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 “There is the possibility that they might bring the body down in a hearse first and do a pass-by and then go back and have the actual funeral elsewhere,” one resident, who parked near Osborn-Brooks’ home in Hither Green, told the Guardian.

 The senior citizen initially was arrested on suspicion of murder charges but then released without charges.

 The community was divided in the wake of Vincent’s death:

Neighbors defended Osborn-Brooks as having acted in self-defense!

 Of course, relatives and friends of the dead 37-year-old dad of three demanded justice in his slaying.

 A memorial for Vincent — a career criminal who’d been busted for scamming elderly citizens out of cash — set up outside the septuagenarian’s home has been repeatedly desecrated

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 There was a heavy police presence in town for Vincent’s funeral. Police said the procession wasn’t expected to pass by Osborn-Brooks’ home.

 Police tried to usher media away from the church ahead of time after the hostile crew threatened “big trouble” if journalists were there when the hearse arrived.

 Outside the church where Vincent’s casket was brought, angry mourners pelted journalists with rocks and eggs and threw water at the crowd, according to the Guardian. One photographer was punched in the face.

 Real nice folks - huh?

GOOD FOR THEM!

 Burglar’s hearse blocked by neighbors of elderly man who killed him.

The End of an Era: Queen Elizabeth Names Her Successor.            Prince Charles

Bill Cosby Had A Meltdown In Court After Guilty Verdict.

The comedian yelled this at the District Attorney.

 As expected, Bill Cosby was likely displeased with the guilty verdict he received in connection to his sexual assault retrial.

 According to reports, the 80-year-old comedian had a profanity-laced outburst directed towards District Attorney Kevin Steele soon after the jury was dismissed.

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Mary Jo Kopechne's family still wants closure

 According to E! News, on the night of ted kennedy's TV appearance, Joe and Gwen Kopechne gave two very different reactions to his remarks.

 Joe described them as "not enough," while Gwen said, "I am satisfied with the Senator's statement — and do hope he decides to stay on as Senator."
 Somewhere along the way, Gwen changed her tune dramatically, telling Ladies' Home Journal, "I think there was a big cover-up and that everybody was paid off. The hearing, the inquest — it was all a farce." She added, "The kennedys had the upper hand, and it's been that way ever since."

  Both Gwen and Joe also alleged that they "didn't learn anything about Mary Jo]'s death from kennedy, nor did they ever hear him say he was sorry."
 The Kopechnes never pursued a lawsuit against kennedy, but they did receive a payment of $90,904 from him, as well as a $50,000 insurance payout.
 Both Joe and Gwen have passed away, but some of their surviving family members, Mary Jo's aunt, Georgetta Potoski, and her son, William Nelson, spoke with People about the film Chappaquiddick.

 On top of the hope that the film would "convey something about the real Mary Jo, who was reduced at the time to what William calls 'the quote-unquote Girl in the Car,'" they expressed the family's desire for further disclosure on what happened that night. "We're happy more information is coming out — that's the path to the truth."

  Read More:

   http://www.nickiswift.com/116950/really-happened-incident-chappaqui...
       
  

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ted kennedy's presidential aspirations die:
 Though his senate seat survived for an astonishing four more decades, ted kennedy never made it to a presidential candidacy. It's impossible to think the shadow of Chappaquiddick didn't have a lot — or everything — to do with that, which is a sentiment shared by many in the party who in the aftermath of the incident lamented, "kenkedy's finished," according to Newsweek.
 But kennedy did take a stab at the White House in 1980 during a contentious primary in which he tried to defeat the embattled and widely unpopular incumbent president at the time, peanut breath jimmy carter.

 According to ABC News, kennedy had a fighting chance until something entirely unrelated to Chappaquiddick derailed his opportunity.
 During an interview with journalist Roger Mudd, kennedy was asked why he wanted to be president. His answer was a perplexing and vague diatribe that another journalist, who was present for the interview, seemed to think was indicative of how the so-called Lion of the Senate's heart, just wasn't in it anymore.
 kennedy did manage to muster up some passion during his concession speech, known as "The Dream Shall Never Die" speech, at the Democratic National Convention, but it seemed that's exactly what had happened, at least in terms of his presidential aspirations.

kennedy's last words on Chappaquiddick:

 Sen. Worthless ted kennedy passed away Aug. 25, 2009, making the remarks about Chappaquiddick in his posthumous memoir, True Compass, his final sentiments on the incident.

  kennedy wrote that the night was "a horrible tragedy that haunts me every day of my life." He once again accepted responsibility for Mary Jo Kopechne's death and claimed that he made it a point to make nothing but apologies when it came to his public statements on the matter.
 The reason for that, and for never addressing the "totally false, bizarre, and evil theories that do not deserve to be repeated" was because of the personal principle he held to "never respond to false gossip and innuendo," even when it came to matters outside of Chappaquiddick.

 kennedy also wrote that a big part of his reticence toward "public discussion of that terrible night would only have caused Joe and Gwen Kopechne, Mary Jo's parents more pain."
 That's a very interesting perspective for kennedy to have about Kopechne's parents, because…

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The alleged cover-up:
 Yet another version of the "second passenger" theory came to light when a "retired CIA operative" told TMZ almost an identical version of Donald F. Nelson's hypothesis, with one big difference. kennedy was allegedly having an affair with "the wife of a very powerful politician," who was supposedly also at the Chappaquiddick cottage shindig. 
 Here's how this theory plays out:

kennedy and the mystery mistress wanted "some alone time," so they jumped in kennedy's car and headed for a secluded beach.

  However, neither bothered to check the backseat where Mary Jo Kopechne was apparently passed out drunk. The operative said that after the crash, kennedy and lover "both swam to shore safely" and "were not injured."
 As for the non-Kopechne purse found in the car? That supposedly belonged to the politician's wife, which the officers "immediately knew," and which sparked the elaborate cover-up that led to kKennedy's dubious hole-punched narrative of the incident.
 Granted, this is pure speculation from an anonymous source, and even the most thorough debunking of kennedy's testimony, like this one from The Washington Post, identifies the purse as belonging to Rosemary Keough, who requested it from the Edgartown Police after the accident. Keough was most certainly not a politician's wife, but rather another of the aforementioned "boiler room girls."
 As for how her purse ended up in kennedy's car that ill-fated evening?

We'll never know, because amazingly, Edgartown Police Chief Arena never asked her.

 What really happened with Worthless ted kennedy at Chappaquiddick?

With the 2018 release of the film Chappaquiddick, decades-old questions have resurfaced about what really happened during the incident that not only claimed the life of young political staffer Mary Jo Kopechne but also sapped the presidential aspirations of Massachusetts Senator Worthless ted kennedy.

  Early reviews suggest the film fails to present any new information and does not adequately address the considerable damage control efforts taken by kennedy's enormously powerful and influential family. 
 However, the conversation about the tragedy that forever reshaped an American political dynasty is now being revisited.

  What exactly happened the night of July 18 and early morning of July 19, 1969 on that quiet island adjacent Martha's Vineyard?

The 'second passenger' theory:

 The most popular conspiracy surrounding the incident at Chappaquiddick, which suggests that kennedy actually left the party with a different young woman, Rosemary Keough, and didn't even know Mary Jo Kopechne was in the car at all. This theory is the basis of yet another Chappaquiddick book — kennedy once groused about there having been "upwards of twenty" written about it — written by research physicist Donald F. Nelson, called Chappaquiddick Tragedy: kennedy's Second Passenger Revealed.
 Speaking with the Cape Cod Times about his work, Nelson said that he collaborated closely with John Farrar,  "the fire department water-rescue expert" who retrieved Kopechne's body.

 Farrar endorsed Nelson's work so heartily, he even "wrote a blurb for the back cover." Nelson's assertion is that since Kopechne was found in the backseat and had none of the facial trauma that would have been consistent with the shattered glass from the front passenger window, combined with the fact that Keough's purse was also retrieved from the car, there must have been another passenger: Rosemary Keough.
 "My book is not a work of imagination, conspiracy theories or political animus.

All my conclusions are based on facts published in that era," Nelson told the Cape Cod Times. "kennedy's Chappaquiddick accident was a historic incident in American presidential politics and thus deserves resolution.

I believe I have done that."

Murder suspect was at crime scene asking what happened.

May/2/18 | 5:05pm  By Jackie Salo

Oklahoma man, 57, dies after rattlesnake bites him twice: 

 Don't mess with snakes!'

 The man had wrangled snakes before, which is why he was confident he would be able to remove the rattler from the road.

Teen gets 23 years in prison for Ohio high school shooting.

Ely Serna -- URBANA, Ohio — Logan Cole remembers in graphic detail being shot at his Ohio high school, in the bathroom where he had popped in to check his hair before a mock trial competition.

Senate Discouraging Qualified Trump Picks.  

 5/3/18  Fox News  by: Adam Shaw

The increasingly nasty and protracted confirmation process in Washington is creating new headaches for the Trump administration as it tries to fill vacancies for critical government jobs. 
  The most recent flare-up surrounded Dr. Ronny Jackson, the White House doctor who had received glowing praise from the obuma administration, 

 After being nominated for VA secretary, saw his reputation and career damaged as allegations emerged that he drank on the job and over-prescribed drugs. He denied the claims, but withdrew from consideration last week. 
  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, meanwhile, narrowly got through the process after Democrats who once backed him lined up to oppose him.

 White House officials have indicated that they are gearing up next for a tough fight to confirm his replacement at the CIA, current Deputy Director Gina Haspel.
 On top of Democrats baying for blood in an election year, add to that the specter of the wide-ranging Russia probe and a mercurial president known for hiring and firing -- and it creates an atmosphere some say is hurting recruitment. 

US service member killed in Afghanistan just weeks before deployment was to end, officials say.

 By Paulina Dedaj | Fox News

Spc. Gabriel D. Conde, 22, of Loveland, Colorado, was killed while ...

 The 22-year-old U.S. service member killed Monday during a combat operation in eastern Afghanistan died just weeks before his deployment was scheduled to end, military officials said Tuesday.

 Spc. Gabriel D. Conde, 22, of Loveland, Colorado, was killed while supporting Operation Freedom's Sentinel and died as a result of “enemy small arms fire” in the Tagab District of Afghanistan on Monday, Department of Defense said in a statement Tuesday.  

 Conde was assigned to 3rd Battalion, 509th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, U.S. Army Alaska, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska.

 Army Alaska Public Affairs spokesman Lt. Col. Martyn Crighton told the Loveland Reporter-Herald that Conde, who was deployed in September 2017, nearly had completed his nine-month deployment, and was set to redeploy to Alaska within the coming weeks.

 Another spokesperson, John Pennell, told the Anchorage Daily News that Conde was hit by rifle fire, but did not elaborate further.

His death still is under investigation, according to the DOD statement.

 He graduated from Berthoud High School, where he was a member of his school’s track team, The Herald reported.

More than 11,000 forced to flee homes in Mexico due to gang violence.

 May/3/18 By Associated Press

Migrants in Mexico pack their belongings as they flee gang violence. 

  A Mexican rights group says 11,232 people were forced to flee their homes due to drug gang violence in 2017.

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Cash spilled by armored truck causes chaos along highway.

Cash spilled by armored truck causes chaos along highway.

 By Aaron Feis May 2, 2018

The blacktop turned green on an Indiana interstate Wednesday morning when the backdoor of a Brinks truck swung open, spilling hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash onto the roadway.

 Opportunistic motorists hopped out of their cars and nearby residents vaulted over fences as they jostled to scoop up handfuls of bills along Interstate 70 near Indianapolis around 9 a.m., according to local Fox affiliate WXIN.

 “Bags of money were falling out of the back onto the interstate,” Indiana State Police Cpl. Brock McCooe told the station. “Sort of something out of a movie scene, where you have bills, loose bills flying all over the interstate, vehicles stopping, people getting out of their cars.”

 Video from the scene showed hundreds of greenbacks strewn along the side of the highway, which had to be shut down until the all the bills were picked up.

Troopers at the scene initially said that as much as $600,000 may have been scattered across the interstate, but later said that they couldn’t be sure of the exact amount.

 It remains unclear what caused the backdoor to open, which the driver only became aware of when a passing motorist flagged him down, according to WXIN.

 Troopers made clear that anyone who thought they found a payday along the roadway was committing a crime. “Anyone who picked up money can be charged with theft,” wrote ISP Sgt. John Perrine on Twitter. “If you have money from the incident to return, contact the Indiana State Police.”

 Police said they’re scanning video footage for license plates of sticky-fingered motorists spotted helping themselves to the cash — including a school bus driver.

 “If you’re willing to, in good conscience, turn it back in, there’s amnesty,” McCooe told WXIN. “There’s no real questions asked if you’re willing to give it back.”

Mexico-Mexifornia drug tunnel operator gets 10 years in prison.

 Manuel Gallegos-Jimenez, a 48-year-old Mexican national, was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty to conspiracy in San Diego.

The US Coast Guard offloaded more than 12 tons of cocaine and 1 ton of marijuana in Florida on Tuesday – a gigantic mound of drugs seized in international waters.
The drugs carried a street value of nearly $400 million and were off-loaded in Port Everglades by the crew of the 270-foot Coast Guard Cutter Legare – were the fruits of major busts off the Pacific coast of Mexico, as well as Central and South America.
The massive pile of dope was the result of 17 separate drug-smuggling vessel seizures, including five hauls by the Legare that totaled more than 4,500 pounds of cocaine.
The Coast Guard Cutter Reliance, meanwhile, was responsible for seizing roughly 2,600 pounds of marijuana in one bust alone
Canadian Naval vessels also assisted in some of the interdictions, officials said.
Coast Guard officials cut netting away from a large bale of cocaine after a seizure on April 5.

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In its update, the NTSB also said that investigators have found pieces of the broken engine fan blade suspected of triggering the accident when it snapped off due to metal fatigue, or microscopic cracking. The NTSB said the other blades in the engine on the Boeing 737 were nicked during the accident but showed no signs of cracking.

Modal Trigger

Investigators looked at Southwest maintenance records, which indicated that the fan blades in the failed engine had made more than 32,000 flights and more than 10,000 since being overhauled in November 2012. At that time they were inspected by sight and with fluorescent dye used to find surface defects.

Since the accident, the Federal Aviation Administration has announced stepped-up inspections of fan blades in Boeing 737 engines, which are made by CFM International, a joint venture of General Electric Co. and France’s Safran SA. CFM first recommended more inspections using ultrasound and electrical currents after an engine broke apart on another Southwest plane in 2016. No one was injured in that incident.

Southwest executives say crews have inspected more than 25,000 blades in the airline’s fleet and found only one other that showed signs of cracking.

Passengers on another Southwest plane were startled this week when one layer of a three-layer window cracked in flight. The pilots landed the plane safely in Cleveland.

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No, DACA set up a shadow immigration system outside of and in defiance of congressional enactments. This is why DACA’s sister program, DAPA, which would have applied to a wider population of illegal immigrants, was rightly blocked in the courts.

All the same arguments that sank DAPA should apply to DACA, but once Trump is part of the equation, all the rules change. Bates wants to hear a more extensive argument from the administration on why DACA is illegal. More to the point is the fact that there isn’t any remotely plausible case that it is unlawful to apply the law to illegal immigrants.

Obama himself long maintained that he lacked the authority to issue a unilateral amnesty for Dreamers. We’ve gone from everyone assuming that the president can’t act in defiance of the immigration laws to judges insisting that a president must act in defiance of the immigration laws.

Books have been written about the coming descent of the US into fascism, but evidently no one who promotes or buys these tomes cares about the black letter of the law, at least not when it doesn’t suit their political interests.

The complaints on the right, meanwhile, about an unelected deep state trying to destroy the president are overdone. Yet here is an unelected branch of government overstepping its constitutional bounds to frustrate a core priority of a president who ran and won on the issue of immigration. This is corrosive of faith in our system, counter to the rule of law and sophomoric on the part of men and women who are supposed to be neutral arbiters of justice.

The saving grace of the judiciary is that the Supreme Court, as of now, takes its responsibility more seriously. The oral arguments suggest that the court will, despite absurd rulings below, uphold Trump’s travel ban.

This is something, but it doesn’t remove the shame of those judges who, when it comes to Trump, substitute the logic of #resistance for common sense and the law.

Judges who join the Resistance are trouble for our legal system.
Apr/26/18 By Rich Lowry Updated
Rod Rosenstein has let Mueller go far too far.
Why has the Republican Congress given up on doing anything?
'Righteous' james comey is cashing in...
There’s a lawlessness rampant in the land, but it isn’t emanating from the Trump administration.
The source is federal judges who are making a mockery of their profession by twisting the law to block the Trump administration’s immigration priorities.

If the judges get their way, there will, in effect, be two sets of law in America — one for President Trump and one for everyone else.
In this dispensation, other presidents, especially Democratic presidents, get a pen and a phone. Trump gets a judicial veto — even when he is simply trying to undo the unilateral moves of his predecessor.
This is the clear implication of the latest decision against Trump’s rollback of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
US Judge John Bates in the District of Columbia held that Trump’s decision was “arbitrary and capricious.”
If nothing else, the judge is an expert on arbitrariness. He’d force the administration to begin granting new DACA permits if it doesn’t explain to his satisfaction the decision to end the program.
This would make some sense if Trump were stretching to defy a legal regime duly passed by Congress. He is not. That is what resident barry obuma did.
Because Congress declined to pass the DREAM Act, obuma implemented a version on his own. He justified DACA as prosecutorial discretion and to this day denies that he rewrote the laws.
But if that is true — and it’s the only legal defense of DACA — there is nothing to stop Trump from reversing it via his own pen and phone!
Prosecutorial discretion must work both ways, or the law is a ratchet always working against immigration enforcement.
Especially given how obuma’s defense of DACA as prosecutorial discretion was a transparent rationalization. It wasn’t as though immigration authorities were coming across so-called Dreamers during traffic stops and deciding that pursuing removal would be a poor use of time and resources.

Trump won’t apologize for harsh rhetoric aimed at muslims.
Apr/30/18 By Bob Fredericks
President Trump on Monday declined to apologize for his incendiary comments about muslims and calls for a muslim immigration ban, arguing that it wouldn’t make any difference as a lawsuit against his policy is argued before the Supreme Court.
“I don’t think it would, number one. And there’s no reason to apologize. Our immigration laws in this country are a total disaster. They’re laughed at all over the world, they’re laughed at for their stupidity and we have to have strong immigration laws,” Trump said during a joint news conference with the Nigerian president in the Rose Garden.
“I think if I apologize, it wouldn’t make 10 cents worth of difference to them. We have to have strong immigration laws to protect our country.”
The travel ban made its way to the Supreme Court last week, and a lawyer representing those fighting the ban, obuma administration attorney Neal Katyal, had said if Trump would take back some his statements, the case would likely end in his favor.
On the campaign trail in December 2015, Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown” of muslims entering the US “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on,” adding that muslims have “a great hatred” for Americans.

“Without looking at the various polling data, it is obvious to anybody the hatred is beyond comprehension,” Trump added in a statement.
“Where this hatred comes from and why we will have to determine. Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life.”

Landel;

See;  Govt. Acronyms for Bureaus and Personnel in the War on Terror  It's more than the title suggests

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Local surveillance rarely stays local. It starts with local law enforcement agencies purchasing high powered technologies like drones, license plate readers, or facial recognition software, or conducting social media surveillance.

 Increasingly, this secret surveillance creeps into of our lives, leaving the door open to monitoring and detention not just by local police, but also by the federal government.

  Whether it is the monitoring of blackLivesMatterSplatter protestors and leaders, or the tracking of alien and muslim community members, this secret surveillance must stop.

 It's not clear if this bill is going to get them what they want, given that there are cities in Mexifornia resisting the state's "sanctuary" law that attempts to restrict how local police share information about people's immigration status with the feds.

  A number of communities could very well give this "secret surveillance" their full stamp of approval and encourage its use to track the very people the ACLU wants to protect.

 Nevertheless, transparency and oversight are certainly preferable to letting police operate however they choose. It at least gives the community the chance to hold elected officials responsible if they expand surveillance in ways that violate civil liberties.

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This is not a bill that permits or forbids types of tech surveillance. It requires counties and cities to be open with citizens about what sort of tools they use, and it puts city and county elected officials in an oversight position. They can decide which surveillance tech to permit and which to forbid. SB 1186 is currently in the state Senate's appropriations committee and is scheduled for a hearing next week. The ACLU supports the legislation, and is encouraging citizens to contact their lawmakers, noting

Chicago Mayor Pushes for Police Drone Surveillance of Public Gatherings.

  May/4/18 1:00 pm Scott Shackford

Rahm Emanuel wants to do the thing that critics of drone surveillance fear most.

 Illinois passed a law three years ago requiring police to get warrants before use drones for most surveillance purposes. But a bill being pushed by Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and his allies in the state legislature would blow a massive hole in these restrictions by allowing the government to use drones to monitor protests and large gatherings.

 The American Civil Liberties Union is raising hell, noting that the change in the law would allow Chicago police (who have a history of secret surveillance against political activists) to take pictures, record video, and even use facial recognition tools against protesters. The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

 "If this bill is passed, as drafted, during the next large scale political rally, drones could identify and list people protesting the Trump administration," added Karen Sheley, director of the ACLU's Police Practices Project.

 "The sight of drones overhead, collecting information, may deter people from protesting in a time when so many want to exercise their First Amendment rights....This is too much unchecked power to give to the police—in Chicago or anywhere."

 Representatives for the mayor's office say this is all about "ensuring the safety" of people attending large events. The bill requires regular reporting of when police use drones and says any data collected must be deleted after 30 days unless it's connected to a "criminal matter."

 Drones can be useful tools for emergency responders in crisis and rescue situations when it's dangerous to send in human beings. So the value of drones in the hands of police shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. But the one thing critics of drone surveillance are most opposed to using them for—snooping on public political activism—is the exact thing this bill is attempting to authorize.

 Meanwhile, Mexifornia lawmakers are considering a very different police surveillance bill. SB 1186 would require that local law enforcement agencies each to submit a surveillance tech use policy to its city or county governing body, which would then vote on them. They'd have to make these policies available online, and they would be forbidden from sharing or selling data collected from surveillance with anybody other than permitted law enforcement agencies including the Department of Justice.

WATCH: President Fires Up NRA Convention In Dallas!

The Texas support and spirit can drive the rest of the country in support of the 1st and 2nd amendment and in support of winning the continued Republican Majority in Congress.
 We must have more new Republicans elected!
The Term Limit bill has not been passed or even on the table simply because of who is in charge of doing the job.

 WE, taxpaying citizens Have a responsibility to execute the Term limits at the voting booths and replace incumbents who are not doing the job.

 We need to demand swamp dwellers just be gone.
” Don’t Mess With Texas”

President Trump To World Series Winners: ‘You were Houston strong’!

3/13/18

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ELIMINATE REGULATORY BARRIERS: The President’s plan would eliminate barriers that prevent virtually all infrastructure projects from being efficiently developed and managed.

• The President’s plan will:
  • Provide more flexibility to transportation projects that have minimal Federal funding but are currently required to seek Federal review and approval.
  • Incentivize the efficient development and management of water infrastructure, in part, by providing more flexibility to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and its partners.
  • Give the Department of Veterans Affairs the flexibility to use its existing assets to acquire new facilities by allowing it to retain property sale proceeds and exchange existing facilities for construction of new facilities.
  • Expand funding eligibility for land revitalization projects through the Superfund program and establish tools to help manage their legal and financial matters.

STREAMLINE PERMITTING: President Trump’s infrastructure proposal will shorten and simplify the approval process for infrastructure projects.

• Working with Congress, we will:
  • Establish a “one agency, one decision” structure for environmental reviews.
  • Shorten the lengthy environmental review process to two years while still protecting the environment.
  • Eliminate certain redundant and inefficient provisions in environmental laws.
  • Create two new pilot programs to test new ways to improve the environmental review process.

INVEST IN OUR COUNTRY’S MOST IMPORTANT ASSET – ITS PEOPLE: The President is proposing reforms so Americans secure good-paying jobs and meet the needs of our industries. 

• The President’s plan would reform Federal education and workforce development programs to better prepare Americans to perform the in-demand jobs of today and the future.  This includes:
  • Making high-quality, short-term programs that provide students with a certification or credential in an in-demand field eligible for Pell Grants.
  • Reforming the Perkins Career and Technical Education Program to ensure more students have access to high-quality technical education to develop the skills required in today’s economy.
  • Better targeting Federal Work-Study funds to help more students obtain important workplace experience, including through apprenticeships.

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STIMULATE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT: President Trump’s plan will lead to at least $1.5 trillion in investments to rebuild our failing infrastructure and develop innovative projects.

• $200 billion in Federal funds will spur at least $1.5 trillion in new infrastructure investments.
  • Federal infrastructure spending will promote State, local, and private investments and maximize the value of every taxpayer dollar.
• Of the $200 billion, $100 billion will create an Incentives Program to spur additional dedicated funds from States, localities, and the private sector.
  • Applications for the Incentives Program will be evaluated on objective criteria, with creating additional infrastructure investment being the largest factor.
  • The Incentives Program will promote accountability, making Federal funding conditional on projects meeting agreed upon milestones.
• $20 billion will be dedicated to the Transformative Projects Program.
  • This program will provide Federal aid for bold and innovative projects that have the potential to dramatically improve America’s infrastructure.
  • The program will focus on projects that could have a significant positive impact on States, cities, and localities but may not attract private sector investment because of the project’s unique characteristics.
• $20 billion will be allocated to expanding infrastructure financing programs.
  • Of the $20 billion, $14 billion will go to expanding a number of existing credit programs: TIFIA, WIFIA, RRIF, and rural utility lending.
  • $6 billion will go to expanding Private Activity Bonds.
• $10 billion will go to a new Federal Capital Revolving Fund, which will reduce inefficient leasing of Federal real property which would be more cost-effective to purchase.
• A new fund will allow some incremental revenues from energy development on public lands to pay for the capital and maintenance needs of public lands infrastructure.

INVEST IN RURAL AMERICA: Rural America’s infrastructure has been left behind for too long, and President Trump’s plan will make sure it is supported and modernized.

• $50 billion of the $200 billion in direct Federal funding will be devoted to a new Rural Infrastructure Program to rebuild and modernize infrastructure in rural America.
  • The bulk of the dollars in the Rural Infrastructure Program will be allocated to State governors, giving States the flexibility to prioritize their communities’ needs.
  • The remaining funds will be distributed through rural performance grants to encourage the best use of taxpayer dollars.

INCREASE STATE AND LOCAL AUTHORITY: President Trump’s proposal will return decision-making authority to State and local governments, which know the needs of their communities. 

• Funds awarded to State and local authorities, such as through the Incentives Program and the Rural Infrastructure Program, will be allocated to infrastructure projects they prioritize.
  • This empowers States and localities to make more infrastructure investment decisions and prioritize projects based on the needs of their communities
• The plan will expand processes that allow environmental review and permitting decisions to be delegated to States.
• The plan will also allow Federal agencies to divest assets that can be better managed by State or local governments or the private sector.

The Trump Plan To Rebuild America.

Feb/12/18

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More than 300,000 immigrants from about a dozen countries have been allowed to stay in the United States since the Temporary Protected Status program was created in 1990 by Congress.

 The program was designed to give people whose countries are devastated by natural disasters or other crises a temporary sanctuary until the conditions improve enough to return.
 The administration has already let protections for several countries expire, including El Salvador, Haiti, Nicaragua, Sudan, Liberia and Nepal. Haiti, El Salvador and Honduras comprise most of the recipients.

 South Florida leaders call on President Trump to protect immigrants.

“The hurricane that struck Honduras in 1998 is not the reason why its citizens still enjoy TPS protection in 2018,” said RJ Hauman, government relations director at the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which seeks to reduce immigration. “They are still here because the people who willingly accepted our temporary offer, their advocates, and their governments have abused our generosity and managed to get the program extended far beyond any reasonable definition of temporary.

Trump Sends THOUSANDS Of Central Americans Packing?

5/4/18 Source: Sun Sentinel  by: Anita Kumar and Franco Ordonez

Giuliani Sets the Odds on Trump Getting Subpoenaed.

05/03/2018   ABC by: John Santucci

~~~ *** ONLY IN MEXIFORNIA! ***

 UNPRECEDENTED: Mexifornia Strikes Again, About To Go Overboard With New Pro-Illegal Alien Law.

 Mexifornia legislation introduced Monday that the state legislature would allow them to sit on government boards and potentially collect pay for doing so!  the Daily Caller reports.

  Democratic state Sen. Ricardo Lara’s bill would change the current law surrounding appointments to state and local boards to include anyone over the age of 18, without considering whether the nominee is an American citizen.

According to the Sacramento Bee

 “Mexifornia is stronger when we utilize talents of all our residen...

 Lara said it might be possible to pay the illegal immigrants for their services. He noted that although illegal immigrants aren’t supposed to be collecting salaries under federal statutes, some could be paid under the DACA program.

 The state senator has successfully moved other legislation in the past that sought to expand government services to illegal aliens. He is also working on bill that would grant state medical coverage to illegals.

 Lara introduced the bill on Monday in the latest move by state lawmakers to provide more opportunities to immigrants in Mexifornia, without legal authorization, as the Trump administration moves in the opposite direction.

 Lara has carried bills to expand health care coverage to undocumented immigrants over the years, including a proposal this year to offer Medi-Cal coverage to undocumented adults.

 But while the state continues to cater to its undocumented population and increasingly refuses to cooperate with federal immigration authorities, many municipalities are pushing back with local legislation that rejects Mexifornia’s extreme support of sanctuary cities.

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 Two Salvadorans, six Hondurans, two Guatemalans and a Mexican national face charges, according to federal complaints. They are currently in custody.

  The 11 face a misdemeanor charge for allegedly entering the US illegally. One individual, who is alleged to have entered the country after he was previously deported, also faces a felony charge, according to the complaint.

 Please explain why they can traverse the entire length of Mexico, but Mexico does not provide asylum. Mexico did but it was refused, they want to be in the USA! They are waving the Honduras flag and demanding to be let in here. If they are so proud of that flag, why are they on our border?

 Once they refuse asylum then we have no legal responsibility to accept them.  They are lying about seeking asylum. No one should get in.

  I don't see any hammer here! If we put them in holding cells or ultimately in jail and then the US taxpayer pays all the bills, that is not a hammer. WE get hammered with the endless carrying charges. These people should not be allowed to set foot inside the USA. Period. That's a hammer! When they slip in, get IMMEDIATELY sent back to wherever, that's a hammer.

  All the rest is pretty much Sessions' reluctance to actually use a hammer - smoke and mirrors. Bring on the real hammers. Trump should be president and Attorney General at the same time. That would produce hammers.

Jeff Sessions Charges 11 Members Of Illegal Alien Caravan That Crashed The Border.

 The Department of Justice has charged 11 members of the Central American caravan coming to the United States.  The Daily Caller. 

  “The Department of Justice has filed complaints against 11  members of the Central American migrant caravan, accusing them of illegally entering the United States.”

 The report indicates that 10 members face misdemeanor charges for entering the country illegally, while one other faces a possible felony charge for re-entering the country after already being deported.

 The caravan’s arrival coincided with Vice President Mike Pence’s visit to the border to check out the construction of the border fence.

 After the month-long journey by bus, about 100 migrants arrived at the San Ysidro port of entry on the US-Mexico border on Sunday evening preparing to claim asylum.

 Twenty to 30 migrants spent Sunday night in front of the turnstiles leading to the US side of the port of entry in Tijuana, Mexico.

 An organizer and immigrant-rights supporter said they would remain at the immigration processing center until “every last one is admitted into the United States.”

 Eight migrants from the caravan were being processed by US officials, the group Pueblo Sin Fronteras and two observers said Monday night.

Former Trump Campaign Manager To Replace John Kelly?    

 5/3/18   Daily Caller   by: Nick Givas

 Seattle Sued Over Law Banning Landlords From Conducting Criminal Background Checks. 

 In August 2017, Seattle made it illegal for landlords to decline potential tenants because of their criminal history, or even to perform a criminal background check on people looking to rent their property. Now a collection of landlords is suing, claiming the so-called Fair Chance Housing Ordinance is unconstitutional.

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"We don't have any of those fears that someone working on the streets would have," Amelia Heart, another Kit Kat Ranch worker, tells the TV station.

 Ruby Rae started working in one of Hof's brothels seven years ago, when she was 20. "Since starting my career as a legal prostitute in Nevada, I can truthfully say it was one of the best decisions I have made," she writes in The Nevada Independent. Some clients have become "good friends," and Rae has been able to pay her way through college while also helping care for her grandfather with dementia. She is currently pursing a master's degree.

 "When I heard about the petition that is being started by No Little Girl to put an end to the Lyon County brothels, I was angry, saddened and confused," writes Rae. "Not only is this group trying to take away my livelihood, success and freedom, but also they are trying to take that away from the hundreds of women I work with and the hundreds of staff that these four brothels employ."

 Shutting down the brothels "would be a huge step back for me personally in terms of my career," Alice Little, who works at the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, tells a local ABC affiliate. Sex workers, she says, "are going to fight tooth and nail" against this.

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The petition in Nye needs just 1,963 signatures to get on a November ballot initiative.

 Both the Nye petitioners and those in Lyon County are working with lawyer Jason Guinasso and activist Kimberly Mull of the "No Little Girl" campaign, funded through something called the End Trafficking and Prostitution Political Action Committee. Guinasso, a resident of Reno, has been practicing law in Nevada since 2003 and made a failed bid for the state assembly in 2016. He has said that similar anti-brothel campaigns could be coming in Nevada's Lander and Storey counties.

 No Little Girl asserts that all paid sex constitutes violence against women. The women working at Nevada's brothels tend to disagree.

 On the No Little Girl website, "they grossly proclaim that 'no little girl grows up wanting to be a prostitute,'" Christina Parreira, a sex worker and Ph.D student, tells me in an email. "Of course the voices of actual sex workers are nowhere to be found."

 Since Lyon County officially legalized brothels four decades ago, it's "proven to be a time-tested and remarkably successful social experiment," writes Parreira on the Bunny Ranch blog. The groups cites studies of brothel ills that have been debunked or have "nothing to do with legal prostitution," she adds. And "the handful of individuals that submitted the petition represent faith-based organizations" who seem more interested in a pushing their specific sexual mores on others than in looking out for the safety of women who choose to work in Nevada brothels.

 "As a licensed prostitute and PhD student at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, I can tell you that what I want is to continue to have the freedom to choose to work in a safe environment, where I can practice a trade that I love, lawfully and prosperously," continues Parreira. "Sex work is definitely not my last resort or my only option—it is my choice. I'd like to continue to have the opportunity to make that choice legally."

 Nova Sky, who works at Lyon County's Kit Kat Ranch, tells KTVN.com that the anti-brothel group is "framing this as a question of the safety of women, but we're very safe."

Anti-Sex Work Crusaders Now Coming for Legal Prostitution in Nevada.

"Of course the voices of actual sex workers are nowhere to be found," says brothel worker and PhD student Christina Parreira.

May/2/18 4:18 pm    Elizabeth Nolan Brown

 Throughout the United States there are only a handful of counties—all in Nevada—where prostitution is legal in licensed brothels. Now crusaders in two of these counties are trying to change this, with a campaign to put a brothel ban on the ballot this November.

 There are currently around 22 active, legal brothels in Nevada, dispersed among seven counties. Anti-prostitution activists are targeting brothels in Lyon Co.

—home to the Moonlite Bunny Ranch, The Love Ranch, the Sagebrush Ranch, and the Kit Kat Guest Ranch—and Nye County. Nye is headquarters to five legal brothels, including three owned by Dennis Hof, who is currently challenging state 

 Assemblyman James Oscarson in the Republican primary.

"Prostitution is not going away, and you either put it in the hands of the professionals like liquor, marijuana and gaming, or you have it in the hands of the criminals," Hof tells The Nevada Independent, noting that his businesses are the largest single source of tax revenue for the county.

 But in early April, four Lyon County residents filed a brothel-banning petition with local authorities. It needs 3,350 signatures by June 15th to move forward. If that happens, the Lyon County Commission will vote on the ban and, if it fails to pass the county commission, it will be posed to Lyon County voters at large on fall ballots.

Infamous Gang Puts Out Hit on Trump-Supporting Kanye,

 5/3/18  AAN

Hip-hop artist Kanye West’s is publicly supporting President Donald Trump, and liberals are reacting with one of their most popular political tools. 
Death threats. 
  "Yo, national alert. All the Crips up out here, yo fuck Kanye up. You see that motherfucker, yo fuck his ass up on GP. This Crip shit, nigga. We gon' show you how we come together and ride on your motherfuckin ass,” rapper Daz Dillinger, leader of the West Coast Crips street gang threatened in a since-deleted Instagram video. 
 “Where you at right now? All those Crips out there, you see that nigga, bang on his ass. Fuck his ass up, fuck Kanye West up,” he said. “Daz Dillinger gives the go-ahead for crips to whip Kanye West ass on sight. Is that going too far or na?” 
“We better not ever see you in concert. We better not ever see you in the Long Beach City, We better not ever see you in Mexifornia. Stay in Calabasas. You hear me? 'Cause we got a Crip alert on Kanye,” Dillinger said. 
 Local police responded, and questioned Dillinger about his explicit threat of political violence. 
  Dillinger did not seem to care. “FREEDOM OF SPEECH FUC KANYE THIS CRIPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP THE REVOLUTION IS ON NOW,” said Dillinger in response to critics of his death threats. “Let the smashing and dashing begin,” said Dillinger adding, “Kris, did you call the police on me?” 
 Dillinger appears to claim Kris Jenner, West’s mother-in-law is the one who informed police of the videos, despite the fact his threats made national news. 
  Other rappers are warning West the threat is real, and street gang members appear to be taking it as an order. 
 “We got the Blood-affiliated MC Monday night at Ace of Diamonds and asked about Daz calling on Crips to ‘f*** up’ Kanye on sight after re-professing his love for President Trump. Game takes a somewhat joking tone -- but also sounds serious ... watch out, Ye,” rapper The Game tells TMZ. 
  It’s the just latest in an explosion of political violence liberals have unleashed since Trump’s win. 
  Since March of 2017, around 40 Republican lawmakers have either been the target of death threats or assault by deranged liberals.
 In one of the most high-profile attacks, a liberal MSNBC viewer opened fire on Republican members of Congress practicing for a charity baseball game. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise was critically wounded and nearly died in the targeted shooting. 
  Alabama Republican Congressman Mo Brooks, one of the targets of the mass assassination attempt, says the explosion of death threats by liberals is driving many Republicans to quit politics. 
 “one of the things that is concerning me is the assassination risk may become a factor,” Brooks told Alabama radio station WVNN. “On our baseball team, our 1st baseman is retiring, our 2nd baseman was shot, our shortstop is retiring, our 3rd baseman is retiring, our left fielder is retiring, our center fielder is retiring. That’s 6 out of 9 players on the defensive side of the coin that are retiring.”

Liberal Queer Resigns in Disgrace.

5/4//18  : AAN

 Queer liberal Democrat Stanley Rosenberg is resigning Friday due to his husband's sexual harrassment of state Senate employees. 
 State Sen. Stanley Rosenberg, for decades one of the most powerful Democrats in Massachusetts, announced Thursday that he will resign Friday after 31 years as a lawmaker because of a scandal involving his estranged husband. His decision follows Wednesday’s release of an ethics report that states Rosenberg “failed to protect the Senate” from his estranged husband, who faces charges of racially and sexually harassing Senate employees.
  He stepped down as president in December, after the Boston Globe reported in November that four men alleged that Rosenberg’s husband, Byron Hefner, had sexually assaulted and harassed them, and boasted of his influence in the Senate..

 Hefner was indicted in March.

Rosenberg claims to have been unaware of Hefner’s alleged crimes.
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Following the release of the ethics report, both Republican Gov. Charlie Baker and Democratic Attorney General Maura Healey called for Rosenberg to resign, Fox 25 reported. According to the station, the report was prepared by independent investigators hired by the Senate Ethics Committee. It said that while Rosenberg did not violate any formal Senate rules, he showed poor judgment and violated the Senate's information technology policies by granting Hefner “unfettered access” to Rosenberg's Senate email account. Hefner, 30, pleaded not guilty in Suffolk Superior Court in April to charges of sexual assault, criminal lewdness and distributing nude photos without consent. He was released on his own recognizance pending further court action.

The powerful Masschusetts Democrat is just one of many recent sexual harrassment scandals that have become all to common in liberal legislatures.

Murderous kennedy Clan Member Exonerated?

5/4/18    by: Associated Press

 HARTFORD, Conn. — The Connecticut Supreme Court has vacated kennedy cousin Michael Skakel’s murder conviction and ordered a new trial in connection with a 1975 killing in wealthy Greenwich.
 The court issued a 4-3 ruling Friday that Skakel’s trial attorney, Michael Sherman, failed to present evidence of an alibi. The decision reversed the court’s previous ruling that reinstated Skakel’s conviction after a lower court had ordered a new trial.
 Skakel is a nephew of robert f. kennedy’s widow, ethel kennedy. He was convicted of murder in 2002 in the bludgeoning death of Martha Moxley in their wealthy Greenwich neighborhood in 1975, when they were teenagers.
 He was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison, but another judge granted him a new trial in 2013, citing mistakes by his trial lawyer.