France.

Bigger than Watergate -

Brennan, Strzok And Kerry Allegedly Set "Spy Traps" For Trump Team; Hunt For FBI Mole Intensifies

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-11/brennan-strzok-and-kerry-allegedly-set-espionage-traps-trump-team-hunt-fbi-mole

"the FBI secretly had a person on the payroll who used his or her non-FBI credentials to interact in some capacity with the Trump campaign."

http://archive.is/Xm8pF

You know people hate Hillary so much, that even with the whole thing rigged in her favor, she lost the election by a wide margin.

Mueller indicted a ham sandwich -

https://twitter.com/Techno_Fog/status/995152564827185159

Cocaine Mitch warned you about changing the rules. I'm glad he chose to not return to the old rules.

Having escalated the judicial confirmation wars at virtually every turn since the 1980's, Senate Democrats in the early 2000's pioneered a new form of self-interested obstruction to block a number of President Bush's nominees to the federal bench. When Republicans retaliated in kind during the Obama era, many of those same Senate Democrats -- led by Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer -- voted to eliminate the filibuster rule they'd exploited to thwart Bush. Detonating the 'nuclear option' was the latest ends-justify-the-means maneuver by upper chamber liberals

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/05/11/schumer-come-to-think-of-it-i-now-regret-nuking-the-filibuster-on-judges-n2479839

I wish we lived in a country where people just accepted election results, but unfortunately this has not been true since I've been able to vote.

I have to say, the headline is a bit faulty, since it's not clear to ALL readers that we're talking about people who are not free to leave the cops.

"New law: Kansas cops can't have sex during traffic stops"

http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article210902319.html

Excerpt:

Kansas law previously said "there shouldn't be sexual relations between police and persons in jail, but it didn't say anything about if they had been stopped on the streets or were in their custody," Holscher said.

"This helps the person who was detained in their neighborhood or stopped for a ticket, that type of thing," she said.

I wish we lived in a country where people just accepted election results, but unfortunately this has not been true since I've been able to vote. ~ NicoleK at May 12, 2018 11:27 AM

Years spent living in California have made me cynical.

You'd have a proposition on the ballot for people to vote on a controversial issue which the politicians were afraid to touch with a ten-foot pole. The proposition would be poorly thought out and vaguely worded, but both sides would fight viciously over it.

If it was defeated, it would be rewritten with minimal changes to make it a "new" proposition and the process would start all over again.

Once it was voted in, the opposing side would sue in a hand-picked sympathetic court to have it overturned, with a motion to suspend implementation until the hearing. Then, months later, the hand-picked judge would hear both sides and rule on whether the proposition passed by a plebiscite was eligible to become state law.

So, not only did you have elections mean nothing, but you had judges effectively running the state. California's disease has gone national as elections no longer mean the final word with the people having spoken, but are merely the first round of a behind-the-scenes fight with the people having little to no voice in their own governance.

I have to say, the headline is a bit faulty, since it's not clear to ALL readers that we're talking about people who are not free to leave the cops. ~ lenona at May 12, 2018 12:56 PM

I posted a link to this story in The Hill yesterday.

Sexual relations are now outlawed for police "during the course of a traffic stop, a custodial interrogation, an interview in connection with an investigation, or while the law enforcement officer has such person detained," The Kansas City Star reported Thursday.

Before the measure, Kansas was one of 33 states where consensual sex between police and an individual they detained was not a crime, according to the Star.

New York passed a similar bill last month, closing a loophole in the state law by specifiying that people in police custody are unable to consent to sex.

Kansas law previously banned sexual relations between officers and people in jail. However, it didn't state anything about people stopped on the street or in their custody outside of the jail, Kansas Rep. Cindy Holscher (D) said.

One of 33 states in which this is technically legal?

An oldie but still a goodie

https://twitter.com/iowahawkblog/status/467431683424153600

I never liked her. Didn't like her voice, didn't like her melodies, didn't like her lyrics.

Part 1

Part 2

...Except for the closing guitar of "Help Me."

It's not her, of course, it's Larry Carlton. But for nearly 40 years, I thought those were crazypants modulations, not just a couple of chords. Fight the fadeout with your volume control... It's good all the way down.

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