Sen. Justice: Another Back-and-Forthright Windbag

It's amusing that the Daily Caller headline says "backtracked"--when quoting Sen. Justice NOT "backtracking."

Justice' original remarks on immigration enforcement and ICE:

... “Before you know it, you get people that get carried away in their job and whatever it may be, and all of a sudden, then you’re dragging people away that have lived on your street corner for 15 years, and I don’t know that we need to be doing that stuff,” he said in an interview....

It is clear as crystal:  Justice is NOT happy with removing illegal aliens who have been here for a long time.  Key word:  "ILLEGAL"....

His "backtrack"--which is NOT a backtrack:

...“Our brave ICE officers are doing an incredible job protecting our communities, and they must continue to focus on criminals who are here illegally and putting Americans in danger. Violent criminals, drug traffickers, gang members and others who threaten our communities should be identified, arrested and removed,” ...

Oh.  So illegals who are not violent criminals...........???

Never Mind, said Emily. 

Sen. Foghorn Leghorn rides again! 

ZeroHedge Is Wrong! And Fed Is Corrupt, Too!

In an article about the Taj Mahal renovated Fed HQ, ZeroHedge has this:

 ...One thing is certain: a building project that nearly doubled in cost thanks to poor planning, no price cap and "inflation" is a perfect metaphor for the institution it will house.

We think ZeroHedge's assessment is very wrong.

That 'building project' is a metaphor for the entire Deep State.

And--just like Jerome Powell and his Board of self-aggrandizing twits--they don't give a flying f**k what you think or how much you pay.

And if you object too loudly, or present a danger to their projects, there's always the FBI/CIA/NSA/JackSmith treatment, complete with 6-month to 2-year imprisonment BEFORE trial. (Think of the J6 grandmas as The Model.)

Meantime, Sundance calls for the execution firing of the entire Board of the Fed AND its "Inspector General" Clouseau Horowitz:

 

...The FED Board awarded a no-bid contract to the contractor, without an agreement on the building renovation project and the construction costs associated with it until President Donald Trump began drawing attention to it.  This is gross corruption at a massive scale....

 ...It wasn’t until President Trump drew attention to the FED having spent over $2 billion, that FED Chair Jerome Powell, and the FED board requested the construction manager and construction company to provide a cost estimate.  This is unreal, especially considering that IG Michael Horowitz finds no unlawful decision-making in the overall fiasco....

...The FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD just gave the construction company an open-ended blank check to spend as much as they wanted of TAXPAYER MONEY, with no limits and no expectations of cost.  This, according to IG Horowitz is a little concerning, but entirely not a legal problem.

These are the people supposedly in charge of running monetary policy for The United States of America!

Now, we can understand exactly why IG Michael Horowitz was moved from protecting Washington DC corruption within the Dept of Justice, to protecting Washington DC corruption at the Federal Reserve.

Michael Horowitz is not an Inspector General.  He is the corruption manager for the U.S. government!...

Being "Corruption Manager" for the entire USG is exhausting; the guy must be working 24X7.  So he should get a long rest.  At Leavenworth.

So should the Moron (ex-) Fed Chair.  And the rest of the FRB Board.

But no.  This will be another in the endless series of "We Fuc**ed You, and You Can't Do a DAMN THING About It." 

 

  

The REAL GM Dipsticks

 It's actually hard to believe that GM did this.

 General Motors is removing one of the most basic tools under the hood of its new trucks: The oil dipstick. No pulling it out. No wiping it clean. No physically checking your oil yourself. Instead, GM says newer engine hardware made it difficult to package a traditional dipstick, so engineers replaced it with an electronic oil-level sensor that lets drivers check their oil from inside the cab. But it was the way they explained it that really set people off. “We were able to delete the dipstick…” Delete the dipstick. Replace it with electronics.

Trust the sensor....

Trust the sensor?

Sure.  Because sensor-warning lights NEVER give you a false flag.  Sensors NEVER fail.

Right.

The REAL GM Dipsticks are in the engineering department.

For their next trick?  Battery location change. 

Yessss! This!!!!!

We all know that the Jim Jordan model (Talk, talk, talk, pound the table, talk, talk, talk) is preferred by the useless House and Senate figures whose only real concern is TeeeVeee Time and donations for their lifetime sinecures.

So this image is posted solely because posting it feels good.  It will not DO any good....

 

Trump's Diesel Disaster

We've seen all sorts of *stuff* about the diesel price problem.  Two things stand out:  1)  the US actually refines MORE diesel than it uses.  And 2)  Europe is desperate for diesel.

... At the heart of the problem is the fact that Europe won’t purchase cheap Russian diesel as they did before the start of the war in Ukraine. Instead, Europe now relies on the Middle East and the US for it’s supply. According to recent figures, the Middle East produces roughly 40% of Europe’s diesel imports while the U.S. now accounts for 50%. But as a result of the war in Iran, however, Middle Eastern infrastructure has been damaged, and energy flow through the Strait of Hormuz has slowed considerably. Without cheap Russian energy as an option and with limited Middle Eastern output, Europe has placed immense demand on U.S. diesel inventories. That, in turn, has driven up domestic diesel prices in the United States. And since Trump doesn’t have the diplomatic skills to immediately end the hostilities in the Middle East, supply pressure will continue to inflate the diesel market, at least in the near term....

The proposal that Trump should ban export of diesel becomes very interesting in light of the above, but you can bet your net worth that Big Oil is throwing a lot of........ahh..........incentives at Trump & Co. about such a ban.

The cost of Netanyahu's War continues to rise.  Be sure to thank Ms. Adelson next time you're in Vegas. 

Lucy Is Still With Us!

"Peanuts" and "Calvin" were a couple of the best strips.  Both are discontinued, but both have valuable lessons within them.

Here's one from "Peanuts":

 

More Dirtball FEEB Action

 For many FBI agents, acting in accord with American principles will be a big change after years of McCabe, Mueller,  Wray and Comey (among others).

 

Two veteran Washington, DC, FBI agents have been reassigned over their handling of a probe involving threats made to conservative podcaster Katie Miller, the wife of senior White House adviser Stephen Miller, CNN claimed in a report late Saturday.

Sourcing “two people familiar with the move,” the network reported that Michael Burgwald, the special agent in charge of counterterrorism matters at the bureau’s D.C. field office, and his deputy, Courtland Rae, “were ousted from their positions by bureau leadership after investigators determined that allegedly harassing phone calls Katie Miller received from unknown individuals did not warrant further investigation.”...

There are plenty of vacant slots in--say--Wyoming, or Alaska, and plenty of open slots for transcriptionists, office-boys, and maintenance workers.   

Screeching "AI!! AI!! DANGER!!!"

 Gates, of course, this time with the tongue-bath of the NYT.

Remember:  a computer does ALL and ONLY what it's programmed to do.

Last Refuge condenses all this DANGER!! DANGER!! folderol this way:

 ...Put AI control in the hands of government regulators and what exactly do you think they will do with the “trust and safety” mission?  The answer to that question is self-evident from the U.S. government operation over the X (Twitter) platform, and the banning of unapproved information related to the issues of COVID.

The AI FEAR narrative serves two simultaneous interests.  The first is the big tech group who wants AI immunity. The second is the big govt group who want AI control.  When you understand this dynamic, things make sense.

The need for information control, is a reaction to information fear....

By the way:  the Flock database is within easy reach of the US Government.  That's the Government which brought you Covid-19 social controls, shutting down internet sites which had DISapproved content. 

Some people still don't get it. 

ObamaCare Costs Force HEALTH-CARE People to Drop Insurance

Laughing while he said it, Obama calls this "affordable care."

Some U.S. health-care workers are now dropping health insurance coverage as costs continue to skyrocket.

Many health professionals are currently grappling with unaffordable medical bills, according to multiple recent reports. More medical workers will likely forgo health insurance in the near future, potentially straining the nation's healthcare system, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation....

You can thank the dead McCain and a lackluster performance by Paul Ryan (and the Senate (R) Leader) for NOT killing ObamaCare.

And you can thank Obama for the disaster it is.  Have you thanked him appropriately?? 

 

Learn To Code, Sweetie....

These people can join the no-longer-employed "reporters."

Several Hollywood actors, including Princess Diaries star Heather Matarazzo, are trying to raise awareness about new actor’s union requirements that could cause many performers to lose their healthcare benefits....

Awwwww.

Most Hollywood actors campaigned loud and long for ObamaCare.  Now that you're looking at it face-to-face, you don't like it?

Well, then:  learn to code. 

Who Likes the Wars? The Green Bunch!

 For all his recent vagaries, Carlson still has a grip on the Big Picture.

In this video, he notes that Middle Eastern and Russian refineries have been targeted and either destroyed or crippled--and that rebuilding them is a long-term project.

Very long-term, and rather expensive, too.

Then he notes that the Green Crowd has been dead silent about the wars and all the CO2 releases derived from those wars, not to mention the Russia-to-Europe gas-pipeline demolition which Biden did.  (Oh, wait!!!  You're told that it was Ukraine that pulled that off??  So sorry, my mistake.)

He notes the curious price of diesel, gasoline, and other petro-derived products such as fertilizer, those prices seemingly having nothing to do with the quoted price/bbl of petroleum.  (See the price of gasoline vs. the quoted per-bbl price during Biden's regime and compare those numbers with today's.)

Then suggests that all of this ties together, using Bill Gates' unfortunate spilling of the (real) plot: there will be less humans, and the humans that remain will be creating far less CO2--meaning even less humans.

That "less humans" thing has been the Number One Goal of the Green bunch and the Malthusian Enthusiasts, and the Club of Rome, for decades.

Never thought of that, didja? 

It would not surprise us in the least to learn that provoking Putin was part of the plan, and as Tucker notes, who the Hell in this world really cares about 2 oblasts, anyway?  (A good question, that!)

Iranian nukes?  Very responsible people--such as Tulsi Gabbard--simply do not believe that Iran was going to make nuclear bombs.  Also recall that Trump told us that the Iranian nuke program--whatever its progress--was OBLITERATED.  So why did the US have to "OBLITERATE IT" again?  And now that it's gone, why the continuing aggression of the US?

You are right:  Tucker did not explain the Houthis, nor is there a convenient explanation for all the "Who's on First?" dancing going on in the Middle East.

But his theory has the merit of causing one to pause, ain'a?  

"Judge" Sparkle Gets Doused

 Such a sparkler she.......ahh......WAS.

 ...back in June, D.C. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan —a name that belongs on a glitter pen— ruled the whole thing was profoundly illegal and must stop. (Biden appointee.)

Her order scolded that “Congress put protections in place to prevent precisely this type of centralized data bank,” and accused the administration of having “haphazardly combined and repurposed the private information of millions of Americans, including citizenship data that they knew to be unreliable,” thereby allowing states to “actively remove United States citizens from voter rolls based on inaccurate information.”...

SCOTUS reversed, 6-3.  That'll douse her sparkle! 

Political Violence Coming Here?

The columnist here is a retired FEEB who has a serious case of TDS.  But the surveys he presents are....ahh.....interesting.......in that Chinese Curse sort of way.  The good news?  Violence isn't in the cards soon.  (But don't let your ammo supplies run down like the Pentagon's!)

...I listened to Pape discussing his idea with Mario Nawfal yesterday. The basic idea—based, he says, on five years of research—is that approval for political violence among Americans of all political stripes has soared in the last few years. His surveys, he says, show that no less than 30% of Americans of both Left and Right approve of political violence. Not fringe types, but ordinary seeming Americans.  ...

But the stats he cites in the column do not reflect "all" stripes.  Instead, he cites from:

... a survey that was conducted by The Center for Strategic Politics survey on Sept. 3 and Sept. 8-10 among 683 Democratic voters nationwide.....

K.  So Lefties.  You know them:  the Peace and Love Bunch.

 ...Nearly six in 10 Democrats said they would react positively if military leaders removed President Donald Trump from power, while 55% said the same about Trump dying in his sleep.

Forty-three percent said they would feel “very positive” about the military scenario, while 16% said they would feel “somewhat positive,” bringing the total positive response to 59%. Twenty-eight percent said they would feel negatively, and 13% said they would feel neither positively nor negatively. ...

IOW, 'have someone else do the dirty work--like the Generals, or God.  But hey!  We're fine with Trump being dead!' 

Now look at the cross-tabs tables in the column.  What's noticeable?

Old.  White.  Just like you see at those silly March-A-Rounds and Sign-Wavings.

Maybe they would pound Trump-ists with their canes?  Signs?  Walkers?? 

Violence is not the answer, of course--and based on what he presented, it won't be. 

MKE Police, Stupid "Questions," and Black Fatigue

This sort of crap is what leads to "Black Fatigue."

 Milwaukee police released body camera footage Wednesday from the deadly shooting of 23-year-old Printis Smith.

The shooting happened around 6 p.m. near 37th Street and Meinecke Avenue following a car chase that ended about a block north in an alley near 38th and Wright streets on Tuesday, Sept. 8....

Occupants of the car had fired a few rounds off in Glendale; the Milwaukee police saw the car and gave chase.  Eventually the car stopped and an officer began a foot-chase (that's the video.)

So what's the Stupid Question of the Month?

... Smith's family doesn't dispute that he was armed, but say that he never shot at the officer....

Implicit:  Well, if the goblin didn't SHOOT at the cop, why did the cop shoot at HIM?

Yes, that's a stupid question; the goblin POINTED A GUN at the cop and the cop did exactly what YOU would do if someone pointed a gun at you from 6 inches away.

"Questions," my ass. 

On another channel, the anchor went with another stupid question, which was "Why didn't the cop yell 'Drop your weapon!!!' (like they do on all the TeeVee shows)?" 

He had to be reminded that the video was NOT a TeeVee show, for crying out loud.  This anchor is a full-grown man.........we think........ 

The Stupid Questions were given to the reporters/anchors by a rabble-rousing black lawyer who miraculously turns up following every police shooting--if the person who was shot is black.  Not if they were white (rare, indeed), nor Hispanic.  Only the black ones.

Now you know why the term is "Black Fatigue." 

Mayor Johnson Demands MORE State Money

The theme for the Extreeeeme Left?

"Gimme MO' MONEY!!!"

Mayor "Corvair"* Johnson demands what is not rightfully his:

..."The state of Wisconsin is sitting on billions and billions of dollars that should be going back to local governments," Johnson said ...

Actually, that surplus belongs to the people who paid State taxes which were not spent on Extreeeeeme Lefty wishes.

Here's another half-truth un-challenged by "the Press":  

 ... To balance his budget, Johnson proposed increasing the city’s property tax levy by 2% – an increase Johnson notes is below the rate of inflation – from $336.8 million in 2026 to $343.6 million in 2027, with the property tax rate likely to go down to $7.29 per $1,000 of assessed value...

Cute.  What they did NOT tell you?  The "rate" only measures taxes taken vs. the assessed value of the home. The average home assessment has grown from $180K to $220K since 2018.  So while the Mayor wants you to think you're paying less, you're paying more.  The 2026 assessment is up 7.2% over the 2025, so Corvair's "less-than-inflation" B.S. is just that. 

But the Extreeeeeeeme Left knows that repeating lies often enough makes them seem like truth.   

And they know that the camp-follower media will not present any counter-arguments from responsible politicians.

*Corvair:  unsafe at any speed. 

Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt

It's a great selling method, by the way.  IBM used that triumvirate for years--contrasting their machines to those of Burroughs, NCR, Data General, DEC.......and you haven't heard of those brands lately, have you?

F.U.D. works in other venues.

Trump mentioned the F.U.D. of climate.  First it was cooling:  50 years to mass death.  Then--when cooling stopped--it was warming:  50 years to mass death.  Warming stopped, so now it's "climate change":  50 years to mass death.

There was Covid19:  only 10 years to mass death unless everyone took Teh Vaxx.

There is AI:  only a couple years to mass deaths!!!

Note well:  the Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt worked in every one of those cases--until it didn't work any more.

But you'll NOT hear this one mentioned, whether by Trump, or anyone else:

TWO YEARS UNTIL IRAN HAS NUKES!!  MASS DEATH!!!

That record's been played for about 20 years.  Some Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt must continue!!

Wonder why no one mentions that one........ 

Russia and Diesel Fuel

Some would pin the price of diesel on the Iran/Netanyahu War.

It ain't necessarily so, even if it is partially so....

 ...Back in July, when NATO began increased targeting of Russian refinery infrastructure, Russian President Vladimir Putin proactively signed a government order banning the export of Russian diesel fuel.  There have been no exports of Russian diesel since, with exceptions to the shipping industry and some humanitarian farm shipments.

Russia is the world’s second largest producer of diesel fuel and as soon as Putin made this announcement global prices of diesel began to rise. Russia then extended the bans, and the current export ban will run from Aug. 1 until Jan. 31, 2027....

Trump has to walk a fine line here, keeping Putin close.

Don't look to the Usual Idiot Democrats to have a grasp on this. 

Accomplishments of Congress

This is just the RECENT accomplishments list.  Speaker Johnson--he of the very pretty hair--has sent Congress home because there's nothing left to do.  And yes, we know that the DoJ is also disinclined to pursue cases which will endanger the DeepState/Protected Class.

 

Josh Kaul: Another Blithering Idiot Lefty

The (D) Party is running TWO incompetent extreme-Left candidates here; one for Governor, and one for Attorney General.

In the Governor's race, "Dirt McGurk" Crowley has blown his County budget by wild overspending, compounded by having an alleged narcotics trafficker on his payroll--and then forgetting to renew the County's health-insurance contract (!)

In the case of Josh Kaul?  His Department of Justice funded an extreme anti-police outfit in Madison with Federal grant money, and overpaid them by almost $50K.  The "errors" were so outrageous that the BIDEN Administration called Kaul's DOJ a "high-risk grantee."  BIDEN!!!

Kaul recently awoke from his 4-year nap to make a couple of campaign appearances.  Wisconsin should vote for Toney and allow Josh to go back to sleep in his Mommy's basement again. 

Exxon Offline Refinery......???

 Last Refuge is suspicious when a Midwest refinery producing 11 MILLION gallons of gasoline and diesel goes off line for a week.

C'mon.  Primary AND secondary electrical feeds go down simultaneously all the time.

Pumps fed by those lines cannot hold back floodwaters.

It's all natural. 

George Carlin Was Right

Carlin made a lot of brilliant observations.  Here's one:

 

 

Who IS This Cow Dana Bash?

It's "gross" that Americans will not vote for Shari'a?

It's time for you to change the channel in your airport.  See if CNN can pay this bint Bash without a stream of tax dollars. 

Hegseth: "Put On Your Big Boy Pants, NATO"

 No wonder Hegseth is under continuous attack.  No more European vacations for generals and aides-de-camp in Brussels; wives will be PO'd......Congressmen won't be "inspecting" US facilities in Europe.....

 ...This summer, Hegseth told NATO allies that the U.S. will take a hard look at its force structure in Europe, with an eye toward having Europe increasingly protect itself....

....European allies “have to be willing to stand up and do something in a strong way about” defending their own continent.

Hegseth said the review would last no longer than six months, according to a news release on the War Department website.

“We’re going to keep a close eye on allies who are not doing that and who say ‘no,’ or ‘maybe’ or ‘wait and see’ when it matters most,” he said. “It’s a review that some countries will fail ...

...“This is the right thing to do by the American people; it’s the right thing to do by this alliance. Europe can and must take primary responsibility for its conventional defense as it pledged at The Hague Summit and in the process safeguarding Europe’s defense for generations to come,” he said....

Reports are that US could withdraw up to 40% of its forces in Europe, which would save the US taxpayer a whole lotta cash that could be used to reduce the deficit, or the national debt, or to fix roads.  

 

Accurate, But Incomplete

Actually, this depiction covers the entire RINO & Deep State bunch.

 

Rep. Salazar: WHO Do You Represent??

 This woman thinks she represents legal Hispanic immigrants?

 ...“Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far,” the three-term congresswoman said. 

“In July, 50% of the 50,000 people that were detained had no criminal record,” she claimed. “Be careful what your advisers are telling you about immigration policies. 

“The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.” ...

That's confusing, dear.  Are you saying that the ILLEGALS 'helped get Trump to the White House,' or that actual US citizens of Hispanic descent are PO'd about tossing the illegals out of the country?

If it's the latter, then we have a real problem here. 

Paul Mitchell Schools: Tax Drains

A few Wisconsin schools specialize in taking tax money and flushing it down the drain.

Students of the "Paul Mitchell The School" operations in Milwaukee and Madison have sucked up $2.2 million or so in the last couple of years, but forty percent of those loans will go unpaid.

"Paul Mitchell, The School" ops depend on tax dollars for between 66%-84% of their revenue.

Maybe some responsible Wisconsin government entity should take a look at those dumps. 

 

The Boasberg Problem Gets Worse

Natalie Winters is a jewel.  Let's hope she has a good security detachment.

 Judge James Boasberg, who confronted the Trump administration over its 2025 deportation flights, was a nine-time host for a Chinese law exchange funded by a Chinese Communist Party-linked spy front.

Six of those annual host credits came while Boasberg served on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. One came in 2020, when he was its presiding judge. The court reviews some of the government’s most sensitive applications for foreign-intelligence surveillance and searches....

Of course, no other DC-based jurists knew anything about this, right.  We think of CJ Roberts, for example, who does the "see no/hear no/speak no act very well, indeed.

There are lots of other blackrobes around D.C., too.

NONE of them had the sense to warn Boasberg about his associations?

Nor did ex-Cong. Swalwell..... 

Trump Buried Epstein Report

 Recently, Tucker Carlson has been somewhat erratic.  But this one is not just tossing poop at a wall:

... [Carlson] said that he warned the president about the political ramifications of withholding the files in the summer of 2025 when Trump was facing overwhelming scrutiny for his administration's handling of the late pedophile's files. 

'My position from the beginning with Trump, I said it to Trump, was, 'I don't understand why you would ever keep any of this stuff secret.' And I got like a bunch of different answers,' Carlson told the outlet. ...

... 'The order to cover it up came from Trump,' the former Fox News host said. 'I asked him why. And he gave me this long, very emotional explanation that this was all a plot against him, like Russiagate.'...

So far, Tucker's claim looks utterly ridiculous, right?

Read on:

 ...Responding to Carlson's claims, the White House did not directly deny the account, but noted how Trump has 'been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein' and that he has done more for the pedophile's victims 'than anyone before.'...

So Trump DID give the order.

We don't think Trump was a visitor to Pedo Island.  But at least one of his buddies was, and probably more than just one.  But that's not the real scandal, which is that Epstein was an Israeli operative.  That's something Trump really wants to keep secret. 

More Welfare for Israel--and Horrific Results for Palestinians

 Trump's actions here are intolerable.

 According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.

How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs....

That's only the beginning of the story.  The Mark 84 is an extremely destructive instrument; the US has never used it in any civilian areas for exactly that reason.

 

At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951

How very nice of us.

Doesn't look like a hard sell:

... The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it....

If all this is true, Congress should take a very long and hard look at who--exactly--is funding this Zionism Ultra move.  It won't be hard:  all it requires is a mirror. 

Patel Has the Losing Side on Bestiality and Flock

This guy Patel has a strange view of the world.  First, he constructs a statistically near-impossible case.

... Patel has doubled down on defending the policy after the FBI revised its hiring standards in June, allowing some applicants with past involvement in prostitution, employer theft, bestiality, or animal cruelty to remain eligible under certain circumstances, according to a CBS News report....

Oh.

Patel has an explanation, too!!

The new guideline allows the FBI to hire people who have INVOLUNTARILY participated in bestiality.

Oh.

... [Sen.] Kennedy later pressed Patel on the distinction between voluntary and involuntary conduct.

“How do you involuntarily do it?” Kennedy asked.

Patel explained that human traffickers, whom he called “some of the worst individuals on planet earth,” can force victims into degrading acts beyond prostitution.

“They don’t just traffic you for prostitution; they traffic you for degrading acts of all kinds, and they force you into that type of conduct,” Patel said. “And some of these individuals go on to be law enforcement officers who qualified to be law enforcement officers and later applied to the FBI.”...

So.  First you need a cartel.  Then you need a goat (dog, sheep, chicken....whatever.)  Then you need some person who f***s the critter--and is otherwise qualified to be a FEEB.

Really, Kash? How many people are there who funnel into that set of parameters?  8?  2?

Really??

Patel then goes on to love him some Flock. (We shall not play the "Flock/Bestiality" game here.)

... Trump-appointed FBI Director Kash Patel echoed Trump's recent sentiments on Flock cameras and defended the FBI's access to and use of the cameras, telling the Senate Judiciary Committee he believes Flock license-plate cameras are not mass surveillance because they are in public places, so people should not expect privacy there....

BTW, Trump is wrong, too.  Both of them should read Carpenter. 

Channel 58 Goes Dirtball-Stupid

 Ms. Merck should be ashamed to show her face again in polite society.

 Online records show the political and aviation history of the man who landed the plane on Lake Wausau with Congressman Tom Tiffany on board....

Gee, Ms Merck!  You didn't investigate the pilot's marriage, wife, and children?

Did he ever return a library book late?  How about parking tickets?

Get back to work.  Find SOMETHING. 

The Archdiocese's Ms. Gallagher vs. 8 USC §1324

 

(A) Any person who—

(i)

knowing that a person is an alien, brings to or attempts to bring to the United States in any manner whatsoever such person at a place other than a designated port of entry or place other than as designated by the Commissioner, regardless of whether such alien has received prior official authorization to come to, enter, or reside in the United States and regardless of any future official action which may be taken with respect to such alien;

(ii)

knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, transports, or moves or attempts to transport or move such alien within the United States by means of transportation or otherwise, in furtherance of such violation of law;

(iii)

knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;

(iv)

encourages or induces an alien to come to, enter, or reside in the United States, knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that such coming to, entry, or residence is or will be in violation of law; or

(v)

(I)

engages in any conspiracy to commit any of the preceding acts, or

(II)

aids or abets the commission of any of the preceding acts,

shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).

(B) A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs—

(i)

in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i) or (v)(I) or in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), or (iv) in which the offense was done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both;

(ii)

in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;

(iii)

in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) during and in relation to which the person causes serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365 of title 18) to, or places in jeopardy the life of, any person, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and

(iv)

in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) resulting in the death of any person, be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined under title 18, or both.

 

 

Cowherd: The Packers Are "Soft"

 Cowherd's analysis of the Packers' SIX-GAME LOSING STREAK:

They are "soft."

That fits Matt LaFleur's style.

To the Packer Board of Directors:

YOU COULD HAVE HAD HARBAUGH.  

Comer: Blowing the Call Here? Why??

House Oversight has long been the domain of show-horses.  NOT the domain of "go"-horses.  Remember Mr Wrestler, Jim Jordan?

Yah.

His successor, Rep. Comer, now "demands" the FBI's findings on the Somalian-in-Congress, Omar.  But as we all know, if the Feds release their findings, their case for immigration fraud (along with the case for immediate expulsion from the USA), goes straight down the porcelain tube.

So why is Comer "demanding" it?

Think twice before answering...... 

Lawyer? Or Just a Race-Monger?

 This guy has a track record and it is not a good one.  So his choice--to continue digging--will not produce what he wants, unless he really wants to touch off a war.

...The civil rights attorney now representing Smith's family, B'Ivory LaMarr, said family members who were shown the body camera video saw something completely different than what police described. ...

Maybe they did.  Or maybe the "lawyer" said it.

...Milwaukee Police Association President Alex Ayala released the following statement:

"I have personally reviewed the officer’s body-worn camera video of the incident. While I will not interfere with the independent investigation or disclose every detail of footage that has not yet been publicly released, I cannot remain silent while a Milwaukee police officer is falsely accused of carrying out a "cold killing" or an "execution," as described by the attorney and the family of the deceased."...

"The video shows Printis Smith fleeing with a gun in his hand, repeatedly disregarding the officer’s commands to get on the ground and becoming involved in a close-range physical struggle with the officer. In the final visible image before the gunfire, Smith still has the gun in his hand and his finger is engaging (or pulling) the trigger."...

It is unusual for Ayala to come out swinging this hard over a police shooting, which tells you something.  

Li'l B'Ivory is overplaying his hand.  That's not smart business. 

 

"Guilty," Says Waymo Car

 If you can't discern the problem here..........

 

A Waymo vehicle pulled over around 4 a.m. on September 3 and police were contacted after the company detected a “violation of … terms of service involving a firearm,” according to the Los Angeles Times.

The incident involving two passengers occurred in San Francisco, where Waymo “cooperated fully” with police....

Oh.

What we really need in this country is more cameras. 

 

What Codevilla Suggested After 9/11

 Kennedy of the Committee on the Present Danger maintains--along with many others including Angelo Codevilla--that Saudi Arabian intel assisted the 9/11 Muslim terrorists.

Thus, Codevilla suggested that the US should have rounded up 5,000 members of the Saudi "royal family" and tried them in US courts as combatants, and execute the bastards.* 

We still could, ya'know.  Why not?

 Bush failed.  Obama failed.  Trump failed.  But then, an election is coming up in only 2 years.

*Found on this video beginning 18:00 or so. 

Here's Where Flock Is Going

 Jessica McBride and Ann Coulter both love Flock surveillance.

W.I.L.L. and a large number of others do NOT love Flock surveillance.

Forget for a moment the 4th Amendment discussions surrounding Flock (and Axon, etc.) surveillance.  They are a bit arcane and--as Jessica is often told--not easy for non-lawyers to understand.  You could even forget about Flock to some extent, as the Next Step (which needs Flock) is already here.

As Americans turn against artificial intelligence, AI companies are building programs to surveil and identify troublemakers in advance....

 An investigative report published this week by The American Prospect revealed that, “in addition to monitoring activists in the vicinity of Anthropic executives and keeping tabs on protests near physical Anthropic assets, the firm is also implementing a ‘pre-crime’ approach, attempting to predict incidents before they happen. In some cases, that also means reporting suspects to police before a crime occurs.”...

Oh.  

Before a crime occurs.  

You should read that again:  BEFORE a crime occurs.

 ...For example, last month, local media reported that Anthropic called the police on a man who told Claude that he bought an AR-15 and “had CEO Dario Amodei ‘in his sights.'”

Interestingly, while Anthropic was quick to call the cops, the company also refused to show police the messages. “In short, Anthropic reported a user for in-platform speech, and then refused to provide police with evidence of actual wrongdoing,” the Prospect pointed out....

What need have we of "proof"?  AI has accused and convicted the fellow.  Please incarcerate him.

By the way:  Flock and Axon, etc. are absolutely necessary to this.

Data Centers are the vehicle in which AI speeds to its conclusions.  Just sayin'.... 

The DOOM DOOM DOOM of AI??

About a week ago, the local nooz peeps (Ted Perry was one) were losing their [minds] over an appearance by an "ex-AI employee" who said that AI 'will kill us all.'

We saw the video of the kid making his statement and were slightly suspicious, but well, if we're all going to die, we're all going to die.  Man proposes, God disposes.

Now--in an essay that Ted Perry will probably NOT mention--some are saying that the kid was part of an op which included Obama as a central player.

 The “AI Apocalypse” scare campaign looks suspiciously like the climate hoax. How convenient that it’s come to a head right as the midterm election season kicks off this week....[It also reeks of Covid-19, by the way.]

...Of course Barack Obama is involved. The former president and back-room Machiavelli “has taken a special interest in AI in recent years, and has offered himself as a sounding board to industry leaders, including [Open AI’s Sam] Altman and Mr. Amodei,” says The New York Times.

During a closed-door midterm fundraiser in Manhattan on Thursday with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Obama urged party donors and Democrat House members to make AI regulation the center of their agenda. He told them AI was even more “dangerous,” than nukes....

Oh.  Government should 'regulate AI,' says Obama.

The first question you should have is "Who will regulate the regulators?"

The next question:  Who's going to get rich when that happens?

Answer to Q1:  the Deep State.

Answer to Q2:  the Deep State's pals--the moneymen.

"Teh Nooz" was played. 

By the way:  Marc Andreessen disagrees with the Obama/Deep State request. 

 

Communism: Contra the Way, Truth, and Life

 Christ said that He was 'the Way, the Truth, and the Life.'  In other words, those three are actually one (in Christ), but should be apprehended as one.  Thus, an attack on one is an attack on all of them.

 ...Communism was never primarily an economic system. Economics was the surface. Beneath it lay something far more insidious: a total, systemic, institutionalized commitment to lying. Not occasional dishonesty. Not spin or propaganda in the ordinary sense. Something deeper – a civilizational war against truth itself, waged through every institution, every classroom, every newspaper, every conversation, until reality itself became negotiable and the lie became the air people breathed....

See if you recognize the pattern--and the similarities between this pattern and today's Democrat Party, particularly its large and growing DSA component:

 ...What we call wokeism today, or the broader radical left, is not a new phenomenon. It is the same operating system running on updated hardware. The specifics have changed – instead of the proletariat, we have marginalized identity groups; instead of bourgeois class enemies, we have racists and transphobes; instead of socialist realism, we have DEI statements. But the deep structure is the same. That deep structure is this: truth is not discovered, it is assigned. Reality is not something to be understood honestly but something to be narrated strategically. Language is not a tool for communication but a weapon of power. And anyone who resists the approved narrative is not simply wrong – they are dangerous, and must be silenced, shamed, or destroyed....

Communism's principal enemies are, in order, the Church and the family.  Both express truth and life; both of those are inimical to the success of Communism, as is 'the Way,' which is of self-sacrifice, not self-aggrandizement/enrichment.  Thus, the attacks on the Church which often are not overt; rather, the Communist simply takes control, as in China, or Russia--or in the Talarico "church" and its many imitators.  

As to the attack on the family?  You can spell that F-E-M-I-N-I-S-M, which has morphed into transsexuality and--in its own odd way--approval of homosexual "marriage."  

Read Solzhenitsyn.  Read Szczawinski (at the link above.)

Think and pray. 

 

Flock Brings '1984' To Life!

 If you read some "X" contributors whose names begin with "Jessica", you'd swear that Flock is the ONLY way that cops can find rapists, child-kidnappers, mass shooters, and other criminal offenders; thus Flock is an IMPERATIVE for "safety".

It's not, of course; but there are a lot of ......ahh........girly-girls on "X".

Funny that they don't mention the patents filed by Flock, eh?

 

FLOCK patent indicates it’s a national citizen identification and tracking system using neural networks. The ALPR cameras are just an entry point. The real product is the DSOQ database and the AI models that identify, classify, and track people....

The "opt-in" language and the dynamic footprint language prove this was never just about police cameras. This was designed from day one to incorporate private cameras, smartphones, and any video source. Its a surveillance architecture designed to crowdsource video from the public...

Oh.

 ...The patent explicitly includes a neural network for identifying PEOPLE It explicitly includes a neural network for HEIGHT AND WEIGHT. Those are body characteristics. Those are biometric surrogates. You do not need someone's height, weight, and clothing type to read a license plate. You need those things to identify a PERSON when you cannot or choose not to use facial recognition. ...

Further--and most chilling:

... the system was designed to expand its coverage by incorporating ANY camera, ANYWHERE. The patent envisions neighborhood watches, commercial security systems, home security systems, traffic cameras, AND portable recording devices which means smartphones, body cameras, drones, and any personal video device. The "dynamic" footprint is not a feature. It is a design specification for national-scale coverage using every available camera as a node...

If you call that "Safety," you are as deluded as those who call boys "girls." 

Naughty, Naughty, Mark Attanasio

He plays the humble $Zillionaire very well.  But he's not all that humble.

 

Milwaukee Brewers owner Mark Attanasio is being forced to dedicate a $2 million beachfront property for public use after his company allegedly used heavy machinery to rip sand and rocks from a protected California beach to shore up his Malibu mansion.

The California Coastal Commission voted unanimously Thursday to approve a settlement requiring Attanasio’s company, 2XMD Partners LLC, to restore the damaged shoreline and dedicate the multimillion-dollar property for public use in eastern Malibu.

The company must also remove a private staircase and rock wall that the commission said blocked public access along the coast....

Who the Hell told you that you could rip up a shoreline because you own a house too close to the water? 

Looks like ticket prices are going up--again. 

Commie Conference, Chicago

Fitting location for a national conference of Communists, Chicago is.  Alinsky, Fr. Burke, Cdl. Bernardin., Hillary Clinton....

What went on?

 ...Aidan Grogan found himself on the inside absorbing family abolition workshops, discussions of “communist sex forests,” a literal crayon-coloring exercise during one panel, “transfeminist abolitionism,” and lectures about the “cis-sexist motherhood regime.”...

"Family abolition," eh?

You'd best be wearing Class III, pal. 

The Security State: 9/11>Fauci>Flock

He makes a good point.

 

...Twenty-five years on, remembrance or nonremembrance is still one of the most useful tools for understanding generational divergence in opinion on the world 9/11 created.

The most obvious difference is in attitudes toward the security state. For those who remember 9/11, the term security state is itself pejorative. It calls to mind the Patriot Act, the Transportation Security Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and other governmental novelties that smack of tyranny to those who lived through the supposedly carefree ’90s. These days, no one seriously discusses dismantling the agencies or rolling back the Bush-era surveillance legislation. And the security cameras, bollards, and metal barriers now ubiquitous on city streets are accepted elements of an urban environment. Still, those who recall life without these encumbrances grouse about them, and, sometimes in fits of pique, vow to smash them. That dissatisfaction often expresses itself as opposition to other innovations whose introduction works under the same compulsory, invasive logic: masking mandates, data centers, Flock cameras....

How to determine someone's age?  Easy!!

...The desire to be rid of the security state and its accoutrements is baffling to those who remember nothing else. For most Americans under the age of thirty, constant surveillance and security mandates are not unprecedented; they are normal. And in some cases for some people, they are even comforting. ...

Yah, no:  we are not accusing Jessica McBride of being 'under thirty.'  Her obsession with security cameras comes from a different motive.

Here's the real shocker:

 ...Younger people are not nearly as bothered; a few years ago, one study found that a surprisingly high number—nearly a third of Americans under 30—support the installation of government surveillance cameras in houses....

Wow. 

Davidson's Right: It's Religion

 Twenty-four years ago, we stated LOUDLY that the 9/11 event was a religion problem, contrary to the wish-casting of Bush the Dumber.

Maybe Davidson had written about that before we said it; maybe not.  Don't care.

Bush and the Cloud People (the Establishment) think in terms of money, prestige, and power.  Trump has the same problem, although sometimes less obvious.

Muslims and observant Jews think otherwise.  Christians worthy of the name think otherwise.

A  quarter-century removed from the terrorist attacks of 9/11, several things are now obvious that were not at all obvious to American elites in 2001 (although they should have been). Perhaps the most obvious, as I wrote earlier this week, is that the attacks inaugurated a religious war that we have lost, or at least are in the process of losing. The West failed to recognize the religious nature of the conflict because it was committed to a secular liberal account of the world that dismissed the role of religion and religious claims in shaping cultures and societies....

Davidson is right.  The Crusaders were right.  The Reconquista warriors were right.  Jan III Sobieski was right.

Mohammed was a Great Heretic, and no matter Shi'a or Sunni, his followers are, too.  A few are "peaceful."  But the not-so-peaceful ones in your neighborhood are not wearing signs, are they? 

Kapenga: NOT Just Another Politician

 Jessica did Waukesha County voters a big favor by interviewing both candidates for County Exec.

Looks like Kapenga is the better of the two. 

Why?

He is not just another politician.  He didn't work for another politician to 'get into the flow.'  He didn't do another politician's bidding--on virtually every issue--to gain a nice chair in Wisconsin's legislature. 

In contrast, Kapenga is a green-eyeshade hawk who knows what Government should--and should NOT--do.  He has a reputation for being prickly.  He earned it because he is not another "Go Along, Get Along" kind of guy.

Finally, unlike the Professional Political People, Kapenga has a sense of humor about it all.  That's a very good thing.

 

 

Trump Announces "Free Shit"!

We all knew before The Staircase that Trump was a Democrat.

He still is, although his brand of "Democrat" largely left the building with Adlai Stevenson.

Trump's fixation with money, however, has led him to a very dark place:  Free Shit!

Sad. 

Bishops Playing Politics

Seven US Bishops have told their people that they no longer have to attend Sunday Mass.

Because Meanies in ICE.

None of those Bishops had the courage to resist the FauciFraud, of course.  To do that would be just too..........Catholic. 

So thousands of Catholics died without the Last Rites; millions could not go to Confession, nor receive Holy Communion.  Funerals and weddings were cancelled, the latter (likely) at some cost to moral rectitude.

In one FauciFraud instance, a Catholic decided to attend Mass on a weekday.  There were 3 people in a church which holds 550; those three were the priest, a "security guard", and that Catholic.

The Catholic was thrown out of Mass. 

Esenberg the Greenie?? Or Jessica the Totalitarian?

Jessica is having a meltdown over the principled (4th Amendment) resistance to Flock's Opticon State.  Apparently Jessica needs a security blanket, so let's have a Totalitarian State!

So she is happy to imply that Rick Esenberg's W.I.L.L. outfit--and several thousand other citizens--are in bed with the Lefty Loonies.

 

...Muskego Mayor Rick Petfalski wants the public to know the context behind the anti-Flock campaign being painted as “grassroots” in the local media. “Here in Muskego, NoCams Muskego is being led by Pete Karas, a Wisconsin Green Party candidate for secretary of state and political organizer who has publicly called for building a stronger ‘leftist party,'” he said....

One Lefty-Looney, Two Lefty-Looney, THREE Lefty-Looney, FOUR LEFTY-LOONIES!!

 “Nationally, progressive organizations involved in the No Kings coalition—including the ACLU and Indivisible—have helped organize and amplify campaigns against Flock cameras,” said the mayor.

OK, Jessica.  Find another topic.  D'ya like Trump's "Free Shit!!!" proposal??? 

Port Washington Mayor's REAL Fear

The Mayor of Port Washington should be having sleepless nights over this.

 "So where is the Achilles heel? I think that it resides with Anthropic and OpenAI, because they are so central to the entire AI food chain. According to reports from various Wall Street firms, something like 70% of hyperscaler AI revenue comes from Anthropic and OpenAI... I can't confirm those statistics, but they sound right given what we actually know about Oracle."

... "OpenAI's June quarter revenue reached $6.7 billion, up only 18% versus the March quarter. Compare that to Anthropic's revenue of $11 billion-plus in the June quarter, which was up over 100%... OpenAI's costs reached $12.3 billion, up $3 billion versus the March quarter. So, in three months, revenue increased $1 billion, but costs surged $3 billion. Things are not moving in the right direction."...

Now the fun:

 ...Chief revenue officer Denise Dresser left in August after roughly eight months, two days after Brad Lightcap ended an eight-year run. ...

Dresser is a surprise, as she would (putatively) make a Large Fortune at the IPO.

 ...And Eisman doesn't mention Fidji Simo, who stepped down in July and was arguably the bigger loss....

 Aaaaaaand the conclusion:

..."If OpenAI fails, Oracle is in immediate trouble because of the large increase in Oracle's debt levels. Oracle's debt rating is barely above junk. Oracle's S&P credit rating is triple-B-minus, which is quite weak. Like I said before, it has a $600 billion backlog, and half of that backlog is from OpenAI." ...

Like we said, the Mayor of Port Washington's head is not resting easily on the pillow. 

Democrats Demolished "Affordability"

 Trenchant observation (charts and graphs at the link) on Who Screwed US Consumers:

 ...Americans hate, hate, hate higher prices. And higher gasoline prices hit us in the face every time we get gas, and every time we drive by a gas station. It’s just relentless.

But spending on gasoline and other energy goods just doesn’t measure up compared to the soaring amounts we spend on housing, health insurance, other insurance, other services, food, and durable goods....

Housing = Biden's 20 million illegals sucking up living quarters.

Health Insurance = ObamaCare's Byzantine regulations + payoffs to insurers.

Other Insurance = Auto and housing:  what you pay to pay for Biden's 20 million illegals who are NOT insured.

The Democrats know this.

Tiffany (and other actual Americans) ought to scream this from the rooftops. 

Trump To Play Fair With Canada

Yes, indeed, Trump will "play fair" with Canada.

...  what many do not realize is that the Canadian Government, including Canadian Provinces, have banned American Small Businesses and Companies from selling into their Government Procurement Markets. 

This is the case even though Canada gets broad access into the massive American Government Procurement Market, including those of our States. That is not reciprocity, it is a Canadian Trade Scam. From now on, NO RECIPROCITY – NO ACCESS! I am hereby directing the GSA, working with the USTR, to take all necessary steps to REMOVE Canadian-origin products from GSA’s Multiple Award Schedules unless Canada restores full and fair reciprocity for American Farmers and Companies....

That's fair.

 

The Half-Right Imam in Michigan

Cannot argue with the first half of this statement:

... The imam at the mosque that Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed frequently attends has railed against homosexuality, arguing that it is “against human nature,” and complained that all too often, Jews are teaching Islam in American universities,...

Homosexual practice IS contrary to nature, and the homosexual inclination is a grave disorder.  Note well:  there is a BIG difference between homosexual practice and merely being homosexual; it's all the difference in the world.

As to who 'teaches' Islam?  Don't know about that.  But the imam should note that the "Catholic" Biblical Ass'n has appointed a Jewess its President.

So he shouldn't feel like the Lone Ranger with his complaint. 

 

GWB Looks Worse (Again), and McConnell??? OMG

We began referring to George W Bush as "Bush the Dumber" a while back, and as time goes on, the appellation becomes more and more appropriate.  At the same time, it's obvious that Mitch (the Dead) McConnell fell for the ChiCom "honeypot" scheme which works very well in D.C.  This is why NOBODY trusts the Federal Government any more.

...Chinese Communist Party (CCP) officials appointed Sen. Mitch McConnell’s wife to multiple government positions, many of which partially overlapped with her two U.S. Cabinet posts, according to Chinese government and state media reports unearthed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

Elaine Chao, who married the Kentucky Republican in 1993, has held numerous U.S. government positions since the 1980s, including serving as Department of Labor (DOL) secretary throughout President George W. Bush’s tenure and as Department of Transportation (DOT) secretary during President Donald Trump’s first term....

(Trump had been hornswaggled into a lot of stupid appointments the first time around.) 

So what jobs did the Chinese Communists give to Bush's Labor Secretary?

... Chao — whose Chinese name is Zhao Xiaolan — has also received at least four Chinese government positions since 2008, including within arms of a CCP influence and intelligence agency called the United Front Work Department (UFWD), according to DCNF translations of Chinese government and state media reports. Beijing uses the UFWD to steer foreign policy and “gain access to advanced foreign technology,” according to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC)....

Great. 

Contemptible Clancy RN's

The Clancy case, again.

Seems that there were three RN's on the jury, and they "provided information" to the jurors "based on their own experience and knowledge."

That's a serious no-no.

 ...Jurors are required to consider only evidence and expert testimony provided and cross-examined in court. They are not allowed to substitute their own expertise and then use that to pressure other jurors. As the judge explicitly stated in his instructions to the jury, “So if somebody has a question in that jury room, you are not allowed to try and answer it by anything other than through the exhibits and evidence you've heard.” This is the entire purpose of accredited experts in trials. And according to jurors in this very case, that instruction from the judge was deliberately and repeatedly violated by multiple pro-Clancy jurors....

No doubt that jurors across the land 'share their expertise' during jury deliberations, but this was the wrong place to do it.  

So yes, they should be brought up on Contempt-of-Court charges.  Maybe they'll get a juror who refuses to convict them.

 

Walker Goofed Up. Fix It!

 David Crowley has a problem.  Under his watch, jail inmates have are using FREE laptop or tablet computers to contact people on the outside.

In one case, a clearly-dangerous murderer used one to intimidate witnesses.

Crowley pinned the tail on the donkey elephant:

...Crowley's team noted tablets were first made available to inmates in 2018 through the Wisconsin Department of Corrections under then-Governor Scott Walker. Then, the tablets were reportedly available to inmates for $137.  ...

Walker screwed up, but at least he charged the inmates for the device.

Crowley?  He GAVE the damn things away.

It's a re-run of "Dumb and Dumber."  

Don't elect Dumber.