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| 09-19-18 06:51am - 2289 days | #1113 | |
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Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Good Morning America Anita Hill urges Senate to 'push the pause button' on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh Good Morning America ALISA WIERSEMA,Good Morning America 16 minutes ago Anita Hill urges Senate to push the pause button' on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh (ABC News) Nearly three decades after Anita Hill testified about her own sexual harassment allegations against now-Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, she advised the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday to “push the pause button” on high court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. Speaking exclusively on “Good Morning America,” Hill told ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos that she backs Christine Blasey Ford’s request for an FBI investigation into her allegation that an intoxicated Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her at a high school party 36 years ago, which he has vehemently denied. “Absolutely, it's the right move,” Hill said of Ford’s request. “The hearing questions need to have a frame and the investigation is the best frame for that. A neutral investigation, that can pull together the facts, create a record, so that the senators can draw on the information they receive to develop their question.” (MORE: Kavanaugh's accuser wants FBI investigation before testifying) PHOTO: Professor Anita Hill is sworn-in before testifying at the Senate Judiciary hearing on the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination. Miss Hill testified on her charges of alleged sexual harassment by Judge Thomas, Oct. 11, 1991. (Bettmann Archive/Getty Images ) If the purpose of the hearing is to get to the truth, an investigation is unavoidable, Hill said, though cautioning senators to proceed with the U.S. public in mind. “The American public really is expecting something more,” she told “GMA.” “The American public wants to know about what happened and they want to know that the Senate takes this seriously.” PHOTO: Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 4, 2018. (J. Scott Applewhite/AP) Hill, whose 1991 Senate testimony occurred five days after her allegations went public, reflected on her feeling as though the public hearing was meant to deter her from going forward with her testimony 27 years ago. Such sentiments seem to have resurfaced in how Republican Senators are approaching Ford’s allegation against Judge Kavanaugh, Hill said. “It occurs to me that two things are going on, that either they don't take this seriously, that they aren't concerned about this complaint as many Americans are, or that they just want to get it over. I'm not sure which is in play,” she said, adding, “Maybe they're not concerned or maybe they just don't know how to handle this kind of a situation.” (MORE: The Note: Uncertainties cloud Kavanaugh fight) PHOTO: Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas gestures, Sept. 10, 1991, during confirmation hearings before the US Senate Judiciary Committee, in Washington. (David Ake/AFP/Getty Images) Hill had accused Thomas of making unwanted advances and lewd remarks when they worked at the Education Department and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the 1980s, which he denied. While she did not offer direct advice to Ford, she urged the Senate Judiciary Committee to hold off on going forward with the hearing. “My advice is to push the pause button on this hearing, get the information together, bring in the experts and put together a hearing that is fair, that is impartial, that is not biased by politics or by myth and bring this information to the American public,” she said. ------------------ ------------------ HuffPost GOP Strategists Are Dreading A Hearing On Kavanaugh Assault Allegation HuffPost Kevin Robillard,HuffPost 13 hours ago Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and President Donald Trump share a handshake before the sexual assault allegation came out. (SAUL LOEB via Getty Images) WASHINGTON ― Republican strategists charged with keeping control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections are dreading the possibility of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in which the all-male GOP members of the panel question a woman alleging sexual assault. The hearing, which would feature testimony from both Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and Christine Blasey Ford, the psychology professor who has accused him of attempting to rape her when both of them were high school students, could take place next Monday. Republican lawmakers and conservative media figures, who have largely lined up in support of Kavanaugh, have already begun trying to poke holes in her story and question her credibility. “The problem is, Dr. Ford can’t remember when it was, where it was, or how it came to be,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), the Senate majority whip and a member of the Judiciary Committee. “There are some gaps there that need to be filled.” “There’s some question whether she’s mixed up,” Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), another Judiciary Committee member, said this Monday. “I think there are lots of reasons not to believe it, but on the other hand, you can’t ignore and cast the issue aside.” Republicans fear that the spectacle of male senators aggressively questioning Blasey would alienate female voters, who already favor Democrats by a wide margin in polling. College-educated women are considered key to Democratic hopes of taking back the House. GOP operatives worry that a replay of the Anita Hill hearings ― when an all-male panel of senators aggressively questioned the integrity of another woman accusing a Supreme Court nominee of sexual misconduct ― could provide those voters in particular with yet another reason to support Democrats in November. One GOP strategist, granted anonymity to discuss his party’s position in this fracas, was blunt: “The optics could not be much worse. It’s not what we need right now.” “Let’s see,” a second Republican strategist wrote in an email. “Eleven old white guys questioning a woman about teenage sex, what could go wrong? Hopefully someone will suggest hiring a female prosecutor to handle the questioning, it’s really our only hope of coming out of this thing alive.” Indeed, Republicans on the Judiciary Committee are considering using female staffers to question Blasey. A CNN/SSRS poll conducted earlier this month found Democrats with an edge of 52 percent to 42 percent over Republicans on the generic ballot for Congress. That edge comes entirely from female voters, who back Democrats by a margin of 60 percent to 36 percent. Men support Republicans, 49 percent to 44 percent. The Hill hearings are credited, in part, with sparking the “Year of the Women” election back in 1992. This year, Democrats have recruited and nominated a record number of female House candidates, including in a number of states crucial to control of the Senate. A third GOP strategist was hopeful that any electoral damage could be limited to the House, where many battleground districts are filled with college-educated women. In crucial Senate states ― which are mostly in territory friendly to President Donald Trump ― the fight could actually help Republicans by drawing attention to the Supreme Court and firing up the party’s base, he argued. “The worst thing for House Republicans is a conversation about anything other than the economy,” the strategist said. “Even though House Republicans have less than zero to do with Supreme Court confirmations, they’re going to bear the brunt.” Others suggested that Trump has already throughly damaged the party’s brand with suburban women, so next Monday’s proposed hearing couldn’t do much additional damage. One strategist was hopeful the GOP could survive the hearing, provided senators avoided direct confrontations with Blasey and simply allowed her to testify. “I don’t think they have to question her at all,” the strategist said. “I don’t think there’s anything to gain by interrogating her like a criminal detective.” The strategist thought the committee’s Republican senators ― a roster including Cornyn, Hatch, Lindsey Graham (S.C.), Ted Cruz (Texas) and Chuck Grassley (Iowa) ― were likely to behave themselves. “If this was in the House, I’d have no confidence,” the strategist added. Cornyn appeared to share that sentiment about his colleagues. “No problem,” he said when reporters asked if he was confident the hearing wouldn’t go off the rails. Other senators seemed more eager to go after Blasey. “She’ll be challenged,” Graham said Tuesday night on Fox News. “You don’t have to be smart to know that there’s something going on here.” Igor Bobic contributed reporting. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 09-19-18 03:36am - 2289 days | #1112 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Trump tales: A short tale that teaches you to deny everything. Welcome to the world of Trump. ------- ------- U.S. Artist says he hung Putin portrait in Trump Hotel suite in D.C., where it remained until he retrieved it a month later Yahoo Lifestyle Hope Schreiber,Yahoo Lifestyle 7 hours ago A portrait of Vladimir Putin allegedly hung in a suite in Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. for a month, according to the artist, Brian Andrew Whiteley. (Photo: Brian Whiteley) A portrait of Vladimir Putin hung in Suite 435 at the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., according to the artist behind the scheme, Brian Whiteley. Possessing multiple photos of the hand-painted portrait of the Russian president, and receipts to the Trump International Hotel barring the name of an accomplice who wishes to remain anonymous, Whiteley claims that the painting hung for a solid month before he returned to retrieve it. However, according to the hotel’s director of sales and marketing, Patricia Tang, “It never happened.” Whiteley told Yahoo Lifestyle that he and his friend hung the portrait on Aug. 1 in their rented room of the hotel, which is located just minutes from the White House. Whiteley provided Yahoo with a photo of the receipt which shows a single night stay from July 31 to Aug. 1. The name of the individual who rented the room has been redacted per their request. A receipt showing a one-night stay that corroborates Brian Whiteley’s story. (Photo: Brian Whiteley) The portrait, which depicts Putin on a chair in front of the White House as storm clouds gather, was hanging over another painting in the room when Whiteley and his friend invited a group of intoxicated Trump supporters back to their room for a nightcap. One said, “Putin, f*** yeah,” according to the artist. Whiteley and his friend returned to the hotel a month later in early September and told staff that they had forgotten something. Accompanied by a bellhop, they returned to the room. “We saw that the piece was still there,” Whiteley told Yahoo Lifestyle. “I grabbed it off the wall; the bellhop sees that I’m taking it off the wall, and he calls security.” Whiteley explained to security that the painting was his artwork, by showing his ID and his signature on the back of the portrait. “After a 20-minute grill session, they looked over the room to see if we were trying to steal stuff from the hotel. Then the manager saw the piece and [had security] grab me under the arm and escort me out of the building.” The portrait of Putin which allegedly hung inside a room at Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C. (Photo: Brian Whiteley) “I put [the painting] there and I didn’t hear anything. I expected to hear some complaint, or some email from the hotel telling me I left something there, or anything. But it managed to stay there for that amount of time, and they always say that they’re at capacity. I don’t know if that’s true, but people had been staying in that room, and no one said anything,” Whiteley said. While it may seem that the cleaners on the hotel staff and guests are not very observant, Whiteley has another theory. Whiteley sent an email to Hyperallergic which reads, “…the guests are completely devoted to the President no matter what policy/authoritarian he embraces. As many have said, Trump has brought about a cult of authoritarianism where he can do no wrong no matter how blatant the transgression.” Previously, Whiteley created a tombstone that read “Trump, Donald J.” that he planted in Central Park on Easter Sunday, March 2016. The gravestone’s epitaph read “Made America Hate Again.” The NYPD removed it three hours later. Patricia Kang, the sales and marketing director at Trump International, did not immediately respond to Yahoo Lifestyle’s requests for comment. | |
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| 09-18-18 08:13pm - 2289 days | #1111 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Jesus Fucking Christ. An Air Force Memo estimates it would cost $13 billion for Trump's Space Force. Republicans vowed to balance the budget. The tax cut to the wealthy, passed under Trump, will cost an estimated $2 trillion. Yet Trump and his administration are cutting welfare benefits, housing benefits, any and all benefits to the poor and the middle class. The rape of America. By Trump. ------ ------ Trump's Space Force Would Cost $13 Billion In First 5 Years: Air Force Memo HuffPost Dominique Mosbergen,HuffPost 15 hours ago President Donald Trump listens to a question from a reporter during a meeting of the President's National Council of the American Worker in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Monday, Sept. 17, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) President Donald Trump’s oft-touted “Space Force” — the proposed sixth branch of the U.S. military — would cost taxpayers nearly $13 billion in its first five years of operation, according to an internal Air Force memo. The Sept. 14 document, signed by Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson, describes the proposed “Department of the Space Force” as “a lethality focused organization that will field space superiority capabilities,” Reuters reported. Space Force could have more than 13,000 employees, the Air Force estimated. The cost of the new military service would be about $3.3 billion in its first year, and $12.9 billion over five years, the memo said. The memo also revealed that the Defense Department and the intelligence community would likely undergo a mammoth reorganization if Space Force is approved, according to the Los Angeles Times. For one thing, the budget and mission of the Air Force, currently responsible for space, could be significantly curtailed. The Trump administration announced last month that it plans to launch Space Force by 2020. Congressional approval will first be required, however. “The President has clearly communicated his desire for a military department for space,” Wilson wrote in the new Air Force memo, per AP. “Strategic competition with Russia and China is the focus of our approach.” According to the memo, the plan would be to create a headquarters for the new Space Force by 2020 and have it fully operational by the following year. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 09-18-18 07:18pm - 2289 days | #1110 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court nominee: What happens at Georgetown Prep Stays at Georgetown Prep. ----------- ----------- Brett Kavanaugh In 2015: 'What Happens At Georgetown Prep Stays At Georgetown Prep' HuffPost Sebastian Murdock,HuffPost 4 hours ago Brett Kavanaugh, the president’s Supreme Court pick being accused of sexual assault when he was in high school, bragged about keeping tight-lipped about what he got up to while at his school. “We had a good saying that we’ve held firm to to this day, as the dean was reminding me before the talk,” Kavanaugh said during a 2015 speech at the Catholic University of America’s Columbus School of Law in Washington, D.C. “Which is what happens at Georgetown Prep stays at Georgetown Prep. That’s been a good thing for all of us.” It was while he was attending that high school, said Christine Blasey Ford — now a professor at Palo Alto University in California who goes by Christine Blasey professionally — that he tried to force himself on her when the two were teenagers. “I thought he might inadvertently kill me,” she told The Washington Post on Sunday. She said that she was 15 and the then-17-year-old Kavanaugh was drunk when he held her down, covering her mouth with his hand as he attempted to take off her clothes. Blasey said Kavanaugh and a friend of his, Mark Judge, turned up music to drown out her screams. Kavanaugh has flatly denied the claim, and he and Blasey could have a chance next week to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee about the alleged episode. As Mother Jones points out, a book by Judge mentions Kavanaugh and his apparent love of binge-drinking while at the school. And in an April 2014 speech to the Yale Law School Federalist Society, Kavanaugh relayed his drinking adventures with friends. Of course, many young people drink before they’re 21. But sexual aggression is not a rite of passage for boys, and the allegations against Kavanaugh are far more disturbing than simply a young person who drank alcohol during high school. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 09-18-18 07:02pm - 2289 days | #1109 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Trump says he doesn't think the FBI should investigate Kavanaugh. Isn't that what the FBI is supposed to do: investigate the backgrounds of nominees? If new information is revealed, the FBI is supposed to ignore it? Trump wants complete transparency. But he is saying he wants Kavanaugh and his accuser to speak, without involving the FBI. Why not use the FBI? Because the FBI is corrupt, and not to be trusted? Or because the FBI might interview potential witnesses, and find evidence that Kavanaugh got drunk one time at a party and tried to rape a girl? The latest is that Kavanaugh not only denies trying to rape this girl, he now denies he was at the party where the alleged rape happened. Can the truth be established, by listening to the two people speak? One says Kavanaugh tried to rape her. Kavanaugh says he never tried to rape her. But now Kavanaugh says he was never at the party. If the girl is able to remember some of the people at the party, the FBI or other law enforcement can get official testimony from those people if they remember Kavanaugh at the party. Then, if they remember Kavanaugh at the party, Kavanaugh can explain that either he had a lapse of memory, or that the memories of the witnesses is faulty, or some other reason, why people would testify that Kavanaugh was at a party, that he denies being at. But Trump, and Kavanaugh, are betting that they can push through the nomination, without a full investigation of the woman's complaint. Trump is an expert at denial. And at lies. Is Kavanaugh the same way? Kavanaugh probably doesn't lie as much as Trump. But Kavanaugh probably wouldn't recognize the truth if it struck him in the head. ----- ----- Trump says he doesn't think FBI should be involved in investigating Kavanaugh allegation By Alexander Mallin MARIAM KHAN Sep 18, 2018, 6:33 PM ET President Trump on Tuesday said "there shouldn't even be a little doubt" about his embattled Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh who has denied a sexual assault allegation and any concerns should be addressed through the confirmation process. “Hopefully the woman will come forward, state her case,” Trump said Tuesday during a press conference on Tuesday afternoon with Polish President Andrzej Duda. “He will state his case before representatives of the United States Senate. And then they will vote, they will look at his career, they will look at what she had to say from 36 years ago, and we will see what happens." Democrats have insisted that, before any public hearing with the nominee and his accuser, the FBI should look into an allegation made by professor Christine Blasey Ford, 51, that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were both in high school decades ago in suburban Maryland. PHOTO: Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 4, 2018.J. Scott Applewhite/AP Brett Kavanaugh is sworn in before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Sept. 4, 2018. The attorney for Mark Judge, who according to the Washington Post is described in the letter as being present during the incident, in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he does not remember Kavanaugh acting "in the manner Dr. Ford describes." He added that he has "no memory of this alleged incident" and that he does not "wish to speak publicly regarding the incidents described in Dr. Ford's letter." Democrats have also been writing to White House Counsel Don McGahn and to Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley to request the FBI re-open its investigation into Kavanaugh. And as he did earlier in the day, Trump said that while he didn't think the FBI should be involved, “is not what they do.” The FBI has not commented on Trump's contention that the agency does not want to get involved. According to sources familiar with the FBI's background investigation process, the allegation was passed on to the White House, but the agency would take no further action unless ordered to do so by the White House. (MORE: Senators united that Kavanaugh accuser should be heard; divided on how and where) Kavanaugh, who was back at the White House on Tuesday for the second day in a row, has repeatedly denied the alleged encounter ever happened. The president said he has not personally spoken with Kavanaugh since the allegation surfaced, saying “specifically I thought it would be a good thing not to.” Trump also defended Kavanaugh's reputation as a judge pointing out that his nominee has had multiple background checks throughout his career and called his history "impeccable." "I feel so badly for him that he is going through this," Trump said. PHOTO: President Donald Trump arrives at a Congressional Medal of Honor Society Reception at the White House in Washington, DC, Sept. 12, 2018.Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty Images President Donald Trump arrives at a Congressional Medal of Honor Society Reception at the White House in Washington, DC, Sept. 12, 2018. more + The sexual assault allegation became public after the contents of a letter Ford sent to California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, were disclosed to several media outlets. (MORE: Outside groups dig in as allegation roils Kavanaugh nomination) Asked if he believes the allegation is political in nature, the president said earlier on Tuesday: “I don't want to say that. Maybe I will say that in a couple of days, but not now." Trump, however, attacked Democrats for “holding” onto the allegation, saying it was “a terrible thing that took place” when the story surfaced over the weekend. “It's a terrible thing that took place and it's frankly a terrible thing that this information was not given to us months ago when they got it,” Trump said. (MORE: The Note: Kavanaugh fight raises stakes for midterms) Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pushing ahead with plans to hear testimony from Kavanaugh and Ford on Monday. This, despite the numerous calls from Democrats to slow down the process and allow the FBI to re-open its background investigation into Kavanaugh so that they can determine the facts of what happened to Ford in high school when she alleges Kavanaugh forced himself on her. "She's been asking for the opportunity to be heard and she's being given the opportunity to be heard on Monday," McConnell told reporters. "She could do it privately if she prefers or publicly if she prefers. Monday is her opportunity," he said. PHOTO: Christine Blasey, the woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault at a party in the 1980s, is pictured in a high school yearbook from the time of the alleged incident.Holton Arms School Yearbook Christine Blasey, the woman who accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault at a party in the 1980s, is pictured in a high school yearbook from the time of the alleged incident. more + Democrats are crying foul over Grassley's decision to not allow other witnesses besides Kavanaugh and Ford to testify. Grassley has said Ford has still not accepted his invitation to appear before the Judiciary Committee on Monday. However, McConnell and GOP leadership are forging ahead with the hearing. "There have been multiple investigations. Judge Kavanaugh has been through six investigations in the course of his lengthy public career. We want to give the accuser the opportunity to be heard and that opportunity will occur next Monday," McConnell reiterated. "I think that gives her ample opportunity to express her point of view and Judge Kavanaugh, of course, has been anxious for days to discuss the matter as well," McConnell said. Feinstein told ABC News on Tuesday that she has not yet heard from Kavanaugh's accuser, but suggested Republicans should be working harder to get in touch with her. "As I understand it she’s been emailed hopefully by now the majority who regretfully is not working with us on this will pick up the phone and call and talk with her, and I think that’s the appropriate thing to do," she said. ABC News' Jack Date, Trish Turner, and Benjamin Siegel contributed to this report. | |
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| 09-18-18 06:25pm - 2289 days | #1108 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Christine Blasey Ford Calls On FBI To Investigate Kavanaugh Accusation Before Hearing HuffPost Antonia Blumberg,HuffPost 55 minutes ago The woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were high school students is calling for an FBI investigation into her claim before she testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Christine Blasey Ford said Monday that she was willing to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, after coming forward on Sunday as the author of a confidential letter sent in late July to two members of Congress. That testimony was expected to take place next Monday. But on Tuesday, Blasey, a psychology professor in Northern California, said through her lawyers that an investigation should be “the first step” before she is put “on national television to relive this traumatic and harrowing incident.” Blasey’s lawyers released a letter to committee chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), CNN reported, calling for an investigation to “ensure the crucial facts and witnesses in this matter are assessed in a non-partisan manner and that the committee is fully informed before conducting any hearing or making any decision.” Speaking with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Tuesday, attorney Lisa Banks reiterated that Blasey, her client, was “prepared to cooperate with the committee and with any law enforcement investigation.” Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) tweeted her support for Blasey’s decision on Tuesday, saying, “She should not be bullied into participating in a biased process.” Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), who was first to acknowledge the existence of a letter containing the allegations against Kavanaugh last week, also issued a statement of support for Blasey’s decision. “I agree with her 100 percent that the rushed process to hold a hearing on Monday has been unfair and is reminiscent of the treatment of Anita Hill,” Feinstein said in the statement, referencing the law professor’s 1991 allegations of sexual harassment against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. “I also agree that we need the facts before senators — not staff or lawyers — speak to witnesses. We should honor Dr. Blasey Ford’s wishes and delay this hearing.” Blasey alleges a drunken 17-year-old Kavanaugh attempted to remove her clothing at a gathering in suburban Maryland when they were both in high school. She says Kavanaugh covered her mouth to silence her when she attempted to scream and that she was able to escape after a friend of Kavanaugh’s jumped on top of both of them. Blasey sent a confidential letter to Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Feinstein after Kavanaugh’s nomination this summer to share her concerns about him. A number of lawmakers on both sides of the aisle said in the wake of the allegations that the Senate Judiciary Committee should delay its vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation, which was scheduled to take place on Thursday. Grassley subsequently said Kavanaugh and Blasey would have the opportunity to publicly testify the following Monday. But Banks called that timeframe “premature.” Blasey “just came forward with these allegations 48 hours ago, and since that time she has been dealing with hate mail, harassment [and] death threats,” the professor’s attorney said. “So she’s been spending her time trying to figure out how to put her life back together, how to protect herself and her family.” Grassley’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this article. This article has been updated to include details about Blasey’s accusations and the timeframe for the Senate hearings. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 09-18-18 05:02pm - 2289 days | #1107 | |
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Jack Black, the actor, was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, Sep. 18, 2018. He had a few words about our president, Donald Trump. But Black held back on his true emotions: He called Trump a "Piece of S—". But he did not call Trump a smelly piece of S--. Only a piece of S--. ----- ----- Jack Black Calls Trump a ‘Piece of S—‘ at His Walk of Fame Ceremony Jack Black had a long list of thank you’s at the unveiling of his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday. The actor also had a few choice words for the president. “I love you all so much,” Black said in the closing sentiments of his acceptance speech. Before leaving the podium, he remarked: “Except for Donald Trump’s a piece of sh— ! Peace out, love you!” Earlier in the ceremony, friends of Black, including “School of Rock” director Richard Linklater and writer Mike White, each gave speeches sharing fond memories and testaments to the quality of his character. “He’s the most charitable sweetheart of a guy,” Linklater said. “But from what I know working with him, I just wanna say, he’s such a great guy to hang out with.” White continued on this point, highlighting Black’s healthy relationship to fame. “The bigger the legend you are, like, the human, the person, recedes,” White said. “What I think is the most impressive is that the legend that [people] love is incredibly close to the actual person that he is.” In Black’s own speech, he expressed how much it meant to him to be honored with a star. “I’ve wanted one of these things for so long. Since I was a kid I thought, ‘Oh man, if you get one of those stars on the sidewalk that means you’ve made it.’ And I feel like I’ve finally grasped that sweet brass ring,” Black said. “In the immortal words of Axl Rose, ‘Where do we go now?'” Black sang with the comedic affectation he’s famous for. To answer his own question, he joked about his imminent retirement. “I got the thing! Why continue?” He said. “I’ve made it.” Black assured the crowd that he would still do “Jumanji 2” and one more installment in the “Kung Fu Panda” series. “But seriously it’s time to pass the torch to the Uzi Verts and the Lil Peeps and… the Tommy and Sammy Blacks of the world,” he said, looking at his two sons. “Unless something really cool comes around.” | |
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| 09-18-18 04:33pm - 2289 days | #12 | |
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I enjoy the convenience of "owning" or "buying" the online video. That way, I don't have to find the physical DVD, or have to worry that my DVD player is going on the fritz. Although the streaming version from Amazon sometimes has a playback problem, it doesn't happen very often. And Amazon videos remember where you stopped playback of each video, so you can re-start from the beginning, or resume where you stopped watching. The main thing lacking with a bought license to stream is the extras that some DVDs have: the commentary, and other special features are missing. | |
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| 09-18-18 04:26pm - 2289 days | #3 | |
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Even though my profile page shows I am 67, if forced to, I will admit I fudged a few years off my age. I'm past 70. But my mind is still stuck at 18-20, 21 if I want to drink alcohol. So I refuse to think of myself as an old fart. Maybe a young one: are they the smelly ones? I didn't recognize a single name from the winner's list. Maybe they will join the conversations more often. But my best guess is that most of them will stay silent. But congrats to the winners, especially the ones who will check in to claim their prize. | |
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| 09-18-18 03:16pm - 2289 days | #358 | |
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Congrats to all the winners. (Patting myself on the back). But to Loki as well, for taking the time to write a couple of nice reviews.  | |
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| 09-18-18 08:28am - 2289 days | #1106 | |
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Brett Kavanaugh denies he ever tried to rape a woman. But 200 women who attended the high school of Kavanaugh-accuser Christine Blasey Ford have signed a letter saying they believe Ford's accusations. So how can a man be confirmed for the Supreme Court, when so many women believe he tried to rape a young girl? Because the Senate is controlled by Republicans, the party that stands for supporting women as the bearers of our future children. As bearers, they deserve respect, but if they complain about getting raped, well, that's just a man doing a man's job, trying to have a good time. Senators, even female Senators, want to give candidates the benefit of the doubt. So if 200 women sign a petition saying a female was forced against her will in a sexual situation, so what? That's not evidence. What is evidence is that 60 other women signed a letter stating that Brett Kavanaugh is a really good guy. (That letter seems to ignore that Kavanaugh would sometimes get very drunk as a teenager, and try to pickup girls, because that's what teenage boys did back then. And if Kavanaugh got a little rough, so what, he was always respectful of women. So he couldn't have tried to rape a 15-year-old girl, because that's not the Kavanaugh we all know and respect and love. And Trump says Kavanaugh is a really swell guy, who would make a wonderful Supreme Court Justice. So there you have it. Vote for Kavanaugh, for Justice of the Supreme Court. Especially if Kavanaugh apologizes to Ford, saying that he didn't try to rape her, but was only fooling around, as boys do, and she took it the wrong way with all this complaining. If she was a man, he'd tell her to grow up and take responsiblilty for her own actions. Because she's trying to fuck him up, but he's too much a gentleman to fuck her back. (He'll let his fellow Republicans try to fuck her up with lies and smears and salacious questions of her moral character.) -------- -------- U.S. Julia Louis-Dreyfus Joins Over 200 High School Alumnae in Signing Letter Supporting Ford and Her Kavanaugh Allegations Time Alix Langone,Time 15 hours ago More than 200 women who attended Christine Blasey Ford’s high school, including actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, have signed a letter saying they believe the California professor’s allegations that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her. Louis-Dreyfus tweeted Monday afternoon that she added her name to the letter, which was signed by alumnae of Holton-Arms, an all-girls college-prep school in Bethesda, Md. Louis-Dreyfus said she graduated from the private school in 1979. “We believe Dr. Blasey Ford and are grateful that she came forward to tell her story,” the letter reads. “It demands a thorough and independent investigation before the Senate can reasonably vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to a lifetime seat on the nation’s highest court.” The letter says the women feel Ford’s story is “all too consistent with stories we heard and lived while attending Holton. Many of us are survivors ourselves.” A Holton-Arms alumna, Sarah Burgess, class of 2005, told the Huffington Post that more than 200 women have signed the letter so far. Burgess said she added her name to the letter because she knows Ford’s story “will be scrutinized, and she will be accused of lying. However, I grew up hearing stories like hers, and believe her completely.” Ford has alleged that Kavanaugh, who attended the all-boys Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda, Md., attempted to rape her at a party more than 30 years ago, saying that he pinned her down and held his hand over her mouth while trying to remove her clothes. She originally made the accusations in a private letter to Sen. Diane Feinstein, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, but ultimately went public with her story to The Washington Post on Sunday after her letter leaked. The head of Holton-Arms, Susanna A. Jones, released a statement on the school’s website Sunday night, writing, “In these cases, it is imperative that all voices are heard. As a school that empowers women to use their voices, we are proud of this alumna for using hers.” Both Ford and Kavanaugh will testify in a public hearing about the alleged incident on Monday, according to the New York Times. | |
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| 09-18-18 12:04am - 2290 days | #1105 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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If the Russians really do have secret sex tapes of Donald Trump and prostitutes, can they sell the tapes on the internet and make millions? Or would Donald Trump be willing to pay them off, with a different fixer than Michael Cohen, of course, since Cohen has flipped on the President and is making deals with the Mueller investigation. How much money will Donald Trump be forced to pay the Russians to keep the sex tapes secret? Or will Russia demand, and get, the right to build a Russian fort on US soil? How far is Trump willing to go in selling out America? That is the question the Republicans must face when the real facts are exposed. | |
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| 09-17-18 11:22pm - 2290 days | #1104 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Trump reveals that he is under the command of Russia. Trump orders the declassification of secret intelligence documents that expose US secrets. He is harming the entire US intelligence agencies by exposing their secrets to Russia and the rest of the world. Shame on Donald Trump, for bowing to Russia and sacrificing the secrets of the US. Shameful act of treason, by a sitting president. He should be impeached immediately, to save our country from the shame and corruption Trump has unleashed in the US. ----- ----- President Trump orders declassification of highly sensitive Russia investigation documents and texts New York Daily News Chris Sommerfeldt Sep 17th 2018 7:53PM President Trump on Monday ordered the declassification of a trove of records relating to the early days of the Russia investigation, including text messages from former FBI Director James Comey and the surveillance application that permitted the bureau to monitor ex-Trump campaign aide Carter Page. The extraordinary move, which the President said he ordered for “reasons of transparency,” comes in response to repeated calls for declassification from his congressional allies who claim, with scant evidence, that the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election was plagued by an anti-Trump bias. In addition to the Page FISA warrant, Trump ordered the Director of National Intelligence to release, without any redaction, text messages relating to the Russia probe from Comey, ex-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, ex-FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page and senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr. The move, which comes in the wake of a guilty plea from Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is likely to inflame the President’s already strained relationship with his own U.S. intelligence community, as special counsel Robert Mueller continues to investigate the campaign for possible collusion with Moscow. Mueller’s investigation has already resulted in 35 indictments against Trump associates and Russians, including guilty pleas from Manafort, his former national security adviser Michael Flynn and ex-campaign advisers Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos. The President has repeatedly attacked the members of his intelligence community he targeted with Monday’s order, claiming they and Mueller are perpetuating a baseless “witch hunt.” Right-wing outlets and Trump allies in Congress have zeroed in on text messages exchanged between Strzok and Page as evidence of a sweeping anti-Trump bias within the ranks of the FBI and the intelligence community at large. However, a report from the Justice Department’s inspector general put those suspicions to bed, concluding there is no evidence suggesting the exchanges between Strzok and Page resulted in any concrete investigative decisions. Ohr, a longtime Justice Department investigator, has recently faced Trump’s ire over his ties to Fusion GPS, the firm that funded the dossier compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele. The dossier, which has not been verified by U.S. intelligence, alleges the Russian government has compromising information about Trump, including video tapes of his directing prostitutes to perform a lewd sex act in a Moscow hotel suite. by Taboola | |
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| 09-17-18 11:26am - 2290 days | #1103 | |
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Actresss faces one year in county jail after being charged with misdemeanor assault of hitting her boyfriend. One year in jail? She needs to hire a super-qualified lawyer like Brett Kavanaugh, who can defend her against vile accusations in a police state that does not take the rights of women seriously. --------- --------- The Wrap ‘The 100’ Star Marie Avgeropoulos Charged With Misdemeanor Assault Actress faces one year in county jail following altercation with her boyfriend Sean Burch | September 17, 2018 @ 9:38 AM Actress Marie Avgeropoulos, best known for her role on The CW’s “The 100,” faces jail time after being arraigned on one charge of misdemeanor domestic violence on Monday. Avgeropoulos was arrested in Los Angeles last month after allegedly assaulting her boyfriend while on the freeway, hitting him in the neck, head and arm, according to the Los Angeles District Attorney’s office. The boyfriend had minor injuries and contacted the police, according to the DA’s office. The Greek-Canadian was charged with “one count of injuring a spouse, cohabitant, boyfriend or child’s parent,” according to a statement from the DA’s office. If convicted, the 32-year-old actress faces up to 364 days in county jail. A rep for Avgeropoulos did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment. The case remains under investigation by the Glendale Police Department. Originally from Ontario, Canada, Avgeropoulos has also appeared in films “I Love You, Beth Cooper” and “Hunt to Kill,” along with having a recurring role on The CW’s “Cult.” | |
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| 09-17-18 11:07am - 2290 days | #1102 | |
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Politics 'You’re a repulsive human': Donald Trump Jr. receives harsh criticism after seemingly mocking Kavanaugh's sexual assault accuser on Instagram Yahoo Lifestyle Kerry Justich,Yahoo Lifestyle 53 minutes ago Donald Trump Jr., who apparently mocked Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser on Instagram before being harshly criticized. (Photo: Getty Images) The accusation of sexual assault against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh is becoming only more credible after Sen. Dianne Feinstein made the letter she received from the accuser public on Sunday, followed by the accuser herself coming forward. However, Donald Trump Jr. seems to think it’s all a big joke, according to a meme posted to his Instagram. CNN published a redacted version of the letter sent to Feinstein in late July, detailing Kavanaugh’s alleged attempted rape of his 15-year-old high school peer, Christine Blasey Ford, when Kavanaugh was 17. Then President Trump’s son shared his interpretation of the letter. Alongside a meme seemingly mocking the content of the letter, Trump Jr. wrote a caption insulting the Democratic senator for exposing it. He has since been called “a repulsive human” by an Instagram user commenting on his post. “Oh boy… the Dems and their usual nonsense games really have him on the ropes now,” Trump Jr. wrote. “Finestein [sic] had the letter in July and saved it for the eve of his vote… honorable as always.” Many have shared their harsh criticism of the father of five for posting laughing emoji and making a joke out of the serious situation. “This is absolutely abhorrent,” one Instagram user wrote. “I can only imagine what deficiencies in your own character and intelligence would contribute to your posting something like this.” This was followed by another who wrote, “You have daughters? Shame on you. You are disgusting.” Referring to the letter in the Trump post, which says “Will you be my girlfriend?” in a child’s handwriting, one Instagram user commented: “So you’ve learned to equate a person forcing another one in a bed, holding her down and trying to get her clothes off as a simple way for him to say he likes her?! You learned well from your dad.” Another Instagram user went so far as to write a longer comment about the more widespread impact that a post like this can make: “This isn’t a commentary on Kavenaugh [sic] and his accuser, this is a complete lack of empathy on behalf DJ Jr. Even worse it’s posted one photo after a post with his beautiful daughter. I understand your father/role model has worked his way through several wives, but as a father to a young woman I’d hoped you could at least understand how you’d feel if it were your daughter in this situation and find a way to at least show some compassion and restraint. This is a careless and unnecessarily caustic post from someone in such a fortunate public position.” One day later, the post remains on Trump Jr.’s Instagram page, without even an edit to the apparently blatant misspelling of Feinstein’s name. The jury’s out on whether Kavanaugh’s vote will still take place on Thursday, as some Democrats urge for it to be postponed. | |
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| 09-17-18 11:02am - 2290 days | #1101 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Hilary Clinton, Public Enemy #1, has not yet been put into prison. What happened to the "Lock Her Up, Lock Her Up" chants by Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions? They promised to put Hilary Clinton in prison, where she belongs. But at last sightings, Hilary Clinton is still free and at large roaming the cities of our great nation. Is Hilary Clinton an undocumented illegal immigrant, who is hiding behind her husband's skirts? -------- -------- Rolling Stone September 17, 2018 12:43PM ET Hillary Clinton’s New Condemnation of Donald Trump Is Worth Reading “The administration’s malevolence may be constrained on some fronts — for now — by its incompetence” By Ryan Bort Hillary Clinton recently took a break from fundraising to pen an afterword for the paperback release of her 2017 bestseller What Happened. An adaptation of that afterword was published Sunday night by The Atlantic, and, as one might expect, it isn’t so kind to President Trump and the Republicans enabling him. In the essay, Clinton writes of a “democracy in crisis,” outlining the ways she believes the Trump administration is threatening America’s system of government while describing the best means for Americans to combat his authoritarian tendencies. “In the roughly 21 months since he took the oath of office, Trump has sunk far below the already-low bar he set for himself in his ugly campaign,” she writes before referencing the border crisis, the administration’s response to Hurricane Maria and Trump’s repeated denial of Russian influence in the 2016 election. “I don’t use the word crisis lightly,” she continues. “There are no tanks in the streets. The administration’s malevolence may be constrained on some fronts — for now — by its incompetence. But our democratic institutions and traditions are under siege. We need to do everything we can to fight back. There’s not a moment to lose.” The former senator, secretary of state and presidential candidate elaborated by dividing Trump’s assault on democracy into five categories: his disrespect for the rule of law, the threats on the legitimacy of elections, his war on truth and reason, his rampant corruption and the way he had undermined national unity. “No one likes to be torn apart in the press — I certainly don’t — but when you’re a public official, it comes with the job,” she writes of his war on truth. “You get criticized a lot. You learn to take it. You push back and make your case, but you don’t fight back by abusing your power or denigrating the entire enterprise of a free press.” The essay is peppered with references to the early stages of American history, with Clinton quoting Abraham Lincoln and a host of other national leaders. She writes about how John Adams defined a republic as “a government of laws, and not of men,” and that Trump violates the Founding Fathers belief that a leader who does not respect the law is a tyrant. When Thomas Jefferson lost to Adams in the contentious 1800 president election, Clinton notes, he preached unity, not division in his concession speech. A quarter century earlier, he wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal and “endowed by their Creator with the same inalienable rights,” a belief to which Trump clearly does not subscribe. Clinton points out his denial of the death toll in Puerto Rico, his antipathy toward NFL players protesting police brutality and his “very fine people” comment regarding the white nationalists marching in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017. “None of this is a mark of authenticity or a refreshing break from political correctness,” she writes regarding Trump’s racist comments. “Hate speech isn’t ‘telling it like it is.’ It’s just hate.” | |
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| 09-17-18 10:44am - 2290 days | #1100 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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President Donald Trump admits to the public there is massive corruption in the US government. He has boldly admitted this to the public, taking the news from the highest top-secret files to show the public that government officials are corrupt. And that the US public has been watching and listening to lies from the Fake News for many years. Trump pledged during his campaign that he would clear the swamp in Washington. But the swamp is trying to drown him with evil, vicious lies. Stand up for the truth, and send your donations to the President-for-Life-Trump-Foundation to make sure that Trump has the money to fight the evil slime-ball Democrats who infest Congress and other parts of the US government. -------- -------- President Donald Trump Tweetstorm – The Sunday Edition Deadline Bruce Haring,Deadline Sun, Sep 16 9:43 AM PDT It’s Sunday morning, time for coffee, a bagel, and the morning news. President Donald Trump may not be partaking of the first two, but he’s definitely watching the news. The Commander-in-Tweet gave a shout-out to Maria Bartiromo of Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures show on Fox for backing up his earlier tweet on the Robert Mueller witch hunt. “This show is MANDATORY watching if you want to understand the massive governmental corruption and the Russian hoax,” tweeted the president. He later retweeted another Fox News interview with Congressman Devin Nunes, who wants to declassify interviews on what led to the Mueller/Russia probe. So far, the Sunday Twitter output has been light from the normally voluble President, perhaps owing to some late output on Saturday. We’ll keep you updated as the pace picks up. | |
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| 09-17-18 10:31am - 2290 days | #1099 | |
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Democrats launch a vicious attack on Brett Kavanaugh to smear him with lies. The attack tool is Christine Blasey Ford. Read the article, and you will learn that the woman has a history of trying to smear Brett Kavanaugh. She has hired an attorney, and she will need one, because the Republicans are going all-out to destroy the woman. Even the president's son, Don Trump Jr, says the woman is a stupid fool for trying to attack a man President Trump has nominated to the Supreme Court. You can't find a better man than someone our President has picked. --------- --------- Who is Christine Blasey Ford, the professor who accused Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct? Kaitlyn Schallhorn By Kaitlyn Schallhorn | Fox News Just days before the Senate Judiciary Committee was set to vote on Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation, Christine Blasey Ford publicly came forward to accuse the federal appeals judge of sexual assault decades ago. The sexual assault allegation first came to light in the form of a letter obtained by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who sent shockwaves through Washington when she announced last week she forwarded it to the FBI. Feinstein is the top Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, which is tasked with deciding whether to formally recommend a Supreme Court nominee to the full Senate for a vote. But Ford publicly came forward in an interview with The Washington Post over the weekend, saying her “civic responsibility is outweighing my anguish and terror about retaliation.” She has accused Kavanaugh of pinning her to a bed during a house party in Maryland in the early 1980s, attempting to remove her clothes and putting his hand over her mouth when she tried to scream. At the time of the alleged incident, Ford was 15 and Kavanaugh was 17, she said, adding that Kavanaugh was drunk. –– ADVERTISEMENT –– “I thought he might inadvertently kill me,” Ford said. “He was trying to attack me and remove my clothing.” Christine Ford researchgate net Christine Blasey Ford, a California psychology professor, has publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct from an incident more than 30 years ago. (researchgate.net) She said she was able to escape when Mark Judge – a friend of Kavanaugh’s who has come to his defense after the allegations became public – jumped on top of them. Kavanaugh has denied the allegations, saying, “I categorically and unequivocally deny this allegation. I did not do this back in high school or at any time.” Judge has said he has no recollection of the alleged events. Read on for a look at four things to know about Ford. Ford is a college professor Ford is a clinical psychology professor at Palo Alto University in California. A biostatistician, she “specializes in the design and analysis of clinical trials and other forms of intervention evaluation,” according to the university. Her work has also been published in several academic journals, covering topics such as 9/11 and child abuse. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's sexual assault accuser Christine Ford should not be ignored or insulted, counselor to President Trump Kellyanne Conway tells 'Fox & Friends.' Video Kellyanne Conway: Judge Kavanaugh's accuser will be heard KAVANAUGH ACCUSER MAY TESTIFY ‘UNDER OATH,’ KELLYANNE CONWAY SAYS, AS LAWYER OPENS DOOR Ford has also taught and worked at Stanford University since 1988, according to a Holton-Arms’ alumni magazine, the Bethesda, Maryland, school from where she graduated, The Wall Street Journal reported. She teaches at both schools in consortium, according to the newspaper. The magazine also noted she is an “avid surfer, and she and her family spend a great deal of time surfing in the Santa Cruz and San Francisco areas.” Her husband has backed her allegations Russell Ford, her husband, also told The Washington Post that his wife detailed the alleged assault during a couple’s therapy session in 2012. During therapy, he said his wife talked about a time when she was trapped in a room with two drunken boys, and one of them had pinned her to a bed, molested her and tried to prevent her from screaming. He said he remembered his wife specifically using Kavanaugh’s name. She said during the session, Russell Ford recalled, she was scared he would one day be nominated to the Supreme Court. KAVANAUGH FACES UNCERTAIN FUTURE AFTER ACCUSER BREAKS SILENCE, REPUBLICANS WORRY IN PRIVATE ABOUT MIDTERMS Ford provided a copy of the therapist’s notes to The Washington Post, which detailed her recollection of being assaulted by young men “from an elitist boys’ school” who would become “highly respected and high-ranking members of society in Washington.” Additional notes from a later therapy session said she discussed a “rape attempt” that occurred when she was a teenager, The Washington Post reported. She’s a registered Democrat Ford is a registered Democrat who has given small monetary donations to political causes, according to The Washington Post. Rich Edson has the details. Video Dems demand delay in Kavanaugh hearings She has donated to ActBlue, a nonprofit group that aims to help Democrats and progressive candidates, The Wall Street Journal reported. KAVANAUGH STAUNCH GUN-RIGHTS DEFENSE AMONG HUNDREDS OF DECISIONS IN SPOTLIGHT She is also among the thousands of medical professionals who signed onto a Physicians for Human Rights letter in June decrying the practice of separating children from their parents at the border and urging the Trump administration to stop it. Ford already took a polygraph test Once it was clear that Kavanaugh was President Trump’s pick to replace retired Justice Anthony Kennedy on the Supreme Court, Ford contacted The Washington Post’s tip line, according to the newspaper. She also contacted her representative in Congress, Democrat Anna Eshoo. She sent a letter to Eshoo’s office about the allegations that was passed onto Feinstein. After she retained the services of Debra Katz, a Washington, D.C.-based attorney, she took a polygraph test administered by a former FBI agent. According to the results shared with The Washington Post, the test concluded that Ford was being honest. Fox News’ Gregg Re and The Associated Press contributed to this report. Kaitlyn Schallhorn is a Reporter for Fox News. Follow her on Twitter: @K_Schallhorn. | |
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| 09-17-18 10:00am - 2290 days | #1098 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Kavanaugh High School Pal Writes In 1997 Memoir Of Being Wild Drunk With Girls. The 1997 memoir by Mark Judge claims that he would get wasted, wildly drunk, then try to hook up with girls. But in reports today, 2018, he has no recollection of him or his friend, Brett Kavanaugh, ever trying to force a girl to have sex. Blind drunk, and he has no recollection of forcing a girl to have sex. So: if you are blind drunk, does that improve your memory or your recollections? So: can you legally claim that what happened while you were blind drunk did not happen, because your brain does not have a memory of what you did? So: can Mark Judge produce a diary, written in the 1980s, that states he never got drunk enough to rape a girl? Or can he produce a dairy, written in 2018, but falsely dated in the 1980s, that he never got drunk enough to rape a girl, and that none of his friends ever tried to rape a girl? He admits he was often blind drunk at teenage parties in the 1980s. So is he a credible witness for Brett Kavanaugh, to deny that Kavanaugh never tried to rape a girl? Enquiring minds want to know the truth: Did Brett Kavanugh, the All-American-Boy-Turned-Man, the best person to deny women the right to have an abortion, because his moral conscience tells him so? After all, Kavanaugh is a proper Catholic, he might have confessed his sins to his priest and been forgiven by God, but he is not stupid enough to confess his sins to the public. Note: In the memoir, he writes that he often became so blind drunk he would pass out and wake up with no memory of where he was. In the memoir, he writes: A girl at a party, wrote Judge, asked him: “Do you know Bart O’Kavanaugh? I heard he puked in someone’s car the other night.” Judge responds: “Yeah he passed out on his way back from a party.” Does Brett Kavanaugh wish to testify what happened back in the 1980s when he was a wild drunk? Or does he deny being a wild drunk. Maybe he only tasted alcohol to see what it tasted like, but he is a good Catholic who would not rape a girl. Just the kind of man who deserves, under Donald Trump, to serve on the Supreme Court. Rapists who respect women and love women so much they will deny them abortions because that is against God's will.  -------- -------- Kavanaugh High School Pal Writes In Memoir Of Being Wild Drunk With Girls HuffPost Mary Papenfuss,HuffPost 2 hours 39 minutes ago Brett Kavanaugh’s former high school pal who a woman says was in the room when the now-Supreme Court nominee sexually assaulted her when they were teenagers has called the accusation “absolutely nuts.” “I never saw Brett act that way,” Mark Judge, now a writer and filmmaker, told The Weekly Standard last week before the identity of the accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, had been revealed. Judge restated his denial on Sunday, after Ford came forward in a Washington Post interview. “I repeat my earlier statement that I have no recollection of any of the events described in today’s Post article or attributed to her letter,” he said in a statement to The Weekly Standard. Judge, a classmate of Kavanaugh’s at the all-male Georgetown Prep the time of the alleged assault, tells stories in his 1997 memoir, Wasted: Tales of a GenX Drunk, of binge drinking at teen parties and trying to “hook up” with girls. It was at one such gathering, Ford told the Post, that Kavanaugh and Judge, both drunk, shoved her into a bedroom. She said that Kavanaugh locked the door, pushed her onto a bed, fumbled with her clothing, held her down and attempted to force himself on her. Ford said she managed to escape when Judge jumped on top of both of them. Kavanaugh has “categorically” denied the accusations. Judge recalls in his book how his life changed when he first got drunk at the age of 14 and later battled alcoholism. His “immersion” into alcohol began the end of his sophomore year during a typical annual “beach week,” when Catholic high school students headed to the shore after school was out. “Now I had an opportunity to make some headway [with girls]. Most of the time everyone, including the girls, was drunk. If you could breathe and walk at the same time, you could hook up,” he wrote. His drinking became so extreme that he had blackout episodes, and woke up on the floor of a restaurant bathroom with no memory of how he got there. Once “I had the first beer, I found it impossible to stop until I was completely annihilated,” he wrote. (Amazon) Kavanaugh is not specifically mentioned in the book. The name Kavanaugh surfaces in passing, when Judge recites some Irish Catholic surnames at his elementary school — “O’Neal, Murphy, Kavanaugh.” Judge’s book changes the name of his high school to “Loyola Prep,” and makes a glancing reference at a character he calls “Bart O’Kavanaugh.” A girl at a party, wrote Judge, asked him: “Do you know Bart O’Kavanaugh? I heard he puked in someone’s car the other night.” Judge responds: “Yeah he passed out on his way back from a party.” In his 2005 book God and Man at Georgetown Prep, Judge slammed his high school and the “insane liberalism” of Catholicism in the 1960s. He said the school was “overrun” by gay priests — part of the church’s “lavender mafia,” he later wrote in The Daily Caller — and was infused with alcohol. “Only a person in denial still claims that something did not go terribly wrong in the Church after the 1960s, and that more often than not that thing was homosexual priests molesting teenage boys,“Judge wrote in the The Daily Caller in 2011. “My own take is that it had less to do with homosexuality than with the feverish libertinism of the 60s. Liberals have no interest in connecting the dots from liberalism to sexual abuse.” Judge also noted in his essay: “I’m guilty as well, at least of the bouts of dehumanizing lust that is part of the fallen world and being human ... we all have that monster to some extent.” This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 09-17-18 09:18am - 2290 days | #1097 | |
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Chip off the old block. Donald Trump taught his kids well. Rape a woman, then tell everyone she's a slut not worth fucking. Deny, deny, deny. President Trump's cronies in his administration (does he have any independents he placed in the administration, or did they all pass the blind-loyalty-to-Trump litmus test) chime in with support of Trump Jr. for mocking the woman who claimed she was raped. Trump is crap. His family is crap. No matter how wealthy they might be. They are symbols of the corrupt, abusive and smug wealthy 1%. ------- ------- Donald Trump Jr. Posts Meme Mocking Woman Accusing Brett Kavanaugh Of Sexual Assault [HuffPost] Jenna Amatulli ,HuffPost•September 17, 2018 Donald Trump Jr. posted a meme on Instagram making fun of the woman who alleges that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were high school students. “Judge Kavanaugh’s sexual assault letter found by Dems,” reads the caption at the top of an image, which features a crayon letter in what looks like a child’s handwriting. The letter’s scrawl reads: “Will you be my girlfriend” alongside boxes marked with “yes” and “no.” “The Dems and their usual nonsense games really have him on the ropes now,” the president’s eldest son wrote in apparent sarcasm in his caption. “Finestein had the letter in July and saved it for the eve of his vote ... honorable as always. I believe this is a copy for full transparency.” “Finestein” appears to be a reference to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee. She said she reported the accuser’s letter to the FBI last week. The woman, Christine Blasey Ford, identified herself in a Washington Post interview published on Sunday as the author of the confidential letter sent in late July to Feinstein. Ford told the Post that Kavanaugh pinned her down and groped her while another male teenager watched when she was 15 in suburban Maryland around 1982. Ford, now 51, also said she “thought he might inadvertently kill me.” Kavanaugh, in a statement issued by the White House, denied the incident took place. Kavanaugh’s classmate, Mark Judge, said in a statement to The Weekly Standard that he has “no recollection of any of the events described in today’s Post article or attributed to her letter.” Ford would agree to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, her lawyer, Debra Katz, said Monday on the “Today” show. Trump Jr.’s Instagram post drew a comment from Lynne Patton, who heads the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s New York and New Jersey regional office for the Trump administration. She posted emojis of a laughing face and hands raised in agreement. Trump Jr. took a further swipe at the sexual assault allegation in a response to a person who commented on his Instagram post, writing: “you joke about it, but it’s important to find the truth regardless of the outcome.” Replied Trump: “An anonymous letter from an anonymous source that a senator sat on for over 2 months that’s talks about a very public figure who has been scrutinized for decades that the FBI refused to even look at conveniently appears right as he’s finishing confirmation? “Yea that’s credible... you can’t really buy that crap can you?” This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 09-16-18 11:25pm - 2291 days | #4 | |
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@Jade1, Thanks for the fast response and the link. It will take me a while to try this out, since I don't have Node.js and have never used it. | |
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| 09-16-18 11:08pm - 2291 days | #352 | |
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I've never used it. But this is the email address I see on the last gift card email I got: support@thebestporn.com So put Yujin, gift card request in the subject line. | |
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| 09-16-18 05:55pm - 2291 days | #1096 | |
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Sen. Susan Collins calls grassroots anti-Kavanaugh efforts ‘bribery,’ ‘extortion’ Volunteers asking people to urge Collins to oppose Kavanaugh also asked for money to fight Collins’ re-election in 2020 if she didn’t. Susan Collins says she is pro-choice, a supporter of Roe vs Wade. But she also says she believes Brett Kavanaugh when he says that Roe vs Wade is settled law. Ignoring the fact that he wrote an opinion (not sure if that is the correct legal term) arguing the Roe vs Wade could be overturned by the Supreme Court, and that settled law can be challenged and changed. Lawyers can be tricky. Especially a lawyer like Kavanaugh, who taught lawyers how to answer deceptively when questioned about their beliefs in the nomination process. So if Collins votes for Kavanaugh, it proves she is a hypocrite. Or else she is a liar or mush-brained idiot who can't process the facts. --------- --------- By E.J. Dionne Jr. | The Washington Post September 16, 2018 at 7:30 am PORTLAND, Maine — Exceptional dangers require exceptional and sometimes unusual responses. This was the spirit animating the volunteers at a phone bank Tuesday night in Portland. They were asking citizens to urge their state’s popular Republican senator, Susan Collins, to oppose the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. And if they found a sympathizer, they took an additional and, for some, a controversial step: Asking for a commitment to contribute to a fund that would be activated against Collins’ re-election, whose term is up in 2020, if she voted for Kavanaugh. The campaign is spearheaded by Mainers for Accountable Leadership and Maine People’s Alliance, and it has outraged Collins, a consensus seeker who issued an unusually sharp retort: “Attempts at bribery or extortion will not influence my vote at all.” The organizers were unapologetic. “The idea of Susan Collins attacking an effort by 35,000 small-dollar donors as bribery is politics at its worse,” Marie Follayttar Smith, the Accountable Leadership group’s co-director, said in a statement. “We absolutely have the right to prepare to unseat her given everything Judge Kavanaugh would do on the Supreme Court to make life worse for Maine women.” For those who might be understandably troubled about money’s electoral power being wielded so openly, there is this irony: Kavanaugh himself is, as the legal scholar Richard Hasen wrote recently in Slate, “deeply skeptical of even the most basic campaign-finance limits.” It is one of a host of ways in which Kavanaugh would likely push the Supreme Court well to the right of where it is since he would replace Justice Anthony Kennedy, a more moderate conservative. That is a central reason why his nomination has generated such passionate resistance. Nan Aron, the president of the Alliance for Justice and a liberal veteran of confirmation battles, echoed the view of many on her side. “The level of engagement is the greatest I have seen since the Bork nomination,” she said, referring to the successful derailing of Robert Bork’s 1987 appointment to the court. For the activists here and many around the country, the fears around Kavanaugh’s nomination begin with abortion rights. But the catalogue is much more extensive, reflecting the broad array of concerns of the activists mobilizing against him. Ben Gaines worried that Kavanaugh would look for ways to side with President Trump in a dispute over special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Dini Merz has the same apprehension, and also mentioned Kavanaugh’s views on “corporate power” and “religion and its role” in American life. Follayttar Smith spoke of the likelihood Kavanaugh would roll back environmental regulations and the Affordable Care Act. Susie Crimmins saw him as “dismantling government in its role of protecting the marginalized.” Louise Lora Somlyo felt that Kavanaugh had not been candid in his testimony before the Senate. More broadly, there is a belief that the would-be justice is primarily a partisan and an ideologue. “He’s a political animal to the core — and I say that as a political animal,” said Gaines, who worked for many Democrats around the country. Collins is an unusual Republican who has, by turns, gratified and infuriated liberals in her state. Alicia Barnes, a Navy veteran, said Collins “had our backs” during the campaign by LGBTQ groups to end the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy; Follayttar Smith spoke of the appreciation across the state for Collins’ vote to defend the Affordable Care Act. But Collins’ later vote for the Republican tax cut was a reminder of how often she has been loyal to her party’s leadership, and Bill Nemitz, a veteran columnist for the Portland Press-Herald, wrote a passionate column last weekend suggesting a vote for Kavanaugh would be a breaking point. With Senate Democrats now sharply questioning whether Kavanaugh has been misleading (or worse) in his testimony, Collins would have a path to oppose him, and she has said that if he had not been “truthful, then obviously that would be a major problem for me.” But there is a larger issue of hypocrisy that incites aversion to Kavanaugh. Repeatedly, Republican presidential candidates promise (usually indirectly, but, in Trump’s case, directly) that they will nominate justices who would challenge Roe v. Wade and, more generally, toe a conservative line. Once they are nominated however, these would-be justices pretend not to hold the views they hold. And when skeptics point out their obvious evasions, defenders denounce these objections as purely partisan. | |
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| 09-16-18 05:32pm - 2291 days | #1095 | |
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Politics Jeff Flake Suggests Delaying Kavanaugh Vote Amid Sexual Assault Allegations [HuffPost] Doha Madani ,HuffPost•September 16, 2018 Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) became the first Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee to suggest it delay moving forward with Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation amid allegations the judge sexually assaulted a woman as a teenager. The Senate Judiciary Committee may be unable to move ahead with a Thursday vote that would send Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the full Senate after the judge’s previously unnamed accuser came forward Sunday. Flake, a member of the committee, said Sunday that he would not be “comfortable” moving forward now that Christine Blasey Ford has revealed herself as the woman behind a letter detailing the allegations. “If they push forward without any attempt with hearing what she’s had to say, I’m not comfortable voting yes ... we need to hear from her,” Flake told Politico Sunday. “And I don’t think I’m alone in this.” Republican members of the committee initially released a statement Sunday calling Ford’s motive into question and seemed ready to continue with Kavanaugh’s nomination as scheduled. Flake’s statement is significant and could potentially throw Kavanaugh’s bid for the high court in jeopardy considering the GOP holds a slim 11-10 advantage on the Judiciary Commitee. Moreover, his voice is likely to weigh heavily on the minds of GOP moderates such as Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who have not yet said how they intend to vote on Kavanaugh. Asked if the committee should proceed to vote this week as scheduled, Collins told CNN Sunday, “I’m going to be talking with my colleagues,” and declined further comment. Ford revealed her identity on Sunday in The Washington Post after Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) confirmed on Thursday that she was in possession of a letter accusing Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting a woman in his high school years. Ford alleges that Kavanaugh was “stumbling drunk” at a party in the 1980s when he pinned her to a bed, groped her, grinded his body against hers and attempted to pull off her clothing. Kavanaugh has denied the allegations. Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Sunday he was working on setting up bipartisan calls to keep Kavanaugh’s confirmation on track. Grassley’s office said it was working to hold calls alongside Feinstein, the top Democrat on the committee, to speak with Kavanaugh and Ford. “The Chairman and Ranking Member routinely hold bipartisan staff calls with nominees when updates are made to nominees’ background files,” Grassley’s office said in a statement. “Given the late addendum to the background file and revelations of Dr. Ford’s identity, Chairman Grassley is actively working to set up such follow-up calls with Judge Kavanaugh and Dr. Ford ahead of Thursday’s scheduled vote.” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), also on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he shared Grassley’s concerns about the timing of the accusations, but noted that he would be willing to listen to Ford if she “wished to provide information to the committee.” Igor Bobic contributed to this report. | |
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| 09-16-18 05:12pm - 2291 days | #1094 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Donald Trump needs to look into this matter. A Border Patrol agent has been charged with killing 4 women. Should Trump issue a presidential pardon? Trump wants illegal immigrants moved out of the US. The Border Patrol agent was doing his best to follow Trump's wishes. And maybe the Border Patrol agent was getting some kicks from his job. A win-win for both the Border Patrol agent and Donald Trump. So a pardon might be in order: and instead of prison, the Border Patrol agent might be given a promotion, for doing a great job. -------- -------- U.S. Border Patrol agent charged with killing 4 women after 5th escapes, alerts police Good Morning America MARK OSBORNE,Good Morning America 14 hours ago Border Patrol agent charged with killing 4 women after 5th escapes, alerts police (ABC News) Border Patrol agent charged with killing 4 women after 5th escapes, alerts police originally appeared on abcnews.go.com A longtime U.S. Border Patrol agent is being called a "serial killer" after he was arrested and charged with the murder of four women in southern Texas on Saturday. Juan David Ortiz, 35, was arrested on Saturday in Laredo, Texas, after he allegedly attempted to abduct a fifth woman, the Webb County Sheriff's Office said. He has been charged with the murder of four women over the past two weeks, as well as unlawful restraint, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and evading arrest. The sheriff's office said all four bodies have been found, and no other victims are expected. Two of the women have not been fully identified, officials said. None of the women's names have been released, pending notification of family members. "We do consider this to be a serial killer," Webb County District Attorney Isidro Alaniz said. "It meets the qualifications or definition of being a serial killer -- in this case we have four people murdered." PHOTO: Law enforcement officers gather near the scene where the body of a woman was found near Interstate 35 north of Laredo, Texas on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. (AP) The first murder took place Sept. 3, authorities said. Ortiz has worked for the Border Patrol for 10 years, according to the sheriff's office. (MORE: Border patrol agent kills woman attempting to cross Texas border) The police got their break overnight Saturday when Ortiz allegedly tried to abduct another woman. However, when the suspect pulled a gun on the woman inside his vehicle, she fled and was able to contact police. "Apparently the suspect pulled out a gun on her and she was able to escape," Webb County Sheriff Martin Cueller said. PHOTO: Webb County Sheriff Martin Cuellar briefs reporters following the discovery of a body tied to a string of four murders in two weeks in the area. (Webb County Sheriff's Office) Ortiz was approached by police at approximately 2 a.m. Saturday and initially fled troopers. He ran to a nearby hotel where he was arrested on the third floor of a parking garage hiding in a truck, authorities said. "This case broke open yesterday with an aggravated kidnapping that led to a lookout for a suspect, in this case Ortiz, so he will be looking at charges of aggravated kidnapping," Alaniz said. "The evidence then collected by the law enforcement investigators indicates that there was probable cause to indicate that this individual was responsible for this series of murders, which I would qualify as a serial murder that we have." Alaniz said it is believed all four women were sex workers. PHOTO: Law enforcement officers gather near the scene where the body of a woman was found near Interstate 35 north of Laredo, Texas on Saturday, Sept. 15, 2018. (AP) "Our sincerest condolences go out to the victims' family and friends," the U.S. Border Patrol said in a statement. "While it is CBP policy to not comment on the details of an ongoing investigation, criminal action by our employees is not, and will not be tolerated." Laredo, which has a population of about 250,000, according to the 2010 census, is located directly on the U.S.-Mexican border. (MORE: Texas woman accuses Border Patrol agent of demanding ID, stopping her for speaking Spanish) "Laredo is not the sleepy town that we grew up in," Alaniz said. "This is crime that is consistent with bigger cities. Laredo is a bigger city. We're seeing more and more serious crimes. It can happen. People need to be careful." Cueller thanked the Department of Public Safety, the Texas Rangers and the district attorney’s office for their assistance in the investigation. Ortiz is being held on $2.56 million bond. | |
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| 09-16-18 04:47pm - 2291 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Can you post the source code for your program at this thread? It seems like a nifty way of keeping track of files. Very useful. Thanks in advance. | |
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| 09-16-18 04:35pm - 2291 days | #350 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I didn't win anything in the last raffle, but I always received any gift card by the Friday following the raffle. So if your post slips by without PU noticing, I would definitely email them privately, asking if the cards were mailed. | |
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| 09-15-18 11:38pm - 2292 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Trump can use the system to warn the public if he is indicted or impeached. ------- ------- Trump administration to send U.S. cellphones a test alert on Thursday Reuters Reuters 8 hours ago "Presidential Alert" test to be sent to all cell phones. (Jeff Chiu/AP) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration will send a message to all U.S. cellphones on Thursday to test a previously unused alert system that aims to warn the public about national emergencies. The messages will bear the headline "Presidential Alert", the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said in a statement this week. Phones will make a loud tone and have a special vibration, said FEMA, which will send the alert. The test message, scheduled for 2:18 p.m. EDT on Thursday, will read: "THIS IS A TEST of the National Wireless Emergency Alert System. No action is needed." The test has been scheduled to ensure that the alert system would work in the event of a national emergency. U.S. cellphone users will not be able to opt out. Former President Barack Obama signed a law in 2016 requiring FEMA to create a system allowing the president to send cellphone alerts regarding public safety emergencies. Since the wireless emergency alert system began in 2012, it has issued over 36,000 alerts for situations such as missing children, extreme weather and natural disasters, but never a presidential directive. Cell phone users can opt out of natural disaster or missing children alerts. FEMA said in a statement the alerts can only be used for national emergencies. The president has sole responsibility for determining when the national-level alerts are used. In the event of widespread severe weather or another significant event on Sept. 20, the test will be pushed back to Oct. 3, FEMA said. The administration announced in July that it would schedule the test alert for September. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on its role in planning the test alert. The administration will send a test alert via radio and television broadcasters two minutes after the cell phone alert. It will interrupt programming for about one minute, FEMA said. Cell towers will broadcast the WEA test for approximately 30 minutes beginning at 2:18 p.m. The U.S. Federal Communications Commission has approved new rules to ensure starting in 2019 that alerts are more precisely targeted, with links to photos or other important information. There have been issues with prior state alerts. In January, Hawaii issued a false alert of a missile attack that went uncorrected for 38 minutes after being transmitted to mobile phones and broadcast stations, causing widespread panic across the Pacific islands state. In April, the FCC blamed that false alarm on human error and inadequate safeguards. (Reporting by Jason Lange, David Shepardson and David Morgan in Washington; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama and David Gregorio) | |
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| 09-15-18 11:08pm - 2292 days | #1093 | |
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The shameful truth revealed: Justin Bieber is not an American citizen. He snuck into the US as a child, has been living in the US since he was 13. But he was born in Canada, and is a Canadian citizen. Now, all of a sudden, because he married an American, he wants to claim US citizenship. Ship him back to Canada, where all Bieberites belong. Keep America white for White Americans. (Does Bieber have any blood in him from shithole countries? Is Canada part of the shithole countries our dearest President was talking about?) Bieber's bride revealed in a tweet that she is not married yet. So can Bieber be arrested for a fraudulent marriage ceremony? Enquiring minds want to know. ------- ------- Justin Bieber Is Applying to Become an American Citizen After Hailey Baldwin Wedding: Report [People] Dave Quinn ,People•September 15, 2018 Hot on the heels of news that Justin Bieber and Hailey Baldwin tied the knot, a new report says the “Love Yourself” singer is working to become a U.S. citizen. Bieber, who was born and raised in Ontario, Canada, has applied for dual citizenship, TMZ reports, citing multiple sources. The 24-year-old star has lived in the states since he was 13, when he move with his family to Atlanta. He currently splits his time between Los Angeles, New York City, and Ontario, where he owns a $5 million estate, according to TMZ. In order to gain citizenship, the United States government requires that an applicant has had a Permanent Resident (Green) Card for at least five years. One must be at least 18 years old, be able to “read, write, and speak basic English,” and be “a person of good moral character,” USA.gov states. A 10-step naturalization process is then put forward to determine eligibility. That includes preparing and submitting an N-400 form, the application for naturalization, as well as having a personal interview and taking the U.S. Naturalization Test. Multiple sources confirmed to PEOPLE on Friday that Beiber and Baldwin, 21, got married in a civil ceremony on Thursday at a New York City courthouse. “They went ahead and did it without listening to anyone,” a source close to the couple told PEOPLE. A religious source spoke to the family and confirmed to PEOPLE that they were legally married at the courthouse, but are going to have a religious ceremony and celebration with family and friends soon. “They’re going to have a big blowout, in front of God and everyone they love,” the religious source told PEOPLE. On Thursday, Bieber and Baldwin were seen walking into a courthouse where marriage licenses are issued, according to a photo obtained by TMZ. The outlet also reported the couple appeared to be extremely emotional, with Bieber telling Baldwin, “I can’t wait to marry you, baby.” According to the outlet, Justin told a court official, “Thanks for keeping it on the DL.” Despite PEOPLE’s confirmation of the courthouse ceremony, Baldwin said on Friday that she doesn’t count herself a married woman — yet. “I understand where the speculation is coming from, but I’m not married yet!” the model wrote in a since-deleted tweet. A friend of the couple told PEOPLE Baldwin “feels a civil ceremony and their ‘real’ wedding are two separate things.” Added a religious source: “What happened at the courthouse is a courthouse thing — a legal thing. But marriage is two people making a vow before God and the people they love.” Meanwhile, the duo’s whirlwind wedding comes as no surprise, as a source close to Bieber revealed to PEOPLE in July that the pop star and his then-fiancée preferred quick and quiet nuptials. “They don’t want a long engagement and are already planning their wedding,” the source said. “As of now, they want a small ceremony with their families. They are not planning a huge, celebrity wedding. They are getting married for love and don’t want a flashy wedding.” | |
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| 09-15-18 10:05pm - 2292 days | #1092 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Can we impeach Dianne Feinstein along with Brett Kavanaugh and Donald Trump? Liars, incompetents, bullshit artists. Clear the swamp in Washington by getting rid of the President, his cabinet, Brett Kavanaugh, and Congress. ------ ------ Dianne Feinstein, What in the Hell Were You Thinking? Brett Kavanaugh stands accused of sexually assaulting a high school classmate. And Feinstein seems to have concluded that the public didn’t need to know this. Michael Tomasky Michael Tomasky 09.14.18 1:59 PM ET First of all, what in blazes was Dianne Feinstein thinking? It was late July when she got that letter from a female constituent alleging that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when they were in high school. And only this week did she bother to share it with her Democratic Judiciary Committee colleagues? And not only that. According to Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer’s explosive New Yorker piece posted Friday morning, those colleagues got wind of the letter’s existence and had been asking her to share it with them “for several days”? What did she say? My dog ate it? ADVERTISING inRead invented by Teads Mind-boggling. Here we were, in late July, two weeks after Donald Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. Mitch McConnell had yet to announce the confirmation hearing dates, which he announced on Aug. 9. But obviously, in late July, the Democrats were well aware that they had the fight of their lives on their hands; that they were outnumbered and would need something huge. And here is Feinstein, the ranking member of the committee, holding that something in her hands. And she kept it secret. From her colleagues. According to the New Yorker, her staff even told other Democrats on the committee that the incident was “taken care of” and that it was too far in the past to be worth discussing in public. She had no right to keep it from them. For that matter, she had no right to keep it from us, the public, who also live with the consequences of a new Supreme Court. Maybe Feinstein feared that if she shared the letter, the woman’s name would leak out. Maybe she felt it wasn’t her story to tell. A reasonable concern. But okay—share the letter while redacting the woman’s name. It took me four seconds to think of that. Maybe she feared being attacked for bringing in something this controversial and ancient. Okay. But what did she think was going to happen? Did she think she’d be able to sit on this letter forever and not even refer it to the FBI? Hot documents have a way of getting out in this town. At the very least, when her colleagues started asking her about it, she should have owned up and told them the truth and shared it with them and asked their advice. And now where are we? She’s made an absolute disaster of things. It got out anyway. If anything, by holding it so long, she has helped facilitate the discrediting of the woman who is accusing Kavanaugh here, because it looks desperate and eleventh-hour, whereas if she’d made this public before, people would have had time to process it and Republicans couldn’t have made that accusation. Oh, and this: Up to now, the Democrats were getting points from liberals (for the most part) because they’d handled the hearings pretty well. They were tough. They stood up. They asked good questions. They pinned Kavanaugh down on lie after lie. They don’t have the votes, and if you don’t have the votes, you don’t have the votes. But for once they didn’t run up the white flag before the battle was over. They weren’t like those dogs in the learned helplessness experiments, so accustomed to defeat and punishment that they just sat in the corner. But now, single-handedly, she has returned things to the Incompetent Democrats narrative. Well, no. Not Incompetent Democrats. Incompetent Democrat, singular. Beyond belief. She’s running for reelection, and under California’s jungle primary, her general-election opponent is a fellow Democrat, Kevin De Leon, who’s challenging her from the left. De Leon is no Bernie bro; he endorsed Clinton. Feinstein has been 20 to 25 points ahead, and De Leon hasn’t made the best case for himself. Well, Feinstein just made the best possible case for him. She might still win, but next year, the Democrats should absolutely kick her off the committee for this. Especially if they retake the Senate—there is no way after this cock-up she should be anywhere near that gavel. So now, conservatives are rallying to Kavanaugh’s defense, arguing that he has denied it, calling forth character witnesses. But the denial could be a lie, and the character witnesses certainly weren’t in the room that night. Surely senators will also soon begin to say ‘Ah, it was high school, it’s too long ago.’ This argument can be easily pre-butted. First of all, just because it was 36 years ago, that doesn’t mean it’s automatically irrelevant. Suppose a Supreme Court nominee committed murder 36 years ago? I’d say, liberal or conservative, that murder was relevant. So some old crimes can be relevant. It just depends on their nature and severity. On top of that, we have the fact that this man, if confirmed, is going to spend the next 30 or 35 years of his life deciding whether 16-year-old girls like the one he allegedly attacked have any rights to control their own reproductive fates. We all know, his “open mind” notwithstanding, that he is going to spend 30 or 35 years saying they have none. If he is permitted to spend three decades doing this even though he may have been a sexual aggressor, that is a disgrace. There’s already one credibly accused sexual aggressor on the Supreme Court who’s cast vote after vote denying women the right to control their biological destiny. Are we to have another? There are only nine of them, in the whole United States. And the Republican Party can’t find ones who aren’t accused of disturbing sexual misadventure? These all are fair questions, and questions we as a society might have spent the last few weeks exploring. But Dianne Feinstein decided we shouldn’t. Do I still have time to move to California and vote? | |
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| 09-15-18 10:38am - 2292 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Maybe the guy should have told his wife privately, so that she could have dealt with the truth better? Or maybe the guy was saying that sleeping with other women gave him little pleasure, and that's why he kept doing it? Or maybe the guy was looking for the perfect fuck? Enquiring minds want to know the truth: ------- ------- Yahoo Sports Former Pistons player goes on TV to tell his wife he has slept with 341 women Yahoo Sports Ben Rohrbach,Yahoo Sports 21 hours ago Former Detroit Pistons center Jason Maxiell revealed to a national television audience that he has slept with 341 women before and during his marriage to high school sweetheart Brandi Maxiell. This figure falls 19,659 shy of the number of women NBA legend and lifelong bachelor Wilt Chamberlain claimed to have bedded in his 1991 book “A View From Above,” but that was no consolation to Brandi. Maxiell’s wife walked off the set of the Oprah Winfrey Network’s “Iyanla: Fix My Life” when her husband revealed to host Iyanla Vanzant that she had slept with “more than 50” women in his life. How Brandi Maxiell reacted to the show The episode was filmed a year ago, according to a message she recently shared with The Shade Room: “Thank you all for the well wishes and prayers. Jason, Baby Jason and I needed that. “I would like to say I’m more frustrated with him blurting out a number to the world without no regard for my feelings. 8 put a damper on our relationship and I was willing to work on it. Over 50 tore it down! “My focus is and has been since we went on this show a year ago, is to shift my ENTIRE life from being a great wife and mother into being the best mother & person I can be! I’m aware that my son will someday come across this video and witness what the man of his life has done to his mother & how I stood by and basically did nothing. Therefore, I have to prepare myself for that conversation with him ‘without lies’ but with compassion for my son. I’m going to use very detail of my upbringing, my illness, my marriage, my life good or bad, to raise my child to learn how to first love & respect God, himself, women & all of God’s creations.” A former “Basketball Wives” cast member, Brandi overcame an ovarian cancer diagnosis in 2007. Iyanla Vanzant’s advice to Jason Maxiell The “Iyanla” episode also explores sex addiction and alcoholism, both of which Maxiell denied, and Vanzant offers sage advice about potential deeper-seated issues beneath the 35-year-old’s infidelity. “Every time you’re with another woman, you abandon you,” Vanzant told Maxiell on the episode that aired last week. “And every time you tell another lie, you abandon you. And every time you take a drink to stuff the pain down, you abandon you. This wasn’t about sex. This was about punishment.” What is Jason Maxiell doing these days? Detroit’s first-round pick in 2005, Maxiell played his first eight seasons for the Pistons before spending his final two NBA seasons in Orlando and Charlotte. After tours of of basketball duty in China and Turkey between 2015 and 2017, Maxiell played in the BIG3 league this summer. He signed a one-day contract with the Pistons in August 2017 to retire from the NBA with the team that drafted him. – – – – – – – Ben Rohrbach is a writer for Yahoo Sports. | |
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| 09-15-18 04:46am - 2293 days | #9 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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@Loki, I don't mean to pry. But if you have an EBT or medicaid card, you are eligible for a discounted membership to Amazon Prime. I think it's $5.99/month. I don't know if they have a discounted yearly membership rate. It's supposed to be easy to sign up for the discount, if you have either one of those cards. And it only makes sense to take advantage of the program, if you are eligible. | |
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| 09-15-18 04:07am - 2293 days | #8 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I don't know about the legality of this. But in your will, or in a separate piece of paper, you could give your account details to one heir. And then that heir should be able to access your bought (or permanently leased) software: both books and movies and TV series, whatever. Let's take Amazon. Because that's the service I use most often for buying ebooks and movies. You don't have to pay a monthly fee or yearly fee to access the ebooks and movies you have bought. You do need an account with Amazon, but that is free. You don't need to be a Prime Member, to rent, or buy, or view the ebooks and movies. You just need to access your free Amazon account, and then stream or download the ebook or movie to a kindle, or stream it on your PC. Again, I don't know the legality of this. Do your legal rights to the ebooks and emovies you paid for expire when you die? Probably. It's almost certain you can't legally trade or loan any of the ebooks or emovies you buy, except that you can give them as gifts (but then you have not bought the right to view them for yourself--that would be a separate purchase). I don't know if Amazon traces your physical location each time you access your ebooks or emovies. Or whether they have programs that try to determine if more than one person is using the account to access the content. I would assume that family members have the right to view these ebooks and emovies. But if you have a large collection of emovies and ebooks you have bought, it might be worth while giving a letter to one of your heirs with your account details, and a list of the ebooks and movies you have purchased. Or not. As you see fit. | |
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| 09-14-18 09:54pm - 2293 days | #6 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Streaming is usually more convenient than watching a DVD. You can stream from many devices. I guess with Roku or other similar devices you can also stream a DVD on some devices. PC and TV, mainly. That's a guess, because I've never owned a Roku-type device. But it's still more convenient to stream a movie that you purchased a lifetime lease (or bought the streaming version on Amazon or a similar service). You don't have to locate the physical copy of the DVD. And Amazon (maybe the other services, as well) keeps a record of when you stopped the playback of a movie, so you can either watch from the point you stopped at, or start at the beginning of the movie. If you are on a very limited budget, buying the DVD can be cheaper than buying the streaming version. But then, you have to be very selective about what you buy, and guess in advance that the DVD is worth your while watching it multiple times. One advantage of a DVD over the streaming version is that DVDs often come with extras, such as a comment track by the director or some of the actors. So it's hard to make a strong case that DVD or streaming version is the better choice. I own a lot of DVDs. Mostly because I bought them years before I started buying streaming versions of movies. But I really enjoy the convenience of a streaming version of a movie. I am an Amazon prime member, so I watch movies on my PC and on my kindles. Like I said, I don't have a Roku-type device, and even if I did, I don't know if that would allow me to stream DVD content on my kindles. An Amazon prime membership was recently raised to about $119, I believe. But that gives you access to a lot of free movies and TV series. A lot of the free movies are junk. But there are also a lot of good movies that are free. You also get free shipping on orders from Amazon, in most cases. But if you are on a very limited budget, the free shipping might have little real value, since you won't be buying a lot from Amazon anyway. | |
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| 09-14-18 03:12pm - 2293 days | #1090 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Judd Apatow, Whitney Cummings Slam Logic of Kavanaugh’s 65 Women: ‘Confusing to People?’ Woman accused Supreme Court nominee of sexual misconduct when they were in high school Linda Xu | September 14, 2018 @ 2:22 PM Last Updated: September 14, 2018 @ 2:56 PM People have expressed their outrage over a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee in which 65 women testify that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is a “good person.” The letter, released Friday, came after a women, who remained unidentified, accused Kavanaugh of forcing himself on her sexually while he was a student at Georgetown Preparatory School, an all-boys school in Bethesda, Maryland. Hollywood figures, including Whitney Cummings and Judd Apatow, argued that the letter from 65 women defied logic. Cummings wrote, “You can treat 65 women with respect and still sexually assault a woman who wasn’t one of those 65 women.” The comedian and creator of CBS’ “2 Broke Girls” added, “Is this actually confusing to people?” Apatow used fewer words to make his point: “Cosby was really nice to Oprah. So ?” he added to his retweet of Cummings’ post. Comedian Matt Oswalt, younger brother of Patton Oswalt, penned a hypothetical situation in which Kavanaugh reaches out to the women who signed the letter: Other observers expressed similar sentiments on Twitter about the letter. Many emphasized the coincidence of Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley, who released the letter, having it at the ready and publishing it after the news of the accusation of sexual misconduct against Kavanaugh broke. Some suspected that Grassley knew of the accusation and prepared for its fallout. “Who among us does not have a ready-made list of 65 women to say you did not rape them in high school,” writer Kate Aronoff said. “Will and Grace” star Debra Messing echoed the thought: The letter begins with the women stating that they have known Kavanaugh for more than 35 years and that “he has behaved honorably and treated women with respect” the entire time. Addressed to Grassley and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, it was released just after a New Yorker story was published detailing the accusation against Kavanaugh. The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow reported that the letter made its way to Feinstein’s office in July, but that the senator did not notify Senate Democratic colleagues about it, stating that “the incident was too distant in the past to merit public discussion.” | |
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| 09-14-18 11:31am - 2293 days | #1089 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Is Brett Kavanaugh a rapist or would-be rapist who is following in the steps of Donald Trump? Except that Trump is proud of his sexual conquests, and boasts that all you need to do is grab a woman by the pussy to get what you want. Whereas Brett Kavanaugh seems to be a watered-down version of Trump. Kavanaugh does not seem to be boasting of his past sexual conquests. But this incident below supposedly took place in the 1980s, so the statue of limitations seems to rule out any legal responsibility. But Republicans are fighting back anyway: First, Kavanaugh denies the attempted rape accusation. Second, after The New Yorker published its report, Senator Chuck Grassley, the Chairman of the Judiciary, released a letter sent to him by 65 women who say they knew Kavanaugh in high school. “We are women who have known Brett Kavanaugh for 35 years, and knew him while he attended high school between 1979 and 1983,” they write. “For the entire time we have known Brett Kavanaugh, he has behaved honorably and treated women with respect.” Why would the Republican Chairman of the Judiciary have such a special letter? Because, evidently, he knew about the attempted rape accusation, even though the accusation was kept secret from the public, from most Democrats on the committee, and from all the Republicans on the committee. So, again, how did Republican Senator Chuck Grassley find out about the confidential letter? And why did they get 65 women to state they knew Kavanaugh in high school, back in the 1980s, and Kavanaugh is such a swell guy. I'm just glad the Republican party is so smart they can find out secrets that the public does not know, and fight back against secret knowledge some Democrats have, that turns out to not be so secret after all. Getting the names of 65 women who knew Kavanaugh in the early 1980s, and are willing to swear that Kavanaugh is a really nice guy. Can't they do the same for Donald Trump: get 65 women to say they knew Trump in the early 1980s, and Trump was such a wonderful and respectful boy back then, who would never sleep with any woman who was not his wife? --------- --------- Politics Woman Says Brett Kavanaugh ‘Attempted to Force Himself on Her’ in High School The Cut Madeleine Aggeler,The Cut 1 hour 26 minutes ago Earlier this week, the New York Times reported that Senator Dianne Feinstein had received a secret letter containing allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. A new report from Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer at The New Yorker sheds light on what that allegation was: The accuser, who asked to remain anonymous, claims that during a high-school party in the early ’80s, Kavanaugh and a friend trapped her in a room, where Kavanaugh “held her down, and … attempted to force himself on her.” Per The New Yorker: She claimed in the letter that Kavanaugh and a classmate of his, both of whom had been drinking, turned up music that was playing in the room to conceal the sound of her protests, and that Kavanaugh covered her mouth with his hand. She was able to free herself. After President Trump named Kavanaugh as his nominee to fill Justice Anthony Kennedy’s seat on the Supreme Court back in July, the woman sent letters detailing her allegations against Kavanaugh to her congressperson, Anna Eshoo, as well as Senator Feinstein, the ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who was preparing to question Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings. But they did not do much with it. Indeed, Feinstein withheld the letter from her fellow Democrats on the Judiciary Committee until this Wednesday, reportedly telling her fellow members the event took place too long ago warrant public discussion, and that she had “taken care of it.” On Thursday, she announced she had referred the matter to the FBI. As a source close to the woman told The New Yorker she felt discouraged by these responses. “She had repeatedly reported the allegation to members of Congress and, watching Kavanaugh move toward what looked like an increasingly assured confirmation, she decided to end her effort to come forward,” per Farrow and Meyer. Kavanaugh said he “categorically and unequivocally” denies these allegations. After The New Yorker published its report, Senator Chuck Grassley, the Chairman of the Judiciary, released a letter sent to him by 65 women who say they knew Kavanaugh in high school. “We are women who have known Brett Kavanaugh for 35 years, and knew him while he attended high school between 1979 and 1983,” they write. “For the entire time we have known Brett Kavanaugh, he has behaved honorably and treated women with respect.” | |
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| 09-14-18 07:52am - 2293 days | #1088 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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This is terribly wrong. Please tell me it's a lie spread by slime-ball Democrats who want to drag down Trump's good name. There is a rumor that Trump will pay Mexico millons of dollars to help the US deport undocumented immigrants. Trump pledged many times that Mexico will pay billions to pay for our border wall. And now it seems that Trump is going to pay Mexico to get rid of Mexicans in the US. That is criminal. It will destroy the US budget, that the Republican party has pledged to protect. Can we no longer believe in the pledges and promises of our leaders? Although Trump is one of the finest humanitarians, and has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to just line up the illegal immigrants and shoot them down? Bullets cost less than $1 each. Bus fare or plane fare is much more expensive. So it's the economic and utilitarian choice to solve the immigration problem. ------- ------- U.S. Trump Plans To Pay Millions To Mexico So It'll Deport Undocumented Immigrants HuffPost Dominique Mosbergen,HuffPost Thu, Sep 13 3:35 AM PDT The Trump administration is reportedly planning on diverting $20 million in foreign assistance funds to help Mexico deport up to 17,000 undocumented immigrants from the country. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters) Remember President Donald Trump’s insistence that Mexico would pay for his border wall? Well, it seems it’s the U.S. that’ll be shelling out millions to its southern neighbor in exchange for helping Trump in his crusade against immigration. The Trump administration recently sent a notice to Congress saying it plans to divert $20 million allocated for foreign assistance to help Mexico deport up to 17,000 undocumented immigrants from the country, according to a New York Times report published late Wednesday. The money would reportedly help Mexico pay for the plane and bus fares of deportees. Central Americans attempting to flee to the U.S. via Mexico will be the main target of the initiative. A Department of Homeland Security spokeswoman confirmed the plan to the Times, saying the administration was “working closely with our Mexican counterparts to confront rising border apprehension numbers.” U.S. Border Patrol said this week that the number of families arrested for illegally entering the U.S. increased 38 percent in August ― a rise Trump officials described as a crisis. Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.), ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, lambasted Trump’s new $20 million plan, saying the foreign assistance funds had been earmarked by Congress to “lift up communities dealing with crime, corruption and so many other challenges” ― and not to bankroll an immigration crackdown. “I want answers about why the State Department thinks it can ignore Congress and dump more cash into deportation efforts,” Engel told the Times. “Until then, I’ll do whatever I can to stop this,” The Trump administration also is being blasted this week for redirecting millions of dollars into efforts to detain and deport undocumented immigrants. Documents released Tuesday by Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) revealed the administration quietly transferred $200 million earlier this year from other government agencies ― including almost $10 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency ― to fatten the budget of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. “This is a scandal,” Merkley said in a statement to HuffPost. “At the start of hurricane season — when American citizens in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands are still suffering from FEMA’s inadequate recovery efforts — the administration transferred millions of dollars away from FEMA ... And for what? To implement their profoundly misguided ‘zero tolerance’ policy.” Trump’s proposal to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border and his baseless claim that Mexico would pay for it became a rallying cry during his 2016 campaign. He frequently repeats the claim, though his budget proposals have included funding for the wall with money from American taxpayers, not Mexico, which has repeatedly insisted that it won’t pay. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 09-14-18 05:30am - 2294 days | #1087 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Politics The GOP Rode The Trump Train, And Now It's Derailing HuffPost Michelangelo Signorile,HuffPost 19 hours ago Susan Collins must be freaking out. The Republican senator from Maine, who positions herself as a pro-abortion rights moderate, signaled early support of Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s Supreme Court nominee. According to a HuffPost source, Collins allegedly green lit Trump’s nominee before the president even chose Kavanaugh, though she strenuously denies this. The senator now faces activists who have so far raised $1.3 million and counting via crowdfunding for any opponent to run against her in 2020. A rattled Collins has resorted to calling this “bribery” in an “exclusive statement” to right-wing website Newsmax, which tells us exactly which audience she’s attempting to shore up and gain sympathy from. This claim is just plain silly since no one is planning on actually paying her the money. She should look up Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission for a definition of bribery, a ruling handed down by several justices for whom she voted, and a ruling which she’s benefited from in the form of corporate donations. Collins has also complained about “vulgar” phone calls to her office from people opposed to Kavanaugh, the least popular Supreme Court nominee in decades, who, in opinion polls, is doing slightly worse or even with the ill-fated Harriet Miers and Robert Bork. (Of course, for a definition of “vulgar,” Collins really should just look up “Donald Trump.”) Perhaps Collins, who seems to have lived in that cocoon in which senators who’ve been in office for decades often find themselves, is suddenly realizing that we’re in a different time and that she’s sealed her fate. Who knows what Trump may have promised Collins or what she’s afraid he might do to her if she were now to go back on any assurances she may have given on Kavanaugh. Perhaps Collins is worried about a primary challenge from the right in 2020. I would be. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), meanwhile, is begging for help from the same GOP leaders he’s attacked in the past (like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), whom Cruz called a “liar” a few years back) as he tries to fend off a serious challenge from Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke, who is galvanizing support across Texas and coming up even with Cruz in polls. It appears grassroots fundraising has slowed for Cruz and exploded for O’Rourke. Perhaps Collins is worried about a primary challenge from the right in 2020. I would be. Ironically, Cruz is also turning to the same man who helped turn the GOP radioactive: Trump, who announced he’s heading to Texas to stump for Cruz next month. The same Cruz whom Trump called “Lyin’ Ted.” The same Trump whom Cruz called a “sniveling coward” and “serial philanderer.” And now McConnell is openly fretting about losing Republican control of the Senate. While the House has been in play for Democrats for months, their chances only grow by the day to take control of the chamber, as new polls show further momentum. But control of the Senate, seen as a long shot just weeks ago, is also now a realistic, less-daunting possibility. McConnell even told reporters this week, “I hope when the smoke clears, we’ll still have a majority.” GOP leaders mused in the recent past about taking seats from Democrats in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan ― all states Trump won. But those efforts have largely evaporated. Now McConnell and GOP leaders are diverting precious time and money to states where McConnell sees a “knife fight in an alley” to retain or take seats: Arizona, Nevada, Tennessee, Montana, North Dakota, Missouri, Indiana, West Virginia and Florida. Fighting to keep Senate seats in Texas and Tennessee was never in the GOP’s game plan (nor in anyone else’s wildest imagination). Republicans can only blame themselves for this state of affairs. After first occasionally standing up to Trump post-election, they’ve completely thrown their lot in with him, fearful of their shrinking party’s Trump-loving base. (The GOP now represents only about one-fourth of voters, according to recent surveys, declining since the 2016 election.) Now, Trump is all they’ve got. Their tax law, benefiting the wealthy and corporations, went nowhere in galvanizing voters for the midterms (many having likely seen it for the scam that it is). According to a recent Fox News poll, it’s now more unpopular (40 percent) than Obamacare (51 percent). Vicious anti-immigrant rhetoric, always a desperate last resort, only hurt the GOP in Virginia’s 2017 gubernatorial and legislative races and in special elections across the country. But that hasn’t stopped Republicans from deploying racist attacks this election season in full force. As Frank Sharry of the immigration group America’s Voice notes, we can expect “an ugly midterm election strategy: smear immigrants as criminals and attack Democrats for defending them.” For McConnell and GOP Senate candidates, at least, the plan, from a while back, has been to grab onto Trump and back all of his ugly, racist rhetoric, hoping he’ll keep them afloat. Fighting to keep Senate seats in Texas and Tennessee was never in the GOP’s game plan (nor in anyone else’s wildest imagination). But Trump’s approval is quite suddenly sinking into the mid-30s in a slew of new polls ― tanking among independents and in the Midwest ― while, in that same recent Fox News poll, special counsel Robert Mueller, leading the Russia investigation, has a soaring 59 percent approval rating. There are now few states the GOP can send Trump ― who, on his own, is deciding where he wants to go anyway ― because even if he may help in a statewide race, he will hurt GOP House candidates in suburban districts in that same state who are running as far away from him as they can. As has been said many times, anything Trump touches, he destroys. None of this, of course, is certain, underscoring why progressives must double down their energy. With voter suppression, possible Russian electorial interference and the usual GOP arsenal of dirty tricks, Republicans may be able to cling to power in both chambers. Gerrymandering has helped to rig the system, too. And even if Republicans are hurt by embracing Trump, much of it is cold comfort for progressives and all who care about the future of America. Collins may pay a price in 2020 for voting to confirm Kavanaugh, but we’ll still be stuck with Kavanaugh and a radical shift of the Supreme Court for decades. The country will experience profound change, from the gutting of Roe v. Wade and threatening LGBTQ rights to an expansion of presidential power and further assaults on the environment. A lot of the damage that Trump has caused unilaterally or with the help of the GOP Congress will be difficult or even impossible to undo, even if Democrats were to take both the Senate and the House, keep control of each chamber for several years, and even win the presidency in 2020. But we must start somewhere at turning things around as we face the most devastating and harrowing political reality of our lifetimes. That’s only going to happen when the GOP hits rock bottom as progressive momentum surges. And it’s appearing that may happen this November. Michelangelo Signorile is an editor-at-large for HuffPost. Follow him on Twitter at @msignorile. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 09-14-18 05:28am - 2294 days | #1086 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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HuffPost Search Of Botham Jean's Apartment Ignites Outrage Over Victim’s ‘Character Assassination’ HuffPost Carla Herreria,HuffPost 5 hours ago The lawyer for the family of the Dallas man fatally shot by a police officer in his own apartment says police are trying to discredit the victim. Botham Shem Jean, 26, died on Sept. 6 after off-duty officer Amber Guyger walked into his apartment, allegedly thinking she was in hers (which is located one floor below) and shot him twice. The casket carrying Botham Shem Jean arrived at the Greenville Avenue Church of Christ in Richardson, Texas on Thursday. (Stewart F. House via Getty Images) Attorney Lee Merritt, who represents Jean’s family, criticized the police’s search warrant, which was obtained in the hours following the shooting, as an attempt to discredit Jean after his death. “They immediately began to smear him,” Merritt told The Associated Press. According to a search warrant affidavit released on Thursday, police seized two fired cartridge casings, one laptop, a ballistic police vest, a backpack with police equipment and paperwork, two radio frequency identification keys, 10.4 grams of marijuana (equal to less than half an ounce) and a marijuana grinder, among other things, from Jean’s apartment. The affidavit didn’t identify who owned which items, according to a copy obtained by NBC Dallas-Fort Worth. Attorney Benjamin Crump, who is also representing Jean’s family, told NBC DFW that Jean’s family does not know who the marijuana belongs to. Still, Crump maintained that the seized drugs were “nothing but a disgusting attempt to assassinate his character now that they have assassinated his person.” Cornell William Brooks, the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, agreed: Although the search warrant affidavit for Jean’s apartment was made public on Thursday, the same the day as Jean’s funeral, one for Guyger’s apartment wasn’t. The Dallas Police Department and Texas Rangers did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for comment on whether her apartment was searched during the investigation. David Menschel, an Oregon-based criminal defense attorney and activist, called the release of the search warrant “propaganda.” “An off-duty cop goes into the wrong apartment and shoots the man who lives there dead, and so, as we’ve come to expect, local law enforcement is doing what it can to cast aspersions at the innocent victim — to suggest he was ‘no angel’ — and therefore apparently deserved to be shot dead in his own home,” Menschel told HuffPost. “And much of the media plays along, amplifying law enforcement’s propaganda.” After the affidavit was released, Fox 4 News published a story about the search of Jean’s home. The headline, which has since been changed, highlighted the marijuana in the search warrant affidavit without mentioning any other items that were seized from Jean’s apartment. People on Twitter called Fox 4′s headline irresponsible and reckless, noting that the marijuana discovery was irrelevant to Jean’s death. Tom Angell, a marijuana activist and publisher of the news site Marijuana Moment, said that Fox 4 News’ headline wrongly suggested that Jean was at fault for his death. “For Fox 4 to frame and play up this finding in the way that it did — implying that cannabis use might have justified his murder — is irresponsible reporting,” Angell told HuffPost. It “demonstrates how people of color, even in death, suffer disproportionate and discriminatory treatment for something many white people do with impunity.” Matt Schweich, deputy director of the policy reform group Marijuana Policy Project, questioned why officials haven’t released a search warrant for Guyger’s apartment. “A small amount of personal marijuana is irrelevant to this tragedy. It’s as relevant as a six-pack of beer,” Schweich told HuffPost. “If an innocent victim’s privacy is to be invaded through the release of a search warrant, then at the very least the perpetrator’s privacy should be invaded in the same manner,” Schweich added. The search warrant also contradicted Guygers’ arrest affidavit, which was released on Monday. In the affidavit, Guyger claimed that Jean was across the room in her apartment at the time of the shooting. The search warrant, which was signed by a Dallas police officer, said that Jean confronted Guyger at the front door. In the arrest affidavit, Guyger also said she was able to enter Jean’s apartment because the door was slightly ajar, and claimed she fired at Jean after he ignored her “verbal commands.” Guyger was arrested and charged with manslaughter on Sunday. She was later released on a $300,000 bond, per CBS News. Matt Ferner contributed to this report. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 09-14-18 04:44am - 2294 days | #1085 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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These are dangerous times. Donald Trump, the President of the greatest nation on earth, reveals that the Puerto Rican death toll of 3,000 is fake news. The slime-ball Democrats are posting fake news to attack our glorious leader for life, Donald Trump, a messenger that God Himself sent from heaven to lead our nation. We must unite and stand behind Trump, and ignore the lies and smears of the slime-ball Democrats. Vote in the November elections, so Republicans can retain control of Congress, fill the Supreme Court with Conservative justices like Brett Kavanaugh, who can overturn Roe vs Wade and make abortions illegal, so we can save the lives of unborn babies. Even the governor of Puerto Rico has admitted that Puerto Rico's population are second-class citizens of the United States, so why should the US be giving them extra money when the money can be given to the first-class citizens of the United States? Go, Republicans, the party of the White Moral Majority for a Greater America. ------ ------ HuffPost Donald Trump Denies That 3,000 People Died In Puerto Rico After Hurricane Maria HuffPost Hayley Miller,HuffPost 22 hours ago President Donald Trump on Thursday denied back-to-back hurricanes last fall resulted in nearly 3,000 deaths in Puerto Rico, as estimated by a government-commissioned study last month. In a pair of tweets, the president accused Democrats of making up “really large numbers” of deaths to make him “look as bad as possible.” There is no evidence to support his claim. “When I left the island, AFTER the storm had hit, they had anywhere from 6 to 18 deaths,” Trump tweeted about his first and only visit to Puerto Rico after hurricanes Irma and Maria pummeled the island in September 2017. During his visit to the island, Trump had suggested Puerto Ricans were lucky Hurricane Maria wasn’t a “real catastrophe” like 2005′s Hurricane Katrina. The Puerto Rican government revised Hurricane Maria’s official death toll from 64 to 2,975 last month following the study, which was conducted by researchers at George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health. Prior to the GWU study, independent investigations conducted separately by The New York Times, Penn State University and Harvard University also estimated Maria’s death toll to be in the thousands. The Milken Institute defended its study in a statement Thursday. “We stand by the science underlying our study,” the statement said. “This study, commissioned by the Government of Puerto Rico, was carried out with complete independence and freedom from any kind of interference.” “Our results show that Hurricane Maria was a very deadly storm, one that affected the entire island but hit the poor and the elderly the hardest,” the statement continued. “We are confident that the number — 2,975 — is the most accurate and unbiased estimate of excess mortality to date.” Still, as Hurricane Florence bears down on the Carolinas, Trump has called the federal government’s response to the storms in Puerto Rico an “unsung success.” San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz, who pleaded with Trump to send additional aid in the aftermath of the historic storms, hit back at the president’s death toll denial on Thursday. “People died on your watch,” Cruz tweeted. “YOUR LACK OF RESPECT IS APPALLING!” Puerto Rican officials have said they always expected the death toll to be higher than 64, which they initially estimated using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention methodology, according to a statement released by Puerto Rico’s Department of Public Safety in August. “We always anticipated that this number would increase as more official studies were conducted,” Héctor Pesquera, the department’s secretary, said in the statement. Puerto Rican Gov. Ricardo Rosselló ordered an independent study of the death toll in January because he said that “CDC guidelines proved insufficient to account for mortality in the worst natural disaster Puerto Rico has ever seen.” Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) on Thursday tweeted that he “disagreed” with Trump’s eyebrow-raising denial of the death toll. “An independent study said thousands were lost and Gov. Rosselló agreed,” Scott tweeted. “I’ve been to Puerto Rico 7 times & saw devastation firsthand. The loss of any life is tragic; the extent of lives lost as a result of Maria is heart wrenching.” In a statement Thursday, Rosselló slammed Trump’s death toll denial and condemned “anyone who would use this disaster or question our suffering for political purposes.” “The people of Puerto Rico deserve a full accounting of the impact of the storm, and they deserve recognition of that impact by our president,” Rosselló said. “I asked the president to recognize the magnitude of Hurricane Maria ... Good government means a commitment to transparency and rectifying mistakes made.” Rosselló, during an appearance earlier Thursday on CBS News, blasted the federal government for providing more resources to Floridians and Texans affected by hurricanes than to Puerto Ricans. “We are second-class U.S. citizens,” Rosselló said. “We live in a colonial territory. It is time to eliminate that. I implore all of the elected officials, particularly now with midterm elections, to have a firm stance: You’re either for colonial territories or against it. You’re either for giving equal rights to the U.S. citizens that live in Puerto Rico or you’re against it.” Erika Larose and Julie Piñero contributed reporting. This article has been updated to include Rosselló’s statement. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 09-14-18 04:26am - 2294 days | #1084 | |
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In the interests of fairness, Dallas police are searching for evidence that Botham Jean, the black man shot dead in his own apartment by an off-duty female police officer, was a possible criminal. This would justify the off-duty female cop shooting the black man, because even though the Dallas police said Botham Jean was a wonderful man, maybe, just maybe, he was still a criminal, and the shooting was justified, even though there are questions about why the shooting happened. The female cop who shot Botham Jean said Jean did not obey her commands, so she was forced to fire her weapon in self-defense. Police are in constant fear of their own lives, it's part of the job, so if Jean did not follow the cop's orders, and he was also a possible criminal (the off-duty female cop thought he was a burglar in her apartment), the shooting was justified. ------- ------- U.S. The Latest: Family's lawyer: Police tried to smear Jean Associated Press Associated Press 11 hours ago DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on a deadly shooting in Dallas involving an off-duty police officer (all times local): 6:20 p.m. An attorney for the family of a man shot dead by a police officer in the man's own apartment says a police affidavit shows investigators immediately sought evidence to discredit the victim. Lee Merritt represents the family of Botham Jean, who was shot dead in his own Dallas apartment on Sept. 6. Officer Amber Guyger, who shot him, said she mistook his apartment for her own and thought he was an intruder. A police affidavit shows that officers seized, among other items, 10.4 grams of marijuana and a marijuana grinder from Jean's apartment. Merritt said that showed investigators were immediately looking for drug paraphernalia. In his words, "They immediately began looking to smear him." Guyger is charged with manslaughter and remains free on $300,000 bond. ___ 5:15 p.m. A Dallas police affidavit says officers recovered two bullet casings, a police backpack and vest and 10.4 grams of marijuana from the apartment of a man killed by an officer who said she mistook his apartment for her own. A search warrant affidavit says a lunch box, laptop computer, metal marijuana grinder, two electronic keys and two used packages of medical aid also were recovered from Botham Jean's Dallas apartment. Dallas police conducted the search after the Sept. 6 shooting before turning the investigation over to the Texas Rangers Officer Amber Guyger has been charged with manslaughter in the shooting. She remains on administrative leave from the Dallas Police Department. ___ 3:50 p.m. Religious leaders from the Dallas area say they are outraged and saddened by the death of a 26-year-old man killed in his apartment by an off-duty police officer last week. A group of Dallas-area church leaders gathered for a press conference Thursday afternoon immediately following the funeral of Botham Jean, who was shot and killed by off-duty officer Amber Guyger last week. She has been arrested for manslaughter and is out of jail on bond. Sammie Berry, an elder and pulpit minister at Jean's church, says the family cannot rest until justice is served and Guyger is punished "to the fullest extent of the law." He described Jean's death as an avoidable tragedy and said the group wants to know why Guyger has not been fired. He says they "cannot let Bo become another statistic." ___ 2:30 p.m. The uncle of a 26-year-old man killed in his apartment by a Dallas police officer who said she mistook his apartment for her own says that word of his death was like "a nuke" being unleashed on their family. Botham Jean's uncle, Ignatius Jean, said at the Thursday funeral, "Our prince royal was snatched from us by the quick-to-trigger finger of one trained to protect and serve." He also said his nephew told him he would like to enter politics one day, maybe even becoming prime minister of his home country of St. Lucia. Off-duty police officer Amber Guyger has been charged with manslaughter and has since been released on bond. Others speaking at the funeral talked about Botham Jean's willingness to always help anyone and the devout Christian's love of singing. ___ 12:45 p.m. The funeral has begun for a 26-year-old man killed in his apartment by a Dallas police officer who said she mistook his apartment for her own. There were packed pews at a suburban Dallas church for the funeral for Botham Jean. He was killed last week by an off-duty police officer, Amber Guyger, who says she was returning from work when the shooting occurred. She is charged with manslaughter and has since been released on bond. Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings and Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall are in attendance at the funeral. Jean's death has since become a flashpoint in the national debate over police killings of black men. Following his death, friends and family remembered Jean as a talented singer and devout Christian. ___ 12:05 a.m. A funeral is scheduled Thursday for a black man killed in his home by a Dallas police officer who says she mistook his residence for her own. The service for 26-year-old Botham Jean will start at noon at a church in suburban Dallas following a public viewing. The funeral will also be streamed live. Jean was fatally shot last week by off-duty officer Amber Guyger. Court documents say Guyger thought she had encountered a burglar. She has been charged with manslaughter. Family and friends described Jean as a devout Christian and a caring individual. His mother, Allison Jean, recalled her son's commitment to his faith at a prayer vigil last weekend. Jean says her son "did everything with passion" and was a meticulous person. | |
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| 09-12-18 11:30pm - 2295 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Photosets are rare these days. There are plenty of sites that focus on photography instead of videos: the glamour sites like MetArt, Femjoy, MPL Studios, etc. etc. They also have videos, but the main focus is on the photo sets. And they try to add an element of eroticism to the photos. Not a lot of strip tease, but the images themselves are supposed to be erotic: most photosets are partially nude or completely nude photos, but some do feature costumes or sexy lingerie that is removed to reveal the feminine body. Also, heartcore or glamcore videos/photosets have been making a comeback for many years now: adding a storyline and emotions to make the sex more meaningful, instead of two or more bodies slapping against each other. As far as getting too old: past a certain age, it's only natural to feel less, to respond less: partly physical (your body is getting older), and partly mental (you are past the freshness of experience, what used to be amazing is no longer new or quite as exciting). You can either take a break from porn, and when you come back, maybe it will have a greater impact. Or you can stick with porn, realizing that, yes, you are getting older, but you're not dead yet. You state your age as 55. If need be, see your doctor for some Rx that will give you a brighter outlook. Hopefully, you still have a few good years before you are dead and buried. Enjoy life while you can. But feel free to ignore this, if you think I'm moralizing too much. Actually, I re-read some of your posts and reviews. They are useful, level-headed. So I think I took your remark of "Maybe I'm getting too old" too seriously. My apologies if what I wrote was overly heavy-handed. Perhaps I should delete this post entirely? Your opinion would be welcome. I don't want to come across as more foolish than I usually am. Edited on Sep 12, 2018, 11:44pm | |
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| 09-11-18 05:39pm - 2296 days | #1082 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS POST: On the day of the shooting, Mata said, Officer Guyger had completed a 15-hour shift as part of a team that arrested several individuals wanted for 30-plus robberies in the Dallas area. "I've met her on several occasions," Mata said of Guyger. "She has an impeccable reputation. She is a hard-charging, go-getting officer, who has put a lot of bad people in jail." He said it was "very disheartening" to hear Johnson say during the news conference Monday that her office will consider pursuing a murder charge against Guyger. "You could tell by her language, her attitude that she doesn't accept the impartial investigation by the Texas Rangers," Mata said of Johnson. "But don't get up there and say you're looking to up a charge and you haven't even done anything, you haven't even done your own investigation yet. "I'm going be honest with you, Mr. Jean was what all us parents hope our kids turn out to be," he said of the church-going native of Saint Lucia, who worked at the prestigious accounting and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers in Dallas. "He was an amazing individual, who had an amazing life ahead of him, who had done great things in his life. His loss is a loss to the city. But hanging out this officer, that's not the right thing to do." | |
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| 09-11-18 05:37pm - 2296 days | #1081 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Enquiring minds want to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. In that case, why not believe that a female cop who shot a man inside his own apartment would think she can get away with murder? First, the female cop is not currently being charged with murder. She is being charged with manslaughter. Second, the story the female cop gives to explain why she shot the man is strange: The female cop says she entered an apartment she thought was her own apartment. And that before she entered the apartment, the front door to the apartment was slightly ajar. The cop says "She inserted a unique door key, with an electronic chip, into the door keyhole," and opened the door. "Independent witnesses have already come forward to say that they heard this officer pounding on the door and demanding to be let in," Lee Merritt, one of the attorneys representing the Jean family, told ABC News. "The contradictions begin to build from there." Once inside the apartment, the cop says the apartment was dark, she saw a figure, thought it was a burglar, gave commands to the figure, and shot him twice, because the figure did not follow her commands. (If you read news stories about cops shooting suspects, the cops standard story is the cops gave commands to the suspect that the suspect did not obey, and that is part of the reason the cops shoot the suspect. Except I often suspect that it doesn't matter what the suspect does, he is going to get shot, even if he is trying to obey the different commands he's being given.) Anyway, the story the cop gave is suspicious. Because independent witnessnes say the cop pounded on the door, demanding entry. Which is different from the story the cop gives. Also, calling 911 and requesting police and EMS, the EMS operator asked the cop her location. So the cop goes to the front door (after shooting the man), to look at the address at the front door. If she thought she was in her own apartment, why did she have to go to the front door to look at the address? Was she drunk? Or on drugs? If neither drunk or on drugs, why go to the front door to check address, when she thought she was in her own apartment? Mistakes can be made. Her police union thinks a mistake may have been made because a black man died after being shot by a cop. But the police union thinks she is a fine, dedicated cop, who needs a fair and unbiased hearing in a court of law, and not a political witch hunt (shades of Donald Trump, a wonderful and honest President who is being hounded by a political witch hunt). The police union thinks the black man who was killed was a fine man, a church-going man, but punishing a wonderful cop is not the right thing to do. ------ ------ U.S. Lawyers for family of man killed in wrong-apartment incident cast doubt on story of Dallas officer who killed him Good Morning America BILL HUTCHINSON and MARCUS MOORE,Good Morning America 2 hours 8 minutes ago Lawyers for family of man killed in wrong-apartment incident cast doubt on story of Dallas officer who killed him originally appeared on abcnews.go.com The arrest warrant affidavit for a Dallas police officer who shot a man after she says she mistakenly entered his apartment has prompted more questions than answers for the victim's family, whose lawyers called the officer's scenario "highly implausible." The narrative that Officer Amber Guyger gave to investigators has been contradicted by at least two independent witnesses and flies in the face of facts they've gathered of the Thursday night killing at the South Side Flats apartment complex in Dallas, attorneys for the family of Botham Jean say, as they push for a murder charge. "Independent witnesses have already come forward to say that they heard this officer pounding on the door and demanding to be let in," Lee Merritt, one of the attorneys representing the Jean family, told ABC News. "The contradictions begin to build from there." But Guyger's police union president said the Texas Rangers division has interviewed at least one of the witnesses mentioned by attorneys for the Jean family and still concluded after an independent investigation that the evidence amounted to a manslaughter charge, not murder. "Don't get me wrong. She's going to have to answer in a court of law," Sgt. Mike Mata, president of the Dallas Police Association, said Tuesday. "But it needs to be fair and unbiased and right now it's not unbiased. It's beginning to turn into a political hunt." From his reading of the arrest warrant affidavit, Mata said, "you can understand how a mistake can be made." Guyger, 30, a four-year veteran of the Dallas Police Department, was arrested and charged with manslaughter three days after killing Jean, 26. A grand jury will ultimately decide what charges Guyger will face and Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson said on Monday that she has not rule out a murder indictment. Guyger said she arrived home from work about 10 p.m. and parked her car on the fourth floor of the building instead of the third floor, which corresponded to her apartment, according to the arrest warrant affidavit by investigators from the Texas Rangers, a division of the Texas Department of Public Safety. Guyger's apartment is directly beneath Jean's fourth-floor unit. "Guyger entered the building and walked down the fourth-floor hallway to what she thought was her apartment," according to the arrest warrant made public Monday afternoon. "She inserted a unique door key, with an electronic chip, into the door keyhole. The door, which was slightly ajar prior to Guyger's arrival, fully opened under the force of the key insertion." When the door opened, she saw a "large silhouette" in the nearly completely dark apartment and believed it was a burglar, according to the warrant. Guyger, while still in uniform, no longer had her bodycam, which had been left at the station, per police protocol, according to the district attorney. "Guyger drew her firearm, gave verbal commands that were ignored by ... Jean," according to the warrant. "Guyger fired her handgun two times striking [Jean] in the torso. Guyger entered the apartment, immediately called 911, requesting police and EMS, and provided first aid to ... Jean. "Due to the interior darkness of the apartment, Guyger turned on the interior lights while on the phone with 911. Upon being asked where she was located by emergency dispatchers, Guyger returned to the front door to observe the address and discovered she was at the wrong apartment," according to the arrest warrant. Jean was taken by ambulance to Baylor Hospital, where he died. "That just seems highly implausible," lawyer Merritt said of Guyger's narrative. It would have been "uncharacteristic" for Jean to leave his door ajar, Merritt added. "He’s a very meticulous young man," Merritt said. "He paid attention to detail and his security was something that was always forefront on his mind. So when he went into a room he closed the door behind him. He locked the door; he put his keys in a specific place.” Benjamin Crump, another attorney for the Jean family, said it was also "troubling" that Guyger says she fired into the apartment after seeing a "large silhouette" inside and believing it was a burglar. "She gives verbal commands and then she shoots into the dark apartment. Not knowing anything about who this individual is or anything, she shoots into a dark apartment," Crump told ABC News. "So it's going to have to be determined is this the actions of a prudent well-trained police officer who at this time now has assumed that she is investigating a burglary and that she then must comply with her training, her experience, her education that she got from DPD [the Dallas Police Department]. It seems to be contradictory of a well-trained police officer." Attorney Daryl Washington, who is also representing the Jean family, said Guyger's purported actions after shooting Jean was suspect and full of "inconsistencies." "From the fact that when you look at an affidavit and I'm thinking that I'm at my house and I call 911 because someone was just shot," he said. "Well, the very first thing that I'm going to do is I'm not going to go outside and look at my address? I'm going to give them my address right there on the phone. I’m going to say I'm on the phone. My address is this. Why did she have to go outside to verify the address? It makes no sense whatsoever." The independent witnesses who heard the officer banging on Jean's door prior to the shooting also say they heard a male voice cry out from the apartment after the gunfire, Crump said. He said the witnesses "hear a male voice say, 'Oh, my God, why did you do this?' We believe that is the last words from Botham Jean alive." Merritt said he is "optimistic that at the end of the day" if prosecutors conduct the thorough investigation that District Attorney Johnson promised Monday, they will reject Guyger's narrative and pursue a murder charge. "We believe that the appropriate charges would be the charges of murder," Merritt said. Guyger has been released on $300,000 bail. A court date for her yet to be set. Attempts by ABC News to reach Guyger were unsuccessful. Mata, the police union president, told ABC News that the Texas Rangers conducted a thorough investigation independent of the Dallas Police Department and that lawyers for the Jean family, who had initially applauded such a probe, "don't like what's in the affidavit because it's the facts." "They're framing it as something different," he said. | |
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| 09-11-18 08:13am - 2296 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I view President Trump as central to all Americans, an integral part of the American dream. Therefore, a trump derangement syndrome is part of the new American psyche, that all good men (and women) need to accommodate in their daily thinking. However, I give you credit for realizing (and coining the phrase) that trump is the deranged symbol of the American public. | |
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| 09-10-18 05:45pm - 2297 days | #1079 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Very short rant. I will give you a B+ for effort.  | |
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| 09-10-18 05:38pm - 2297 days | #15 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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With PayPal, you can authorize a one-time payment, or a recurring payment. Your choice. If your membership is hacked, that would be fraud. So PayPal should void the charge, once your reported it. Or if, instead of using PayPal, you used a credit card directly for your porn membership, then report to the credit card that this was a fraudulent charge. Most credit cards will take your word for it, although some credit cards will require you to sign a paper the charge was fraud. Separately, you can fund transactions with PayPal either with a credit card of your choosing, or with a bank account (either checking or savings). PayPal has been around for many years, one of the largest and oldest paysites. Like I said, years ago they would not authorize payments to porn sites or porn payment processors. Then they allowed payments to porn payment processors. I don't know what their current policy is. I usually pay for porn memberships directly with a credit card. I have had fraud charges on several credit cards, and the accounts were closed, and new cards issued. But the credit card companies were easy to deal with. The only credit card company that required me to sign papers refuting fraud charges was my PayPal credit card. All the other cards took my word over the phone with no paperwork to sign. I'm not talking about fraud charges from porn sites. But fraud charges for gasoline, online payments to purchase items: these were done in Africa (which I've never visited), or in other states. I haven't been out of California in many years. But a few years ago, they used one of my credit card account numbers to pay for gasoline in some other state, I don't remember which state. So hackers can easily get your credit card account numbers--over the internet, I assume. And either use a fraudulent credit card, or just supply the account number to make purchases. | |
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| 09-10-18 11:14am - 2297 days | #1077 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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President Trump is accepting nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize and the Humanitarian of the Year due to his strong commitment to helping Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and the death toll of only 64 people, which was the official report for many months, until Puerto Rico recently revised the death toll to 2,975. Remember, the aid of the United States government to Puerto Rico was stupendious. Trump says Puerto Rico is an island, so it was hard to help them. Not sure if Trump knows that Puerto Rico is part of the United States. But Trump is strong and brave, and he knows in his heart that he did everything possible to help the people of Puerto Rico, even if they are living on an island far from the United States of America. | |
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| 09-10-18 10:52am - 2297 days | #1076 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Lock him up. Lock him up (chanted alongside the Lord's prayer). Trump needs to be in prison, where he can reflect on the evil deeds he's done. And maybe to find forgiveness for suing Stormy Daniels. Brett Kavanaugh argues that a sitting President should be shielded from all criminal actions while in office. So why is Donald Trump spending so much time on the Stormy Daniels suit? Shouldn't a President be working on national matters of importance? Or maybe Trump has fond memories of the time he spent with Daniels, and wants to keep those times out of the public eye, because President Trump is a private man, and does not want to be interviewed on his sex life: Remember, Brett Kavanaugh wanted President Clinton to be forced to testify about all the details of his sex life with Monica Lewinsky, and I do mean all the salacious details. And that was while Clinton was president. You have to admire those wily Republican lawyers, who can apply one set of rules to Democrats, and a different set of rules to fellow Republicans. The law is the same for everyone. Except for when it's different. Which happens a lot, when you are rich and powerful. --------------- --------------- Trump Moves To Extricate Himself From Stormy Daniels Deal, Lawsuit HuffPost Mary Papenfuss,HuffPost Sun, Sep 9 12:13 AM PDT A lawyer for President Donald Trump filed a court document on Saturday arguing that the hush-money agreement with adult film actress Stormy Daniels over an alleged affair between the two is not valid and that Trump should be removed from a lawsuit seeking to dissolve the deal. Removing him from the suit would mean he wouldn’t have to give a deposition to lawyers as part of it. The filing in Los Angeles federal court by Trump attorney Charles Harder said that “Mr. Trump hereby stipulates that he does not, and will not, contest Ms. Clifford’s assertion that the Settlement Agreement was never formed, or in the alternative, should be rescinded,” The Wall Street Journal reported. The filing came a day after New York-based lawyer Michael Cohen moved to rescind the nondisclosure deal. Cohen said he arranged, at Trump’s instruction, to pay Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Trump before the 2016 presidential election. Trump, however, never signed the deal. Daniels’ attorney, Michael Avenatti, slammed the moves by Trump and Cohen, insisting they’re part of a strategy to block depositions of the two men about any other possible payoffs that aimed to keep information hidden. Avenatti tweeted that he has never before seen a “defendant so frightened to be deposed as Donald Trump.” Cohen and Trump’s attorney said in their filings that they will not sue Daniels for any breach of the nondisclosure deal with her. Cohen pleaded guilty to eight federal felonies last month, including illegally interfering in the presidential election with the payment to Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford. Daniels sued Cohen and the president to dissolve the agreement. She’s also suing Cohen and Trump for defamation. The Stormy Daniels deal was important in the federal campaign violation case against Cohen. If the deal is deemed invalid or rescinded, Daniels will be free to tell her story. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 09-10-18 04:34am - 2298 days | #13 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
@jook, Thanks for the fast response, and the link to Nord VPN. Will try the 2-year membership plan. | |
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