There are endless stories about things like this. What the **** is the answer?!

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That's with a "B"......to be followed many more times with other international business entrepreneurs....

Liberalism = leftism = extinctionism

Over and over the violent leftists rage with insanity. Whew. Dems own it all.
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^^^^^ Stealth Obiden protege

So after a relatively sleepy start to the term (marked by relatively few electoral cases), this December session has some really interesting stuff.

Aside from the supposedly "sexy" stuff like Skremetti (no pun intended), which as I've noted elsewhere really does entail some high stakes for TG advocacy specifically and EP law generally, most of the other cases this session are really interesting.

We've already had FDA authority regarding e-cigarettes and FSIA immunity in the case of nazi stolen goods. Today we get a interesting case about just how broad the mail fraud statutes are when applied to government contracts. Tomorrow a huge environmental case about just how far upstream and downstream from the regulated 'event' an agency can go when considering the 'effects' of the event. And thursday, on a personal note, we get Duberry - a rather dull Lanham Act damages case, but one that is fun for me in that I know the Duberrys.

A stowaway was caught trying to nab a ride on a Delta Air Lines plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport on Christmas Eve.

The Seattle attempt follows another recent incident on a Delta airplane, that one involving an unticketed passenger who made it all the way to Paris from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport just before Thanksgiving.

In Tuesday’s case, the stowaway was discovered while Delta Flight 487 was still taxiing out to take off for Honolulu, Delta Air Lines told CNN. The Transportation Security Administration and the Port of Seattle confirmed the incident to CNN.

TSA told CNN that an individual did go through standard screening and did not possess any prohibited items. The person was able to bypass the identity verification and boarding status stations and got onto an aircraft at Seattle-Tacoma without a boarding pass, TSA said.

Once the person was discovered, the Airbus A321neo returned to the gate to remove the unticketed passenger, Delta said.

Officers with the Port of Seattle Police Department were dispatched to gate B1 at the airport around 1:05 p.m. for “a report of a suspicious circumstance” on Delta Flight 487.

“The aircraft returned to the terminal and the subject departed the aircraft. With the help of video surveillance, POSPD were able to locate the subject in a terminal restroom. The subject was arrested for criminal trespass,” the Port of Seattle said.

“The aircraft was swept by K9 as well as all areas in the terminal accessed by the subject. … The aircraft was deplaned and all passengers were escorted by TSA to return to the security checkpoint for rescreening,” it said.

Delta said the flight was delayed by two hours and 15 minutes and then continued to Honolulu at 3 p.m. after the rescreening.


Wait, wut? The stowaway passed the security screen, and because the subject then snuck on an airplane, everyone had to go through the screening again? WHY???

Jfc. They are the dumbest. Scared of everything but dictators.

Can’t wait to be forced to eat the cost of my drone to have to buy an Uncle Sam Patriot Flyer.

For those who are not members of the MAGA crowd, it might sound ludicrous to propose that President Joe Biden extend a blanket pardon to Donald Trump, including for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021. It would excuse a man who has taken no responsibility for his role in the insurrection. But he did play a role, and that’s the reason to do it.


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There’s a battle in the United States for “historical memory.” Trump, his party and his supporters are on the side of revisionist history. To them, the rioters are “patriots.” The criminals who stalked the halls of Congress hunting for lawmakers are “hostages.”

The mob that stormed the Capitol, at Trump’s direction, was, in fact, engaged in a blatant attempt to nullify the results of the 2020 election and to harm members of Congress and the vice president. This was an attack on American democracy, incited by a leader with authoritarian tendencies — and recorded on video.

There’s no evidence that this effort to rewrite history will wane. In fact, Trump may even extend his own presidential pardons to those involved in the attack.
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This is why it’s critical for Biden to establish a record of facts. Accepting a pardon does not technically mean accepting guilt. Trump could even outright reject it. But if he accepts it, or doesn’t turn it down, the document will memorialize the truth.

Trump would have plenty of reasons to take Biden’s gift. A pardon would certainly protect Trump from any federal prosecution once he left office.




Another reason Trump should like this, if not be grateful for it, is that it would enable him to devote all of his administration’s attention to governing instead of seeking revenge and retribution against his enemies. He will have a full plate of pressing national security and domestic problems to address. A “normal” president (which Trump was not in his first term, and which he now has a fresh start to become) would be looking ahead to his historical legacy and reputation, and perhaps strengthening the party that he has been sculpting successfully in his own image.

Recall the pardoning of Richard M. Nixon. The pardoning of Trump should be announced and remembered in the same way. Nixon resigned from office as the House of Representatives was poised to consider and pass three articles of impeachment against him, approved with strong bipartisan support by the House Judiciary Committee, for his role related to the Watergate burglary and coverup effort. Sen. Barry Goldwater (Arizona) and other Republican leaders made it directly clear to Nixon that he would be impeached and convicted. There was no doubt about his guilt from the Watergate tapes. Lawmakers did not urge him directly to resign, but he got the message and resigned. Gerald Ford made the controversial decision to give Nixon a blanket pardon for any crimes he committed while he was president. Ford may have done this out of friendship, but he wanted the nation to end this tragic situation and move on — which it did. The Nixon pardon has long been associated with his guilt, and no one has made a concerted attempt to rewrite this history.

We have, however, seen the rewriting of U.S. history before, which had long-term consequences. This occurred with the South’s establishing its own version of the history of the Civil War. Historians have written much about this, and it was front and center in the fight over Confederate monuments. Southerners memorialized the Civil War as the valiantly fought “Lost Cause” (or as other heroic-sounding names). They long looked fondly on the Confederacy and downplayed or distorted the role and nature of slavery — the reason for the war. They emphasized stories about brave soldiers and the (White) people of the South. Along with the end of Reconstruction and Jim Crow policies, this version of history suppressed racial and civil rights issues for decades.
We cannot let a false history of the Jan. 6 attack go unchallenged. The stakes are too high.

The guy's a "Christian" nut case and hypocrit:

Before Donald J. Trump picked him to lead the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth spoke often about a medieval military campaign that he saw as a model for today: the Crusades, in which Christian warriors from Western Europe embarked on ruthless missions to wrest control of Jerusalem and other areas under Muslim rule.
As he embraced a combative brand of Christianity in recent years, he wrote that people who enjoy the benefits of Western civilization should “thank a Crusader.” On his arm, he has a tattoo with the words “Deus Vult,” which he has described as a “battle cry” of the Crusades.
“Voting is a weapon, but it’s not enough,” he wrote in a book, “American Crusade,” published in May 2020. “We don’t want to fight, but, like our fellow Christians one thousand years ago, we must.”
Mr. Trump has so far stuck by Mr. Hegseth as his nominee for secretary of defense despite a growing series of disclosures about his past, including allegations of sexual impropriety, alcohol abuse and financial mismanagement. Mr. Hegseth has vigorously denied the allegations, calling them an attempt to disrupt Mr. Trump’s agenda.
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The issue of Mr. Hegseth’s religious expressions has come up in the past. He has said he was barred from participating in the military security detail for President Biden’s inauguration in 2021 because of a tattoo on his chest depicting a Jerusalem Cross, a religious emblem that was also a symbol used by crusaders. (The Associated Press and others reported that it was the “Deus Vult” tattoo, which has been used by white supremacists, that prompted a fellow service member to flag Mr. Hegseth as a potential “insider threat.”)
Mr. Hegseth’s interest in the Crusades — campaigns that featured so many atrocities that many Christian leaders today view them as a shameful stain on the religion’s history — is linked both to his Christian beliefs and worldview. In his books, he says that if the United States cannot mount a successful defense against Islamist and leftist ideology, the nation will be destroyed and “human freedom will be finished.”
The Crusades are a frequent touchstone in contemporary American debates about Christian power, said Matthew Gabriele, a professor of medieval studies at Virginia Tech. When Barack Obama, then the president, referred to the period in a speech at the National Prayer Breakfast in 2015 as a time when people “committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ,” some conservatives took his remarks as an affront.
The far right has also embraced crusader iconography and language with increasing openness, including at the Unite the Right rally, a white supremacist gathering, in Charlottesville, Va., in August 2017 and at the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
A lawyer for Mr. Hegseth, Timothy C. Parlatore, said that crusader symbols are common among military veterans like Mr. Hegseth, who served at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba and in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said that the display of crusader symbols by some white supremacists did not mean that Mr. Hegseth intended that meaning.

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Mr. Hegseth grew up in a Christian home. Even so, he told a Christian magazine in Nashville last year that he underwent a religious transformation in 2018, in his late 30s, when he and his current wife, Jennifer Hegseth, began attending Colts Neck Community Church in New Jersey. The church’s pastor, Chris Durkin, remains close to Mr. Hegseth and recently recorded a video supporting his nomination, describing him as “a genuine patriot who loves God.”
Mr. Hegseth and his family moved to the Nashville area about two years ago, a decision he has said was based on their desire to send their children to Jonathan Edwards Classical Academy, a Christian school founded in 2009. Classical education, in which classrooms focus primarily on the Western canon, has become a fast-growing movement among conservatives who are wary of secular public schools.
In Tennessee, the Hegseth family joined Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship, a small church opened in 2021 as part of the growing Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches. The denomination was co-founded by Doug Wilson, a pastor based in Moscow, Idaho; his religious empire now includes a college, a classical school network, a publishing house, a podcast network and multiple churches, among other entities.
Mr. Wilson is a self-described Christian nationalist, which he defined in an interview with The Times as someone who sees that “secular nationalism doesn’t work,” and who wants to limit the power of the government to impose restrictions on Christians.
He has written prolifically for years, but his profile with conservatism has risen in the Trump era; he was interviewed on Tucker Carlson’s podcast this year and was invited to speak at the National Conservatism Conference. The Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches has expanded recently to include about 150 congregations, including Mr. Hegseth’s in Tennessee.
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In his writings, Mr. Wilson has argued that slavery “produced in the South a genuine affection between the races,” that homosexuality should be a crime and that the 19th amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote was a mistake. He has written that women should not ordinarily hold political office because “the Bible does say that when feminine leadership is common, it should be reckoned not as a blessing but as a curse.”
The governing documents of the Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches include a statement that women should not “be mustered for combat.” (Mr. Hegseth has also said that he does not believe women should serve in combat roles.) The church reserves leadership positions for men and asserts that men are the heads of their households, views shared by many theologically conservative churches.
In an interview on Wednesday, Mr. Wilson said he had never met or communicated with Mr. Hegseth but expressed enthusiasm about the prospect of his leadership of the Defense Department.
“I would hope Pete Hegseth would be a disrupter of the Pentagon’s way of doing things,” Mr. Wilson said. “I would like to see a rebuilt military that’s far more lethal and a lot smaller.”
Mr. Hegseth told the Christian magazine in Nashville that he was studying a book by Mr. Wilson; on a podcast Mr. Hegseth said that he would not send his children to Harvard but would send them to Mr. Wilson’s college in Idaho.
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Mr. Wilson is among the Christian leaders who in recent years have reframed the Crusades, which included mass killings of Jews and Muslims, in a positive light. In the interview, he described the campaigns as imperfect, even horrifying at times, but also as “a long overdue reaction to Muslim aggression.”
Mr. Hegseth has written that while the Crusades were filled with injustice and unspeakable tragedy, the alternative would have been “horrific,” because it is Western civilization that has nurtured the values of “freedom” and “equal justice.” His writings warn of the growing presence of the Muslim faith in the West, and urge Americans to work on issues such as education, media and law to protect Christian values.
“We’re in middle Phase 1 right now, which is effectively a tactical retreat where you regroup, consolidate and reorganize,” Mr. Hegseth said on a 2023 podcast affiliated with Mr. Wilson’s church. “And as you do so, you build your army underground with the opportunity later on of taking offensive operations in an overt way. And obviously all of this is metaphorical and all that good stuff,” he added before breaking into laughter.
In his book, Mr. Hegseth also offered a nod to the prospect of future violence: “Our American Crusade is not about literal swords, and our fight is not with guns. Yet.”

I like the concept a lot.

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