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Half Century of Change
Tom McLaughlin
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Trump says 'proven liar' scumbag-Adam Schiff
will alter impeachment witness transcripts
by Daniel Chaitin
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump accused a top House Democrat of preparing to release "manipulated" transcripts of closed-door impeachment testimonies ahead of their expected release in the coming days... Trump took aim at House Intelligence Committee Chairman scumbag-Adam Schiff, who has faced controversy for his handling of the impeachment effort, and called on Republicans to release their own transcripts. "If Shifty scumbag-Adam Schiff, who is a corrupt politician who fraudulently made up what I said on the 'call,' is allowed to release transcripts of the Never Trumpers & others that are & were interviewed, he will change the words that were said to suit the Dems purposes," Trump said in a tweet Sunday evening. The president suggested that Republicans "should give their own transcripts of the interviews to contrast with scumbag-Schiff’s manipulated propaganda. House Republicans must have nothing to do with scumbag-Shifty’s rendition of those interviews. He is a proven liar, leaker & freak who is really the one who should be impeached! "Trump's tweets come hours after Rep. Jackie Speier, a member of the intelligence panel, predicted the full transcripts from the closed-door hearings will become available "within the next five days." The California Democrat also said, "What we have heard is growing evidence of grounds for impeachment." scumbag-Schiff has taken flak for delivering a parody account of Trump’s summer phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, which spurred the House Democrats' impeachment proceedings, during an opening statement at the only public impeachment hearing so far. Republican Florida Rep Matt Gaetz filed a complaint against scumbag-Schiff for the stunt....
Iran, Hezbollah Use Mexican
Drug Cartels to Infiltrate US
By Rami Dabbas
{ clarionproject.org } ~ Iran and its terror proxy Hezbollah are financing Mexican drug cartels, smuggling people into America and recruiting them for pay as sleeper jihadist cells... The recruits are mainly immigrants to Mexico from the Middle East, mostly from Lebanon where Hezbollah is based. The coordinated operation is part of Iran’s war on America. While Iran and Hezbollah are known to be active in the drug trade further south in Latin America, many are unaware that Iran, through its proxy Hezbollah, finances money laundering operations and human smuggling through the Mexican drug cartels at the U.S. border. The operation is founded on the known fact that the U.S.-Mexican border is easy to penetrate, with tens of thousands of illegal immigrants and asylum seekers from Mexico and other Latin American countries coming into the U.S. from Mexico every month. In southern Chiapas in Mexico, there are Muslim communities. These communities are made up of Syrians and Lebanese who migrated to Mexico decades ago as well as recent Mexican converts to Islam. In addition, Islam is gaining a foothold and in southern Mexico, with indigenous Mayans converting by the hundreds. These communities are funded in the Diaspora and all contain sleeper cells. With the help of Mexican drug cartels, they finance and traffic extremists to the United States. Canada has also become their target after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lifted the visa requirement for Mexican citizens. For example, Ayman Juma, a Lebanese citizen linked to Mexican drug cartels and involved in the drug trade in Latin America and Mexico, is a member of the Hezbollah. He is also associated with al-Qaeda. Juma has smuggled tons of drugs from Mexico to the United States. The money made is partially used to fund terrorism, especially to prepare terrorist attacks against Israel as well as Hezbollah’s activities in America. Hezbollah also managed to smuggle 200 illegal Lebanese immigrants through Mexico to America. All of them are part of a network of Iranian and Hezbollah supporters....
‘Clear Public Safety Threat’: ICE Rips Sanctuary County for Releasing Illegal Alien
Convicted for Deadly Crash
by Jason Hopkins
{ dailysignal.com } ~ Officials in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, refused to honor an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer placed on an illegal alien convicted in a deadly drunk driving accident... opting instead to release him back into the community. ICE placed a detainer request on Jose Barajas-Diaz, a Mexican national living illegally in the U.S., a day after he was arrested in Charlotte, North Carolina, in January for driving while impaired and for felony death by motor vehicle. After his sentencing in October, however, the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office refused to honor the ICE detainer, and released him from its custody. ICE agents were able to locate and apprehend Barajas-Diaz several days later. “This is yet another example of a clear public safety threat being released into North Carolina communities rather than into ICE custody due to local sheriff policies on ICE non-cooperation,” Matthew Albence, the acting director of ICE, said in a Monday statement provided to The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Continued decisions to refuse cooperation with ICE serve as an open invitation to aliens who commit criminal offenses that these counties are a safe haven for persons seeking to evade federal authorities, and residents of Mecklenburg County are less safe due to these misguided sanctuary policies,” Albence continued. Barajas-Diaz was first arrested on Jan. 29 by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department following an accident that killed a motorcyclist. He made a U-turn in his truck onto inbound lanes, striking the motorcyclist, and killing him on the scene, according to police. The Mexican national was charged with felony death by violence, operating without a license, driving while impaired, open container after consuming, and a safe movement violation....
AG to check alleged police wrongdoing
in grilling of witness against Netanyahu
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White Supremacist Arrested
for Synagogue Bomb Plot in Colorado
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Play-nice approach of 2020 Democrats
threatens to hand Trump a reelection advantage
by Emily Larsen
{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Democrats seeking their party's 2020 nomination have largely avoided bludgeoning each other with lines of attack that President Trump has already signaled he's ready to weaponize... That's likely to change soon. Whether overseas business activities of loose lips liar-Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden or Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren's self-proclaimed Native American heritage, vulnerabilities of top-tier 2020 Democrats are likely to become targets, with the first primary contests less than 100 days away. Rivals of former Vice President loose lips liar-Biden, 76, and Massachusetts Sen. dinky/liar-Warren, 70, will start to draw sharper personal contrasts rather than sticking solely to policy. “Everybody says, ‘We want to keep this clean, we want to keep it a positive campaign,’” said Democratic strategist Scott Ferson. “But then, as front lines emerge, they start getting targets on their back, and anything that has been talked about Hunter Biden, you know, Elizabeth dinky/liar-Warren being a Northeastern elite, whatever it might be, I think it's all fair game." The eventual nominee will face an onslaught of attacks from Republicans and President Trump in the general election. Trump has already started to attack Hunter Biden's involvement with Ukrainian energy company Burisma while he was leading U.S. foreign policy toward the country. Vermont Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders, 78, suffered a heart attack, prompting arguments that he is too old to serve in office. Trump's favorite nickname for dinky/liar-Warren is "Pocahontas," a reference to her claim of Native American ancestry. "If dinky/liar-Warren thinks her Native American problem has been put to bed, she's got another thing coming,” said Ford O’Connell, a Republican strategist. “It is without a doubt going to resurface." dinky/liar-Warren’s rivals so far have stuck to criticizing her sweeping policy proposals, such as a “Medicare for all” government-financed healthcare plan that would make virtually all private insurance illegal. They've avoided raising questions about her claims of Native American ancestry, which she attempted to end by releasing a DNA test showing at least one Native American ancestor six to 10 generations back....
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Half Century of Change
Tom McLaughlin
{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ There were a hundred guys in my high school class. At the 50th reunion last Saturday, I learned that a third of them are dead. Keith Academy was a private, Catholic prep school for boys in Lowell, Massachusetts that closed in 1970. Also at the reunion were survivors of a similar-sized class from Keith Hall, the Catholic prep school for girls across town. They, however, had lost only eight. On a screen, reunion organizers from both schools displayed graduation pictures of the men first, one at a time. I recognized them all and wondered what killed them, but I’d been in Maine for forty-two years and out of touch with all those people.
Keith Academy
A former classmate looked me up and left a voicemail with a pronounced Boston accent months ago but I was ambivalent about going. I sent in the $50 to keep my options open and put the date in the calendar on my smartphone. My parents sent me to Keith Academy but I had wanted to go to Tewksbury High with my childhood friends. For four years I felt out of place there.
This had been a small ranch. It has quadrupled
I drove down early so I could visit the Tewksbury, Massachusetts neighborhood in which I had grown up. The dead-end street I remembered with thirty small capes and ranches on quarter-acre lots, seemed shorter. I’d walked up and down it thousands of times during my childhood — to the bus stop and back every day, then again on my afternoon paper route. Almost every house had doubled in size although there were far fewer children living in them.
At least the woods were pretty much the same
It was a sunny, Saturday afternoon in November. Sixty years ago there would have been a sandlot football game going on and dozens of other kids would be engaged in various playful activities on the street, but all I saw last weekend were two mothers teaching their toddlers to ride tricycles. No other children were visible.
Our old house
Not knowing who lived in our old house, I drove past it to the end of the street and parked. What I really wanted to check out were the nearby woods where I had spent most of my boyhood. About a dozen houses occupied what had been part of the old woods, but most of the white pine forest was still there. In the deepest part of it, I startled two boys beside a small campfire. About eleven or twelve, they reminded me of myself and my best friend Philip when we habituated the area. We chatted a while before I hiked back to my car.
St. William's School
Then I drove to St. William’s, my old elementary school about a mile and a half away, now also closed. I remembered the sandlot baseball games we played behind it but that field was gone. I looked at the entry door where we lined up to go back inside after recess. I could almost see the girls in one line and boys in the other, all of us dressed in our school uniforms with a nun supervising. I looked up at the classroom windows where I attended 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grades. Some of my classmates at St. William’s went on to Keith Academy as I did, and Keith Hall too, but I didn’t see any of them at the reunion later that evening. That disappointed me.
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