Attribution: DOJ Weaponization by Dave Whamond, Canada, PoliticalCartoons.com
15 thoughts on “Meaning Meanly or Meaningless”
how a GOPer jabberwocky thinks what it means and says, muppets line fits well
“even when you know what it is, you don’t know what it is”
was that muppet puppet thing too far a reach? well, IMO nancy wouldn’t think so according to this quote from the hill:
“Today we are on the floor of the House, where the other side has turned this body, this chamber – where slavery was abolished, where Medicare and social security and everything were instituted – they’ve turned it into a puppet show. A puppet show,” Pelosi said on the floor of the House during debate Wednesday.
“And you know what?” Pelosi added. “[…] You look miserable.”
[…]
“The only advantage to all of this is that instead of reversing what we did on the [Inflation Reduction Act] to save the planet, or reverse what we did to reduce the cost of prescription drugs, you’re wasting time,” Pelosi said.
current example of the two-teared system in which former guy is getting the better tier treatment. bet this analyst wasn’t allowed to keep her passport, be free to come and go or broadcast case info nationwide.
A former FBI analyst was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for violating the Espionage Act by keeping classified documents at her personal residence, echoing Donald Trump’s federal indictment on charges that he stored highly sensitive government documents at his Mar-a-Lago home.
The former analyst, Kendra Kingsbury, worked for the Kanas City Division of the FBI from 2004 to 2017, giving her top secret security clearance and access to “national defense and classified information,” the Justice Department wrote in a Wednesday press release.
In her training, Kingsbury was warned that classified information could only be kept in an “approved facility and container,” the DOJ wrote. However, the former analyst admitted that she repeatedly took classified documents, including national defense-related information to her home in, at the time, North Kansas City, Missouri.
According to the DOJ, Kingsbury illegally took about 386 classified documents. Some of the documents were classified “at the SECRET level,” the Justice Department said.
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The case against Kingsbury runs eerily similar to Trump’s indictment, which includes 37 charges related to his handling of classified records — 31 of which are over alleged violations of the Espionage Act for “willful retention of national defense information.” Trump was also charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice, lying to law enforcement, and violating three different statutes related to withholding and concealing government records.
Each count of willfully retaining national defense secrets alone carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
The indictment alleges that Trump took information concerning “defense and weapons capabilities of both the United States and foreign countries; United States nuclear programs; potential vulnerabilities of the United States and its allies to military attack; and plans for possible retaliation in response to a foreign attack.”
Trump also appeared to have taken a similar number of documents with classification markings as Kingsbury: roughly 300, according to The New York Times. This does not include the thousands of other materials that Trump took and belonged to the government.
Kingsbury pleaded guilty to two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to the national defense in October. She was sentenced to 46 months in prison, with an additional three years of supervised release.
It’s not going to end well for Lindsay Graham, which suits me just fine.
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
When thinking about reparations, think about all the middle class wealth was built on the GI bill and how many black GIs weren’t able to access the benefits.
So the search for the Oceangate submersible will continue for now. Article from WaPo on the 5 folks in it sort of puts in perspective that there are those who can’t see risks, refuse to be limited by them or just can’t accept them as the inevitabilities they often are.
[Stockton] Rush, 61, obtained his DC-8 Type/Captain’s rating at the United Airlines Jet Training Institute in 1981 at age 19, making him the youngest jet transport-rated pilot in the world, according to his biography on OceanGate’s website. …
He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in aerospace engineering from Princeton University in 1984, and an MBA from the UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business in 1989. …
In December, Rush told CBS Sunday Morning ” that he believed diving in his submersible was not particularly dangerous but that he worried about something happening that would keep him from returning to the surface.
“I mean, if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed,” he said. “Don’t get in your car. Don’t do anything. At some point, you’re going to take some risk, and it really is a risk-reward question.” …
Looks like he put his finger on the one thing that could, and apparently did, happen -something happening that would keep him from returning to the surface. Sorry, but there’s a lot of daylight between getting out of bed and getting into your car and going 2 1/2 miles down into the ocean in a craft that no one has approved for such use. Fun fact – that’s 9 to 16 times as deep as an Ohio Class sub can go. The Oscar class can go just a skosh deeper than 2700 feet, so the Titanic is 5 times as deep as the deepest diving naval submarine’s operational limit.
“Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation in water supply case”
“The suit pitted the Navajo Nation against the US government as well as a handful of western states that are concerned about water allocation.”
“The nation, which extends across Arizona, New Mexico and Utah and lies within the drainage basin of the Colorado River, has signed two treaties with the United States. In 1868, the United States promised the tribe a permanent homeland.”
“Shay Dvoretzky, a lawyer for the Navajo Nation, told the Supreme Court: that the Navajos “made clear” that they understood the “promise of a permanent homeland” in the 1800s to include “adequate water for agriculture and raising livestock. “Hauled from miles away, water can cost up to twenty times more than it does in neighboring off-Reservation communities,” he argued.
“The US government had argued the tribe did not have the legal right to make the claim because the treaties at issue did not create a right for the nation to sue the government over water.”
“In short, the 1868 treaty did not impose a duty on the United States to take affirmative steps to secure water for the Tribe – including the steps requested by the Navajos here, such as determining the water needs of the Tribe, providing an accounting, or developing a plan to secure the needed water,” Kavanaugh wrote.
“…George Santos’s father, Gercino Dos Santos, and his aunt, Elma Santos Preven, paid $500,000 bail in association with a litany of alleged federal crimes committed by the New York congressman.”
“A third bail sponsor mentioned during Santos’s arraignment never came forward to sign the bond documents, according to a separate order unsealed Thursday as reported by Insider.”
“Gercino dos Santos Jr., Santos’ father, lives in New York and previously worked as a house painter, according to The New York Times.”
“The identity of Santos’ mystery benefactors drew the interest not only of the news media, but the House Ethics Committee as well, which wants to evaluate whether receiving the bail bond breached congressional rules on receiving gifts.”
“…Santos violated House ethics rules by revealing that the bail money came, at least in part, from members of Santos’ family.”
“Santos’ father and aunt both donated thousands to his congressional bid, according to federal elections data.”
“Preven’s social media accounts reflect a particular interest in Brazilian politics, as she has posted material critical of the country’s left-wing President Ignacio Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and supportive of his far-right foe and predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro. A United States Postal Service worker, she owns properties in both Queens and in Brazil.”
“Witness accounts had placed the number on board at between 400 and 750 people and Greek authorities have said 104 survivors and 78 bodies have been brought ashore.”
how a GOPer jabberwocky thinks what it means and says, muppets line fits well
“even when you know what it is, you don’t know what it is”
was that muppet puppet thing too far a reach? well, IMO nancy wouldn’t think so according to this quote from the hill:
current example of the two-teared system in which former guy is getting the better tier treatment. bet this analyst wasn’t allowed to keep her passport, be free to come and go or broadcast case info nationwide.
Trump and a former FBI analyst were charged with similar crimes. The FBI analyst just got nearly 4 years in prison. (msn.com)
It’s not going to end well for Lindsay Graham, which suits me just fine.
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
When thinking about reparations, think about all the middle class wealth was built on the GI bill and how many black GIs weren’t able to access the benefits.
How the GI Bill’s Promise Was Denied to a Million Black WWII Veterans | HISTORY
So the search for the Oceangate submersible will continue for now. Article from WaPo on the 5 folks in it sort of puts in perspective that there are those who can’t see risks, refuse to be limited by them or just can’t accept them as the inevitabilities they often are.
Looks like he put his finger on the one thing that could, and apparently did, happen -something happening that would keep him from returning to the surface. Sorry, but there’s a lot of daylight between getting out of bed and getting into your car and going 2 1/2 miles down into the ocean in a craft that no one has approved for such use. Fun fact – that’s 9 to 16 times as deep as an Ohio Class sub can go. The Oscar class can go just a skosh deeper than 2700 feet, so the Titanic is 5 times as deep as the deepest diving naval submarine’s operational limit.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/22/politics/supreme-court-navajo-nation-water/index.html
“Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation in water supply case”
“The suit pitted the Navajo Nation against the US government as well as a handful of western states that are concerned about water allocation.”
“The nation, which extends across Arizona, New Mexico and Utah and lies within the drainage basin of the Colorado River, has signed two treaties with the United States. In 1868, the United States promised the tribe a permanent homeland.”
“Shay Dvoretzky, a lawyer for the Navajo Nation, told the Supreme Court: that the Navajos “made clear” that they understood the “promise of a permanent homeland” in the 1800s to include “adequate water for agriculture and raising livestock. “Hauled from miles away, water can cost up to twenty times more than it does in neighboring off-Reservation communities,” he argued.
“The US government had argued the tribe did not have the legal right to make the claim because the treaties at issue did not create a right for the nation to sue the government over water.”
“In short, the 1868 treaty did not impose a duty on the United States to take affirmative steps to secure water for the Tribe – including the steps requested by the Navajos here, such as determining the water needs of the Tribe, providing an accounting, or developing a plan to secure the needed water,” Kavanaugh wrote.
The beginning of the water wars.
https://www.newsweek.com/george-santos-secret-bail-backers-revealed-questions-1808531
“…George Santos’s father, Gercino Dos Santos, and his aunt, Elma Santos Preven, paid $500,000 bail in association with a litany of alleged federal crimes committed by the New York congressman.”
“A third bail sponsor mentioned during Santos’s arraignment never came forward to sign the bond documents, according to a separate order unsealed Thursday as reported by Insider.”
Hmmmm
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gercino-dos-santos-jr-and-elma-santos-preven-bailed-george-santos-out-of-jail-report
“Gercino dos Santos Jr., Santos’ father, lives in New York and previously worked as a house painter, according to The New York Times.”
“The identity of Santos’ mystery benefactors drew the interest not only of the news media, but the House Ethics Committee as well, which wants to evaluate whether receiving the bail bond breached congressional rules on receiving gifts.”
“…Santos violated House ethics rules by revealing that the bail money came, at least in part, from members of Santos’ family.”
“Santos’ father and aunt both donated thousands to his congressional bid, according to federal elections data.”
“Preven’s social media accounts reflect a particular interest in Brazilian politics, as she has posted material critical of the country’s left-wing President Ignacio Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and supportive of his far-right foe and predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro. A United States Postal Service worker, she owns properties in both Queens and in Brazil.”
Hmmmmmmm
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/fourteen-suspects-arrested-pakistan-over-greece-boat-disaster-2023-06-19/
“Witness accounts had placed the number on board at between 400 and 750 people and Greek authorities have said 104 survivors and 78 bodies have been brought ashore.”
ps – They’ve found remnants of the sub.
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-countdown-with-keith-olbe-99705496/
“Why did Alito need a rule to know not to be a whore ?”
Sturg – A lot of buried treasure, there, if true: Alito was the Roe leaker. That’s called premature gloating.
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