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The Republicans have set up posters as props at today’s hearing with quotes indicating that the impeachment process is a legalistic coup.

Republican props set up for hearing , railing on Schiff, Al Green on impeachment and whistleblower’s attorney pic.twitter.com/MkEopID5Nx

— Manu Raju (@mkraju) November 13, 2019

This was one of the replies from an impeachment supporter:

If i were on the intelligence committee I would “accidentally” knock over these dumbass signs

what are they gonna do, fight me

Not a single Republican in congress could take me, they all have bad knees pic.twitter.com/p1X4H4vWpW

— i have the right number of midi cables (@lookoutitsbbear) November 13, 2019

Why address the Republican’s evidence with debate and counterevidence when you can use vandalism, intimidation, and violence?

If the Republicans put up too much resistance to this kangaroo Star Chamber court, just turn the violence knob up a bit until they are quite and the Left can proceed with their prejudged show trial.

It worked before in Germany, the Soviet Union, and Cuba.  Why not try it in the USA?

Illegal guns are remaining in the hands of organised crime as gang leaders refuse to give up their weapons.

Police have met with more than 50 gang leaders in an effort to get them to comply with firearm law changes before an amnesty ends.

But it’s proving to be fruitless, as the patched members remain “very reluctant”, Police Commissioner Mike Bush told the Justice Select Committee on Thursday.

Police meet with gang leaders to try and convince them to surrender guns during amnesty

New Zealand was supposed to be the shinning example on how “Gun Control really really really works if we could only have the power” but instead it has become a huge joke. First Law Abiding civilians responded to the confiscation demand with a humongous F and U. More threats have simply gone ignored and now the political clown show went to appeal to the criminal class about pretty please surrender the guns you were not suppose to have in the first place.

Hat Tip Kevn B.

Summarizing impeachment with one front page:

Big point: the trial court dismissed the suit for “failure to state a claim.” This is the first stage at which a suit can be reviewed. Dismissal is only proper if it is based on the pleading, bare written allegations. The CT Supremes said only that it couldn’t be, at this stage. Plaintiff still have to prove their allegations (after discovery, they can be challenged by a motion for summary judgement, and if that’s denied, fought at trial). The CT Supremes even allowed that plaintiff may have to surmount “herculean” barriers to win.

Supreme Court denies review in Remington v. Soto

Let’s pat down the hair on fire panic and read this article. The only truly danger I see is the owners of Remington not wanting to spend money defending themselves because it is cheaper that way.

Warning: this is about the grossest thing I have read in a long time.

A Bucket of Hot Diarrhea Was Randomly Poured on a Woman by a Homeless Man
“It was liquid. Hot liquid,” she said. “I was soaked. And it was coming off my eyelashes, into my eyes.”

Ewwww…. dear God no.  That is… I’m going to vomit.

A night near the Hollywood Walk of Fame would change a woman’s life, as she was getting into her car and a homeless man sprinted across Hollywood Boulevard toward her.

Heidi Van Tassel was parked in Hollywood after having a pleasant evening out with friends at an authentic Thai restaurant. Suddenly a man randomly pulled her out of the car, dragged her out to the middle of the street, and dumped a bucket of feces on her head, Van Tassel said and public records confirm.

If she was having Bangladeshi food, that would be part of the authentic experience.

“It was diarrhea. Hot liquid. I was soaked, and it was coming off my eyelashes and into my eyes,” Van Tassel said. “Paramedics who came to treat me said there was so much of it on me, that it looked like the man was saving it up for a month.”

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, stop… He had saved up a bucket of diarrhea for a month and it was still hot?  Not that I’ve ever thought I’d contemplate this, but the thermodynamics of that doesn’t make sense unless he decided to reheat it.  Why am I thinking about that?

Van Tassel was rushed to Hollywood Presbyterian Hospital after the grotesque attack, where she was tested for infectious diseases caused by contact with feces. She’ll need to be retested every three months.

I’m assuming she has all the Hepatitis.  This goes past Hep A, B, and C, this goes into D, E, and F.

Also, did the paramedics hose her off first?  I’m not an EMT but I’d assume that if they responded to someone covered in feces that they’d try to clean most of it off ASAP.

I figure that the response to a person covered in liquid shit is like a response to a chemical exposure.  Get their clothes off and get them washed down with as much clean water as you have as fast as you can.  The less time the substance stays on the body, the less harm it can do.

“It was all inside my car because it was so much. He just kept pouring it and splattering it all over me,” she said.

That car is totaled.

She said the Los Angeles Police Department told her they’d investigate the crime, but her phone calls to the department went unanswered.

San Francisco just legalized shitting on the street, so I doubt Los Angles is going to care about dumping shit on other people.  If Ms. Van Tassel wants the police and DA to care, she needs to cut a big fat check (would you call that a shit-load of money?) to the local DA and Mayor’s reelection campaigns.

Van Tassel said the police also promised to have their victims’ advocate reach out to her to offer services. She said she never got a call.

She’s a white woman who can afford to eat at a restaurant on the Walk of Fame.  She’s not a victim.  The homeless guy was just engaged in fecal redistribution to protests this woman’s sewer access privilege.  Really, she owes him reparations.

“It’s so traumatic. The PTSD that I’m dealing with is beyond anything that I’ve ever felt,” Van Tassel said. “There needs to be some kind of help for the victims of these crimes.”

If there are enough people who get assaulted by vagrants with buckets of liquid shit that there needs to be a support group for that, it’s time to nuke LA off the face of the earth and start over.

The man who attacked her, identified in court records as Jere Blessings, was charged with battery and taken to jail. Blessings was described as a transient with “schizophrenia and psychotic disorders,” records show.

Jere Blessings got help, but only for two months. He was sent by a judge to a residential facility for people with mental health issues, and released in August.

There is going to be a support group for people who get assaulted by vagrants with buckets of liquid shit by this time next year.

“He doesn’t need jail time. He needs mental health care,” Van Tassel said. “I have empathy for him. Because he needs help.”

Nope.  Dumping a bucket of liquid shit on a person should be a capital offense.  He doesn’t need help, he needs to be locking in a small room with some hydrochloric acid mixed with sodium cyanide.  Plop, plop, fizz, fizz.

Security footage from businesses nearby captured the attack, and bodycam captured the aftermath as officers responded, but the LAPD and businesses would not release the footage, even when Van Tassel asked to see it.

Thank God they won’t release the footage.

The Los Angeles City Attorney’s office said Blessings is now back in the community, which worries Van Tassel.

And me.  And everybody else in LA.

“I will never, ever, forget his face,” Van Tassel said. “What’s the next thing he’s going to do somebody? If he would’ve had a knife, for sure he would’ve stabbed me.”

Between being stabbed and having a bucket of liquid shit dumped on me, I’m taking the stabbing.

Stitches come out, Hepatitis/AIDS lasts forever.

I have read dystopian fiction that didn’t involve assaults with buckets of diarrhea.

How does a homeless person save up a bucket of diarrhea for a month without anybody noticing in a First World nation?

How does a homeless person heat up a bucket of diarrhea and carry it down a popular tourist location in one of America’s largest cities?

This is so far beyond the pale it is hard to contemplate.

All I can say is stay out of the California coast.  And when you are in your car, keep your doors locked.

From the Valdosta Daily Times:

GOP lawmaker looks to ban trans related health care

Oh God, what horrible, transphobic bigots.

This is the start of the article:

Sam Schexnyder may be just 15 years old but he wants a serious sit down with state Rep. Ginny Ehrhart about his health care.

The Republican Marietta lawmaker is proposing legislation that would ban trans related health care for minors in Georgia — leaving transgender youths and their families reeling.

Ummm…

Sam is one of an estimated 4,950 youths in Georgia who identify as transgender, according to a 2017 study.

So we’re not talking about adults here, we’re talking about transitioning children.  The writers of the Valdosta Daily Times need to take a step back from the extreme Left for a second and see just how Americans feel about this.

“The reality is, not giving kids the therapy and hormone treatment and puberty blockers to kind of give them a pause to see if they want more time to make up their mind about what their gender identity is — all those are life saving,” Clare said. “And not giving children access to that and parents access to that option for their children, it can kill kids and it can cause them to be suicidal.”

This is “self hostage-taking.”  Threatening suicide, if you don’t get what you want, shouldn’t be the standard for gender transition, it should be the standard for being institutionalized.

The legislation, she said, is blatantly “unconstitutional.”

Chanel Haley, gender policy manager of Georgia Equality, said it should be the responsibility of parents and medical professionals to decide medical treatment a child should receive.

“Parents in conjunction with health care professionals,” she said, “over time making decisions for a child is absolutely normal and what every parent does.”

Except that this trans-child thing seems to be a case of Progressive Munchausen by Proxy.  The parents who support and “gender affirm” their children get all sorts of publicity and accolades from the “right” people.  They can even get Elizabeth Warren to applaud them at a debate.

Maybe this is necessary to curb parental driven child abuse.

Ehrhart is among GOP lawmakers in three states targeting trans related health care for minors including treatments like puberty blockers, hormone therapy and gender reassignment surgery.

Conservative lawmakers in Texas and Kentucky announced on social media their intent to introduce legislation blocking medical treatment like puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy.

The legislation has followed a custody battle in Texas between two parents who disagree regarding whether their 7-year-old is transgender and should receive treatment — the debate extended into the state’s politics.

Some transgender advocates speculate that the sudden appearance of similar legislative agendas in three states is a tactic to rally a conservative base of voters ahead of the 2020 election.

Damn those Conservatives, wanting to protect children from making life-altering decisions too early and without sufficient maturity to understand the gravity of the act.

Ehrhart’s bill, titled the “Vunerable Child Protection Act” for the upcoming 2020 session, would make it “ a felony to perform radical surgery on, or administer drugs to, a minor child for the purpose of attempting to change a minor’s gender.”

Pass the bill.

Moehlig wants to believe the bias of conservative GOP members proposing this legislation comes from a place of good intentions, she said. But she added legislators are not experts on medical conditions.

“It’s a very disturbed world if legislators get to be doctors,” Moehlig said.

Sam Schexnyder told his mom that Ehrhart needs to meet a young transgender person. She’s going to have to hear from him, Clare said.

Forgive me if I don’t trust a special interest advocate to be totally objective about their pet special interest.

It’s understood that the primary rule of medicine is “first, do no harm.”

Giving endocrine system poison to a physically healthy child seems like a lot of harm.

Rarely do I say “the government needs to do something” as a response to some social trend.  The history of government reacting to moral panics in oppressive and reactionary ways is horrendously destructive.

This, to me, seems different and is worthy of intervention.

In the UK, where people are actually keeping watch of this, it has been noticed that kids immersed in Tumblr, YouTube, and other social media about gender transition have started to identify as trans leading to a 4,400% increase in the number of trans-identifying children in only a few years.

Putting a hold on a child making a life-altering decision to separate those that have been exposed to the emotional health-destroying effects of social media from those who really do have a rare and specific psychological condition seems like a good thing to me.

Not to the Valdosta Daily Times, though.

This is embarrassing :

The NFL is setting up a private workout with scouting combine personnel for Colin Kaepernick and has invited all teams to attend, according to a report.

The workout, which will also be run by former NFL coaches, held on Saturday in Atlanta will include on-field work and an interview, NFL Network reports.

NFL Sets Up Kaepernick Workout, Invites All Teams

And the next paragraph you know is complete BS:

The NFL had received several inquiries from teams about Kaepernick’s readiness to play. The league also spoke with Kaepernick’s representatives, who said the quarterback was prepared to workout and interview.

If there was a team interested in his 70s Afroness, he would not need the NFL to do a whole show to attract teams., scouts would be calling him or his agent. This is the equivalent of a mom hiring an amusement park to lure kids to come to her very unpopular kid’s birthday. Free booze for the parents.