If this bastard is a reverend I'm Saint Peter

I was not a rat! Al Sharpton defends recording mob bosses as 'what was right'



I'm sure Al is elated this video surfaced.

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I like the hat he's wearing. He missed his calling. Should have been a pimp.

Now he has his own TV show "Politics Nation".  This video confirms what I knew all along. Sharpton has absolutely no credibility! MSNBC has even less for giving this scumbag the show. Wasn't Olbermann suspended and eventually let go for breaking company rules over campaign contributions. Doesn't that pale in comparison to what Sharpton has done?

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By Associated Press and Daily Mail Reporter

Published: 10:53 EST, 8 April 2014 | Updated: 11:40 EST, 8 April 2014

The Rev. Al Sharpton said today that a report that he spied on New York Mafia figures for the FBI in the 1980s is old news, adding that he never considered himself an informant.

'In my own mind I was not an informant,' Sharpton said. 'I was cooperating with an investigation.'

Sharpton called a news conference at his Harlem headquarters to talk about a story The Smoking Gun website posted on Monday claiming he had recorded conversations with mobsters.

Defiant:

 He said he was simply cooperating with an investigation and was not an informant.

Bo Dietl had a slightly different account

Ex NYPD Cop: We Used to Call Sharpton ‘The Fat Rat’

'When he says he didn't know he was an informant that's a lot of baloney. Al Sharpton knew what he was doing'

April 8, 2014 11:04 pm

Former NYPD detective Bo Dietl told Sean Hannity Al Sharpton’s contention that he did not know he was an FBI informant in the 1980s is “a lot of baloney.”

Sharpton fiercely maintained in a press conference earlier today that he was not a “rat” following revelations Sharpton attempted to buy cocaine from an undercover FBI agent.

Dietl, speaking Tuesday evening on Fox News, revealed the NYPD had a special nickname for Sharpton after the current MSNBC host became an informant:

BO DIETL: There was a lot of involvement with the music industry at that time that Al was involved in. And then all of the sudden we used to pass through East Harlem, and everyone knew it. We used to call him the fat rat.

SEAN HANNITY: What do you make of that video with cocaine?

DIETL: The video stands for itself right there. He was talking about buying kilos of coke with an undercover. So who is he representing?

HANNITY: Do you think that resulted in him becoming — he was flipped as a result of that because they threatened to indict him?

DIETL: The majority of the times when we develop informants is when you get them on a felony case and then you flip them and they become an informant. When he says he didn’t know he was an informant that’s a lot of baloney. Al Sharpton knew what he was doing, he was cooperating with the FBI.

So who do you think is lying?

Vincent 'Chin' Gigante (C) was a Genovese crime family boss who pretended to be mentally ill in order to escape responsibility for his crimes -- but Sharpton helped foil his plot when he taped other mob figures discussing the ruse.

Wonder what the Gambino and Genovese family are thinking right now?

If this bastard is a reverend I'm Saint Peter

Brandeis to Ali...Check your freedom of expression at the door

Lib's where are you.. ya know...war on women?

I forgot it's a one way street.

Brandeis Not To Honor Muslim Women for Being Critical of Islam

PC or fear? I suspect a combination of both.

This is similar to the treatment the CEO of Mozilla received having to resign because he believes in traditional marriage. You would have thought he slapped Rosa Parks. BTW…if this woman was speaking out against Christianity she would have been the keynote speaker.

What she said about Islam could not have been said any better. She has first hand experience.

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Apr 09, 2014 05:42 AM EDT 

By Stephen Adkins, UniversityHerald Reporter 

Brandeis University in Boston, Massachusetts, has decided not to grant an honorary degree to a Muslim woman and a supporter of women's rights at its May 18 commencement ceremony for making critical comments on Islam.

Somali-born Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been a member of the Dutch Parliament from 2003 to 2006 and is a public figure. The university said that it admired and recognized her work to defend the rights of women and girls worldwide. However, Ali's earlier statements conflicting with Brandeis University's core values could not be ignored, said university officials in a statement, Tuesday.

The officials said that they were not aware of Ali's past statements.

Speaking about the religion in a 2007 interview with Reason Magazine, Ali said, "Once it's defeated (Islam), it can mutate into something peaceful. It's very difficult to even talk about peace now. They're not interested in peace. I think that we are at war with Islam. And there's no middle ground in wars."

(Someday in a very painful way we'll all learn this.)

Ali, brought up in a conservative Muslim family, survived a civil war, genital mutilation and physical abuse. 

In a separate letter, more than 85 of 350 faculty members requested Brandeis to remove Ali's name from the list of honorary degree recipients. Meanwhile, students created an online petition Monday, seeking her removal from the list too and have gathered thousands of signatures as of Tuesday afternoon.

"This is a real slap in the face to Muslim students," said senior Sarah Fahmy, a member of the Muslim Student Association who created the petition. "But it's not just the Muslim community that is upset but students and faculty of all religious beliefs. A university that prides itself on social justice and equality should not hold up someone who is an outright Islamophobic."

In a letter to Brandeis President Frederick M. Lawrence, Council on American-Islamic Relations' National Executive Director Nihad Awad said that presenting an award to an advocate of religious discrimination like Ali is similar to encouraging work of "white supremacists and anti-Semites."

...REALLY?

"Granting her an honorary degree is unworthy of the American tradition of civil liberty and religious freedom represented by Justice Louis Brandeis and the great university that carries his name," Awad said in the letter, PR Newswire reports.

Thomas Doherty, chairman of American studies, declined to sign the faculty letter. He said that it would have been fantastic for the university to honor a strong believer in human freedom and women's rights.

Brandeis to Ali...Check your freedom of expression at the door

A marked man

Prelude to the story below.

Fundamentally changing America…taken to a whole new level.

Haven't we seen this movie before?

BTW…Someone should ask Stedman why the Mexicans he gave guns to which killed Brian Terry and Jamie Zapata were not wearing bracelets.

Then again this statement disarmed just about everyone in the "hood".

"By making them either through finger print identification, the gun talks to a bracelet or something that you might wear, how guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession of the weapon."

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Holder: We want to explore gun tracking bracelets

April 3, 2014: Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington.AP

Attorney General Eric Holder said gun tracking bracelets are something the Justice Department (DOJ) wants to "explore" as part of its gun control efforts. 

When discussing gun violence prevention programs within the DOJ, Holder told a House appropriations subcommittee on Friday that his agency is looking into technological innovations. 

"I think that one of the things that we learned when we were trying to get passed those common sense reforms last year, Vice President Biden and I had a meeting with a group of technology people and we talked about how guns can be made more safe," he said. 

"By making them either through finger print identification, the gun talks to a bracelet or something that you might wear, how guns can be used only by the person who is lawfully in possession of the weapon." 

"It's those kinds of things that I think we want to try to explore so that we can make sure that people have the ability to enjoy their Second Amendment rights, but at the same time decreasing the misuse of weapons that lead to the kinds of things that we see on a daily basis," Holder said. 

The Justice Department has requested $382.1 million in increased spending for its fiscal year 2014 budget for "gun safety." 

Included in the proposal is $2 million for "Gun Safety Technology" grants, which would award prizes for technologies that are "proven to be reliable and effective." 


On a side note:


A convicted felon can't purchase a gun. That makes sense. But someone who has a mental illness and is seeing a psychiatrist while taking 3 medications can??? 

A marked man

Planet Gaffe...I mean Biden

Newly discovered planet on outskirts of the solar system nicknamed Biden after the vice-president

Tracked: Astronomers used a camera on a ground telescope to find Biden, pictured here in November 2012. They asserted the distance from Biden to the Oval Office is actually greater than Planet Biden is from the sun.

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By Associated Press Reporter

PUBLISHED: 15:12 EST, 26 March 2014 | UPDATED: 16:24 EST, 27 March 2014

A frozen pink world, lurking in the far reaches of the solar system, has been nicknamed Biden after the American vice-president. 

The planet, which is seven and a half billion miles from the Sun, was found by astronomers searching an area of space beyond Pluto. 

Although it won't officially be named for a while, dwarf plant '2012 VP113' is being referred to as VP, or Biden, by scientists as they continue their research. 

Planet Gaffe...I mean Biden

Smidgen

The story below kills me. In short order Mastro digs up 250,000 documents and emails on Christie for a meaningless lane closure (it is meaningless compared to IRS corruption that may lead to the WH). Meanwhile, Issa and his crew are still dicking around with "Smidgen". The other day Jason Chaffetz asked one of Smidgen's attorneys for her emails and was told he won't get them for 2 years! Why is this investigation taking so long? One can only conclude from Smidgen if truthful testimony concerning her work for the IRS would tend to incriminate her then indeed she must be a criminal.

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Christie Lawyers Release Internal Report On Bridgegate

BY ANGELA DELLI SANTI & GEOFF MULVIHILL, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK (AP) — A law firm hired by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday that the governor was not involved in a plot to create gridlock near a major bridge as part of a political retribution scheme.

The taxpayer-funded report released by former federal prosecutor Randy Mastro relies on interviews with Christie and other officials in his administration and 250,000 documents, many of them emails and text messages.

"We found that Gov. Christie had no knowledge beforehand of this George Washington Bridge realignment idea," Mastro said at a news conference.

He also said the lane closures were not reflective of the way the governor's office generally operates. "We found that this was the action of the few," he said. "This is not reflective of the whole."

His report comes out ahead of any results from independent investigations by federal prosecutors and a special committee of state lawmakers. Some of the key figures would not cooperate with Mastro's investigation, leading Democrats to question the credibility of the report and its thoroughness.

Defending the report at the news conference, Mastro said his team was able to review a trove of documents, including emails and text messages among Christie, Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, top governor's office staff and former staffers. "We believe we have gotten to the truth or we wouldn't be reporting it," he said.

He also said his team was sharing information with federal prosecutors.

The September closure of lanes near the bridge that caused four days of massive gridlock in the community of Fort Lee have become a major scandal for Christie, a possible 2016 Republican presidential contender. Christie said on a radio show Wednesday that the events will not affect his decisions about his political future.

The report, issued at Mastro's New York law office, concludes that former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey official David Wildstein and ex-Christie aide Bridget Kelly were behind the closures and that they were targeting Fort Lee Mayor Mark Sokolich. But it did not conclude why they wanted to hurt the Democrat and said there was no evidence that it was because he refused to endorse Christie for re-election last year.

The report says that Sokolich himself brought up the possibility of endorsing Christie but ultimately decided against it. The report says that even after that decision, the mayor remained on a list of Democrats whom Christie was considering appointing to various boards.

Mastro said Wildstein seemed to have "bizarre political and personal animus" against a variety of people.

Mastro says that Kelly, who did not cooperate with the report, tried to cover her tracks when Christie began asking what happened last year by asking a colleague to delete an email about the plot. But the other staffer retained the email anyway, the report says.

Mastro also says that Wildstein suggested he mentioned traffic issues in Fort Lee to Christie at public event during the lane realignment. But he says Christie did not recall it being brought up and if it was, it would not have registered as significant to Christie — something Christie has said before.

The report also finds that a claim by Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer, that Christie's administration told her that Superstorm Sandy would be tied to a private redevelopment plan, is "demonstrably false." A spokesman for Zimmer did not immediately return a call.

Mastro calls for Christie's office staffers to cease using personal email accounts for official business, eliminating the office where Kelly had worked and appointing an ethics officer in the governor's office. He also recommends major changes to the structure of Port Authority, an agency jointly run by the states of New York and New Jersey.

Smidgen