Kamala Harris' Record

This from Willis Eschenbach:

So far, I haven't uncovered any untrue claims in this list. Please notify us if you find one, I don't want to post untrue claims.

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• 2019 — Harris ripped a law firm's work on a controversial plea deal involving deep-pocketed pedophile Jeffrey Epstein — the same day she took money from some of the firm's attorneys at a fundraiser.

• 2018 — A Harris aide was forced to resign a year after losing a $400k sexual assault case, once the media started asking about it.

• "The Appeal" reports that "Harris also failed to hold police and prosecutors accountable for misconduct. In Orange County, where a sprawling jailhouse informant scandal has robbed countless people of their right to a fair trial, her lack of meaningful oversight has contributed to a crisis of legitimacy that continues to upend the county's criminal justice system."

• 2016 — Harris left California with a $3.3 billion tab to close the defective San Onofre nuclear facility bill by letting PUC president Peevey off even though he conspired with Socal Edison to move costs of decommissioning San Onofre to the consumers for Edison's own failures. She let the statute of limitations run out on the case.

• 2015 — When called upon to support bills that would have mandated that all police officers wear body-worn cameras and that the Attorney General's office investigate lethal officer-involve d shootings, she declined.

• 2014 — Lawyers for Attorney General Harris argued in court that if forced to release inmates early, prisons would lose an important labor pool.

• 2013 — Harris challenged innocent man Daniel Larsen's release from prison after he was exonerated by two federal judges.

• 2011-2017 — Attorney General Harris refused DNA testing for the wrongly imprisoned Kevin Cooper, who much evidence shows was innocent.

• 2011 — Harris personally championed a new state law making it a criminal misdemeanor for parents to allow kids in K–8 grades to miss more than 10 percent of school days without a valid excuse.

• 2010 — Harris laughed about jailing parents over their kids' truancy (she sent an attorney from her office to intimidate a homeless single mother whose children were missing school).

• 2010 — Harris covered up a crime lab scandal and tried to violate suspects' rights to a free trial by covering it up.

• 2009 — Kamala Harris drug treatment program was wiping drug convictions from illegal aliens' records.

• 2004 — When Harris became San Francisco district attorney in 2004, she stopped her office from helping any survivors of sexual abuse by the Catholic Church and pursued no cases against the Church whatsoever.
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My best to all, as I said, if anything in this list is wrong, please point it out.

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School Demands Parents Sign Pledge to Not Listen in on Classes

Timothy Birdnow

This is ripe for a lawsuit. The school has no authority to hide what they are teaching from the parents.

Tennessee Parents Forced to Sign Waiver Stating they will not Eavesdrop on their Children's Lessons

Parents always tell children not to get involved with someone you can't bring home, and yet here we are with schools demanding secrecy from the parents.

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Reporting the News or Ignoring it

Timothy Birdnow

We barely heard about the peace deal between the UAE and Israel, for example. Almost completely ignored one of the biggest stories coming out of the Middle East in a generation. It disgusts me to the core, the lack of professionalism

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Medical School Forces Students to Pledge Allegiance to ' BLM

Warner Todd Huston

U of Minnesota Medical School Making Applicants Pledge Loyalty to Black Lives Matter

A word from Tim:

Reminds me of the Hitler Oath:

"I swear by almighty God this sacred oath:
I will render unconditional obedience
to the Fuehrer of the German Reich and people, Adolf Hitler,
Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht,
and, as a brave soldier,
I will be ready at any time
to stake my life for this oath."

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Welcome to the Vote Fraud Machine

This from Richard Cronin:

The Dems have over two (2) months to really get their mail-in voting fraud in full gear.

Next up is for a few drive-bys for BLM and the Antifa to toss some Molotov cocktails at poll lines in Republican districts.

More than Half a Million Absentee Ballots were Rejected for the 2020 Presidential Primaries: that's 200,000 More than was Rejected in 2016

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Signs in the Heavens

Timothy Birdnow

"When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."

Julius Caesar, Act 2, Scene 2, Page 2

LOOK: NASA's Small Asteroid Will Pass by Earth's Proximity a Day Before the 2020 Presidential Elections

The cosmic object is named Asteroid 2018VP1 and is expected to drop by Earth's proximity on Nov. 2, a day ahead of the Nov. 3 Presidential Elections in the country.

Currently, the asteroid is estimated to close the planet between 4,700 miles and 260,000 miles. This distance will only pass by Earth's proximity, and the probability of the asteroid to collide or enter the planet's atmosphere is at 0.41 percent or 1 in 240 chances.

Asteroid 2018VP1 is a small cosmic object originating from the Apollo group of asteroids discovered in 2018. The asteroid is only seven feet in diameter, and the potential hazard it will bring based on the logarithmic scale is rated at -3.57

The asteroid also orbits the Solar System's sun every 730 days or two years, coming as close to the giant star as 0.91 AU or astronomical unit, according to Space Reference.

(Giant star? Tim)

Currently, scientists are not alarmed despite the nearing schedule of the asteroid's visit because 2018VP1 poses a low risk or threat. Even if the asteroid enters the Earth, it would break up to small pieces and show a bright display of meteor shower.

Asteroid 2018VP1 is ranked -3.57 at the Palermo Scale and zero at the Torino Scale, making it not a cause of concern. TheTorino scaleis the measure of the actual risk or danger that the object brings, also taking into consideration the size and mass of the asteroid.

Small as this is it would only give us a fun show.

Let us hope it does not presage the death of a prince.

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CA Killing Uber and Lyft

This from Stephen Heins:

A word from Tim:

Markets are driven by an unseen hand and a planned economy is a monument to the hubris of Humanity. Also, one questions if this WAS just an unseen consequence, as California wants industries under their thumb (and no doubt the taxi industry wanted Uber and Lyft gone and were willing to bribe their way to it.) Crony capitalism isn't about just misunderstandings; it's about graft and corruption and stagnation.

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On the Scare in Cincinnati (Cincinnati WCRP)

Timothy Birdnow

Ohio's RINO Republican Governor Mike (Hear Him)DeWine calls for Gun control after violent day in Cincinatti.

After Deadly Weekend in Cincinnati Dewine wants Gun Control.

How is DeWine any different from Democrats in this? It is the same fallacy; blame the tool and not the tool user.

There is no reason to believe DeWine's bill would have made any difference.

One wonders how the GOP filled up with buffoons like this.

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The Cruel, Cruel, Cruel of the Evening

James Doogue:

Black Lives Matters supporters 'protesters' beat a raccoon to death with baseball bats after trying to run over the terrified animal. Don't watch the video, it's unbelievably cruel. Just know, that anyone who supports BLM is supporting people like this who will say anything to justify their violence and criminality.

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Ivory Tower of Babel

Timothy Birdnow

Language only works if there is structure and agreed-upon rules Let everyone set their own rules and you can no longer communicate. If you cannot communicate you splinter and isolate. That is precisely what these people want; to separate us, splinter us, divide us. Then they can change course when it's time to put Humpty Dumpty back together, but in their own image. This is heterodoxy for the sake of political revolution, little else..

"Black Linguistic Justice" Professors Demand End to Standard English as the Norm

In the Bible the Tower of Babel story illustrates what happens when you lose a common language; the People were so divided they scattered and never came back. Nimrod's empire was at an end. This is what the Left wants for America.

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Wake up to Biden

Timothy Birdnow

_{For all our black friends and Black Lives Matter woke white people, perhaps y}our memory needs a little refreshing.

How a Young Joe Biden Became the Architect of the Government's Asset Forfeiture Program

Yes, it was Joe Biden who created the patently unconstitutional forfeiture laws, which have seized assets from the poor and minorities (and others) for decades without compensation or due process.

For those of you who believe black people are abused by "systemic racism" ask yourself WHO enshrined that into law? It wasn't President Trump.

From the article:

In 1991, Maui police officers showed up at the home of Frances and Joseph Lopes. One officer showed his badge and said, "Let’s go into the house, and we will explain things to you.” Once he was inside, the explanation was simple: "We’re taking the house.”

The Lopeses were far from wealthy. They worked on a sugar plantation for nearly fifty years, living in camp housing, to save up enough money to buy a modest, middle-class home.

But in 1987, their son Thomas was caught with marijuana. He was twenty-eight, and he suffered from mental health issues. He grew the marijuana in the backyard of his parents’ home, but every time they tried to cut it down, Thomas threatened suicide.

That statute of limitations for civil asset forfeiture was five years. It had only been four.

When he was arrested, he pled guilty, was given probation since it was his first offense, and he was ordered to see a psychologist once a week. Frances and Joseph were elated. Their son got better, he stopped smoking marijuana, and the episode was behind them.

But when the police showed up and told them that their house was being seized, they learned that the episode was not behind them. That statute of limitations for civil asset forfeiture was five years. It had only been four. Legally, the police could seize any property connected to the marijuana plant from 1987. They had resurrected the Lopes case during a department-wide search through old cases looking for property they could legally confiscate.

Still, the pesky "conviction” requirement stood in the way of law enforcement’s ability to seize criminal assets. In 1978, Jimmy Carter’s Director of the Office of Drug Abuse (the title "Drug Czar” is often retroactively applied), Peter Bourne, decided that the law needed to be changed. Bourne learned of an incident in which a suitcase at the Miami International Airport had been left on the baggage carousel for three hours before police picked it up and found $3 million inside. If Drug Kingpins could afford to abandon so much money, they must be flush with enough cash to hardly worry about criminal forfeiture laws.

So, at Bourne’s urging, Congress modified the RICO Act to allow the DEA to confiscate assets without a conviction. The burden of proof wasn’t entirely gone (yet), but the government only needed an indictment, rather than a full conviction, to justify asset seizure. After all, the government knew who a lot of these Kingpins were, but the criminals continued to get rich while the DEA struggled to build cases against them.

Even here, though, real estate was off limits. Asset forfeiture had evolved from the seizure of dangerous items to criminal profit following a convictionto criminal profit (and its "derivative proceeds”) without the conviction requirement. But real estate—like the Lopes house—still couldn’t be touched.

The Comprehensive Forfeiture Act fixed all of these problems. The new bill was introduced by Senator Joe Biden in 1983 and it was signed into law the next year. With this law, federal agents had nearly unlimited powers to seize assets from private citizens. Now the government only needed to find a way to let local and state police join the party.

This came with the 1984 Comprehensive Crime Control Act. In addition to a slew of new powers for prosecutors, the burden of proof for asset seizure was lowered once again (agents had to only believe that what they were seizing was equal in value to money believed to have been purchased from drug sales). More significantly, the bill started the "equitable sharing” program that allowed local and state law enforcement to retain up to 80 percent of the assets seized.

The Lopes story merely illustrates that criminals are hardly the only people falling victim to this policy.

The law took effect in 1986, the year before Thomas Lopes pled guilty to charges of growing a marijuana plant in his parents’ backyard. In 1987, when Thomas faced the judge, the government had just made it so that his local police had an enormous incentive and unchecked authority to seize property from private citizens, as long as they could show any flimsy connection to drugs. By 1991, the Maui police were running out of easily-seized property, so they started combing through case files within the five-year limit to find new ways to enrich their precinct from the expanded RICO powers. One such file brought the Lopes home to their attention.

So it was Biden at the heart of forfeiture; one of the more onerous actions taken to fight crime that is in reality just abusing the citizenry. Wokies take note.

Hat tip: Willis Eschenbach.

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Endless Voting

This from Selwyn Duke

What Dems Want Nationally: Locality's Mail In Vote Fraud so Bad Judge Orders New Election

Tim says:

Yep! They are going to keep holding elections until they get the results they want. It's why they have pushed this whole thing in the first place. We are about to witness the world's greatest election crime in history.

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Twitter won't Reinstate Loomer

Timothy Birdnow

Laura Loomer has been banned by most social networking companies. Now that she is the Republican candidate for Congess they remain silent on reversing her ban - and Twitter has said they will NOT repeal it.

According to Breitbart:

With the exception of Twitter, which has refused to reinstate Laura Loomer’s account following the conservative activist’s victory in the Republican primary to contest Florida’s 21st congressional district earlier this week, Big Tech has remained silent on whether it will reverse permanent bans placed on her by many companies.

Loomer, now a candidate for a major party in a congressional election, remains banned from Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, PayPal, GoFundMe, Venmo, Uber, and Lyft. All of these platforms remain open to her Democrat opponent, Rep. Lois Frankel (D-FL).

The Loomer campaign does not plan on taking this lying down:

Now that Loomer is a Republican candidate, it is leading to renewed calls for tech censorship to be looked at as an illegal in-kind campaign contribution.

According to the Federal Election Commission (FEC), corporations are banned from making free contributions, including "any services, or anything of value” to federal candidates. Because of this, Loomer’s lawyers have arguedthat social media companies are breaching FEC regulations by granting her Democrat opponent access to their platform while denying it to her.

Following Loomer’s primary win, the conservative think tank American Principles Project (APP) wrote a letter to the FEC calling on the Commission to once again consider the matter of tech censorship as a campaign contribution issue.

So, why was she banned? For criticizing Ilhan Omar.

Omar, you may remember, has made repeated anti-American and anti-semitic comments and has sneered at the country that allowed her to immigrate here.

I hope Loomer sues the pants off Twitter.

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Sanctions Restored on Iran

Timothy Birdnow

What took so long?

"Today, I am directing the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to notify the UN Security Council that the United States intends to restore virtually all of the previously suspended United Nations sanctions on Iran." pic.twitter.com/REA8WKMLod

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) August 19, 2020

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The Goodyear Pimp

Timothy Birdnow

If they aspire to sell a tire going woke will make them broke...

New Audio of Goodyear Diversity Training Reveals Full Extent of Zero Tolerance Policy

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The Steve Bannon Arrest

This from Judson Phillips:

Which makes the whole brouhaha about Trump and the needed reforms at the USPS all the more interesting.

The timing of this thing stinks. And I really would be surprised if Bannon were that stupid.

These charges stem from a very simple scheme (if he did it): Bannon was required by Gofundme to set up an escrow account for money received, and it could only be used for the stated purpose of building the wall (the charity was called "We Build the Wall" and it accepted private donations to help fund the construction of a wall along the Mexican border.)

Bannon is accused of taking money out of that account and putting it in his own - to the tune of over a million clams.

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The Masquerade

This from Joseph Bast:

Good piece by Daniel Horowitz from last month: "To suggest that individuals be forced into something so personal as covering their own faces indefinitely under the guise of protecting other people is a huge, dramatic change in the relationship between the government and the citizen. We should at minimum get clarity on these questions before allowing any executive authority to unilaterally decree it. Doesn’t the near-universal opposition to widespread mask-wearing from these very same "experts” before the issue became political hold any weight? Doesn’t their reversal demand explanation?”

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China Dolls

This from Frank Lasee

Going electric comes with huge costs. It will take many multiples of the currently mined "rare earth metals” like lithium and cobalt than are mined today. Of course the Chinese control great majorities of mining these minerals. Is the left in cahoots with the Chinese? BTW the Chinese get nearly 60% of their total energy (not just electricity) from coal. The Chinese burn more coal than the rest of the world combined.

The Dirty Secrets of "Clean" Electric Vehicles

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Biden Takes the 25th

Selwyn Duke

The 25 Amendment Candidate: Joe Biden Looks "Lost" Says White House Doctor

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Gates of Hell

Timothy Birdnow

"Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!" (Doesn't he remind you of Dr. Strangelove in some weird way?)

Bill Gates: 'Millions More Will Die in the Pandemic and Freedom Hinders the Disappointing U.S. Response

"China, on the other hand, "did a very good job of suppressing the virus,” thanks, in part, to the "typical, fairly authoritarian” approach and the "individual rights that were violated,”

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