HUMBLEBRAG: Dan Bongino gets it. And proving he’s a smart guy, he scans both Instapundit and The Daily Signal for contrarian analysis.
Archive for 2020
January 13, 2020
A SMALL MEASURE OF ACCOUNTABILITY: Ex-Treasury staffer Natalie Edwards pleads guilty to leaking secrets.
Natalie Mayflower Sours Edwards admitted before Manhattan federal court Judge Gregory Woods to spilling secrets to a Buzzfeed reporter about the Mueller investigation and probes into Paul Manafort, Rick Gates and Russian agent Maria Butina.
The 41-year-old’s plea comes as she was approaching trial on charges including conspiracy to make unauthorized disclosures between October 2017 and October 2018 while working for the treasury department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. . . .
Edwards faces up to five years in prison and a $250,000 fine at sentencing, which is set for June 9.
She needs to serve as an example.
Meanwhile, in case, as seems likely, this is treated by the press and the left — but I repeat myself — as a coverup by the Trump Administration, a reminder: CNN’s Tapper: Obama has used Espionage Act more than all previous administrations.
TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D): Gemma Watts sentenced to eight years for posing as teen boy to sexually assault girls.
Jake Waton won over teenage girls on social media, swapping flirty messages and intimate pictures with them online before meeting them in person. For many of them, the 16-year-old was the first boy they dated.
But Jake Waton was actually Gemma Watts – an adult woman. The British 21-year-old posed as a teen boy to groom and sexually assault girls as young as 13, wearing baggy clothing and tucking her long hair under a hat to fool her targets and, in some cases, even their parents.
On Friday, London’s Metropolitan Police announced that Watts had been sentenced to eight years behind bars for incidents involving four girls. She pleaded guilty to seven sexual assault and grooming charges in a crime that Judge Susan Evans said caused “severe psychological harm” to victims.
“Their age, as you plainly knew, made it more likely that they would be sexually naive, enabling you to get away with your deception,” Evans said during sentencing, according to the Independent.
I feel like a 21-year-old man would have gotten a stiffer sentence.
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY UPDATE: Doddering old fool pulls ahead of other doddering old fool. “Joe Biden pulls ahead in New Hampshire; Elizabeth Warren drops to third.”
NEWS I HOPE YOU CAN’T USE: Feed A Family For A Week On A Single Bag Of Beans.
IT’S SATIRE, BUT IT’S ALSO AMERICA’S PAPER OF RECORD BECAUSE 2020: CNN Reporter Informs Iranian Protesters They’re Supposed to be Shouting ‘Death to America.’
SAY WHAT YOU WILL, THEY’RE LOYAL TO THEIR FRIENDS: Democratic Leadership Turns Its Back On Iranian Protesters.
LIKE THE MIGHTY GRIZZLY BEAR: Many Americans sleep more in winter.
BOTTOM STORY OF THE DAY: Trump’s White, Male Security Team Needs Diversity. If Michelle Obama had an all-black-woman security team, we’d be told it was the most diverse ever.
WHY IS THE DEMOCRATIC 2020 RACE SUCH A CESSPIT OF RACISM AND MISOGYNY? Bernie Sanders told Elizabeth Warren during a private meeting that a woman can’t win the presidency. And with no black candidates left in the Dems’ racist pool, that means it must be a white male for sure.
WELL: U.S. sending home 21 Saudi cadets, NAS Pensacola shooting an ‘act of terrorism.’ Thanks to fracking, we don’t have to treat the Saudis with kid gloves anymore, though I think we should hold them all as material witnesses until everything is concluded. But: “Many of the 21 cadets being sent home had contact with child pornography and possessed jihadist or anti-American material, Barr said. None is accused of having advanced knowledge of the shooting.”
REDWASHING: What a lost prison manuscript reveals about the real Nelson Mandela. “Everyone thought Mandela was a known entity, but he turns out to have led a double life, at least for a time. By day, he was or pretended to be a moderate democrat, fighting to free his people in the name of values all humans held sacred. But by night he donned the cloak and dagger and became a leader of a fanatical sect known for its attachment to the totalitarian Soviet ideal. . . . Officially, Mandela was a moderate black nationalist, clinging to hope of peaceful change until it was extinguished by the Sharpeville massacre of 1960. But in the prison memoir we find him plotting war as early as 1953, when he sent a comrade on a secret mission to beg guns and money from Red China, in flagrant violation of the ANC’s non-aligned and non-violent stance.”
There were signs and indications for those paying attention.
MEANWHILE, OVER AT VODKAPUNDIT: Did Bernie Just Become the Man to Beat Biden? Not So Fast…
TERRORIST STATE: Iranian Commander Bragged of Unilateral Authority to Shoot Down Planes. “In 2016, Iran said even the youngest officers do not need authorization to launch attacks.”
SO THIS IS BASICALLY WESTWORLD WITH WHEELS: Toyota Is Building an Entire City Full of Autonomous Cars and Robots.
AT THIS POINT I THINK IT’S FAIR TO SAY THAT THE FISA COURT IS COMPLICIT IN THE ABUSE: FISA Court Selects Lawyer Who Vehemently Denied FBI Misled FISA To Oversee FBI Reforms.
IN A WORD? FRACKING: How the Oil Market Learned to Live With a Middle East in Flames.
Is there anything it can’t do?
THE WATER IS VERY CLEAR: There’s a ‘Desert’ in The Middle of The Pacific, And We Now Know What Lives There.