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Portland is such a beautiful city if you love boarded up stores and homeless camps.

Some Jan. 6 sentences were improperly lengthened, appeals court rules

No, it was very much in swing 60 years ago. It is more of a elitist fascism instead of a communism though.

Isn't this just facial recognition software being used on international flights now in some airports? Granted, such a database will be dangerous and the feds will abuse it. But if it is really just used at entry and exit points, it is not really tracking us.....yet.

There are over 4,000 illegals crossing the border every day filling our streets with fentanyl and trafficking women and children into prostitution, and you are going to claim the seemingly false arrest of a single illegal proves they are all innocent, and this is blown way out of proportion. The truth is they just arrested the wrong illegal. The guy seems like a big turd regardless. Biden's white house has intentionally allowed the illegal border crossings to spiral out of control, and we are allowing the worst of the worst to come into this country instead of having some controlled screening process. I actually favor a significant level of immigartion, but it has to be fully controlled and the people we allow in need to be screened so we are accepting people who will contribute positively.

The real issue with our government is we lost control of the Executive Branch. Our system of government was setup with checks and balances between the branches. We grossly expanded the size and power of the Executive branch, but we did not expand the oversight. In fact federal agents have immunity in their acts and can operate in secrecy. These agencies have grown bigger and bigger and have grown more an more corrupt.

He was a hero of the establishment because he was working for them, trying to kill off Putin.

The mainstream media covered the story and thought he was guilty. You are such a smug dumbass sometimes. This does nothing to vindicate anyone. A leftist DA was prosecuting him.

That is scary if that last attorney was the best the DA's office had. There are two main issues Fani could get nailed on: 1. Fani received at least $17,800 in gifts/benefits from Mr. Wade in terms of vacations. Fani signed sworn statements every year stating she has not received any gifts over the course of the year exceeding $100 from prohibited source (people she gave contracts too such as Mr. Wade). IMHO, that should be enough, but this judge could rule that is more of an administrative issue and not an issue which is disqualifying for the purpose of this case. Unless the judge finds Fani and Wade's story about cash payments was a lie. 2. If Fani and Wade lied to the court on when their relationship started. Had they been truthful, they might have skated and the court may have blown it off. Obviously Fani skated the county regulations to award a huge contract to her lover. It would have been a more administrative issue, that could have been resolved behind closed doors by friends of Fani. But if it is determined that it appears Fani and Wade lied, the court will be forced to disqualify her for the appearance of impropriety. This is a pretty unique case, so it is not clear what the standard for proof is. If it is propanderous of evidence, Fani needs to be booted. If it is beyond a reasonable doubt, the judge may wimp out and say the evidence does not rise to that level. It should be just a preponderance of evidence, so Fani should get the boot. The judge said it will be about two weeks before he reaches a descion.

The last defense attorney for the defense was outstanding. The DA attorney presenting is pretty horrible. If this guy was a public attorney, I would beg for a new one. Fani may be motivated to try to save this.

Not that Ritter is a greatest source, but he does have thoughtful insight. The guy was a real 4-time insurrectionist who tried to have Putin killed and overthrow elections.

Again total BS. You are making assumptions based upon a strong media bias which endlessly drumbeats for war. There has not been a war since WWII in which our media has not exaggerated the case for war with one-sided propaganda. In many cases it was our crappy covert actions which put horrendous puppet governments in place which lead to the revolts and anti-American sentiment. In the case of Ukraine, when you dig deeper the war was not as unprovoked as the our propaganda media keeps drilling into our heads. We had numerous secret CIA bases in Ukraine on the Russian border spying on them for over a decade. These bases still provide intelligence to Ukraine to help direct missile attacks. The policy of a neutral Ukraine was the key concession in the Soviet Union breaking up. The US has used Zelenskyy to break this promise and move towards getting Ukraine into NATO. We could end this war anytime if we simply negotiated for Ukraine neutrality. But the US will not allow that to happen, so this proxy war continues resulting in hundreds of thousands dead. Putin is a greedy ruthless dictator, but yet still more trustworthy than China which is quickly building an arsenal which will be bigger and more technically advanced than ours. China is far more ideologically driven by communistic and anti-western ideals. China is hellbent on world domination. Putin is a self-serving bastard, but loves to enrich himself through capitolism and embraces western culture. Our Ukrainian proxy war with Russia is the biggest waste of money and human life since the Iraq war. But since American soldiers are not the ones coming home in body bags, the media can largely ignore the brutality of it and keep cheerleaders for it. And as far as Navalny (who waa almost certainly a CIA operstive) goes, it is funny how upset our media is over that, but they were highly sympathetic to Ukraine putting a ransome on Tucker's head.

YouTube blocks over 50 percent of comments, and it is not because they violate some TOS. It is almost all political.

You really can't give blanket advice on when to start SS. Generally, if you wait a year your monthly check will go up 6-8 percent. That sound good, but you will also recieve 12 fewer checks. It will take you 12 to 13 years before you break even by waiting. So the break even point for waiting between starting at age 62 and starting at 63 is when you turn 75. And that is not even counting the fact those 12 checks will reduce what you have to take out of your other retirement which is invested in the market. So if you are as healthy as an ox and have other savings to carry you for a few years, most definitely wait to start withdrawing SS as long as possible (67, 68, 69 or 70) But if you have health issues and you doubt you will make it past 75 or 80, you are better off starting to withdraw earlier. Personally, I am targeting starting SS at 65, about three years after I retire. That optimizes my retirement through the age of 80. After 80, I probably won't be so active, so extra money is kind of meaningless.

What a really dumb rebuttal. We have a 30 fold increase in border crossings, and you want to blame it on COVID, and then you pull some race card by proxy BS. The guy was the head of ICE, he has an pretty damn good idea what is happening on the border. You are so predictable and so easily manipulated. What you never are is logical.

Olberman's latest meltdown: "Chief Justice Roberts is a Trump (w)hore and he can burn in hell!"

You offer nothing. I told you exactly what happened in the obscene New York case. You know zero about the case, but somehow you defend it because everyone in your media celebrates these tyrannical tactics. You want serious debate, show me where I overstate anything in that asinine Engeron ruling.

TIM. "1. We don’t have an open border. Biden doesn’t want an open border. Biden has done nothing to make the border more open than it was before. " TRUTH/FACTS : Rep. Jordan: “So you said earlier, both you and Mr. Edlow, said this is by design. This is intentional and I think I got it right that you said three main things about this Administration: stop building the wall, get rid of ‘remain in Mexico’, and release people when they get here. And that incentivizes people to come from, I believe you said 181 different countries. Because they know there is no wall to get over, there’s no wait in Mexico and they’re going to get released to wherever they want to go, is that right?” Mr. Homan: “Absolutely, the first few days in office, President Biden signed over 90 executive orders abolishing all the policies that were proven effective based on numbers.”

You have nothing to back up what you claim. Here are some facts...border crossings are up about 30 times under Biden. Read that...a 30-fold increase. .That is beyond a crisis, it is absurd and our border agents have been prevented from stopping them and are in to just processing them. Our borders have been opened up. Rep. Grothman: “I want to just clarify some numbers here. We need to understand the size of this issue. As I understand it, in December, over 300,000 people entered this country and were allowed in or were gotaways…and when the last administration left office, that number was depending on the month, 5 to 20,000. So, it’s increased by a factor of about 30 to 1. Is that accurate? 30 times more people coming into the interior of this country compared to two years ago?” Mr. Thomas D. Homan, Retired Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE): “President Biden is the first President to ever un-secure a border on purpose. The current administration’s failure to enforce and uphold the laws as written by Congress are not just matters of legal debate but have led to unimaginable suffering and death for Americans and migrants alike… For three years, this Administration has directed and overseen the implementation of an agenda that has resulted in a national security, humanitarian, public health, and public safety catastrophe unlike any we have ever witnessed at America’s borders.”

Oh good lord Tim. How can you spew such utter non-sense with a straight face? Biden has done everything in his power for the last three years to make our borders open. It is to the point where South America is just opening up their prisons, putting their worst POS on planes and we just accept them with open arms. They tore down fences, diverted money away from border control and even prevented states from trying to do their job. The compromise legislation offered up was the biggest turd ever that only opened the floodgates more while tyring to sneak more billions and billions into fighting the proxy war in Ukraine. Any offer by Joe will be nothing but a disingenuous turd to try lie to America about his extreme totally open border agenda. Biden knows America hates his true agenda and is trying desperately to trick America into 4 more years of no border control.

$180k by the end of the year would not shock me.

There are millions of 'death' threats. 99.9999 percent are hot air. The media only finds them scary when it suits their politics. I guarentee you Rittenhouse gets more death threats than anyone, but you will never never never ever hear the media mention or have any concern over that. During the Kavanaugh hearings all we heard about were threats against Ford, when Kavanaugh and his family had many more. The one-sided reporting makes me sick and it effectively brainwashed people like you as shown in your obscenely bigotted accusation above.

Not one bit, because it is all BS. Conservatives get deaths threats all the time. In fact the only actual murder attempt in a high-profile political case was against Justice Kavanaugh. Kavanaugh and his family were under constant death threats during his confirmation hearing. The difference is the corporate establishment media only cares about death threats against one of their own. Shows like The View often make death threats in jest against Conservatives and people think it is funny. Ironically you ignorantly believe it is the other side who is bombarded with misinformation and gross distortions.

I am actually not. The facts I put forth accurately and fairly represent the case. You listen to and trust a bunch of Trump-hating leftwing blowhards. I am about 10-0 at reading legal cases verse the retards you listen to.

It sucks to be up over 300 percent since September.