I still for the life of me, will never understand why the IRS needs any legitimate armed force… Can't we outsource this to actual law enforcement agencies? Federal, or preferably local law enforcement? Why does every alphabet agency need a militaristic internal branch?…
NEW: I filed a #FOIA request with the DC Fire and Emergency Medical Services Department for a wide-range of docs related to the Hazmat team's response to the cocaine found at the WH.
BREAKING: A Canadian woman, Pascale Ferrier, 56, has just been sentenced to 22 years in the US for sending a ricin-laced letter to @realDonaldTrump in 2020. After pleading guilty to biological weapons charges in January, the letter targeting Trump was intercepted before reaching… pic.twitter.com/bQOZaFp4Ie
A paltry sentence for the attempted murder of 8 people. It said this: “I consider myself to be an activist, not a terrorist,” she said. “Activists are constructive, terrorists are destructive.”
“The only regret I have is that it didn’t work and that I couldn’t stop Trump,”…
Officials at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services advised hundreds of employees in San Francisco to work remotely for the foreseeable future due to public safety concerns outside the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building on Seventh Street. https://t.co/LUTS4FrwXr
Just a reminder the SF Chronical pushed every stupid policy and idiot politician that caused this. They need to own up to their stupid endorsements too.
“Crime is so bad near S.F. Federal building employees are told to work from home, officials said
Reading the SF Chronicle article all I note is an employer concerned about employee safety in and around the place of employment. This should be standard for any area of employment by any decent employer not least because they are liable for employee safety. A concerned employer does not equate to a dangerous situation. Universities have emergency buttons around the campus in case of emergencies or unsafe situation; this isn’t because a campus is a hotbed of crime but because the university is responsible for the safety of employees and students.
The police in SF seem to be on the ball but this could just be the PR department talking to the media. Calling the police in most cities over petty crime and drug dealing and use is fairly useless. There’s nothing in the stories I’ve seen here and from a friend that doesn’t resemble any urban downtown including my own. I suspect Republicans are centred on the problems in SF in particular because its in Pelosi’s district and the building is named after her.
In terms of violent crime rate, San Francisco rates 37th for cities over 250, 000. Looking over smaller cities I found that Grand Rapids Michigan has a higher rate of violent crime. I wonder what that says about the DeVos family and the Christian Reformed Church…..
Speaking of employer safety – I agree, the IRS doesn’t need to carry weapons at work nor any other federal employee with the possible exception of law enforcement and even then it should be limit to enforcement duties. The militarisation of the American gov’t has been increasing for decades and is over the top. I’ll take this a step further – any employer for the safety of their employees should be allowed to ban guns at the workplace. They are liable for the safety of their employees.
There was no criticism of Gold Star families in this excerpt on CNN. The armed forces are simply saying there wasn’t much they could do differently – evacuating in a war zone is always difficult. Army intel definitely screwed up – they thought they had more time, but that’s not on Biden.
So there was cocaine in the White House – and it was probably Hunter’s. The war on drugs was a mistake. Drug use is a symptom of mental illness and Hunter has some mental health issues. Not sure why this is politicised. I’m sure many politicians on both sides partake in marijuana use even in states where its still illegal. As for cocaine it has become as pervasive as it was in the 70s not to mention heroin etc. Heavy drug use is indicative of societal problems and general decline. The heavy use of fentanyl and meth in the rust belt is an example.
The Taliban have managed to almost eradicate the opium industry in Afghanistan. Given Afghanistan supplies 90% of the illegal opium market, look for an increase in fentanyl production to fill a vacated market. Time to treat addiction as a health issue – enforcement doesn’t work and its only going to get worse.
There are crazies on both sides of the political divide. Biden derangement syndrome is just as real. As the indictments rolled out and the right side of the internet blamed a vast Biden led conspiracy, threats to Biden have increased. Similarly, violent threats have been made to the DAs who brought down the indictments along with the members of the Atlanta grand jury. (are grand jury names public?? weird)
“As California goes? It’s still going. Newsom and the decades-long Democrat supermajority grip on power have accomplished what had been thought to be impossible: a net outflow from the Golden State. For the first time ever, the population change has turned negative in Newsom’s state, so much so that California lost a House seat in 2022 for the first time ever. Newsom has inadvertently highlighted that exodus by attempting to chase down California refugees in Texas and Florida to argue that they’re making a bad choice, largely to gales of laughter.
That trend is even worse in San Francisco. In other parts of California, businesses are slowly relocating out of the cities as crime rates increase and urban DAs refuse to prosecute them. That process has turned into a stampede in San Francisco as retailers either have to lock down all of their goods or close entirely. It’s been almost impossible to keep up with the major-store closings in that city, but when Whole Foods decides that a San Francisco store isn’t worth the risk, that’s a watershed moment — or should be, for officials who don’t live in denial.
And don’t forget that even the Biden administration declared its own federal offices in San Francisco — the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building — a no-go zone for federal workers this week.
However, San Francisco is just the reductio of the ad absurdum of progressive control of California, which very much includes Newsom. Their energy policies are just as disastrous as their crime policies, turning a state with abundant resources into a third-world entity, offering rolling blackouts and brownouts as normalcy. Their latest plan to resolve this includes adding an avalanche of demand to the grid with electric vehicles, and then using their batteries to deal with the increased demand. It’s exactly as insane as it sounds.
Eventually, Los Angeles and San Diego will turn into San Francisco under these policies, and everyone knows it. That’s why people with the means to do so are leaving while they still have some value left in their property. Under Newsom and Democrats, California is hollowing out its middle classes, leaving only the poor and the ultra-wealthy and no economic dynamism whatsoever. That’s the end result of progressivism; San Francisco just got there first.”
“Boom! Another bombshell just dropped in the Biden family bribery scandal and again the leftist media outlets have censored it.
It looks like President Joe Biden used various aliases and pseudonyms including the name “Robert L. Peters” in his correspondence with Hunter Biden. So far the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks as well as CNN and MSNBC have yet to air a second on this stunning new development.
On Thursday morning it was reported that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer asked the National Archives (on Wednesday) to release any unredacted records of then-Vice President Biden using a pseudonym.”
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“While Fox News Channel, Fox Business, Newsmax and NewsNation covered the jaw-dropping revelation on their August 17-August 18 programming, a SnapStream search (as of 10:30am ET) shows ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC have yet to air a second of the story.
The disparity is remarkable but not surprising as it is just the latest example of the leftist media outlets covering for President Joe Biden. They’re just reverting to their “hiding Hunter” behavior from the 2020 campaign, all over again. ”
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“House GOP demands unredacted records of Biden using pseudonym while VP”
“House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer asked the National Archives on Wednesday to hand over any unredacted records in which President Biden used a pseudonym during his vice presidency — as Republicans move closer to launching an impeachment inquiry into his role in son Hunter’s foreign business dealings.
Emails previously released by the Archives and retrieved from Hunter’s abandoned laptop reveal that Joe Biden used the email address “Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov” while he was President Barack Obama’s second-in-command and that his aide John Flynn cc’d Hunter on 10 emails containing the elder Biden’s daily schedule between May 18 and June 15, 2016.
Comer’s request covers records using Biden’s other known pseudonyms — “Robin Ware” and “JRB Ware” — and makes pointed requests for certain documents, such as drafts of Biden’s December 2015 speech to Ukraine’s parliament.
“Joe Biden has stated there was ‘an absolute wall’ between his family’s foreign business schemes and his duties as Vice President, but evidence reveals that access was wide open for his family’s influence peddling,” Comer (R-Ky.) said in a statement.”
“”They came with a search warrant,” softly spoke Samuel B. Fisher, a mild-mannered cattle farmer operating a 100-acre farm tucked away in Virginia’s heartland. Fisher’s bread-and-butter, Golden Valley Farms, carves out the scenic countryside that’s a hop, skip, and a jump away from historic Farmville, a postcard-perfect small Southern town with classical Main Street charm.
The father of five had graciously invited us down to his idyllic pasture to rehash the whirlwind of unforeseen events that unfolded over the cruel summer. It was a tumultuous time on the Fisher farm, an upheaval that threatened to upend the man’s livelihood.
“Then, they tagged the meat, so that we can’t touch it; we can’t sell it; we can’t feed our family with it,” Fisher told Townhall.
There, we sat in Fisher’s office on the periphery of a multi-purpose barn, surrounded by sparsely scattered cardboard boxes of farm-fresh squash situated across the concrete floor and vintage-style empty half-gallon glass jugs labeled with “Golden Valley Farms CHEMICAL FREE A2/A2 Goat Milk” stickers that lined the nearby shelves, awaiting to be filled and delivered statewide.
Moments earlier, upon our arrival, we were greeted by the welcoming committee: a trio of barefoot, dirt-covered kids holding four-week-old kittens, sized smaller than an ear of corn and clutching the children’s arms for dear life. One of the young boys, sporting suspenders and a straw hat with an LED headlamp strapped to it, left to fetch his father—whose workdays begin before daybreak at 5:30 a.m. and end past sundown—from the fields. The other boy, his sandy-haired brother in a bowl haircut, asked if we’ll “put it on the news.” Now, the children were captivated by the camera, gathered wide-eyed around Fisher after dragging a handful of upside-down milk crates over to perch themselves upon. A little girl, draped in a sunflower-colored dress, bobbed in-and-out of frame to wrangle one of the family’s dogs, as Fisher hushed her in Pennsylvania Dutch.
The firestorm of Big Government saber-rattling ignited in mid-June when an inspector with the Virginia Department of Agriculture (VDAC), without warning, paid the Fisher family a visit. To date, Fisher has no idea what could’ve prompted VDAC’s impromptu inspection on June 14, except “maybe they just finally found us through word of mouth,” the farmer speculated.
What was clear: The state sought to penalize Fisher for selling meat that was not processed by a USDA-inspected facility (U.S. Department of Agriculture). Fisher processes—an industry euphemism for butchering—his farm-raised meat on-site and sells it directly to his customers, feeding about 500 consumers and their families, who are part of a buying club. As members enrolled in the Golden Valley Farms program, they’re buying into the herd of 100% grass-fed golden Guernsey cows.
“They own part of the business. They own some of the herd,” Fisher explained. “My thinking was […] We can butcher their cows, process it, and sell it to them. I told the state all of this, but they said, ‘No, there’s no way around that. You can’t do that.’ They asked permission to get in here” to search the farm, which Fisher denied. “And, they told me, ‘We’ll be back,’ and left.”
The next day, on June 15, the VDAC inspector did, in fact, return, this time with a Cumberland County sheriff’s deputy to serve Fisher a search warrant. “They went through everything, house, every building, in the barn. They just raided through everything, put their nose in everything, and wanted to know every detail of everything. They went out back, trying to find all the failure they can find on a farm, which, of course, some of their stuff, which they think is wrong, is just normal stuff on a farm,” Fisher stated.
“I wasn’t on the farm at the time” of the full-scale raid that lasted approximately three to four hours, Fisher added.
Then, the state slapped a tag on Fisher’s walk-in freezer, placing the meat under “administrative detainment” and declaring that he wasn’t supposed to take any meat out of his own storage room. By the weekend, his kids were crying for scrapple, a mush of pork scraps and trimmings characteristic of Amish country, that sat behind the door on Fisher’s property that should, otherwise, be open and easily accessible. The following Monday, Fisher “even made a special phone call,” asking again, “if that’s the way it is.” And, as Fisher recounted, the VDAC inspector replied, “Yes, [you] cannot feed your family with it, cannot do anything with it.”
There’s “nothing illegal” about Fisher processing his own meat and eating it for his own consumption, asserted Mindy, the farm’s officer manager, who oversees sales, handles email marketing, and fulfills online orders. “So, he decided he was gonna go and feed his family, and since he would most likely be fined for doing that, he decided to open up meat sales again. Because if he’s going to be fined, he’s going to be fined, and you might as well do it,” she, wanting to go by “just Mindy,” stated matter-of-factly.
“Anybody can go and raise animals for their own family to eat. That’s where I got to the point: He [the VDAC inspector] crossed the line, so I’m going to cross the line,” Fisher stated. “He crossed the line by telling me I cannot feed my own family with this meat. So, I decided I’m going to cross the line, I’m going to sell it. And that’s why I didn’t honor the state.”
“This ain’t right,” Fisher decided. “We’re going to feed our family. We’re going to feed our customers […] We did not honor that tag. We sold some meat out of there, whatever customers ordered. Then, the state came back and saw what we did.”
“They really gave me a mouthful for doing that,” Fisher said. That’s when the state took Fisher to court.
After photographing every inch of the farm, stockpiling pictures as evidence that the Fishers were slaughtering and selling raw meat, which the Commonwealth of Virginia claimed was “mislabeled, uninspected, and possibly unadulterated,” the state summoned the farmer to a hearing on July 18 in Cumberland County Circuit Court to try the civil case. At its conclusion, a judge authorized the state to seize and forfeit Fisher’s products.
Later that day, the state wasted no time pouncing on the court’s order with glee. Within hours, two men backed a U-Haul truck right up to Fisher’s door, cleared the premises of Golden Valley Farms meat products, and hauled it all to the dump for disposal.”
From an actual legal scholar and Law Professor at Cornell.
“Criminalizing Politics In The Trump Indictments
The means by which an election is overturned may be criminal, but the end goal in and of itself is not criminal. So much of what is alleged in the D.C. and Georgia cases is non-criminal politics.”
“I’ve made the point repeatedly that both the D.C. and Georgia indictments of Donald Trump start from a premise that isn’t true – that an attempt to “overturn” an election in and of itself is criminal. The means by which an election is overturned may be criminal, but the end goal is not.
With regard to the D.C. indictment, I questioned Where is the crime?
The indictment may make out a persuasive case that Trump lied in the post-election period about election fraud, and disregarded the warnings of his most trusted and most loyal confidants that what he was saying was not true, but that doesn’t equate to a crime. The core of the alleged crime is disruption of the electoral count, but that took place because of the riot, and Trump has not been indicted (yet) for inciting the riot. What the indictment purports to prove may be a reason not to vote for Trump, but it’s far from clear it’s a reason to criminally charge him.
I raised similar questions with regard to the RICO and other charges against Trump in the Georgia state case, during an interview on NTD’s Capitol Report on August 15. The issue is that the allegedly illegal acts in the indictment (impersonating an official, attempting to gain improper access to a computer system) could have and should have been charged separately. But the RICO and conspiracy counts allege as a purpose overturning the election, but that’s not in itself illegal depending on how it’s done.”
“NTD has the write up, Georgia Trump Indictment Looks ‘Very Political,’ but Dismissal Unlikely
… “I think it’s an attempt by Georgia to do a shock and awe sort of attack on Donald Trump and his supporters,” William A. Jacobson, a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School, told NTD News’ “Capitol Report” on Tuesday….
Mr. Jacobson said Ms. Willis’s latest indictment against President Trump is “throwing everything at him, and really replicating what the federal government is already doing in the District of Columbia.”
Mr. Jacobson raised issues with a number of aspects of how Ms. Willis’s office handled the new indictment, such as plans to take and publicize the former Republican president’s arrest photo.
“They’re gonna play this up. I think the prosecution wants, you know, a pound of flesh from Donald Trump,” Mr. Jacobson said. “They want the mug shot, they want him paraded in front of the cameras.” …
“They didn’t do that in the Manhattan indictment. They haven’t done that in the federal indictments. So I think this all smells very political, from the way that prosecution is conducting itself,” Mr. Jacobson said of apparent plans to take arrest photos and televise the former president’s court appearance.
Mr. Jacobson also raised issue with the timing of the indictment.
“I think one of the big concerns that people have is that this is the weaponization of the prosecutorial function for political purposes,” he said. “They waited to bring these charges until we’re in an election year. And that’s the problem—these charges are based on conduct that took place almost three years ago. They could have brought this case a year ago, we would have had the trial, we would have had the result, and it wouldn’t have interfered with the Republican primaries in the general election.” ….
Mr. Jacobson said he doesn’t believe Mr. Trump’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election results were criminal, but also expressed doubt that many of the charges can easily be dismissed before a trial.
“I don’t agree with Donald Trump’s conduct after the election, but I also don’t think it was criminal,” Mr. Jacobson told NTD News.”
“Reading the SF Chronicle article all I note is an employer concerned about employee safety in and around the place of employment. This should be standard for any area of employment by any decent employer not least because they are liable for employee safety. A concerned employer does not equate to a dangerous situation. ”
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Ignoring the obvious again. This is outside the building. This isn’t a workplace safety issue, it’s an on the public street safety issue.
Some San Francisco federal employees have been told to continue working remotely due to the open-air drug market outside the building. Many that come in are getting escorted in and out of the federal building at 7th and Mission. @KPIXtvpic.twitter.com/66HkEPU2Pn
FEDERAL BLDG San Francisco this morning 11:45am Tuesday 8/15/2023 is quiet, yet directly across the streets are tents, drugs, fentanyl. Nancy Pelosi Bldg which we are hearing about all over national news now. pic.twitter.com/HQlcRGFOad
The Saturday Night Carnival has never been stronger in San Francisco. The #fentanyl is almost as cheap as the souls that condone this. There are no winners in this video, only Losers, with a capital L.
Wonder why 71 people died from OD last month? The city’s “night market” has simply moved around the corner from UN Plaza 🤬🤬🤬@LondonBreed and City Hall away on 5-star vacations.
"I have to step over human waste, and needles and garbage. Forget it… the customers tell us all the time," said Gump’s Chairman and owner John Chachas. @KPIXtvpic.twitter.com/IOCXrpf7gT
We’re going to have to agree to disagree on SF. The scenes shown are fairly common in any major urban centre. Even in a smaller city such as mine. The Mission Street encampment scenes aren’t uncommon. In 2019 and 2020, we had an encampment across the street from the Sally Ann shelter; right in front of a hockey arena where concerts and sports happen daily. Post covid, the homeless have been redirected off the street and are now camping in public parks – there’s 20 tents in my local park alone. Not all of them use drugs, in fact some actually work but rent here has increased dramatically since 2018. But yes, I see the same things in my city. Its improved since we let the poor camp in parks.
I’m impressed the street cleaner and cop are actually trying to do their job. I would expect the street cleaner to just go around him and the cop to drive by. There were about 385 fentyal deaths in San Francisco in the first half of the year. They will probably finish the year around 800 or just under 100 per 100,000 (SF has a population of approx 850 000) In Cabell County, WV the death rate is 125 per 100 000. West Virginia has the highest rate of drug overdoses in the US at 90 per capita vs California at 26. San Francisco and California are not any different than most of the US.
The articles are correct in that American society (to some extent Canada) is hallowing out with a disappearing middle class, a super wealthy elite and then vast amounts of poor people. But again that is just not California – the US has a huge income and wealth inequality problem. And it’s not going to be solved by drive by photography, “poverty porn” and political blame games.
My brother runs an organic farmer and like the Amish farmer he sells shares of pigs and chickens. However, he hires a licensed butcher who cuts up the animal, wraps the different cuts and sends them back to my brother who then divides it among the shareholders. It’s the legal and healthy way to do it. The Amish farmer can always become a licensed butcher and have his processing facilities be inspected. Amish and Old Order Mennonites are usually given a pass on licensing etc but when your farm becomes more like a business and you sell into the wider community, you need to abide by the same rules as other farmers.
Jacobsen is correct – challenging the outcome of the election is not illegal you can even seek to have it overturned. However, once you have exhausted your legal avenues for overturning the result you have to quit. Asking Mike Pence to dismiss some state votes, appointed “alternative” electors, asking a Sec’y of State to “find” more votes, etc may, in fact, be illegal. This conduct was more than enough to satisfy grand juries and even Jacobsen admits will probably be dismissed.
I’m amused he finds the timing suspicious. RICO cases take a while to build. In all likelihood, Smith and others were waiting for the Jan 6th report. He’s right in that it would be better to have the cases finished before the primaries start for real in January. However, Trump’s lawyers want to delay all the trials as long as possible. They should be demanding a speedy trial fully televised to exonerate their client; if he’s innocent of course.
Tychicus,
No one is leading anything. Crimes were committed in multiple jurisdictions and prosecutors are doing their job.
They’re greatly afraid of another Trump victory, and they will engage in whatever political gamesmanship they can to prevent it from happening. It’s all they’ve got.
Helping Americans doesn’t get the Biden Crime Family any kickbacks, so sucks to be you Hawaii.
"Hawaii has received 1.9 million dollars, whereas this week we announced another $40 billion to Ukraine. I don't know why it's so hard to rally for America and so easy to support Ukraine." –Will Cain
Wandering Views 
Again, a double standard from the media.
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They shouldn’t have guns in the first place.
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So your saying it was Hunter’s….
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She seems nice, eh….?
TDS is an ugly disease.
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HRW,
About San Fran….
Just a reminder the SF Chronical pushed every stupid policy and idiot politician that caused this. They need to own up to their stupid endorsements too.
“Crime is so bad near S.F. Federal building employees are told to work from home, officials said
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/drugs-crime-nancy-pelosi-federal-building-18292237.php
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Reading the SF Chronicle article all I note is an employer concerned about employee safety in and around the place of employment. This should be standard for any area of employment by any decent employer not least because they are liable for employee safety. A concerned employer does not equate to a dangerous situation. Universities have emergency buttons around the campus in case of emergencies or unsafe situation; this isn’t because a campus is a hotbed of crime but because the university is responsible for the safety of employees and students.
The police in SF seem to be on the ball but this could just be the PR department talking to the media. Calling the police in most cities over petty crime and drug dealing and use is fairly useless. There’s nothing in the stories I’ve seen here and from a friend that doesn’t resemble any urban downtown including my own. I suspect Republicans are centred on the problems in SF in particular because its in Pelosi’s district and the building is named after her.
In terms of violent crime rate, San Francisco rates 37th for cities over 250, 000. Looking over smaller cities I found that Grand Rapids Michigan has a higher rate of violent crime. I wonder what that says about the DeVos family and the Christian Reformed Church…..
Speaking of employer safety – I agree, the IRS doesn’t need to carry weapons at work nor any other federal employee with the possible exception of law enforcement and even then it should be limit to enforcement duties. The militarisation of the American gov’t has been increasing for decades and is over the top. I’ll take this a step further – any employer for the safety of their employees should be allowed to ban guns at the workplace. They are liable for the safety of their employees.
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There was no criticism of Gold Star families in this excerpt on CNN. The armed forces are simply saying there wasn’t much they could do differently – evacuating in a war zone is always difficult. Army intel definitely screwed up – they thought they had more time, but that’s not on Biden.
So there was cocaine in the White House – and it was probably Hunter’s. The war on drugs was a mistake. Drug use is a symptom of mental illness and Hunter has some mental health issues. Not sure why this is politicised. I’m sure many politicians on both sides partake in marijuana use even in states where its still illegal. As for cocaine it has become as pervasive as it was in the 70s not to mention heroin etc. Heavy drug use is indicative of societal problems and general decline. The heavy use of fentanyl and meth in the rust belt is an example.
The Taliban have managed to almost eradicate the opium industry in Afghanistan. Given Afghanistan supplies 90% of the illegal opium market, look for an increase in fentanyl production to fill a vacated market. Time to treat addiction as a health issue – enforcement doesn’t work and its only going to get worse.
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There are crazies on both sides of the political divide. Biden derangement syndrome is just as real. As the indictments rolled out and the right side of the internet blamed a vast Biden led conspiracy, threats to Biden have increased. Similarly, violent threats have been made to the DAs who brought down the indictments along with the members of the Atlanta grand jury. (are grand jury names public?? weird)
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Instead of blaming some lowly officials for the lack of water, perhaps its better to ask who owns the water;
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/17/hawaii-fires-maui-water-rights-disaster-capitalism
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HRW,
You were saying…..
https://hotair.com/ed-morrissey/2023/08/18/politico-newsom-stakes-it-all-on-the-success-of-san-francisco-n572049
“As California goes? It’s still going. Newsom and the decades-long Democrat supermajority grip on power have accomplished what had been thought to be impossible: a net outflow from the Golden State. For the first time ever, the population change has turned negative in Newsom’s state, so much so that California lost a House seat in 2022 for the first time ever. Newsom has inadvertently highlighted that exodus by attempting to chase down California refugees in Texas and Florida to argue that they’re making a bad choice, largely to gales of laughter.
That trend is even worse in San Francisco. In other parts of California, businesses are slowly relocating out of the cities as crime rates increase and urban DAs refuse to prosecute them. That process has turned into a stampede in San Francisco as retailers either have to lock down all of their goods or close entirely. It’s been almost impossible to keep up with the major-store closings in that city, but when Whole Foods decides that a San Francisco store isn’t worth the risk, that’s a watershed moment — or should be, for officials who don’t live in denial.
And don’t forget that even the Biden administration declared its own federal offices in San Francisco — the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building — a no-go zone for federal workers this week.
However, San Francisco is just the reductio of the ad absurdum of progressive control of California, which very much includes Newsom. Their energy policies are just as disastrous as their crime policies, turning a state with abundant resources into a third-world entity, offering rolling blackouts and brownouts as normalcy. Their latest plan to resolve this includes adding an avalanche of demand to the grid with electric vehicles, and then using their batteries to deal with the increased demand. It’s exactly as insane as it sounds.
Eventually, Los Angeles and San Diego will turn into San Francisco under these policies, and everyone knows it. That’s why people with the means to do so are leaving while they still have some value left in their property. Under Newsom and Democrats, California is hollowing out its middle classes, leaving only the poor and the ultra-wealthy and no economic dynamism whatsoever. That’s the end result of progressivism; San Francisco just got there first.”
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And the lap dogs stare at their feet…..
Scandal, what scandal?
“ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/MSNBC Censor Joe ‘Robert Peters’ Biden’s Alias Scandal”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/geoffrey-dickens/2023/08/18/abccbsnbccnnmsnbc-censor-joe-robert-peters-bidens-alias
“Boom! Another bombshell just dropped in the Biden family bribery scandal and again the leftist media outlets have censored it.
It looks like President Joe Biden used various aliases and pseudonyms including the name “Robert L. Peters” in his correspondence with Hunter Biden. So far the Big Three (ABC, CBS, NBC) networks as well as CNN and MSNBC have yet to air a second on this stunning new development.
On Thursday morning it was reported that House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer asked the National Archives (on Wednesday) to release any unredacted records of then-Vice President Biden using a pseudonym.”
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“While Fox News Channel, Fox Business, Newsmax and NewsNation covered the jaw-dropping revelation on their August 17-August 18 programming, a SnapStream search (as of 10:30am ET) shows ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC have yet to air a second of the story.
The disparity is remarkable but not surprising as it is just the latest example of the leftist media outlets covering for President Joe Biden. They’re just reverting to their “hiding Hunter” behavior from the 2020 campaign, all over again. ”
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“House GOP demands unredacted records of Biden using pseudonym while VP”
https://nypost.com/2023/08/17/comer-demands-records-of-biden-using-pseudonym-while-vpcomer-demands-unredacted-records-of-biden-using-pseudonym-while-vp/
“House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer asked the National Archives on Wednesday to hand over any unredacted records in which President Biden used a pseudonym during his vice presidency — as Republicans move closer to launching an impeachment inquiry into his role in son Hunter’s foreign business dealings.
Emails previously released by the Archives and retrieved from Hunter’s abandoned laptop reveal that Joe Biden used the email address “Robert.L.Peters@pci.gov” while he was President Barack Obama’s second-in-command and that his aide John Flynn cc’d Hunter on 10 emails containing the elder Biden’s daily schedule between May 18 and June 15, 2016.
Comer’s request covers records using Biden’s other known pseudonyms — “Robin Ware” and “JRB Ware” — and makes pointed requests for certain documents, such as drafts of Biden’s December 2015 speech to Ukraine’s parliament.
“Joe Biden has stated there was ‘an absolute wall’ between his family’s foreign business schemes and his duties as Vice President, but evidence reveals that access was wide open for his family’s influence peddling,” Comer (R-Ky.) said in a statement.”
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Self sufficient citizens is just too unbearable for Democrats.
And religious persecution to boot.
“Big Government Has Come for This Small-Town Amish Farmer. Here’s How He’s Fighting Back.”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/miacathell/2023/08/18/golden-valley-farms-n2627121#google_vignette
“”They came with a search warrant,” softly spoke Samuel B. Fisher, a mild-mannered cattle farmer operating a 100-acre farm tucked away in Virginia’s heartland. Fisher’s bread-and-butter, Golden Valley Farms, carves out the scenic countryside that’s a hop, skip, and a jump away from historic Farmville, a postcard-perfect small Southern town with classical Main Street charm.
The father of five had graciously invited us down to his idyllic pasture to rehash the whirlwind of unforeseen events that unfolded over the cruel summer. It was a tumultuous time on the Fisher farm, an upheaval that threatened to upend the man’s livelihood.
“Then, they tagged the meat, so that we can’t touch it; we can’t sell it; we can’t feed our family with it,” Fisher told Townhall.
There, we sat in Fisher’s office on the periphery of a multi-purpose barn, surrounded by sparsely scattered cardboard boxes of farm-fresh squash situated across the concrete floor and vintage-style empty half-gallon glass jugs labeled with “Golden Valley Farms CHEMICAL FREE A2/A2 Goat Milk” stickers that lined the nearby shelves, awaiting to be filled and delivered statewide.
Moments earlier, upon our arrival, we were greeted by the welcoming committee: a trio of barefoot, dirt-covered kids holding four-week-old kittens, sized smaller than an ear of corn and clutching the children’s arms for dear life. One of the young boys, sporting suspenders and a straw hat with an LED headlamp strapped to it, left to fetch his father—whose workdays begin before daybreak at 5:30 a.m. and end past sundown—from the fields. The other boy, his sandy-haired brother in a bowl haircut, asked if we’ll “put it on the news.” Now, the children were captivated by the camera, gathered wide-eyed around Fisher after dragging a handful of upside-down milk crates over to perch themselves upon. A little girl, draped in a sunflower-colored dress, bobbed in-and-out of frame to wrangle one of the family’s dogs, as Fisher hushed her in Pennsylvania Dutch.
The firestorm of Big Government saber-rattling ignited in mid-June when an inspector with the Virginia Department of Agriculture (VDAC), without warning, paid the Fisher family a visit. To date, Fisher has no idea what could’ve prompted VDAC’s impromptu inspection on June 14, except “maybe they just finally found us through word of mouth,” the farmer speculated.
What was clear: The state sought to penalize Fisher for selling meat that was not processed by a USDA-inspected facility (U.S. Department of Agriculture). Fisher processes—an industry euphemism for butchering—his farm-raised meat on-site and sells it directly to his customers, feeding about 500 consumers and their families, who are part of a buying club. As members enrolled in the Golden Valley Farms program, they’re buying into the herd of 100% grass-fed golden Guernsey cows.
“They own part of the business. They own some of the herd,” Fisher explained. “My thinking was […] We can butcher their cows, process it, and sell it to them. I told the state all of this, but they said, ‘No, there’s no way around that. You can’t do that.’ They asked permission to get in here” to search the farm, which Fisher denied. “And, they told me, ‘We’ll be back,’ and left.”
The next day, on June 15, the VDAC inspector did, in fact, return, this time with a Cumberland County sheriff’s deputy to serve Fisher a search warrant. “They went through everything, house, every building, in the barn. They just raided through everything, put their nose in everything, and wanted to know every detail of everything. They went out back, trying to find all the failure they can find on a farm, which, of course, some of their stuff, which they think is wrong, is just normal stuff on a farm,” Fisher stated.
“I wasn’t on the farm at the time” of the full-scale raid that lasted approximately three to four hours, Fisher added.
Then, the state slapped a tag on Fisher’s walk-in freezer, placing the meat under “administrative detainment” and declaring that he wasn’t supposed to take any meat out of his own storage room. By the weekend, his kids were crying for scrapple, a mush of pork scraps and trimmings characteristic of Amish country, that sat behind the door on Fisher’s property that should, otherwise, be open and easily accessible. The following Monday, Fisher “even made a special phone call,” asking again, “if that’s the way it is.” And, as Fisher recounted, the VDAC inspector replied, “Yes, [you] cannot feed your family with it, cannot do anything with it.”
There’s “nothing illegal” about Fisher processing his own meat and eating it for his own consumption, asserted Mindy, the farm’s officer manager, who oversees sales, handles email marketing, and fulfills online orders. “So, he decided he was gonna go and feed his family, and since he would most likely be fined for doing that, he decided to open up meat sales again. Because if he’s going to be fined, he’s going to be fined, and you might as well do it,” she, wanting to go by “just Mindy,” stated matter-of-factly.
“Anybody can go and raise animals for their own family to eat. That’s where I got to the point: He [the VDAC inspector] crossed the line, so I’m going to cross the line,” Fisher stated. “He crossed the line by telling me I cannot feed my own family with this meat. So, I decided I’m going to cross the line, I’m going to sell it. And that’s why I didn’t honor the state.”
“This ain’t right,” Fisher decided. “We’re going to feed our family. We’re going to feed our customers […] We did not honor that tag. We sold some meat out of there, whatever customers ordered. Then, the state came back and saw what we did.”
“They really gave me a mouthful for doing that,” Fisher said. That’s when the state took Fisher to court.
After photographing every inch of the farm, stockpiling pictures as evidence that the Fishers were slaughtering and selling raw meat, which the Commonwealth of Virginia claimed was “mislabeled, uninspected, and possibly unadulterated,” the state summoned the farmer to a hearing on July 18 in Cumberland County Circuit Court to try the civil case. At its conclusion, a judge authorized the state to seize and forfeit Fisher’s products.
Later that day, the state wasted no time pouncing on the court’s order with glee. Within hours, two men backed a U-Haul truck right up to Fisher’s door, cleared the premises of Golden Valley Farms meat products, and hauled it all to the dump for disposal.”
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From an actual legal scholar and Law Professor at Cornell.
“Criminalizing Politics In The Trump Indictments
The means by which an election is overturned may be criminal, but the end goal in and of itself is not criminal. So much of what is alleged in the D.C. and Georgia cases is non-criminal politics.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/08/criminalizing-politics-in-the-trump-indictments/
“I’ve made the point repeatedly that both the D.C. and Georgia indictments of Donald Trump start from a premise that isn’t true – that an attempt to “overturn” an election in and of itself is criminal. The means by which an election is overturned may be criminal, but the end goal is not.
With regard to the D.C. indictment, I questioned Where is the crime?
The indictment may make out a persuasive case that Trump lied in the post-election period about election fraud, and disregarded the warnings of his most trusted and most loyal confidants that what he was saying was not true, but that doesn’t equate to a crime. The core of the alleged crime is disruption of the electoral count, but that took place because of the riot, and Trump has not been indicted (yet) for inciting the riot. What the indictment purports to prove may be a reason not to vote for Trump, but it’s far from clear it’s a reason to criminally charge him.
I raised similar questions with regard to the RICO and other charges against Trump in the Georgia state case, during an interview on NTD’s Capitol Report on August 15. The issue is that the allegedly illegal acts in the indictment (impersonating an official, attempting to gain improper access to a computer system) could have and should have been charged separately. But the RICO and conspiracy counts allege as a purpose overturning the election, but that’s not in itself illegal depending on how it’s done.”
“NTD has the write up, Georgia Trump Indictment Looks ‘Very Political,’ but Dismissal Unlikely
… “I think it’s an attempt by Georgia to do a shock and awe sort of attack on Donald Trump and his supporters,” William A. Jacobson, a Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Securities Law Clinic at Cornell Law School, told NTD News’ “Capitol Report” on Tuesday….
Mr. Jacobson said Ms. Willis’s latest indictment against President Trump is “throwing everything at him, and really replicating what the federal government is already doing in the District of Columbia.”
Mr. Jacobson raised issues with a number of aspects of how Ms. Willis’s office handled the new indictment, such as plans to take and publicize the former Republican president’s arrest photo.
“They’re gonna play this up. I think the prosecution wants, you know, a pound of flesh from Donald Trump,” Mr. Jacobson said. “They want the mug shot, they want him paraded in front of the cameras.” …
“They didn’t do that in the Manhattan indictment. They haven’t done that in the federal indictments. So I think this all smells very political, from the way that prosecution is conducting itself,” Mr. Jacobson said of apparent plans to take arrest photos and televise the former president’s court appearance.
Mr. Jacobson also raised issue with the timing of the indictment.
“I think one of the big concerns that people have is that this is the weaponization of the prosecutorial function for political purposes,” he said. “They waited to bring these charges until we’re in an election year. And that’s the problem—these charges are based on conduct that took place almost three years ago. They could have brought this case a year ago, we would have had the trial, we would have had the result, and it wouldn’t have interfered with the Republican primaries in the general election.” ….
Mr. Jacobson said he doesn’t believe Mr. Trump’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election results were criminal, but also expressed doubt that many of the charges can easily be dismissed before a trial.
“I don’t agree with Donald Trump’s conduct after the election, but I also don’t think it was criminal,” Mr. Jacobson told NTD News.”
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“Reading the SF Chronicle article all I note is an employer concerned about employee safety in and around the place of employment. This should be standard for any area of employment by any decent employer not least because they are liable for employee safety. A concerned employer does not equate to a dangerous situation. ”
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Ignoring the obvious again. This is outside the building. This isn’t a workplace safety issue, it’s an on the public street safety issue.
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This is a public problem, not a workplace problem. That’s just a side effect of the rot in San Fran.
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hw: If it’s not a vast Biden-led conspiracy, then who is leading it?
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We’re going to have to agree to disagree on SF. The scenes shown are fairly common in any major urban centre. Even in a smaller city such as mine. The Mission Street encampment scenes aren’t uncommon. In 2019 and 2020, we had an encampment across the street from the Sally Ann shelter; right in front of a hockey arena where concerts and sports happen daily. Post covid, the homeless have been redirected off the street and are now camping in public parks – there’s 20 tents in my local park alone. Not all of them use drugs, in fact some actually work but rent here has increased dramatically since 2018. But yes, I see the same things in my city. Its improved since we let the poor camp in parks.
I’m impressed the street cleaner and cop are actually trying to do their job. I would expect the street cleaner to just go around him and the cop to drive by. There were about 385 fentyal deaths in San Francisco in the first half of the year. They will probably finish the year around 800 or just under 100 per 100,000 (SF has a population of approx 850 000) In Cabell County, WV the death rate is 125 per 100 000. West Virginia has the highest rate of drug overdoses in the US at 90 per capita vs California at 26. San Francisco and California are not any different than most of the US.
The articles are correct in that American society (to some extent Canada) is hallowing out with a disappearing middle class, a super wealthy elite and then vast amounts of poor people. But again that is just not California – the US has a huge income and wealth inequality problem. And it’s not going to be solved by drive by photography, “poverty porn” and political blame games.
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My brother runs an organic farmer and like the Amish farmer he sells shares of pigs and chickens. However, he hires a licensed butcher who cuts up the animal, wraps the different cuts and sends them back to my brother who then divides it among the shareholders. It’s the legal and healthy way to do it. The Amish farmer can always become a licensed butcher and have his processing facilities be inspected. Amish and Old Order Mennonites are usually given a pass on licensing etc but when your farm becomes more like a business and you sell into the wider community, you need to abide by the same rules as other farmers.
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Jacobsen is correct – challenging the outcome of the election is not illegal you can even seek to have it overturned. However, once you have exhausted your legal avenues for overturning the result you have to quit. Asking Mike Pence to dismiss some state votes, appointed “alternative” electors, asking a Sec’y of State to “find” more votes, etc may, in fact, be illegal. This conduct was more than enough to satisfy grand juries and even Jacobsen admits will probably be dismissed.
I’m amused he finds the timing suspicious. RICO cases take a while to build. In all likelihood, Smith and others were waiting for the Jan 6th report. He’s right in that it would be better to have the cases finished before the primaries start for real in January. However, Trump’s lawyers want to delay all the trials as long as possible. They should be demanding a speedy trial fully televised to exonerate their client; if he’s innocent of course.
Tychicus,
No one is leading anything. Crimes were committed in multiple jurisdictions and prosecutors are doing their job.
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What are the crimes?
They’re greatly afraid of another Trump victory, and they will engage in whatever political gamesmanship they can to prevent it from happening. It’s all they’ve got.
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Senile fool.
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Googled needs to be reined in by Congress.
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America last,right Big Guy?
Helping Americans doesn’t get the Biden Crime Family any kickbacks, so sucks to be you Hawaii.
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You mean they aren’t sending their best and brightest?
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