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From Marc Steiner at The Real News Network:

From the interview with Jeet Heer, National-Affairs Correspondent at The Nation:

JEET HEER: I think one thing to keep in mind is this most recent time, why did he end up in jail? It was because of diligent investigation by Julie Brown of The Miami Herald, who did this terrific reporting that really revived the case and made clear that the original 2008 deal was just unconscionable. There was something very fishy going on there.

A man was found guilty of multiple counts of child molestation and got this deal where he’s basically under house arrest. He has to spend the nights at the local jail, but during the daytime, he can go into his office. So, she revived the case through investigation and I think that’s what we need. We need investigation. It’s too important of a case to be left to conspiracy theorists. It should actually be handled by people who know how to investigate, which includes journalists, which includes law enforcement, and which includes Congress.

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From News Corpse:

What’s more, while fainting at the sound of obscenities, these willfully blind believers have shown no concern for the caging of children, the blatant racism, the prideful boasting, the infantile and wrathful name-calling, the love letters exchanged with murderous dictators, the flagrant disrespect for the law, the determination to befoul the planet, the obsession with terminating healthcare for millions, and the ignorance of nearly everything, including the bible.

Early on Trump pretended to be a devout Christian solely for political gain. Never mind that his entire life has been a monument to lust, greed, and the rest of the seven deadly sins. When he was asked by Republican “Word Doctor” Frank Luntz, if he had ever asked God for forgiveness, Trump replied that he didn’t need to because he has never done anything wrong. No, really! He said that…

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From Karen G. guest of Infidel753:
Asbestos in the World Trade Center — How First Responders Suffered from Exposure

When the towers of the World Trade Center came down they rained all kinds of harmful substances on the surrounding area. Many people were negatively affected by asbestos and other materials from the buildings, but none more so than the first responders. Some have died from related diseases and others are still sick. And they are still fighting for compensation and benefits.

Asbestos and 9/11

When skyscrapers like the World Trade Center towers are built, hundreds of different kinds of materials are used. Many are toxic when disturbed and inhaled and the tragedy of 9/11 sent more than 400 of these into the surrounding air. Among the damaging substances released into the air that day were cement and glass dust, PCBs, dioxin, lead, and asbestos.

Asbestos is a particularly insidious material. Inhaling its tiny fibers can lead to serious illnesses that are fatal.<>/p
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I’m a Values Voter.
I have a single issue.

 

From North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz:

This should be the final straw for us, America.

Compassionate human beings should not tolerate this.

People who claim to be pro-life should be brought to tears.

Those espousing family values should be fully incensed.

Anyone with children of their own who they love should be sick to their stomachs.

Men and women of every faith should be unequivocally condemning this.

People of conscience and morality should be unable to sleep.

Good people ought to be fully heartbroken.

This is a sharp line in the sand and we all are make our choice in this moment.

There is no neutral middle ground here, no hedging or justifying or entertaining of both sides.

There is no valid human opinion that makes this OK.

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From nojo:

First off: Yay.

We have no interest in capital punishment. No faith in it, really. As administered, there’s no justice in it — statistically, guess who’s executed disproportionately — and much cruelty, especially with states freestyling their lethal cocktails in recent years. There’s also no certainty to it — innocents die — and then, if you’d like to get into some geeky theoretical chatter about The State, we’re there for it.

But we’re no gentle pacifist. Sometimes you just wanna fry the bastard. But state executions are problematic in theory and application, so you settle for the justice that’s otherwise available and appropriate under law.

Unless some asshole wants to spend long, painful minutes asphyxiating himself while dangling from the ceiling, in which case, y’know, sometimes shit takes care of itself.

Yay.

Oh, and since we brought it up, the timing kinda sucks.

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From Frances Langum:

Trump’s Attorney General Bill Barr read a statement regarding the Jeffrey Epstein suicide. No reasonable person believes a word out of his mouth.

Bill Barr destroyed his credibility by engaging in a cover up in plain sight for Donald Trump on the Mueller investigation.

And now that the sh** has hit the fan (yes there’s always been sh** on the fan at the Trump White House) in the Epstein case, and trust in the DOJ is at zero, the only thing we know for sure is that there is no justice and no closure for the victims.

Jeffery Epstein’s lawyers are still getting paid, however, because they’ve requested a Fox News doctor be in attendance at the autopsy.

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From The Borowitz Report:

The study, which is raising eyebrows with its startling conclusions, finds that the most reliable predictor of gun violence is the “prevalence of quiveringly fearful politicians in positions of power.”

As part of the study’s methodology, researchers examining gun violence compared countries ruled by non-cowards with those ruled by gutless toadies.

“In countries ruled by non-cowards, such as New Zealand, gun violence is virtually nonexistent,” the study claims.

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From Vixen Strangely at Strangely Blogged:

I think the tendency to assign blame when a high-profile individual is found dead or dying in his cell is very reasonable. Being off suicide watch a mere three weeks after a previous attempt sounds suspicious as hell. Assuming murder, though, goes a bit further than I think is necessary. Here’s what we know about Epstein: the man was a highly self-driven person who pursued money and power in order to live a life that was completely unaccountable to the law. He displayed the sociopathic ability to use and manipulate people in order to evade responsibility for his actions. In addition to having obtained an absurdly lenient plea deal, it seems evident the Epstein also finagled money out of at least one benefactor (probably more) and never faced the music for that.

Jeffrey Epstein’s “art”, if we could can it that, was escape. He got away with things.

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From Green Eagle:

Well, I never bothered to write a post about this because it seemed so obvious to me, but I have firmly believed since Jeffrey Epstein was arrested that he had only a very short time to live.

Let’s cut to the chase here: this egomaniacal, evil billionaire has escaped the law over and over again, and there was no reason to believe that he wouldn’t do it this time too. Any person with half a brain knows he was killed, and we know who had him killed.

It’s a funny country we live in, where Republicans are allowed to spend years and God knows how many tens of millions of dollars spreading the lie that Hillary, and in fact all Democratic leaders, are participants in a gigantic Satanic pedophile sex murder cult, while Democrats are not allowed to make the clearest assertions about Republican treachery without a signed confession witnessed by God and the lord Jesus. Well, to hell with that attitude, which is just another way of rolling over and playing dead.

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