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Is everyone looking forward to election day and then the traditional post-election legal battles?

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Amazing stuff.

Most afternoons, Paisley Brodie calls her mother when she gets to the public library four blocks from her middle school on Capitol Hill. On Sept. 9, the call came when Deirdre Allen expected it, but her 12-year-old daughter was crying. “Mommy,” she said, “I just got hit by a car.”

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Allen never saw the man who hit her daughter with a black Land Rover. A witness told police, and later The Washington Post, that the driver did not stop in time for the red light. After he hit Paisley, witnesses said, the man berated her for being in the crosswalk, claiming she had a red signal. Paisley, unable to walk, was taken to Children’s National Hospital. The driver left with a citation for colliding with a pedestrian, which can lead to up to 30 days in jail.

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The driver, Earl Darryl Curtis, of District Heights, Md., said in an interview that he stopped in the crosswalk once he realized the light was red and that it was Paisley who collided with his car, not the other way around.

“If I had ran the light, I would have run her over,” he said. “She damaged my car.” He went on to say, “I didn’t even see the girl. … The only thing they got me on is the crosswalk.”

He didn't fully run the light, you see, he just drove into the crosswalk when the light was red, and she shouldn't have been there.

Also he has 94 unpaid tickets.

Maybe He Should Have A Chat With Vance

Maybe send the troopers to arrest him, even.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is deploying the Ohio State Highway Patrol to monitor schools in the city of Springfield after they received 33 bomb threats since late last week, he said at a news conference Monday.

Also, 30 years ago, my first response to hearing about cops being deployed to schools would not have been, "I hope they don't shoot any kids." Should it have been? I don't know!

Just The Way Things Are

I can't quantify this - just vibes - but I do think 30 years ago if cops shot bystanders and even another cop, the slant of all the stories would be "wow someone fucked up" because quite obviously someone fucked up!

Now it's just a normal part of their jobs.

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The Greatest Of All Law Enforcement

I admit decades of TV/movie propaganda worked on me and I assumed these guys were a bit better than Keystone Cops.

The Secret Service did not search the perimeter of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Sunday before former President Donald J. Trump began his round, an acknowledgment that has put the besieged agency under renewed scrutiny two months after a similar episode in Pennsylvania.

I Guess Hysterical Pro-Abortion Extremists Were Correct

We really did have decades of centrist dipshits smugly dismissing the obvious inevitabilities of anti-abortion laws. People saying "abortion is health care" would send them into a rage and inspire them to pen missives about how expressing such radical thoughts was causing Democrats to lose elections (no polling cited).

Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.

At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.

Keystone

Good thing we give these guys guns and encourage them to shoot people.

The police said on Monday that they were searching for a man who allegedly removed a knife from the scene of a shooting at a Brooklyn subway station on Sunday, when officers shot and injured four people while confronting a fare evasion suspect.

The development contradicted an earlier claim from the department that authorities had recovered the weapon from the scene, which officers later said was a different knife.

Toddlers have better stories for what happened to the cookies:

On Sunday, the NYPD initially said the knife was recovered from the scene and posted a photo of it on social media. But police changed course on Monday afternoon and said an unknown man was being sought for allegedly removing the knife from the station and fleeing the station around 3:30 p.m.

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Occasional Reminder

Laura Igraham's 3 adopted children were international adoptions.

Lock'em Up!

I hope they don't have any incriminating things to say about the future of the Democratic party, top cop Eric Adams.

Two retired New York City Fire Department fire chiefs were arrested by the feds early Monday for allegedly accepting more than $190,000 in bribes to allegedly help fast-track safety inspections and reviews, officials said.

Freeze Peach

JD Vance:

But Mr. Vance expressed no regret about any of his statements and responded testily to mentions of the bomb threats.

“I want whoever made these threats to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” he told Margaret Brennan of CBS. “But we don’t believe, Margaret, in a heckler’s veto in this country.” He added: “I think that we should ignore these ridiculous psychopaths who are threatening violence on a small Ohio town and focus on the fact that we have a vice president who’s not doing her job in protecting that small Ohio town.”

New York Times editorial board:

For all the tolerance and enlightenment that modern society claims, Americans are losing hold of a fundamental right as citizens of a free country: the right to speak their minds and voice their opinions in public without fear of being shamed or shunned.

This social silencing, this depluralizing of America, has been evident for years, but dealing with it stirs yet more fear. It feels like a third rail, dangerous. For a strong nation and open society, that is dangerous.

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Red Lines

A thing about American Tough Foreign Policy Guy is that their self-identity is that they bark and the world listens.

March:

"[We] cannot have another 30,000 more Palestinians dead," Biden said in an interview with MSNBC on Saturday. Asked whether an invasion of Rafah, in the south of Gaza on the border with Egypt, was a red line, Biden replied in the affirmative: "It is a red line."

May:

“Civilians have been killed in Gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers,” Biden told CNN’s Erin Burnett in an exclusive interview on “Erin Burnett OutFront,” referring to 2,000-pound bombs that Biden paused shipments of last week.

“I made it clear that if they go into Rafah – they haven’t gone in Rafah yet – if they go into Rafah, I’m not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with Rafah, to deal with the cities – that deal with that problem,” Biden said.

June:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Acknowledging only “an uptick” in Israeli military activity, the United States has gone to lengths to avoid any suggestion that Israeli forces have crossed a red line set by President Joe Biden in the deepening offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

September:

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — It was once home to an estimated 1.4 million people, over half of the population of Gaza, many of them displaced from the north of the enclave after Israel launched its military offensive following Hamas' Oct. 7 terror attacks.

Today, Rafah is uninhabitable, its buildings crumbled and blackened. Mounds of concrete and bent metal are all that remain. The destruction is absolute.

Good job to everyone who has been helping to perpetuate the Biden administration's "extend and pretend" strategy for genocide PR. The topics on which there is bipartisan agreement in elite Washington are the ones that get completely ignored by the political press. A big failure on Biden's own terms, and yet...

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Was It Our Guy Or Their Guy

I do hate the contemporary ritual of trying to assign team responsibility to any act of violence.

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