Better Gun Law Enforcement, And Better Fact-Checking

Inspired by the recent Aurora IL shooting the NY Times takes a fair and balanced look at the recurring problem that our existing gun laws are not enforced. We learn that safety is neither safe nor cheap:

Still, only eight states have laws that provide an explicit mechanism so that people suspected of having guns in violation of those prohibitions are actually required to give them up. And some of those states merely allow — but do not require — the police to seek a court order to confiscate such guns.

That was the case in Illinois, where the authorities knew for more than four years that Gary Martin was a violent felon but apparently did nothing to ensure that he surrendered the laser-sighted Smith & Wesson handgun that he used to kill five co-workers in Aurora, Ill., on Friday.

...

Unlike Illinois, most states do not have an explicit process allowing the police a way to confiscate guns from people suspected of being prohibited owners. But even in those states that do, two factors explain why many police and sheriff’s departments use these laws so infrequently: time and danger.

“That’s a challenging situation for law enforcement to knock on a door and say, ‘Hey, we’re here to take your guns, Mr. Dangerous Criminal,’” said Adam Skaggs, chief counsel of the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which advocates tighter gun laws.

Well, yes, police work can be dangerous. Showing up after a shooting is not so threatening physically, but then again, showing up with a shooting is also dangerous - six officers were injured in the Aurora shoot-out, so danger deferred is not always danger denied.

As to budgets:

But when Illinois lawmakers sought to tighten state law so that the police would be mandated to confiscate guns owned by people barred from possessing them, or at least verify that the guns had been transferred to legal owners, concerns about manpower helped doom the proposal.

“Law enforcement didn’t object to the essence of the law,” but said they would need far more money to carry it out, said State Representative Kathleen Willis, a Democrat from suburban Chicago who is pushing to toughen the law.

Freedom isn't free and safety isn't cheap.

And, on to a fact-check. This one becomes Blue-on-Blue. The Times quotes a Brady spokesperson:

One in five gun purchases is estimated to occur with no background check, such as through sales over the internet or at gun shows, said Kris Brown, president of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. That attracts buyers who would fail a check.

“You’d have to assume that if you are a prohibited purchaser, you are aware of that loophole, and that’s how you’re going to get a gun,” Ms. Brown said.

Do note the word "purchases", which ought to be "transfers". Here is the 2017 study, but Politifact has already tackled this:

The fact checks, and experts we contacted, instead cited a study authored by researchers from Northeastern and Harvard universities that was published in January 2017. They did an online survey, in 2015, of 1,613 adult gun owners.

Among gun owners who said they obtained their most recent gun within the two previous years:

• • 22 percent overall said they obtained the guns without a background check. But that includes guns that were purchased or received in another way, such as through a gift or an inheritance.

• • 13 percent who purchased firearms -- for example, from a friend or online -- said they had done so without a background check.

The lower figure applies here, given that Bullock’s claim is about gun sales.

Blue-on-blue. And let's note that the unchecked purchases includes family, friends and acquaintances as well as gun shows and online. In fact, a quick glance at the relevant table tells me that family, friends and acquaintance transfers outnumber the online and gun show transfers. Of course, thugs and nut jobs have friends and family too.

As to the infamous gun show loophole, per this survey, 4% of transfers in the past two years were at gun shows, with no one claiming to gave avoided a background check. Not exactly the point the Brady person made.

 

Comments

[Porchlight]

Or maybe I'm wrong - just read the dates above. Hmm. I guess the "stalling out" was between Senate and House. Why hasn't the House taken it up yet?

[Porchlight]

Kamala Harris can be quite attractive when she wants to be. Otherwise, she is much like Hillary.

[Jim Eagle]

A few of my favorite AOC memes:

And my favorite:

[lurkersusie]

Will he get a seat at the table?

Jacobin
Jacobin
@jacobinmag
Ugo Okere is a 22-year-old Nigerian immigrant and democratic socialist running for Chicago City Council. In an interview, he describes his history as an activist and why democratic socialism “is about democratic control of every single facet of our life.”

[lurkersusie]

Making a case for the Isis bride

Former ISIS terrorist now works in the US Attorney’s office in Brooklyn, thanks to the Obama DOJ. (link: https://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/flashback-comeys-fbi-embraced-american-isis-terrorist-helped-him-get-justice-department-job/) pjmedia.com/homeland-secur… via
@pspoole

[D]

Good article today listing the liability of both Rosenstein and McCabe.
It is in the Federalist and Krumholtz is the author.

[Extraneus]

Box's Booker tweet would back that up. I wonder why Nancy would need prodding. Maybe she's not backing Booker and Harris.

[D]

Ext:
Will all Dems sign on to the Anti/ Lynching Bill?

[Extraneus]

It passed the Senate unanimously.

[D]

Lurkersusie:
The FBI is literally riddled with awful people.
Is Wray cleaning house or what?

[anonamom]

How many law makers keep a anti-lynching bill in their desk waiting for a hate crime creator to pop up so they can immediately get it passed?

I am positive Obama had had the speech he delivered in Charleston after the white crazy slaughtered the black prayer group waiting in his drawer. It just didn't quite fit the "my son" Trayvon or Michael Brown situations, as both turned out to be justified homicides ---he finally got the crime he'd been waiting for.

[Jim Eagle]

With Zippy's known anti-Midas touch, would Zion's shoe have split in half if he didn't attend the game?

[Captain Hate]

I meant to mention that, JiB; the shit Midas touch on display again!

[Extraneus]

https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/21/lucy-robson-pulls-off-golf-trick-shot-with-red-solo-cups/

[daddy]

the coppers are full o' shit about his motivations.

That is my opinion. Good Morning!

The instant this came out Kamala and Cory "coincidentally" put out their "Anti-Lynching Bill that got every Repub in the House and Senate onboard in a heartbeat to avoid being seen as pro-lynching. Immediately hyped to the moon by all the MSM, all with same phrases ("Racist, homophobic Trump supporters wearing MAGA Hats, this is America in 2019") and followed yesterday by the breaking new Survey that there are more Hate Groups in America than ever before.

It's all orchestrated. Take his phone and find out exactly who he was talking to and when, and follow that trail. Anything less is letting the big fish off the hook.

[MissMarple2]

Back from lunch with 2 sisters who graduated with me and my next-youngest sister. The one who is my age is still a democrat and gets her news from Rachel Maddow. (!!!) I have known her since 5th grade and we just don't discuss politics.

We did talk about the SMallett case which she thought was a tragedy and I filled them in on the Harris connections etc. which she didn't believe, so I told her to look it up.

Anyway, she got up to go to the restroom leaving me with her younger sister. I said to her, "Well, I know you guys didn't vote for him, but I did and I love President Trump."

The younger sister says to me quietly, "I voted for him too, but don't tell my sister or she would be furious at me." HA!!

There are a lot of quiet Trump supporters.

[anonamom]

Someone needs to explain how big pharma is to blame. ‘Cause so far I ain’t buyin’ it. There are numerous illicit sources.

If you Google Purdue, you can read al about it. Basically, they lied about Oxycontin's half life, saying it was 12 hours when it was only eight, pitching it as a twice a day NON ADDICTING (lie #2) source of pain relief. Funded all kinds of "research" and seminars by "pain experts" who made it sound like it was a physician's moral obligation to prescribe it for chronic pain, and had no downside, since it wasn't addicting. They pumped it in to small rural towns by the truck loads. Pushed the concept of pain as a fifth vital sign, which needed to be relieved. Sure, NOW people are using stuff from other sources, but Purdue did all they could to create a nation of opioid dependent Americans.

The attorney who won the Big Tobacco suit is suing them. I have no doubt he'll win.

Yes, nobody holds a gun to a user's head and makes them use. But most of us could become addicted under the right conditions, and Purdue actively created just those conditions for thousands of people.

[daddy]

Yeah, I think they're relieved to have come up with some kind of monetary motive so they can stop looking for other possible motives.

Sounds like we're pretty much all on the same page about how they'll swallow Jussie Smollett's cock and bull story in order to whitewash the bigger fish behind this.

[Old Lurker]

Good crooks always have an exit plan if things go bad before they get the safe open.

Jussie just did not know he was it.

[D]

There were enough quiet Trump supporters for him to win in 2016.
The fatal flaw of the Clinton campaign was underestimating that support.
Not campaigning in Wisconsin cost her the state and she almost lost Minnesota for the same reason.
I wish documents would be declassified.
What is the latest excuse for delaying that?

[daddy]

Just for interest, does anyone know how Jussie Smollett's older brother felt when Jussie lied to the cops and pretended to be his older brother when he was caught drunk driving in California?

I don't know about you guys, but if my brother was caught drunk driving and told the Police he was me I'd be damn furious.

Can any of you even imagine what a low life this Jussie cat was to do something like that?

[D]

OL:
Absolutely correct.
I think Smollett was surprised at how fast people like Sharpton, Harris and Booker bailed on him.

[Pinandpuller]

The dude applied for a concealed carry permit. If a felon does that maybe the state should turn his house upside down. Why was I so afraid of transporting a weapon through IL???

[D]

Who gives their son the name Jussie?
Rhymes with wussy.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.billoreilly.com/b/The-Extreme-Team/852809687703239894.html

Looks like Bill has been pushed to the right a bit.

[henry]

I'm afraid to look at what their solution might entail. Dept Ed a massive failure:

http://iwf.org/news/2808731/Federal-Report-Finds-U.S.-Department-of-Education-a-Massive-Failure?fbclid=IwAR303sxfAe497HvoFJH5mu2r0wc-bWabsokhkzigimPSpr067wRGqkv-Pnw

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

"Who gives their son the name Jussie?"

Isn't his name Justin?

[hoyden]

How long before someone tells the sex robot, "Make me a sandwich."'?

[henry]

look squirrel!!!eleventy!!!

San Fransisco dude getting MAGA notes (on his door cam).

https://twitter.com/timcast/status/1098597068015353858?s=12

[Pinandpuller]

I have some additional information about HODA!!! ISIS bride. She is the daughter of a Yemeni diplomat but she was born in New Jersey. She supposedly has a US passport. I will ask again, is she a Natural Born Citizen? Is her son, the half spawn of ISIS fighter husband number 3(?) a Natural Born Citizen?

Gee, it would have been so great if the Congress, the Senate and the President could have gotten their shit together and put a stop to the 14th Amendment rubber stamp nonsense.

I also heard that 1,200 rabbis signed a letter for PDJT saying they want him to put zero limits on refugee resettlement in the US.

It's my understanding that Ilyn Omar replaced a Jewish congressman. I don't think you can call on me to rally to your antisemitism banners on one hand while urging the president to bring in people who may overthrow you at the polls at best or join up with a Muslim caliphate at worst. That's not going to fly anymore.

PS: The Magic Dirt of Alabama did nothing to blot out the Yanqi Islamist in her black heart.

[daddy]

Guy on Dana Perino's Show says Jussie was on his phone with his manager who was an "ear witness," meaning he was talking to Jussie on his phone when the attackers came out hollering at Jussie and beat him up. That helped corroborate Jussie's hoax.

I wonder if they are going to investigate whether that convenient incident of "Ear Witnessing" was coordinated or not, and if Jussie's manager should start sweating bullets himself? Who was the manager in contact with? What will his text messages and phone-calls tell us? Or will we never hear another thing about it to protect the bigger fish?

[henry]

daddy, see rug, use broom.

[Old Lurker]

Headline "US Dept of Ed a Massive Failure"...

Duh. The evidence surrounds us everywhere.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

The opiod crisis is very complex. It exploded with the street level dealers and the smugglers who rose in the 60's and 70's (French Connection/mob) and the toll even then was bad. I lost 3 acquaintances within a week to OD's back when I was working part time on Wall Street. A lot of the crime in NYC was drugs driven. It has been re-hashed time and again in the movies.

What happened in the 1990's was that pain management became a hot topic. Clinics opened all over the country prescribing all sorts of opioids. Purdue Pharma (the Sackler Family) was extremely aggressive in its marketing to doctors about the wonders of oxycontin. It was a panacea, non-addictive, etc. But all of the producers did the same.

It was all bullshit. Oxycontin is expensive at $70-80/pill. Heroin is $7/bindle and achieves a similar effect except that the addiction grows day by day. The was no regulation of the pill mills and Florida-Appalachia became a huge opiod highway.

When the cartels saw higher demand they naturally filled in. They now run as businesses in many places. Dealers and pushers have salaries and regular hours. It is very sophisticated. It is in the inner cities that the gangs fight for turf.

Tijuana now has 2,000+ homicides/year, almost all of them now related to the local drug culture. 10 years ago the homicide rate was maybe 300/year. The associated violence is hideous.

Where it is regulated you don' see those levels. I don't remember too many deals gone bad or turf wars where I live, which is the home of the Mexican Mafia, who are tied to the cartels. They lock it down or someone ends up in a shallow grave in the desert or a car trunk in LA.

The addicts and dealers have signs and signals to communicate. In Newport Beach the parking lot of a very high end grocery store is a. major retail market and the normies don't even know it.

LE just locks them up and then dumps them out of the county jail if it is minor possession. Prop 47 killed a lot of the incentive to go into treatment. Now simple possession or low level crime under $995 is a misdemeanor.

We were very happy over Christmas that our daughter was locked up for a few weeks pending drug court for identity theft, which is a felony. She is supposed to enter treatment in early March and I hope she makes it. She has been through treatment 7-8 times so far.

The indescribable crime to me was when Purdue Pharma decided to be a front to finish provider and began marketing suboxone, which is an opioid meant to wean users off opioids over an extended period. That is some kind of lowlife scummery as far as I'm concerned.

It is a massive tar baby. Addiction, homelessness, mental illness and incarceration are a revolving door. This is one of the things we are trying to fix by taking a holistic approach. In the long run it is a lot less expensive and saves lives.

[D]

Daddy:
I am going to watch carefully and see how deep they delve into this fake attack.
Manager will sing like the bros if he feels threatened.
Premeditation is the kill shot here.

[Pinandpuller]

From Mr Iggy's link:

LGBTDOG

[D]

Matt:
You are doing God’s work and I am so grateful for your efforts.

[anonamom]

Or will we never hear another thing about it to protect the bigger fish?
You're not serious, are you? Who would ever prompt any further investigation? The Feds? I'm not holding my breath.

Daddy, my guys were watching the game "together" (via text) last night. I was included on the thread, though it was past my bedtime.
I wake to find this on my phone:

Son A: I am so enjoying watching this Duke beatdown.

Obviously, a well-raised child. ;-)

[Pinandpuller]

They want freaks who won't take no for an answer prowling around for real women instead of sex dolls?
Posted by: The Infamous Ignatz | February 21, 2019 at 11:06 AM

Just wait till they invent an artificial uterus. Women will truly be equal to men.

[daddy]

Rush closes Hour 3 by telling us that Jussie Smollett is half White. Rush says Jussie's father is a Jew from Russia. Rush then closes the show asking "So where is the outrage about Russians interfering in our domestic politics, Hmmm?"

[Pinandpuller]

Part of Jussie's compensation package was a record he had dropping in the middle of all this. Taraji even tweeted something about how people should buy it to help support him in his time of crisis.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

Whoa! Did typepad swallow that one?
Reposting.

[daddy]

$100,000 bond for Jussie.

I'm wondering whether Jussie's unquestioned moral high-ground victim status in being half-Black outweighs the intrinsic evilness of Jussie being a half-White Jew?

Anyone have the definitive reading on that from the Left's "Racist RuleBook"?

[Pinandpuller]

@madanboukman

The US media pretends to be clueless about the armed foreigners who were arrested in #Haiti. Fox News, for example, remained silent, even though one of the death squad members, former Navy SEAL and Special Ops expert Chris McKinley, was a frequent guest on their news station.

[sbwaters]

Ext, those solo cups didn’t move. Editing?

[Pinandpuller]

Seriously, did Jussie write the Nigerian Bros a frigging CHECK???

[daddy]

I have never seen Jussie's TV Show, "Empire", but I just learned via the Prosecutor yapping on TV, that Jussie's character on that show was gay and that one of the Nigerian Brothers was apparently on that Show as Smollett's character's gay love interest.

I don't know about you guys but when I want to watch Gay black lovers on TV I usually just watch a Duke Basketball Game.

[Marlene]

Yes,P&P,he wrote a check. He also had to scratch and punch himself in the face to make the attack look worse.

[Marlene]

LOL,daddy. We have niece who is getting married Memorial Day week-end in Durham. They live in Raleigh and don't have any connection to Duke or UNC.

[Narciso79]

Who in Haiti isnt armed:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/taskandpurpose.com/navy-seal-haiti-arrest-2629508216.amp.html

[daddy]

"Who gives their son the name Jussie?"

Isn't his name Justin?

According to the FOX Talking heads he has a twin brother.

[Narciso79]

You're cereal:

https://www.dailywire.com/news/43618/watch-cnns-camerota-says-network-was-skeptical-paul-bois

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--how they'll swallow Jussie Smollett's cock and bull story--

Eh, could we not use that particular sequence of words again.
Ever.

[anonamom]

Check??!! You paid them with a check??!!

Barney Fife lives.

[Art in Newport]

Matt, you mean Gelson's?

[daddy]

Raises the question of who just happens to be innocently talking to his manager on his cellphone at 2 AM while walking the streets of Chicago in sub-zero weather? I am sure it happens all the time. Might be worthwhile to check the phone records and see if Jussie and his Manager previously chatted at 2 AM at minus 20 Fahrenheit in Chit-own, prior to this fortuitous "Ear Witness" phone call.

But what do I know.

[MissMarple2]

Tanya Chen
‏Verified account @Tanya_Chen
24m24 minutes ago

Smollett allegedly told the brothers to yell racist and homophobic slurs at him when planning the attack, but an employee of NBC News Chicago who was parking their car around the corner at the time of the staged attack claimed they did not hear any yelling.

================================

This seems to me to be a little fishy.

[anonamom]

Check out the excellent mash up of Jussie's ABC "tearful victim" interview and the police chief's news conference posted here in Althouse's post:

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2019/02/chicago-police-superintendent-eddie.html

[Marlene]

Ig,I saw a little old man in Walmart this afternoon wearing a t-shirt that said,"I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK." I smiled to myself. We live in logger central in Maine in the summer and I've never seen a t-shirt like that.

[Jim Eagle]

Considering the press, according to polls, are 85% Democrat registered voters, I would expect nothing forthcoming about the future of Jussie. And, you will not hear a peep about L. Lin Woods suits either.

Pillows are WMD's for the press.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/21/judge-alex-acosta-broke-law-jeff-epstein-sex-case/

Plea agreement without notifying victims.

[Pinandpuller]

@Tiff_FitzHenry
Jussie has 5 siblings who all act. The Smollett family’s big break came in 1994 with a show called On Our Own, starring comedian Ralph Louis HARRIS as the older brother who took care of all the kids after the death of their parents, oh and dressed in drag

On the day Empire premiered, Jussie’s father died at age 58. There is a well-documented trend amongst Hollywood celebrities of a family death occurring just before a would be actor, singer or entertainer ‘levels up,’ in a major way in their career.

(Jussie’s parents Joel Smollett and Janet HARRIS Smollett met in the Bay Area while hanging out with Black Panthers during the civil rights era. Coincidentally, Kamala HARRIS is from the Bay Area as well. Her father Donald HARRIS has been a professor at Stanford since the 70s ")

[Pinandpuller]

@Tiff_FitzHenry

Jussie Smollett’s intended Hollywood timeline:

-Be a child actor on a show with a cross-dressing black male comedian.

-Come out as gay on Ellen.

-Make the B-list.

-Shill for left wing Washington establishment.

-Be the victim of a racist homophobic attack.

-Make the A-list.

[daddy]

He also had to scratch and punch himself in the face to make the attack look worse.

Reminds me that a real American Hero, Admiral Stockdale, self beat his own face so severely with his prison stool that the North Vietnamese were unable to use him as propaganda. Here's pussy Jussie's weak effort

[MissMarple2]

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/02/21/how_to_succeed_in_advertising_boycotts_without_really_trying.html

This is about the left using corporations to enforce their censorship.

[lurkersusie]

ted
Tom Winter
@Tom_Winter
NBC NEWS: John Fry, has been charged with leaking Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) belonging to Michael Cohen to attorney Michael Avenatti and a reporter for the New Yorker.

The complaint says that Fry admitted to disclosing the confidential records when confronted by agents.

Fry, according to the complaint, works as an investigative analyst for the IRS's law enforcement arm, the Criminal Investigation Division.

Documents say he accessed databases and conducted specific searches.

[Dave (in MA)]

Yes,P&P,he wrote a check. He also had to scratch and punch himself in the face to make the attack look worse.

They took a sample from under his fingernails and found his own DNA, I just made up.

[Old Lurker]

US Attys make "Plea agreement without notifying victims."

Well why not. They invent non existent requirements to not charge Clinton for a bunch of things "she did not intend to be wrong", they sign FISA warrants against the R target of the day without reading them, and they look the other way when members of the Deep State, inside the DoJ and FBI themselves, commit crime after crime.

So of course Bill Clinton's child procuring pal gets a wrist slap rather than the Chair.

Sorry Acosta, you blew it.

[daddy]

getting married Memorial Day week-end in Durham.

Geez Louise, Marlene. In Durham? And here I thought I had pretty much scraped the bottom of the barrel by getting hitched in MElvis.

[Dave (in MA)]

Ig,I saw a little old man in Walmart this afternoon wearing a t-shirt that said,"I'm a lumberjack and I'm OK." I smiled to myself. We live in logger central in Maine in the summer and I've never seen a t-shirt like that.

[MissMarple2]

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/melanie-arter/former-milwaukee-sheriff-david-clarke-not-buying-salary-motive-smollett-was

Sheriff Clarke thinks it was politically motivated, too.

[daddy]

Ig at 03:41.

I was wondering if if my particular phrasing would raise an eyebrow or 2 here at JOM. Glad to see my evil scheme worked:)

[daddy]

but an employee of NBC News Chicago who was parking their car around the corner at the time of the staged attack claimed they did not hear any yelling.

Obviously she wasn't in on the phone-call with Jussie and his Manager.

[MissMarple2]

daddy,

No, but I wonder if she was supposed to "discover" him after the horrible racist attack.

Seems awfully coincidental to me.

[Extraneus]

Ext, those solo cups didn’t move. Editing?

Cups? What cups?

[daddy]

Somebody is over at Althouse pretending to be Narciso, but from the erudition, eloquence, and lack of typos it is an obvious sock puppet:

narciso said...

it's a microcosm of the dysfunction in the windy city, there wasn't any evidence to really investigate this matter, unlike the 18 murders that occurred in the interval, that were not investigated,

2/21/19, 1:45 PM

I am livid, Narciso at this imposter and ready to go to the ramparts to defend you good buddy.

[MissMarple2]

Paul Sperry
‏ @paulsperry_
Feb 17

BREAKING: McCabe said Rosenstein sought out Comey's advice on who to appoint as special counsel, even though Comey had been fired & Rosenstein had signed the letter recommending Comey's firing. In effect,Comey picked his old pal Mueller, along with Mueller's old briefer, McCabe.

[Porchlight]

Yikes, it's been quite an afternoon. A work colleague's 15 year old daughter was with her at the library today and has gone missing. We searched the entire building and neighboring buildings and the police are here. We finally got her on camera leaving the building, alone, at 12:45. That's almost three hours ago. It's a busy, urban campus (50,000 students).

I got the sense that this might not be the first time something like this has happened, and that she is on medication for a mental health issue.

I hope she is just out exploring and not realizing that her mother is worried to death. The girl does not have a phone, which is unusual for her age.

Please pray if you are so inclined.

[MissMarple2]

Porchlight,

Prayers offered.

I still worry if my kids (age 50 and 40) don't get home on time. I cannot imagine this level of concern!

[daddy]

Howie Carr just mentioned that there will be a new House Election in North Carolina in that District where the Repub Candidate has been accused of Voter Fraud.

[henry]

That Fry dude grabbed Cohen’s bank records for Avenatti to give to Farrow.

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1098693480526893056?s=21

[D]

Daddy:
It seems the Repub candidate should have informed election officials of the irregularities.
I think we are going to lose yet another House seat to the Dems.

[anonamom]

Somebody is over at Althouse pretending to be Narciso, but from the erudition, eloquence, and lack of typos it is an obvious sock puppet:

I've noted this in the past daddy--it's amazing how articulate he is when he posts for the professor. I always understand what he writes there. He gave me some feeble explanation when I asked him why he won't do the same here.

[D]

Porch:
Praying for your colleague’s daughter.

[daddy]

Miss M's 04:25

(Sheriff) Clarke also said he “can’t wait” for the FBI to announce federal charges against Smollett for mailing a “hoax letter” to the television studio, noting that it’s a crime punishable by five to 10 years in federal prison.

“Can’t wait for the FBI to hold their news conference to announce FEDERAL CHARGES against @JussieSmollett for mailing that hoax letter to the studio. That is MAIL FRAUD punishable by 5-10 years in federal prison. Don’t turn away from this folks or it will go away. #MAGA2020,” Clarke tweeted.

Thank you, Sheriff Clarke.

[Porchlight]

Thank you, MM and maryrose.

I'll keep you posted (assuming I'm kept posted).

[D]

Privacy is really gone in our country.
Bank records taken, hacked computers, illegal spying,
Releasing confidential divorce records and people spilling all their secrets on Facebook.
I practically live off the grid in comparison.

[Extraneus]

Judge Expands Gag Order on Roger Stone: No Further Public Statements on Case

“I’m not giving you another chance,” federal U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson said before a Washington, D.C. courtroom after Stone apologized repeatedly for his now-deleted Instagram post which was critical of her. “I have serious doubts about whether you have learned any lesson at all.”

“The defendant may not speak publicly about the case. Period,’ the judge then ruled. “He may not comment about the case indirectly.”

[daddy]

Great point on Smollett by a Caller to Howie:

Caller: This is ridiculous. I've been watching this open up... FOX is wondering if they're going to fire him (Jussie). Were they so worried about Roseanne? Look at what happend to Roseanne...

Howie: I know. Exactly! She made a joke and she was out like within 24 hours...

[henry]

21 months of pandering to go...

@marketwatch:

Elizabeth Warren reportedly said she backs government reparations for slavery on.mktw.net/2SP1em1

[D]

Thanks Porch.
She will be found. Students will help her and keep her safe.

[Narciso79]

Heh, I sometimes summarize a point I expound here at larger length.

[D]

Henry:
I know I sound like a broken record on this.
There isn’t a person alive today who was a former slave or whose parents were slaves.
See the Pigford settlement.

[anonamom]

Sorry for failing in my duty to keep you abreast of our state Board of Election hearing outcome today.

After the winner Mark Harris's son (who is now an assistant US Attorney for eastern Carolina) testified yesterday that he repeatedly gave his dad a heads up about the operative (who the Ds had employed FOR YEARS) being a shady character, and turning over emails that son assumed his dad had produced but hadn't, dad today had to answer questions as to why he didn't listen to his son.
"Because I am his dad, and know him to be judgemental, and a bit arrogant."
I LOVED that!
"But I now see that he was right." Good dad.
(Dad's a minister of one of those mega churches, btw. No surprise to me he'd raise a judgey, arrogant kid.)

So, after that public humiliation, the duly elected R winner did what Rs always do---caved, and asked for a new election.

Even though the number of possibly tainted harvested absentee votes wouldn't make a difference.

No way can he win now. I won't vote for the wimp.
I hope our former mayor and governor, Pat McCrory will step up and run. Though I am not sure he lives in our district.

[D]

20th Century Fox said they are reviewing their options.

[D]

Smollett leaving court now with plenty of media present and people watching.
He got what he wanted.
More attention

[daddy]

Chump line: NIKE shoes have injured more American's than Trump's MAGA hats.

[daddy]

Chump line: What kind of country are we living in where a Black man can't blame Trump...?

[D]

Anonamom:
What would have happened if he didn’t ask for a new election and just stated:
I won even without the disputed ballots?

[anonamom]

That Fry guy needs to fry. Make an example of him!

Those IRS employees need to learn they need to behave.