Yesterday the court fixed a bad law that violated people’s 14th Amendment rights.
A judge in another case is also righting a wrong. And if exposing this puts Acosta’s butt in a sling, then so be it. This needs to be made right, and the guilty parties (regardless of party) exposed. And if exposing Acosta exposes Clinton and Menendez too, well even better.
“U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Marra said Thursday that prosecutors violated the Crime Victims Rights Act by failing to notify victims before signing off on the arrangement, under which federal prosecutors promised not to prosecute Epstein in federal court if he pleaded guilty to a pair of prostitution-related offenses in a Florida state court.
“Petitioners and the other victims should have been notified of the Government’s intention to take that course of action before it bound itself under the NPA,” or nonprosecution agreement, Marra wrote.
Marra criticized federal prosecutors for not only hiding the agreement from the victims but also misleading them about the state of the case.
“Particularly problematic was the Government’s decision to conceal the existence of the NPA and mislead the victims to believe that federal prosecution was still a possibility,” the judge wrote.
There’s a current political angle to this story which is that the man who made this disastrous agreement with Epstein’s attorneys is Trump’s Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta. So maybe there’s a reason some on the left are suddenly interested in this after years of not caring. But as I’ve said before: Who cares? What matters here is that there’s no way to justify this garbage agreement except as a gift to a billionaire who paid dozens of teen girls for sexual massages (and more in some cases). At the time the agreement was made, there were already more than 50 victims and it was clear more could be found in time some of them just 14-years-old. From the Miami Herald, here’s the slap on the wrist that Epstein’s dream team of lawyers worked out with Acosta:
The pact required Epstein to plead guilty to two prostitution charges in state court. Epstein and four of his accomplices named in the agreement received immunity from all federal criminal charges. But even more unusual, the deal included wording that granted immunity to “any potential co-conspirators’’ who were also involved in Epstein’s crimes. These accomplices or participants were not identified in the agreement, leaving it open to interpretation whether it possibly referred to other influential people who were having sex with underage girls at Epstein’s various homes or on his plane.
As part of the arrangement, Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that the deal would be kept from the victims.
That last bit is the part the judge ruled was illegal today. But the worst part of this is that the prostitution charge Epstein agreed to involved a 14-year-old:”
“The Sheriff’s Office held a news conference Wednesday afternoon for Bay Area media that provided new information about Sunday’s fatal encounter on a rural south Napa County road. The names of the deputy and the dead motorist were released for the first time.
Hernandez Morales, 43, is a Napa resident and former farmworker. He had a criminal history in the county and had several aliases that had to be investigated before the Sheriff’s Office could release his name, Undersheriff Jon Crawford said.
A PowerPoint presentation showed five of Hernandez Morales’ Napa County jail mugshots taken between 2010 and 2016. He had been arrested for crimes such as having a concealed, loaded weapon, driving under the influence and assaulting a peace officer.
The Sheriff’s Office said it takes loss of life seriously, but Crawford said the department was proud of the composure and poise Jarecki showed while fighting for her life. She is doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances and could be gone anywhere from two to four weeks on paid administrative leave, Crawford said.
Hernandez Morales’ motive is unknown, but Crawford said he had a few arrest warrants.
Hernandez Morales shot at the deputy with a .22 caliber revolver that was reported stolen in Fremont, Crawford said. It was later discovered that he had a loaded, .22 caliber rifle in the back of the car.”
And here’s a new law coming in one state that protects people’s 4th amendment rights as well. Look for other states to follow suit. I see the point as well. When folks send in their DNA, it’s not so authorities can use a warrantless probe of your results looking for criminals in your family tree. Plus, your DNA is part of your medical profile, which is supposed to be private unless you agree to it’s release.
“Md. bill would prohibit use of DNA databases to solve crimes”
“After police used a new technique to arrest a man suspected of being the Golden State Killer, a Maryland legislator proposed a law that would prohibit use of a familial DNA database for the purpose of crime-solving.
House bill 30, sponsored by Delegate Charles Sydnor, D-Baltimore County, seeks to prohibit searches of consumer genealogical databases for the purpose of identifying an offender in connection with a crime through their biological relative’s DNA samples.
In 1994, the state enacted the Maryland DNA Collection Act, which authorized the gathering of DNA for an official investigation of a crime, to identify human remains, and to identify missing persons, among other purposes.
In 2008, Chapter 337 amended the Collection Act to allow the state to gather and retain DNA from people arrested for burglary or violent crimes at the time of their arrest.
The 2008 law also prohibited searching the statewide database for DNA collected from a relative to identify a crime suspect.
The District of Columbia and Maryland are the only two jurisdictions in the country with laws barring searches for familial DNA and partial match analysis, and Maryland was the first to ban searches for blood relatives statewide, according to written testimony from Sydnor, the bill’s sole sponsor.”
“Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly’s immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his Earth-bound identical twin, researchers said Friday.
Scientists don’t know if the changes were good or bad but results from a unique NASA twins study are raising new questions for doctors as the space agency aims to send people to Mars.
Tests of the genetic doubles gave scientists a never-before opportunity to track details of human biology, such as how an astronaut’s genes turn on and off in space differently than at home. One puzzling change announced Friday at a science conference: Kelly’s immune system was hyperactivated.
“It’s as if the body is reacting to this alien environment sort of like you would a mysterious organism being inside you,” said geneticist Christopher Mason of New York’s Weill Cornell Medical College, who helped lead the study. He said doctors are now looking for that in other astronauts.
Since the beginning of space exploration, NASA has studied the toll on astronauts’ bodies, such as bone loss that requires exercise to counter. Typically they’re in space about six months at a time. Kelly, who lived on the International Space Station, spent 340 days in space and set a U.S. record.”
“I’ve never felt completely normal in space,” the now-retired Kelly said in an email to The Associated Press, citing the usual congestion from shifting fluid, headaches and difficulty concentrating from extra carbon dioxide, and digestive complaints from microgravity.
But this study was a unique dive into the molecular level, with former astronaut Mark Kelly, Scott’s twin, on the ground for comparison. Full results haven’t yet been published, but researchers presented some findings Friday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.”
“An Internal Revenue Service analyst was charged Thursday for leaking confidential records about Michael Cohen’s bank account last year.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California filed charges against the analyst, John Fry, for the disclosure of a suspicious activity report, which banks file on possible illegal transactions. That leak revealed that Cohen, a former lawyer to President Donald Trump, appeared to be accepting payments from organizations seeking to influence the White House.
CNN first reported Thursday’s charges, which come about a week after the outlet reported that the Justice Department was investigating the leak that happened last May.
Cohen’s transactions came to light when Michael Avenatti, the lawyer of an adult film star suing Trump, posted the bank report on Twitter ― an action that experts said could be illegal in its own right. According to Thursday’s charges, Fry used his work computer to search the IRS database for records related to Cohen and then made a six-minute phone call to Avenatti.
The court filing also states Fry reached out to reporters following the database search. “
Washington Post Editor Says Netanyahu Alienates Democrats; Excuses Rep. Omar’s anti-Semitism”
“Once upon a time, not too long ago, The Washington Post was a somewhat reasonable voice on matters of foreign policy, especially regarding the Middle East. Since it supported the nuclear deal with Iran in 2015, and fought Donald Trump’s election the following year, its views have become increasingly marginal.
The latest data point for this descent into irrelevance is deputy editorial page editor Jackson Diehl’s The Democrats have an Israel problem — and it’s not Ilhan Omar. The Democrats have a number of newly minted Congresspeople who are openly anti-Semitic or who ally with anti-Semites, but the real problem, according to Diehl, is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who “has doggedly and successfully worked to thwart the goal pursued by Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and still embraced by most Democrats: a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
Ah the two-state solution is a Democratic priority, (funny but didn’t Bush, in 2002, specify the two-state solution as a policy goal too), and Netanyahu has been the major sticking point, according to Diehl, who in the early 90s was the Post’s Jerusalem Bureau Chief.
The problem is that it’s just not so. And even Diehl undermines his “blame Bibi first” instinct in the narrative he presents:
Netanyahu proceeded to sabotage the Mideast peace process, dragging his feet on every step. His poor relations with Washington were widely seen as contributing to his ouster in a 1999 election. But Clinton failed to close a deal for a Palestinian state, thanks mostly to the intransigence of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. After Palestinians waged a campaign of suicide bombings, and after Arafat’s successor, Mahmoud Abbas, turned aside another statehood offer, Israelis voted Netanyahu back into the prime minister’s office in early 2009.
The first assertion isn’t even true. Netanyahu – admittedly under pressure from the Clinton administration – withdrew Israeli forces from most of Hebron, something that his Labor Party predecessors did not do. (Read Charles Krauthammer on why this was important for the peace process. Diehl, though, refused to give Netanyahu any credit.) Of course, the Clinton administration reneged on the guarantees it gave the Likud government to get the deal, which is why Netanyahu subsequently dragged his feet.
But pay attention to Diehl’s chronology. Clinton failed to get a peace deal in 2000, even with Netanyahu’s successor Ehud Barak, who was keen to make a deal, because of “the intransigence of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.” And then in 2008, “Arafat’s successor, Mahmoud Abbas, turned aside another statehood offer.” Only then, after about a decade out of power “Israelis voted Netanyahu back into the prime minister’s office in early 2009.”
Think about that. For ten years, Israel had three prime ministers not named Benjamin Netanyahu and in that time the Palestinians were twice offered a state and said, “no.” How can he suggest that Netanyahu is the major reason the two-state solution has not yet been achieved?”
We have just built this powerful Wall in New Mexico. Completed on January 30, 2019 – 47 days ahead of schedule! Many miles more now under construction! #FinishTheWallpic.twitter.com/TYkj3KRdOC
While frauds like Smollett steal the spotlight, real bigotry goes unreported by the press because there are no MAGA hats allegedly worn by the perps of these actual crimes.
“The Epidemic Of Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes In Brooklyn Is No Hoax
While the nation was focused on a hoaxed hate crime, Brooklyn’s Jews have been repeatedly and actually attacked. Are we not discussing it because most of the perpetrators are black?”
“As much of the country was transfixed by a hoaxed hate crime in Chicago over the past month, a very real wave of hate crimes in Brooklyn has been taking place. In New York City overall there have been 36 hate crimes against Jews so far this year, according to The New York Times, compared to only 21 last year. In the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn alone, ultra-orthodox Jews have been violently attacked at least 15 times since October of last year.
In most of these cases there is no apparent motive beyond anti-Semitism. No robbery occurs, and often the attackers — generally black men — and their victims are complete strangers. State and local government, as well as the New York City Police Department, have stepped up measures to protect the community, but the incidents have continued apace.
The spate of anti-Semitic attacks raises some significant questions. First and foremost, why is this happening and how can it be stopped? But also, why have the news media and the nation’s politicians been so quiet about an epidemic of hate crime in our country’s largest city? Why isn’t this a big story?”
It seems that everyone is worried about the national debt all of a sudden.
Why wasn’t anyone worried when Obama doubled it?
I have asked, and no one has answered satisfactorily:
Obama doubled the debt.
When Trump took office, everyone was worried about the infrastructure.
Our military was so depleted that some planes couldn’t fly because of lack of parts.
Something happened to trillions of dollars.
Question: Where is the money?
As for the debt: There is no such thing as 22 trillion dollars. Some sad day, that will occur to China and Japan and us.
When I was a kid in Charleston, SC, I used to look in the window of souvenir stores. You could buy Confederate money.
So? Keep your dollars, they might be worth something someday.
Chas- There have been those worried about the debt since the 90s. It slowed down under Clinton, mainly because of policies established by Reagan and Bush 41, then started growing again under Bush 43.
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Yesterday the court fixed a bad law that violated people’s 14th Amendment rights.
A judge in another case is also righting a wrong. And if exposing this puts Acosta’s butt in a sling, then so be it. This needs to be made right, and the guilty parties (regardless of party) exposed. And if exposing Acosta exposes Clinton and Menendez too, well even better.
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/21/judge-prosecutors-violated-law-deal-jeffrey-epstein/
“U.S. District Court Judge Kenneth Marra said Thursday that prosecutors violated the Crime Victims Rights Act by failing to notify victims before signing off on the arrangement, under which federal prosecutors promised not to prosecute Epstein in federal court if he pleaded guilty to a pair of prostitution-related offenses in a Florida state court.
“Petitioners and the other victims should have been notified of the Government’s intention to take that course of action before it bound itself under the NPA,” or nonprosecution agreement, Marra wrote.
Marra criticized federal prosecutors for not only hiding the agreement from the victims but also misleading them about the state of the case.
“Particularly problematic was the Government’s decision to conceal the existence of the NPA and mislead the victims to believe that federal prosecution was still a possibility,” the judge wrote.
There’s a current political angle to this story which is that the man who made this disastrous agreement with Epstein’s attorneys is Trump’s Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta. So maybe there’s a reason some on the left are suddenly interested in this after years of not caring. But as I’ve said before: Who cares? What matters here is that there’s no way to justify this garbage agreement except as a gift to a billionaire who paid dozens of teen girls for sexual massages (and more in some cases). At the time the agreement was made, there were already more than 50 victims and it was clear more could be found in time some of them just 14-years-old. From the Miami Herald, here’s the slap on the wrist that Epstein’s dream team of lawyers worked out with Acosta:
The pact required Epstein to plead guilty to two prostitution charges in state court. Epstein and four of his accomplices named in the agreement received immunity from all federal criminal charges. But even more unusual, the deal included wording that granted immunity to “any potential co-conspirators’’ who were also involved in Epstein’s crimes. These accomplices or participants were not identified in the agreement, leaving it open to interpretation whether it possibly referred to other influential people who were having sex with underage girls at Epstein’s various homes or on his plane.
As part of the arrangement, Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that the deal would be kept from the victims.
That last bit is the part the judge ruled was illegal today. But the worst part of this is that the prostitution charge Epstein agreed to involved a 14-year-old:”
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Still not a victim-less crime.
https://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/update-napa-sheriff-s-office-says-motorist-who-died-after/article_a8d674fa-c0f8-5c30-93bb-865d52ce8217.html
“The Sheriff’s Office held a news conference Wednesday afternoon for Bay Area media that provided new information about Sunday’s fatal encounter on a rural south Napa County road. The names of the deputy and the dead motorist were released for the first time.
Hernandez Morales, 43, is a Napa resident and former farmworker. He had a criminal history in the county and had several aliases that had to be investigated before the Sheriff’s Office could release his name, Undersheriff Jon Crawford said.
A PowerPoint presentation showed five of Hernandez Morales’ Napa County jail mugshots taken between 2010 and 2016. He had been arrested for crimes such as having a concealed, loaded weapon, driving under the influence and assaulting a peace officer.
The Sheriff’s Office said it takes loss of life seriously, but Crawford said the department was proud of the composure and poise Jarecki showed while fighting for her life. She is doing as well as can be expected under the circumstances and could be gone anywhere from two to four weeks on paid administrative leave, Crawford said.
Hernandez Morales’ motive is unknown, but Crawford said he had a few arrest warrants.
Hernandez Morales shot at the deputy with a .22 caliber revolver that was reported stolen in Fremont, Crawford said. It was later discovered that he had a loaded, .22 caliber rifle in the back of the car.”
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And here’s a new law coming in one state that protects people’s 4th amendment rights as well. Look for other states to follow suit. I see the point as well. When folks send in their DNA, it’s not so authorities can use a warrantless probe of your results looking for criminals in your family tree. Plus, your DNA is part of your medical profile, which is supposed to be private unless you agree to it’s release.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/feb/20/bill-seeks-to-prohibit-using-dna-databases-to-solv/
“Md. bill would prohibit use of DNA databases to solve crimes”
“After police used a new technique to arrest a man suspected of being the Golden State Killer, a Maryland legislator proposed a law that would prohibit use of a familial DNA database for the purpose of crime-solving.
House bill 30, sponsored by Delegate Charles Sydnor, D-Baltimore County, seeks to prohibit searches of consumer genealogical databases for the purpose of identifying an offender in connection with a crime through their biological relative’s DNA samples.
In 1994, the state enacted the Maryland DNA Collection Act, which authorized the gathering of DNA for an official investigation of a crime, to identify human remains, and to identify missing persons, among other purposes.
In 2008, Chapter 337 amended the Collection Act to allow the state to gather and retain DNA from people arrested for burglary or violent crimes at the time of their arrest.
The 2008 law also prohibited searching the statewide database for DNA collected from a relative to identify a crime suspect.
The District of Columbia and Maryland are the only two jurisdictions in the country with laws barring searches for familial DNA and partial match analysis, and Maryland was the first to ban searches for blood relatives statewide, according to written testimony from Sydnor, the bill’s sole sponsor.”
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Turns out they can hear you scream in space. 🙂
Sort of…..
I guess this is the body’s way of telling you that you don’t belong there.
https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/15/scott-kelly-nasa-twins-study-immune-system/
“Nearly a year in space put astronaut Scott Kelly’s immune system on high alert and changed the activity of some of his genes compared to his Earth-bound identical twin, researchers said Friday.
Scientists don’t know if the changes were good or bad but results from a unique NASA twins study are raising new questions for doctors as the space agency aims to send people to Mars.
Tests of the genetic doubles gave scientists a never-before opportunity to track details of human biology, such as how an astronaut’s genes turn on and off in space differently than at home. One puzzling change announced Friday at a science conference: Kelly’s immune system was hyperactivated.
“It’s as if the body is reacting to this alien environment sort of like you would a mysterious organism being inside you,” said geneticist Christopher Mason of New York’s Weill Cornell Medical College, who helped lead the study. He said doctors are now looking for that in other astronauts.
Since the beginning of space exploration, NASA has studied the toll on astronauts’ bodies, such as bone loss that requires exercise to counter. Typically they’re in space about six months at a time. Kelly, who lived on the International Space Station, spent 340 days in space and set a U.S. record.”
“I’ve never felt completely normal in space,” the now-retired Kelly said in an email to The Associated Press, citing the usual congestion from shifting fluid, headaches and difficulty concentrating from extra carbon dioxide, and digestive complaints from microgravity.
But this study was a unique dive into the molecular level, with former astronaut Mark Kelly, Scott’s twin, on the ground for comparison. Full results haven’t yet been published, but researchers presented some findings Friday at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.”
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Throw the book at ’em.
https://news.yahoo.com/irs-analyst-charged-leaking-michael-211946574.html
“An Internal Revenue Service analyst was charged Thursday for leaking confidential records about Michael Cohen’s bank account last year.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California filed charges against the analyst, John Fry, for the disclosure of a suspicious activity report, which banks file on possible illegal transactions. That leak revealed that Cohen, a former lawyer to President Donald Trump, appeared to be accepting payments from organizations seeking to influence the White House.
CNN first reported Thursday’s charges, which come about a week after the outlet reported that the Justice Department was investigating the leak that happened last May.
Cohen’s transactions came to light when Michael Avenatti, the lawyer of an adult film star suing Trump, posted the bank report on Twitter ― an action that experts said could be illegal in its own right. According to Thursday’s charges, Fry used his work computer to search the IRS database for records related to Cohen and then made a six-minute phone call to Avenatti.
The court filing also states Fry reached out to reporters following the database search. “
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The WaPo…… carrying water for the bigots in Congress, and blaming the victims at the same time.
https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/02/raw-diehl-wapo-editor-excuses-omars-anti-semitism-blames-bibi/
“Raw Diehl: WaPo Editor Excuses Omar’s Anti-Semitism; Blames Bibi
Washington Post Editor Says Netanyahu Alienates Democrats; Excuses Rep. Omar’s anti-Semitism”
“Once upon a time, not too long ago, The Washington Post was a somewhat reasonable voice on matters of foreign policy, especially regarding the Middle East. Since it supported the nuclear deal with Iran in 2015, and fought Donald Trump’s election the following year, its views have become increasingly marginal.
The latest data point for this descent into irrelevance is deputy editorial page editor Jackson Diehl’s The Democrats have an Israel problem — and it’s not Ilhan Omar. The Democrats have a number of newly minted Congresspeople who are openly anti-Semitic or who ally with anti-Semites, but the real problem, according to Diehl, is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who “has doggedly and successfully worked to thwart the goal pursued by Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and still embraced by most Democrats: a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”
Ah the two-state solution is a Democratic priority, (funny but didn’t Bush, in 2002, specify the two-state solution as a policy goal too), and Netanyahu has been the major sticking point, according to Diehl, who in the early 90s was the Post’s Jerusalem Bureau Chief.
The problem is that it’s just not so. And even Diehl undermines his “blame Bibi first” instinct in the narrative he presents:
Netanyahu proceeded to sabotage the Mideast peace process, dragging his feet on every step. His poor relations with Washington were widely seen as contributing to his ouster in a 1999 election. But Clinton failed to close a deal for a Palestinian state, thanks mostly to the intransigence of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. After Palestinians waged a campaign of suicide bombings, and after Arafat’s successor, Mahmoud Abbas, turned aside another statehood offer, Israelis voted Netanyahu back into the prime minister’s office in early 2009.
The first assertion isn’t even true. Netanyahu – admittedly under pressure from the Clinton administration – withdrew Israeli forces from most of Hebron, something that his Labor Party predecessors did not do. (Read Charles Krauthammer on why this was important for the peace process. Diehl, though, refused to give Netanyahu any credit.) Of course, the Clinton administration reneged on the guarantees it gave the Likud government to get the deal, which is why Netanyahu subsequently dragged his feet.
But pay attention to Diehl’s chronology. Clinton failed to get a peace deal in 2000, even with Netanyahu’s successor Ehud Barak, who was keen to make a deal, because of “the intransigence of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.” And then in 2008, “Arafat’s successor, Mahmoud Abbas, turned aside another statehood offer.” Only then, after about a decade out of power “Israelis voted Netanyahu back into the prime minister’s office in early 2009.”
Think about that. For ten years, Israel had three prime ministers not named Benjamin Netanyahu and in that time the Palestinians were twice offered a state and said, “no.” How can he suggest that Netanyahu is the major reason the two-state solution has not yet been achieved?”
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Build it.
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While frauds like Smollett steal the spotlight, real bigotry goes unreported by the press because there are no MAGA hats allegedly worn by the perps of these actual crimes.
http://thefederalist.com/2019/02/21/the-epidemic-of-anti-jewish-hate-crimes-in-brooklyn-is-no-hoax/
“The Epidemic Of Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes In Brooklyn Is No Hoax
While the nation was focused on a hoaxed hate crime, Brooklyn’s Jews have been repeatedly and actually attacked. Are we not discussing it because most of the perpetrators are black?”
“As much of the country was transfixed by a hoaxed hate crime in Chicago over the past month, a very real wave of hate crimes in Brooklyn has been taking place. In New York City overall there have been 36 hate crimes against Jews so far this year, according to The New York Times, compared to only 21 last year. In the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn alone, ultra-orthodox Jews have been violently attacked at least 15 times since October of last year.
In most of these cases there is no apparent motive beyond anti-Semitism. No robbery occurs, and often the attackers — generally black men — and their victims are complete strangers. State and local government, as well as the New York City Police Department, have stepped up measures to protect the community, but the incidents have continued apace.
The spate of anti-Semitic attacks raises some significant questions. First and foremost, why is this happening and how can it be stopped? But also, why have the news media and the nation’s politicians been so quiet about an epidemic of hate crime in our country’s largest city? Why isn’t this a big story?”
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Simple. Reverse racism.
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And then there is the real National Emergency: $22 trillion US debt.
http://www.usdebtclock.org/
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It seems that everyone is worried about the national debt all of a sudden.
Why wasn’t anyone worried when Obama doubled it?
I have asked, and no one has answered satisfactorily:
Obama doubled the debt.
When Trump took office, everyone was worried about the infrastructure.
Our military was so depleted that some planes couldn’t fly because of lack of parts.
Something happened to trillions of dollars.
Question: Where is the money?
As for the debt: There is no such thing as 22 trillion dollars. Some sad day, that will occur to China and Japan and us.
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When I was a kid in Charleston, SC, I used to look in the window of souvenir stores. You could buy Confederate money.
So? Keep your dollars, they might be worth something someday.
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Chas- There have been those worried about the debt since the 90s. It slowed down under Clinton, mainly because of policies established by Reagan and Bush 41, then started growing again under Bush 43.
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