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Saturday, July 29, 2017

The GOP delivers Summertime Blues once again!



Yes indeed redux 1959...promises~promises~promises while on the campaign trail...after the election all they deliver is the same ol' same ol' BS...Talk~Talk~Talk no delivery on the promises... however they always cave to the Looney left and deliver more taxes...have y'all had enough of the GOP/DNC song and dance pony show?

Nothing but Taxmen/women...


Friday, July 28, 2017

William Shatner~James Woods~DavidMLatt..The Three Amigos?



Hmmm William Shatner tweeted me in the past telling me that being a Canadian citizen he could not vote in US elections and did not do politics...ha it now appears that he has joined up with James Woods and David M Latt...so now we have the Three Amigos : Captain Kirk ~ Alien Slayer...James Woods ~Vampire Slayer and David M Latt ~Slayer of all things weird~from Zombies to Flying Sharks...the three have teamed up and are now slayers of SnowFlakes,Swamp and Sewer creatures...whom are well documented as being "Killer Tomatoes"...(The Gang of Eight..the DC elite) I'm seeing a sequel coming down the pike on the SYFY channel...as James Woods and William Shatner come out of semi-retirement and hook up with David Latt and become the Three Amigos~Slayer of all weird creatures ...however they need a reborne Buffy~Vampire Slayer to to round out the alliance...I'm thinking Rebekah Kennedy for that part...smart,cute,feisty... persistent being her middle name...Whatcha all think? 









William Shatner Melts Snowflakes With 2 Smug Tweets

Formerly a star on the science fiction series “Star Trek,” where he played Capt. James T. Kirk, legendary actor William Shatner, 86, now spends his days triggering social justice warriors and snowflakes on Twitter with his dose of cold, hard truth.
The latest round of triggerings began Wednesday morning, when he replied to a question about his plans by predicting he would spend most of the day fighting irrational social justice warriors: “Tweet Hello. Have SJWs get offended by figuring some obtuse way to define it. Spend my day telling them off. You know, just a typical day.”
And thus began one of the most hilarious 24 hour trigger fests in recent American history.

Within moments of the tweet being published, SJWs began popping up like moles, crying foul about Shatner’s alleged bigotry, hatred, intolerance and blah, blah, blah.
“He’s a very rich, bored old man who thinks trolling sjws is a good way to have fun,” complained one veritable snowflake with the Twitter name Azhara. “It’s pathetic. Can’t his money get him something to do?”

“And let’s watch this one become a victim right before our very eyes,” the actor quipped in reply, the point being that social justice warriors — a term that encompasses third-wave feminists, racial grievance mongers and even former President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle — have a history of playing the fake victim card.
When one especially annoying snowflake kept incessantly harassing him, Shatner first blocked the SJW and then posted a hilarious tweet poking fun at his harasser’s alleged lifestyle.
“Now he’s been blocked so he can tell the other at Starbucks he just got blocked by me,” he wrote. “Maybe they’ll pitch in & buy him a frappachino?”

That’s hilarious. Take a look:
His joke was based on the stereotype that most social justice warriors are Starbucks-sipping hipster doofuses who act holier-than-thou and as if they know everything — but who are in reality sheltered snowflakes who’d likely crumble to pieces in the presence of the real challenges faced everyday by working-class Americas.

In short, they’re snooty elitists and airheads who simply don’t deserve to be taken seriously.
Kudos to you, Capt. Kirk.
H/T The Washington Times
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Thursday, July 27, 2017

Policing for Profit: Jeff Sessions & Co.’s Thinly Veiled Plot to Rob Us Blind




by:John Whitehead

“Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation, and they are executed in the same manner. The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle — a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game. If the right pressure could be applied to him, he would be cheerfully in favor of polygamy, astrology or cannibalism. It is the aim of the Bill of Rights, if it has any remaining aim at all, to curb such prehensile gentry. Its function is to set a limitation upon their power to harry and oppress us to their own private profit.”— H.L. Mencken

Let’s not mince words.
Jeff Sessions, the nation’s top law enforcement official, would not recognize the Constitution if he ran right smack into it.
Whether the head of the Trump Administration’s Justice Department enjoys being the architect of a police state or is just painfully, criminally clueless, Sessions has done a great job thus far of sidestepping the Constitution at every turn.
Most recently, under the guise of “fighting crime,” Sessions gave police the green light to rob, pilfer, steal, thieve, swipe, purloin, filch and liberate American taxpayers of even more of their hard-earned valuables (especially if it happens to be significant amounts of cash) using any means, fair or foul.
In this case, the foul method favored by Sessions & Co. is civil asset forfeiture, which allows police and prosecutors to “seize your car or other property, sell it and use the proceeds to fund agency budgets—all without so much as charging you with a crime.”
Under a federal equitable sharing program, police turn asset forfeiture cases over to federal agents who process seizures and then return 80% of the proceeds to the police. (In Michigan, police actually get to keep up to 100% of forfeited property.)

This incentive-driven excuse for stealing from the citizenry is more accurately referred to as “policing for profit” or “theft by cop.”
Despite the fact that 80 percent of these asset forfeiture cases result in no charge against the property owner, challenging these “takings” in court can cost the owner more than the value of the confiscated property itself. As a result, most property owners either give up the fight or chalk the confiscation up to government corruption, leaving the police and other government officials to reap the benefits.
And boy, do they reap the benefits.
Police agencies have used their ill-gotten gains “to buy guns, armored cars and electronic surveillance gear,” reports The Washington Post. “They have also spent money on luxury vehicles, travel and a clown named Sparkles.”
Incredibly, these asset forfeiture scams have become so profitable for the government that, according to The Washington Post, “in 2014, law enforcement took more stuff from people than burglars did.” As the Post notes, “the Treasury and Justice departments deposited more than $5 billion into their respective asset forfeiture funds. That same year, the FBI reports that burglary losses topped out at $3.5 billion.”

In 2015, the federal government seized nearly $2.6 billion worth of airplanes, houses, cash, jewelry, cars and other items under the guise of civil asset forfeiture.
According to USA Today, “Anecdotal evidence suggests that allowing departments to keep forfeiture proceeds may tempt them to use the funds unwisely. For example, consider a 2015 scandal in Romulus, Michigan, where police officers used funds forfeited from illicit drug and prostitution stings to pay for ...  illicit drugs and prostitutes.”
Memo to the rest of my fellow indentured servants who are living through this dark era of government corruption, incompetence and general ineptitude: this is not how justice in America is supposed to work.
We are now ruled by a government so consumed with squeezing every last penny out of the population that they are completely unconcerned if essential freedoms are trampled in the process.
Our freedoms aren’t just being trampled, however. They’re being eviscerated.
At every turn, “We the People” are getting swindled, cheated, conned, robbed, raided, pickpocketed, mugged, deceived, defrauded, double-crossed and fleeced by governmental and corporate shareholders of the American police state out to make a profit at taxpayer expense.

Americans no longer have to be guilty to be stripped of their property, rights and liberties. All you have to be is in possession of something the government wants. And if you happen to have something the government wants badly enough, trust me, their agents will go to any lengths to get it.
If the government can arbitrarily freeze, seize or lay claim to your property (money, land or possessions) under government asset forfeiture schemes, you have no true rights.
Here’s how the whole ugly business works in a nutshell.
First, government agents (usually the police) use a broad array of tactics to profile, identify, target and arrange to encounter (in a traffic stop, on a train, in an airport, in public, or on private property) those  individuals who might be traveling with a significant amount of cash or possess property of value. Second, these government agents—empowered by the courts and the legislatures—seize private property (cash, jewelry, cars, homes and other valuables) they “suspect” may be connected to criminal activity.
Then—and here’s the kicker—whether or not any crime is actually proven to have taken place, without any charges being levied against the property owner, or any real due process afforded the unlucky victim, the property is seized by the government, which often divvies it up with the local police who helped with the initial seizure.

In a Kafkaesque turn of the screw, the burden of proof falls on the unfortunate citizenry who must mount a long, complicated, expensive legal campaign to prove their innocence in order to persuade the government that it should return the funds they stole. Not surprisingly, very few funds ever get returned.
It’s a new, twisted form of guilt by association, only it’s not the citizenry being accused of wrongdoing, just their money.
Motorists have been particularly vulnerable to this modern-day form of highway robbery.
For instance, police stole $201,000 in cash from Lisa Leonard because the money—which Leonard planned to use to buy a house for her son—was being transported on a public highway also used by drug traffickers. Despite the fact that Leonard was innocent of wrongdoing, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the theft on a technicality.
Police stole $50,000 in cash from Amanee Busbee—which she planned to use to complete the purchase of a restaurant—and threatened to hand her child over to CPS if she resisted. She’s one of the few to win most of her money back in court.
Police stole $22,000 in cash from Jerome Chennault—which he planned to use as the down payment on a home—simply because a drug dog had alerted police to its presence in his car. After challenging the seizure in court, Chennault eventually succeeded in having most of his money returned, although the state refused to compensate him for his legal and travel expenses.

Police stole $8,500 in cash and jewelry from Roderick Daniels—which he planned to use to purchase a new car—and threatened him with jail and money-laundering charges if he didn’t sign a waiver forfeiting his property.
Police stole $6,000 in cash from Jennifer Boatright and Ron Henderson and threatened to turn their young children over to Child Protective Services if they resisted.
Tenaha, Texas, is a particular hotbed of highway forfeiture activity, so much so that police officers keep pre-signed, pre-notarized documents on hand so they can fill in what property they are seizing.
As the Huffington Post explains, these police forfeiture operations have become little more than criminal shakedowns:

Police in some jurisdictions have run forfeiture operations that would be difficult to distinguish from criminal shakedowns. Police can pull motorists over, find some amount of cash or other property of value, claim some vague connection to illegal drug activity and then present the motorists with a choice: If they hand over the property, they can be on their way. Otherwise, they face arrest, seizure of property, a drug charge, a probable night in jail, the hassle of multiple return trips to the state or city where they were pulled over, and the cost of hiring a lawyer to fight both the seizure and the criminal charge. It isn’t hard to see why even an innocent motorist would opt to simply hand over the cash and move on.

Unsurprisingly, these asset forfeiture scams have become so profitable for the government that they have expanded their reach beyond the nation’s highways.
According to USA Today, the U.S. Department of Justice received $2.01 billion in forfeited items in 2013, and since 2008 local and state law enforcement nationwide has raked in some $3 billion in forfeitures through the federal “equitable sharing” program.
So now it’s not just drivers who have to worry about getting the shakedown.
Any American unwise enough to travel with cash is fair game for the government pickpockets.
In fact, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has been colluding with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and local police departments to seize a small fortune in cash from American travelers using the very tools—scanners, spies and surveillance devices—they claimed were necessary to catch terrorists.
Mind you, TSA agents already have a reputation for stealing from travelers, but clearly, the government is not concerned about protecting the citizenry from its own wolfish tendencies.

No, the government bureaucrats aren’t looking to catch criminals. (If so, they should be arresting themselves.)
They’re just out to rob you of your cold, hard cash.
Think about it for a moment. You pay a hefty fee just to be able to walk free. It’s called income tax. As former presidential candidate Ron Paul recognizes, “The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens would pay nearly half of everything they earn to the government.” And if you refuse to pay any of that so-called income tax, you’ll be severely fined and/or arrested and put in jail.
One more thing: you don’t really own your property. That is, your house or your land. Even when you pay off the mortgage, if you fail to pay your property taxes, government agents will evict you and take your home.
This is not freedom.
There was a time in our history when our forebears said “enough is enough” and stopped paying taxes (a pittance compared to what we are forced to shell out in taxes today) to what they considered an illegitimate government. They stood their ground and refused to support a system that was slowly choking out any attempts at self-governance, and which refused to be held accountable for its crimes against the people. Their resistance sowed the seeds for the revolution that would follow.

Unfortunately, in the 200-plus years since we established our own government, we’ve let the corporate elite and number-crunching bureaucrats pilfer our bank accounts to such an extent that we’re back where we started.
Once again, we’ve got a despotic regime with an imperial ruler doing as it pleases.
But what if we didn’t just pull out our pocketbooks and pony up to the federal government’s outrageous demands for more money? What if we didn’t just line up to drop our hard-earned dollars into the corporate collection bucket, no questions asked about how it will be spent? What if, instead of meekly tolerating the government’s ongoing efforts to rob us blind, we did something about it?
As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, if the government can just take from you what they want, when they want, and then use it however they want, you can’t claim to be anything more than a serf in a land they think of as theirs.

It’s up to “We the People” to demand reform.
These injustices will continue as long as we remain silent.
As American journalist H.L. Mencken observed:

The American of today, in fact, probably enjoys less personal liberty than any other man of Christendom, and even his political liberty is fast succumbing to the new dogma that certain theories of government are virtuous and lawful, and others abhorrent and felonious. Laws limiting the radius of his free activity multiply year by year: It is now practically impossible for him to exhibit anything describable as genuine individuality, either in action or in thought, without running afoul of some harsh and unintelligible penalty. It would surprise no impartial observer if … the goddess of liberty were taken off the silver dollars to make room for a bas-relief of a policeman in a spiked helmet. Moreover, this gradual (and, of late, rapidly progressive) decay of freedom goes almost without challenge; the American has grown so accustomed to the denial of his constitutional rights and to the minute regulation of his conduct by swarms of spies, letter-openers, informers and agents provocateurs that he no longer makes any serious protest.

In other words, make them hear you.
And if they won’t listen, then I suggest it’s time for what Martin Luther King Jr. called for when government doesn’t listen: “militant nonviolent resistance.”
Article posted with permission from John Whitehead

FBI Indicts 2 Pennsylvania Democrat Mayors in Pay-to-Play Probe


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by: Tim Brown 


On Wednesday, two Pennsylvania Democrat mayors were indicted as a result of an FBI pay-to-play corruption probe.
Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski (D) was charged with 14 counts relating to running a pay-to-play scheme, and other offenses while former Reading Mayor Vaughn Spencer (D) "essentially put up a 'for sale' sign in front of their city halls to sell city work to the highest bidder," according to US Attorney for Eastern Pennsylvania Louis Lappen.
Watch the press conference below.

Pawlowski is accused of being involved in the sale of city contracts.  He and others had managed to direct the bids for delinquent city tax collections to his chosen firm.
Lappen said during the news conference that Pawlowski and Spencer "brazenly and repeatedly sold off city contracts."
Lappen highlighted one incident claiming that Pawlowski allegedly solicited contributions to his gubernatorial campaign from two companies that were bidding to collect delinquent taxes for the city.

The Morning Call reports:
Disappointed that the company that had held the contract “had not done anything for him” in the past, Pawlowski, through an intermediary, let the new bidder, identified in documents as Company No. 4, know that in addition to the donation, he wanted Philadelphia Eagles playoff tickets, the documents say.
On Jan. 4, 2014, Pawlowski went to dinner and the game, courtesy of Company No. 4 and a law firm that was helping the company with its bid, the documents say.
That month, Pawlowski allegedly directed then-finance Director Garret “Gary” Strathearn to give the delinquent tax collection contract, worth an estimated $3 million, to Company No. 4. City records show that contract was awarded to Northeast Revenue Service of Wilkes-Barre, one of about two dozen entities on the initial subpoena served on Allentown City Hall on July 2, 2015.

The example highlights the scheme that Lappen said was put into motion with four major Allentown contracts with an estimated total value of about $9.5 million.

Fox News reports:
Officials allegedly had bidding scores changed, to the benefit of a particular bidder, according to Lappen and the indictment.
Lappen said Pawlowski wanted to direct that 2013 contract to a company that provided "a steady stream of benefits" to him, which included campaign contributions and Philadelphia Eagles tickets.
The indictment said that Pawlowski later attended a 2014 Eagles playoff game and ate dinner at a pricey steakhouse, courtesy of a "Company #4."
Spencer is accused of bribery, conspiracy, and honest services fraud along with other Reading officials, according to the indictment.
In what Lappen called an "astounding act of irony," Spencer allegedly pressured City Council President Francisco Acosta (D) to introduce a bill repealing an anti-corruption statute.
$1800 was later allegedly donated to Acosta's wife Rebecca, who was running for a judgeship.
Mike Fleck, who managed Spencer's mayoral campaign and also assisted Pawlowski, was also charged in the probe.

Pawlowski is seeking a fourth term in office in November.  The charges against him include conspiracy to commit mail fraud, bribery and soliciting, extortion under color of official right, mail fraud, wire fraud and honest services mail fraud.
Former Reading Mayor Vaughn Spencer, who used Pawlowski's former campaign manager and best friend Mike Fleck’s consulting firm to run his campaign has also been charged, along with Rebecca Acosta, a Reading School Board member and wife of former Reading City Council President Francisco Acosta, who previously pleaded guilty in a parallel corruption case in Reading and is serving a two-year sentence in federal prison.
Fleck has pleaded guilty in the case and also recorded conversations with Pawlowski for the FBI.