What Did You Know and When Did You Know It?

Remember when people thought the FBI was competent?

Or believed it was non-partisan?

What do you think now?

Does This Show Intent? (Yes)

A reddit thread from 2014 shows a redditor called stonetear asking:

Hello all- I may be facing a very interesting situation where I need to strip out a VIP's (VERY VIP) email address from a bunch of archived email that I have both in a live Exchange mailbox, as well as a PST file. Basically, they don't want the VIP's email address exposed to anyone, and want to be able to either strip out or replace the email address in the to/from fields in all of the emails we want to send out.

I am not sure if something like this is possible with PowerShell, or exporting all of the emails to MSG and doing find/replaces with a batch processing program of some sort.

Does anyone have experience with something like this, and/or suggestions on how this might be accomplished?

Stonetear is likely Paul Combetta's username. He's used the same name for email, imgur, etsy, and other accounts.

The FBI couldn't prove intent but the reddit army seems to have found it.

Fuck America

He was arrested for public benefits (food stamp) fraud and burglary, but, somehow, it's America's fault. How entitled do you have to feel in order to come to that conclusion?

The family just likes giving people the finger. Ahmed Alshami, the man who was arrested, posted a Facebook rant last year where he accused others of trying to shut down his store. He included a photo of himself giving the finger along with his rant.

His 'they're all drug users' rant must come under "it takes one to know one" because Alshami was also arrested in 2015 for criminal possession of a controlled substance (crack cocaine).

Is Telford the New Rotherham?

Horrific reports of widescale grooming and abuse in town dubbed Britain's 'child sex capital'.

[R]eports of grooming in Telford were inputted into police computers wrongly and played down despite an earlier probe that led to seven men being jailed in 2012.

The people arrested in 2012 were seven men of Pakistani descent:

• Ahdel Ali
• Mubarek Ali
• Mohammed Ali Sultan
• Tanveer Ahmed
• Mohammed Islam Choudhrey
• Mahroof Khan
• Mohammed Younis

According to Wikipedia:

There were accounts concerning men who would ejaculate and then urinate in children's mouths, violating them in every orifice, as well as gang-rape by queues of men while girls were held hostage for hours, sometimes days – all the while being forced to listen to the screams of girls in other rooms with other men.

I Am Not a Crook

40 times Hillary Clinton told the FBI she couldn't remember.

It includes not remembering any briefing or training about handling federal records. Her excuse is that she has brain damage (no, really) from the stroke she had around that time. Didn't she receive any briefing about how to handle classified information when she was a senator on the Armed Services Committee? Did she forget all of that too?

Part of the whole "Hillary's got experience" propaganda is that she has been in the White House and has the benefit of having learned about the presidency through her husband's two terms in office yet she couldn't manage to learn that Top Secret information needs to be handled in a way that protects it from foreign agents. Keeping it on a relatively insecure server and using her email (and that server) when in foreign countries isn't indicative of someone who has experience...or an IQ higher than room temperature.

If anyone else had treated secure information the way she has, they wouldn't be running for president, they'd be doing time in a federal penitentiary.

Racist/Not Racist

Guess which is which.

At the end of a lengthy exchange, Tapper asked: "If you are saying he cannot do his job because of his race, is that not the definition of racism?"

"No, I don't think so at all," Trump said.

Trump first broached these waters in an interview with The Wall Street Journal published Thursday, in which he said Curiel, who was born in Indiana, had an "inherent conflict of interest" in the Trump University lawsuit.

 And.

“Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences,” she said, for jurists who are women and nonwhite, “our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging.” 

Both say that a judge's ethnic background can affect how he/she rules. Why is one acceptable and the other isn't?

I Think She's Disgusting

In a roundtable on CNN Friday, commentator and GOP strategist Ana Navarro launched into an impassioned rebuttal of Donald Trump's recent comments against Latinos including his continued allusion to the Trump University judge's "Mexican" heritage.

Navarro warned Trump's comments will have consequences on election day. 

"What he's doing is disgusting. I'm livid about it, and if this is his strategy to win over Hispanics, he's got a hell of a wake-up call coming to him come November," Navarro said on CNN.

I don't have any particular reason for calling her disgusting, but I don't think she's got a legitimate reason for saying that about Trump either.

First, should people involved in a law suit be forbidden to speak about it? Should they be banned from disagreeing with the judge?

"This man was born in east Chicago. He's an American citizen. He's just as American as Donald Trump."

Sure, if Trump had grown up speaking a foreign language and has joined groups and organizations for that ethnic group. He's a member of the of the La Raza Lawyers of San Diego and, through them, has awarded scholarships to illegal immigrants.

Is is unreasonable for anyone to think that someone heavily involved with the immigrant community, possibly with some of the people who wave Mexican flags and riot outside of Trump rallies, should have recused himself from the case?

If a judge spends some of his time helping one group of people and they are violently opposed to a person being sued in his court, wouldn't any reasonable person think it would be very hard to maintain an impartial viewpoint?

Presidential Candidates Shouldn't Criticize Judges

Donald Trump Blasts “Mexican” Judge in Trump University Case

You know what’s presidential? Using 12 minutes of a campaign rally to criticize a judge who is overseeing civil litigation against your failed “education” venture. And that’s exactly what Donald Trump did in San Diego when he seemingly bored his audience with details about the ongoing case, specifically attacking U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel for being a “hater” and even speculating about what his ethnicity might be.

 I remember when criticizing judges was presidential.

Sexual Assaults in Germany

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about how Germany had created a website to teach immigrants not to rape or sexually assault people. It doesn't seem to have worked.

Three Pakistani men are already under arrest after 18 women filed complaints that they had been improperly touched, fondled and groped during the festival in the city of Darmstadt. Police have said the number of complainants could rise. 

From the Criminals You May Know Section

An armed thug was caught following a two month violent crime spree when he was recognised by one of his victims after co-incidentally popping up in the “people you may know" section of his Facebook feed.

 Omar Famuyide was one of two men who burst into the Ambassador’s Relaxation Suite on 13 July last year and assaulted women inside, threatening them with a metal bar and a handgun.

Relaxation suite = massage parlor, NTTAWWT.

The lawyer defending the mugger said that the firearm had been discharged in such a way with the least possible chance of the bullet hitting anyone. I'm sure that makes it all better.

Illegal Aliens Sue Former Landlord

Four Latino families being evicted from a mobile-home park because at least one family member is undocumented and doesn’t have a Social Security number filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Monday that advocates said could set a national precedent in fair-housing law.

They are claiming that requirement for all tenants to have a Social Security card, visa and related documents or a passport is discriminatory because it disproportionately affects Latinos. I'm not a lawyer, but doesn't it affect them disproportionately because they have disproportionately chosen to be there illegally?

The article also says that households with "undocumented residents" were put on a month-to-month lease instead of an annual one and were required to pay a $300 per month fee on top of the monthly rent. If the rental terms changed for some of the tenants and they weren't evicted, it makes me think that there may be more to the eviction story than they're telling. Granted, an extra $300 a month in rental payments would make me want to move, but why were some given a choice of paying while others were evicted?