cozumel? Mexico? I dunno)
Anyway, I thought they teach you in cruise ship driving school to stay 2 ship lengths away from each other.
Forehead-smacking video here.
https://twitter.com/BruinMatthew/status/1208031005644341248
more video of ship collision from one of the ships.
Somebody’s losing their driver’s license!
https://twitter.com/WendyBrew5967/status/1208039729368690693
The Barbarian wrote:
the sherry went really fast…………..
@ The Barbarian:
before I forget, on twitter you should follow @big_cases. Real-time updates on major cases in the courts, including SCOTUS. Some guy at USA Today runs it.
This is hilarious. Somebody decided to spread this around to wind up the libs, whose deep knowledge of the Constitution is legendary
Hey Snowflakes.
IF Trump is impeached in the house and not the Senate he can run 2 more times. Constitution says that if a President is impeached by the house but not convicted by the Senate. The 1st term is nullified and they are eligible to run for office 2 more times.
MAGA .
https://twitter.com/BellaBe11395785/status/1207798216512753666
I feel a nap sneaking up.
somebody should probably look into this
Is Iran’s regime quietly infiltrating Congress? It turns out the Senior Legislative Assistant to @Ilhan is non other than @mahyarsorour
who in July was a candidate for NIAC Action’s leadership board.
@NIACouncil is an arm of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry.
https://twitter.com/HanifJazayeri/status/1207399017216389120
And Pelosi has sent Trump a letter inviting him to give the SOTU . I forget where I saw it
So remember Collyer’s order to the FBI to declassify FISA of Dec 5 because FISC was going to declassify and release it’s own order?
Here’s the FISC doc, just released. Ouch.
“Adivse whether the conduct of the FBI OGC attorney [Clinesmith, I suspect] has been referred to the appropriate bar association(s) for investigation or possible disciplinary action”
https://www.fisc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/FISC%20Dec%205%20Redacted%20Order%20191220.pdf
Had visitors down at the beach for the past 2 days. An Aussie flew in from North of Sydney and was joined by a Mexican girlfriend who flew in from Seattle. Both soft lefties. Not very extreme and of the we need to protect the idiots from themselves variety. WE took them on a whistle stop tour of the Coromandel coast with a trip on unsealed roads to see a magnificant square 1500 ye old Kauri tree.
Eagles would be interested.. Indeed British man-o-wars did have hearts of Oak for their hulls but their spars were built of more ‘bendy’ wood such as Kauri from NZ.
WE then took then chainsawing a year’s supply offer dry logs off a farm nearby that belongs to a mate who is a Professor (Kiwi) at Hong Kong University. He and his Chinese wife are back on his farm for Christmas. He’s pretty left wing due to his university teaching credentials depending on the Administration in Hong Kong. His Chinese wife was a screaming out of control communist however. Somehow during a tank you fo the wood ‘dinner’ last night she triggered and suddenly got all foam speckled spit and had a 10 minute rant about the evil students of HK opposing our wonderful leader President Xi.
Actually I have NEVER seen someone so out of control politically. She ACTUALLY has foam specked spit coming from her mouth. Even the mild ‘liberals’ looked a little perplexed and embarrassed. I just kept my mouth shut or there may have been need to restrain her and to a much lesser extent her husband the Prof.
Thankfully we finally distracted her enough to change the subject and her eyes settled back into her sockets and the foaming stopped. It was really educational to see someone totally lose it to the point of physical and mental incoherence. Dessert was served and the home made Christmas cake seemed to work its magic.
The Aussie and Mexican departed at 03;45 AM to drive north into Northland to visit Tutukaka and from their by boat to dive the Poor Knights islands this morning 17Km off the Northland coast. One of the Top 10 dive sites in the world.
A beautiful morning here in ‘God’s Own’
🙂
Aussie Infidel wrote:
I’d LOVE to meet her!
Well, FWIW, there are whispers that Judge Collyer has health issues and will be stepping aside as presiding judge but will finish her term ending in March. As her replacement, Roberts may tap somebody named Boasberg. He’s the FISA judge that denied the consolidated FOIA request to get the Comey memos. Of course, they did get out eventually, and the world never ended, so there’s that. He’s pretty much Asshole Exhibit A.
eaglesoars wrote:
I was chatting to her a few days beforehand while we awaited the arrival of the Prof. on his tractor at their farm. I purposely didn’t make any direct comment about HK and just asked her questions about how she saw things developing. Even THAT triggered her to a couple of mini- eye bulging rants about various subjects regarding the KH students.
It was quite an eye opener. I couldn’t help myself finally and mentioned organ harvesting, and the Weagers (islamic Turkic peoples) of Western China. The response was CCP boilerplate and you could feel the ‘rant level kick up a notch.
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@ Aussie Infidel:
All that tells me is that the CCP is scared shitless. Their world domination plans aren’t going as well as expected and Xi is likely to end up with a bullet in the back of the head.
The NYT ran an interesting piece on the Faroe Islands installing their 5G network. Huawei is one of the bidders and the U.S. is trying to talk them out of it. The people of the Faroe Islands are a bit peeved, they -understandably – don’t like being told what to do. Especially since Huawei installed their current 4G system and there don’t seem to be any problems. And China buys a lot of their salmon, which is the only thing they produce. There are only about 50K people there, they belong to Denmark and Denmark is already in a snit over Greenland.
Well, it’s war they want, it’s war they’ll have.
Virginia Attorney General Shoots Down Gun Sanctuary Laws
In a rebuke to nearly 100 cities and counties, Virginia’s Democratic attorney general said in an advisory opinion Friday that local pro-Second Amendment laws declaring an exemption from statewide gun safety measures are invalid.
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Herring’s advisory opinion cited Dillon’s rule, a legal principle prohibiting local authorities from establishing powers not expressly granted by the Legislature, in finding that the local laws are invalid.
“It is my opinion that these resolutions have no legal effect,” the opinion states. “It is further my opinion that localities and local constitutional officers cannot nullify state laws and must comply with gun violence prevention measures that the General Assembly may enact.”
https://www.courthousenews.com/virginia-attorney-general-shoots-down-gun-sanctuary-laws/
@ Aussie Infidel:
I am no longer polite. I will let someone have it with both barrels if THEY start anything political.
I quit being nice last year. It is refreshing. I wont start it, but I WILL end it. I have become an assassin. I would have lit the bitch up. She needs to go back to china.
@ eaglesoars:
They want a shooting war as a prop.
coldwarrior wrote:
Yep. Wait till they lose.
The weekend open goes up at 2100 tonight. I’m sick. Good night.9
@ coldwarrior:
Well, hurry up and get better. Sleep well.
I’m doing the Snoopy dance, personally.
I got home and found a letter from Army Human Resources Command. As of next week, I’m officially on the retired list (as opposed to being in the Retired Reserve).
I should, theoretically, start getting my retirement pay next month.
coldwarrior wrote:
I agree. She really REALLY does need to go back to China. Actually she is heading back to Hong Kong in a few days with her Professor husband.
He was a rather flawed OK guy back in the day. A former NZ Special Forces officer (reservist)with a double doctorate (biology and botany) and a Prof at HK University. Done some heroic stuff in Malaysia training Malay Special Forces and has ‘weathered’ a Trans Antarctic posting too.He was tutor to the Crown Prince of Brunei for 2 years and is on first name terms with the Crown Princess of Tailand (who did her doctorate with him the same time he was qualifying for his second doctorate). He’s a top 5 expert on salt water botanical systems with mangroves as his speciality. On LOTS of UN sponsored research tasks in Asia on marine eco-systems.
He has however got ‘wandering hands’ when it comes to females, and gaslights female students (nurses) at the university. Nothing blatant but something is just not ‘right’ which gives you the creeps. He has a MASSIVE ego and that makes him an immediate security risk! His wife is just a nutty as squirrel shit communist cipher. He wrote a diatribe a few months back dissing the student revolution in HK and the rise of the opposition to the CCP. I tok the occasion to ‘deconstruct’ his paper in a way that I lifted straight from the pages of Rules for Radicals. Who says that you can’t use the enemies tactics against them?
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Seeing the Prof. shared his musings with my general rogues gallery of bloggers I responded in kind… including a former Director of CI for two of Australia’s ‘alphabet’ security agencies
I was marked with an A- to a solid B+ by the Director for my response!
HEH!
I haven’t lost my touch!
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Thailand = Tailland.
Bloody auto-correct function Grrrr
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@ lobo91:
W00T!!!!
Aussie Infidel wrote:
Seriously, has anybody really checked these two?
eaglesoars wrote:
Umm. No. DoD doesn’t mess with stuff like that for flight; they have the same green weanies running things as the rest of the country. That makes zero sense.
The Hammonds. Some judges need to take a short look at a long noose
PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) – A federal judge yanked a permit to graze cattle on public land from the father and son whose prison sentences for arson on the land in question sparked a 2016 armed standoff between right-wing extremists and federal law
https://www.courthousenews.com/no-grazing-permits-for-trump-pardoned-arsonists-judge-rules/
eaglesoars wrote:
Well, she pretty much must know that he will still be President come February.
eaglesoars wrote:
Benedict Roberts appear to be the gift that keeps giving.
eaglesoars wrote:
Well, he’s certainly welcome to go in there himself if the Sheriffs refuse to enforce unconstitutional laws. I believe their first allegiance is to the Constitution. … and that national guard thing? Same thing applies to them and following unlawful orders.
AZfederalist wrote:
That’s what I thought but I’m totally ignorant of these things.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yeah, that was a totally objective article. /sarc
lobo91 wrote:
That’s fantastic! I know it’s taken you a very long time to get to this place.
AZfederalist wrote:
yeah, I think he missed the part where the Dillon rule CANNOT apply to unconstitutional laws. These morons honestly don’t believe we’ll actually fight. Oh, maybe a hot head or two, but then the rest of us will be cowed and go home.
Doesn’t work like that.
@ AZfederalist:
It’s definitely going to give me some freedom. I should take home slightly more than what I make now in a job that I basically hate. At some point, I’ll get fed up and walk away.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2019/12/20/speaker-pelosi-invites-president-donald-trump-to-deliver-state-of-union-february-4th-2020/#comments
welp, I miss-called that one