GEN Milley introduces new rightist military branch.."Gay Force"

[Trumpite Shitbag]

>I have 2 friends in the military, one a very high ranking officer, and they
are sick to their
>stomachs over this "woke" bullshit.
>
>

My friends who serve say their way of getting around it is beating the snot
out of rightwingers with their own rifle buts, ensuring to break at least one
arm, leg and fracture the skull.


The rightists never get woke and complain.


Wait 'till we start doing it to Russians we meet in the USA. Your walking
days will be behind you for sure!



Crippled rightists or Russians all look like ole Cripple Greg Abbott to us.

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But Putin likes sex with black men.

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The US Supreme Court has blocked President Joe Biden's rule
requiring workers at large companies to be vaccinated or masked and
tested weekly.

The justices at the nation's highest court said the mandate exceeded
the Biden administration's authority.

Separately they ruled that a more limited vaccine mandate could
stand for staff at government-funded healthcare facilities.

The administration said the mandates would help fight the pandemic.

President Biden, whose approval rating has been sagging, expressed
disappointment with the decision "to block common-sense life-saving
requirements for employees".


The puzzle of America's record Covid hospital rate
Former President Donald Trump cheered the court's decision, and said
vaccine mandates "would have further destroyed the economy".

"We are proud of the Supreme Court for not backing down," he said in
a statement. "No mandates!"

The administration's workplace vaccine mandate would have required
workers to receive a Covid-19 shot, or be masked and tested weekly
at their own expense.

It would have applied to workplaces with at least 100 employees and
affected some 84 million workers. It was designed to be enforced by
employers.

Opponents, including several Republican states and some business
groups, said the administration was over-stepping its power with the
requirements, which were introduced in November and immediately drew
legal challenges.

In the end, Joe Biden's vaccine mandates stood or fell based on
judicial interpretations of federal statute, not principles of
individual liberty or appeals to the greater good.

According to a majority of the Supreme Court, Mr Biden had the law
on his side when ordering healthcare workers to get vaccinated, but
using a 51-year-old workplace safety statute to implement a
vaccine-or-test requirement on all large employers was a bridge too
far.

Once again, the current balance of the Supreme Court comes into
sharp relief, with four reliably conservative justices, three
reliable liberal ones and two - Chief Justice John Roberts and
Justice Brett Kavanaugh - at the ideological fulcrum.

This mixed judicial bag is just the latest setback for a
presidential Covid-response plan that frequently has seemed a step
behind the latest twists in the pandemic. The administration was
slow to encourage boosters and caught flat-footed by the Omicron-
induced surge in demand for testing.

Now Mr Biden will either have to convince Congress to act on
mandates - an unlikely prospect given the brick wall the rest of his
agenda keeps hitting in the Senate - or figure out new ways to
shepherd the nation out of the pandemic gloom.

line
In a 6-3 decision, the justices agreed with that argument, saying
that the workplace safety rule for large employers was too broad to
fall under the authority of the Department of Labor's Occupational
Health and Safety Administration to regulate workplace safety.

"Covid-19 can and does spread at home, in schools, during sporting
events, and everywhere else that people gather," the court's
majority wrote.

"That kind of universal risk is no different from the day-to-day
dangers that all face from crime, air pollution, or any number of
communicable diseases."

"This is no 'everyday exercise of federal power,'" they added. "It
is instead a significant encroachment on the lives - and health - of
a vast number of employees."

The more limited rule concerning more than 10 million staff at
healthcare facilities that receive government funding did not pose
the same concern, they decided, by 5-4.

That said imposing conditions on recipients of public money fit
"neatly" into the authority of the Secretary of Health and Human
Services.

The rulings come as some parts of the policies were due to go into
effect this week. The court heard arguments in the case on Friday.

The rulings reflected the political make-up of the court, which now
has a majority of justices appointed by Republican presidents.

The court's three liberal justices opposed blocking the vaccine
mandate, saying such a decision "stymies the federal government's
ability to counter the unparalleled threat that Covid-19 poses to
our nation's workers."

That all the time we have for the three voices of cowardice.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-59989476

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That's how she got little Miss Howdy Doody.

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[Up yours James kingkongdg-at-iglou-dot-com]

Loser!

> James <kingk...@iglou.com>
> Mon, 26 Aug 2019 21:27:14 +0000 (UTC)
> Rightist Women Are Whores
> <XnsAAB7B18B79...@178.63.61.145>

[Up yours James kingkongdg-at-iglou-dot-com]

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[Giggling Jamaican Slut]

A prominent Black Lives Matter activist honored as "Bostonian of the
Year" in 2020 was indicted on Tuesday alongside her husband on
accusations of treating an anti-violence charity as a personal piggy
bank.

Prosecutors said Monica Cannon-Grant and her husband, Clark Grant,
conspired to use their charity, Violence in Boston , as a vehicle
for personal enrichment when they founded the group in 2017. The
pair was indicted on charges of stealing donations that were meant
to purchase meals for needy children, help at-risk young men cope
with violence in their neighborhoods, and organize conferences for
black women to pay for rent, vacations, nail salon services, and
meals at Bubba Gump Shrimp.

As Cannon-Grant's profile grew in 2020 during the nationwide unrest
that followed George Floyd's killing, so too did donations to the
charity.

FEDS PROBE BLM ACTIVIST FOR ALLEGEDLY PILFERING FUNDS FROM CHARITY

"With this larger influx of VIB funds, Cannon-Grant and Clark Grant
began to help themselves to greater amounts from the VIB Bank
Account," prosecutors wrote in the 18-count indictment , saying that
she began paying herself $2,788 per week from Violence in Boston
beginning in October 2020.

The pair faces 13 counts of wire fraud, each of which carries a
sentence of up to 20 years of prison, prosecutors said in a
statement on Tuesday.

Cannon-Grant and her husband were also charged with lying in a
mortgage application by claiming the charity's bank account as an
asset when they applied for a $450,000 mortgage in July 2021.

The pair also faces charges of illegally obtaining a combined
$101,376 in COVID-19 unemployment assistance in 2020 while Cannon-
Grant simultaneously raked in $12,500 payments for providing
"Diversity, Equity and Inclusion consulting services."

Prosecutors said that Cannon-Grant defrauded donors to the charity
as early as August 2017, when a local BLM chapter donated $3,000 to
the group to help support its program to feed needy children and
that two days later, Cannon-Grant transferred the funds to a bank
account belonging to one of her family members, who subsequently
withdrew the funds in cash.

One month later, in September 2017, Cannon-Grant allegedly cashed a
$10,400 grant to the charity earmarked for meals for needy children
in the Boston school system into her personal bank account and
subsequently pulled $3,111 from the grant to pay for rent at her
Boston residence.

Prosecutors said that Cannon-Grant and her husband often made cash
withdrawals from Violence in Boston's bank account to "avoid a
financial paper trail."

In 2019, Violence in Boston received a $6,000 grant from the
Massachusetts District Attorney's Office to fund a retreat for at-
risk young men to help them develop skills to cope with violence in
their neighborhoods. But prosecutors said the funds were ultimately
used to pay for a vacation to Columbia, Maryland, in which Cannon-
Grant and her husband spent hundreds of dollars on nail salon
services, meals at Bubba Gump Shrimp, and cash ATM withdraws.

Also in 2019, Cannon-Grant cashed a $500 charitable contribution
into her personal checking account that was intended to support a
"Black Women & Marginalized Genders" conference co-hosted by her
charity, the indictment alleges.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-
elitism/boston-blm-leader-charged-with-pilfering-funds-from-
charity-meant-to-feed-children

Democrats and BLM, peas from the same pod.

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[Colonel Edmund J. Burke]

Cheney represents a few herds of bison and several piles of rocks.
Kinzinger’s announced he’s not running in 2022 anyway. In terms of
actual political power, neither one of them swings the clout of
Uncle Joe Cannon, and he’s been dead since 1926. Liz Cheney is about
to find out how little clout there is to be found in the greenrooms
of the republic.

She remains the inexcusable spawn of the most inexcusable public man
of the latter half of the 20th century. She’s still a vote-
suppressing theocrat-of-convenience. All of her thunderations at the
former president* have been empty noise. They’ve influenced nobody
except television bookers and credulous liberals. What has her
actual effect on the country’s politics been? She can’t even keep
her own political party from trying to boot her from her
congressional district. She’s the flashiest empty suit in a city
full of them. Defenestrating Liz Cheney is going to be the easiest
thing Kevin McCarthy does over the next year.

Ketanji Brown Jackson when asked what a woman was, "I'm not a
biologist".

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In 2005, Congress passed the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms
Act (PLCAA), a federal statute which provides broad immunity to gun
manufacturers and dealers in federal and state court.

Sandy Hook families settle for $73M with gun maker Remington.

Darrell Brooks Jr deliberately drove over innocent people in a
street parade because some liberal asshole let him out on $1,000
bail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNKgHsTYMj0

Ford Motor Company should compensate the families of the dead people
for this reckless nigger's behavior.

Reparations motherfuckers! Reparations!

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A Darby Township commissioner has been arrested in Philadelphia
after police said he lured a 15-year-old into his vehicle and
sexually assaulted him in 2017.

Marvin E. Smith, 50, one of five commissioners on the Delaware
County township’s governing body, turned himself in Tuesday to the
Philadelphia Special Victims Unit; a warrant for his arrest had been
issued in late November. He faces charges of rape, sexual assault,
luring, corruption of a minor, and related charges.

Police said the victim told investigators in 2019 that he had been
sexually assaulted by Smith in August 2017, when Smith approached
him in West Philadelphia and offered him a ride home, saying he was
a family friend. Smith then drove the child to a nearby park,
exposed himself, then sexually assaulted the boy, police said. He
then dropped the victim off at “an unknown location” and drove away,
they said.

Smith, a Democrat, was elected in 2019 to represent the township’s
1st Ward.

[Limbaugh Whisperer]

The demented old diaper-wearing piece of shit sends two of the worst
cunts in the entire USA to a country at war.

What kind of message does that send to people fighting for their
lives?

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In article <t0n926$2i5s7$1...@news.freedyn.de>
<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Everyone should have a voter ID card and a rope.
>

(CNN)A grand jury in Mississippi has declined to indict the
White woman who accused 14-year-old Emmett Till of making
advances toward her nearly 70 years ago, allegations that led to
the Black teen's brutal death.

A Leflore County grand jury last week heard seven hours of
testimony from investigators and witnesses but said there was
insufficient evidence to indict Carolyn Bryant Donham on charges
of kidnapping and manslaughter, according to a statement from
District Attorney Dewayne Richardson.

The grand jury heard the testimony from witnesses detailing the
investigation of the case from 2004 to the present day and
considered both charges, according to the statement.

"After hearing every aspect of the investigation and evidence
collected regarding Donham's involvement, the Grand Jury
returned a 'No Bill' to the charges of both Kidnapping and
Manslaughter," the statement said. "The murder of Emmett Till
remains an unforgettable tragedy in this country and the
thoughts and prayers of this nation continue to be with the
family of Emmett Till."

Carolyn Bryant, shown in September 1955 sitting in the office of
her husbands' lawyer.

Family members of Emmett, whose killing in the Jim Crow-era
South spurred the civil rights movement in America, said earlier
this summer that they had unearthed an unserved arrest warrant
for Bryant Donham, her late husband and his brother.

The warrant is dated August 29, 1955, and signed by the Leflore
County clerk. The image of the warrant shows the current clerk
certified the document as authentic on June 21.

A note on the back of the warrant says Bryant Donham was not
arrested because she could not be located at the time, according
to the New York Times, which cited filmmaker Keith A. Beauchamp,
who was part of the team that discovered the warrant. CNN
reached out to Bryant Donham at the time but didn't hear back.

Emmett's family had hoped the warrant would lead to charges and,
ultimately, justice.

"Justice has to be served," Emmett's cousin Deborah Watts told
CNN in late June, adding, "Emmett led us to it. I know that in
my heart."

A cousin who witnessed Emmett's abduction, Rev. Wheeler Parker
Jr., said Tuesday that state officials have assured the family
no stone would be left unturned in the fight for justice.

"They kept their promise by bringing this latest piece of
evidence before the grand jury. This outcome is unfortunate, but
predictable, news," he said in the statement. "The prosecutor
tried his best, and we appreciate his efforts, but he alone
cannot undo hundreds of years of anti-Black systems that
guaranteed those who killed Emmett Till would go unpunished, to
this day."

While Emmett's killing remains a touchstone moment in the United
States' long struggle with racial injustice and inequality, to
this day, no one has been held criminally responsible.

Emmett, who lived in Chicago, was visiting relatives in
Mississippi when he had his fateful encounter with then-20-year-
old Carolyn Bryant in the summer of 1955. Accounts from that day
differ, but witnesses alleged Emmett whistled at the woman at
the market she owned with her husband in the town of Money.

Four days later, Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam later took Emmett
from his bed in the middle of the night, ordered him into the
back of a pickup and beat him before shooting him in the head
and tossing his body into the Tallahatchie River.

But they were both acquitted of murder by an all-White jury
following a trial in which Carolyn Bryant testified that Emmett
grabbed and verbally threatened her. The jury deliberated for
barely an hour.

The men later admitted to the killing in an 1956 interview with
Look magazine.

Emmett's death captured attention far beyond Mississippi after a
photo of his mutilated body was published in Jet Magazine and
spread around the world. His mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, had
demanded he have an open-casket funeral so the entire world
could see her son's injuries and the results of racial terrorism
-- a decision that helped fuel the civil rights movement.

Milam died in 1980 and Bryant died in 1994. Bryant Donham is in
her late 80s.

In 2007, a Mississippi grand jury declined to indict Bryant
Donham on charges. And according to archived FBI documents,
Milam and Roy Bryant were arrested on a kidnapping charge in
1955, but a grand jury failed to indict them. "The original
court, District Attorney, and investigative records related to
the 1955 investigation have been apparently lost," the FBI said
in a 2006 report.

Bryant Donham testified in 1955 that Emmett grabbed her hand,
her waist and propositioned her, saying he had been with "White
women before." But years later, when professor Timothy Tyson
raised that trial testimony in a 2008 interview with Bryant
Donham, he claimed she told him, "That part's not true."

The prospect that the woman at the center of Emmett's case had
recanted her testimony -- which the US Justice Department said
in a memo would contradict statements she made during the state
trial in 1955 and later to the FBI -- sparked calls for
authorities to investigate the case anew.

The DOJ, which had already re-examined and closed the case in
2007, reopened the probe into Emmett's killing in 2018. But the
case was closed in December after the DOJ's Civil Rights
Division concluded it could not prove Bryant Donham had lied.
When questioned directly, Bryant Donham adamantly denied to
investigators that she had recanted her testimony.

Emmett's legacy, however, lives on: In March, President Joe
Biden signed into law the landmark Emmett Till Antilynching Act,
which made lynching a federal hate crime.

CNN's Amy Simonson, Sara Sidner, Tina Burnside, Dakin Andone,
Devon Sayers, Elizabeth Joseph and Eliott C. McLaughlin
contributed to this report.

The lyching law was passed to deter angry people from lynching
white faggot, black scum and other worthless Democrat
politicians.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/09/us/emmett-till-carolyn-bryant-no-
indictment-reaj/index.html

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In article <t0lbvr$2h6vb$5...@news.freedyn.de>
forging asshole <governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday said the league is
seeking a full-year suspension for Cleveland Browns quarterback
Deshaun Watson because evidence suggests he committed multiple
violations of the league’s personal conduct policy.

Watson, 26, was handed a six-game suspension last week by the
league’s disciplinary officer, former Judge Sue L. Robinson, who
mandated that the quarterback use only massage therapists
appointed by his team for the remainder of his playing career.

Robinson also recommended in her report that Watson have “no
adverse involvement with law enforcement and must not commit any
additional violations” with the league’s personal conduct
policy.”

“We’ve seen the evidence,” Goodell said at a press conference on
Tuesday. “[Robinson] was very clear about the evidence, should
we enforce the evidence. That there was multiple violations
here, and they were egregious, and it was predatory behavior.
Those are things that we always felt were important for us to
address in a way that’s responsible.”

The league officially appealed Robinson’s ruling on the matter a
few days later, with Goodell appointing former New Jersey
Attorney General Peter C. Harvey to rule on the appeal on
Watson’s suspension, according to NFL.com.

Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Goodell noted that the
league’s right to appeal Robinson’s decision is outlined in its
collective bargaining agreement (CBA), according to NFL.com.

“It’s a part of the CBA that two parties have the right,”
Goodell told reporters. “Either party could certainly challenge
and appeal that, and that was something that we thought was our
right to do as well as the NFLPA [NFL Players Association]. So
we decided it was the right thing to do.”

Watson and his legal counsel recently reached settlements with
23 of the 24 women who have filed lawsuits against the
quarterback, accusing him of exposing himself, touching them
with his penis or kissing them without their consent during
scheduled appointments in 2020 and 2021.

The three-time Pro Bowl selection at quarterback sat out for
most of the 2021 NFL season due to the ongoing allegations and
was traded to the Cleveland Browns in March for multiple draft
picks, signing a fully guaranteed contract with the team.

Two separate grand juries in Texas earlier this year declined to
indict Watson on the sexual assault allegations, resulting in
him not facing any criminal charges in those cases.

The Houston Texans, Watson’s former team, announced last month
that they had reached confidential settlements with 30 women who
have made claims that the organization enabled Watson’s behavior
toward women in massage therapy appointments.

Watson and the NFLPA reportedly had plans to file a lawsuit
against the league if he was suspended for a full season.

The Hill has reached out to the NFLPA and Cleveland Browns for
comment.

https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/3595130-nfl-
commissioner-says-evidence-justifies-full-year-suspension-of-
browns-qb-watson/

TAGS: NEGRO RAPE CLEVELAND CLEVELAND BROWNS DESHAUN WATSON
DESHAUN WATSON NFL OHIO ROGER GOODELL ROGER GOODELL SEXUAL
ASSAULT STACY ABRAMS SOW

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In article <t2nge7$3ocvn$1...@news.freedyn.de>
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> Good! It's about time people started fighting back against FORCED ACCEPTANCE of queers.
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JAMESTOWN TOWNSHIP—What started as a fight over an LGBTQ-themed
graphic novel may end with the closure of a west Michigan public
library.

Voters in Jamestown Township, a politically conservative
community in Ottawa County, rejected renewal Tuesday of a
millage that would support the Patmos Library. That vote guts
the library’s operating budget in 2023 — 84 percent of the
library’s $245,000 budget comes from property taxes collected
through a millage.

Without a millage, the library is likely to run out of money
sometime late next year, said Larry Walton, library board
president.

“I wasn’t expecting anything like this,” Walton told Bridge
Michigan Tuesday. “The library is the center of the community.
For individuals to be short sighted to close that down over
opposing LGBTQ is very disappointing.”

There have been protests at other Michigan public libraries and
at school board meetings about books with LGBTQ themes. But
Tuesday may be the first time a community voted, in effect, to
close its library rather than have it remain open with books
some consider to be “indoctrinating” children.

Voters on Tuesday rejected the millage renewal by a 25-point
margin — 62 percent to 37 percent — on the same day voters
approved millages for road improvements and the fire department.

Ten years earlier, a library millage at a slightly lower rate
was approved by 37 percentage points.

For the average home with a market value of $250,000, the new
millage, if approved, would have increased taxes about $24.

Debbie Mikula, executive director of the Michigan Library
Association, said Wednesday there were about 40 public library
millages on ballots across the state Tuesday, and all but a
handful passed. No others that failed appeared to be due to
cultural issues like with the Patmos millage, she said.

The difference, according to voters who spoke to Bridge Tuesday:
Books in the adult and young adult section of the Patmos Library
that depict, in some cases in detail, same-sex relationships.

Earlier this year, a parent raised concerns about the graphic
novel “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” located in the adult graphic
novel section. The book tells the story of the author’s coming
of age as nonbinary, and includes illustrations of sex acts.

As many as 50 people attended several library board meetings
this spring, meetings that typically draw only a handful of
residents. At those meetings, residents demanded the book be
pulled from the shelves. The library board moved the book behind
the counter, where children couldn’t happen upon it by accident.

Complaints were filed about several other books, including
“Spinning,” a graphic novel about a teen girl and her attraction
to other girls, and “Kiss Number 8,” a graphic novel with
similar themes. Those books remain on the shelves of the young
adult (high-school age) graphic novels section.

Library Director Amber McLain resigned this spring, telling
Bridge she had been harassed online and accused of
indoctrinating children. Interim director Matthew Lawrence
resigned later.

When the Patmos staff and elected board of directors declined to
remove the books from the library’s collection, some upset
residents organized an effort to defeat the library’s millage
renewal.

The group, called Jamestown Conservatives, passed out flyers at
the town’s Memorial Day parade that referenced “Gender Queer: a
Memoir,” a Pride Month display at the library and a director
who, in the group’s words, “promoted the LGBTQ ideology.”

“Pray that we can make changes and make the Patmos Library a
safe and neutral place for our children,” the flyer said.

Yard signs urging residents to vote no on the library millage
popped up along Riley Street, Jamestown’s main drag. One sign
was directly across the street from the library, and another was
conspicuously in the lawn of a library board member. That board
member could not be reached for comment.

One resident posted a large, homemade sign that said, “50
percent increase to GROOM our kids? Vote NO on Library!”

Salem Sousley, who identifies as nonbinary and lives close by,
said when they see the sign “it turns my stomach.”

Having books young adults can access on LGBT themes “is
incredibly important,” Sousley said. “When I was growing up in
Jenison (in Ottawa County), the language of who I was as a
nonbinary person didn’t exist yet. When I read ‘Gender Queer,’
it was the first time I ever saw myself represented in a book.

“So many kids are struggling in silence, especially in areas
like this,” Sousley said. “Having access to resources and
materials of people who are sharing your experiences is
literally life-saving.”

Jamestown Township, population just under 10,000, is politically
conservative even for conservative Ottawa County. The township
voted for Donald Trump for president by a margin of 76-21
percent in 2020. About 92 percent of residents are white, and
the median income of $81,000 is 37 percent higher than that of
the state median household income of $59,000.

The village of Jamestown, which is within the township, has
streets of well-maintained homes and sidewalks shaded by large
trees, with construction of new subdivisions nearby. There is an
ice cream shop at the main intersection, just across a parking
lot from the township library.

The library is built to resemble a train depot, commemorating
the interurban trolley that ran from Holland to Grand Rapids a
century earlier. Inside the library on Tuesday, staffers helped
patrons check out books and find materials. A young mother
laughed as her son played with hand puppets. Someone had brought
a box of zucchini, with a sign for patrons to help themselves.

The main display inside the library was of “never out of print
classics,” including the Bible and Ayn Rand's “The Fountainhead.”

One of the township’s three voting precincts Tuesday was in the
community room of the library. Most of the people who spoke to
Bridge outside the library said they voted to defund the
facility.

“We don’t need to see those books out front,” said Sarah
Johnson. “We’re all for the library. I use it. We want to make a
statement that we want some say in the books (chosen to be in
the collection).”

Steve Wiltz said he voted no because of “some of the materials
that are in here I don’t agree with.”

Amanda Ensing, one of the organizers of the Jamestown
Conservatives group, emerged from the library Tuesday wearing an
“I voted” sticker. “They are trying to groom our children to
believe that it’s OK to have these sinful desires,” Ensing said
of library officials. “It’s not a political issue, it’s a
Biblical issue.”

Walton, the library board president, had been optimistic that
the millage would pass when he spoke to Bridge Michigan on
election day.

On Tuesday afternoon as votes were still being cast, Walton said
that if the millage was defeated, the library would continue to
receive tax funds from the old millage through the first quarter
of 2023. After those funds dry up and the library’s fund
reserves of about $325,000 are depleted, “we would close,” he
said.

Walton estimated that closure would be in fall 2023, barring a
second millage renewal attempt approved by voters before then.

Most people who said they voted to defund the library Tuesday,
said they didn’t believe it would close.

But without tax funds, the library doesn’t bring in enough in
grants, fines and community room rentals to keep its doors open.

With a library closure, that community room where residents
voted Tuesday would be unavailable, Walton said, so would the
mobile wifi hotspots used by residents who lack wifi in their
homes.

“There are community members who sit in the parking lot to use
our wifi,” said Marcia Frobish, who serves on the library board.
“The library is a lot more than books.”

The library has 67,000 books, videos and other items in its
collection, of which about 90 have an LGBTQ theme, library
officials said.

Ensing, who helped organize the no campaign, said she hoped the
millage rejection would be a “wake-up call” that would encourage
library officials to remove books from shelves that community
members find objectionable.

If that’s done, “they can ask for a millage again,” she said.

But Walton didn’t appear ready to compromise Tuesday. He said he
didn’t believe the library needed a wake-up call and shouldn’t
remove books.

“A wake-up call to what? To take LGBTQ books off the shelf and
then they will give us money? What do you call that? Ransom?

“We stand behind the fact that our community is made up of a
very diverse group of individuals, and we as a library cater to
the diversity of our community,” he said.

Walton could not be reached Wednesday.

Mikula of the library association said the Patmos Library could
still get a millage on the November ballot, if ballot language
is given to the Ottawa County clerk’s office by Aug. 16.

But after having just lost by 25 points, turning around public
sentiment in less than three months might be difficult without
concessions by the library, which Mikula said is difficult
because public libraries must follow its “collection development
policies. If patrons have challenged (books) and the library
board has made a decision to keep them, then … the First
Amendment protects the process.”

It’s a difficult position for the library, Mikula acknowledged.
“It's hard to look at being threatened with the closure of your
library because they won’t remove LGBT materials.”

Frobish, the board member, said she doesn’t want to remove
materials from the library, but didn’t know what the board would
do. “We’re in uncharted territory,” she said.

A millage ballot effort in 2023 would be difficult because there
are no elections scheduled for that year, which would force the
library to pick up the cost of holding a millage vote, Mikula
said.

The library board will talk about its financial outlook at its
next meeting on Monday.

“I love my country, and I believe what is happening is going
against the First Amendment,” said Lawrence, the former
director. “The people who need the library the most can’t vote
because they are children.”

Children don't need to have queerness forced in their faces.
Let them be children.

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/upset-over-lgbtq-
books-michigan-town-defunds-its-library-tax-vote

[Woke means broken]

In article <t0lbvr$2h6vb$5...@news.freedyn.de>

[** TNB **]

In article <t2svmi$3rhpb$4...@news.freedyn.de>
<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:

LAS VEGAS — Former Seattle Seahawks player Marshawn Lynch was
asleep and smelled of alcohol when Las Vegas police found him in
his damaged sports car and arrested him on suspicion of driving
while intoxicated, according to an arrest report made public
Thursday.

Lynch’s attorneys, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld,
responded in a statement that Lynch’s car “was safely parked and
not in operation” when police arrived early Tuesday and a
driving while intoxicated charge won’t stick.

“Marshawn was not pulled over for a DUI,” the statement said.
“We are confident that when all evidence is presented, this will
not be a DUI under Nevada law.”

The arresting officer, Kevin Barker, reported that Lynch’s black
2020 Shelby GT500 was “undriveable,” with one missing front
wheel and the rear driver’s side and front passenger wheels
badly damaged.

The arrest report said investigators found markings suggesting
the vehicle “hit sidewalk areas” before stopping in an
industrial section of downtown Las Vegas not far from Main
Street.

“The driver was asleep behind the wheel with the driver’s door
open leaning back in the seat,” the report said, “with
bloodshot, watery eyes and had one shoe on and one shoe off.”

The 7:30 a.m. Tuesday arrest came the morning after the Seattle
Seahawks — the team for which Lynch played most of his 12 NFL
seasons — announced that Lynch had been hired as a broadcast
special correspondent.

Lynch also played for the Buffalo Bills and Oakland Raiders.

The arrest report said Lynch, 36, was uncooperative with
officers and fell asleep several times during questioning. Jail
officers “had to use a restraint chair to force a blood draw”
after a judge issued a warrant, the report said.

Lynch was later released from Las Vegas City Jail pending a Dec.
7 court date in Las Vegas Municipal Court.

Results of his blood test were not immediately made public.
Nevada law bans driving with a blood-alcohol level of 0.08% or
more.

Court records show that Lynch entered a no-contest plea to a
misdemeanor vehicle parking charge and fined $750 in April in a
case that saw charges of failing to report or remain at the
scene of an accident dismissed.

Schonfeld, who represented Lynch in that case, declined Thursday
to comment about it.

Lynch's attorneys said in their statement that he “appreciates
and is thankful for everyone’s concern and support.”

Lynch had 10,413 career rushing yards and 85 rushing touchdowns
from 2007-19 and was chosen for the Pro Bowl five times. He won
a Super Bowl with the Seahawks in 2013.

https://komonews.com/sports/seahawks/marshawn-lynch-was-asleep-
car-damaged-before-arrest-in-las-vegas-police-say

[Trump Has Rats]

In article <t0vk4q$2n48g$7...@news.freedyn.de>
<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I call bullshit on the basis for the warrant.
>

WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - U.S. federal agents were looking
for documents relating to nuclear weapons when they raided
former President Donald Trump's home in Florida this week, the
Washington Post reported on Thursday.

It was not clear if such documents were recovered at the former
president's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, the Post said.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.

The U.S. Justice Department asked a judge on Thursday to make
public the warrant that authorized the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago,
after Trump, a Republican, portrayed it as political retribution.

The request means the public could soon learn more about what
investigators were looking for during the unprecedented search
of a former president's home.

The search was part of an investigation into whether Trump
illegally removed records from the White House as he left office
in January 2021, some of which the Justice Department believes
are classified.

Attorney General Merrick Garland, the top law enforcement
officer and an appointee of Democratic President Joe Biden, told
a news conference that he had personally approved the search.
The Justice Department also seeks to make public a redacted
receipt of the items seized.

WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) - U.S. federal agents were looking
for documents relating to nuclear weapons when they raided
former President Donald Trump's home in Florida this week, the
Washington Post reported on Thursday.

It was not clear if such documents were recovered at the former
president's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, the Post said.
Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.

The U.S. Justice Department asked a judge on Thursday to make
public the warrant that authorized the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago,
after Trump, a Republican, portrayed it as political retribution.
Advertisement · Scroll to continue

The request means the public could soon learn more about what
investigators were looking for during the unprecedented search
of a former president's home.

The search was part of an investigation into whether Trump
illegally removed records from the White House as he left office
in January 2021, some of which the Justice Department believes
are classified.

Attorney General Merrick Garland, the top law enforcement
officer and an appointee of Democratic President Joe Biden, told
a news conference that he had personally approved the search.
The Justice Department also seeks to make public a redacted
receipt of the items seized.
Advertisement · Scroll to continue

"The department does not take such a decision lightly. Where
possible, it is standard practice to seek less intrusive means
as an alternative to a search, and to narrowly scope any search
that is undertaken," Garland said.

His decision to publicly confirm the search was highly unusual.
U.S. law enforcement officials typically do not discuss ongoing
investigations in order to protect people's rights. In this
case, Trump himself announced the search in a Monday night
statement.

Garland said the Justice Department made the request to make
public the warrant "in light of the former president's public
confirmation of the search, the surrounding circumstances and
the substantial public interest in this matter."

A source familiar with the matter said the FBI retrieved about
10 boxes from Trump's property during the search.

Trump was not in Florida at the time of the search.

Late on Thursday, Trump called for the immediate release of
documents related to the search.

"Not only will I not oppose the release of documents related to
the unAmerican, unwarranted, and unnecessary raid and break-in
of my home in Palm Beach, Florida, Mar-a-Lago, I am going a step
further by ENCOURAGING the immediate release of those documents,
even though they have been drawn up by radical left Democrats
and possible future political opponents, who have a strong and
powerful vested interest in attacking me, much as they have done
for the last 6 years," he said on his Truth Social platform.

The government has until 3 p.m. (1900 GMT) on Friday to let the
court know whether Trump's attorneys will object to unsealing
the warrant. The case is before U.S. Magistrate Judge Bruce
Reinhart, who reviewed the warrant to ensure the Justice
Department had sufficient probable cause for the search.

While seeking to unseal the warrant, the Justice Department has
not asked the judge to unseal the sworn statement in support of
the warrant, the contents of which could potentially include
classified information.

Two of Trump's attorneys, Evan Corcoran and John Rowley, did not
respond to a request for comment.

In a statement earlier on his Truth social network, Trump said:
"My attorneys and representatives were cooperating fully, and
very good relationships had been established. The government
could have had whatever they wanted, if we had it."
LOCKED STORAGE ROOM

The unprecedented search marked a significant escalation in one
of the many federal and state investigations Trump is facing
from his time in office and in private business, including a
separate one by the Justice Department into a failed bid by
Trump's allies to overturn the 2020 presidential election by
submitting phony slates of electors. read more

The investigation into Trump's removal of records started this
year, after the National Archives made a referral to the
department. read more

Former Archivist David Ferriero has previously said that Trump
returned 15 boxes to the government in January 2022. The
archives later discovered some of the items were "marked as
classified national security information."

A couple of months before the search, FBI agents visited Trump's
property to investigate boxes in a locked storage room,
according to a person familiar with the visit.

The agents and Corcoran spent a day reviewing materials, the
source said. A second source who had been briefed on the matter
told Reuters the Justice Department also has surveillance
footage from Mar-a-Lago in its possession.

Garland's Justice Department has faced fierce criticism and
online threats since Monday's search. Trump supporters and some
of his fellow Republicans in Washington accuse Democrats of
weaponizing the federal bureaucracy to target Trump.

In Cincinnati, Ohio, on Thursday, an armed man suspected of
trying to breach the FBI building died following an exchange of
gunfire with law enforcement officers, an Ohio State Highway
Patrol official said. read more

Garland condemned the threats and attacks against the FBI and
Justice Department. "I will not stand by silently when their
integrity is unfairly attacked," he said.

Some Democrats have criticized Garland for being overly cautious
in investigating Trump over his attempts to overturn his 2020
election loss to Biden.

Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch and Karen Freifeld; additional
reporting by Andy Sullivan, David Morgan, Mike Scarcella,
Kanishka Singh, Eric Beech, Steve Holland and Dan Whitcomb;
Additional reporting by Shubham Kalia; Editing by Scott Malone,
Daniel Wallis, Howard Goller and Leslie Adler

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-attorney-general-garland-
confirms-fbi-investigating-trump-2022-08-11/

[Hutchinson]

In article <t2horf$3klmc$1...@news.freedyn.de>
<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Throw this whore in jail.
>

A former CNN anchor has been arrested after an alleged hit-and-
run crash.

Ex-CNN anchor Felicia Taylor has been booked over an alleged car
crash in Palm Beach, Florida, on July 28.

Taylor reportedly hit the back of a black Ford that was stopped
for traffic with her white Mercedes. Palm Beach police said a 24-
year-old man driving the Ford suffered injuries to his back,
neck, and jaw as a result of the impact.

The 57-year-old ex-anchor was seen "fleeing the scene of the
accident without rendering aid or stopping to provide
information," according to the police report. Afterward, she
drove by the scene several times with her damaged car before a
police officer pulled her over.

The arresting officer said Taylor admitted her culpability in
the crash, but assured him it was "not a big deal." Taylor
insisted on verifying the other driver's injuries, claiming he
was OK. She also told the officer it's "hard to be a good
person."

Taylor was allegedly on her way from a hotel, which police
verified was closed. Then, she claimed she came from a
restaurant in the nearby Royal Poinciana Plaza, but again,
police could not confirm any restaurant that recalled her as a
guest.

Police arrested Taylor and booked her at Palm Beach County Jail
under charges of careless driving and leaving the scene of an
accident involving injury. Taylor made her $3,000 bail and
pleaded not guilty to the charges.

In 2015, Taylor was charged with an aggravated DWI in the
Hamptons in New York. At the time, she was three times over the
legal limit.

There was a wine bottle found in Taylor's car on July 28, but it
was out of reach, according to officers.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/cnn-anchor-felicia-
taylor-arrest-hit-run-crash

[Woke means broken]

In article <t1lkij$34868$2...@news.freedyn.de>
<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You fuckers went woke, now your asses are going to taste $200 million broke. How does that shit taste?
>

The Flash is set to be one of the biggest comic book releases in
Warner Bros. Discovery’s upcoming catalog, but the recent drama
surrounding star actor Ezra Miller has left the company unsure
of how to proceed.

According to The Hollywood Reporter in a recent story, the
ongoing issues surrounding Miller — including their most recent
charge with a felony burglary on Monday — have left Warner Bros.
Discovery unsure of how to proceed with the planned The Flash
film. The report mentions that as of right now, the studio is
weighing three options for how to treat the film as the issues
grow.

First, the report mentions that Warner Bros. Discovery has
received indications that Miller will be seeking professional
help after returning to their family’s farm in Vermont. Should
that happen, Miller would then likely give an interview at some
point in order to try and explain their recent erratic behavior,
in which case they would then likely do limited press for The
Flash, with the film opening in cinemas around the world as
planned.

The second scenario, according to the report, would see WB still
release the film should Miller not seek help, but would
essentially exclude Miller from any and all marketing and
publicity for the film. This would also mark the end of Miller’s
time as The Flash, as the report mentions Warner Bros. would be
recasting them in any and all future projects.

Finally, the last and most severe scenario would see WB outright
canceling the film should more issues with Miller arise. This is
likely to be seen as the most drastic outcome, but due to
Miller’s involvement with the film — the report mentions that
they are “in almost every scene” of the movie — and how
impossible it would be to reshoot it, the company would have no
choice. However, due to the large budget of the film and how
well the film is reportedly testing amongst audiences, it’s
likely that is the very last thing that the studio wants.

Trouble has followed Miller for some time now, as the 29-year-
old actor was just recently charged with felony burglary after
allegedly stealing bottles of alcohol from a home in Vermont.
Earlier this year, Miller was arrested in April and booked on
suspicion of second-degree assault, and a month prior to that in
March, Miller was arrested on charges of disorderly conduct and
harassment following an incident in Hawaii as well.

https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/1234522-the-flash-ezra-
miller-warner-bros-options

[BeamMeUpScotty]

But what were they really looking for ?

--
-That's karma-

The result is DEMOCRATS lies about history and reality to themselves and
others means their attempts to figure-out what's wrong is an exercise in
futility, because what they think they know they really don't know, and
fixing problems without the truth... becomes a fools errand.

[BeamMeUpScotty]

She must have gone to the same CNN/DNC approved driving school as Anne
Heche...

Were either of them driving Electric Vehicles to save the planet...?

Maybe they can't afford a NEW ELECTRIC CAR or maybe they just don't care
about the planet? Remember when they would tell the world if you had an
accident and you weren't wearing a seat-belt? Why don't they tell
whether you're saving the world by announcing the type of car you drive?

[Die In Jail Hillary Clinton]

In article <t2utdb$3smfh$1...@news.freedyn.de>
<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:

EXETER, Calif. (KFSN) -- An Exeter man who stabbed his wife and
then buried her alive is staying behind bars for now.

Tulare County prosecutors say they got a five-year denial of
parole for 44-year-old Cesar Navarro after arguing against his
release.

He was found guilty of the 1998 murder of his wife, Elizabeth,
who was just 20 years old.

Navarro stabbed her several times in the head and neck with a
screwdriver.

He then buried her in the backyard of their home.

Her body was found two weeks later after a desperate search by
her family.

Navarro was convicted in 2000 and sentenced to life in prison.

https://abc30.com/exeter-man-buried-alive-wife-murder-parole-
denied/12119728/

[Trump Has Rats]

In article <t2uoa5$3si52$3...@news.freedyn.de>

<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I call bullshit on the basis for the warrant.
>

United States Congressman Mike Turner (R-Ohio) suggested on
Friday that the nuclear documents that the Federal Bureau of
Investigation reportedly recovered from former President Donald
Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion in Palm Beach, Florida during the
execution of a search warrant on Monday are no big deal.

"I can tell you that there are a number of things that are
classified that fall under the umbrella of nuclear weapons but
that are not necessarily things that are truly classified,"
Turner, who serves on the House Intelligence Committee, told
reporters at a press conference. "Many of them you can find on
your own phone as we stand here and if they fall into that
category, they're not an imminent national security threat that
would rise to the level of, you have to raid Donald Trump's home
and spend nine hours there."

There are "two types of classification," according to the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission's website. "The first type, known
as national security information, is information that is
classified by an Executive Order. Its release would damage
national security to some degree. The second type, known as
restricted data, is information that is classified by the Atomic
Energy Act. It would assist individuals or organizations in
designing, manufacturing, or using nuclear weapons. Access to
both types of information is restricted to authorized persons
who have been properly cleared and have a 'need to know' the
information for their official duties. For additional detail,
see Classified Information."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/house-republican-says-
classified-mar-a-lago-nuclear-material-is-available-on-your-own-
phone/ar-
AA10Bg2Y?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=15a001d160204863a4511de0651b7e43

[The 13% Again]

In article <t2o3ut$3oqde$9...@news.freedyn.de>
<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A woman was critically injured in an
exchange of gunfire with Fresno County deputies on Thursday
afternoon.

The confrontation happened on Valentine between Shaw and San
Jose in northwest Fresno at about 2:40 pm.

The Fresno County Sheriff's Office said their deputies were
originally called to evict a 30-year-old woman from her
apartment, but soon realized she had warrants out for her arrest.

She was the prime suspect in a shooting back in July in which a
62-year-old man was shot in the face in northeast Fresno.

The identity of the woman hasn't been released, but Action News
has learned she has a lengthy criminal history, including
forgery, theft, and burglary.

Because the woman was likely armed and dangerous, three deputies
were tactically staged. They waited for her to leave the complex
in her car, then pulled her over and placed her under arrest.

But she had managed to keep a gun with her after she was taken
into custody and placed in the back of a deputy's vehicle. Then,
she slipped out her handcuffs and fired at deputies at least
once. Two deputies fired at least two shots back.

Fresno PD is investigating the shooting because it happened
within city limits. The woman was hit by gunfire at least twice
and was rushed into surgery. She's in critical condition.

Chief Paco Balderrama said it's still not clear how the woman
hid the weapon.

"It is not terribly uncommon for females to be able to hide
firearms either in between their breasts or some other area.
When you have male police officers, they are a lot more hesitant
to search because of that reason and we did not have a female
deputy here on site. One was en route," he said.

Fresno County Sheriff-Elect John Zanoni said when male deputies
are tasked with patting down female suspects for weapons, the
searches are more minimal.

"If we want to do a thorough search we will have a female
officer or a female deputy sheriff come over and conduct that
search for contraband and other things just because it's the
right protocol, the right thing to do," he said.

The woman is facing charges for assault with a deadly weapon, a
convicted felon in possession of a firearm and two counts of
assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer.

https://abc30.com/northwest-fresno-shooting-traffic-officer-
involved-county-sheriffs-office/12118269/

[Woke is mental illness]

In article <t2fn29$3jbnm$1...@news.freedyn.de>
<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We need to start killing every "woke" cult member. Every single one of them.
>

Twelve people including the gunman have been killed in a mass
shooting in Montenegro, after a man opened fire at random in the
city of Cetinje, reportedly after a family dispute.

State television said the 34-year-old gunman had also wounded
six people, including a police officer, during the shooting in
the Medovina neighbourhood.

The broadcaster RTCG reported that the attacker had randomly
shot at people walking in the street, including children.

Four of the wounded were transferred to a hospital in Cetinje,
while two others with serious wounds were sent to a clinical
centre in the capital, Podgorica, it said.

“When we arrived at the scene, we saw nine dead bodies,
including two children, and another two passed away on their way
to the hospital,” Andrijana Nastic, a state prosecutor, told
Vijesti TV.

Nastic did not say how old the children killed were and could
not reveal the identities of the victims.

“I can only say that the shooter was killed by a citizen,”
Nastic said. The media had reported earlier that police had
killed the shooter.

RTCG quoted police sources as saying the attack came after a
family dispute, but gave no further details. Police still have
not issued an official statement about the attack, but have
blocked off the area.

The Montenegrin prime minister, Dritan Abazovic, wrote on his
Telegram channel that there had been “an unprecedented tragedy”
in Cetinje, calling on the country “to be, in their thoughts,
with the families of the innocent victims, their relatives,
friends and all the people of Cetinje”.

Residents were left in shock in the shooting’s wake.

“I can’t believe that this happened in Cetinje and Montenegro. I
do not know what to say, I am speechless. I do not know where
this can lead us,” said Cetinje resident Milorad Mitrovic to
RTCG.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/12/montenegro-
shooting-dead-including-gunman-cetinje

[Climate Fairy Tales]

In article <t1i7sr$3258u$1...@news.freedyn.de>
forging asshole <governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Democrats pass another pork laden lie on the stupid American people.
>

Congress is poised to approve newly expanded tax credits for
electric vehicles, but the rules are written in such a way as to
effectively disqualify every EV that’s currently on the market
today.

That’s because most EVs run on lithium-ion batteries that are
mostly made in China. The nation has a lock on some 76 percent
of the battery market today (the US only represents 8 percent).
And to get a deal passed in a deadlocked Senate, Democrats
agreed to provisions that would require eligible vehicles to use
batteries that are made in North America.

The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which passed the Senate
this weekend in a party-line vote, would require batteries to
have at least 40 percent of materials sourced from North America
or a US trading partner by 2024 in order to be eligible for a
$7,500 tax break. By 2029, battery components would have to be
100 percent made in North America.

Batteries that contain minerals that “were extracted, processed,
or recycled by a foreign entity of concern,” which is defined as
a state sponsoring terrorism or countries blocked by the
Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control, would be
ineligible for the credit. China is listed as a “foreign entity
of concern” by the federal government.

Democrats, including West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who
negotiated the deal in secret with Senate Majority Leader Chuck
Schumer, are running on a tough-on-China message this year. But
the auto industry says that the new requirements would basically
disqualify every EV on the market today.

According to the Alliance for Automotive Innovation, the auto
industry’s main lobbying group, there are currently 72 EV models
available for purchase in the United States, including battery,
plug-in hybrid, and fuel cell electric vehicles. Of those
models, 70 percent are ineligible for the tax credit when the
bill passes. And by 2029, when the additional sourcing
requirements go into effect, none would qualify for the full
credit.

“The $7500 credit might exist on paper, but no vehicles will
qualify for this purchase incentive over the next few years,”
John Bozzella, president and CEO of the alliance, said in a blog
post. “That’s going to be a major setback to our collective
target of 40-50 percent electric vehicle sales by 2030.”

Bozzella said the auto industry agrees that the domestic supply
chain needs serious investment — but not at the expense of
customer incentives. EVs are typically more expensive than
regular gas-powered vehicles, and experts believe that tax
credits are needed to bolster sales until battery costs are low
enough to trigger parity with internal combustion engine
vehicles.

Automakers could ask for waivers from the requirements, given
the precedent that allowed many manufacturers to avoid “Buy
America” rules that were enacted as part of last year’s
bipartisan infrastructure law, according to Politico. For
example, the law requires that new road and bridge projects use
domestically produced steel, but most states are able to waive
those requirements in favor of procuring cheaper steel from
overseas.

The Zero Emission Transportation Association, which represents
EV makers like Tesla and Rivian, isn’t seeking waivers — yet.
The lobbying group says that compliance deadlines could be
extended by a year or more in order to allow the industry more
time.

It won’t be a completely impossible task. Tesla uses local
suppliers for the majority of components in its electric
vehicles, with 65 percent of the parts used to make the Tesla
Model 3 (Long Range, Standard Range, and Performance) sourced
from the US and Canada. The EV maker has four models that are at
the top of the annual automotive index measuring the amount of
US-manufactured content in vehicles.

But it will still take time before the US can begin to challenge
China’s dominance in the battery market. Ford and South Korean
battery manufacturer SK Innovation are spending $11.4 billion on
several new factories in Tennessee and Kentucky, while General
Motors is planning four new battery factories in the US with
partner LG Chem. Toyota said it would construct a $1.29 billion
facility in North Carolina. And Stellantis, parent company of
Dodge, Jeep, and Chrysler, selected Indiana as the site for its
first battery factory.

In Europe, Volkswagen is aiming to have six battery cell
production plants operating by 2030. And Tesla just finished its
battery factory in Berlin, which would produce 250GWh — roughly
equivalent to the current world battery cell production capacity.

Globally, battery production is expected to grow from 95.3GWh in
2020 to 410.5GWh in 2024, according to GlobalData, a data and
analytics company.

Republicans, who uniformly oppose the Inflation Reduction Act,
tried to make the supply chain requirements even stricter.
According to Politico, Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) introduced an
amendment that would require 100 percent of battery materials to
be sourced in North America immediately, rather than allow a
phase-in period. The amendment, though, did not pass the Senate.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/8/23296678/ev-tax-credit-qualify-
battery-supply-chain-china

[Pole Smokers]

In article <t1ve0a$39noe$1...@news.freedyn.de>
<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> It's time to put an end to this. Queers won't listen and can't control themselves - LOCK THEM UP!
>

NEW YORK -- Jon Batiste, his career soaring after winning
multiple Grammys this year, is leaving his perch as bandleader
of “The Late Show” after a seven-year run backing up host
Stephen Colbert.

“We’ve been so lucky to have a front row seat to Jon’s
incredible talent for the past seven years," Colbert said on
Thursday's show. "But we’re happy for you, Jon, and I can’t wait
to have you back on as guest with your next hit record.”

Louis Cato, who has served as interim bandleader this summer,
will take over on a permanent basis when the show returns for
its eighth season. He has been with the show since its launch.
Cato has worked with the likes of Beyonce, Mariah Carey and John
Legend and is working on a new album. Colbert called him a
musical genius.

"He can play the meat and skin flutes at the same time",
declared Colbert. "He did mine!"

https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/jon-batiste-
leaves-stephen-colberts-late-show-88294858

[Mitchell Holman]

Climate Fairy Tales <woethe...@latimes.com> wrote in
news:ad4c67578594afd3...@dizum.com:

>
>
> Batteries that contain minerals that “were extracted, processed,
> or recycled by a foreign entity of concern,”

Where do you think the minerals
in your cell phone battery came from?

[Trump Has Rats]

In article <t2s48j$3r3mn$3...@news.freedyn.de>

<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I call bullshit on the basis for the warrant.
>

The FBI has been after him for 8 years now because of Obama and
the Clintons.

They had nothing so they made something up.

[Klaus Schadenfreude]

On Sat, 13 Aug 2022 01:51:56 +0200 (CEST), "Woke is mental illness"
<woke.ment...@nytimes.com> wrote:


>Twelve people including the gunman have been killed in a mass
>shooting in Montenegro, after a man opened fire at random in the
>city of Cetinje, reportedly after a family dispute.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/12/europe/cetinje-shooting-montenegro-intl/index.html
"He killed two children, 8 and 11 years old, using a hunting rifle,
and injured their mother, who later succumbed to her wounds in a
medical facility," Montenegrin Police Chief Zoran Brdanin said. "He
then went out in the street and used the same rifle to shoot other
residents of this settlement." A witness told RTCG that the shooter
"indiscriminately shot people as he walked through the street."

"Luckily, the victims were not shot by a high-powered assault rifle,
but just a hunting rifle," said a spokeswoman for Moms For Gun
Confiscation. "They will not have to use DNA to identify the victims,
and the streets aren't littered with unidentifiable lungs and blobs of
mangled flesh."

Authorities say they have identified the attacker -- said to be a
34-year-old man -- and that his rampage was brought to an end when he
was shot dead by a civilian.

"Another case of angry vigilante 'justice,'" said The Moms.

In Montenegro, the right to private gun ownership is not guaranteed by
law. Guns in Montenegro are regulated by the Ministry of Interior. In
Montenegro, civilians are not allowed to possess automatic firearms,
semi-automatic long arms (with the exception of some semi-auto hunting
rifles), double-barrelled firearms, silencers, or infra-red sighting
devices. In Montenegro, private possession of handguns (pistols and
revolvers) is permitted under licence. In Montenegro, only licensed
gun owners may lawfully acquire, possess or transfer a firearm or
ammunition. Applicants for a gun owner’s licence in Montenegro are
required to establish a genuine reason to possess a firearm, for
example hunting, sports shooting, self-defence, collection. An
applicant for a firearm licence in Montenegro must pass a background
check which considers criminal, mental health and medical records. In
Montenegro, an understanding of firearm safety and the law, tested in
a theoretical and/or practical training course is required for a
firearm licence. In Montenegro, gun owners must re-apply and
re-qualify for their firearm licence every ten years.
https://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/montenegro

"We need strict licensing like they have in Montenegro!" cried The
Moms. "Then we wouldn't have any mass killings!"



"You KNOW this was a drug deal gone bad," said !Jones. "We'll never
know, though."

[BeamMeUpScotty]

That seems like the most likely scenario... it's NOT like they didn't
make up a "FAKE Russian DOSSIER" and then make up lies to get a FISA
WARRANT and a "Fake Phone Call crime to Ukraine" to use to impeach him
with TWO impeachments charging FAKE violations of his office and the laws...

Democrats are like the mentally ill stalker from hell.... they keep
trying to cause you harm because of their seething hate for anyone who
doesn't love them and do everything they want.

[bob user]

On 13 Aug 2022, BeamMeUpScotty <NOT-...@idiocracy.gov> posted some
news:9SOJK.760293$ssF.2...@fx14.iad:

> On 8/12/22 11:03 PM, Trump Has Rats wrote:
>> In article <t2s48j$3r3mn$3...@news.freedyn.de>
>> <governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I call bullshit on the basis for the warrant.
>>>
>>
>> The FBI has been after him for 8 years now because of Obama and
>> the Clintons.
>>
>> They had nothing so they made something up.
>>
> That seems like the most likely scenario... it's NOT like they didn't
> make up a "FAKE Russian DOSSIER" and then make up lies to get a FISA
> WARRANT and a "Fake Phone Call crime to Ukraine" to use to impeach him
> with TWO impeachments charging FAKE violations of his office and the
> laws...
>
> Democrats are like the mentally ill stalker from hell.... they keep
> trying to cause you harm because of their seething hate for anyone who
> doesn't love them and do everything they want.

They certainly helped coalesce some of the undecided, in favor of Trump.

Merrick Garland owns this mess 100%.

[Cavemen caused global warming]

In article <t0qdnv$2k0dn$4...@news.freedyn.de>
<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Flood drown fags. Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain rain rain.
>

"Megadrought" may be the main weather concern across the West
right now amid the constant threat of wildfires and earthquakes.
But a new study warns another crisis is looming in California:
"Megafloods."

Climate change is increasing the risk of future floods that
could submerge multiple cities and displace millions of people
across California, according to a new study released Friday.

It says that an extreme month-long storm could bring feet of
rain – in some places, more than 100 inches – to hundreds of
miles of California. Similarly unrelenting storms have happened
in the past, before the region became home to tens-of-millions
of people.

Now, each degree of global warming is dramatically upping the
odds and size of the next megaflood, the study says.

In a future scenario, where the flood comes in a hotter earth,
“the storm sequence is bigger in almost every respect,” said
Daniel Swain, UCLA climate scientist and co-author of the study,
in a news release. “There’s more rain overall, more intense
rainfall on an hourly basis and stronger wind.”

Climate change a factor in megafloods
In fact, the study found that climate change makes such
catastrophic flooding twice as likely to occur.

Swain said that such massive statewide floods have occurred
every century or two in California over the past millennia, and
the current risk of such events has been substantially
underestimated.

Long before climate change, California’s Great Flood of 1862
stretched up to 300 miles long and 60 miles across. According to
the study, a similar flood now would displace 5-10 million
people, cut off the state’s major freeways for perhaps weeks or
months with massive economic effects, and submerge major Central
Valley cities as well as parts of Los Angeles.

The study expands upon the 2010 "ArkStorm scenario," which is
named after the atmospheric rivers that would fuel the flood –
one of biblical proportions. This is the first part of a plan to
revisit to that scenario, known as ArkStorm 2.0.

Massive California flood would be a $1 trillion disaster
It is estimated that that such a flood today would be a $1
trillion disaster, according to UCLA.

"Stockton, Fresno and Los Angeles would be under water even with
today’s extensive collection of reservoirs, levees and bypasses.
It is estimated that it would be a $1 trillion disaster, larger
than any in world history," according to the statement.

With drought and wildfire getting so much attention,
Californians may have lost sight of extreme flooding, Swain said
in the release. “There is potential for bad wildfires every year
in California, but a lot of years go by when there’s no major
flood news. People forget about it,” he said.

The researchers used new high-resolution weather models and
existing climate models to compare two extreme scenarios,
according to UCLA: one that would occur about once per century
in the recent historical climate and another in the projected
climate of 2081-2100.

Both would involve a long series of storms fueled by atmospheric
rivers over the course of a month.

What are atmospheric rivers?
Atmospheric rivers are ribbons of water vapor that extend
thousands of miles from the tropics to the western U.S. At 250
to 375 miles wide, they provide the fuel for the massive rain
and snowstorms that can cause flooding along the West Coast.

Though beneficial for water supplies, such events can wreak
havoc on travel, bring deadly mudslides and cause catastrophic
damage to life and property, the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration said.

Studies show that climate change will make atmospheric rivers
warmer, more intense and more frequent.

Friday's study was published in the peer-reviewed journal
Science Advances, a publication of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/12/megafloods-
could-devastate-california-new-study-says/10308979002/

[Lock Them UP!]

In article <t2pbef$3pht9$9...@news.freedyn.de>
<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Start putting queers in jail for failing to control themselves and spreading a disease to children.
>

LAS VEGAS, Nev. (FOX5) - The Clark County School District and
Southern Nevada Health District identified a case of monkeypox
at a Las Vegas-area high school.

The case was identified at Palo Verde High School. A CCSD
spokesperson could not confirm whether the case was a student,
staffer or teacher, but said that not identifying the person was
standard protocol.

CCSD said they were informed by SNHD of the case. SNHD is
reporting 75 monkeypox cases in Clark County.

Principal message sent via ParentLink to Palo Verde High School:

It has come to our attention that a person at Palo Verde High
School has been diagnosed with monkeypox. Monkeypox is not
generally spread in the classroom setting. The virus spreads
from person to person through close physical contact with
infectious monkeypox sores, bodily fluids, contact with objects
or fabrics used by someone who has monkeypox, or prolonged face-
to-face contact.

We are currently working with the Southern Nevada Health
District as they investigate the situation to determine who may
need additional evaluation. The Southern Nevada Health District
will notify parents and guardians if it is determined that your
child needs to be tested or monitored. The safety of our
students is a priority, and we will work diligently to support
the Southern Nevada Health District in its investigation. If you
have questions, please contact your licensed healthcare provider
or visit the Southern Nevada Health District website for
monkeypox information at www.snhd.info/monkeypox or the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention page at
https://www.cdc.gov/poxvirus/monkeypox/index.html.

Thank you.

Principal message to Palo Verde High School
The Southern Nevada Health District confirmed the case as well
but said it would not disclose the age of the patient or any
other details about how they were infected.

Doctors anticipated Monkeypox cases to emerge among students
once school started.

Dr. Christina Madison, founder of The Public Health Pharmacist
and associate professor at Roseman University of Health
Sciences, breaks down the risk of Monkeypox in classrooms. The
main scenarios for spread include intimate contact, large
gatherings, or household spread.

The risk is higher among small children with plenty of close
contact, but what could determine spread in classrooms is the
amount of time in the same space, as well as ventilation.

“It can also be respiratorily transmitted. So if you’re in the
same contained space, and it doesn’t have that many air
exchanges per minute, that could also lead to those particulates
hanging out in the air,” Dr. Madison said.

From bathrooms to locker rooms, Dr. Madison advises good
hygiene, handwashing, regular laundry and proper towel disposal
are crucial to maintaining sanitary spaces.

As for contact sports, proper hygiene before and after matches
and games is crucial—as well as avoiding sports if a rash
appears.

If your teenager is sexually active, they would be qualified for
a Monkeypox vaccine. “It’s not something that some parents want
to maybe think about, but if they do have multiple partners,
that is now one of the risk factors that CDC has indicated. And
that is regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation,”
Dr. Madison said.

Any parent who is concerned about their child’s risk and whether
they need a vaccine can contact SNHD or The Huntridge Clinic,
which are administering doses.

https://www.fox5vegas.com/2022/08/12/clark-county-school-
district-identifies-monkeypox-case-las-vegas-area-high-school/

[The 13% Again]

In article <t1dg5g$2vegb$6...@news.freedyn.de>
<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Put these fucking animals in cages where they belong.
>

A juvenile has been arrested and charged in the murders of a
mother and her two young sons in New Hampshire, the state's
attorney general announced on Thursday.

Kassandra Sweeney, 25, her 4-year-old son Benjamin and her 1-
year-old son Mason were found dead in their home in Northfield
on August 3, CBS Boston reported. Autopsies showed each died
from a single gunshot wound and the medical examiner ruled all
three deaths as homicides.

The juvenile is facing three counts of first-degree murder and
one count of falsifying physical evidence. Under state law, no
other information can be released about the juvenile, Attorney
General John Formella said.

On Wednesday, state and local police searched a large area of
Route 93 in New Hampshire for evidence, CBS Boston reported.

Father and husband Sean Sweeney said in a Facebook post Sunday
that "things will never be 'normal' again." Authorities have
described him as "very cooperative and helpful in this
investigation."

"It is our job now to keep their memories alive," Sweeney wrote.
"They will be forever loved and missed and forever in my heart."

Attorney General John Formella had previously said investigators
have identified everyone involved in the shooting deaths and
there's no threat to the public.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/kassandra-sweeney-sons-killed-
juvenile-arrested-new-hampshire/?intcid=CNI-00-10aaa3b

[Lock Them UP!]

In article <t12j4k$2ovk2$8...@news.freedyn.de>

<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Start putting queers in jail for failing to control themselves and spreading a disease to children.
>

TIJUANA (Border Report) — Three cases of monkeypox have been
confirmed in the Mexican state of Baja California, according to
its Secretary of Health Adrián Medina Amarillas.

The border cities of Mexicali and Tijuana each have one case,
and the third case is in the coastal city of Ensenada about 70
miles south of the border.

Medina Amarillas announced the news during a news conference
Tuesday evening.

He said all three patients are men, ranging in age between 30
and 54, and that all three had traveled to the U.S. recently.

The older one had visited San Diego, which is located just north
of border from Tijuana.

According to the California Department of Public Health, there
have been 1,300 reported cases in the state of California, the
second-highest number of monkeypox cases in the United States.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says monkeypox is
a rare disease caused by infection with the monkeypox virus. It
is part of the same family of viruses as variola virus, which
causes smallpox.

Monkeypox symptoms are similar to smallpox symptoms, but milder,
and monkeypox is said to be rarely fatal.

https://fox5sandiego.com/news/border-report/monkeypox-shows-up-
just-south-of-california-mexico-border/

[Lock Them UP!]

In article <t15gna$2qo57$5...@news.freedyn.de>

<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Start putting queers in jail for failing to control themselves and spreading a disease to children.
>

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - The first case of monkeypox has been
detected in Vermont.

State health officials say the infection was in an adult from
Franklin County and that lab results confirmed the disease.
Officials say the current risk of community transmission from
that case is low. They’re not releasing any other information
about them to protect their privacy.

Monkeypox is usually transmitted with skin-to-skin contact,
direct contact with bodily fluids, or prolonged face-to-face
contact.

There have been about 5,000 cases in the country, but no
reported deaths.

The World Health Organization last week declared the disease a
gobal emergency. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus
Wednesday said that 98% of the cases detected since the
outbreaks emerged in May have been among gay, bisexual, and
other men who have sex with men. He called for those at risk to
take steps to protect themselves.

CLARIFICATION: Video associated with this article uses file
footage of Monkeypox. It does not depict the Vermont patient.

https://www.wcax.com/2022/07/29/1st-monkey-pox-infection-
confirmed-vermont/

[Cavemen caused global warming]

In article <t15rrk$2qu36$1...@news.freedyn.de>

<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Flood drown fags. Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain rain rain.
>

It hasn’t happened since 1862, but California is due for another
one

A mention of California might usually conjure images of
wildfires and droughts, but scientists say that the Golden State
is also the site of extreme, once-a-century “megafloods” — and
that climate change could amplify just how bad one gets.

The idea seems inconceivable — a month-long storm that dumps 30
inches of rain in San Francisco and up to 100 inches of rain
and/or melted snow in the mountains. But it has happened before
— most recently in 1862 — and if history is any indicator, we’re
overdue for another, according to research published Friday in
Science Advances that seeks to shed light on the lurking hazard.

“This risk is increasing and was already underappreciated,” said
Daniel Swain, one of the study’s two authors and a climate
scientist at the University of California at Los Angeles. “We
want to get ahead of it.”

In such an event, some in the Sierra Nevada could end up with 25
to 34 feet of snow, and most of California’s major highways
would be washed out or become inaccessible.

Swain is working with emergency management officials and the
National Weather Service, explaining that it’s not a question of
whether a megaflood will happen but when.

“It already has happened in 1862, and it probably has happened
about five times per millennium before that,” he said. “On human
time scales, 100 or 200 years sounds like a long time. But these
are fairly regular occurrences.”

His paper built on the work of other scientists, who examined
layers of sediment along the coastline to determine how
frequently megafloods occurred. They found evidence of extreme
freshwater runoff, which washed soil and stony materials out to
sea. Those layers of material became buried beneath years of
sand. The depth of the layers and the sizes of the pebbles and
other material contained in them offer insight into the severity
of past floods.

“It hasn’t happened in recent memory, so it’s a little bit ‘out
of sight, out of mind,’ ” Swain said. “But [California is] a
region that is in the perfect area … in a climatological and
geographic context.”

On the West Coast, there commonly are atmospheric rivers, or
streams of moisture-rich air at the mid-levels of the atmosphere
with connections to the deep tropics. For a California megaflood
to occur, you’d need a nearly stationary zone of low pressure in
the northeast Pacific, which would sling a succession of high-
end atmospheric rivers into the California coastline.

“These would be atmospheric river families,” Swain said. “You
get one of these semi-persistent [dips in the jet stream] over
the northeast Pacific that wobbles around for a few weeks and
allows winter storm after winter storm across the northeast
Pacific into California.”

The paper warns of “extraordinary impacts” and reports that such
an episode could transform “the interior Sacramento and San
Joaquin valleys into a temporary but vast inland sea nearly 300
miles in length and [inundate] much of the now densely populated
coastal plain in present-day Los Angeles and Orange Counties.”

The effects of a month-long barrage of soaking storms could be
disastrous, but Swain notes that it’s possible to have advance
warning.

“This is something we’d see coming three to five days out, and
I’d hope a week and perhaps even two weeks out, with a
probabilistic type of prediction,” Swain said. “We’d have a
decent amount of warning for it.”

Swain’s simulations showed the odds of a megaflood occurring are
far greater in winters dominated by El Niño than in winters
influenced by La Niña. El Niño is a large-scale chain-reaction
atmosphere-ocean pattern that can dominate the atmosphere for
several years at a time, and it usually begins with higher-than-
normal sea surface temperatures in the eastern tropical Pacific.

“When you look at the top eight monthly precipitation totals in
simulations, eight out of eight occurred in El Niño years,”
Swain said.

The influence of human-caused climate change also plays a role:
Swain says it boosts the ceiling in a megaflood.

“We have multiple scenarios. The future one is much larger,
consistent with [climate change],” he said. “In the historical
scenario, the lesser one, certain parts of the Sierra Nevada see
50 to 60 inches of liquid-equivalent precipitation … but in the
future event, some places see 70 to 80 and a few see 100 in a 30-
day period. Even places like San Francisco and Sacramento could
see 20 to 30 inches of rain, and that’s just in one month.”

An independent study published in Scientific Reports on Friday
concluded that human-caused climate change will intensify
atmospheric rivers and could double or triple their economic
damage in the western United States by the 2090s.

A warmer atmosphere has a greater capacity to store moisture. In
the absence of storms, that means the air can more quickly dry
up the landscape — hence California’s prolonged drought — but
should rain occur, the deck is stacked to favor an exceptional
event.

“Moisture isn’t the limiting factor in California,” Swain said.
“There’s plenty of moisture around even in the drought years.
The absence is a lack of mechanism. It’s a lack of storms rather
than moisture.”

Alan Rhoades, who is an expert on atmospheric rivers and was not
involved in either study, said the research highlights the “the
importance of not forgetting about major flood events, which are
also central to California’s history."

“The major worry is how much climate change will alter the
frequency of these event occurrences and how much it will fuel
and amplify the impacts of the next record-setting [atmospheric
river] event,” wrote Rhoades, a hydroclimate research scientist
at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in an email.

He added that compared to previous megafloods in the late 1800s,
“California has vastly expanded its rural, urban, and
agricultural sprawl, which could lead to more potential for loss
of life and property.”

While researchers can’t say when the next California megaflood
will strike, forecasters are confident that it will happen.
There’s a 0.5 to 1.0 percent chance of it happening in any given
year.

Swain said one goal of his work is to push officials to prepare.
He suggested working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration to “run through simulations as a real tabletop on
the ground disaster scenarios.”

“We’ll work through where the points of failure would actually
be, because one of the things we want to do is get ahead of the
curve,” he said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-
environment/2022/08/12/megaflood-california-flood-rain-climate/

[Trump Has Rats]

In article <t0rl4p$2koa6$5...@news.freedyn.de>

<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I call bullshit on the basis for the warrant.
>

I did a post late last night (or was it earlier this morning)
regarding Attorney General Merrick Garland’s short press
statement on Thursday.

The Trump-FBI Whodunit Only Gets More Embarrassing

With more time to think about it and additional information
coming in from various places, I still think there is some
advantage for the Justice Department in having the AG break
protocol and make remarks. Coverage on the Trump-friendly side
is amusing this morning if you understand where we’re at. It is
running with “Trump demands release of the warrant.” I don’t
understand why you would demand that someone else release
something that it’s been completely within your power to release.

Trump has had the warrant and the inventory of items seized
since the FBI executed the search on Monday. He doesn’t need
court permission to publicize it. He could have done that at any
time. He could do it this very moment and at least be able to
say that he did it before the court did it. He only started to
“demand release of the warrant” when Garland said that the DOJ
would ask the court for permission to unseal it — which Garland
only did because Trump was talking about the search but
withholding the warrant . . . while some people close to Trump
were suggesting to media allies that he hadn’t seen it, and that
the FBI might have flouted their legal obligation to provide
Trump’s representatives with a copy of it.

All that said, however, there is a downside for Garland in
speaking.

What people most wanted to hear from the AG yesterday was why it
was supposedly necessary to proceed with a highly intrusive,
historically unprecedented search of a former president’s home
at this point. Was Trump uncooperative? Did the DOJ ask him for
something he refused to provide? Did the DOJ issue a subpoena
that he refused to comply with? Did something happen between the
last time the DOJ officials met with Trump and his team in June
that created an emergency requiring an unprecedented search
warrant in August?

And is Garland sure that the materials in Trump’s possession are
classified?

Last night, the Washington Post claimed that Trump had retained
top-secret nuclear-weapons intelligence. The report relies on
anonymous sources whom the paper does not even claim are agents
involved in the investigation. Trump has denied it (“Nuclear
weapons is a hoax, just like Russia, Russia, Russia was a
hoax”). Let’s assume for argument’s sake, though, that what the
government is leaking is true. Sure, it would be humiliating for
the former president if his defense is that he declassified
precious national-defense secrets just so he could keep them at
his house as a cool souvenir. But humiliation is very different
from criminal misconduct.

For the Justice Department to obtain a search warrant, it needs
a crime. The obvious crime here would be mishandling highly
classified information. Yet, if Trump declassified documents
while he was still president, then they no longer constitute
classified information that he could criminally mishandle. It
would be totally understandable that the Justice Department and
intelligence agencies would want the physical information back,
but getting it back by search warrant requires probable cause of
a crime, not a demonstration of governmental prudence.

This is important. There is a good deal of reporting about
Trump’s having likely violated the Presidential Records Act. But
the PRA is not a criminal statute. Violating it may be illegal,
but it’s not criminal.

That doesn’t make the PRA irrelevant. I believe the Justice
Department would take the position that, once the agents had a
valid warrant to search for classified information, the PRA
would justify their seizure of any government records (on the
principle that agents are not required to turn a blind eye to
illegality just because it is not covered by the search
warrant). Indeed, to repeat myself, I don’t believe this
escapade is about classified information — at least not
primarily; I believe the FBI and the DOJ are fishing for
evidence that could help them make a January 6 case against the
former president. But regardless of whether I am right about
that, the fact remains that they need probable cause of a crime
to get a warrant, and under the circumstances, we must presume
that the relevant crime is the mishandling of classified
information.

Of course, here, the suspect just happens to have been the one
official in all of government who could declassify whatever
information he chose to declassify. Even if the information at
issue is highly sensitive, top-secret, “special-access program”
intelligence, it would not be classified if he declassified it.

So here is what people are interested in: Did Trump do something
hostile or uncooperative which left Garland no reasonable
alternative but to seek a warrant — something worth blowing up a
230-year norm of not using hardball investigative tactics
against a former president of the United States? And is Garland
sure there was probable cause of a crime here that justify the
issuance of a search warrant?

If Garland had made no statement, we would assume affirmative
answers to these questions. We would assume that he just wasn’t
explicitly providing such answers because (a) the DOJ does not
speak publicly about investigations, and (b) he got a magistrate-
judge to sign the warrant, so he can bank on the court’s finding
of probable cause.

But he did speak. If you’re going to speak, you’ve got to
address the questions that actually matter to people. He didn’t.

In the meantime, Trump is speaking. He says he cooperated with
the FBI and the DOJ and is stunned that, after two months of
silence, they suddenly went to DEFCON 5 with a warrant to rifle
through his home. When Garland speaks but does not refute, or
even attempt to refute, what the former president has said
publicly, it is reasonable for people to deduce that he is not
in a position to rebut Trump’s claims.

One final, related point. The more one thinks about it, the more
incredible it seems that the White House knew nothing about
this. The Justice Department — in particular, those leaking on
its behalf — speaks as if the issue here were the peril the
nation would be in if the intelligence in Trump’s possession
fell into the wrong hands. That’s not a law-enforcement problem;
it’s a national-security problem. Even if Biden were right that
he must never “interfere” in the Justice Department’s work (and
he’s constitutionally illiterate on this point because the
Justice Department exercises his power as his delegate), we are
not talking here about political interference in the
administration of justice. We are talking about the defense of
the United States from hostile forces. That is one of the
president’s main duties — probably his most consequential and
solemn duty.

So how does Garland not tell Biden? How does Biden not call
Trump, behind the scenes and without political noise, and
beseech him to cooperate in returning and safeguarding this
intelligence, regardless of whether Trump had already
declassified it? How does Biden not call, say, Senator Lindsey
Graham and former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and say, “Look,
he listens to and trusts you guys. Go down there and talk to
him. Get him to help us get this stuff back where it belongs.
Let’s not turn this into a debacle.”

I can think of a million things they might have done short of a
search warrant. But I can’t think of a single scenario in which,
if the facts are as government sources claim they are, Biden
would not have been in the loop.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-problem-with-speaking/

[Benedict Milley]

In article <t21q20$3avsm$4...@news.freedyn.de>
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> Democrats are trying to provoke a war with China.
>

A group of five U.S. lawmakers landed in Taiwan on Sunday in
another high-level visit that comes just days after House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi enraged China with a trip to the self-
governed island.

Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., is leading the unannounced delegation.
The group of lawmakers will meet with Taiwanese officials
throughout Sunday. China has condemned such visits in the past,
but has yet to release a statement regarding Markey's group.

Other members of the delegation include Democratic Reps. John
Garamendi of California, Alan Lowenthal of California, and Don
Beyer of Virginia, and Republican Rep. Amata Radewagen of
American Samoa.

China has long claimed Taiwan as its territory, despite the
island being democratic and self-governed.

The Chinese military held extensive live-fire exercises
surrounding Taiwan in the week following Pelosi's visit to the
island.

The Chinese regime argues the top-level visits violate the U.S.
"One China" policy, which states that the U.S. acknowledges the
People's Republic of China as the one and only government of
China.

Pelosi was the highest-level U.S. official to visit Taiwan since
House Speaker Newt Gingrich in 1997.

A group similar to Markey's delegation also made a surprise
landing in Taiwan in April, including Republican Sens. Lindsey
Graham of South Carolina and Ben Sasse of Nebraska.

This is a developing story. Check back soon for updates.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/lawmakers-visit-taiwan-
unannounced-visit-heels-nancy-pelosi-uproar

[Lynch Garland]

In article <t0qp91$2k7gp$9...@news.freedyn.de>
<governo...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Merrick Garland's life clock just sped up by 1000%.
>

If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please
contact the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 988.

An unidentified man reportedly set his car on fire by driving
into a U.S. Capitol barricade early Sunday morning. He then got
out of his car and began firing a weapon indiscriminately before
shooting himself, police say.

U.S. Capitol police say officers immediately responded when
they heard the sound of gunfire at roughly 4 a.m. There were no
reported injuries aside from the driver.

The man's motive in the incident is unknown. The incident
reportedly lasted only a matter of moments, and officers did not
have time to return fire before the man turned his weapon on
himself.

"At this time, it does not appear the man was targeting any
Members of Congress, who are on recess, and it does not appear
officers fired their weapons," Capitol police said in a
statement.

Washington, D.C., Metro Police have taken over the investigation
into the man's death.

The incident comes more than a year after another vehicle
crashed into a Capitol barricade in 2021, killing one police
officer and wounding another.

The attack killed officer Billy Evans and sent the Capitol Hill
Police Department "reeling," according to the Capitol Police
union.

This is a developing story. Check back soon for updates.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/man-crashes-burning-vehicle-capitol-
barricade-begins-firing-gun-shoots-himself-report