The charged:
In Washington, White House press secretary Josh Ernest said the Facebook video demonstrated “a level of depravity that is an outrage to a lot of Americans.”
A lot?
Source: Facebook Live Torture Victim Was Friends With One Of His Tormenters – Hermosa – DNAinfo Chicago
The public will get to see an unclassified version of the intelligence community’s report on Russian hacking by early next week, the director of national intelligence said on Thursday.
President Obama had requested that the report, which is expected to give the public an idea of what influence Russia had on the U.S. election, be released before his term ends on Jan. 20, a deadline the intelligence community seems poised to meet.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the public version of the report from the CIA, FBI and National Security Agency will be released next week and briefed to Congress.
Clapper said he had four briefings planned for Congress next week, including meetings for the full House and Senate as well as closed sessions with the oversight committees to go into more detail about sources and methods.
While the unclassified report will not include sensitive sources and methods that could hurt the intelligence community, Clapper stressed that he is releasing as much as possible to the public.
Source: White House will release report on Russian hacking to public next week | Washington Examiner
. . . the larcenous trio had cased the place but left when chased by faithful dog.
Faithful dog
Another manager, on duty at that time, about not calling cops after they’d left,
“I was trying to give them [the teens] the benefit of the doubt,” a mistake she won’t make in the future, she said.
A little experience helps in these matters.
Source: Pet Store Manager Chases Down Lincoln Square Package Thieves – Lincoln Square – DNAinfo Chicago
. . . for arguing, no stating as obvious, what so obviously ain’t so.
New York Times columnist David Brooks writes: Donald Trump doesn’t think in that way, either. He is anti-system.
As my “PBS NewsHour” colleague Mark Shields points out, he has no experience being accountable to anybody, to a board of directors or anybody, to a board of directors or an owner.
Really? Hear the SmarterTimes man:
To say that Mr. Trump “has no experience being accountable to anybody” is a falsehood so blatant that if Mr. Trump himself had uttered it the Times itself would probably have inserted the words “falsely,” as it has taken to doing in an unusually aggressive attempt to fact-check the president-elect.
Etc. A takedown of echo-chamber blather.
Geriatric.
Face it, Democrats, where you are at the start of 2017 is not where you thought you would be.Just eight years ago you were looking at several decades of liberal governance under your very own Franklin D. Roosevelt, with united control of the federal government.
Now, as they say, you can drive to Utah from Florida without passing through one state that is not under unified GOP governance.
Your political leadership is now geriatric, and your candidate cupboard is bare.
And what set of miscreants brought this upon you? Look no further than your most recent two-term-winning presidents, so glib, so winning, and so very persuasive that they lured you out on a limb that they sawed off behind you, and left you to fend for yourselves.
Sad, but couldn’t have happened to a more deserving ideology.
. . . In fact, unlike the sage Michelle Obama and others, I am feeling hope today like I have not felt for a long time. Marty? Not so much:
For more than a year I engaged in the visual and oral analog to “fasting.” Fasters discipline themselves not to eat. I chose not to comment on the election campaigns.
A digital word-search will find no mention in 50 Monday Sightings of any presidential candidate or party.
The choice was an implicit protest against or retreat from the grossness, waste, distortion, and distraction in what elections have become.
He missed a chance for his own Journal of the Plague Year, I guess.
Source: Many Sightings of Hope | The University of Chicago Divinity School
. . . giving chapter and verse of his sterling character, among other features.
Petty political ploys are standard operating procedure back in the Chicago wards that spawned President Barack Obama’s career.
Russia’s president Vladimir Putin has declined to retaliate against the U.S. sanctions over the Russian hacking during the election season.
With Putin, Obama’s actions smack of a jilted suitor, writes columnist Andrew Malcolm.
President Obama plans a farewell speech next week in Chicago, and perhaps he’ll notice that while he’s been in Washington his hometown has become the nation’s murder capital and largest gang war zone. Worth reflecting on is the city’s upswell in violence last year that followed political protests against law enforcement and a pullback in policing.
I am reminded of the punk, celebrated as protest leader, who showboated in the cop’s face during one such protest/blocking of rights of way for vehicles and pedestrians.
Am reminded also that one candidate talked (more than once) about the plight of the law-abiding in black ‘hoods. The other bristled at the idea that there’s a problem. She lost, he won.
Meanwhile, Chicago politics is full of hand-wringing about “violence” and the victims and hearts going out etc. but nothing about LAW ENFORCEMENT, which (can you imagine?) is the heart of the problem.
. . . who is trying get at what’s not available.
Or shouldn’t be in any well-run operation in which important decisions are in the offing.
Response to her when she pressed for said information — in effect what will you decide? — might have been, “You’re kidding?”
McCarthy breaks through the see-no-evil civil libertarians-induced no-guns party line.
CHICAGO — Chicago police officers are “under attack” and doing the bare minimum to avoid accusations of wrongdoing, former top cop Garry McCarthy and a former Chicago officer said on “60 Minutes” this weekend.
The nationally broadcast CBS news program did a segment called, “Crisis In Chicago,” spending three days here and witnessing how murder has become a “normal” part of everyday life. They also point out how investigative stops in the city are down more than 80 percent despite a massive spike in shootings and murders.
It’s really an attack on the blue-statism that infects everything.
