Cops household possessions auctioned off to help pay shooting victims medical bills.

On the one hand, I’d like to see police and government officials held personally liable when they do something totally illegal and outside the bounds of the law.

On the other hand, I think cops have to be given some leeway as they often have to make split second decisions in a dangerous environment.

On the other hand, a LOT of cops are very quick to use deadly force when there are other options available….and they DO hide behind the concept of “Professional immunity” and let the taxpayers of the communities that employ them pay any civil penalties and continue their employment with zero consequences to their actions…..even in instances where the average citizen would be charged with murder or other penalties….

On the other hand, criminals (generally) don’t let themselves be arrested without fighting back, and often that fighting includes deadly force.

On the other hands, cops often abuse their privilege….and fail to “Police” their own ranks of bad cops. In fact,they often unite behind that so called “Blue Wall”.

On the other hand, seeing this, why would any cop do anything, at any time to place their possessions and family and income in jeopardy ? (And despite our attitude towards cops, we DO need ’em.).

On the final hand, note that the income generated by the auction of Deputy Lin FIRST go to the fees claimed by the US Marshalls and other government employees…anything left over (if anything) goes to the victim…..

From LLBean. (And i am cheap, and consider their items quality stuff, but terribly overpriced.)

L.L. Bean Is Fending Off Trump-Related Boycott

A family member donated to help the president-elect win.

Riddle me this, Batman:

So, despite the posturing, the dramatically grave pronouncements on the morning news media, there is one small flaw in that whole “Russians did the DNC hack and changed the election” meme:

FBI Director James Comey acknowledged Tuesday that his agency failed to get access to Democratic National Committee servers and the smartphone of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman allegedly hacked by Russia in the 2016 presidential race.


But the FBI’s repeated requests for access to the devices were denied. So the agency instead had to rely on the findings of a “highly respected private company,” hired by the DNC Comey said.

So….The FBI never actually looked at the “evidence”…Yet they told the world that “the “Russians” did it.”

And, one wonders why the DNC “denied” the FBI’s attempts to examine the “evidence” on the servers………What were they hiding that they didn’t want the feebs to see? What secrets on the server or in the emails were more important? 

One other question: Did Comey perjure himself when he testified to the above?

One expects the press to be biased. But when the “Intelligence” agencies of this country are.conspiring against the President-Elect…then it truly is time to begin lopping heads….either literally or figuratively, take your choice. What the inteligence agencies of this country are doing is, essentially, treason, and certainly against their oaths.  

Thunderstorms in early January…in Northewest Indiana.

Maybe Climate Change is real.

Or.something.

Dillon Roof gets the Death Penalty.

Good.

One could onlywish that it could be slower, and more painful and more public than it will end up being.

Were it up to me, I’d see him dismembered in public over a perod of days. 

The News media and the Democrats (but I repeat myself) just won’t let go of the story that the “russians” hacked the election.

But wht, exactly, did “they” do?

As far as I can tell, they hacked a private server owned by Hillary Clinton and then (via John Podesta) got into the emails of the DNC  and (supposedly) distributed them to WikiLeaks and others.

So how, exactly did “they” “hack the election”….

….and why is the security failure of a private server in any way the business of the United States Government?

And where, exactly, is the proof? According to some stories, the Feds haven’t actually…you know…..examined any of the servers that were “hacked”…they are, instead, relying on the words and conclusions of a third party firm that was hired by the DNC….

And there is, of course, no forensic information on Hillary’s server, as that was “Wiped” (with a towel?) on the orders of Hillary…so no data there.

Did this information influence the election? Probably…almost certainly. The Soviets have been trying to influence elections as long as I have been alive….since BEFORE the Vietnam war….

But the “russians” (if that is who did it) didn’t”hack” the election. They didn’t in any way change a vote, or change the count of votes nor did they change the outcome of the election as far as the votes cast by voters…..)Sadly that can’t be said of the polling places in Philadelphia, and Cincinnati and especially Chicago and Detroit (and likely many other “Blue” strongholds…)

But really, this “Hacking” story is a lot of light, but no heat. There is no “hack” of the election. Just a hack of a private server…..and the publicized emails and the attitudes of the DNC they presented have NEVER been refuted by the aggrieved parties. All someone did was to show private emails that were embarrassing to Hillary and the DNC.

So I would ask the media….How, exactly, did the “Russians” (if that is who did the “hack”) hack the election?

ETA: Borepatch says it prolly wasn’t just the Russians in the servers

It does let me get some needed sleep when I have a cold. It does give symptom relief from congestion and a runny nose and coughing.

While I can’t take much (the Dextromethorphan makes my meager intellect hide in a cave for a while… to the point that cannot operate complicated machinery safely….like forks or staplers), I do occasionally use NyQuil just before going to bed (Taking it in the kitchen means I wake up in the kitchen…likely on the floor) it has one terrible side effect……..

I wake up with a coating on my teeth that resembles engine sludge mixed with wallpaper paste and used cat litter…..possibly admixed with black powder ash residue and beach sand….and leftover (and cold) beef with broccoli sauce….

Bleah.

Camel’s nose under the tent:

So the DHS has decided that the voting machines and other voting infrastructure is a “critical infrastructure”….And this means they can take control from the states without being asked. They can set the rules. What voting machines (and what software???) and many other parameters. They can, in effect, change the election outcomes…………..(and let us remember, they use the excuse of a “Russian hack” even though there is NO Evidence that there was any hacking of election related voting machines or software)…the “hack” was to the DNC email servers through John Podesta’s account because the DNC and Mr. Podesta failed to do any basic security measures…..Again, there was NO hacking of election infrastructure. None. Zero.

I find this disturbing on many levels….it is not in the purview of the feds (much less DHS) to interfere in any way with the state operated elections. If a state wants to use a show of hands to decide who is elected, then that is up to the leaders of the state and the citizens who voted for them, not the Federal government. If they want to have the state legislature choose their federal representatives, that is not up to the citizens of the other 49 states, nor the Federal government. It is, really, a States Rights issue. and not in any way the business of the Federal Government.

I sincerely hope that Trump makes this go away. It isn’t, again, a part of the DHS mandate, nor is it any business of anyone not a citizen of the state affected.

Moreso, it can affect greatly our choices as Citizens in the future, Our votes count for little enough as it is, and this takeover can in many ways affect (or even remove) our right to self determination.