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| 01-21-20 05:36pm - 1798 days | #95 | |
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In 2018, President Trump revealed in his tweets, after the G-7 summit meeting in Charlevoix, Quebec, that Mr. Trudeau was “very dishonest and weak” and makes “false statements.” That is why the Canadian dollar is so weak. Once President Trump uses his war powers and instructs our Armed Forces to invade Canada, bringing Truth and Justice and the American Way of Life to our neighbors to the north, the Canadian dollar will soar. (Or maybe it will disappear, and a more solid, dependable US dollar will replace that debased currency.) God bless Donald Trump, the leader of the Free World, the hope of Democrats everywhere. Be warned, Canada. Be good to the United States of America. Or face the consequences. (I'm running out of my meds and need to get my pharmacy to refill my prescriptions. Or maybe I can move to Canada and get my prescriptions refilled at a lower price?)  PS: Once Trump gets those lazy Mexicans to build his wall in the south, he will build a wall to the north, to keep out those weak-kneed Canadians. That's if he doesn't invade Canada first. Because a wall in the north would get in the way of a lightning strike invasion. The US Armed Forces are arguing the best way to invade Canada: Do we build a wall, or just rush in?  Edited on Jan 21, 2020, 05:41pm | |
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| 01-21-20 12:12pm - 1798 days | #93 | |
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| 01-21-20 08:43am - 1798 days | #1534 | |
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President Trump has decided the US Constitution is no longer valid. He will submit a new Constitution, that is easier to read, and more useful. Since Trump will be the guiding light for the new Constitution, everyone will be happy, and be allowed to read the Constitution, even while at home or at work or on holiday. The entire nation will thank our President, Donald Trump. And the impeachment process will go away, since that's one of the first things Trump will write about in the new Constitution. Donald Trump, President for Life. And Ivanka Trump, First Daughter, second President for Life after Donald Trump. The House of Trump will reign in America for the next 1,000 years. Heil Trump, the bestest leader since we lost Adolf Hitler. ------- ------- The White House “It’s Like a Foreign Language”: Donald Trump’s Encounter With the Constitution Did Not Go Well While being filmed for a documentary, the president stumbled through his chosen passage, taking his frustration out on everyone around him, Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig write in A Very Stable Genius. By Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig January 20, 2020 Image may contain Coat Clothing Suit Overcoat Apparel Human Person Tie Accessories Accessory Audience and Crowd Donald Trump in the Blue Room.From AP/Shutterstock. On March 1, 2017, nearly six weeks after President Trump had raised his right hand and swore to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States, he struggled to read aloud the words of the founding document. A film crew had come to the White House to record the new president reading a section of the Constitution. Trump chose to participate in the HBO production because he did not want to forgo the chance to be filmed for history, and he knew that as the sitting president he would be the documentary’s most important character. The documentary, titled The Words That Built America, was directed by Alexandra Pelosi, a daughter of House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi. Her conceit was that the country was starkly divided after the ugliness of the 2016 campaign, but the founding documents remained a unifying force for the nation’s factions. Pelosi and her team had a novel and distinctly bipartisan hook: All six living presidents, as well as six vice presidents, would join in reading the Constitution on camera, and other political figures and actors would read portions of the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence. Each performance would be edited to create a lively, unabridged reading of the treasured documents that have united the nation for more than two centuries. On March 1, Pelosi and her crew arrived at the White House, and as they were getting ready in the Blue Room, Trump entered the opulent parlor, which sits at the center of the residence’s first floor and opens onto the South Portico. The Blue Room, distinguished by its French blue draperies and gold wallpaper, is steeped in history. It was where President Grover Cleveland and his wife exchanged wedding vows in 1886, and every December the White House’s primary Christmas tree is erected at the center of the oval-shaped room. On this day Trump seemed stiff and uncomfortable. Though he was technically in his own home, he did not greet his guests. Rather, he stood waiting for someone to approach him. Pelosi moved in to thank Trump for participating in this special history project, but he appeared to have no idea who she was, apparently not briefed on her political lineage or her role as the director. The president asked for some water, and with no staff bringing any to him, Pelosi handed him a bottle of Aquafina from her purse. “I’ve been into the White House,” Pelosi later said of visits to see previous presidents. “There are always protocols. Here there were no rules, no protocol.” She added, “There’s so much wrong with the whole thing. I’m thinking, Isn’t there someone who’s supposed to guard what he’s eating and drinking?” A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig. Meanwhile, a White House staffer gave the other crew members instructions about what they could and could not do with the president. The very first rule was for the makeup artist: Do not touch the president’s hair. On his face, light powder only. The next instruction was for the technical crew: Could they make the lighting a little more orange? The president preferred a warm glow on camera. The mention of “orange” struck some in the room as an odd choice. Outside the bubble of the White House, late-night TV show hosts and cartoonists had been mocking the perpetually orange hue of Trump’s skin. Pelosi had let presidents and vice presidents choose the portion of the Constitution they wanted to read. Many were wary of reading the section on the rules for impeachment or foreign emoluments. Trump had selected the opening of Article II, the part of the Constitution that addresses a president’s election and the scope of his or her power. It would normally have been the perfect selection for a president—but was an ironic one for Trump, who had spoken of his desire to exercise his executive power as much as possible, including by threatening Congress and challenging the judiciary. With LED lights on stilts in front of him, Trump took his seat. “You’re lucky you got the easy part,” Pelosi told him cheerfully. “It gets complicated after this.” But the president stumbled, trying to get out the words in the arcane, stilted form the founding fathers had written. Trump grew irritated. “It’s very hard to do because of the language here,” Trump told the crew. “It’s very hard to get through that whole thing without a stumble.” He added, “It’s like a different language, right?” The cameraman tried to calm Trump, telling him it was no big deal, to take a moment and start over. Trump tried again, but again remarked, “It’s like a foreign language.” The section, like many parts of the Constitution, was slightly awkward—an anachronistic arrangement of words that don’t naturally trip off the tongue. Members of the crew exchanged looks, trying not to be obvious. Some believed Trump would eventually get it, but others were more concerned. The president, already bristling about his missteps, was getting angry. He chided the crew, accusing them of distracting him. “You know, your paper was making a lot of noise. It’s tough enough,” Trump said. “Every time he stumbled, he manufactured something to blame people,” another person in the room recalled. “He never said, ‘Sorry, I’m messing this up.’ [Other] people would screw up and say, ‘Ohhhh, I’m sorry.’ They would be self-effacing. He was making up excuses and saying there were distracting sounds.… He was definitely blaming everyone for his inability to get through it. That was prickly, or childish.” Though stiff, he eventually made it through without any errors. Trump presented a stark contrast to many other readers, including the Supreme Court associate justice Stephen Breyer, who read as if he knew the full text by heart, and Senator Ted Cruz, who “knew it from beginning to end” as a result of performing dramatic readings of the Constitution as a high school student, according to Pelosi. “Donald Trump is a celebrity and he came to perform,” she said. “He had not practiced it beforehand. I don’t think anyone would show up to read the Constitution without practicing it first.” Whatever the reason for Trump’s discomfort with the reading, several watching agreed on this much: He behaved like a brooding child, short-tempered, brittle, and quick to blame mystery distractions for the mistakes. “I didn’t expect this, but I felt sorry for him,” another witness said. “When [Vice President] Pence is reading it, when [former vice president [Dick] Cheney is reading it, I knew they knew the Constitution. And I thought, Before he got this job, he really should have read it.” From A Very Stable Genius by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig, to be published on January 21, 2020, by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC. Copyright  2020 by Philip Rucker and Carol Leonnig. | |
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| 01-21-20 08:08am - 1798 days | #1533 | |
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President Trump should be fired from his job for allowing the country to spend millions of dollars on a hoax. The impeachment trial is a hoax, President Trump states. Yet he has allowed Congress and the Democrats to spend millions of dollars on this hoax. Do we need a president that allows Democrats to spend our taxpayer dollars in such a wasteful way? We don't. Fire Trump, and replace him with someone who can lead the country better. As a side note: throw all Republicans in prison. Take away their salaries and bonuses and retirement accounts. Then burn them at the stake, to save on our heating bills. Republicans are the "Say Nothing Party, the Do Nothing Party." So they deserve to be burned at the stake. God bless America. God bless the Democratic party. Kill a Republican. Make America great again. And lock Trump up. He deserves to be put in prison. ------- ------- Trump calls impeachment trial a long-running 'hoax' at summit for world elite NBC News Shannon Pettypiece Jan 21st 2020 7:32AM DAVOS, Switzerland — President Donald Trump called the impeachment trial set to start in Washington later on Tuesday a long-running "hoax" after landing in Davos. "It's been going on for years," the president said at Swiss mountain summit of the world's elite hours before senators in Washington kick-off proceedings. "Look forward to being here, meeting with biggest companies in the world, for the benefit of the United States," he added in a speech to some of the world's richest and most influential people. Trump is using the moment on the world stage to divert attention from the drama playing out back home and give the appearance of a president hard at work. It’s a strategy used by former President Bill Clinton, who scheduled events across the country during his impeachment though didn’t travel abroad. “It’s an opportunity to speak about the recent trade deals he’s made, as well as our booming economy,” White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said earlier. The conference is “also a good chance to speak with world leaders on a variety of other topics. He’s the president of the United States, his work doesn’t stop because of the silliness going on in D.C.” Trump spoke to a crowd of mostly business elites, many of whom have benefited from the surge in the stock market under his term as well as his corporate tax cuts. Despite Trump's populist, anti-globalist rhetoric that helped get him elected, Trump has sought to bolster his relationship with Wall Street and the business community, often inviting executives to the White House and touting how his administration has enriched them. Trump has meetings throughout the day with business executives, the prime minister of Pakistan, president of the European Commission, and president of the Swiss Confederation. He is expected to travel back to Washington on Wednesday. Those meetings could also give Trump the opportunity to take questions from reporters during photo ops. The Senate will resume their impeachment trial Tuesday afternoon where a number of procedural items are expected to be raised. Arguments by Democrats will begin Wednesday at 1 p.m. when Trump is scheduled to be traveling back from Davos. Trump signed the first phase of a hard-hard-fought trade deal last week with China, capping a bitter 18-month battle between the world's two largest economies that has roiled markets and slowed economic growth worldwide. The U.S. unemployment rate held steady at 3.5 percent in December, but the months payroll and wage growth missed expectation. | |
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| 01-20-20 09:14am - 1799 days | #92 | |
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Did LANewGirls.com go out of business? I asked for the site to be listed one or two years back, but never saw it listed at PU. They had some cute models. It was a site where they interviewed aspiring models and got them to give blow jobs and to fuck. Some of the videos were hot. But when I try to find the site today, it seems to have disappeared. Maybe it went bust. Which happens with a lot of porn sites. Edit: found the problem. The site is listed as LANewGirl.com, not LANewGirls.com. So it's still around. But still not listed at PU. The site is very expensive. $38/month, recurring. So it's doubtful I would join. Edited on Jan 20, 2020, 09:23am | |
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| 01-20-20 12:47am - 1800 days | #1532 | |
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Republicans are finally telling the truth. Things happen. If President Trump wants to lie and steal, even murder someone, he is only human. People are not perfect. Trump is not perfect. So we can forgive Trump for not being perfect. Remember, we are a nation, and Trump is our leader. And God Himself selected Trump to be our leader. Don't follow Satan. Follow Trump. Or else God will strike you down for being a sinner. Donald Trump was impeached. That was a mistake. Trump did not commit an impeachable offense. There are no impeachable offenses, when you are the President of the United States. The Constitution is only a piece of paper, written by old men who died a long time ago. We are a nation of lawyers. The law says that Trump is innocent until proven guilty. And Republicans will never admit that Trump is guilty. He's the President, you dummies. -------- -------- Republican senator on Trump soliciting foreign interference: 'Things happen' Yahoo News Kadia Tubman Jan 20th 2020 12:25AM Republican Sen. Richard Shelby defended an argument from President Trump’s legal team that soliciting foreign interference in an election is not an impeachable offense, saying, “things happen.” When asked if Trump’s months-long campaign to pressure Ukraine into investigating his political rival was improper, the Alabama senator told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “This Week,” “Well, I don't know that has been actually proven.” “That's all in dispute, of what happened, whether the Russians were involved in it, whether Ukrainians involved in it, who was involved in it and to what extent,” Shelby continued. “But I've never seen anything where Trump actually was involved in.” Stephanopoulos pushed back on Shelby, pointing to Trump publicly calling for China and Ukraine to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden, a Democratic presidential frontrunner. “Well, those are just statements, political,” Shelby responded. “They make them all the time.” “So it's OK?” Stephanopoulos asked. Sen. Richard Spencer “I didn't say it was OK,” Shelby said. “I said people make them — people do things. Things happen.” “Well, this is the president of the United States,” Stephanopoulos countered. “Well, still the president of the United States is human. And he's going to make mistakes of judgment and everything else. They have historically, both parties, both from the beginning of our republic,” Shelby asserted. Trump, who has held onto GOP support through his impeachment, lauded his party for its steadfastness days ahead of his Senate trial, tweeting on Sunday, “I have never seen the Republican Party as Strong and as Unified as it is right now. Thank you!” Shelby, citing Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard professor and recent addition to Trump’s defense team, said he didn’t believe such “mistakes” rise “to the standard of an impeachable offense.” Dershowitz, who also appeared on “This Week” Sunday to make the constitutional case against impeachment, argued that the president should not be impeached for even if evidence and arguments from the House impeachment managers prove Trump abused the powers of his office. “When you have somebody who, for example, is indicted for a crime — let's assume you have a lot of evidence — but the grand jury simply indicts for something that’s not a crime, and that’s what happened here,” Dershowitz said. “You have a lot of evidence, disputed evidence, that could go both ways, but the vote was to impeach on abuse of power, which is not within the constitutional criteria for impeachment, and obstruction of Congress.” Stephanopoulos went on to ask Dershowitz, “As a citizen, do you think it's OK for a president to solicit foreign interference in our election?” Dershowitz said, “There's a big difference between what's OK — what's OK determines ... what you vote for, who you vote for.” “I’m a liberal Democrat who’s been critical of many of the policies of the president,” he continued. “I’m here as a constitutional lawyer, a lawyer who’s taught for 50 years constitutional criminal procedure at Harvard, taught a course on impeachment, taught a course on constitutional litigation.” “So you don’t think it’s OK?” Stephanopoulos pressed. “If the allegations are not impeachable, then this trial should result in an acquittal, regardless of whether the conduct is regarded as OK by you or by me or by voters,” Dershowitz said. “That’s an issue for the voters.” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, the lead impeachment manager, called the argument against impeachment by Trump’s legal team an “absurdist position.” "You had to go so far out of the mainstream to find someone to make that argument," Schiff said, referring to Dershowitz who defended convicted wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “You had to leave the realm of constitutional law scholars and go to criminal defense lawyers.” Schiff continued: “The logic of that absurdist position that’s being now adopted by the president is he could give away the state of Alaska, he could withhold execution of sanctions on Russia for interfering in the last election, to induce or coerce Russia to interfere in the next one.” “The mere idea of this would have appalled the founders, who were worried about exactly that kind of solicitation of foreign interference in an election for a personal benefit, the danger it poses to national security,” he added. “That goes to the very heart of what the framers intended to be impeachable.” | |
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| 01-19-20 06:22am - 1800 days | #1531 | |
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Trump, the greatest President the US has ever had. He will make all Americans millionaires. Every penny you have saved will turn into a hundred million dollars. Trump will turn the memory of Hitler into God's angel on earth. The heavenly angels will sing Trump's praises. Just listen to Trump, and we will live the land of the Free, White, God-fearing America. ------ ------ Trump claims he ‘saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your Healthcare.’ How? Yahoo News Christopher Wilson Jan 13th 2020 11:20AM President Trump misrepresented his administration’s health care record while disputing the premise of a campaign ad by Democratic presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg. “Mini Mike Bloomberg is spending a lot of money on False Advertising,” wrote Trump in a series of tweets Monday morning.” I was the person who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your Healthcare, you have it now, while at the same time winning the fight to rid you of the expensive, unfair and very unpopular Individual Mandate and, if Republicans win in court and take back the House of Represenatives [sic], your healthcare, that I have now brought to the best place in many years, will become the best ever, by far. I will always protect your Pre-Existing Conditions, the Dems will not!” Trump’s “win in court” reference is about a lawsuit, backed by the Justice Department, that if successful would result in the overturning of the Affordable Care Act (the ACA, or Obamacare). If that happens, many Americans with pre-existing conditions could lose their coverage entirely or face significantly higher premiums, unless and until an alternative is passed. Without protections for pre-existing conditions provided by Obamacare, the Kaiser Family Foundation estimated in 2015 that up to 52 million people could be denied coverage. Others would lose insurance if the Medicaid expansion that was adopted by dozens of states and D.C. was killed. A full repeal with no immediate replacement plan could also hurt the fight against opioid addiction and HIV. Republicans insist they want to pass a plan that requires insurers to offer coverage for pre-existing conditions, but analysts consider that meaningless without a mechanism to control or subsidize premiums. Insurers will not, on their own, cover people with predictable medical expenses at a price that guarantees they will lose money. That was the problem the ACA sought to address with its controversial individual mandate, which was meant to spread the cost of insurance over a broader base that would include healthy people. That mandate was repealed in the 2017 Republican tax bill. Bloomberg’s campaign has been running an ad that characterizes Trump's plan as "repealing Obamacare, threatening coverage for millions of Americans." Trump promised “the best [health care] ever by far” if Republicans retake the House, but in the first two years of his term, the GOP did have control of the House of Representatives and made a sustained effort to replace Obamacare with a new plan. The Congressional Budget Office found in March 2017 that the American Health Care Act (AHCA), their proposed replacement, would have knocked 14 million people off of insurance in one year and 24 million more by 2026, while the AARP estimated it would raise health care costs for older Americans by thousands of dollars. The Republican House passed an amended version of the AHCA in May 2017, leading to a Rose Garden celebration with Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan, but it died in the Senate. The legislation would have slashed Medicaid for low-income Americans, despite Trump’s repeated promises to the contrary. The July 2017 “skinny repeal” vote that barely failed in the Senate following “no” votes from Republican Sens. Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski and John McCain was estimated by the CBO to result in 16 million more uninsured Americans by 2026 and a 20 percent rise in premiums. Actuaries calculated that thousands more Americans would have died sooner if the Obamacare replacements had passed. Trump has promised the best health care plan with no real details since the early days of his campaign. Trump began making the promises in a September 2015 interview with “60 Minutes,” making vague promises when pressed by Scott Pelley on how he would fix it. “There’s many different ways, by the way,” said Trump. “Everybody’s got to be covered. This is an un-Republican thing for me to say because a lot of times they say, ‘No, no, the lower 25 percent that can’t afford private.’ But— “Universal health care?” interjected Pelley. “I am going to take care of everybody. I don’t care if it costs me votes or not,” said Trump. “Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now.” AdChoices “The uninsured person is going to be taken care of how?” asked Pelley. “They’re going to be taken care of. I would make a deal with existing hospitals to take care of people. And, you know what, if this is probably—” “Make a deal?” asked Pelley. “Who pays for it?” “The government’s gonna pay for it,” promised Trump. “But we’re going to save so much money on the other side. But for the most it’s going to be a private plan and people are going to be able to go out and negotiate great plans with lots of different competition with lots of competitors with great companies and they can have their doctors, they can have plans, they can have everything.” “We’re going to have insurance for everybody,” he reiterated in a January 2016 interview with the Washington Post. “There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.” Upon taking office, Trump continued to make promises of a hypothetical ideal health care plan. “We have a plan that I think is going to be fantastic. It’s going to be released fairly soon,” Trump said after a February 2017 meeting with health insurers. “I think it’s going to be something special … I think you're going to like what you hear.” The following day, he pointed out something that those who have worked on health care policy have known for decades: It’s extremely complicated. “We have come up with a solution that’s really, really I think very good,” Trump said. “Now, I have to tell you, it’s an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” In an April interview with Fox News, Trump again promised, “incredible health care that the Democrats, frankly, wouldn’t know how to do.” The former New York City mayor’s campaign account retweeted Trump’s Monday morning rebuttal with “@ us next time.” The billionaire has spent tens of millions of his personal fortune on television advertising targeting Trump and has promised to continue spending through the general even if he is not the Democratic nominee. _____ | |
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| 01-18-20 07:00pm - 1801 days | #89 | |
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JAMIE-YOUNG.COM Single model site, but also has guest models who perform with her. Jamie Young is a very cute young model. A lot of hardcore action. | |
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| 01-18-20 09:34am - 1801 days | #1530 | |
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Donald Trump, the man who criticized Obama for taking time off to play golf while president, the man who said he would never take time off to play golf if elected, because the job of president was too important to waste time playing golf. Strange how reality works. Trump has spent three times the total number of days as Obama did at golf resorts at comparable times in their administrations. In addition, Obama’s far fewer trips were cheaper for the public because he often played at military bases within a short drive from the White House. Trump's golf trips have cost about $132 million for US taxpayers. Some of that money has gone into Trump's pockets, since he has refused to divest his businesses. So he is violating the Constitution's domestic emoluments clause, which prohibits presidents from accepting benefits beyond salary from the federal or any state government. ------- ------- Trump's golf trips to Mar-a-Lago cost county $13.8 million for local security HuffPost US Mary Papenfuss Jan 17th 2020 7:52PM President Donald Trump’s 27 trips to play golf at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida have cost Palm Beach County $13.8 million for local security as of spring 2019, according to county documents. U.S. taxpayers have already reimbursed the county $10 million for expenditures through September 2018, according to The Palm Beach Post. The county is still awaiting an additional $3.8 million for expenses racked up through October 2019. The local figure is on top of $118 million in travel and federal security costs Trump has saddled U.S. taxpayers with for the 227-plus days he has spent during his presidency at his various golf resorts, according to a HuffPost analysis as of his winter vacation in December. That’s the equivalent of a 296 years of a presidential salary. A chunk of those costs flows into Trump’s own pockets, as Secret Service agents and presidential support staff pay to stay and eat at his resorts while accompanying the president. The White House refuses to disclose records that would reveal how much the president is profiting from his own trips. Local governments rack up their own separate costs when Trump travels to his golf resorts. He often spends warm-weather weekends and his summer vacation at his club in Bedminster, New Jersey. Most of the Palm Beach County money has paid for overtime for sheriff’s deputies. Local law enforcement officers escort Trump’s motorcade, man checkpoints, direct traffic, guard Mar-a-Lago and handle bomb-sniffing dogs. From the time of Trump’s election in November 2016 to his inauguration in January 2017, local agencies spent nearly $1 million on his Mar-a-Lago visits, according to the newspaper. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is attempting to hide total Secret Service costs for Trump’s frequent getaways until after the presidential election, The Washington Post reported. Trump often complained before and during his 2016 campaign about the time former President Barack Obama spent golfing. But Trump has spent three times the total number of days as Obama did at golf resorts at comparable times in their administrations. In addition, Obama’s far fewer trips were cheaper for the public because he often played at military bases within a short drive from the White House. Unlike previous presidents, Trump has refused to divest from his businesses. He continues to promote and profit from his golf resorts on the taxpayer’s dime. Critics complain he is violating the Constitution’s domestic emoluments clause, which prohibits presidents from accepting benefits beyond salary from the federal or any state government. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 01-18-20 04:15am - 1802 days | #1529 | |
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Terrible news: Trump's allies are being persecuted for their political beliefs. Chris Collins, who made hundreds of thousands of dollars illegally due to his position as a Congressman, is sentenced to 26 months in prison. Collins' lawyers argued that Collins should get a lenient sentence because he had suffered enough, by losing his Congressional seat, and the shame of being convicted of a crime. Enquiring minds want to know: is it worth going to prison for 26 months after stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars? If you are charged with mail theft, you could face up to five years in federal prison and fines of up to $250,000. So maybe Collins got off easy. If the max sentence for stealing a single letter is 5 years in prison plus a fine of $250,000. ======= ======= Chris Collins, first U.S. lawmaker to endorse Trump, gets 26-month jail sentence HuffPost US Paul Blumenthal Jan 17th 2020 8:45PM A judge on Friday sentenced former Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.), an early and staunch ally of President Donald Trump, to 26 months in prison after he pleaded guilty last September to conspiracy to commit securities fraud. Collins, the first member of Congress to endorse Trump’s 2016 presidential bid, used his position as the largest shareholder in the Australian biotechnology company Innate Immunotherapeutics to illegally give other stockholders an inside tip that a test of the company’s main product had failed. “You were a member of the board, that has legal significance. You owed a duty to Innate and you betrayed that duty,” U.S. District Judge Vernon Broderick said during the sentencing. “It makes people believe the market is rigged.” Federal prosecutors earlier this week urged a sentence of close to five years. Before falling under criminal investigation, Collins had used his Trump endorsement to raise his profile in Washington. He bragged about the clout he gained from his early backing of Trump, claiming it made him “significantly more visible.” And he was an early adopter of Trump’s bullying and blustering style, a copycat routine that has become popular throughout the GOP. Collins, who represented a district that covers much of western New York, committed the crime that sent him to prison while he was visiting the White House for a June 22, 2017, congressional picnic. He received an email from the CEO of Innate Immuno announcing that the company’s main drug the company’s future hinged on had failed a key test. Collins then called his son, another shareholder, from the South Lawn of the White House to tell him about the news and to plan for them to dump the stock. The next morning Collins, his son and the father of his son’s fiancée sold their stock in the company before the drug test failure was announced and while a freeze on trading was in place for the company’s shares in Australian stock markets. They each saved hundreds of thousands of dollars by selling early. The company stock plunged 92% after it publicly announced the drug’s failed test. Well before Collins broke the law, his odd position as the largest shareholder of Innate Immuno attracted attention. The Wall Street Journal and The Buffalo News both reported in January 2017 on suspicious trades Collins and other House Republican lawmakers made as Congress passed a bill that included provisions beneficial to Innate Immuno and other biotechnology firms. He also reportedly bragged to colleagues about how many “millionaires I’ve made in Buffalo.” After seeing his political profile soar as an early backer of President Donald Trump, former Rep. Chris Collins (R-N.Y.) is headed to prison. AdChoices An investigation by the Office of Congressional Ethics in 2017 found that Collins violated House ethics rules by providing nonpublic information to investors and visiting the National Institutes of Health in his official capacity to discuss Innate Immuno drug trials. Collins, 69, was indicted and arrested for wire fraud, conspiracy to commit securities fraud and lying to the FBI on Aug. 8, 2018. After his arrest Collins initially said he would not run for reelection in 2018. But he reversed course, ran for his seat and won by less than one percentage point. He had won reelection in 2016 with 67% of the vote. His resignation from office became official last Oct. 1. Collins was first elected to his House seat in 2012. A former mechanical engineer and business owner, he served as Erie County executive from 2007-11. Throughout the investigation into his illegal conduct, Collins struck a Trumpian pose as an innocent targeted as part of a “partisan witch hunt.” He attacked The Buffalo News for “making up fake news on folks [the paper] can’t beat at the ballot box.” He called his then-colleague Rep. Louise Slaughter, a Buffalo-area Democrat who has since died, a “despicable human being” for filing an ethics complaint against him. And he attacked investigations into his activities as a “partisan witch hunt.” In the wake of his guilty plea, his lawyers argued in court for a lenient sentence, saying his actions were impulsive and that he has suffered enough by losing his political career. Collins’ son and the father of his fiancée also pleaded guilty in the case and await sentencing Quickly joining Collins in early 1026 as Trump’s second official backer on Capitol Hill was then-Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) ― who also now faces prison time. Huner pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance laws in December, gave up his House seat earlier this week and awaits sentencing. Like Collins, Hunter initially characterized the charges facing him as a “witch hunt.” This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 01-15-20 04:46am - 1804 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8IQeCtHSvE Even porn stars have a bad day. So the people around have to be careful, or the porn star can turn rabid and start attacking. Stay calm. Be cool. There's usually a way to handle them safely. Or else, start running in the opposite direction. | |
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| 01-14-20 12:18am - 1806 days | #2 | |
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Along with a new PU 4K membership badge, I think we should be giving out another badge: The PU Freddie badge, for Acting Mother of the PU site. The badge will be awarded for meritorious service in the promotion of porn. Other candidates can also be given this award. Not just Freddie, but also Amanda, who has gone on to further exploits. No idea what Amanda is doing currently, but she was a helpful contributor on the PU staff. | |
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| 01-13-20 08:48am - 1806 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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PU has a system where they award badges for certain accomplishments. In consultation with PU member Wraith0711, we have decided to open a thread where we can discuss the merits of the PU site awarding a new badge for meritorious service by PU members: the 4K membership badge. This badge could be worn proudly on the chest or crotch of the PU member's T-shirt, signifying his, her, or its membership in the PU site and the ideals it stands for. Interested members can either post their thoughts on this thread, or in private emails to darling Freddie, the PU staff member who is currently looking after the needs of the PU members in good standing. As proof of earning the 4K membership badge, a member could either submit copies of cash register receipts for 4K equipment, or download records from porn pay sites showing a monthly data download exceeding 50 GB on 5 consecutive days. Requests from PU members should be brought to Freddie's attention, and to any other PU staff members who would be involved in the creation of such a badge of merit. Unfortunately, the merit badge system has fallen out of favor, and most members pay little attention to the badges they have earned. But with the creation of a new badge, and with further encouragement by the PU staff, especially from Freddie, the acting mother of the PU site, I hope and believe that PU membership will be proud to wear their PU site T-shirts in public once again, to show their loyalty and devotion to the free expression of porn. The basic badges are listed below: Rookie Badge Reached 5 points (from qualified reviews) Talk Back Made 100 replies to feedback, polls, etc. Comments Made 50 comments. Pollster Made 50 votes to our polls. Top Monthly User Most points in a month. Hardcore Badge Reached 100 points. Trusted User Trusted by 30 users. Female Profile All profile questions answered. Male Profile All profile questions answered. *Qualified feedback is required to earn credits toward the badges listed above. An internal audit of your feedback is done for all activity (reviews, comments, replies, etc) and certain criteria is used to determine whether it qualifies for a point towards your rank and/or badge. You can view the staff rating results of your feedback by logging into your account and viewing your Feedback History. Edited on Jan 15, 2020, 04:08pm | |
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| 01-12-20 12:59am - 1808 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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This is a real news story. Not fake. Taken from the internet, where fake stories abound. But I am nominating Diego as the guiding spirit of the PU site. Diego, you will be in our hearts and minds and below-the-belt forever. An inspiration to all PU members and visitors. ---- ---- https://www.cnet.com/news/diego-the-sex-...om-the-playboy-life/ Diego the sex machine tortoise retires from the playboy life After fathering hundreds of babies and saving his species, the big daddy of the Galápagos is ready for a rest. Gael Fashingbauer Cooper January 11, 2020 3:42 PM PST Even the big daddy of tortoises gets to retire. Diego, the loverboy tortoise who helped save his species by making lots and lots of babies, will now be returned to the wild. The 175-pound, 35-inch (80 kilogram, 90 centimeter) Casanova has fathered at least 800 children, according to Agence France Presse. That's about 40% of the giant tortoise population in the Galápagos Islands. He's earned his retirement. Diego was named for the San Diego Zoo, where he lived before being sent to the Galápagos to begin his breeding work in 1977. When he started his campaign of promiscuity, there were just two males and 12 females of his species alive on the island. "He's a very sexually active male reproducer. He's contributed enormously to repopulating the island," Washington Tapia, a tortoise preservation specialist at Galápagos National Park, told AFP back in 2016. And he has online fans. "When I was in Galápagos -- everywhere they celebrated and spoke of 'Diego' -- a true legend!" wrote one Twitter user. Before heading to the island of Española from his current home at the Charles Darwin Research Station on Santa Cruz Island, Diego will undergo a quarantine period to make sure he doesn't spread non-native flora to his retirement home. | |
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| 01-10-20 09:48pm - 1809 days | #4 | |
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I second the idea that PU and TBP should include a separate notice, in bold letters or highlighted for easy recognition, if there are: -Streaming limits -Download limits -If a site or network charges a separate fee for downloads. At the TBP site, the reviews, show, under the "Misc" heading, if there are download limits. But it seems the trend is for more sites to charge extra for downloads, or to use that as a premium feature (to charge a separate fee for downloads). Wow Girls + Wow Porn offered a streaming only membership for a short while, but then dropped it. Adult Time offers a streaming only membership for a lower price than a membership that includes unlimited streaming + unlimited downloads. A short while back, the PU staff asked for ideas on what a review should be. I believe the PU staff then decided they didn't need to make any changes in the review requirements. But it would be helpful to many members, if PU reviews, and TBP reviews, made clear, if there are any limits on streaming or downloads, and if a site/network charges extra for downloads. Edited on Jan 12, 2020, 11:10am | |
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| 01-08-20 03:36am - 1812 days | #1526 | |
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Real news: Iran claims its missile strike against US troops was self-defense against the coward President Donald Trump, the Bone Spur Commander in Chief of US troops. Please, Mr. President, we don't want another war. But maybe you need a war to get your approval ratings higher? Like you accused Obama about years ago, with a phony war to distract the US public from a poor performance. Trump, the Bone Spur commander in chief, hero of fighting men everywhere. Trump does not need a gun to fight crime. He has his bare hands, which are weapons of mass destruction. Iran is taking to twitter to defend itself against the coward Donald Trump. After Iran's missile strikes, President Donald Trump said in a tweet that "all is well!" Trump is planning further twitter strikes against Iran, if needed. ---------- ---------- Iran claims its missile strike against U.S. troops was made in 'self-defense' after Trump's 'cowardly' attack Business Insider David Choi Jan 8th 2020 5:47AM Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif claimed his country's missile attacks against Iraqi military bases housing US troops were merely "proportionate measures in self-defense." "Iran took [and] concluded proportionate measures in self-defense under Article 51 of UN Charter targeting base from which cowardly armed attack against our citizens & senior officials were launched," Zarif said on Twitter. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif claimed his country's missile attacks against Iraqi military bases housing US troops were merely "proportionate measures in self-defense." His statement comes as US officials estimated that around 15 missiles were launched from Iran against two Iraqi bases. There were no US service member casualties reported immediately after the attack, but futher assessments were ongoing, according to a US official who spoke to Business Insider. "Iran took [and] concluded proportionate measures in self-defense under Article 51 of UN Charter targeting base from which cowardly armed attack against our citizens & senior officials were launched," Zarif said on Twitter. "We do not seek escalation or war, but will defend ourselves against any aggression," he added. Article 51 of the United Nations' charter says that a member has "the inherent right" to defend itself "if an armed attack occurs ... until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace and security." Experts on Article 51 described its terms as "sufficiently vague" and that it is difficult to prove whether military actions between its members would be justified under the article's current definition. Jared Zimmerman, writing last year as a MA candidate at American University's School of International Service, assessed that Article 51 did not answer several questions. "It does not define what constitutes an armed attack," Zimmerman previously wrote in RealClearDefense. "For example, is a cyber attack an armed attack?" The missile strike follows a series of moves that have raised tensions between Iran and the US: on Friday local time in Iraq, a US airstrike near Baghdad International Airport killed Iran's elite Quds Force commander, Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The US claimed the attack was in response to an "imminent threat" that was perceived from Soleimani. US officials have yet to submit evidence of their claim against the Iranian general, who is widely accepted to have provided material aid to proxy forces fighting against the US. Following the killing of Soleimani, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed "harsh revenge" against the US. After Iran's missile strikes, President Donald Trump said in a tweet that "all is well!" "So far, so good," Trump tweeted, adding that US officials were still assessing the situation. "We have the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world, by far! I will be making a statement tomorrow morning." | |
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| 01-07-20 08:13pm - 1812 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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If the shooter was a cop, he can claim self-defense. But if the shooter was a civilian, he might be in trouble, especially if he's caught. ------------ ------------ 2 kids shot by driver after throwing snowballs at cars: 'There was blood everywhere' Gabrielle Sorto, AOL.com Jan 7th 2020 11:30AM A 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old boy were shot after throwing snowballs at passing cars in Milwaukee, the city's Police said on Twitter. A group of kids was playing in the snow Saturday and hurling snowballs at passing vehicles when they struck a white Toyota. The driver of the car fired shots into the group and struck the two children, police said. A manhunt is underway for the driver, who left the scene. Police found the two victims just minutes apart. Officers applied first aid to the victims, who are being treated at a nearby hospital. Both of their injuries were non-life-threatening. "I was on the ground praying for her and I went the house and got my oil and throw the oil on her," one neighbor told WPVI. "There was blood everywhere." Other neighbors, who told WPVI that this isn't the first time shots have been fired near their homes, said they may be looking to move. "Do you really need to shoot somebody because they threw a snowball?" another neighbor told the outlet. "For something so stupid. I mean, a snowball? I feel like my children should be able to go outside and play." The Milwaukee Police are requesting assistance with any information regarding this incident, police said on Twitter. Any information, please call the Milwaukee Police Department at 414-935-7360, or call Milwaukee Crime Stoppers at 414-224-TIPS. | |
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| 01-06-20 08:24pm - 1813 days | #1525 | |
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The Republican party, defenders of truth, justice, and the American way of life. Republican congressman tweeted a picture of President Barack Obama shaking hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani. Except the picture is fake: it was a photo shopped picture of Obama shaking hands with someone else, and the Iranian president was photo shopped into the picture. The Republican congressman defended himself by saying: "No one said the photo was real." ---------- ---------- Congressman defends posting fake Obama photo: 'No one said this wasn't photoshopped' Yahoo News David Knowles Jan 6th 2020 6:41PM A Republican congressman who tweeted a picture of former President Barack Obama shaking hands with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani Monday defended it as making a valid point after commenters pointed out that the two never met in person. In his original post, Gosar proclaimed that “the world is a better place without these guys in power.” Rouhani is still Iran’s president. Gosar, a former dentist who now represents Arizona’s rural Fourth District, defended posting the doctored image, writing, “no one said this wasn’t photoshopped.” But his original post did not indicate that it was faked. CNN's Andrew Kaczynski reported that the original photo showed Obama shaking hands with India's prime minister, Narenda Modi. The doctored image appears to have first been used in 2015 by a super-PAC supporting Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. Gosar accused Obama of having “coddled, appeased, nurtured and protected the worlds [sic] No. 1 sponsor of terror.” That has been a Republican talking point ever since the Obama administration — together with United Kingdom, Russia, France and Germany — signed a pact with Iran that lifted economic sanctions in return for a pledge that Iran halt sensitive nuclear development and allow international inspections. “If the goal is to avoid a war, it would be wise to reject this fundamentally flawed agreement that all but guarantees a nuclear Iran,” Gosar wrote in an op-ed for the Prescott Daily Courier. Gosar became briefly notorious in 2018 when his own family made an ad urging people to vote for his opponent. In 2018, Trump pulled the U.S. out of the nuclear deal with Iran, though Tehran indicated it would abide by the terms as long as the other world powers honored it. Following the American drone strike last week that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, however, Iran reversed that decision, saying it would no longer abide by the agreement. | |
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| 01-05-20 09:28pm - 1814 days | #3 | |
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There is a YouTube video of an interview of Elena Koshka - Taboo Interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Vm3XjecRTg She looks like an attractive "Girl Next Door" that was popularized by Playboy. Although born in Russia, she speaks English like an American. Really cute girl. And can be in some hot porn videos. One of my favorite porn models. | |
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| 01-05-20 12:04pm - 1814 days | #87 | |
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Fit18.com A new site that I came across. Guy interviews models, they give him a blowjob and then fuck. A lot of pretty models. What I don't like is the guy's head is blurred out. Seems sexist, to me. Blur the guy's head, why not blur the girl's head and the rest of her? | |
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| 01-04-20 04:00pm - 1815 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Hunter and nine-year-old daughter shot dead ‘after being mistaken for deer’ [The Independent] Colin Drury The Independent4 January 2020 A nine-year-old girl and her father have been shot dead after being mistaken for deer during a hunting trip. Lauren Drawdy and dad Kim, 30, were killed as their group attempted to drive the animals to different ground in the US state of South Carolina. They both died at the scene near the city of Walterboro in Colleton County, the state’s Department of Natural Resources has said. It remains unclear exactly how they came to be in the shooter’s sights during the incident on New Year’s Day or if they were wearing the bright orange safety jackets recommended – but not mandatory – for hunters in the US. Speaking on Thursday, Mr Drawdy’s brother, Benny, said the family had been left “devastated”. He told news channel WCSC: “I couldn’t believe it when I first got the news. I said, ‘It couldn’t be.’ It broke my heart and I couldn’t believe it, a twin brother and now there’s only one left. “Of all days, ringing in the new year, something like this happens. I got a phone call. They said there was a hunting accident in Walterboro. They thought it was my brother and we come to find out it was.” David Lucas, spokesman with the Department of Natural Resources, which is investigating the incident, said: “It’s not a thing that happens a lot. Hunting accidents are rare in general, and fatalities even more so.” | |
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| 01-04-20 03:51am - 1816 days | #1524 | |
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Terrible news. Horrible. An attractive woman who used to be a reporter at Fox news says that Donald Trump propositioned her while running for president. This is like a rat deserting a sinking ship: except the woman is very attractive, and does not look like a rat. If she jumped into my bed, I would have a hard time kicking her out. Maybe it was the woman's fault: Trump might have been feeling lonely, and wanted a little companionship. And the woman is really attractive. So it's her fault. Unless she's lying about our president, and he was only joking. Or trying to be friendly. Enquring minds want to know: are all the women who accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct liars? Or does the president lie, as he has admitted time and again? And no one believes he is telling the truth when he boasts that he lies? --------- --------- Ex-Fox News reporter Courtney Friel says Donald Trump asked her over 'to kiss' HuffPost US Ron Dicker Jan 3rd 2020 9:46PM Former Fox News reporter Courtney Friel says that Donald Trump propositioned her before he was elected president while both were married, and that the come-on compromised her reporting on his presidential campaign. Friel wrote in her new memoir “Tonight At 10: Kicking Booze and Breaking News” that Trump called her “the hottest one at Fox News,” according to the New York Daily News, which reported it viewed an excerpt. Trump, in a phone call, complimented Friel’s work and asked about career goals before getting more personal, she wrote. “Out of nowhere, he said: ‘You should come up to my office sometime, so we can kiss.’” Friel said she pointed out that both were married and “quickly ended the call.” AdChoices “This proposition made it difficult for me to report with a straight face on Trump running for president,” she wrote, per the Daily News. “It infuriated me that he would call all the women who shared stories of his bold advances liars. I totally believe them.” Courtney Friel says she quickly rejected Donald Trump's advances when she was working at Fox News. “At least now I can joke that I could have banged the President — but I passed,” she added. The White House did not immediately reply to HuffPost’s request for comment. Friel worked six years at Fox News as a New York correspondent, headline anchor and fill-in host for Trump favorite “Fox & Friends” before joining Los Angeles station KTLA in 2013, according to her station bio. Dozens of women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct from the early 1980s to 2016. He denies all of the claims. In 2017, then-press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the White House believed all of the Trump accusers who came forward during the 2016 campaign were lying. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 01-03-20 10:40pm - 1816 days | #1523 | |
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President Trump confesses: "God is on our side." God will strike down all sinners, including the scummy Dems who are trying to bring down our great nation. God will make America great again: Free, white, and the land of free men who can molest women without guilt. No Me Too Movement can succeed against the Will of God. Amen. ------ ------ Trump tells evangelicals that God is 'on our side' Yahoo News David Knowles Jan 3rd 2020 8:27PM Launching a political coalition called Evangelicals for Trump at a Florida megachurch on Friday, President Trump declared his belief that God supports his agenda. “I really do believe we have God on our side. I believe that. I believe that,” Trump said at King Jesus International Ministry in Kendall, Fla., adding, “or there would have been no way we could have won, right? People say how do you win, you don’t have the media, you have so many things against you, and we win. So, there has to be something.” Speaking before a crowd of roughly 7,000 people that included noted pastors such as James and Shirley Dobson, Robert Jeffress, Cissie Graham Lynch, Alveda King, Jack Graham and Alberto Delgado, Trump portrayed himself as a dream president for evangelicals. “Evangelicals, Christians of every denomination and believers of every faith have never had a greater champion, not even close, in the White House than you have right now. I think you know that.” Trump declared. “And I’m not saying that in any other way other than just look at the record.” Trump touted his pro-life agenda and his attempts to overturn the Johnson Amendment forbidding nonprofit organizations — such as churches like the one hosting his rally — from endorsing political candidates. Faith leaders pray with President Trump “Our opponents want to shut out God from the public square,” Trump said, later shifting his focus to specific critics within the Democratic Party. “These people hate Israel. They hate Jewish people. I won’t name them. I won’t bring up the name of Omar, Tlaib, AOC — I won’t bring that name up. Won’t bring it up,” Trump said. Before he left for his rally in Kendall, Trump made his first public comments on the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, casting the decision as in the interest of peace. We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war,” Trump told reporters at his Mar-a-Lago golf resort. At the rally, Trump said that he had “ensured that his [Soleimani’s] atrocities have been stopped for good.” “So let this be a warning to terrorists, if you value your own life, you will not threaten the lives of our own citizens,” Trump said. Trump’s courtship of the religious vote comes just weeks after a leading evangelical magazine, Christianity Today, published an editorial calling for Trump’s removal from office, calling him “morally lost and confused.” Exit polls showed that upwards of 80 percent of white evangelical Christians voted for Trump in 2016. While acknowledging that support, Trump told his crowd he hoped it would be even bigger come November. “We’re going to blow those numbers away in 2020,” Trump said. | |
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| 01-03-20 09:23am - 1816 days | #1522 | |
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Commander in Chief Donald Trump unleashes air strike that kills Iranian general. Trump, the bravest leader of US forces the nation has ever had. Although Trump was prevented from serving in the Armed Forces due to legal and medical and other reasons, Trump relished the power to send fear into the hearts of US enemies. And as President and Commander in Chief, Trump is using the Armed Forces to strike at our enemies everywhere. Take care, Canada, because Trump knows that Canada has evil people hidden in the vast wastelands north of us. Rearadmiral, perhaps you should consider moving south, to a state in the United States, where you will be less likely to be attacked by nuclear missiles? Trump uber alles. Trump, the heir to our glorious leader. Adolf Hitler, who taught Trump bitter lessons in power management through his books, that Trump keeps by his bedside. --------- --------- Trump tweets after U.S. strike: 'Iran never won a war' NBC News Dartunorro Clark Jan 3rd 2020 10:16AM President Donald Trump on Friday tweeted his first remarks since the U.S. airstrike that killed Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, one of that country's most powerful military and political figures. "Iran never won a war, but never lost a negotiation!" Trump tweeted Friday morning. It was not immediately clear what Trump meant by the statement. The president's first tweet, minutes after the news, was an image of the American flag. In more comments on Twitter later Friday morning, Trump said Soleimani was responsible for numerous deaths, including of thousands of Americans, and that he "was both hated and feared within the country." "General Qassem Soleimani has killed or badly wounded thousands of Americans over an extended period of time, and was plotting to kill many more ... but got caught! He was directly and indirectly responsible for the death of millions of people, including the recent large number .... of PROTESTERS killed in Iran itself," Trump tweeted. "While Iran will never be able to properly admit it, Soleimani was both hated and feared within the country. They are not nearly as saddened as the leaders will let the outside world believe. He should have been taken out many years ago!" Recent polling showed that Soleimani was the most popular Iranian public figure, with eight in 10 Iranians having favorable views of him, according to a public opinion study published by the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland in October. Trump ordered the U.S. strike that killed Qassem Soleimani, the high-profile commander of Iran's elite Quds Force and sometimes described as the country's second most influential person, at Baghdad International Airport on Thursday, according to the Pentagon. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed revenge in a statement on Friday after the news was confirmed, tweeting, "The great nation of Iran will take revenge for this heinous crime." Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei also said a "harsh retaliation is waiting for the criminals whose filthy hands spilled his blood." Democratic leaders Congress criticized Trump's decision. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said late Thursday night that the bombing was carried out without "authorization for use of military force" or consultation with Congress and called on the administration to immediately brief lawmakers on the next steps under consideration. Republicans praised the president's action. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement late Thursday that Soleimani "had American blood on his hands" and welcomed what he called Trump’s "bold action against Iranian aggression." Graham followed up his statement in a tweet on Friday, saying the strike was "a preemptive, defensive strike" to prevent potential future attacks on Americans in the region. "He effectively signed his own death warrant by planning massive attacks against U.S. personnel in Iraq and throughout the Middle East," he wrote in another tweet. The strike came amid heightened tensions between the Trump administration and Tehran over rocket attacks aimed at coalition forces in Iraq. U.S. officials have said those attacks were likely carried out by Iranian-backed militias with links to the Quds Force. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a Fox News interview Friday morning that the decision to kill the commander was “necessary” in the midst of what he called an “imminent attack” Soleimani had orchestrated. Pompeo said the purpose of the strike was to disrupt the attack and set “conditions for de-escalation.” Pompeo also said that growing tensions over the past two weeks necessitated the strike, adding “the restraint that President Trump had shown was important. And it's now the time we needed to take action to restore deterrence.” | |
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| 01-02-20 09:23pm - 1817 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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WARNING: Do not fall for Apple's tricks and swallow your AirPod. You might have to pay for hospital bills, that Apple will not cover. Apple is trying to advertise how powerful their AirPod is supposed to be. But I was told that the AirPod is not the delicious treat that Apple claims. Apple is slow to pay you for swallowing, if you are not a registered member of SAG. (Apple, hiding behind the rules of model endorsements, to inflate their profits.) --------- --------- Mother rushes 7-year-old to hospital after he swallows AirPod: 'I immediately U-turned my truck' A second-grader from Atlanta, Ga., accidentally swallowed his new, pricy Christmas gift earlier this week. Kiara Stroud was at work delivering mail when she got a call from her mother saying that she was on her way to the hospital with Stroud's 7-year-old son after he swallowed an AirPod. "I immediately U-turned my truck," Stroud told WSB-TV. The boy told his mother that he was holding the AirPod in his mouth while his grandmother was driving and he accidentally inhaled it. X-rays from the doctors at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egelston revealed the single wireless headset device in the boy's stomach, still fully intact. Doctors told Stroud that the AirPod should pass through the boy's body on its own within a couple of days. “We actually saw it because it has metal in it, so we could see it in the X-ray and I’m like, ‘This boy really swallowed his AirPod!’” Stroud said. I can’t make this up. My child, my child. Thanks for all of the prayers. We’re home. No more airpods for this kid 🤦🏾♀️ Posted by Kiara Stroud on Saturday, December 28, 2019 Stroud said her son was "very nervous" about the incident and is scared of getting too close to his phone — fearing that the devices could connect and music could start playing inside him. Otherwise, Stroud is relieved that her son is okay. A Taiwanese man accidentally swallowed an AirPod while sleeping in May 2019. Ben Hsu woke up and only saw one wireless earbud and after activating the iPhone tracking feature, heard the missing AirPod's beep from inside his stomach. Instead of surgery, doctors gave Hsu a laxative and told him to check his waste for signs of the AirPod — which he did the following day. After cleaning it, he was amazed to find out that it still worked. | |
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| 01-02-20 09:11pm - 1817 days | #1521 | |
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Real News: Ex-Governor Rod Blagojevich, now in prison for trying to sell Barack Obama's vacated seat in the Senate, says "We criminals need to stick together. Donald Trump was wrongly impeached. I was wrongly impeached by my enemies. I was put in prison. Donald, have a heart, and give me a pardon. Together, we will fight the Democrats and make America great again." Trump himself has said it was unfair that Rod was sent to prison. After all, all Rod did was say a few words over the phone. He did nothing wrong. It is totally unfair that Rod should be in prison over saying a few words, that were misunderstood. The man was bragging about his powers, not trying to do anything illegal." (Trump has a heart of gold, who understands that people can make mistakes. And it was a mistake to send send Rod to prison for trying to make a little extra money by selling Obama's seat in Congress. We live in the land of the Free, White, and Freedom, and Rod was only being a capitalist, like Trump is a capitalist, so let's all get along. Stop the impeachment. It's a phony witch hunt.) -------- -------- Imprisoned ex-Gov. Blagojevich says Dems would have impeached Lincoln in apparent appeal to Trump NBC News Allan Smith Jan 2nd 2020 12:58PM Rod Blagojevich, the imprisoned former Democratic governor of Illinois, authored a New Year's Day column arguing that Democrats would have impeached President Abraham Lincoln in what appeared to be an appeal to President Donald Trump for clemency. In the column, published by the conservative news outlet Newsmax, Blagojevich, said he himself "had the unhappy experience of being impeached and removed from office," which provided him with an "interesting and unique perspective about impeachment as I sit here in prison." Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison after he was infamously caught on tape trying to sell Barack Obama's vacated Senate seat in 2008. "I've got this thing and it's f------ golden," Blagojevich was caught saying in a wiretapped phone call. "I'm just not giving it up for f-----' nothing." Blagojevich was arrested in late 2008 for trying to profit from Obama's seat but refused to resign from office. The Illinois House of Representatives impeached him in early January of the following year and state Senate unanimously voted to remove Blagojevich, who was a state representative and three-term congressman before being elected to two terms as governor, and ban him from ever holding public office in the state again. Last month, the House adopted two articles of impeachment against Trump. The first charged the president with abusing his power by pressing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy — including on a July 25 phone call — to announce probes into former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden and Democrats while withholding military aid to the country and an official White House visit for Zelenskiy. The second article charged Trump with obstructing Congress' investigation into his efforts. In his column, Blagojevich decried what he called Democrats' "flimsy impeachment standard" and claimed they would have impeached Lincoln for his actions during the Civil War. Blagojevich was convicted in 2010 in Chicago federal court on one of the 24 felony charges he faced — lying to the FBI — as jurors deadlocked on the other charges. During a 2011 retrial, he was convicted on corruption charges stemming attempted shakedowns involving Obama's former seat, a racetrack and a children's hospital. He accepted responsibility for his actions at his sentencing hearing and received a lighter sentence than the 15-20 years prosecutors had sought. Blagojevich has filed appeals of his conviction and had some charges vacated. He has served about half of his sentence so far. The former governor has maintained that his conviction was unfair and his wife, Patti Blagojevich, has made multiple appearances on Fox News to plead for Trump's help. Trump has expressed openness to commuting the rest of Blagojevich's sentence, which he has said for years was unfair. Blagojevich was a contestant on Trump's reality show "The Celebrity Apprentice" in 2010. Trump said last year said that the White House was "continuing the review" of whether to commute his sentence. The president also called one of Patti's 2018 Fox News interviews "required television watching." "I am thinking about commuting his sentence," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One in August. "He’s been in jail for seven years, over a phone call where nothing happens. But over a phone — where nothing happened. Over a phone call where — which, you know, he shouldn’t have said what he said, but it was braggadocio, you would say." | |
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| 01-01-20 09:00am - 1818 days | #1520 | |
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Real news: Trump is not afraid of Kim Jong Un. He is best buddies with Kim. Kim won't send nuclear missile to land in America. Kim might nuke Japan and South Korea, to teach them a lesson in manners. But America is safe, since Trump and Kim are best buddies. Trump is a man of his word. Kim is a man of his word. So America is safe. --------- --------- Trump shrugs off Kim Jong Un's nuclear testing threat: 'He likes me' HuffPost US Dominique Mosbergen Jan 1st 2020 9:51AM Hours after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un signaled that his country is developing a “new strategic weapon” and could soon resume testing nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missiles, President Donald Trump appeared to shrug off the potential threat — saying at a New Year’s Eve party that Kim “likes me” and is a “man of his word.” Kim — as reported by Korean Central News Agency, the state mouthpiece — said on Wednesday local time that he no longer felt obliged to stick to a self-imposed moratorium on nuclear and long-range missile testing, which he said Pyongyang has abided by for the past two years. The North Korean leader accused the U.S. of engaging in “gangster-like acts,” such as continuing to hold joint military drills with South Korea. Under such conditions, Kim said, there is no reason for Pyongyang to remain “unilaterally bound to the commitment any longer.” Kim did not go so far as to say that he was ditching nuclear negotiations with the U.S., which have stalled since 2018 when Trump and Kim made vague promises to work toward denuclearization in the Korean Peninsula during a summit in Singapore. But Kim “confirmed that the world will witness a new strategic weapon to be possessed by [North Korea] in the near future,” KCNA reported, without elaborating on the type of weapon it would be. Asked about Kim’s strong rhetoric at a New Year’s Eve bash held at Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s Palm Beach resort, on Tuesday night, the president said only that he and Kim “get along” and had come to certain agreements in Singapore. “He likes me, I like him, we get along,” Trump said when asked about Kim’s remarks from earlier in the day. Pyongyang is 14 hours ahead of Palm Beach. “He did sign a contract, he did sign an agreement talking about denuclearization. ... That was done in Singapore, and I think he’s a man of his word, so we’re going to find out, but I think he’s a man of his word,” Trump continued. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told CBS News earlier in the day that it would be “deeply disappointing” if Kim “reneged on the commitments he made to President Trump.” “He made those commitments to President Trump in exchange for President Trump agreeing not to conduct large-scale military exercises,” Pompeo said. “We’ve lived up to our commitments. We continue to hold out hope that he will live up to his as well.” This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 12-31-19 05:23pm - 1819 days | #1519 | |
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Real News: North Korea admits that Trump is a gangster. Says it's fed up with Trump's criminal behavior. Says it will show the world that North Korea is a true superpower, with new super power weapons. Trump, talk to your best buddy Kim Jong Un. Tell him to make nice, and not threaten South Korea or Japan. Tell Kim to slip a cash payment under the table to the Trump charities, and the US and North Korea can be friends again. ---------- ---------- North Korean leader promises look at new weapon soon The Associated Press Tong-hyung Kim Dec 31st 2019 6:51PM SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused the Trump administration of dragging its feet in nuclear negotiations and warned that his country will soon show a new strategic weapon to the world as its bolsters its nuclear deterrent in face of “gangster-like” U.S. sanctions and pressure. The North’s state media said Wednesday that Kim made the comments during a four-day ruling party conference held through Tuesday in the capital Pyongyang, where he declared that the North will never give up its security for economic benefits in the face of what he described as increasing U.S. hostility and nuclear threats. Kim’s comments came after a monthslong standoff between Washington and Pyongyang over disagreements involving disarmament steps and the removal of sanctions imposed on the North. “He said that we will never allow the impudent U.S. to abuse the DPRK-U.S. dialogue for meeting its sordid aim but will shift to a shocking actual action to make it pay for the pains sustained by our people so far and for the development so far restrained,” the Korean Central News Agency said, referring to the North by its formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Kim added that “if the U.S. persists in its hostile policy toward the DPRK, there will never be the denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula and the DPRK will steadily develop necessary and prerequisite strategic weapons for the security of the state until the U.S. rolls back its hostile policy,” according to the agency. However, Kim showed no clear indication of abandoning negotiations with the United States entirely or restarting tests of nuclear bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles he had suspended under a self-imposed moratorium in 2018. He did issue a warning that there would be no grounds for the North to get “unilaterally bound” to the moratorium any longer, criticizing the United States for continuing its joint military exercises with rival South Korea and also providing the South with advanced weaponry. “In the past two years alone when the DPRK took preemptive and crucial measures of halting its nuclear test and ICBM test-fire and shutting down the nuclear-test ground for building confidence between the DPRK and the U.S., the U.S., far from responding to the former with appropriate measures, conducted tens of big and small joint military drills which its president personally promised to stop and threatened the former militarily through the shipment of ultra-modern warfare equipment into (South Korea),” the KCNA quoted Kim as saying. Some experts say North Korea, which has always been sensitive about electoral changes in U.S. government, will avoid engaging in serious negotiations for a deal with Washington in coming months as it watches how Trump’s impending impeachment trial over his dealings with Ukraine affects U.S. presidential elections in November. Kim and President Donald Trump have met three times since June 2018, but negotiations have faltered since the collapse of their second summit last February in Vietnam, where the Americans rejected North Korean demands for broad sanctions relief in exchange for a partial surrender of its nuclear capabilities. Kim’s speech followed months of intensified testing activity and belligerent statements issued by various North Korean officials, raising concerns that he was reverting to confrontation and preparing to do something provocative if Washington doesn’t back down and relieve sanctions. The North announced in December that it performed two “crucial” tests at its long-range rocket launch site that would further strengthen its nuclear deterrent, prompting speculation that it was developing an ICBM or planning a satellite launch that would provide an opportunity to advance its missile technologies. North Korea also last year ended a 17-month pause in ballistic activity by testing a slew of solid-fuel weapons that potentially expanded its capabilities to strike targets in South Korea and Japan, including U.S. military bases there. It also threatened to lift a self-imposed moratorium on the testing of nuclear bombs and ICBMs. | |
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| 12-29-19 08:09am - 1821 days | #1518 | |
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Donald Trump, the finest, most Christ-like President of the United States. Trump preaches respect and understanding. I admire Trump. He is the hero for the entire world. ----- ----- HuffPost Trump Blasts 'Crazy' Pelosi After Calling For 'Respect' In His Christmas Message POLITICS 12/25/2019 11:52 pm ET Updated 1 day ago Trump Blasts ‘Crazy’ Pelosi After Calling For ‘Respect’ In His Christmas Message We must “foster a culture of deeper understanding and respect, traits that exemplify the teachings of Christ,” Trump said before going off the rails again. President Donald Trump in his Christmas message Wednesday urged Americans to strive to “foster a culture of deeper understanding and respect, traits that exemplify the teachings of Christ.” Hours later he bashed “crazy” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) over the “scam” impeachment. “Why should Crazy Nancy Pelosi ... be allowed to Impeach the President of the United States?” he angrily tweeted. Trump’s lightning-fast turnaround was not that surprising. Despite his call for Christ-like “respect,” Trump has likely set the record for the number of insulting nicknames he has hurled at foes, including “Sleazebag” former FBI Director James Comey, “Shifty” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), “Low IQ” Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), “Crooked Hillary” Clinton, “Little Rocket Man” Kim Jong Un, “Lyin’” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), “Dumbo” Randolph Alles (former head of the Secret Service), “Fat Jerry” Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.), “Head Clown” Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), “Mr. Magoo” former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and “Dummy” former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) — to name just a fraction. Twitter critics couldn’t help pointing out the contrast between his holiday message and insulting Pelosi — and pointing out some flaws in his impeachment argument. | |
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| 12-27-19 01:43am - 1824 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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It's official: Miley Cyrus is now on the market for a new marriage. Miley has said in the past that she's open to a hetero relationship, but "is still “very sexually attracted to women.” So the field seems to be open wide. ------ ------ Miley Cyrus, Liam Hemsworth reach agreement in divorce settlement Us Magazine Dory Jackson Dec 26th 2019 11:09AM Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth are ready to put their past romance behind them. The estranged pair have officially reached an agreement on the terms of their divorce settlement. The “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart” singer’s attorney, Judith R. Forman, will file legal documents on Tuesday, December 24, to declare that the duo have hashed out the details of their separation, TMZ first reported. This news came a day after the former pair would have celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary. Cyrus, 27, and Hemsworth, 29, said “I do” last year in an intimate ceremony held at the Disney Channel alum’s Tennessee home. A source told Us Weekly at the time that California’s Woolsey wildfires, which burned down their Malibu home, is what “sealed the deal” for the exes and “their love exploded after that.” The “Wrecking Ball” songstress previously opened up about her “modern” marriage with her former love. “People become vegetarian for health reasons, but bacon is still f—king good, and I know that. I made a partner decision. This is the person I feel has my back the most,” Cyrus said in Elle’s August 2019 issue. “I definitely don’t fit into a stereotypical wife role. I don’t even like that word.” Cyrus also regarded her relationship as “unique,” and added that she’s in “a hetero relationship” but is still “very sexually attracted to women.” This past summer, Us confirmed that Cyrus and Hemsworth split after less than eight months of marriage. On August 10, a rep for Cyrus told Us that the Last Song costars “have decided this is what’s best while they both focus on themselves and careers” moving forward. “They still remain dedicated parents to all of their animals they share while lovingly taking this time apart,” the statement continued. The Hunger Games actor officially filed divorce on August 21. Since then, Hemsworth has been linked to fellow Australian star Maddison Brown. However, he introduced model Gabriella Brooks to his parents, Craig and Leonie Hemsworth, earlier this month. Liam is “happy to be moving on” and “feels comfortable” with Brooks, 21, following his split from Cyrus, an insider told Us on December 21. Cyrus, meanwhile, called off her one-month romance with Kaitlynn Carter in September. The former pair made headlines in August when they were caught locking lips in Italy after ending their respective relationships to Liam and Brody Jenner. The former Hannah Montana star began seeing Cody Simpson in October. Cyrus and Hemsworth’s lawyers could not be immediately reached for comment. | |
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| 12-26-19 06:11pm - 1824 days | #3 | |
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Couple calls 911 after mistaking vacuum for home intruder: 'Better safe than sorry' Gabrielle Sorto, AOL.com Dec 26th 2019 12:40PM A North Carolina couple called 911 this week after they believed there was an intruder in their home — but police ended up finding something much less threatening. Thomas Milam and his wife, Elisa Milam, called the police after they heard loud noises coming from the downstairs of their home, Fox 8 reported. The couple hid in the closet, thinking there was an intruder in their home. Officers from the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Department investigated and rather than finding an intruder, they found a stuck robotic vacuum. The Milams had only bought the Eufy robotic vacuum, which they named Harry, a couple of days ago, so they weren't used to it mulling around the house. The vacuum had somehow managed to turn itself on and got stuck. It was banging into a wall, which explained the noises that sent the Milams to hide in their closet. "(The officers) all just started laughing because they knew it was just one of those things but they were all great," Thomas told Fox 8. "They had great attitudes about it." Although the couple said they were embarrassed by the situation, they don't regret calling the police. "It definitely is better safe than sorry because having heard what we did, I still would have called the police and because you just never know," Thomas said. | |
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| 12-25-19 09:29am - 1825 days | #2 | |
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Sheriff Mark Essick apologized to Ward’s family and explained that his deputies mistook Ward, who’d reported his car stolen on Nov. 24, as the possible carjacker. Ward had not informed authorities he’d recovered his vehicle, Essick said, so deputies pursued the car when they spotted it the morning of Nov. 27. Instead of pulling over, however, Ward sped off and led police on a five-mile pursuit before finally stopping on a dead-end street, the sheriff said. However, the article goes on to say: Another sheriff’s deputy arrived at the scene and identified Ward as the rightful owner of the car. “This is the owner of this car. That’s David Ward,” the officer says, noting that he has “no idea why [Ward] ran. He had no reason to run.” “I was out with him earlier, like two hours ago, at his house,” the officer adds. ------------- So it's unclear if the officer who said the suspect was actually the owner of the car, knew that the car had been recovered. If the officer knew, the suspect might have thought the deputies should have known that the suspect was not a suspect, but the owner of the car. Are you required to make an official report that you have recovered your car, before driving the car? It's not clear. Also, was there a weapon in the car? Because that is a common defense police use when killing a suspect. That they thought there was a weapon the suspect was reaching for, or had in his possession. And the suspect was not obeying police commands. Probably because he was sick and weak and couldn't obey the commands. Of opening the door. Or climbing through the car door window. I wouldn't be able to climb through my car door window. Because I am weak, and have had different illnesses. And it would take someone in fit physical condition to be able to climb through a car window. Not someone who is almost crippled, in poor health. Especially if your starting position is the driver's seat of the car. The cops should have just shot the suspect. It would have been easier on the cops, and suspect. Less effort, less pain. More efficient. Empty the gun into the suspect's head. For resisting arrest. He's a suspect, isn't he? | |
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| 12-25-19 09:13am - 1825 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Support your local police. The police have a tough and sometimes dirty job, trying to keep the public safe. So they deserve our support. Especially when they happen to go overboard and possibly make a mistake. But this is a clear case where an officer was only trying to do his duty. That a suspect died was not a crime. It was merely an "Oh well" moment. ------ ------ Carjacking victim dies after cop mistakes him for robber, places him in chokehold HuffPost US Dominique Mosbergen Dec 23rd 2019 7:43AM Newly released police body camera footage shows a carjacking victim being slammed against his car, shot with a stun gun and grabbed in a chokehold by sheriff’s deputies in Northern California after they mistook him as the robber who stole the vehicle. The man, 52-year-old David Glen Ward, died shortly after the encounter. The bodycam footage was released on Friday as part of a video posted online by the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office. In the video, Sheriff Mark Essick apologized to Ward’s family and explained that his deputies mistook Ward, who’d reported his car stolen on Nov. 24, as the possible carjacker. Ward had not informed authorities he’d recovered his vehicle, Essick said, so deputies pursued the car when they spotted it the morning of Nov. 27. Instead of pulling over, however, Ward sped off and led police on a five-mile pursuit before finally stopping on a dead-end street, the sheriff said. “What our deputies did not know at the time was that Mr. Ward was not only the owner of the car, but the victim of the earlier carjacking,” Essick said in the video. “The suspect had pistol-whipped him and stolen his car. Mr. Ward had recovered the car, but failed to report it. It remains a mystery as to why he fled from our deputies.” Still, the sheriff described the actions of Deputy Charlie Blount, who slammed Ward’s head against the side of a car and placed him in a chokehold after finally stopping the vehicle, as “extremely troubling.” “As a result, I have served Deputy Blount with a notice of termination. He has been on administrative leave since this incident occurred and he will remain on leave until the conclusion of this investigation and all potential appeals have taken place,” Essick said. The bodycam footage shows Blount, Deputy Jason Little and a number of other officers around Ward’s car after the vehicle was stopped. In the video, Blount orders Ward — who deputies feared might be armed — to unlock his car door with one hand. Ward is seen apparently trying to unlock the door, but is unable to do so. Rolling down his window, Ward says: “I can’t believe this. I’m the injured party in this. Why you...harassing me all the time?” “Give me your hands, give me your...hands. Come out,” Blount, a 19-year veteran of the sheriff’s office, tells Ward as he begins trying to pull the man out through the car window. “Get him...out of the car.” As deputies attempted to pull Ward out of the vehicle, the man yelps in pain. “My legs, my legs,” Ward shouts. Blount notes that Ward’s legs appear to be trapped under the steering wheel. In the scuffle, Ward allegedly bites both Blount and Little. “Ah...he just bit me,” Little is heard saying. As Blount pulls Ward from the car, he’s seen slamming the man’s head against the side of the vehicle. Little twice uses his stun gun on Ward. Blount then puts Ward into what appears to be a carotid restraint, a hold that blocks a person’s carotid arteries and causes them to lose consciousness. As The Washington Post noted, several police departments banned the maneuver in the 1980s and 1990s after it was linked to the deaths of suspects. Following Ward’s death last month, the community arm of Sonoma County’s law enforcement oversight office recommended the sheriff’s office ban carotid restraints ― calling Ward’s death “a wake-up call.” After being placed in the chokehold, Ward ― unconscious ― was pulled from car. Officers initially said he was breathing, but later expressed concern that he’d stopped. Another sheriff’s deputy arrived at the scene and identified Ward as the rightful owner of the car. “This is the owner of this car. That’s David Ward,” the officer says, noting that he has “no idea why [Ward] ran. He had no reason to run.” “I was out with him earlier, like two hours ago, at his house,” the officer adds. “Oh well,” Blount responds. Officers performed CPR on Ward, but he was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. In the body cam video, Little is heard saying that Ward had a knife in the car. Blount’s attorney later claimed Ward may have had drugs in his system. “Frankly, Mr. Ward caused his own death by inexplicably taking a number of bizarre actions that confirmed in the deputies’ minds that he was an armed carjacker, rather than the victim of that crime,” the lawyer, Harry Stern, told the Post in a statement. “It is my understanding that the medical evidence will show that Mr. Ward had a serious preexisting condition and had methamphetamine in his system — most significantly, there were no indications of trauma to his neck.” Officials have released no information about any weapons found in Ward’s car or substances that may have been in his body. The Marin County Coroner’s Office is reportedly still probing Ward’s death. Essick said he released the bodycam footage “so the community can get as full a picture as possible about critical incidents in our county, regardless of whether it puts us in a good light or bad.” “Please know that this one person does not reflect the culture of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office and does not represent the hardworking men and women who work here,” Essick added. Catherine Aguilera, Ward’s half-sister, told the Press Democrat that her brother had lived with disabilities and serious health issues including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and a heart condition. Aguilera said Ward had nearly been killed by a drunk driver about 20 years ago. He used an oxygen tank and often relied on a wheelchair to move around, she said. “He was in poor health,” Aguilera told the paper. “He had a hard time breathing and it’s hard to imagine him having even the energy or force to aggressively avoid an arrest.” This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 12-24-19 08:02am - 1826 days | #1517 | |
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Republicans, like Trump and ex-Kentucky governor Matt Bevin, are men with hearts of gold. They love to issue pardons to criminals who have been wrongly imprisoned. ----- ----- FBI probing ex-Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin's controversial flood of pardons: Report HuffPost US Mary Papenfuss Dec 24th 2019 9:03AM The FBI is asking questions about an avalanche of pardons granted by former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin that included those for a child rapist and the relative of a political donor, The Louisville Courier Journal reported. In the weeks before the Republican governor left office after his failed reelection bid, Bevin pardoned or reduced the sentences of at least 650 people. He pardoned a child rapist who was sentenced to 23 years in prison just last year. He also pardoned Patrick Baker, who served just two years of a 19-year sentence for reckless homicide and robbery in the slaying of a victim as his family watched. Baker’s brother hosted an event last year that raised $21,500 for Bevin. Democratic State Rep. Chris Harris told Courier Journal reporters for an article published Monday that a criminal investigator contacted him last week and asked what he knew about Bevin’s pardons. The newspaper, citing sources, reported the investigator was an FBI agent. Harris said he doesn’t know if the investigation is formal or informal. “I can tell you, at least, there are questions being asked.” he said. Bevin has said he welcomes an investigation, and denied that campaign contributions affected his decisions. Politicians in both parties have expressed outrage at Bevin’s actions. The Democratic leader in the state Senate has called for an investigation. “It’s clear there was political favoritism involved in these pardons,” Sen. Morgan McGarvey said Monday. “We have got to find out if the pardon power was abused and possibly sold to restore the public’s trust in the system.” Baker has claimed he was framed. As for the child rapist, Bevin has apparently determined on his own that the rapist was innocent because the ex-governor said the 9-year-old victim’s hymen was intact — which does not prove rape did not occur, according to experts. President Donald Trump traveled to Kentucky to campaign for Bevin in the days leading up to the November election. He suggested that votes for Bevin — as well as in the Mississippi and Louisiana gubernatorial races — would be an indication of how America was feeling about impeachment, The Wall Street Journal reported. A Republican narrowly won in Mississippi, Louisiana stuck with its Democratic governor, and the Kentucky statehouse flipped to Democratic. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 12-22-19 12:49pm - 1828 days | #3 | |
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| 12-21-19 09:54pm - 1829 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Check out the great specials at PU, TBP, or Rabbits Reviews. The first month at some fine sites are listed at $5 or $10, renewing at a much higher price. So, join for a month, and check these sites out. https://www.thebestporn.com/categories_n...orn_deals/all_sites/ That's the TBP page Sex Art for $5 for the first month. That's the lowest I've ever seen it. | |
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| 12-19-19 08:52am - 1831 days | #1516 | |
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Fake news: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell admits he is a liar and is proud of supporting Trump. Says he will back Trump no matter what. Says the Republican party is going to fight Democrats with lies and slurs. Go, Trump, man of the people. McConnell admires Trump for his affairs with Playboy Playmates. Says he wishes he had the money and stamina Trump has, so Mitch could fuck those beauties too. ------- ------- McConnell calls Pelosi 'too afraid' to give impeachment articles to Senate NBC News Allan Smith and Frank Thorp V Dec 19th 2019 10:24AM Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said Thursday that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., "may be too afraid" to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate after the speaker suggested she won't submit them until she believes a fair trial will take place. McConnell lambasted the impeachment from the Senate floor as "the most rushed, least thorough, and most unfair ... in modern history." He said Pelosi "gave in to a temptation" and that the House impeached Trump "simply because they disagree with a presidential act." The two articles of impeachment approved by the House on Wednesday charge Trump with abuse of power and obstruction of Congress. McConnell said those articles are "fundamentally unlike any articles that any prior House of Representatives has ever passed" and the idea Democrats will withhold the articles suggests "House Democrats may be too afraid to even transmit their shoddy work product to the Senate." "Looks like the prosecutors are getting cold feet in front of the entire country and second-guessing whether they even want to go to trial," McConnell said, trashing the "comical" idea that Democrats will now "sit on their hands." Such actions "concede that their own allegations are unproven," McConnell said, suggesting that "every future president" could now face impeachment, "free to swamp the Senate with trial after trial, no matter how baseless." "The framers built the Senate to provide stability," McConnell said, adding, "To keep partisan passions from boiling over. The Senate exists for moments like this." The first article charges Trump for pushing Ukraine to announce probes into former Vice President Joe Biden, his son Hunter Biden and Democrats at the same time he was withholding nearly $400 million in military aid and an official White House visit for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The second article charges Trump with obstructing the House's investigation into that conduct. "If the Senate blesses this slapdash impeachment, if we say from now on this is enough, then we invite an endless parade of impeachment trials," he said. Trump also expressed disdain over the idea that Democrats may not immediately submit the articles, tweeting on Thursday: "Now the Do Nothing Party want to Do Nothing with the Articles & not deliver them to the Senate, but it's Senate’s call!" "The Senate shall set the time and place of the trial," he said. "If the Do Nothing Democrats decide, in their great wisdom, not to show up, they would lose by Default!" The articles must be transmitted to the Senate before such a trial could begin. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., spoke on the Senate floor moments after McConnell, excoriating the top Republican for "proudly" saying he had "no intention to be impartial" in the trial. He said of his Senate counterpart's earlier evisceration of Democrats' impeachment push: "What hypocrisy." "This from the man who proudly declared his number one goal was to make President Obama a one-term president," Schumer said, adding that McConnell proudly called himself the "grim-reaper" of legislation passed by the House. Earlier this week, Schumer proposed calling four Trump administration witnesses, including former national security adviser John Bolton and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney at the Senate trial. House Democrats previously subpoenaed all four officials, who did not testify. Pointing to those witnesses, Schumer asked, "Is the president's case so weak that none of the president's men can defend him under oath?" "If the House case is so weak, why is Leader McConnell so afraid of witnesses and documents?" he added. Pelosi on Wednesday excoriated McConnell for pledging "total coordination" with the White House for the coming Senate trial, which she compared to the foreman of a jury being in "cahoots" with the defendant's attorney. "We're not sending (the articles) tonight because it's difficult to determine who the managers would be until we see the arena in which we will be participating," Pelosi said, adding, "So far, we haven't seen anything that looks fair to us, so hopefully it will be fairer, and when we see what that is, we'll send our managers." Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., tweeted that such withholding of the articles of impeachment "would be a breathtaking violation of the Constitution, an act of political cowardice, and fundamentally unfair to" Trump. "Not allowing the Senate to act on approved Articles of Impeachment becomes Constitutional extortion and creates chaos for the presidency," he continued. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., told reporters Thursday that McConnell "has a problem" because he "said that he's going to work hand in glove with the White House." Nadler added he believes McConnell "disqualified himself" as a result. | |
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| 12-19-19 07:49am - 1831 days | #1515 | |
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Real news: Although Trump has been harder on Russia than any US president, Putin admires Trump. And has come to Trump's defense. Putin says that Trump will be acquitted. -------- -------- Putin: Trump impeachment 'far-fetched,' Senate will acquit The Associated Press VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV and HARRIET MORRIS Dec 19th 2019 8:15AM MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin called the U.S. impeachment process “far-fetched” Thursday, making a seemingly obvious prediction that Donald Trump will be acquitted in the Senate. Putin said Thursday at his annual news conference in Moscow that the move is a continuation of the Democrats' fight against Trump. “The party that lost the (2016) election, the Democratic Party, is trying to achieve results by other means," Putin said. He likened Trump's impeachment to the earlier U.S. probe into collusion with Russia, which Putin downplayed as being groundless. Putin noted that the impeachment motion "is yet to pass the Senate where the Republicans have a majority." He added that “they will be unlikely to remove a representative of their own party from office on what seems to me an absolutely far-fetched reason.” Trump was impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming only the third American chief executive to be formally charged under the Constitution’s ultimate remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors. The historic vote split along party lines Wednesday night in the U.S., much the way it has divided the nation, over a charge that the 45th president abused the power of his office by enlisting a foreign government to investigate a political rival ahead of the 2020 election. The House then approved a second charge, that he obstructed Congress in its investigation. The articles of impeachment, the political equivalent of an indictment, now go to the Senate for trial. Turning to a spat with Germany over the killing of a Georgian citizen in Berlin in August, which German prosecutors alleged had been ordered by Moscow or authorities in the Russian province of Chechnya, Putin described the victim as a “bloodthirsty killer.” He said the man, an ethnic Chechen who was accused of being responsible for the killing of 98 people in just one raid in Russia's North Caucasus and masterminding bombings on the Moscow subway system. Russian officials have denied that Moscow had any relation to the killing, Putin said that Russian law enforcement agencies had spoken to their German counterparts to demand the man's extradition, but were given the cold shoulder and never sent a formal extradition request. He likened the victim to Islamic State group militants in custody in Turkey, some of whom come from Germany, France and other European nations. “If those people come your way, will you like it?” Putin said. “Will you let them freely roam the streets like that?” He argued that law enforcement agencies in Russia and Europe need to cooperate more closely to fend off terror threats. Putin spoke on a variety of issues during the marathon news conference that was dominated by local issues, such as Russia's ailing health care system and federal subsidies for the regions. He opened it by warning about new challenges posed by global climate change, saying that global warming could threaten Russian Arctic cities and towns built on permafrost. The Russian leader added that climate changes could trigger fires, devastating floods and other negative consequences. Putin emphasized that Russia has abided by the Paris agreement intended to slow down global warming. At the same time, he noted that factors behind global climate change have remained unknown and hard to predict. Putin, who has been in power for two decades, also hailed the economic achievements of his rule. He emphasized that Russia has become the world's largest grain exporter, surpassing the U.S. and Canada — a dramatic change compared to the Soviet Union that heavily depended on grain imports. The Russian leader also pointed at industry modernization, saying that three quarters of industrial equipment is no older than 12 years. He said that the country has built three new airports, 12 new railway stations and the number of major highways has doubled. The Russian economy had suffered a double blow of a drop in global oil prices and Western sanctions that followed Moscow's 2014 annexation of Crimea. It has seen a slow recovery since 2017 after a two-year stagnation. | |
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| 12-19-19 07:29am - 1831 days | #85 | |
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5kteens.com Advertises 5K videos. Supposedly, the sharpest videos on the internet. I watch porn on a laptop or a regular monitor, so 5K really needs ultra high definition equipment to get the full benefit. | |
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| 12-19-19 03:06am - 1832 days | #1514 | |
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Real news: The White House is handing out Christmas cards as the House debates impeachment Gabrielle Sorto, AOL.com Dec 18th 2019 4:00PM It seems nothing is going to stop the White House from handing out Christmas cards — not even the looming impeachment of the president. As the House of Representatives began debating two articles of impeachment — abuse of power and obstruction of Congress —against President Trump on Wednesday morning, White House staffers began handing out Christmas cards to members of the Senate. Sen. Chris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, tweeted a photo and description of the "package" he received today. Not only did senators get a White House Christmas card, but they also got a copy of Trump's scathing letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi protesting his impeachment. | |
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| 12-18-19 01:08am - 1833 days | #7 | |
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Completely agree. Take care, people.  | |
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| 12-17-19 06:37pm - 1833 days | #8 | |
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Robert De Niro's company files $6 million suit against female ex-employee for watching TV while at work. $6 million? That would pay for a lot of TV watching. ------------ ------------ December 17, 2019 9:25am PT by Ashley Cullins Robert De Niro's Ex-Employee Asks Court to Toss $6M Suit Alleging 'Friends' Binge-Watching at Work "There is no case law holding that purportedly watching television during work gives rise to liability under any of the legal theories Canal advances," argues Graham Chase Robinson's lawyer. Frazer Harrison/Getty Images "There is no case law holding that purportedly watching television during work gives rise to liability under any of the legal theories Canal advances," argues Graham Chase Robinson's lawyer. Robert De Niro's former employee is asking a New York court to toss a complaint filed against her by her ex-boss — claiming it's nothing more than unlawful retaliation because she had threatened a suit before his was filed. De Niro's Canal Productions in August filed a $6 million lawsuit against former vp production and finance Graham Chase Robinson and alleged that she not only abused company credit cards, but also binge-watched Netflix (including 55 episodes of Friends) while on the clock. Robinson fired back with a gender discrimination and retaliation suit alleging that De Niro doesn't believe "men should treat women as equals" and that she was subjected to sexually charged comments and underpaid. De Niro's lawyer Tom Harvey called her allegations "beyond absurd." Now, Robinson is asking the court to either pause De Niro's "retaliatory, abusive and deficient" suit or throw it out in favor of the one she filed in New York federal court. Alternatively, Robinson wants the court to strike the requested damages as excessive and toss the claims related to binge-watching. "These inflammatory accusations are scandalous and prejudicial — so much so that they 'went viral,'" writes Alexandra Harwin in the filing, which is posted in full below. "The allegations are also irrelevant to Canal’s claims: there is no case law holding that purportedly watching television during work gives rise to liability under any of the legal theories Canal advances." Harwin also argues that the fraud claim should be dismissed because its "inherently implausible" that Robinson took almost half a year off "on the sly" because De Niro insisted that she be available around the clock and Canal was "keenly aware" of her schedule. | |
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| 12-16-19 10:58pm - 1834 days | #7 | |
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I haven't been following the case closely. But I can easily understand that the Hollywood factor attracts more attention than "ordinary" citizens who have not gained national prominence. My understanding of the cases is shallow. But the justice system is, to my belief, lopsided and strongly in favor of people with money, power, influence. Back in the 1970s, I read of a poor smuck who took an old chair from an abandoned house in Georgia, near where I was living at the time. The poor smuck was sentenced to over 4 years in prison for his crime. Taking old chair (worth maybe $2 or less) from an abandoned house. People who steal millions of dollars are sentenced to far less time. Better lawyers, I assume, along with associates who testify how wonderful these multi-million dollar thieves are. So the justice system is based on fighting for your rights. If Loughlin wants to fight, more power to her. This is completely different from what the Asian culture teaches: where people are supposed to confess guilt and shame after being accused. Just a different way of behaving, I guess. Look at Donald Trump. The telflon Don. Deny everything, no matter what the evidence shows. The evidence is only a bunch of lies, anyway. And Trump is proud of how smart he is: he tells lies, people believe his lies, and he is proud that he is smarter than they are. And if they don't believe his lies, they are thieves and witch hunters and evil scum who are trying to drag him down. Never surrender, never give up. Trump uber alles. | |
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| 12-16-19 10:20pm - 1834 days | #5 | |
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I've been watching the new trailer for Wonder Woman. I thought the Wonder Woman movie with Gail Gadot was very enjoyable. But now I see that Chris Pine, who died heroically to save the lives of innocent people from bombs, is back again in the new Wonder Woman movie? Was Chris Pine re-awakened as a clone? As a cybernetic monster from Hell who will unleash his evil side when Wonder Woman is most vulnerable? Will the evil Gods of the Seventh Realm of Hades swarm into innocent virgin bodies to create un-imaginable evils throughout the land of the Free and Brave? Stay tuned for the new Wonder Woman movie, coming soooooooonnnnnnnnnn!!!!!!!! | |
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| 12-16-19 09:38pm - 1834 days | #4 | |
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This is not right. A law-enforcement officer was suspended or possibly fired after a video was exposed that shows the officer trying to teach a student the proper way to show respect for the law. Support your local police. They are there to protect you. And surveillance videos must be removed from all public areas, unless the police have the fundamental right of disqualifying these snoopy devices from being admitted as evidence. ............ ............ Sheriff's deputy fired after video shows him slamming, dragging student: 'We were shocked' Gabrielle Sorto, AOL.com Dec 16th 2019 4:00PM A North Carolina sheriff's deputy was fired after surveillance video caught him body-slamming a middle school student. The deputy, whose name was not released, was terminated, "effective immediately," Vance County, N.C., Sheriff Curtis Brame told WTVD. State investigators are now deciding whether to file criminal charges against him. He was previously on paid administrative leave after the video surfaced on Thursday. The footage from Vance County Middle School shows the resource officer grab a student, slam him against his body and throw him on the ground. He then picks up the child and throws him to the ground again before dragging him down the hall. The video doesn't have audio, so investigators don't know what was said before the former deputy lashed out at the child. Brame said the former deputy has yet to offer an explanation as to what prompted his reaction. "When we first saw the video ... we were shocked," Brame told ABC News. "I don't expect my deputy or any deputy, or law enforcement in North Carolina to carry out their duties in that way." The school released a statement expressing it is "deeply concerned by the actions that took place." "School and district officials are working closely and in full cooperation with the local authorities to address this matter consistent with school board policy and state laws," the statement said. Vance County District Attorney Mike Waters told ABC News the unnamed boy suffered minor injuries. Waters said that he couldn't think of a justification for the "stunning" incident. "I don't know what was said," he told ABC News. "I don't think anything that was said or anything like that could justify his action. I don't think that will be relevant to any determination." A decision on whether to charge the deputy or take the case to a grand jury will be made early this week, according to Waters. | |
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| 12-16-19 08:41pm - 1834 days | #3 | |
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Watch almost any crime on TV or at the movies: Yes, those are fictions. But the common theme that recurs is that "lawmen", which includes prosecutors, are the entitled ones. They are heroes fighting for justice. So when a cop shoots and kills some unarmed black teenager who is running away, the cop is only doing his job: and 9 times out of 10 (or more often), the cop is not arrested for murder. Instead, the police department praises the cop for doing his job. How many times in a year do cops shoot and kill unarmed suspects? Read the news. The cops are only doing their job. And they no longer have to say it was self-defense. (Although, they do bring up that defense, saying they thought the suspect was reaching for a weapon, or did not follow lawful orders from the cop.) Read newspaper accounts more closely. The cop orders the suspect: "Don't move." At the same time, the cop says: "Show me your hands." And then the cop shoots the suspect, because how can you not move, and at the same time, show your hands? You can't. You're breaking the law, if you show your hands. You're also breaking the law, if you don't show your hands. And it's a matter of pride (and maybe frustration) when you're doing your job: making the streets safe by arresting or killing suspects. "Sure... because the investigators had a reason to make all of this up." A large part of the job of investigators is to make a case. Get real. They are bullshit artists. Listen to politicians. From Wikipedia: Politicians should not forget that voters never grow weary of illusory promises...Politician must always tell people what they want to hear. Years ago, I was walking in my neighborhood for exercise. A couple of cops stopped me and asked what I was doing. This was around 10 in the morning. Broad daylight. I said I was walking. They asked me if I was on parole. I said no. They again asked me if I was on parole. I said no. They again asked me if I was on parole. I said no. Then they said, "Are you off of parole?" I said no. I was dressed in regular street clothes. I was not drunk. I drink rarely. I have an alcoholic drink maybe a few times a year, at a wedding or celebration. I don't do drugs (except for meds prescribed by my doctor). I was in my 60s. I wasn't acting strange. I was walking. For exercise. The cops finally said that a neighbor reported me for acting strange. I accepted that, not that I thought I did anything strange, but that a neighbor who did not know me thought I was a suspicious character on her street. I showed the cops my drivers license, that showed my current address was two streets down. That I lived there. (I assumed that gave me the right to walk on the streets, since I lived in the area.) The cops said I could go. They didn't arrest me. (They also asked what I did for a living, and a few other questions.) The cops said I could go. They were just doing their job. I very rarely walk in my neighborhood any more. Pains of old age, also I was frightened by the experience with the cops. A relative was married to a cop. I heard some stories about what some cops have done. And I read in the paper about cops shooting and killing people all the time, for little or no defensible reason, and the cops almost always get off. No punishment for killing or beating a person. (Any person who is beaten by a cop is guilty of re-sisting arrest, and not following orders.) End of rant. Edited on Dec 16, 2019, 08:50pm | |
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| 12-16-19 05:22am - 1834 days | #1513 | |
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Trump's allies in the House and Senate are the smartest people in Washington. They don't need to hear any evidence. Their minds are already made up. Don't try to confuse us with evidence or the truth. We know what to do, which is support Trump, no matter what. Trump is above the law. He is the president. Do or die: Do you support Trump? If not, you are a traitor and will go straight to Hell. ----------- ----------- Lindsey Graham says he's 'made up' his mind before Trump’s senate trial even starts HuffPost US Nick Visser Dec 16th 2019 5:39AM Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said Sunday he had already made up his mind about President Donald Trump’s culpability in the ongoing impeachment inquiry even though the House has yet to vote on the charges and the Senate has not yet begun any trial into his behavior. “I think what’s best for the country is to get this thing over with,” Graham, speaking on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” said Sunday. “I am clearly made up my mind. I’m not trying to hide the fact that I have disdain for the accusations in the process.” He continued to say he didn’t “need any witnesses” during a potential trial in the Senate, even though the White House has largely blocked many officials with direct knowledge of Trump’s behavior from speaking to lawmakers. The House is set to vote on two articles of impeachment against the president in the coming days related to his behavior surrounding a call with the leader of Ukraine: One for abuse of power and the other on obstruction of Congress. Trump has been accused of pressuring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to open an investigation into a political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, and his son in exchange for the release of nearly $400 million in military aid and a prestigious visit to the White House. If the impeachment articles are passed, Trump would become just the third president in American history to be impeached. The Senate would hold a trial early next year to determine if he should be removed from office, but two-thirds of the chamber would have to vote to do so, which is unlikely as Republicans currently hold a 53-47 majority. Graham is one of the president’s most vocal defenders in Congress and has long accused Democrats of attempting to overturn the results of the 2016 election. He echoed that criticism on Sunday, saying the party had begun “weaponizing impeachment.” “What you’re doing in the House is bad for the presidency. You’re impeaching the president of the United States in a matter of weeks, not months,” Graham told host Margaret Brennan, saying Trump had been “shut out” of the impeachment process. “I want to end it. I don’t want to legitimize it. I hate what they’re doing.” Contrary to Graham’s claims, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) invited Trump to participate in hearings, saying the president had the right to review any evidence leveled against him or call witnesses. The White House refused the offer, saying the effort was “highly partisan” and violated “all past historical precedent” in a scathing letter. Republican leaders have continued to defend the president throughout the impeachment process and many in the Senate have already begun to come to his defense. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday he didn’t believe any member of the party in the chamber planned to vote to remove Trump from office, saying there was “no chance” the president would be ousted. McConnell also said Senate Republicans would be coordinating their positions with White House attorneys throughout the process. “We have no choice but to take it up. But we’ll be working through this process, hopefully in a short period of time, in total coordination with the White House counsel’s office and the people representing the president in the well of the Senate,” McConnell said at the time. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 12-16-19 05:14am - 1834 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Lori Loughlin's lawyers believe federal agents are liars and criminals. It has been shown in the past that federal agents can lie and steal. They can withhold evidence illegally. They can also plant fake evidence. Never trust the government, which has a mandate to lie and withhold actual news from the public. -------------- Lori Loughlin’s lawyers claim federal agents hiding evidence New York Daily News Storm Gifford Dec 16th 2019 4:37AM Lori Loughlin is crying foul. The 55-year-old actress and husband, Mossimo Giannulli, are claiming the Justice Department is refusing to turn over integral evidence in their college admissions bribery case. Now, they’re asking a judge to compel prosecutors to show it. On Friday, attorneys for the “Full House” star and her fashion designer husband filed a motion demanding the government produce the materials. Both pled not guilty to forking over $500,000 to Rick Singer, the admitted leader of a national college admissions cheating and bribery plot. The couple’s lawyers are also asking for all information concerning Singer’s representations to his clients regarding payments to the University of Southern California as well as information about “USC’s knowledge of Singer’s operation,” reported Yahoo! on Saturday. The attorneys also assert those documents would help support Loughlin and Giannulli’s contention that they made legitimate donations to the nonprofit led by Singer, not bribes. “The government’s theory in this case is that Giannulli and Loughlin knowingly bribed a rogue USC administrator in order to secure their daughters’ admission to the university,” reads the motion. “But the government appears to be concealing exculpatory evidence that helps show that both defendants believed all of the payments they made would go to USC itself — for legitimate, university-approved purposes — or to other legitimate charitable causes.” On “Full House,” Loughlin played Aunt Becky, the wife of John Stamos’ Jesse character. She also appeared in the Hallmark Channel series “When Calls the Heart.” But after her and her husband’s arrest, the series’ editors digitally edited her from the show as well as from all other Hallmark productions. Their trial is scheduled to begin in 2020. | |
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| 12-14-19 07:24pm - 1836 days | #1512 | |
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Real news: Can a Democrat save his soul by turning into a Republican? Can this Democrat vote against impeachment and follow his conscience? Will he then join Republicans who will go to heaven along with Donald Trump, God's messenger on Earth, who hates Democrats because they are pure evil. ----------- ----------- Rep. Jeff Van Drew, opposed to impeachment, expected to leave Democratic Party NBC News Heidi Przybyla and David K. Li and Alex Moe Dec 14th 2019 7:49PM A Democratic congressman from a swing district in southern New Jersey — who has been outspoken in his opposition to President Donald Trump's impeachment — is likely to leave the party, sources told NBC News on Saturday. Two Democratic leadership sources said they expect Rep. Jeff Van Drew to change his registration to Republican in the wake of his stance against the House Democratic-led efforts to impeach Trump. Van Drew did not immediately return a request for comment from NBC News. An internal poll conducted earlier this month for Van Drew showed he would be unlikely to win re-election to his seat in the 2nd Congressional District, which encompasses the southern tip of Jersey and includes Atlantic City. Only 28 percent of Democratic respondents said Van Drew "deserves to be re-nominated," while 58 percent said that "another Democrat" should represent the party in the district's 2020 election, according to the poll obtained by NBC News. AdChoices Van Drew was among a handful of Democrats to vote against going forward with the impeachment inquiry back in October. Since then, testimony presented at House hearings over the last few weeks that Trump asked Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelenskiy to investigate the former vice president and his son Hunter as the administration placed a hold on military funding to the country, failedto change Van Drew's mind. "My district is red — a good chunk of it — and they're definitely anti-impeachment. And then I have the part that is purple, and they are more pro-impeachment. So whatever you do, you're going to aggravate people," he told NBC News. In 2018, Van Drew won the seat with 52.9 percent of the vote. In 2016, Trump took the district after it had voted for former President Barack Obama in both 2008 and 2012. In the last week, some the state's leading Democrats, including Gov. Phil Murphy, have opted not to endorse Van Drew's re-election bid. | |
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| 12-13-19 05:51pm - 1837 days | #84 | |
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allblackx.com Looks like a new site, or at least, one I haven't seen before. Just got an email add to join for $5/month (streaming only). Streaming only for $5/month seems like the newest fad. (As used by Adult Time.) But allblackx features black women with black stunt cocks. You also get access to 4 other sites. Advertises access to over 1,000 hard-core videos. I've got too many memberships to enjoy what I've got, but $5/month streaming seems like a cheap way to sample their wares. But the public, non-member page seems to show attractive models. Part of Gamma Entertainment (owner/operator of Adult Time), but not included in the Adult Time network yet. HardX is included with AllBlackX, and HardX is already listed at PU. So AllBlackX should be an easy addition to the PU site. Edited on Dec 13, 2019, 07:52pm | |
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