National Security Pick Declines Trump's Offer, ICE Narrative Questioned, Tony Blair Urges Brexit Resistance: A.M. Links

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Luiz Roberto Lima/ANBNews/newzulu/Newscom Immigration lawyers and activists "have pointed to a sharp discrepancy between what ICE says it is doing and what immigrant families are seeing and reporting in cities across the nation," The Washington Post reports.
- In Seattle, 23-year-old Daniel Ramirez Medina—twice-authorized under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program but arrested by immigration agents last week—has filed a lawsuit accusing the government of falsely asserting that Medina belonged to a gang in order to place him in the gang unit of Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center.
- Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair urged anti-Brexit Britons to "rise up in defense of what we believe."
- Vice Admiral Robert Harward told Donald Trump's thanks-but-no-thanks on becoming a national security adviser.
- "Today, we make clear, in Florida, any law that implicates the fundamental right of privacy, regardless of the activity, is subject to strict scrutiny and is presumptively unconstitutional," said the state's Supreme Court in a ruling blocking a requirement that women see a doctor twice before getting an abortion.
- A Prince George's County, Maryland, police officer is accused of assaulting a homeless woman while on duty.
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Vice Admiral Robert Harward told Donald Trump's thanks-but-no-thanks on becoming a national security adviser.
He's already talked to the Russkies too.
Hello.
"Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair urged anti-Brexit Britons to "rise up in defense of what we believe."
And what we believe in is democracy some of the time!
Democracy only until they get the result they want.
It reminds me of playing Civilization as a kid. If I attacked with one of my military units and it died, I kept reloading until I won.
We call it Calvin Ball now.
Save scumming, actually.
Democratic outcomes are only valid when they further progressivism.
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for socialism.
And the difference would be what, exactly?
https://i.imgur.com/YAGpXPd.png
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Democracy simply doesn't work.
http://unqualified-reservation.....pills.html
Depends what you mean by "works". One man's bug is another man's feature.
Turkey Erdogan put democracy into focus for statists of all brands: "Democracy is a train you ride until you reach the desired station, then you get off the train."
I like Boris Johnson's response. That guy's pretty amusing.
He can pull off a lot because of his hair.
Like Robby?
Have you ever seen a picture of Robby and Boris together?
Exactly like Robby.
Hello
...and submission of petty details of our lives to the regulatory whims of a largely unaccountable bureaucracy.
Because talking to Russians is a crime. Because we are at war with Russia. Or something.
Quasi War, v 2.0 (or probably like v 153.7)
Russia is to blame for Democrat party failures, duh!
Russia hacked the election, by exposing the Democrats emails and revealing how vile the Democrats are.
Yeah, that was really unfair of them.
Clearly, restarting the Cold War is preferable to self-reflection, admitting there were any mistakes in your political platform, philosophy, campaign strategy, or appointed Messiah candidate.
LOL! Fist that's a rich start to the thread. *puts some bread in your jar*
Vice Admiral Robert Harward told Donald Trump's thanks-but-no-thanks on becoming a national security adviser.
His name is too much like Harvard to be part of this everyman administration.
Sounds like an opportunity for Trump to get rid of the entire National Security system, if he can't have an adviser how can it exist
Just think of the $ trillions the taxpayers will be saved and the massive reduction in fake news stories. Its a win/win
It's a bit early in the AM to be this high...
Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair urged anti-Brexit Britons to "rise up in defense of what we believe."
A little late for that. Go to stiff upper lip mode.
Labour party lost that feature and replace it with "whine like small brats"
It's more sad to see Britain rather than to see America lose its stoicism and embrace or be consumed by -- not unlike a zombie plague -- 'Victimhood Culture'.
Sit back and enjoy it.
+1 lie back and think of England
Getting heavily involved in Iraq and being complicit in completely fucking up the Middle East is totally defensible. Trying to withdraw from a sclerotic soft dictatorship through devolution of power is beyond the pale though.
Yeah, I don't know how well Blair's comments are going to go over with the British left, who view him as a war criminal.
Well to a politician, that makes perfect sense.
Trying to withdraw from a sclerotic soft dictatorship through devolution of power is beyond the pale though.
Unless it's Wales or Scotland, and then Blair is perfectly ok with it.
has filed a lawsuit accusing the government of falsely asserting that Medina belonged to a gang in order to place him in the gang unit of Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center.
If he's gone to a Juggalo gathering before this is going to be quite the Internet story.
He joined the Tunnel Snakes during the tutorial, case closed. Tunnel Snakes rule!
FREE DANIEL*
(*with purchase of two or more gang members)
Immigration lawyers and activists "have pointed to a sharp discrepancy between what ICE says it is doing and what immigrant families are seeing and reporting in cities across the nation," The Washington Post reports.
Kind of like the Obama Administration's DoJ on weed.
So, background checks and licenses for guns also unconstitutional?
Of course not. Privacy, like Choice, only applies to what women do with unwanted growths in their uteri.
The back pedalling on that should be spectacular. And when the court retreats from the ground it just staked out it should be burned to the ground.
It would be lovely if a challenge to a law restricting 2A rights quoted that exact passage.
So are stingrays, apparently, and a whole host of other police surveillance techniques.
"any law that implicates the fundamental right of privacy, regardless of the activity, is subject to strict scrutiny and is presumptively unconstitutional"
*Any* law? Now, *that* is funny!
That's either really brilliant, or just completely lacking in self-awareness. Given it's Florida, I'd bet on the latter.
So I don't have to file a Form 1040 this April?
Well, Florida officials won't throw you in prison if you don't file. The IRS, however ...
Hey now! Strict scrutiny was applied to all those other laws that violate your privacy, and it was simply found that there were really really important reasons for doing it, Mr.!
Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair urged anti-Brexit Britons to "rise up in defense of what we believe."
Now that he mentions it, can we Blexit, too?
What country does Blair want to invade now?
The Colonies.
This year has inspired me to rise up in defense of Fuxit, it's the only principled position. Well, several positions. I'm flexible.
Immigration lawyers and activists "have pointed to a sharp discrepancy between what ICE says it is doing and what immigrant families are seeing and reporting in cities across the nation," The Washington Post reports.
"Immigration lawyers and activists". Totally neutral, I'm sure.
Oh absolutely.
How dare they impugn the integrity of those noble, honest government goons!
Are we questioning Law Enforcement press releases now? Is that a thing now?
We're through the looking glass people.
I have noticed a large advertisement campaign for customs and border patrol jobs lately.
...in a ruling blocking a requirement that women see a doctor twice before getting an abortion.
Why did they call him Dr. Two Times?
"I'm gonna kill da baby, kill da baby."
Goodfellas reference for the win.
"Love me two times, baby."
The squirrelz apparently do.
You're very kind; but I'll take the blame for that one.
Thought you were shooting blanks.
You have no future in politics, then.
You're very astute, as well as kind.
I have a nest of baby squirrels in my apartment attic. While the scurrying of the adults in recent weeks has driven me out of my mind, the quiet peeping of newborn animals above my head is strangely soothing.
(it seemed to tie into the various previous comments)
Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair urged anti-Brexit Britons to "rise up in defense of what we believe."
Who will be the English McMullin?
I think it's called a scone over there.
Actually, crumpet is a more accurate equivalent of an English muffin.
I can never keep those two straight.
Who? Siegfried and Roy?
I think he meant Crockett & Tubbs.
Tango & Cash?
Neil and Bob.
CSNY
Yes, except chewier, and less tasty.
I liked this one, Zeb.
Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair urged anti-Brexit Britons to "rise up in defense of what we believe."
He was pretty good in Love, Actually.
No-one was good in Love, Actually. Any talent that came within 10 miles of that film withered like Jack Nicholson's last attempt at an erection
A sequel is being made.
By Michael Bay?
we're still talking about Nicholson's erection, right?
Jack's Erection by Michael Bay.
Really, everything by Michael Bay.
Now we just need to believe in something!
Harward told The Associated Press that the Trump administration was "very accommodating to my needs, both professionally and personally."
OK, what does that really mean?
Taking it on face value, apparently Agile Cyborg could named a national security adviser.
FREAKCON 1:Maxine Waters Thinks Trump Is a Secret Member of the 'Kremlin Clan' and Needs to Be Impeached
http://tinyurl.com/h87slas
Maxine Waters is likely the stupidest person ever elected to congress. I doubt she actually "thinks".
Waters subbed this bit of heavy thinking out to George Lakoff.
She's functionally retarded. Who the hell keeps voting for her?
The idiots in her gerrymandered district where no Republican has a chance.
Do they not have primaries there?
Maybe she's their only source of entertainment?
Good luck even getting on that ticket.
You think the Democrat party machine runs an open and fair primary race, rather than doing everything they can to get their candidate of choice into office again?
I have no idea. As I understand it, in some places where one party completely dominates, the primary is where the real action happens.
Ken Brady got primaried, but I wouldn't expect that to ever happen to Maxine.
Consider the possibility that she actually represents her district well...
Kevin Brady
It would be fun to run as a Republican there, take party money, and basically be an insult comic against folks like Waters for a few months (while the papers feel pressured to cover your rants).
The functionally retarded people we call citizens of the United States.
Several hardworking, patriotic Xerox machines.
She's functionally retarded. Who the hell keeps voting for her?
People from a D+26 Cook PVI index district.
In response to WTF below -- it's actually not gerrymandered. It's an geographically compact oval shaped district, not some sprawling thing.
I don't know. She has some stiff competition from Louis Gohmert.
I guess "Kremlin Klan" was just too obvious.
apparently, not to her!
Knights of?
Man, can you imagine of the media covered the hysteria on the left as much as they do Trump's babbling?
That's actually difficult to imagine as the hysteria of the left is largely kept going by the mainstream media's choices of what to focus on.
Ah, that's a good point
Waters has demonstrated a penchant for confusion on this issue. Just last week, while calling for Trump's impeachment, she claimed that the president was "wrapping his arms" around Putin who is "continuing to advance into Korea."
HAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!
Is that what they're calling it now?
Korea, China, Crimea, Ukraine-it's all the same shit.
I mean I conquered them all in EU4, so at least in that game they are.
She needs to get with the dude who thought Guam would tip over.
And do what? I hope not procreate.. That movie Idiocracy was not a "How to" manual
Putin killed Kim Jong-Nan with needles full of polonium?
I had no idea the John Birch Society was so powerful in the modern day.
all eight members.
The Octaverate
"Today, we make clear, in Florida, any law that implicates the fundamental right of privacy, regardless of the activity, is subject to strict scrutiny and is presumptively unconstitutional,"
Dammit, I thought this was going to be about the Stingray cases. Or at least cellphone searches at random traffic stops.
Those two officers will getting the Serpico treatment sooner than later.
Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair urged anti-Brexit Britons to "rise up in defense of what we believe."
They did, they failed.
I think Blair was just trolling the Falcons and anti-Brexiteers with that line. Rise Up! And blow a big lead...
Rise up how exactly?
Go on...
Black students should be offered free tuition and housing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison because blacks were legally barred from education during slavery and university remains out of reach for black students today, the student government said Wednesday.
You know what else blacks deserve because they were legally barred from it during slavery?
Student government...
White women?
Go on...
The group said consideration of ACT and SAT scores in applications restricts opportunities for the poor and thus upholds "white supremacy."
Those poor, stupid black folks. 🙁
Unable to advance without the helping hand of the benevolent white man. Yet that attitude is not racist at all, because reasons.
Oh here comes the Atticus Finch revisionist.
As long as it makes me feel better.
Government jobs? Minimum wage jobs? Is it jobs?
Literacy
Passage to Liberia?
Yeah, the place to do this is Wisconsin; a state that never had slavery, and was the birthplace of an anti-slavery party. Yep, Wisconsin is definitely a place that would owe for horrors of slavery.
Beat me to it!
Law Enforcement protection?
15% of UW students are black.
Only 6% of Wisconsin residents are black.
Fundamental right to privacy? It appears to lose its fundamentality in the presence of politicians' fundamental right to run the extortion racket. Roads, you morons.
13 pounds of horse genitals concealed in woman's luggage
The women had a combined 42 pounds of horse meat concealed inside juice boxes. That includes 13 pounds of horse genitals that one of the women claimed were for medicinal purposes.
IN JUICE BOXES?! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!
The famous horse genitalia thread was last night. You missed out.
*** searches frantically through archives ***
Comments are now closed on that thread
"13 Pounds of Horse Genitals" was my nickname in college.
+1 punctured bowel
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Bad news from Fannie Mae, providing more proof that government-run businesses are a great idea and the free market sucks. Without Fannie and Freddy, people who can't afford to buy homes can't afford to buy homes.
Link no good.
But there is more, the people who can't afford homes get stuck with a mortgage they can't afford, and a house which keeps them in an area they can't afford, they end up with bad credit rating which helps keep them poor and not able to afford anything, except what they get from the taxpayers in the form of welfare, food stamps, housing benefits, which cost the taxpayer which makes them poorer and the cycle continues.
I can't buy a home for me because I'm buying homes for other people.
Yeah, because if they had witnessed anybody else doing the same thing, the would have just "reported" it. I mean, i guess it's nice they reported it, but they should have arrested the fucker.
Angela Merkel is losing it since he poll numbers started to slide.
So Dan Rather had also said that if Hillary did 1/10th of whatever Flynn did, she would be in jail. Has he just gone into full attention seeking mode?
He's been there for a while. It's just now that he's saying bad things about Trump everyone loves him.
Yea funny thing is there was a CNN article saying the FBI is not likely to pursue charges at this time unless new info comes about.
He's been there for decades
Don't call it a comeback?
He's found a whole new generation of idiots who either don't know about or are willing to forget his malfeasance.
And he's a narcissist.
Fake but accurate?
Former NPR CEO said some days WP was so biased against Trump it was like a reverse Breitbart. (h/t: Molly Hemingway)
http://tinyurl.com/jqhbhr6
When you lose NPR....
I blame the Russians. Putin plays five dementional chess
What's the over/under on how long it takes to browbeat him into a reversal?
That would have been an awesome AM Link. In November.
What, and risk not getting invited to the cocktail parties? That's crazy talk.
Bezos is now the owner of the WP, so it makes sense.
Liberal hack goes on incoherent tirade about Trump press conference.
From what I can tell, Friedman's grievances are as follows:
-Wikileaks hacking and releasing the DNC emails was equivalent to Pearl Harbor and 9/11 (probably put together, but he didn't quite go that far)
-Trump is not belligerent enough toward other world powers, does not sufficiently rattle his sabre at Russia
-Trump hurt Jim Acosta's feelings, which is an assault on the First Amendment
The press keeps going on and on about how they are going to be a check on executive overreach in the next 4 (or from the way things are already shaping up, 8) years, but they don't seem to remember how to do their jobs. Taking an eight-year vacation will dull anyone's skills, I guess. If you want to be taken seriously, you must start behaving in a serious manner. Comparing Trump's election to Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 is not a good way to start.
Trump tried to give everyone what they wanted with that presser. I don't see how anyone could complain.
Not enough pussy grabbing
Trump calling on the media.
Friedman has never been a journalist. He's barely been anything more than a meme generator.
"He's barely been anything more than a meme generator."
Holy shit, this IS a thing:
http://tinyurl.com/glzop78
http://tinyurl.com/ckyo7wv
(generates Thomas Friedman op/ed.)
This week's 5th Column had a pretty good takedown of Friedman's dumbassery.
+1 "Suck. On. This."
Wikileaks hacking and releasing the DNC emails was equivalent to Pearl Harbor and 9/11 (probably put together, but he didn't quite go that far)
Perhaps it's like dropping the Twin Towers onto Pearl Harbor?
I guess noone gets laid in Japan.
Japan family planning association
Sexy
Probably because their genitals are all blurry.
I never understood why anyone would want to fuck a Japanese woman, anyway. They all have those weird pixelated blurs where their ladyparts should be.
Oh, The Guardian. Funny how they are lamenting the fact that thin, respectful Japanese women aren't getting laid while ignoring the fact that the drunken, fat women stumbling out of pubs in England are.
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things sounds much more fun.
I expect Japan to corner the market.
Tentacles haz a sad
One less excuse against turning them all into advanced cyborgs (even if it means replacing crotches with heavy weapons or transformation cogs)!
Black Guns Matter
British pants-shitting in the headline and comments
Black Guns Gunts matter.
Maj Toure sounds like a formidable force.
I like this guy's style.
I gave up long ago trying to explain to Brits and other Euros why guns are so important to Americans. It's like trying to explain why why vodka is so important to Russians to a teetotaler. Complete disconnect.
It's not even that long ago that they could have guns there. What happened? I guess maybe it was never so much a part of the culture.
Still, it amazes me how willing so many people were in the UK, Australia and other places to give up their guns.
Here's how Christine Hauser of NY Times related the Russian spy ship remarks:
"Mr. Trump himself referred to the ship at a marathon news conference on Thursday, saying that his critics probably think "the greatest thing I could do is shoot that ship that's 30 miles offshore right out of the water. Everyone in this country's going to say, 'Oh, it's so great.' That's not great. That's not great."
A bit different spin put on it by the Associated Press White House correspondent Julie Pace:
"He said the 'greatest thing' he could do was 'shoot' a Russian spy ship lingering off the East Coast of the United States."
I guess AP is committed to making Trump look like a dangerous maniac.
But blowing ships up near our coastal waters is what made America Great! : sidekick Whispers in ear: what do you mean the Maine wasn't a foreign ship?
Yeah, lets set the precedent that it is okay for nations to attack shipping international waters. That ought to work out well.
Quick, where's Ron Paul's old bill for reinstituting Letters of Marque?
Yeah but if you take him completely out of context and chop up and rearrange his sentences he totally did say that.
"Yeah you take and totally chop and rearrange him up"
Has the secret service been alerted to this threat on the presidents life?
Also, the dishonesty of our press has come back to bite them. I know I don't believe the stories I read in the AP anymore.
Surprise!! Oregon's free community college benefits rich folks most of all!
Oh, shit, absolutely no one could have seen that coming!
Community college is already pretty cheap for in state students. If you are poor and can get aid, it can be virtually free. If you are middle class or rich, it is going to cost. So yeah, getting rid of tuition is going to benefit the middle class and wealthy.
The same people who are surprised by this, couldn't see the naked self interest in rich people supporting Bernie's "free college for everyone" program.
Thanks for summarizing the article's contents!
Sorry. Didn't mean to walk over your article.
I think she was being genuine, it making a funny, not mad.
Unless you too are making a funny and I'm stuck in some kind of internet comment inception.
I like to rib John from time-to-time. He literally just summed up the entire contents of the article, so I'm guessing he didn't, like, read it.
The best way to make a college diploma better is to effectively just print more of them. Academic easing?
Fact: John did not read the article; he read the author's mind.
Now I's skeered.
*blink*
Whoa.
Will anyone be surprised when the people pushing free tuition will ignore reports like these and simply double down in response?
I wonder what kind of nonsense I would get if I posted this on my Facederp?
Lots of "buts", I would presume, with no substance. Like "But poor people! Right to an education! Derp derp"
Don't harsh the narrative?
Free tuition is income, it must be taxed as income now!
The study was obviously conducted by racists cause one of the researches told an off-color joke one time in elementary school.
Colleges need a little market discipline?if students have some skin in the game, they will be more selective about which schools they choose to attend.
But that is, like, literally depriving students of an education? If I can't, like, get my degree in indigenous studies from UC Berkeley, you are literally violating my civil rights?
You're a sock for our favorite SJW! I knew it!
Preaches Peace, Love, and Understanding
Behaves Like Scumbag Stacey
For the same reason that any tax cut benefits rich folks most of all.
Wallace: My total earnings for first month was very low... Just little over $250, but it was then when I realized this is the real deal and not yet another scam you see all over the internet! There are no words to describe the feeling you get when your first paycheck arrives and what excitement I felt at that moment realizing that making money from home is in fact very possible. After my first month I dedicated more time and put more effort in working this and my second month was already much more better (2nd paycheck I got was for $990)... Now, 6 months later, I am earning just over $2500 a month . I am a little slow with my work and I am not that good with computers and that's why I think a younger person could be able to earn much much more than this.
=============== http://www.4dayjobs.com
Is that addressed to Wallace, or is Wallace saying it?
The important thing that now it can afford community college.
It's probably from Wallace. Gromit is smarter than that.
Jesus F. Christ, the squirrelz are out in full force today. Less than half of my attempts at commenting are getting through.
The problem is somewhere between the keyboard and the chair.
"A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left, and he can't afford to admit ? no matter how often he's reminded of it ? that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley... Very few toads in this world are Prince Charmings in disguise. Most are simply toads... and they are going to stay that way... Toads don't make laws or change any basic structures, but one or two rooty insights can work powerful changes in the way they get through life."
So, yeah. I had pretty high hopes for this year, but seriously, I'm just going to pre-emptively say Fuck 2017 already.
"Today, we make clear, in Florida, any law that implicates the fundamental right of privacy, regardless of the activity, is subject to strict scrutiny and is presumptively unconstitutional," said the state's Supreme Court in a ruling blocking a requirement that women see a doctor twice before getting an abortion.
I'm not in favor of any law that forces people to go to a doctor for any reason, but what the fuck does this have to do with privacy? If this violates a fundamental right to privacy then just about any government mandate violates the right to privacy too and should be struck down just like this one.
You drive a hard bargain. But I accept your conditions.