True-blue American terrorist gets life in prison. Good.

lol

Final paragraph:

We have the power to stop, through more sensible tax and regulatory policies and a resurgence of union organizing, the torrent of wealth flowing upward to billionaires. I worry a lot about what will happen if we don’t act soon. Many people fear an abrupt end to democracy under Trump. I don’t, especially. What I do fear, though, is that unless we find a way to correct the wealth-based power imbalance that gave us Trump in the first place, our democracy will flicker out more gradually. To paraphrase Louis Brandeis: We can keep our democracy, or we can hatch our first trillionaire.

Background here. Thieving agriculture ministers were found out, and then they were both promoted. This is Greece, after all.

But okay now the government is dumping them, which is the sort of clean hands gesture one doesn’t expect of Greece...

How Trump won.

Douglass High School on the city’s West Side now has 27 employees for 28 students.

That includes six regular education teachers, six special education teachers, a school counselor, a college and career coach, a conflict resolution specialist, a restorative justice coordinator, and an assistant principal and principal. The cost to run the school is $93,000 per student.

Imagine no more!

As the suits are one by one dismissed, Gino herself is dismissed: Her tenure has been revoked. Plus she’s fired.

Off she goes, hissing and spitting all the way.

A spokesperson with the city of Lakewood sent a statement … that said in part, “The city has received many complaints about this, and both our homeless outreach team and the Lakewood Police Department have contacted the Colorado Department of Transportation about this issue because the camp is on state property. Given that, any enforcement or cleanup ultimately rests with the state.”

On Thursday, CDOT … dispute[d] this statement from the Lakewood spokesperson. CDOT shared a copy of a letter the department gave to the city, authorizing “the Lakewood Police Department to take action toward any person on any CDOT property located within Lakewood City who does not belong on the property.”

‘Oh fine ten million.‘

Like others in the European parliament, France’s most popular politician embezzled from it. Transferred money meant for administrative staff to her party. Just got four pretend years in prison (two suspended, and for the rest she has to don some hardware), AND can’t run for office for five years, so that means she can’t be in the next presidential election.

With wonderful French hauteur, she left the courtroom before the judge finished announcing the sentence. I burst my pimples at you and call your be punished for breaking the law request a silly thing.

Greedy Nicholas Sarkozy, another bigtime French politician, is as we speak trying to avoid his own jail sentences for multiple financial crimes. It’s un petit peu grody over there à ce moment-là.

Corporate larcenist Ira Rennert, this blog’s favorite vile billionaire, found himself in court one day (he often finds himself there), and his lawyer demanded (begged the judge) that jurors be kept from viewing his massively obscene Long Island spread. One look and they’d hand him the death sentence.

UD gets rage at the trashy super rich. Especially now, with so many of them acting out, rage is fine, perfectly fine. Boycott whatever they sell. Rage against them in print. Organize groups to shout and hold signs in front of their headquarters. But retail theft? Really? Talk about trashy. What a disgusting thing to do.

Business Insider chats with the well-heeled Whole Foods thieves and duly collects all the bullshit they say by way of justification, and it’s the same bullshit the ill-heeled thieves who show up on Facebook reels getting arrested in front of Target say. The world is full of asshole police and billionaires and traffic cops and tax collectors and meth dealers all of them cheats out to get me so fuck em the least I can do is steal their goods if they’re in business or spit in their face if they’re cops. I’m a sovereign citizen no laws exist no laws apply to me the world’s rigged against me fuck you all.

Well, this is the way you get San Francisco, if that’s what you want.

‘While over 800 IDF soldiers have fallen in battle, a minister in the Israeli government is dancing to the tunes of ‘We Will Die and Not Enlist’ and ‘We Do Not Believe in the Rule of the Heretics.’ This is not a mistake – it is policy. Goldknopf and Netanyahu’s government openly promote the draft-dodging scheme while reservists collapse under their fifth and sixth rounds of deployment.”‘

Sickening but not surprising. Israel has allowed – subsidized! – vile fanatics in its midst, and for the life of me I don’t know how they can possibly overcome them.

Like the therapist/rapist, this one involves sexual crimes; but here there seems to have been a concerted effort to hide the fact that a principal stands charged with multiple rapes of a minor — one of the students in her school!

Not a peep out of anyone in the system for years; but then a reporter found

… a thin manila folder in the basement of the New Castle County Courthouse.

[Inside was] a 19-count felony indictment that charges Tasha Purnell — OIiver’s former name — with multiple rape and other sex crimes from 2010 through 2014 against a girl who was a minor.

Like pick up the phone and call the school?

But if you’d done that, you’d have missed your chance to hire a rapist of children as a School District therapist for K-5 students.

It’s remarkable how stupid Americans are. “Before we tackle any of our daunting specific problems here in America, we have to figure out how a country can solve any problem if so many of its people are so intractably, astoundingly, mind-numbingly stupid,” says Bill Maher. “And I’m not saying that as hyperbole or just out of frustration. I mean this country just might be empirically, verifiably too fucking dumb to continue as an ongoing enterprise.”

With our new health czar, we’re indeed well on our lethal way, killing our kids because we’re too fucking dumb to understand how vaccination works. This blog will follow the approaching horrible deaths of American children at the hands of their parents.

Yes look out one of this country’s midget Madoffs is about to get sprung! See my 2009 post about psychogreedbeast (go to ‘Assets’) Marc Dreier, who served sixteen of the twenty years he got for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from I guess the same cohort that thought investing in Bernie M. would be a good idea. He’s featured prominently among the clemencied in this roundup:

Several white collar offenders are among those receiving clemency, including notorious BigLaw Ponzi schemer Marc Dreier, formerly of Dreier LLP, who in 2009 was sentenced to 20 years in prison for selling forged promissory notes and stealing from clients, in a scheme that cost investors and clients $400 million.

As the judge in his case pointed out, he got caught before he was able to steal Madoffian billions, so couldn’t be sentenced to 150 years like Bernie; but I’m not sure freeing him short of his full sentence was a good look, especially because the old guy no doubt has even at this late date much more larceny in him. Lock up your money.