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WSJ.

WASHINGTON—Attorney General William Barr has told top Republicans that the results of a wide-ranging inquiry into the origins of the FBI’s 2016 Russia investigation won’t be made public before the election, according to people familiar with the matter.

President Trump and his allies in Congress and his campaign had hoped the findings would be released before Nov. 3, potentially shedding new light on the underpinnings of the investigation into links between the Trump campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election.

Because it might demonstrate that the entirety of the Obama administration was crooked, including the VP.  Or it might show that the Barr/Durham effort was as much of a white wash as we expect it to be, showing that they too are part of the deep state.

In other words, it will show the truth, one way or the other.  It’s the job of Washington bureaucrats to bury the truth.  The people need to make decisions based on what the FedGov tells them – not the truth.

Military.com.

The U.S. Army Reserve is investigating Democratic North Carolina U.S. Senate candidate Cal Cunningham, who is a Reserve officer, a spokesman said Wednesday.

The statement follows news reports that Cunningham, who is married and has children, had an affair this year with public relations consultant Arlene Guzman Todd of California, whose husband has served in the Army, according to published reports.

“The Army Reserve is investigating the matters involving Lt. Col. James Cunningham. As such, we are unable to provide further details at this time,” Army Reserve Lt. Col. Simon Flake said in the statement.

An Army document states that Cunningham is assigned to the 134th Legal Operations Detachment with the Army Reserve Legal Command and that he had deployments to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On his campaign website, Cunningham touts that he has served as a military prosecutor.

The military prohibits adultery and other activities that it says are detrimental to the “good order and discipline in the armed forces” or bring discredit to the armed forces. Soldiers can be prosecuted for it.

After news of this affair and a possible second affair were made public late last week and on Monday, the campaign said this is a personal matter and Cunningham will not drop out of the race.

What a swell guy.

If the state of NC had any honor, the citizens would hang him from the nearest oak tree.  But given Mecklenburg and Wake Counties, who knows?  He could still win.

I received a mailer a few days ago showing Cunningham in his cammies (obviously from a deployment to enforce onerous ROE on the troops), and on the second page was his claim to fame.

He proudly earned the Bronze Star for “taking on corrupt military contractors.”  And he’s pathetic enough to tout that in a mailer.

That’s right.  He earned a Bronze Star for “taking on corrupt military contractors.”

What kind of a jackass commander puts someone in for a Bronze Star for something like that?

What kind of trash trots that out as something special?

Hey Cunningham.  My son saw heavy combat in Fallujah, earning the CAR.  What did you do during your deployments?

Jerk.

Michael Yon.

Locksmiths very busy in Portland due to boiling crime rate.  Creating fire hazards in some apartment buildings as emergency escapes are being locked closed.  Amazing fire hazards created.  Arson is a weapon of choice of the communists.  Do the tenants even know their fire escapes are being locked?

Unintended consequences is something the modern generation hasn’t yet come to terms with.  In fact, forget unintended consequences.  Just consequences.  They don’t understand them yet.

And the girl running against the current mayor of Portland is self-identified Antifa.  Can you imagine a better way to destroy a city?  And of course, that’s the intent, isn’t it?

Don’t worry.

I’m sure the police were on hand to arrest anyone who resisted the BLM rioters.

BLM rioters in Wauwatosa, Wisc. smash the windows of houses in a residential area. Video by @Julio_Rosas11: pic.twitter.com/RUVcjCTHyP

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) October 8, 2020

News from Missouri.

The couple was indicted on felony charges of unlawful use of a weapon and evidence tampering. The indictments were filed under seal Tuesday. St. Louis Circuit Clerk Thomas Kloeppinger said a judge ordered the indictments suppressed but Kloeppinger didn’t know the reason.

And there you have it.  Done in secret, without defense, and evidence only presented by prosecutors.

After seeing the pictures of what happened, anyone with half a brain cell would have been able to entirely dismiss this whole issue.

But no.  They found enough ignorant rubes to go along with their scheming.

We had this conversation before about grand juries.  Grand juries have their defenders.  Great and glorious thing, they are, with good, street smart, common sense folks on the juries, it was said.  And I said this.

Most of America cannot do basic arithmetic, or basic physics, much less solve algebraic expressions, or … God forbid … do calculus. Most of America cannot construct coherent sentences and have no more than 2 to 3 minute attention spans.

Most Americans cannot name the first three presidents or explain the roles of the three branches of government. More than half of America voted for a corrupt communist named Hillary Clinton in the last election.

There may be some juries who happen to get it right, but in the main, I distrust juries (criminal and civil) as much as I distrust the Grand Jury. And no, your umpteen experiences with a jury don’t matter one little whit to me.

One example should suffice (I could give many more). A former colleague (and fellow professional engineer) was interviewed by lawyers to sit on a jury for a case involving elevators (who knows, maybe someone was suing Otis Elevator for whiplash or something).

The lawyer asked him, “Do you believe elevators can fall for no reason at all? To which he responded, “No, there will be a reason – mechanical failure of a component, failure of a circuit, or failure of something to cause the event. A formal root cause analysis could identify why, and give us a root cause or multiple root causes, but no, nothing happens for no reason.”

He was dismissed, and the lawyers went on until they found an entire jury who believed that elevators can fall for no apparent reason.

Grand juries … pfft.

And to their defenders because of the trustworthy, ordinary, common sense street smart folks on grand juries.

Pfft.

Ignorant rubes.  Suckers.  Tools.

We all knew it anyway.

Newly declassified documents show former CIA Director John Brennan took notes after briefing President Barack Obama on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s plans to frame then presidential candidate Donald Trump as a Russian asset. The briefing took place during the 2016 presidential election.

Fox News has the exclusive:

Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe on Tuesday declassified documents that revealed former CIA Director John Brennan briefed former President Obama on Hillary Clinton’s purported “plan” to tie then-candidate Donald Trump to Russia as “a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server” ahead of the 2016 presidential election, Fox News has learned.

Ratcliffe declassified Brennan’s handwritten notes – which were taken after he briefed Obama on the intelligence the CIA received – and a CIA memo, which revealed that officials referred the matter to the FBI for potential investigative action.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence transmitted the declassified documents to the House and Senate Intelligence Committees on Tuesday afternoon.

“CITE [summarizing] alleged approved by Hillary Clinton a proposal from one of her foreign policy advisers to vilify Donald Trump by stirring up a scandal claiming interference by the Russian security service,” Brennan’s notes read.

The declassified documents come after other documents, released last week, show Clinton’s initial plan.

“In late July 2016, U.S. intelligence agencies obtained insight into Russian intelligence analysis alleging that U.S. Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton had approved a campaign plan to stir up a scandal against U.S. Presidential candidate Donald Trump by tying him to Putin and the Russians’ hacking of the Democratic National Committee.

Just like we know that Obama knew all about the Eric Holder’s Fast and Furious scheme to traffic weapons into Mexico.  Maybe he ran the whole operation.

Via WRSA, Gateway Pundit also has a report up on Trump’s declassification of all documents related to the Russia hoax, Spygate and Hillary Clinton’s email scandal – no redactions.

Also see The Federalist.

It’s a favorite tactic of the Luciferians to do what they blame others of doing.  Their father is the father of lies, and everything they do is a subterfuge and meant only to confuse, sew problems and bitterness and create chaos and hatred.

That characterizes the entire previous administration.

We covered this before, but there is an update.

Now, the judge has been charged (via reader Matt Gibson).

Somebody tell the Highland Avenue Baptist Church in Mullens that they may need a new choir director.

She doesn’t have the, ahem, judicial temperament to serve in a church of any kind.

Via David Codrea, this report from Virginia Luciferian Ralph Northam.

The so-called Virginia Values Act (S.B. 868), which Gov. Ralph Northam (D-Va.) signed on Holy Saturday (the day before Easter Sunday) in the middle of a pandemic, compels churches, religious schools, and Christian ministries to hire employees who do not share their stated beliefs on marriage, sexuality, and gender identity. A companion law (H.B. 1429) requires ministries and others like them to pay for transgender surgery in employee health care plans, a procedure that violates these ministries’ convictions.

So there is a way to deal with this.  Oddly and ironically enough, but related to a different subject, the people from California show the way.

Pontes is now the county executive officer of Shasta County in Northern California and goes to work in thin socks, but another crisis has found him. “You cannot get closer to total disobedience of any kind of law,” he said, referring to the local response to Covid-19 strictures. “What’s happening up here is full-on anarchy.” Then he listed for me a few of the things that had happened recently: The county sheriff had announced that he wouldn’t enforce the state’s pandemic restrictions on social gatherings and businesses. People who had never before attended county board meetings were accusing local officials of treason. The county’s health officer, who had the unhappy job of imposing the state’s Covid rules on the citizens of Shasta County, was now receiving so many threats that Pontes had brought in a new threat-assessment team; he’d also ordered the bushes cut back away from her house, installed a security system and floodlights, and ordered police patrols of her neighborhood. “She still doesn’t feel safe out there,” he said. “At all.”

In just the past few months, a bunch of county health officers across California have been run from office. But what was happening in Shasta County felt to Pontes like a new stage of the crisis in governance. He thought it was “80-20” in favor that, at any moment, a citizen army would form, invade the public buildings, and perform citizens’ arrests of the five members of the county’s Board of Supervisors and any other government officials they could get their hands on. “Before Covid I felt I could talk my way out of just about anything,” he said. “But I had to ask the sheriff, ‘What are you going to do if they arrest us?’ He reassured me that he’s not going to take me anywhere.”

[ … ]

There was one other thing Pontes had noticed: The inconveniences caused by the state’s restrictions had attracted a new sort of person to the political process. Elissa McEuen was a case in point. She’d moved up to Shasta a few years ago from San Francisco, where she’d worked in private equity. She was a stay-at-home mom with little kids who, six months ago, couldn’t have told you where the Board of Supervisors met, much less what they did.

Now she showed up to every meeting, and spoke every time, with eloquence. Almost single-handedly she had organized a bunch of vaguely lunatic groups — the anti-vaxxers, the Second Amendment people, the chemtrail crowd — into a unified fighting force. “She’s taken it to another level,” Pontes said. “If you remove her, all of a sudden a lot of those people say, ‘Wait a minute, I don’t believe what you believe.”

Oh I don’t think so.  He makes the mistake of treating this crowd the way they think of progressives, i.e., they need a leader, and if you take out a leader, the group falls apart.  He doesn’t really understand yet the threat that awaits him and his ilk.

Maybe this is just one county of California, after all, but it’s still a county, and it’s still people.

Kit up, folks.  There’s more of this on the way.  What?  You didn’t really think Covid-19 would be the end of the globalist attempt to enslave you, did you?  That’s been going on for more than a hundred years, heating up to the point we are at today.

It gets dicier from here on.  And maybe the good folks in Virginia need to take a page from Shasta County and engage in some not-so-civil disobedience.  After all, Ralphie wants your guns and wants to kill babies.

Via Ken, this report from Texas.

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A grand jury in Texas decided Monday to take no action against a man who fatally shot an armed man who killed two people at a Fort Worth-area church in late December, prosecutors said.

Jack Wilson, a firearms instructor who trained a volunteer security team at the West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, fatally shot Keith Thomas Kinnunen during a Dec. 29 service after he shot and killed 67-year-old Richard White, another security volunteer, and 64-year-old Anton “Tony” Wallace, a server.

As they should have.

But don’t miss the real issue here.  For this to have appeared before a grand jury, a prosecutor had to take it there.

Do you grok?  The prosecutor could have congratulated him, the police could try their best to emulate him, but none of that happened, apparently.  Some idiot prosecutor took it in front of a jury.

Good Lord!

Gateway Pundit.

In addition to suing Facebook for being falsely accused of being mass murderer, Kyle Rittenhouse has defamation claim against Joe Biden for falsely accusing him of being white supremacist & militia member responsible for violence in Kenosha.

Candidate Biden = Defendant Biden. https://t.co/rTvA0UU6uN

— Lin Wood (@LLinWood) September 30, 2020

Go get ’em.  Take them for as much as you can get.  And don’t forget about that threatened lawsuit against Jack Dorsey.

And free Kyle Rittenhouse.  He did nothing wrong.