Rahm Emanuel Shows He's No Ambassador
Of Truth At Senate Hearing
Posted By: AltaD, 10/21/2021 12:27:23 PM
Chicago - How could anyone tell if former Mayor Rahm Emanuel wasn't telling the whole truth during Wednesday's U.S. Senate hearing in advance of a confirmation vote on his pending appointment as America's ambassador to Japan? Well, his lips were moving.(Snip) Take, for instance, Emanuel's answers during the nine-minute grilling Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) gave him about his involvement in efforts to cover-up video showing a Chicago police officer shooting Laquan McDonald with every bullet in his gun — 16 shots (Snip)The Rahm con job continues. Will senators fall for it like a rubber-stamp City Council? Do they even care?
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Chicago - How could anyone tell if former Mayor Rahm Emanuel wasn't telling the whole truth during Wednesday's U.S. Senate hearing in advance of a confirmation vote on his pending appointment as America's ambassador to Japan?
Well, his lips were moving.(Snip) Take, for instance, Emanuel's answers during the nine-minute grilling Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) gave him about his involvement in efforts to cover-up video showing a Chicago police officer shooting Laquan McDonald with every bullet in his gun — 16 shots (Snip)The Rahm con job continues. Will senators fall for it like a rubber-stamp City Council? Do they even care?
Kane, DuPage sheriffs: Chicago police
shortage due to vaccine mandate isn't
an emergency for us 7 replies
shortage due to vaccine mandate isn't
an emergency for us 7 replies
At least two suburban county sheriffs say they will send their deputies to help the Chicago Police Department only if city officers are in distress or under duress.
So they say they will not respond if Chicago is short-staffed because it has suspended officers in a dispute about a COVID-19 vaccination mandate. "ILEAS (the Illinois Law Enforcement Alarm System) typically responds to emergency situations where there is no opportunity for planning," Kane County Sheriff Ron Hain said Tuesday. "This situation to me is much different."
"It's like a preplanned police shortage," DuPage County Sheriff James Mendrick said. "The lack of logic is the thing that astounds me."
'John Catanzara for Mayor 2023': FOP president
releases video after judge grants restraining order 11 replies
releases video after judge grants restraining order 11 replies
Chicago - About 30 minutes after a judge granted a temporary restraining order that prohibits the Fraternal Order of Police president to speak about the vaccine mandate, John Catanzara took to social media to deliver a message.
"We just had a court hearting about the city's temporary restraining order to prevent me from discussing the vaccine policy," said Catanzara. "The judge granted the temporary restraining order so until Monday's follow-up hearing, I will not be able to speak anymore on the policy, any way, shape or form in either way."(Snip)He then holds up a sign that says, "John Catanzara for Mayor 2023."
This year, Halloween and the fall season will "look a little different," Illinois' top doctor said as the state issued new guidelines for how to safely celebrate during the coronavirus pandemic.(Snip)Ezike said while getting vaccinated remains the best way to protect yourself and others, she encouraged a "layered approach" that includes wearing masks indoors and avoiding or limiting being in settings where physical distancing is not possible.(Snip)Those handing out tricks or treats indoors should open doors and windows as much as possible to promote increased ventilation
Chicago - More murders, more shootings and downtown looting. That's what a Chicago police officer says could happen this weekend, if the mayor does not repeal her vaccine mandate for the city's police department. (Snip) mayor issued a mandate that all city workers, including police, must be vaccinated and input their vaccine status into an online portal. Despite repeated attempts to find out where their personal information goes, including information that he said could easily be used to find where they live, his questions have gone unanswered. "Where does it go? Who's going to have access to that information?" the officer asked. "Lets not kid ourselves, there's people at
Amazon’s India division engaged in a systematic campaign of copying items sold by third-party sellers and then manipulated search results to favor its own products, according to a Reuters report Wednesday that cites internal documents.
In a 2016 document, titled “India Private Brands Program,” Amazon’s private label team in India detailed how it would review sales and customer review data to identify “reference brands” to replicate, according to the article.(Snip)High-ranking Amazon executives, including Diego Piacentini, who previously led the company’s international business, and senior VP of international consumer Russell Grandinetti, were aware of the business practices in India, Reuters said.
A 14-year-old girl and a security guard were seriously wounded when a gunman standing outside a high school on Chicago's South Side opened fire as the guard was opening a door to let students out. (Snip) The Chicago Fire Department confirms a 45-year-old security guard and 14-year-old female student were both shot. The student and guard were both in serious condition.
The girl was shot three times in the abdomen and taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in critical condition, according to police. The man, shot at least six times,(Snip)"The times have changed," he continued. "The streets have no discipline anymore, and that’s what’s happening. People have no consequences.
Chicago - The chief of the union that represents rank-and-file Chicago police officers warned that the force could be at half-strength over the weekend as a result of a City Hall mandate that officers must be either vaccinated against COVID-19 or tested regularly for the coronavirus. Saying the mayor's office has refused to bargain in good faith, John Catanzara, head of Chicago Lodge 7 of the Fraternal Order of Police, or FOP, said the union planned to file a class action lawsuit if city officials follow through on a promise to place police officers into "no-paid" status for refusing to participate in the city's vaccination portal.
Chicago - The city of Chicago is taking a more hands-on approach to treat gunshot victims.
The Office of Emergency Management is installing more than 400 wall-mounted "bleeding control" kits in buildings across the city.
The emergency medical kit locations include City Hall, public libraries, medical clinics and more. Each kit has enough supplies to treat eight victims.
Ten people were killed and 58 others were wounded in Chicago shootings over the weekend.
Chicago crime reporting website HeyJackass.com says 608 people have been killed in Chicago shootings so far this year with nearly 3,000 others who were shot and wounded.
Shoplifters casually rob California Marshalls
as people watch, employees do not report crime 23 replies
as people watch, employees do not report crime 23 replies
Multiple shoplifters in California were seen brazenly stealing from a Marshalls location as the crime continues in the state.
"People shopping there were just kind of standing there watching. The only thing I figured I could do was get their identities and their license plates and give them to somebody who will do something with them," witness Lindsey Rodriguez, a resident of Hemet who recorded the suspects, told NBC4.(Snip) "The employees at TJ Maxx have been told that, in these specific circumstances, it’s not worth it for you to go and physically attack, physically stop people that are walking out with this inventory," criminal defense attorney Alexandra Kazarian
Chicago — Just 29 people are hospitalized with COVID-related illness in Chicago, a city with a population of 2.7 million people.
Despite the fact that just .001 percent of Chicago residents are hospitalized with COVID-19, the city’s indoor mask mandate remains, with no word on what specific circumstances will trigger its demise.
The indoor mask mandate went into effect on August 20 in Chicago. (Snip) In a state with a population of 12.7 million people, COVID-related hospitalizations represent .015 percent of the population. Yet, Governor JB Pritzker’s administration has not said how close we are to lifting the statewide indoor mask mandate that went into effect August 30.
Chicago - Chicago criminals are targeting Indiana and police there say they are fighting back. (Snip) The pursuit policy for Illinois State Police is much stricter than Indiana. Troopers must assess risk based on a 14-point check list. They also cannot pursue for traffic offenses, while Indiana State Police can, depending on the severity of the offense.
In Chicago, police are not allowed to chase a vehicle unless it’s first approved by a supervisor who must determine if the risk of a chase is greater than the risk of letting someone escape.
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A movie prop masters union has told members it was a live round and not a blank that Alec Baldwin fired at a female cinematographer on Thursday in New Mexico, killing her and wounding the movie's director in a tragic on-set accident.
Halyna Hutchins, 42, died shortly after being shot by Baldwin around 1.50pm Thursday at Bonanza Creek Ranch, near the city of Santa Fe in New Mexico, where they were filming the movie Rust. Joel Souza, 48, the film's director, was also hurt and spent several hours in hospital, but was released later the same evening.
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Preliminarily, it is tragic that 42-year-old Halyna Hutchins, a rising cinematographer in Hollywood, died yesterday on the set of Rust, a movie being filmed in Santa Fe, New Mexico. My thoughts are with the loved ones she left behind. Having said that, I cannot escape a feeling that karma had a hand in this one because the finger on the trigger of the gun that killed Hutchins belonged to Alec Baldwin, a hysterical leftist who is fanatically opposed to the Second Amendment.
To give a sense of Baldwin’s hostility to gun rights, in 2018, the smug and constitutionally illiterate Baldwin had some harsh words for Dana Loesch, an NRA spokeswoman
Somehow, someone made the decision to let Joe Biden out and to go to a CNN town hall.
I’m not sure who thought this was a good idea. But even within the friendly confines of CNN, it was a complete train wreck — even by Biden standards.
Naturally, most of the questions from folks in the audience were Democrats or softball questions. But there were some highlights and it was disastrous.
Let’s start with the creepiness and the incoherence.
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No free college meant personal trouble for President Biden.
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The House voted 229-202 on Thursday to hold Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress after refusing to comply with a subpoena to testify before the select committee probing the January 6 Capitol attack. Nine Republicans joined all 220 Democrats in the lower chamber to pass the measure, which was brought to the floor after the 1/6 commission and House Rules Committee voted earlier this week to bring the matter to the full body. Along with GOP panel members Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, the seven other Republicans who voted for the measure are
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Pfizer-BioNTech released data on Thursday showing a booster dose of their COVID-19 vaccine is highly effective against the virus, including the Delta variant. Initial results from a Phase III trial of more than 10,000 participants aged 16 and older showed booster efficacy of 95.6 percent. The study also found that the booster shot was found to be safe with no safety concerns or severe adverse events reported. Pfizer had said its two-shot vaccine's efficacy drops over time, citing a study that showed 84 percent effectiveness four months later after a peak of 96 percent-and said this is evidence that a booster is needed to sustain protection
As one might expect from a Democrat, President Biden isn’t afraid to work blue. Politico reported Thursday that Biden—once caught on a hot mic calling the passage of ObamaCare a “big [expletive] deal”—regularly uses profanity in meetings with West Wing aides, displaying a particular fondness for “[expletive].” Variations on the theme, according to the outlet’s West Wing Playbook email newsletter, include the phrases “[expletive] them,” “What the [expletive] are we doing?” and “Why the [expletive] isn’t this happening?”(Snip)That may be news to Vice President Kamala Harris, who told NowThis News in 2019 that her favorite curse word “starts with an ‘m’ and it ends with ‘ah.’
Meghan Markle called on Congress to pass a federal paid parental leave program Wednesday in an open letter in which the Duchess of Sussex said she “grew up on the $4.99 salad bar at Sizzler.”
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“At an alarming rate, millions of women dropped out of the workforce, staying home with their kids as schools and daycares were closed, and looking after loved ones full-time,” she wrote.
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