Thursday updates- Fortson, Biden, Lee, and 6/6

You should recall Roger Fortson, the young airman killed by a deputy sheriff in Florida after answering his door with a gun in his hand. For a good start – the deputy has been fired.

Deputy Eddie Duran, an Army veteran who had been with the department since 2019, was fired from the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office when it was determined that his “use of deadly force was not objectively reasonable and therefore violated agency policy,” according to an Administrative Internal Affairs investigation released Friday.  Military.com

Yeah, when even your own bosses say you screwed the pooch and fire you this fast – this isn’t over. Jail time is ugly for ex-cops, I hear.

The Administrative Internal Affairs investigation, released to the public Friday, showed that “Mr. Fortson did not physically resist [Duran] in any way, and the investigation concluded that Mr. Forston did not point the gun in the former deputy’s direction.”

Additionally, Duran told investigators in the report that “when I saw his eyes … I saw aggression”…

Mr. Duran is a former intelligence weenie (2003-2007) who switched to military policing for 2007-2014.

A VA budget bill may be facing a White House veto due to several riders attache to the bill by GOP representatives which walk back many initiatives on abortion, trans care, etc.

The bill as written by House Republicans “includes numerous, partisan policy provisions with devastating consequences including harming access to reproductive health care, threatening the health and safety of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex (LGBTQI+) Americans, endangering marriage equality, hindering critical climate change initiatives, and preventing the administration from promoting diversity, equity and inclusion,” the White House budget office said in a statement Monday.

At issue now is the fiscal 2025 VA and military construction appropriations bill that was advanced by the House Appropriations Committee last month and that the full House is scheduled to vote on later this week. Military.com II

Best to read the article on this – the riders are a mixed bag – banning abortion even if the life of the mother is in danger, barring paying for illegal immigrant health care, barring some LGBTQ care aspects, etc.

And on Tuesday the White House rolled out a “new” border plan. One of its key provisions is closing the border to migrants if a daily limit of 2,500 encounters between illegals and CBP is exceeded.

Saying that Republicans “have left me no choice,” President Joe Biden issued an executive order today that would bar most migrants entering between ports of entry from seeking asylum when illegal border crossings reach a seven-day average of 2,500 — a threshold below current levels, meaning that the president’s directive should take effect immediately.  Fiscal Times

Ain’t nobody – no body – happy with this. Conservatives say it is too little, too late and a showboating move for Biden to appease critics. Liberals say it will divide families, be inhumane, the usual…zzz. Oh, sorry – I suppose asking whether maybe the families should just stay together someplace else where they are LEGAL is verboten? Or set that quota of illegals at, say, ZERO?

And it’s not like Biden is going to get any help from Mexico, their new President Claudia Scheinbaum,  is cut from the same cloth as outgoing President Obrador  (albeit with possibly less support) AP and is a confirmed leftist activist. Sounds like a rampant case of SSDD to me.   MSN

UPDATE 6pm – The New York Times (“All the News That Fits, We Print”) reports that if an asylum claimant illegally jumping the border doesn’t have his own lawer already (abogado? Avocado? Something like that) they have 4 hours to find one, or be able to make their case on their own and if unable they’re out. Usedtabe they had 24 hours. NY Times

Almost last – Sheila Jackson Lee, the Houston Congresscritter, has announced that she has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.

Jackson Lee wrote on Sunday, “As I pursue my treatments, it is likely that I will be occasionally absent from Congress, but rest assured my office will continue to deliver the vital constituent services that you deserve and expect.” CNN

Due to the nature of her diagnosis I will withhold my usual snark. I will say that from what I have read of pancreatic cancer, her optimism is admirable.

Last but certainly not least – today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day. Please remember appropriately.

I read of one old English vet, George Chandler, age 99,  who said:

“Let me assure you, what you read in those silly books that have been written about D-Day are absolute c—, it’s a load of old rubbish.

“I was there, how can I forget it? It’s a very sad memory because I watched young American rangers not shot, slaughtered. The Telegraph

He must be reading different books – that pretty much agrees with most of what I have ever read.

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