The reaction to Kevin Durant's move is proof that many people are shits.

Seriously, kiddies, I know it is tough to get excited about NBA free agency, but that's all we have at the moment. [Don't you just yearn for the excitement of the playoffs and LeBron getting swatted in the fellas?] 

All the hypocritical talking pricks at ESPN and all the digital troglodytes on twitter are still bitching about Durant playing for Golden State now when we all know if he had stayed in OKC, they'd have killed him for being all about the money.

Good luck, Mr. Durant, and pay absolutely no attention to those who claim to be your moral and intellectual superiors. Haters will always hate the player and the game because it is the only way they can get noticed.

What part of total fascist control don't you understand?

"Move along you serfs. There's nothing to see here. Absolutely nothing, you here me?"

From The Fiscal Times:

FBI’s Comey Makes It Clear: Hillary Clinton Is Above the Law

 

Is Hillary Clinton innocent? Or did she manage to avoid indictment? The two are not the same, as FBI Director James Comey made clear, even as he decided against recommending that Clinton be prosecuted for mishandling state secrets.

About half the country will now conclude what it has long suspected: the Clintons are above the law. How else to interpret Comey’s announcement?

Comey revealed his decision today, just in time to let Clinton hit the campaign trail with President Obama. And, just days after former president Bill Clinton happened to bump into Justice Department chief Loretta Lynch on the tarmac in Phoenix. What a happy coincidence — allowing the two old pals to catch up on the joys of grandparenting.

Related: Under Fire, Lynch Removes Herself from Final Decision on Clinton Email

It is difficult not to be cynical about the sequence of events. Unhappily, given the multiple occurrences of corruption in the Obama White House (see: Lois Lerner, Fast & Furious, etc.) and the innumerable scandals that have engulfed the Clintons over several decades, cynicism is quite appropriate.

Let’s consider Comey’s conclusions. Most curious is that he judges Clinton and her aides to have been “extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.” Nonetheless, he declines to prosecute her for “gross negligence” in the handling of classified information, which is a felony. How Clintonian to find airspace between those two standards.

As Comey said, “Although there is evidence of potential violations of the statutes regarding the handling of classified information, our judgment is that no reasonable prosecutor would bring such a case.” In other words, Clinton broke the law, but the evidence is not solid enough to indict. Is that the issue? Or were the straight arrow Comey and his FBI deterred by the calamitous political fallout of charging the presumed Democratic nominee for president with a felony.

Related: Extremely Proud to Be an American? Fewer People Say They Are

Most fair-minded people will believe that Clinton purposefully hid her correspondence. It turns out, as Comey noted, that the former secretary of state employed not one personal email server, but several. When she shifted from one to another, large caches of emails disappeared.

Specifically, Comey said, “Secretary Clinton used several different servers and administrators of those servers during her four years at the State Department, and used numerous mobile devices to view and send e-mail on that personal domain. As new servers and equipment were employed, older servers were taken out of service, stored and decommissioned in various ways.”

The FBI laboriously tried to reassemble much of what was destroyed, with only partial success. Remember that public officials are supposed to preserve their work-related correspondence for posterity; Clinton did not.

That Clinton lied repeatedly about her personal server use is a fact. She said she never sent or received classified information. To the contrary, Comey notes that “From the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department [from Clinton’s server] 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received…For example, seven e-mail chains concern matters that were classified at the Top Secret/Special Access Program level when they were sent and received.”

In true Clintonian fashion, Hillary would have us believe that classified emails sent to her were “not marked” as such; Comey blows that line out of the water arguing that “even if information is not marked ‘classified’ in an e-mail, participants who know or should know that the subject matter is classified are still obligated to protect it.”

Related: Big Winners in the Trump-Clinton Race: Hatred and Voter Disgust

That mishandling such information is against the law is a fact. Comey referenced the “federal statute making it a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way, or a second statute making it a misdemeanor to knowingly remove classified information from appropriate systems or storage facilities.”

It is also worrisome; there’s a reason officials are meant to use secure communications systems. As Comey noted: “None of these e-mails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, but their presence is especially concerning because all of these e-mails were housed on unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff, like those found at departments and agencies of the U.S. government — or even with a commercial service like Gmail.” At the least, the infractions prove Clinton’s judgment appalling.

Clinton also lied about those 30,000 personal emails she claimed concerned matters such as her yoga classes and Chelsea’s wedding. Comey: “The FBI also discovered several thousand work-related e-mails that were not in the group of 30,000 that were returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014. We found those additional e-mails in a variety of ways. Some had been deleted over the years and we found traces of them on devices that supported or were connected to the private e-mail domain.” Not only did Clinton lie about those emails, in destroying them she broke a law.

Some will draw parallels between Chief Justice John Roberts’ surprising decision to uphold Obamacare and Comey’s decision on Clinton. Both may have decided that it was more important to prevent massive political upheaval than to follow the letter of the law. Comey himself gave us some sense of that, when he said, “To be clear, this is not to suggest that in similar circumstances, a person who engaged in this activity would face no consequences. To the contrary, those individuals are often subject to security or administrative sanctions. But that is not what we are deciding now.”

Related: Clinton’s VP List May Have Just Gotten a Little Shorter

Individuals, for instance, like Petty Officer First Class Kristian Saucier, who was indicted recently for taking cell phone pictures of the engine room of his submarine — even though the government agreed he had no intention of sending the photos to anyone. In a case that many contrasted with the Clinton investigation, Saucier was expected to serve several years in prison for having mishandled national defense information.

So Comey let Clinton off the hook, even as he accused her of breaking the law. Let us hope that voters come November do not follow his lead.

Pennsylvania is a battleground state once again.

From the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:

Keep those eyes on bellwethers Ohio and Pennsylvania 

Perception and reality are two different things in politics.

On paper, Republicans Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania and Rob Portman of Ohio should be losing in the polls in their U.S. Senate re-election races. 

Both men have been hammered for a month over whether they will support their party's presumptive nominee, their opposition to voting on President Obama's Supreme Court nominee and their refusal to enact new gun legislation after the massacre in Orlando. 

Yet both are defying conventional political wisdom. 

Toomey increased his lead over Democrat Katie McGinty by 8 percentage points in the latest Quinnipiac survey. 

Portman's numbers improved by 9 points, placing him in a tie with Democrat Ted Strickland, a former governor who lost his re-election bid to John Kasich in 2010. 

The two Republicans are competing in critical states that offer insight into whether Democrats can regain House and Senate majorities in November. 

In short, if you want to know who will hold or retake the Senate majority, watch Toomey's battle with McGinty and Portman's with Strickland. 

As for control of the House, watch what's happening with congressional races in these two Rust Belt states. 

Ohio and Pennsylvania are microcosms of the Democrats' national difficulties in trying to win the House, said Kyle Kondik, author of “The Bellwether: Why Ohio Picks the President” and manager of the University of Virginia's Crystal Ball, the respected online political website. 

“Democrats have a path to the House majority but the Republican advantage in Ohio and Pennsylvania helps illustrate their challenges,” Kondik said. 

Republicans control 12 of 16 House seats in Ohio and 13 of 18 in Pennsylvania — overwhelming majorities in two states that Obama won twice and that, at the moment, Democrat Hillary Clinton is favored to win in November, despite close polling against Republican Donald Trump. 

In Ohio, Democrats don't really have credible targets, according to Kondik. Rep. David Joyce in Ohio's 14th Congressional District is vulnerable “on paper, but after Joyce won his primary, there's not much buzz about that race.” 

In Pennsylvania, Democrats hope to win Bucks County's open 8th District seat, which is the kind of competitive suburban seat they need to win back the House. “Realistically, they don't have much of a chance for any additional gains,” Kondik said. 

Before 2010, Democrats held a healthy majority of House seats in both states but lost five in each state to that year's GOP wave. 

Voters were dissatisfied with government overreach; the moderate Democrats who easily won those seats in 2006 — such as Patrick Murphy in Bucks and Jason Altmire in Western Pennsylvania — lost when their leadership forced them into votes that went against their districts' more traditional, more moderate values. 

There has been much speculation over the impact Trump will have on Republicans' congressional majorities, and much speculation that his awful months of May and June would show him sliding in both states' polls. 

Surprisingly, he didn't slide. In fact, in the same Quinnipiac survey showing Toomey and Portman gaining traction, Trump held steady.

“If Trump wins Ohio and Pennsylvania, Portman and Toomey should also win,” Kondik predicts. “But if Trump loses both states — and especially if he loses them badly (by more than five points) — both incumbents are in trouble.” 

Kondik's Crystal Ball has shifted Pennsylvania's rating in the presidential contest a bit toward Trump. That moves 2016's potentially most important state from “Likely Democratic” to “Leans Democratic,” despite the organizational and 2-to-1 voter-registration advantages Clinton holds in the state. 

Despite the political theatre of House Democrats staging their “sit-in” last week, Americans have grown weary of Washington spectacles and blame-shifting. So instead of appearing to care about gun legislation, Democrats came across as caring all about themselves, knowing nothing would come of their stunt and trying to benefit from it by fundraising off it. 

History shows that you cannot produce a wave election; such events evolve from the bottom up. 

Although anything could happen between now and November, the best way to see which party appears likely to win House and Senate majorities is to keep your eyes on Pennsylvania and Ohio — and to keep your eyes off the contrived spectacles. 

Salena Zito covers politics for the Tribune-Review (szito@tribweb.com).

Jonah Goldberg knows Clump.

 From Townhall.com comes this from Citizen Goldberg, a reliable advocate of freedom...

Time for Trump to Put up or Shut up


Donald Trump should put his money where his mouth is.

The real estate mogul says he's worth "in excess" of $10 billion. I think he's lying, as does pretty much every expert and financial journalist who has looked into the question. Forbes has put his net worth at $4.5 billion. Bloomberg says it's below $3 billion. Billionaire Mark Cuban has cast doubt on whether Trump is even a billionaire at all.

I've read the analyses, but common sense always told me he was full of it. Actual multi-billionaires tend not to waste their time recording videos hawking steaks in the Sharper Image catalog. They don't bother with snake oil schemes peddling dietary supplements. They don't claim under oath that much of their net worth depends on how good a mood they're in. And they don't threaten to sue anyone who suggests they aren't as rich as they claim.

This last point is especially significant. Trump's business model is to exploit his brand as a super-successful Manhattan real estate mogul. The fact that he is, in reality, a "relatively minor player" in that world, as economics writer Adam Davidson recently noted in the New York Times Magazine, is entirely beside the point. He's selling the sizzle, not the steak (clearly, not the steaks).

That's especially true overseas, where he does a large share of his business (he's in Scotland for some grand opening right now). He's nowhere near the richest man in America, but he's arguably the American most famous for being rich. That opens doors in Eastern Europe and Asia. It also improves his mood, which apparently can be a real windfall.

I've talked to numerous political pros and quite a few actual billionaires, and the totally uncorroborated theory most of them hold is that Trump never expected to do this well. It was a P.R. stunt that got out of hand. The dog caught the car and now he doesn't know what to do with it.

Circumstantial evidence for this can be found in Trump's latest fundraising report. It was, by any objective measure, a disaster. I wouldn't be surprised if RNC Chair Reince Priebus reacted to it the way that German guy did when he looked inside the Ark of the Covenant at the end of the first Indiana Jones movie.

In short, the alleged decabillionaire's campaign is broke. In May, which should have been a boffo fundraising month, the campaign raised $3.1 million (Mitt Romney during the same period had raised $78 million). The Trump Train went into the crucial month of June with just under $1.3 million cash on hand. That is a pretty good number -- for a congressman. Only 78 representatives and 43 senators have more cash on hand than the GOP's presumptive nominee.

Perhaps more tellingly, the failed steak and vitamin mogul spent nearly a fifth of the money he raised on his own businesses and salaries for himself and his family. One of his biggest outlays was renting out the Mar-a-Lago club -- which he owns. Odd.

During the primaries, Trump routinely insisted that he was turning down millions in donations from fat cats eager to board the Trump train. "The week before last, a lobbyist ... offered $5 million, 'Please. I want to give you $5 million for the campaign,' " Trump recounted to reporters last August. "I said 'I have no interest in taking that.' In fact, I think it's the first time he's ever been turned down."
That was back when Trump's was the great self-funder. But he changed his mind a while ago. He wants help now, but it's not forthcoming.

It seems strange that all of those super-rich friends would be eager to donate during the primaries but now have empty pockets. Perhaps such offers never happened. Or, maybe, no one wants to hand money to a guy who insists he could easily self-fund the whole thing with a fraction of his alleged wealth.

And that's the thing. If Trump's worth $10 billion, spending $1 billion is no great sacrifice. He could still cover the bills for his private jet. OK, maybe he'd have to sell something. Is that really too much to ask? The founders pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor. Surely he could pawn Trump Tower.

So, I ask you, Mr. Trump, just do it already. Put your money where your mouth is. You say you're the only one who can save America. Henry IV said, "Paris is well worth a mass." Surely America is worth a tenth of your alleged fortune.

Enough, you pretentious beer pricks! Enough, I say!

No, I will not try the delightful licorice, bok choi, and kosher sea salt porter you discovered at a little place on the Cape. I most certainly will not drink your home-brewed Middle Aged Masturbatory Marzen regardless of how amusing the tale behind its name is.

I refuse to pretend something that tastes like llama piss filtered through potpourri is anywhere near acceptable for human consumption.

I don't want my beer to startle or even surprise me. I don't want my beer to challenge me. And if my beer is going to speak to me, it had better wait until I polish off a six pack and even then it had damn well better say something like "Go ahead, have another. She's at her mother's".

I want two things only from beer. First, I want it to coldly quench my thirst after a hot afternoon of mowing the lawn. Second, I want it to give me a slight buzz so I don't mind that my favorite sports collective's bullpen has gone to crap before my very eyes in beautiful HD.

I get it. I really do. Your self-worth is all wrapped up in a giant internet circle jerk where you and all the other bearded, man-bun wearing hipsters compete to see who can choke down [and keep down] a growler of the latest over-priced swill while keeping a straight face.

If that's the way you want to be, that's fine. Just stop expecting the rest of the world to play along.

Whew!

All that being said, if you are looking for a refreshing summer brew, try Grapefruit Cream Ale from Lancaster Brewing Company.

Holy crap! Even those filthy British perverts yearn to be free!

  Is your humble narrator exhibiting a strange new respect for the vile British? Not exactly, but it is alarming that they can dump the kleptocratic Brussels elite while we are about to enslave ourselves with Clump.

From Townhall.com:

Obama Stepped In It On Brexit–And It's Not The First Time Opening His Mouth Delivered Poor Results

• ‘How dare the American president come here and tell us what to do?’ 

 UKIP's Nigel Farage said that Obama getting involved in the Brexit referendum gave the "Leave" camp a big boost (via The Hill):

“Threatening people too much insults their intelligence,” the United Kingdom Independence Party head said. “A lot of people in Britain said, ‘How dare the American president come here and tell us what to do?’ ” Farage continued on Sirius XM’s “Breitbart News Daily,” citing Obama’s U.K. trip in April.
“It backfired. We got an Obama-Brexit bounce, because people do not want foreign leaders telling them how to think and vote.”

*** Former Conservative MP Louise Mensch cited President Obama sticking his beak in a British issue over the then-looming vote over whether the nation would remain in the European Union. Yesterday Britain made their choice known: they want out. And Mensch noted that once Obama decided to overreach and tell British voters that they should remain in the EU, support for the Leave camp increased. In the end, it seems to have been a contributing factor in the UK’s decision to say goodbye to the massive political project, long criticized, among other things, for usurping sovereignty among its member nations. 

That point was referenced during the coverage of the vote last night by Fox Business’ Stuart Varney, who said that President Obama planned on calling Prime Minister David Cameron at some point today over the results, quipping that he’s probably going to apologize for “ruining the vote.” 

In short, one could argue that Obama stepped in it—and it’s not the first time the president’s mouth has cost him or his allies politically. This is one of many failures brought on by Obama’s arrogance that his learned diction can sway minds. It certainly hasn’t worked on the Russians, who view him (rightly) as a lightweight. That’s how they’re able to buzz our warships with fighter jets and annex Crimea from Ukraine. It’s how Syria is still a mess. It’s how the security concerns over absorbing 10,000 Syrian refugees, some of which could be infiltrated by ISIS, haven’t subsided.

Obama Ensures World the US and UK Will Remain in ‘Close Contact’

I can't wait for the day that jug-eared jackass fades into oblivion. BTW, did you notice how the world didn't end when the Brits pulled out? It may bring good things for others as well. Northern Ireland [the prod part of Eire] voted to stay with the EU. If the Irish play this right, they can reunite their whole country. Of course, this means they must obey the Brussels mafia, but in the short term that is a small price to pay for Catholics and prods learning to live together in a real Ireland.

Also, the Scots want to stay in the EU. WTF happened to the fiercely independent Scotsmen of yore? They seem to have given way to a race of craven slaves. A pox on them! Even being an Englishman's dog is better than selling your soul to that euro trash.

 

 

Left-fascist criminal cult attempts coup d'etat.

 From Townhall.com:

Democrats End Gun Control Slumber Party, Fold Up Their Occupation Of House Floor 

 

The sit-in that was launched by House Democrats to force a vote on gun control has finally come to an end. The House adjourned until after the Independence Day holiday, which meant that there would certainly be no votes on gun control. Prior to the protest’s conclusion on the House floor, the will of Democrats to stand fast began to falter (via Politico):

House Democrats ended their sit-in protest on gun control Thursday, a full day after they seized control of the floor. The protest wrapped up with closing remarks by Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), who helped spearhead the effort, and a rally with supporters outside the Capitol. Democrats vowed more action when the House returns after the July 4 recess.
[…]
“Members of our Caucus are still on the Floor speaking about No Bill, No Break. Please come to the Floor to continue showing unity and to relieve colleagues who have been on the Floor since the House adjourned earlier this morning,” read the notice blasted to the Democratic caucus this morning.
Rep. Lacy Clay (D-Mo.) led a group of non-members into the House chamber about 10:30 a.m. and huddled with them off to the side, a move that is allowed because the House is currently not in session.
Several lawmakers had vowed not to give up until they get votes on their gun control bills. But the House adjourned until July 5, and Democrats decided to shut down their historic protest.

Speaker Paul Ryan aptly noted that this was nothing more than a publicity stunt and a fundraising campaign. He also said these antics degrade the institution. Regardless, for now, this occupation is over. Hill Democrats seized the floor around 11:30 a.m. yesterday and remained throughout the night. Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) joined their colleagues in an act of solidarity yesterday. Did it bring attention to the issue? Yes. Was it also a colossal waste of time over a bad gun control bill that strips Americans of their constitutional rights without due process of law? Absolutely. House Republicans quickly adjourned all business this morning.

 

Here's What The Democrats Ate Last Night

 

 The right-fascists are up to similar evil...

ICYMI: The Susan Collins Gun Control Amendment is a Nightmare For Innocent Americans

 

SEX IS DEATH. [And so is false religion.]

I came to Carthage, where I found myself in the midst of a hissing cauldron of lusts. I had not yet fallen in love, but I was in love with the idea of it, and this feeling that something was missing made me despise myself for not being more anxious to satisfy the need. I began to look around for some object for my love, since I badly wanted to love something.

 — St. Augustine, Confessions

 
This one is so sick and evil, you wouldn't believe it if Hollyweird made a movie about it. Pray for these poor girls...I can't bring myself to pray for the "adults" involved just yet. Doesn't anybody fear Hell anymore?

Lancaster County couple 'gifted' teenage daughter...

 An ex-Amish couple from Lancaster County “gifted” their teenage daughter to a 51-year-old Bucks County man who helped them get out of financial ruin, police said Thursday. 

Daniel Stoltzfus, 43, and Savilla Stoltzfus, 42, both of 10 Locust Lane in Quarryville, face felony charges for providing their then-14-year-old daughter to Lee Kaplan as part of an agreement in 2012, according to a criminal complaint.

The girl, her two children reportedly fathered by Kaplan and nine other children were located by police Thursday at Kaplan's home at 428 Old Street Road in Feasterville, Bucks County.

Lower Southampton police went to his residence in response to a children’s health and safety complaint around 9:30 a.m. Thursday. There, police found 12 females ranging in age from 6 months to 18 years.

Kaplan had told neighbors that no children lived there, according to the criminal complaint.

The other nine children are safe with Bucks County Children and Youth, Lower Southampton police Lt. John Krimmel said. 

Information on the location of the Stoltzfuses’ teenage daughter, now 18, and her two children was not immediately available.

Many of the children are believed to be Amish and from Lancaster, although the investigation is still ongoing, Krimmel said. He declined further comment.

“Our main concern is making sure these children are safe,” he said.

The Associated Press reported that the other nine children belonged to the Stoltzfus family. The family appeared to be living with Kaplan for an unspecified amount of time, according to the AP. 

Kaplan is charged with eight felonies related to statutory sexual assault.

The 18-year-old told police she was the mother of a 6-month-old and 3-year-old found at the scene.

Both children were fathered by Kaplan, she told police.

They began having sex when the girl was 14, Kaplan told police. 

She and Kaplan are not married.

The girl was given to Kaplan in appreciation for helping the family out of financial ruin after Daniel Stoltzfus researched the legality of the transaction on the internet, Daniel Stoltzfus told police.

Savilla Stoltzfus was aware that her daughter was having sex with Kaplan, according to the criminal complaint.

Daniel Stoltzfus is charged with conspiracy of statutory assault and endangering the welfare of a child, both felonies. Savilla Stoltzfus is charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

They are being held at Bucks County prison on $1 million bail.

Kaplan faces two felony counts each of the following charges:

— Statutory sexual assault.

— Unlawful contact with a minor.

— Aggravated indecent assault.

— Corruption of minors.

He also faces two misdemeanor charges of indecent assault of a person less than 16.

Kaplan is also held at Bucks County prison on $1 million bail.

Bucks County District Attorney David W. Heckler was unable to be reached for comment Friday evening.

Police provided no further details on the family's financial issues...

 

Further details revealed on bizarre story...

 

Relative of woman in 'gift' child case describes...

 

Bucks County judge issues gag order

Fascist Catholic-haters attempt to subvert the law.

Statutes of limitation go all the way back to English Common Law and exist to protect everyone involved. This proposed law is designed to bankrupt Catholic dioceses and slander the Church. Contact your state rep and state senator and stop this unconstitutional fraud.

From PennLive.com:


In a three-hour long hearing steeped in references to Pennsylvania case law, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday heard expert testimony on the validity and viability of proposed legislation that would change how child sexual predators are prosecuted.

The hearing, which tipped markedly in favor of opponents of House Bill 1947, was held in a hearing room packed with victims advocates as well as past victims of sexual abuse. Many of them wiped away tears as a cadre of expert witnesses – with the exception of one – argued how the Pennsylvania Constitution prohibits the General Assembly from retroactively altering expired statutes of limitations.

The hearing, which featured five expert witnesses, only one testifying in support of the bill, focused on the constitutionality of the bill, which would impose look-back measures for past victims of abuse, including those molested by priests as children.
Much of the testimony centered around the state's constitutional remedies clause, which ostensibly bars the General Assembly from retroactively altering expired statutes of limitations.
Prior to the experts giving their testimony, Attorney General Kathleen Kane, who in March released findings of a grand jury report that found systemic child sex abuse over decades in the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese, delivered a short appeal.
 
Kane, whose law license has been suspended in the wake of criminal charges stemming from the grand jury leak investigation, begged the panel to pass the bill immediately.
"I'm asking you to do that because every single day that goes by... is a day more and more and more victims are denied justice," she said.

Kane said that if after approval of the bill,the Senate found that it violated the state's Constitution, lawmakers should "figure out a solution" to the constitutional issue, whether that meant amending it "or whatever needs to be done but make firm commitment" to finding a way that "we are never denying justice to anyone in the Commonwealth."

"We as government will prove by our actions that we support child survivors and their families and not cruel, cold-hearted criminals who prey upon our criminals," Kane said. "We will not protect the institutions that harbor them."

In contrast to Kane's opening remarks, the witnesses who followed reiterated respective arguments that the bill would not pass state Constitutional muster.

Coming on the heels of Kane's short appeal, the second-highest ranking official in her office, Bruce Castor, the solicitor general, testified that the bill would violate the remedies clause of the state's Constitution, and therefore, prove to be unconstitutional.

"House Bill 1947, if enacted into law in its current form and without amendment will, in our opinion, violate the remedies clause of the Pennsylvania Constitution," Castor argued. "Potential defendants, who have had the statute of limitations pass without their being subjected to suit, will rightly claim a vested right in the applicable statute of limitations."

 Castor said that while the bill represented "a laudable attempt to provide a remedy for a well identified social problem", the the General Assembly "in its zeal, cannot overrule a state constitutional right."

Castor based his conclusion in large part on a 1908 case involving a retroactive claim. In Lewis v. Pennsylvania Railroad Company, the  state Supreme Court ruled against the widow of railroad worker who had filed a negligence claim retroactively against the company. The court, Castor said, had concluded that "retroactive legislation that reduces a defendant's defenses or "exemptions from demands" cannot be applied where the defense has "vested."

The state's remedies clause states that "all courts shall be open; and every man for an injury done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation shall have remedy by due course of law, and right and justice administered without sale, denial or delay. Suits may be brought against the Commonwealth in such manner, in such courts and in such cases as the Legislature may by law direct."

House Bill 1947 came in the wake of the Altoona-Johnstown Diocese grand jury report as a groundswell of advocates called for reform in the law. The bill, which was approved in the House by a 180-15 vote, would eliminate all criminal statutes going forward on most child sex crimes and retroactively amend civil statutes. The bill would retroactively extend civil statutes that expired at a victim's age 30 to 50.

Castor was followed by three other speakers - all of them law experts - who reiterated his stance that the bill would violate the state's remedies clause...

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I doubt our founding fathers could have imagined American homosexuals being slaughtered by non-moderate mohammedans, but it turns out the Second Amendment works just fine in case of jihad. [BTW, the Second Amendment was written to allow us to kill our government and replace it when [not if] it gets out of line.]

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You see, kiddies, we and our homosexual friends have something in common. We don't want to be murdered.

It isn't much, but it is enough with which to start.

Fyodor's Rules will help everyone to be a good little kiddie.

Fyodor’s Rule # 1(a): The Lord thy God is one God. And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul and with thy whole mind and with thy whole strength.

Fyodor’s Rule # 1(b): Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

Fyodor’s Rule #2: Conservative is as conservative DOES. (If it spends like a fascist, corrupts the family like a fascist, and excuses fascism like a fascist, IT’S A FASCIST!)

Fyodor’s Rule #3: Israel and Judaism are NOT the same thing. (Regardless of what you may have heard.)

Fyodor's Rule #4: Always believe the worst about commies. (It helps prepare you to face the horror.)

Fyodor’s Rule #5: You can always spot a totalitarian because he is the one doing that which he accuses others of doing. Only worse.

Fyodor's Rule #6: Get your kids out of the government indoctrination centers! [Formerly known as public schools]

Fyodor's Rule # 7: There is no such thing as "born as" except for male and female.
(Corollary A: Our destinies are not determined.)

Fyodor’s Rule # 8: All sins are related.

Fyodor's Rule #9: If you are going to fight, then fight until you eliminate your enemy, because the only thing remembered longer than power is weakness.

Fyodor's Rule #10: You do not need a conspiracy if everyone thinks the same way.

Thus endeth the lesson, kiddies...

Watch as Fyodor explains EVERYTHING in just two posts!

You see, kiddies, the political spectrum is not a line where you travel "left" to "right" and back again. It is a circle where evil resides on one side and good occupies the other side.

 Where on the circle are you and why?







Please note that the opposite of love is not hate, but power. And now for the second half of the explanation of everything...

Thank goodness! My playoff beard was beginning to itch...

Penguins capture franchise's 4th Stanley Cup title

Penguins return home celebrating Stanley Cup win

Rossi: For some Penguins, Cup doesn't change everything

For Penguins' Kessel, Stanley Cup caps 'best year of my life' 

Penguins parade set for Wednesday in Downtown

Penguins' rookies relish title run together

Rossi: Second silver makes Sid & Geno golden

Penguins' Crosby tabbed as Conn Smythe winner 

Lemieux stays mum on sale, thrilled to see Crosby, Malkin get 2nd Cup

Penguins' Malkin looks forward to a summer like no other 

Fyodor urges his homosexual brothers and sisters to buy guns and lots of ammo.

 From Lancaster Online:

 50 dead, 53 injured in Orlando, Florida nightclub shooting, worst in US history 

 ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub early Sunday, killing at least 50 people before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said. It was the deadliest mass shooting in American history.

Authorities were investigating the attack on the Florida dance hall as an act of terrorism. The gunman's father recalled that his son recently got angry when he saw two men kissing in Miami and said that might be related to the assault.

At least 53 people were hospitalized, most in critical condition, officials said. A surgeon at Orlando Regional Medical Center said the death toll was likely to climb...

When will you realize we are at war with these goat-raping motherfuckers? Next time, [we all know its coming] let's make sure he doesn't get off a second shot.

Fearful Leader, the jug-eared jackass, blamed the guns as usual. Wake up, kiddies. Buy guns and bullets and learn how to use them. The life you take will not be as valuable as your own.

And join the NRA, for crying out loud! 

And while we're at it, let's skip the moments of silence and try a few hours of target practice. 

The bottom line, kiddies? The government can't and won't protect you, even if your guy is in charge.

The face of things to come...

Bizarro has been on a roll lately.

Dilbert says Never Clump!

Forget the Libertarians [the irony in their name is apparently unintended].

They nominated some drug-addled baby-eater named Gary who really, really, REALLY likes to talk about how much he loves the ganja.

NEVER CLUMP!

American Indians kick the politically correct pansies in the balls!

New poll finds 9 in 10 Native Americans aren't offended by Redskins name 

 

 The PC pussies [I'm talking to you ESPN!] should thank their lucky stars that Indians no longer fight the way they used to. Not too long ago, if you got 90% of Indians angry, they would chop off your balls and feed 'em to you. [That is not REPEAT NOT hyperbole, kiddies.] Nowadays, Indians are getting their revenge by taking white people's money with their casinos and I wish them well in this endeavour. [They may need to go back to massacres sometime during Clumps's second term.]

 

Nine in 10 Native Americans say they are not offended by the Washington Redskins name, according to a new Washington Post poll that shows how few ordinary Indians have been persuaded by a national movement to change the football team’s moniker.

The survey of 504 people across every state and the District reveals that the minds of Native Americans have remained unchanged since a 2004 poll by the Annenberg Public Policy Center found the same result. Responses to The Post’s questions about the issue were broadly consistent regardless of age, income, education, political party or proximity to reservations.

 Among the Native Americans reached over a five-month period ending in April, more than 7 in 10 said they did not feel the word “Redskin” was disrespectful to Indians. An even higher number — 8 in 10 — said they would not be offended if a non-native called them that name.


The results — immediately celebrated by team owner Daniel Snyder and denounced by prominent Native American leaders — could make it that much harder for anti-name activists to pressure Redskins officials, who are already using the poll as further justification to retain the moniker. 

Beyond that, the findings might impact the ongoing legal battle over the team’s federal trademark registrations and the eventual destination of the next stadium. The name controversy has clouded talks between the team and the District, widely considered Snyder’s desired destination.

[Native Americans’ indifference on Redskins name could reset D.C. stadium talks]

 

“The Washington Redskins team, our fans and community have always believed our name represents honor, respect and pride,” the owner said in a statement. “Today’s Washington Post polling shows Native Americans agree. We are gratified by this overwhelming support from the Native American community, and the team will proudly carry the Redskins name.”

But Suzan Harjo, the lead plaintiff in the first case challenging the team’s trademark protections, dismissed The Post’s findings.

“I just reject the results,” said Harjo, 70, who belongs to the Cheyenne and Hodulgee Muscogee tribes. “I don’t agree with them, and I don’t agree that this is a valid way of surveying public opinion in Indian Country.”

Two other key leaders in the name-change movement did not challenge the validity of the poll, and instead issued a joint statement calling the responses from Indians “encouraging.”

“Native Americans are resilient and have not allowed the NFL’s decades-long denigration of us to define our own self-image,” wrote Oneida Nation Representative Ray Halbritter and National Congress of American Indians Executive Director Jacqueline Pata. “However, that proud resilience does not give the NFL a license to continue marketing, promoting, and profiting off of a dictionary-defined racial slur — one that tells people outside of our community to view us as mascots.”

[How The Post conducted the survey on the Redskins name]

 

Since the nearly half-century-old debate regained national attention in 2013, opponents of the name have won a string of high-profile victories, garnering support from President Obama, 50 Democratic U.S. senators, dozens of sports broadcasters and columnists, several newspaper editorial boards (including The Post’s), a civil rights organization that works closely with the National Football League and tribal leaders throughout Indian Country.

In response, Snyder vowed never to change the moniker and used the 12-year-old Annenberg poll to defend his position. Activists, however, have argued that the billionaire must act if even a small minority of Indians are insulted by the term. They have also maintained that opinions have evolved as his unyielding stance has been subjected to a barrage of condemnation by critics ranging from “South Park” to the United Church of Christ.

But for more than a decade, no one has measured what the country’s 5.4 million Native Americans think about the controversy. Their responses to The Post poll were unambiguous: Few objected to the name, and some voiced admiration.

 “I’m proud of being Native American and of the Redskins,” said Barbara Bruce, a Chippewa teacher who has lived on a North Dakota reservation most of her life. “I’m not ashamed of that at all. I like that name.”


Bruce, 70, has for four decades taught her community’s schoolchildren, dozens of whom have gone on to play for the Turtle Mountain Community High School Braves. She and many others surveyed embrace native imagery in sports because it offers them some measure of attention in a society where they are seldom represented. Just 8 percent of those canvassed say such depictions bother them.

[A brief history of the word ‘redskin’ and how it became controversial]

 

Even as the name-change movement gained momentum among influential people, The Post’s survey and more than two dozen subsequent interviews make clear that the effort failed to have anywhere near the same impact on Indians.

Across every demographic group, the vast majority of Native Americans say the team’s name does not offend them, including 80 percent who identify as politically liberal, 85 percent of college graduates, 90 percent of those enrolled in a tribe, 90 percent of non-football fans and 91 percent of those between the ages of 18 and 39.

Even 9 in 10 of those who have heard a great deal about the controversy say they are not bothered by the name.

What makes those attitudes more striking: The general public appears to object more strongly to the name than Indians do.

In a 2014 national ESPN poll, 23 percent of those reached called for “Redskins” to be retired because of its offensiveness to Native Americans — more than double the 9 percent of actual Native Americans who now say they are offended by it.

A 2013 Post poll found that a higher proportion of Washington-area residents — 28 percent — wanted the moniker changed.

P.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is a pathetic racist who should be removed from office and publicly flogged for daring to claim noble Indian blood on the grounds that her grandpa had high cheekbones. [Honestly, that's what the cow said. You can't make this stuff up.]

Every once in a while, the good guys win one...

Chicks, man.

 Speed Bump is awesome, too.

Bizarro is a life saver.

An alternative to Clump: Austin Petersen for President.

Austin Petersen 2016 Libertarian Candidate for President

No, he can't win, but if you are too smart to waste your vote on the establishment fascist candidacy of Clump, Petersen is worth a look.

He suffers from the usual Libertarian maladies like legalizing all drugs and open borders, but he is pro-life, which shows he is consistent. Most L's [and all fascists] believe freedom ends at the entrance to a uterus.

Why the baby-eaters love the zika virus.

There's no mystery here, kiddies. Planned Black Genocide and the other baby-eaters don't need any excuses to chop up kids for fun and profit. They advocate the slaughter of healthy kids all day, every day. Do you really think they would hesitate to murder handicapped kids? You know, kids who aren't really human because they need more love than average?

Zika is just a convenient terror weapon to use against the morally wishy-washy. [That's not you, is it? If it is, get the fuck off my blog, you ghoul.]

Stand for life. Defend the helpless. Be a man, not a pussy.

#NeverClump!

It has come to pass, kiddies. The two parties have been converging for generations and now we have a two-headed hybrid monster running for president. Both candidates are criminally insane perverts, liars, and traitors. They are practically indistinguishable. [Hitlery has bigger hands and Trumpsky looks better in pantsuits.] Henceforth and forever more, it shall be referred to as Clump [and "it"] because it does not matter which half of it gets elected. Clump wins. Clump über alles. Hail Clump!

Laura Ingraham, PTSD*, and the case of the incompetent babysitters.

* Post Trumpmatic Stress Disorder, obviously.

I can't tell you what happened to Laura Ingraham. It might have been some kind of severe trauma, like a blow to the head. But the easiest answer is she was always a right-fascist goon and thug and was just lying about her "conservatism". And she's still lying about it.

She used to make all the right noises. She even converted to Catholicism [sometimes it doesn't stick], worked in the pro-life movement, and adopted a couple of kids from third world hellholes. All well and good. Genuine conservative bona fides.

Wrong.

Along comes Trumpsky the right-fascist wet dream and our girl Laura suddenly discovers how huuuuuge, bigly, and strong government must be to protect us little people from the evil elites. [BTW, Laura is an Ivy League educated lawyer who clerked for a Supreme Court Justice. Who better to know what us plebes need?]

Whenever s real conservative calls her talk show and incredulously asks her how she can support that psycho leftist fraud, she invariably says the same thing: "Well, we voted for conservatives for years and things didn't get any better."

Holy sheep shit, woman! That's PTSD for sure. That's pure madness, right?

Let me attempt to put this nonsense in human terms instead of the political bullshit she and others of her ilk traffic in...

Laura has a couple of little kids who need a babysitter because Laura is a busy modern woman. She has been hiring irresponsible teenage girls [read: Repansycans] who spend the whole night on the phone and let the kids get hopped up on sugary snacks instead of reading Boethius [Look him up.] to them.

Totally incompetent babysitters, right? So Laura begins to look for a new babysitter for her precious kiddies.

There's the crazy old woman who lives across the street. [Hitlery Rodham Schicklegruber, of course.] She's available, but many of Laura's neighbors say she's a real witch. No, I'm not kidding. She's an actual witch who eats children. No responsible, loving parent could leave her kids with a baby-eater, so Hitlery's out.

Then there is the bat-shit crazy old man next door. [Trumpsky! Making babysitting great again!] The problem is he's a convicted child molester. Yep, for all but the last two years of his life, he's been a pedophile who actually braggged about how good he is at raping both boys and girls. He even wears colorful baseball caps emblazoned "Ask Me About Meagan's Law ". Ha-ha-ha. What a colorful old coot he is.

But he says he's not into that stuff anymore. He owns a bible and has joined the Rotarians. Laura really needs a sitter and those darn teenagers are so...frustrating!

Guess who Laura picked to watch her kiddies? [Hint: It doesn't end well.]