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| 02-27-18 09:21am - 2491 days | #36 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I haven't seen that clip yet, but your review was absolutely great. Best review I've read all week. Hope to see more reviews with that kind of detail and humor from you soon. PS: Elena is a fine looking chick. I've seen and enjoyed many of her videos. | |
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| 02-26-18 11:17am - 2492 days | #272 | |
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Alex-Lynn.com He shoots for MetArt, maybe other sites as well. His site has been around for years. Not sure why it's not listed at PU. You need the hyphen in the site name, or else you're directed to a different site. Edited on Feb 26, 2018, 11:20am | |
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| 02-24-18 07:22pm - 2493 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Problems with hiring an undercover cop when looking for a hitman: -The man can take your money, and still put you in jail. Even if he doesn't do the hit. -Never trust a cop. Undercover cops are even less trustworthy. ----- ----- A Son Plotted to Have His Parents Killed—So They Went Along With It to Get Him Arrested Newsweek C.paton,Newsweek Fri, Feb 23 9:08 AM MST Police in Russia have arrested the son of a wealthy family who tried to have his parents killed. Instead, the parents turned the tables on him, playing dead and covered in blood in pictures as if the hit the son had ordered went ahead. According to reports in the Russian media, the 22-year-old man, who has not been named, was caught after he began making inquiries locally for a hitman to kill his parents in the hopes of cashing in early on the inheritance. He later confessed to police he had plotted their murder for some time, choosing to put out the hit because all his other attempts had ended without success. The young man approached a friend to ask if he knew where to find a hitman, but the friend immediately informed the parents. The family then alerted the authorities, who assigned an undercover officer pose as an assassin for hire. The suspect supplied the officer with a map of his home, the details of where security cameras were, and even briefed him on the family dog. The son would pay the hitman the equivalent of $53,000, to be delivered once he provided photographic evidence of the killings. The required photographs were arranged with the help of the parents, who agreed to pose for the police in their family home, appearing dead and covered in fake blood. When the 22-year-old was shown the gruesome photos, which have now been made public, he was reportedly enthusiastic, meeting the police officer in the back seat of a car to hand over the cash. As soon as the transaction was complete, officers pounced on the car, arresting the suspect. Although he has been living separately from his parents for some time, the man was neither working nor studying, and local media reported that he had made several amateur attempts to kill his family for their money before resorting to a hired hit. In one instance, he was reported to have filled a kettle with an assortment of pills in hopes they would kill the family when they drank from it. The father of the family noticed the strange taste of the tea and discarded the water, foiling the plot. Another time, the son tried breaking a small mercury thermometer in his father’s car, thinking the resulting fumes would be enough to kill him. They were not. On a third attempt, he went to his parents' home with the intention of killing them but found they had visitors and got cold feet. If he is found guilty, the man faces up to 15 years in prison. This article was first written by Newsweek | |
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| 02-21-18 09:38am - 2497 days | #172 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Thanks for the civil reply. I think I understand your thinking a little better, because of your last post. | |
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| 02-21-18 08:50am - 2497 days | #170 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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@Onyx: Originally Posted by lk2fireone: The President has the right to pardon for crimes committed. This is true, except in cases of impeachment. Check history. President Ford pardoned ex-President Nixon. From Wikipedia: A presidential pardon of Richard Nixon (Proclamation 4311) was issued on September 8, 1974, by President Gerald Ford, which granted his predecessor Richard Nixon a full and unconditional pardon for any crimes he might have committed against the United States while president. So, Ford did not pardon an impeached President. But the result was about the same: Ford gave Nixon blanket immunity for any crimes he could have been impeached for. (Unless Nixon was a career criminal, who kept on committing criminal acts after he resigned.) --------------- As for the President not having the power to arrest people: If Trump seriously believed that Hilary was a crook (Trump refers to her as crooked Hilary), seriously believes that Obama was not born in the United States (Trump has repeatedly stated that Obama was not born in the US, and was therefore not eligible to serve as US President), then he could easily, and legally, direct law enforcement agencies to arrest Hilary Clinton and Obama. President's don't arrest people. They direct/tell officials to arrest people. If Hilary Clinton and Obama were lawbreakers/criminals, Trump would be more than happy to have them arrested, instead of spreading lies about them. President's don't have the right to murder people. But what is it called when Presidents send US operatives (armed forces, whatever) to foreign lands to kill people? Sending drone missiles to attack people in foreign lands? To invade other countries-whether it's a declared war or not? Fighting terrorism? It's true I mainly copy and paste other people's words (from news articles and newspaper opinion pieces). I think most of the ideas are worth reading, and maybe thinking about. Because these news articles and opinions are written by professionals. Not all professionals are correct, but a lot of the ideas expressed are worth reading. | |
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| 02-21-18 02:05am - 2497 days | #168 | |
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The thread is a catch-all, no one type of statement. Hopefully, a little humor. Hopefully, a little truth. The executive branch is not law enforcement? I believe that is false. The Justice Department is part of the executive branch. The US Attorney General is the head of the Justice Department, and is the highest law enforcement official in the US. The President appoints the head of the FBI. The President has the right to pardon for crimes committed. The President is not involved when he is impeached? You need to understand or use English better. The Supreme Court is not part of Washington? Not part of the US Government? Check your history books, or books on US Government, before you state that the US Supreme Court is not part of the US Government, which is based in Washington, DC. Yes, the positions on the Supreme Court are supposed to be for life. But a Supreme Court member could retire, or be removed for cause, I believe. Your statement/opinions make more sense if taken as satire. Anyway, people are free to have different opinions. That's America. | |
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| 02-20-18 02:20pm - 2497 days | #166 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Don Trump ran on platform to cleanse the Washington swamp. Here's a chance to make a start: Impeach Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice. Go, Trump. Make good on your campaign promises!!! ---- ---- New York Magazine Makes A Case For Impeaching Clarence Thomas HuffPost Nick Visser,HuffPost Sun, Feb 18 10:56 PM PST New York Magazine is laying out a case for the possible impeachment of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. The cover story, penned by former executive editor of The New York Times Jill Abramson, described Thomas’ rise to power and his apparent immunity to scrutiny during the height of the #MeToo movement. Citing conversations with three women who worked with Thomas, Abramson also detailed a history of lies told by the judge, beginning during his confirmation hearing. His dishonesty, not the allegations of impropriety, “raise the possibility of impeachment.” “Lying is, for lawyers, a cardinal sin. State disciplinary committees regularly institute proceedings against lawyers for knowingly lying in court, with punishments that can include disbarment. Since 1989, three federal judges have been impeached and forced from office for charges that include lying. The idea of someone so flagrantly telling untruths to ascend to the highest legal position in the U.S. remains shocking, in addition to its being illegal,” Abramson wrote. During Thomas' 1991 confirmation hearing, former employee Anita Hill accused him of sexually harassing her. Abramson is the co-author of “Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas,” a 1994 book about his controversial confirmation hearing. During the 1991 hearing, former employee Anita Hill accused him of sexually harassing her. Hill alleged that Thomas talked about pornography in the workplace and regularly commented on the bodies of female coworkers. Thomas claimed he never talked to Hill about porn or to other women who worked with him about risqué subject matter. The hearing quickly turned into the epitome of a he-said, she-said, and despite the allegations, Thomas was later confirmed by a vote of 52-48. Since then, more women have come forward with similar claims about his behavior. Abramson said Thomas’ tenure on the court has been “devastating for women’s rights,” and highlighted his votes on cases involving equal-pay protections and employers’ religious objections to supplying birth control. “His worldview, with its consistent objectification of women, is the one that’s shaping the contours of what’s possible for women in America today, more than that of just about any man alive, save for his fellow justices,” Abramson wrote. Read the full story at New York magazine. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 02-20-18 02:04pm - 2497 days | #165 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Not Fake News: President Trump must be impeached. He is acting illegally, and telling the Justice Department to act illegally. Trump tells the Justice Department to ban bump stocks. In 2010 and again in 2012, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ruled that it did not have the authority to regulate bump stocks because they are not technically “machine guns,” which federal law defines as firearms that shoot more than one shot per pull of the trigger. Justice Department officials said in December that they do not believe they could regulate bump stock sales without congressional action, according to The New York Times. Impeach Don Trump, before his criminal actions debase the Justice Department, the symbol of our greatest freedoms!!! --------- --------- Donald Trump Directs Justice Department To Take Steps To Ban Bump Stocks HuffPost Hayley Miller,HuffPost 32 minutes ago President Donald Trump announced he has ordered Attorney General Jeff Sessions to ban bump stocks, the type of gun modification that enabled the Las Vegas shooter to kill 58 people in October. President Donald Trump announced he has ordered Attorney General Jeff Sessions to take steps to ban bump stocks, the type of gun modification that Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock used to kill 58 people in October. “Just a few moments ago, I signed a memorandum directing the attorney general to propose regulations to ban all devices that turn legal weapons into machine guns,” Trump said Tuesday while speaking at a medal of valor ceremony at the White House. “I expect that these critical regulations will be finalized ... very soon.” Bump stocks are devices that allow a semiautomatic gun to fire as quickly as a machine gun. Paddock was found to be in possession of more than a dozen assault-style rifles, many outfitted with bump stocks and 100-round magazines. He was ultimately able to fire more than 1,100 rounds in a period of 10 minutes. In 2010 and again in 2012, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives ruled that it did not have the authority to regulate bump stocks because they are not technically “machine guns,” which federal law defines as firearms that shoot more than one shot per pull of the trigger. Justice Department officials said in December that they do not believe they could regulate bump stock sales without congressional action, according to The New York Times. A number of states and local jurisdictions have taken up the debate over bump stocks in the meantime. Massachusetts and New Jersey have both passed laws banning the devices. Several states, including Connecticut and Washington, as well as smaller municipalities, are also considering similar measures. California and New York had banned the devices before the Las Vegas shooting. This is a developing story. Please check back for updates. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 02-19-18 08:57am - 2499 days | #5 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
French skater reveals left breast during ice skating routine. But Olympic judges were unimpressed, and gave her a score placing her in second position. If she had been a PU member in good standing, she might have scored higher, with more practice in how to titilatte the judges. Remember, PU folk: You need to keep your membership in good standing if you are to trying to win awards! --- --- The Wrap French Skater’s Breast Pops Out During Mid-Routine Olympic Wardrobe Malfunction (Video) Duo still managed to finish second Tony Maglio | Last Updated: February 19, 2018 @ 8:21 AM French figure skater Gabriella Papadakis experienced a wardrobe malfunction Monday during Olympics competition, as the world’s eyes were fixated on Pyeongchang. The clasp at the back of Papadakis’ halter top snapped, exposing her left breast on live television. “Our coverage of ice dancing was live tonight. Once a competitor’s brief wardrobe issue became evident, we purposely used wider camera shots and carefully selected replays to keep the issue obscured,” an NBC Sports spokesperson told TheWrap in a statement. “We have edited the video for all television encores and online replays.” “I felt it right away and I prayed,” Papadakis said, per the New York Post. “That’s about what I could do.” “It was pretty distracting, kind of my worst nightmare happening at the Olympics,” she added. “I told myself, ‘I don’t have a choice. I have to keep going,’ and that’s what we did. I think we can be proud of ourselves being able to deliver a great performance with that happening.” She and swinging short program partner Guillaume Cizeron scored 81.93 points, placing them in second. It’s unclear if the judges docked them for the costume issue, but Cizeron seemed to think so in post-skate remarks. “It’s a little bit frustrating to know that it’s not because of something that we did,” he said. “It’s just a costume issue, something as stupid as that, so it’s a little bit disappointing.” | |
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| 02-18-18 09:28am - 2500 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Are these two people PU members in good standing? Enquiring minds want to know. ----- ----- The Washington Post Strangers caught in a sex act on Delta flight could face felony charges, authorities say By Marwa Eltagouri October 31, 2017 Strangers caught in sex act on Delta flight A 48-year-old woman and 28-year-old man reportedly met on a flight from Los Angeles to Detroit and engaged in a sex act Oct. 30. (WDIV-Local 4) Two strangers were caught engaged in a sexual act on a Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to Detroit Sunday night, airline officials said. The 48-year-old woman and 28-year-old man, who have not been publicly named, reportedly had not met before the flight, during which the woman allegedly performed oral sex on the man while they were both in their seats, police told WDIV-Local 4 in Detroit. The man was flying to Detroit to catch a connecting flight to Miami, while the woman was going to catch a connecting flight to Nashville. “The act within itself is very inappropriate in a public space,” a passenger on the flight told WDIV-Local 4. “There are children,” she added. “There are families. There are seniors. These things should be respected.” FBI officials told WDIV-Local 4 that the incident is still being investigated, and that the man and woman could be charged with a misdemeanor or felony. Both were issued citations. FBI officials said that the man and woman could be charged as early as Tuesday. ADVERTISING A Delta spokesman declined a request for comment by The Washington Post. | |
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| 02-18-18 08:16am - 2500 days | #5 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I also have an HP desktop PC. It seems like Windows 10 is always making a lot of updates. Maybe it's my imagination, but Win 10 seems to update a lot more than previous editions. And most updates take a lot of time. I don't know if my PC is reporting back to HP or not. I should check it out, and disable it if it is. Just another resource hot that will slow down my PC. RA, what is the URL that identifies the HP file that is tracking/reporting usage? Thanks, in advance. | |
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| 02-18-18 12:09am - 2500 days | #161 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The Washington Post Do Trump’s alleged affairs even matter? By Callum Borchers February 17 at 9:13 AM Trump's personal attorney says he paid adult-film star $130,000 Here is what we know about the allegation that an adult-film star reportedly was paid to remain silent about a sexual relationship with Donald Trump. (The Washington Post) One of the quotes from the 2016 presidential campaign that has stuck with me came from an unidentified Donald Trump supporter who shared his appraisal of the “Access Hollywood” tape on an episode of Showtime’s “The Circus.” Having heard Trump boast on the tape about groping and kissing women without consent, this man told host Mark Halperin (oh, the irony) that the billionaire is “just like the rest of us: He likes guns, and he likes women. He had the power. He has the prestige. Why wouldn’t you take a little advantage?” Voters who cast ballots for Trump — whose third wife, Melania, was pregnant at the time of the “Access Hollywood” recording — were willing to look past his self-professed propensity to “just start kissing” beautiful women and “grab them by the p---y.” Some, such as the man in the clip below, actually endorsed Trump’s behavior, seemingly agreeing that access to women’s bodies is a perk of wealth and fame. So why would these voters care about consensual affairs of the sort claimed by former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal and porn star Stormy Daniels? The answer: They probably don’t care. This adds an unusual twist to media coverage of Trump’s alleged infidelities. Most male politicians — even nonreligious ones — work to project the consummate family-man image. Disclosure of an affair often tarnishes or even shatters that image, revealing that a politician is not the person voters thought he was. For example, Anthony Weiner, who with Huma Abedin appeared to form a picture-perfect Washington power couple, resigned from Congress in 2011 after admitting that he sent lewd photos of himself to other women. John Edwards’s political career did not seem over when he suspended his presidential campaign in January 2008, but it was finished seven months later when he acknowledged having an affair with an aide while his wife battled cancer. Trump is different: He had a long history of having affairs before ever seeking political office. His affair with actress Marla Maples when he was married to Ivana Trump was a tabloid sensation. Melania Trump told GQ that Trump first sought her phone number when he was still married to Maples — at a party to which he brought a different woman as his date. Howard Stern once asked Trump in a radio interview if it is true that he has had sex with “some of the greatest beauties on the planet.” “True,” Trump answered proudly. “Some of the greats in history.” For most of his public life, Trump’s desired image has been ladies’ man, not family man. Daniels’s and McDougal’s accounts of sexual relationships, even if accurate, don’t expose anything about Trump that voters did not already know. Yet McDougal’s and Daniels’s stories are not irrelevant. For one thing, Trump denies the alleged affairs (though he and his spokesmen have chosen their words so carefully that sexual encounters of some kind seem not to be ruled out). The question is not merely whether he is a cheater, but also whether he is a liar. Sleeping with a porn star and a Playboy Playmate is certainly consistent with Trump’s self-described lifestyle. His supporters might not mind such conduct, but lying — if that is what the president is doing — could be another matter. Trump never pretended to be a Puritan, but he did bill himself as a teller of hard truths and a keeper of promises. Beyond the denials are the coverups. Trump’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen, admitted this week that he paid Daniels $130,000 to keep quiet during the campaign. National Enquirer publisher David Pecker has said he hired McDougal in 2016 so that she would not talk about her claimed affair. If nothing else, the efforts of Trump allies to suppress bad coverage are clearly newsworthy. Another consideration is whether Trump’s womanizing days are behind him. Bill Clinton was president when he had an affair with Monica Lewinsky, seemingly abusing the power of the presidency to engage with an intern. Affairs that occur when a politician holds or seeks office more obviously rise to a level of journalistic merit than those from private life because they often involve misuse of authority and public resources. Trump’s alleged affairs as a businessman and reality-TV star might be less significant if not for the double-digit accusations of sexual harassment and assault leveled against him, which he also denies. When evaluating those more serious claims, reporters naturally examine the way Trump treats women more broadly. It also does not help his cause to be in a position imbued with moral authority during a period of national reckoning with sexual misconduct. The disclosure of the “Access Hollywood” tape, which came out in the final weeks of the presidential race, did force Trump to try to repair his public image a bit. He sold himself as being a different person. “I’ve said and done things I regret,” Trump said a video statement, “and the words released today on this more than a decade-old video are one of them. Anyone who knows me knows these words don’t reflect who I am. ... I’ve traveled the country talking about change for America, but my travels have also changed me.” Evangelical leaders such as Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr. have similarly described Trump as a “changed man.” Trump’'s alleged affairs with Daniels and McDougal occurred more than a decade ago. If their stories were to draw out more recent claims, however, then the “changed man” narrative could unravel. And speaking of Graham and Falwell: Coverage of Trump’s alleged affairs is not only about the president and his supposed partners. It is also about the standards of his backers. Evangelicals’ willingness to give Trump a pass for his personal conduct is a remarkable development in U.S. politics. The shifting mores of a significant voting bloc is an important story unto itself. | |
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| 02-17-18 10:43pm - 2500 days | #160 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
If Trump had an affair with ex-Playmate Karen McDougal, at least he has good taste in some of his women. She's a looker. Would I believe Trump's denials? The man wouldn't know the truth if it bit him on the ass. And who would believe AMI as a source of truth or fact? Playing around is not a cause for impeachment. Nor are public lies. But maybe Congress should hold hearings, force Trump to explain past relationships under oath, then have a case for impeachment like Bill Clinton went through. Republicans, taking the high moral ground, in the swamp of Washington that Trump promised to cleanse. Go, Congress! If AMI didn't find McDougal's story credible, why did it pay her $150,000 for the story? ----- ----- https://www.thewrap.com/karen-mcdougal-a...ce-buy-ronan-farrow/ The Wrap Ex-Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal Says She Had 9-Month Affair With Trump – And Deal to Keep Quiet New Ronan Farrow story in the New Yorker details new accusation — as well as orchestrated campaign to silence women Thom Geier | Last Updated: February 16, 2018 @ 11:58 AM Donald Trump had a nine-month affair with former Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal in 2006 — two years into his marriage to Melania Trump — and built up an elaborate system to keep his infidelities out of the press, Ronan Farrow wrote in a blockbuster New Yorker article published early Friday. McDougal confirmed a Wall Street Journal report from shortly before the 2016 election that she was paid $150,000 by National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc. for her account of any affair she had with a “then-married man.” According to the New Yorker, that “then-married man” was Donald Trump, then a real estate mogul and star of NBC’s “The Apprentice.” She wrote in an eight-page hand-written note obtained by the New Yorker that Trump met her at the Playboy Mansion in 2006, offered her money after the first time they had sex, showed her Melania’s separate bedroom in Trump Tower and reimbursed her for flights to avoid creating a paper trail. She said she ended the affair in April 2007 after nine months — which means that her relationship would have overlapped with one that porn star Stormy Daniels (née Stephanie Clifford) has claimed to have had with Trump in 2006. A White House spokesperson denied an affair with McDougal in a statement to the New Yorker: “This is an old story that is just more fake news. The President says he never had a relationship with McDougal.” The New Yorker also detailed McDougal’s $150,000 deal with AMI — whose CEO and chairman, David Pecker, has called Trump “a personal friend.” The company bought exclusive rights to her story but never published it, an arrangement that six former AMI employees said was a common practice known as “catch and kill.” McDougal said she now regrets her deal with A.M.I., telling the New Yorker: “It took my rights away. At this point I feel I can’t talk about anything without getting into trouble, because I don’t know what I’m allowed to talk about. I’m afraid to even mention his name.” A rep for AMI said that it didn’t publish McDougal’s story because it did not find it credible. McDougal was allowed to “respond to legitimate press inquiries” according to an amendment in her contract, the New Yorker wrote. In a statement issue Friday, AMI also rejected the story’s underlying premise: “The New Yorker and Ronan Farrow’s suggestion that AMI engages in any practice that would allow it to hold influence over the President of the United States is laughable.” | |
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| 02-16-18 08:34pm - 2501 days | #158 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Florida Governor Rick Scott says FBI director should resign over Florida shooting. However, this is not enough. The President of the US, Don Trump, and the Florida Governor, Rick Scott, also need to resign, since these shootings happened during their watch: they failed to protect the citizens under their control. Start a petition to demand they accept responsibility and must resign. Republicans (Trump and Scott) are quick to demand others must take responsibility and resign: but they are slow to accept responsibility and resign. Trump, the 5-time draft dodger, who now serves as Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces. ---- ---- Rick Scott says FBI director Wray should resign over Florida shooting Geobeats Feb 16th 2018 9:34PM Florida Governor Rick Scott has said that FBI Director Christopher Wray should resign over the lack of response to a tip the bureau received about the Florida school shooting suspect earlier this year, reports CBS News. The FBI noted in a statement on Friday that it received the tip on January 5, when “a person close” to Nikolas Cruz called its tipline and expressed concerns “about Cruz’s gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting.” The bureau said that the information should have been forwarded to the FBI Miami Field Office but “these protocols were not followed” and “no further investigation was conducted at that time.” Wray is quoted in the statement as saying, “We have spoken with victims and families, and deeply regret the additional pain this causes all those affected by this horrific tragedy.” In his response to the FBI’s statement, Scott called the bureau’s failure to take action “unacceptable.” “Seventeen innocent people are dead and acknowledging a mistake isn’t going to cut it,” Scott said. “An apology will never bring these 17 Floridians back to life or comfort the families who are in pain.” Cruz, 19, a former student at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, reportedly confessed to gunning down 17 people on Wednesday. | |
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| 02-12-18 02:44pm - 2505 days | #6 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
You're probably correct. I don't have the patience to check this out. I did read that the Down Them All author is working on a new version of Down Them All (after he said that he would not because of all the effort involved). | |
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| 02-12-18 10:35am - 2506 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I've joined over 100 porn websites. None of them ever asked for my mobile phone number, that I can recall. I've also used Vendo in the past. Maybe this is a new development, asking for your mobile phone number? Having said that, if you are paying with regular credit card for the membership, they are already getting a lot of personal information about you. Some PU members use pre-paid credit cards, to limit their financial exposure. I have not. Don't want to pay the extra fees and time to use a pre-paid card. One other thing: I've never had a porn site or payment processor, since they never asked for my mobile phone number, offer to send a verification code to my phone. That's something a bank or credit card might do. Confirming emails are the regular way to do business. Try to see if you can join through CCBill or Epoch, instead. If not, unless this porn site is amazing, look for another porn site that offers a normal join. | |
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| 02-12-18 10:19am - 2506 days | #4 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
When I think of a $920 burger, I think celebrity life-styles. No one else could afford it. | |
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| 02-12-18 10:11am - 2506 days | #2 | |
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I also use Firefox. And used Down Them All for many years. Was very disappointed Down Them All will not work with Windows 10. Recently, I've just been downloading directly, without using a download manager. Maybe I will look into a replacement for Down Them All. But for my needs, a direct download seems to work fine. | |
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| 02-11-18 07:47am - 2507 days | #2 | |
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$920 burgers for sale in South Korea. ---------- Chef gets the ultimate Olympic surprise when Shaun White buys his 'flying tomato' burger Thomson Reuters Jack Tarrant Feb 11th 2018 9:00AM PYEONGCHANG, South Korea (Reuters) - When fast food chef Cha Gwen Sol added a one-million-won ($920) "Flying Tomato" burger to the menu of his Pyeongchang restaurant as an Olympic gimmick, he never expected the owner of the nickname, snowboarding star Shaun White, to turn up and order one. “Is it real? This is Shaun White? It is not a dream? Shaun White tells me it is real. Oh my God, unbelievable," exclaimed Cha, who is also a snowboarding instructor, after the American double Olympic champion walked into his restaurant on Sunday. "He ordered from me the Flying Tomato Burger and so I cook it for him. Today is a very happy day.” White, who said he heard about the gimmick from a member of staff at Phoenix Snow Park where he will compete in the halfpipe qualifiers on Tuesday, sat with friends and enjoyed a free burger, made up of two patties, two types of cheese and two chicken wings. White was dubbed the "Flying Tomato" for his shock of red hair when he won his first gold at the 2006 Winter Olympics, though he keeps his locks shorter these days. A second gold followed in Vancouver and he was fourth in Sochi four years ago. "I cannot believe it,” said Cha, talking about the 31-year-old American's visit to his Santa Burger restaurant three kilometres from Phoenix Park, which cheered him up in a difficult season that local retailers blame on the Winter Olympics. With the slopes at the snow park shut to the public, the nearby vendors selling food and ski rental equipment are receiving little to no custom from domestic tourism, usually their key customer base. On the road leading to the park, signs reading ‘2018 Pyeongchang Olympics kill us! Keep our right to live!’ are spread across the front of shops and restaurants. Cha, who became a chef this winter because the snowboarding business was so bad, says retailers feel let down by the Pyeongchang 2018 organisers. “The resort closed on Jan. 21 and so they lost their jobs,” he said. “They can’t earn money and they are losing money every day. Every day maybe two million won they lost. They are upset. The government doesn’t want to talk with them.” Sebim Kim, a local retailer who says he has lost his job due to the Olympics, blames local government for not consulting people in the build-up to the Games and is demanding compensation. “Five hundred people have lost jobs around here,” he said. “The local government do not care about us and we have not received any compensation for what we have lost.” White's visit at least cheered up one retailer and Cha is hoping to seeing his hero again on Wednesday. “I am going to the snowboard halfpipe final on Valentine’s Day, with my girlfriend,” beamed Cha. “I really wish he gets a gold medal again. I think every day: return of the king, return of the king.” | |
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| 02-11-18 06:25am - 2507 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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If this girl wants to be displayed fully, she should get a PU membership card. Otherwise, her act will be a no-tease tease. Where's the sizzle in her twizzle? ---- ---- Olympics figure skater Yura Min overcomes wardrobe malfunction with calm and class HuffPost US Dominique Mosbergen Feb 11th 2018 6:51AM South Korean skater Yura Min’s Olympic debut on Sunday was marred by a performer’s nightmare: A wardrobe malfunction that occurred seconds into her short dance routine that threatened to reveal just a little too much to the watching world. But instead of stopping the show in a panic, Min gamely continued her performance with partner Alexander Gamelin, improvising as she went so as to prevent her top from slipping off her shoulders. Min, who was competing in the figure skating team event, was lauded by viewers for performing — and recovering from the wardrobe near-disaster— “with class.” Min, a dual citizen of South Korea and the United States, told the Detroit Free Press that the hook of her top “came undone” seconds into her and Gamelin’s routine on Sunday. “I was like, ‘Oh no!’” she told the paper. “If that comes undone, the whole [outfit] could just pop off. I was terrified the entire program.” Min was determined not to stop in the midst of the performance, however, and instead changed her movements so her arms would be kept back, preventing her costume from falling off. She only paused once, during the twizzles (synchronized side-by-side spins), when her top began slipping off her shoulder. “It started to come down so I had to stop my twizzle and pull it back up,” she told the AP. | |
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| 02-10-18 09:11am - 2508 days | #9 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Some members have an email link on their profile page. Other members have disabled the link, so it's not visible. I became a registered PU member on November 14, 2008. And I've sent 31 emails using the PU private email system. So it's not something I use daily. But it's can be useful, if you want to send a private message. By the way, I see that my 10 year anniversary as a PU member is approaching. Will PU be sending me a card on the happy occasion? Even better, a membership card, to prove that I am an active member in good standing, that I can flash to prove my authority/expertness?  Edited on Feb 10, 2018, 09:21am | |
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| 02-10-18 01:43am - 2508 days | #4 | |
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Nice review. I'm currently on a 1-year membership to Wow Girls, Wow Porn, and All Fine Girls. And this is the second year of my current 1-year membership. But I'll take your advice, and wait before joining UltraFilms, to give it time to grow. Note: I just got an email ad for UltraFilms today: the membership price listed is $19.95/month, for streaming and downloads. Edited on Feb 10, 2018, 01:54am | |
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| 02-09-18 09:49pm - 2508 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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A lot of sites are having special discounts for this Valentine weekend. Maybe PU could create a listing of some of the special offers. But since this is probably a limited-time offer, I don't know if PU has the time or staff to create such a list. | |
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| 02-08-18 08:32am - 2510 days | #25 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Possibly off-topic. But not really: RA, I've been thinking about your problem. You want to upgrade your PC experience. My deep thoughts range far and wide. And I've come up with the best solution to your problems and desires: Instead of buying a dinky PC or Apple, go to the next step: A Star-Trek Phaser, Ultimate Edition. Do not be fooled by the adverts for the last-generation lightsaber. Were your aware that Jedi knights are a dying breed? A recent documentary showed the last Jedi knight who dies in obscurity. Lightsabers are a poor choice of weapon. Not only do they require inherentt skills from the wielder (the Force that fans are always screaming about), but lightsabers are only effective at close distances. With a Phaser, you can aim and shoot from a distance. So your personal safety is increased. Also, Phasers can be set at different levels of force: stun (normal setting, but only effective on wimps and stand-ins), and blaster, the main setting for dealing with the scum you come across daily). Phasers are much better than computers: they can solve the problems of real life, instead of giving you sexy photos and videos that arouse indecent emotions. Oh, the joy of annihilating one's enemies, the thrill of destruction! By the way, I read that Elon Musk, the inventor of the Tesla automobile, has invented a $500 flamethrower. Quantities are limited. So you might have to pay a premium if you go through Ebay. $500 for a super-looking personal flamethrower sounds like a great idea, to me. Why couldn't I think of it? That's why Elon Musk is a genius: he has the vision to see what the common folks need. (I also read that he will be shipping a complimentary fire extinguisher with each flamethrower.) (But why you would need a fire extinguisher, is beyond me: it must be one of those Federal law requirments that are strangling the freedoms of all good citizens everywhere.) So, save your money for a Elon Musk flamethrower. They are way cooler than any PC that I've seen. | |
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| 02-04-18 09:55pm - 2513 days | #12 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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RA, if you get a new PC, get a new monitor as well. You can nice monitors for $100+, and it really improves the photos and videos you watch over an older monitor. | |
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| 02-04-18 02:33pm - 2513 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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PC prices have dropped so much years ago, that you can buy fantastic machines for less than $1,000. You can buy nice machines for $500 or less. So unless you are on a very tight budget, I would suggest buying a new machine. And the payoff would be a much improved frame of mind, because the annoying problems you currently have would basically disappear. Is it worth $500 or $1,000 for a new machine? Yes, unless you are on a really tight budget. Or you could save up your raffle winnings, and use them to buy your new PC from Amazon, unless you can find a better deal elsewhere. On second thought, buy a new PC now, and feel the pleasure it can give you. Life is meant to be enjoyed. | |
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| 02-03-18 09:52am - 2515 days | #148 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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FAKE NEWS: When the FBI investigated Hilary Clinton before the Presidential election, Republicans claimed the FBI was doing its job. When the FBI investigated Trump, Republicans are calling it a smear campaign to discredit Trump. I love the way Republicans (like most politicians) can talk out of both sides of their mouth, giving opposite opinions depending on whether the target is a Democrat or a member of the Republican party. --- --- Opinions The Nunes memo wasn’t meant to win over everyone — just 34 senators By Max Boot Columnist February 3 at 8:46 AM “When you’re attacking FBI agents because you’re under criminal investigation, you’re losing.” That was White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders tweeting on Nov. 3, 2016. Back then, it was Democrats who were complaining about the FBI, and with ample justification: The bureau had released a letter 11 days before the election announcing that it was reopening its investigation of Hillary Clinton based on emails found on former New York congressman Anthony Wiener’s laptop. Nate Silver later concluded, “Hillary Clinton would probably be president if FBI Director James Comey had not sent a letter to Congress on Oct. 28.” Comey’s supposed anti-Clinton bias was even (disingenuously) cited by President Trump as his rationale to fire the FBI director. Now Trump and his most fervent followers are attacking the FBI for anti-Trump bias. On Friday, Trump tweeted: “The top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans.” So the top leadership of the Justice Department and FBI — all appointed by Trump, all Republicans — are biased against Republicans? | |
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| 02-03-18 09:41am - 2515 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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The Washington Post By Kyle Swenson and Katie Zezima February 2 at 9:45 PM Houston man awaits execution scheduled for February 22, 2018, after orchestrating the killings of his brother and mother in 2003. Rage and faith were at war inside Kent Whitaker as he lay in a hospital bed with a 9mm bullet hole six inches from his heart. It was December 2003, and the pillars of the Houston-area man’s life had just been ripped down. A husband of 28 years, now he was a widower. A father of two college-age boys, one was dead while the other was recovering from a gunshot wound. A man of faith, he was burning at God for letting tragedy strike. His anger tightened specifically around the unknown shooter who had ambushed the four as they came home from a family dinner. “All I could feel for this person was an incredibly deep and powerful hatred,” Whitaker told The Washington Post. “Just thinking about how I could inflict pain on him.” But Bible verses also pushed into Whitaker’s thoughts. “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him,” he recalled. “Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.” Revenge was a dark path he did not want to step down, so Whitaker resolved to forgive the shooter. Laying in the hospital bed, it seemed impossible. But he would do it. No matter who was responsible. “As soon as that happened, there was a warm glow that flowed over me,” Whitaker said. “It took the fire out of me.” What Whitaker didn’t realize then was that the man he would have to forgive was his surviving son, Thomas “Bart” Whitaker. In spring 2007, Bart was convicted of orchestrating — along with two accomplices — the murders of his mother, Tricia, 51, and younger brother, Kevin, 19. During the attack, Bart was purposely shot in the arm as a way of diverting suspicion. Jurors sentenced him to death. Throughout the appeals, however, Whitaker has stayed by his son’s side — and remains there today, as the state prepares for Bart’s execution, which is scheduled for Feb. 22. With time running short, the Whitakers have asked the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend that Gov. Greg Abbott (R) commute the sentence to life in prison. Whitaker’s forgiveness is the bedrock of the petition, as he said he believes the board’s role is to provide a check on the justice system when it fails. Whitaker said his son’s sentence was flawed because no one — neither he nor Tricia’s family — pushed for his execution. “I feel the whole decision to pursue the death penalty was an overstep,” Whitaker said. “This isn’t just a case of a dad who is ignoring the truth about his son. Believe me, I’m aware of what his choices have cost me.” The district attorney of Fort Bend County, John F. Healey, Jr., and the first assistant district attorney who prosecuted the case, Fred Felcman, believe the punishment is appropriate for the grisly murder-for-hire. “I haven’t met any person aside from Mr. Whitaker who didn’t say justice hasn’t been served,” Felcman said. The Whitakers’ last-shot appeal is framed by a dramatic debate working through courtrooms across the country — the same issue spotlighted at the recent sentencing hearing for Larry Nassar. When more than 160 abuse survivors marched into a Michigan courtroom to testify about the fallout from the USA Gymnastics doctor’s abuse, it amplified the power of victims’ participation in the legal system. Kent Whitaker’s appeal enters that same realm: Can justice be served in his son’s case if the victims are not part of the process? “Texas claims to be a victims’ rights state. It’s something we’re proud of,” he said. “I’m asking for the board to recognize victims’ rights means something even when the victim is asking for mercy, not just when they are asking for vengeance.” Though investigators initially believed the Dec. 10, 2003, shooting was the work of a burglar interrupted in the middle of a break-in, clues began pointing elsewhere. Drawers were pulled out in the house — consistent with a break-in — but they weren’t ransacked, the contents still neatly organized inside. The only item missing from the house was Bart’s cellphone. Also suspicious: On the night of the murders, Bart had invited the family out to dinner because he said he wanted to celebrate his upcoming college graduation. But police learned Bart was not about to graduate college. He wasn’t even enrolled in school — something he had kept hidden from his parents. For seven months after the shooting, Bart lived at home with his father. Police told Whitaker his son was a suspect and warned he still could be in danger. “He continued to deny it, and the police continued to say he was their suspect,” Kent Whitaker said. “I didn’t know who was telling the truth. I told the police, ‘If I see something, I’m going to tell you. But I’m not going to abandon my son. I’m going to stand with him through all of this even if he’s responsible.’ ” Police found their strongest lead when a former roommate of Bart’s came forward and said the two had plotted earlier to kill the Whitakers. Investigators recorded a phone conversation between the two. Though Bart said nothing specific about the killings, authorities said he agreed to pay the roommate $20,000. But he then disappeared, running to Mexico in July 2004. While Bart was on the lam, police learned that two friends — Christopher Brashear and Steven Champagne — had plotted the crime with Bart. Champagne admitted to being the getaway driver and told police Brashear had pulled the trigger. In September 2005, Bart was arrested and taken back to Texas. Kent Whitaker went to see his son in custody. “The very first thing he told me as we were facing each other through the glass was, ‘Dad, I don’t know why this happened, but I’m going to do everything I can to make it quick and as painless for everyone as possible,’ ” Kent Whitaker said. Whitaker believed this was an indication Bart was willing to plead guilty. But prosecutors declined to rule out the death penalty as a potential punishment even after Kent Whitaker and other members of the family, including his deceased wife’s relatives, urged them not to. “We met with them for about an hour,” Whitaker said. “At the conclusion, the DA leaned over the table and asked, ‘So. Mr. Whitaker, you are asking me not to pursue the death penalty?’ I got out of my chair and down on my knees and said, ‘I’m begging you not to pursue the death penalty.’ ” Healey said Whitaker never physically got on his knees, and Felcman said that it was one side of the family that asked prosecutors not pursue a capital case. Prosecutors, he said, must also seek justice for those who can’t weigh in on the outcome, not just the survivors. “We don’t represent just them, we represent all of Fort Bend County, all the people involved, including Patricia and Kevin, who are dead,” Felcman said. “We represent them too.” The state proceeded with a capital case at trial, painting the defendant as a remorseless sociopath who had manipulated his accomplices and set up the slayings believing he would receive a $1 million inheritance. “He has to convince people who have nothing to gain to kill people because he didn’t have anything better to do. We think it was for money,” Felcman said. “He killed people because it was a game.” Bart Whitaker was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder and was sentenced to death. The shooter, Brashear, also was convicted and received life prison sentence. Champagne, the getaway driver, was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in prison. Prosecutors said they allowed the jury to hear the entirety of Whitaker’s story, including multiple instances of the father telling the jury that he forgives his son. Jurors still decided to convict Bart Whitaker of murder and to condemn him to death. Kent Whitaker was left sifting through his relationship with his son for warning signs, clues, indicators — anything that could explain what happened. Before the murders, Bart and his father enjoyed long-distance bicycling. They would go on 100-mile long-hauls, just the two of them. “You have a lot of opportunity to talk, and we did,” he told The Post. “We had a good relationship. Also, Tricia and I both were active parents. We didn’t ignore things.” Bart Whitaker also has struggled to put his actions into context. “The fifteen-second sound bite answer is, I wanted revenge for being alive, and I blamed them for that,” he told “20/20” in 2009. “I blamed them for who I was instead of blaming me.” He continued: “In order for me to be that person that my parents would love or that they did claim to love, I had to be better than I was . . . There was an idealized version of me and then there was me . . . So every time I failed at reaching that goal of mine, I felt like a failure.” Bart Whitaker said the plot with his two friends was “sort of like a game of chicken between me and the other guys.” Bart was waiting to see who would back out before the final act. No one did. “I think he believed that who we were loving was a person who didn’t exist,” Bart’s father told 20/20. “He was hiding behind the mask so we wouldn’t find out.” On death row, Bart Whitaker, now 38, has been a model prisoner, his petition argues. He has earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature by mail and also is close to finishing a master’s degree from Cal State. All he needs is the school to sign off. “His thesis is in committee,” Kent Whitaker said. “It probably won’t be cleared until after Feb. 22, so it might be posthumous.” | |
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| 02-03-18 09:11am - 2515 days | #147 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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FAKE NEWS: Trump calls GOP memo "an American disgrace". Trump will resign in protest from the swamp in Washington, that has blackened his name. Trump is pure white: he will never be colored by shithole African countries. Trump stands for truth and justice, which is why he will resign instead of being impeached and sent to prison. Trump will forever stand behind his lies and smears, unafraid until the FBI and Justice Department sends agents to arrest him. Go, Trump! The most un-racist President we've ever had. --- --- Trump calls disclosures in GOP memo ‘an American disgrace' Colin Campbell 23 minutes ago Yahoo News photo illustration; photos: Yuri Gripas/Reuters, Donald Trump via Twitter, Maxim Zmeyev/Reuters President Trump angrily tweeted Saturday morning about the disclosures about FBI procedures contained in the Republican congressional memo that was released Friday after the White House declassified it. “This memo totally vindicates ‘Trump’ in probe,” the commander in chief wrote, speaking in the third person. “But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on,” he continued. “Their [sic] was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace!” Trump was addressing the memo drafted by Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calf., the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, purporting to show that there was insufficient evidence to put Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page under surveillance during and after the campaign. The 4-page memo focused on the role of Christopher Steele, a former British spy who drafted a controversial dossier on Trump’s ties to Russia. Nunes made pointed mention of the fact that Steele’s work was funded by Democratic organizations. (The memo also highlights reporting by Yahoo News Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff, who was the first to report that Page was under federal investigation over a trip he had taken to Moscow two months earlier. In the new Yahoo News “Skullduggery” podcast, Isikoff discusses his role in the controversy.) But the Nunes memo also shows, as Democrats on the committee have said, that the FBI’s broader investigation into Russian election meddling in 2016 and possible collusion with the Trump campaign did not originate with the Steele dossier. The memo appears to reference what news reports have described as a boast by another Trump adviser, George Papadopoulos, that the Trump campaign had access to Democrat Hillary Clinton’s emails, which had been hacked by Russian agents. Papadopoulos and former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn have both pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about their contacts with Russia and are now cooperating with the probe. Democrats claim that Nunes cherry-picked his claims to muddle the debate and potentially justify the firing of Justice Department officials overseeing the Russia investigation. Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, responded to Trump’s tweet by pointing to Papadopoulos. The investigation has long drawn Trump’s ire. “I think it’s a disgrace,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Friday. “What’s going on in this country, I think it’s a disgrace.” In a tweet Friday morning before the memo’s release, the president deplored that the “top Leadership and Investigators of the FBI and the Justice Department have politicized the sacred investigative process in favor of Democrats and against Republicans.” Trump throughout the 2016 campaign and even after taking office has demanded that the Justice Department pursue criminal charges against Hillary Clinton, his Democratic foe, for a variety of alleged offenses. Read more from Yahoo News: | |
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| 02-03-18 01:08am - 2515 days | #146 | |
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Fake news? Congressional memo supports putting Trump in jail for suspicious behavior. Put the scofflaw in jail now, before he fills Washington with immoral, licentious allies and crooks. Trump, the criminal mastermind who stole the election to become President with the help of Russian allies. Posted by the Keep America Clean And Moral Majority. Freedom to the people! ---- ---- Not all details in GOP memo help undercut Mueller probe Associated Press ERIC TUCKER, MARY CLARE JALONICK and CHAD DAY,Associated Press 2 hours 58 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and his supporters are using a congressional memo alleging FBI surveillance abuse to raise questions about the origins of a federal investigation into his campaign's ties to Russia. But the four-page document includes revelations that might complicate the effort to undermine special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing probe. The document contends that the FBI relied excessively on an ex-British spy whose opposition research was funded by Democrats when it applied for a surveillance warrant on a Trump campaign associate. Yet it also says the investigation into potential Trump ties to Russia actually began several months earlier — "triggered," it says, by information involving a separate campaign aide. The spy who compiled the allegations admitted to having strong anti-Trump sentiments, but he was not a random find for the bureau. Rather, he was a "longtime FBI source" with a credible track record, says the memo from the House intelligence committee's Republican chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes, and his staff. The warrant authorizing the FBI to monitor the communications of campaign adviser Carter Page? Approved by a judge on four occasions, according to the memo, and signed off on by Trump's hand-picked deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein. Without the underlying materials being made public, the memo only further intensified a partisan battle over how to interpret the actions of the FBI and Justice Department during the early stages of the counterintelligence investigation Mueller later inherited. "Having decided to cherry-pick, the Nunes team picked a bunch of the wrong cherries for its own narrative," Matthew Waxman, a Columbia University professor and former Bush administration official, wrote in an email. The memo, released over the objections of the FBI and Justice Department, could well give Trump and Republicans new grounds to challenge the Mueller investigation as politically tainted. Even before its declassification Friday, Trump had been telling confidants he believed the document would validate his concerns that the FBI and Justice Department conspired against him. The central allegation is that agents and prosecutors, in applying in October 2016 to monitor the communications of campaign adviser Carter Page, concealed from a judge that a former spy whose findings had provided grounds for suspicion had been funded by Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee. That omission is important, Republicans say, because a judge should have known that "political actors" were involved in allegations that led the Justice Department to believe Page might be an agent of a foreign power — something he has consistently and strenuously denied. Research from former spy Christopher Steele, according to the memo, "formed an essential part" of the application to receive the warrant, though It's unclear how much or what information he collected was included in the application, or how much has been corroborated. Steele's opposition research effort was initially funded by the conservative Washington Free Beacon. It was later picked up by the Clinton campaign and the DNC through a Washington law firm The FBI this week expressed "grave concerns" about the memo and called it inaccurate and incomplete. Democrats called it a set of cherry-picked claims aimed at smearing law enforcement and said its release will do long-term damage to the law enforcement and intelligence communities. For one thing, Democrats say, it's misleading to say a judge was not told of the potential political motivations of the people paying for Steele's research. Beyond that, though, the memo confirms the FBI's counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign began in July 2016 — months before the surveillance warrant was even sought — and was "triggered" by information concerning a different campaign aide, George Papadopoulos. Papadopoulos pleaded guilty last year to lying to the FBI and is cooperating with Mueller's investigation. The timing makes clear that other Trump associates beyond Page, who was part of the election effort for only a short period and was not in the president's inner orbit, had generated law enforcement scrutiny. The memo also omits that Page had been on the FBI's radar just a few years earlier as part of a separate counterintelligence investigation into Russian influence. Though the memo focuses on Page, intelligence committee Democrats wrote in a response, "this ignores the inconvenient fact that the investigation did not begin with, or arise from Christopher Steele or the dossier, and that the investigation would persist on the basis of wholly independent evidence had Christopher Steele never entered the picture." Other details in the memo could also challenge Republican claims of bias. The warrant requested in October 2016 was subsequently renewed on three additional occasions, meaning that judges approved it four times. And one of the Justice Department officials who approved it was Rosenstein, a Trump appointee. Trump, who lambasted the FBI and Justice Department on Twitter, was asked later in the day if he was more likely to fire Rosenstein and if he still had confidence in him. The president simply said, "You figure that one out." Though the document had been classified, since it deals with warrants obtained from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the White House declassified it Friday and sent it to Nunes for immediate release. The disclosure of the document is extraordinary since it involves details about surveillance of Americans, national security information the government regards as among its most highly classified. Its release is likely to further escalate an intra-government conflict that has divided the White House and Trump's hand-picked law enforcement leaders. Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray had personally lobbied against the memo's disclosure, arguing it could set a dangerous precedent. The memo's release also comes amid an ongoing effort by Trump and congressional Republicans to discredit Mueller's investigation, which focuses not only on whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russia but also on whether the president sought to obstruct justice. ___ Associated Press writers Zeke Miller, Jill Colvin, Catherine Lucey, Matthew Daly, Desmond Butler and Jonathan Lemire contributed to this report. | |
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| 02-02-18 06:11am - 2516 days | #15 | |
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No apology needed for your English. It's excellent. I doubt anyone reading your comments, replies etc. would suspect English is not your native language. I took Spanish for 4 years in high school. All I can remember is Hola (hello). 5-year old kids speak better Spanish than I can, just by hearing words spoken in front of them. With me, Spanish goes in one ear, and out the other. So I envy people who can learn to read and/or speak other languages. Actually, it's not just your command of English language that impresses me, but the level of the thoughts you express. The ideas flow smoothly. | |
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| 02-02-18 12:01am - 2516 days | #13 | |
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Cuckqueaning is when a woman watches her husband/partner having sex with another woman. But what is it called when a woman watches her husband/partner having sex with another man? I assume that would be a genre as well, even if it's not as popular? And cuckolding and cuckqueaning doesn't have to be part of BDSM. Back in the 1970s, when the idea of free love was popular, there were groups advocating 3 or more people forming a sexual relationship. | |
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| 02-01-18 11:43pm - 2516 days | #145 | |
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Arizona House kicks out Rep. Don Shooter over sex misconduct Associated Press Bob Christie, Associated Press,Associated Press 5 hours ago PHOENIX (AP) -- The Arizona House kicked out Republican Rep. Don Shooter on Thursday because of a lengthy pattern of sexual misconduct, making him the first state lawmaker in the U.S. to be expelled since the #MeToo movement emerged last year. Other legislators nationwide have resigned or been stripped of their leadership posts after being accused of misconduct. But the expulsion marked a new escalation in handling such cases after a report ordered by the legislative leader of his own party showed Shooter engaged in a pattern of sexual harassment toward women. The drama on Arizona's House floor lasted for about two hours, with bipartisan female lawmakers in red gathering in a circle, holding hands and hugging before the vote began. Then Shooter took center stage, saying he had said and done stupid things but "I stood on the carpet, I took it like a man, I apologized." "It's been my honor to represent the people of District 13," Shooter said. "I have faithfully executed my duties. I've never taken bribes, I've never considered one way or another except on the merits of a bill." At the end of his speech, he held his arm out, dropped the microphone on the floor and walked out. He was one of three lawmakers to vote against his ouster, with 56 House members supporting it. The fallout comes months after Republican Rep. Michelle Ugenti-Rita said Shooter propositioned her for sex and repeatedly commented on her breasts. Many other women, including the then-publisher of Arizona's largest newspaper, then complained that he subjected them to inappropriate sexual comments or actions. Shooter said earlier in the day that he deserved to be punished but did nothing to justify expulsion. He had been facing censure, but Republican House Speaker J.D. Mesnard moved for a vote to expel him after the embattled lawmaker sent a letter to fellow legislators Thursday. It alleged that the investigative report Mesnard commissioned into Shooter's and Ugenti-Rita's behavior whitewashed accusations against another House member that were worse than the claims he faced. Shooter wrote that the report omitted a young woman's complaint that another lawmaker subjected her to unwanted sexual advances. He would not name the lawmaker. The report says Ugenti-Rita's boyfriend sent sexually explicit communications to someone. Investigators determined that happened but that there was no evidence Ugenti-Rita knew or was involved. Mesnard said he talked to the woman and learned Shooter's description her concerns weren't true. "It was then I realized Rep. Shooter's letter was nothing more than an effort to use this individual as a pawn," Mesnard said. "So he was not, in fact, standing up for the victim but rather further victimizing this person." The House speaker told Shooter that the vote was now about expulsion and asked for any weapons he had with him. Mesnard said Shooter turned over a handgun. Firearms are banned at the Legislature, but lawmakers have been known to carry them in gun-friendly Arizona and the rule generally isn't enforced. Shooter was elected to the Senate in 2010, and moved to the House in 2016. The lawmaker from the southern Arizona city of Yuma was known around the Capitol as a politically incorrect jokester who threw booze-fueled parties in his office on the last day of legislative sessions. The initial complaints against him came from Ugenti-Rita in mid-October. In the following weeks, the woman then working as the publisher of the Arizona Republic newspaper and a number of others also complained about inappropriate behavior and comments. Former newspaper publisher Mi-Ai Parrish, who is Asian-American, wrote in a column that Shooter told her last year during a meeting in his office that he had done everything on his "bucket list," except for "those Asian twins in Mexico." The investigation substantiated some of the allegations, but not all. Shooter has denied sexual harassment but acknowledged that he had made "jarring, insensitive and demeaning" comments. He asked for the investigation after Ugenti-Rita said he propositioned her. His seat was immediately declared vacant and will be filled by another Republican. GOP committee members in his district will nominate three people for the post, and officials in Yuma County will make the final choice. The #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct spread widely in October, targeting men in Hollywood, politics and elsewhere. It came a year after the Tennessee state House removed Rep. Jeremy Durham after an investigation detailed accusations of improper sexual contact with at least 22 women. In Arizona, Republican Rep. Noel Campbell said Shooter's actions should be condemned but voted against kicking him out. "I believe it is up to the people of his district to either expel him or not," he said. "I think that is the real judging body." | |
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| 02-01-18 07:09pm - 2516 days | #144 | |
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Michigan dog gets letter granting him unemployment benefits. However, those benefits are later denied. Will this cause psychological problems for the doggy, who will then need counseling and health-care benefits? --- --- CBS/AP February 1, 2018, 11:36 AM Michigan man gets letter granting his dog unemployment benefits SAUGATUCK, Mich. -- Michael Ryder had been approved for $360 a week in Michigan unemployment benefits -- until the state learned he'd been dogging it at the Detroit-area restaurant where he supposedly worked. Ryder is a German Shepherd owned by attorney Michael Haddock on the other side of the state in Saugatuck, CBS Detroit reports. Speaking to WWJ Newsradio 950, Haddock said he was indeed surprised when he received a benefits letter addressed to "Michael Ryder" from Michigan's Unemployment Insurance Agency. The paperwork listed the dog as having been employed by Kruse and Muer, an upscale seafood chain. "He's very food driven, so it's no coincidence that he had a restaurant on his application," Haddock said, with a chuckle. When Haddock contacted the agency about the letter, he was told the agency's computer system had sent it, but that the claim was later was flagged as suspicious and denied. Haddock added that, while he's not entirely sure what Ryder does all day, he is pretty sure that his dog has never had a job. Could it have been a practical joke? "I have plenty of friends that maybe would do something (like this), but they would genuinely fess up to it by now. So, yeah, I'm not sure," he said. Agency spokesman Chris De Witt said that they're still looking into the matter, but they may never know who filed the claim. "Due to criminals stealing data from a number of different places -- Equifax, other places where this has happened over the last few years -- criminals are now using that information to file for unemployment benefits, and the IRS is running into the same problem with tax refunds. That's how this starts." De Witt said, fortunately, in this case there were enough indicators to raise red flags about the claim, and no money was paid out. Investigations administrator Tim Kolar wrote in a tongue-in-cheek email that he knows "first-hand it is rare for 'man's best friend' to contribute financially to the household and that will continue in this instance."  2018 CBS Interactive Inc. | |
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| 02-01-18 07:00pm - 2516 days | #143 | |
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People who have not walked in his shoes have no right to offer him opinions. This man is Judge, Jury, and Executioner of our laws. Proud to be a shithole. The only way to be a man is to carry a badge and gun, so you can shoot these criminals. God bless America. Land of the righteous and red-necked lawmen. ----- ----- U.S. ICE Chief Will ‘Never Back Down’ From Telling Undocumented Immigrants To Be Afraid HuffPost Roque Planas,HuffPost Wed, Jan 31 5:10 PM PST SAN ANTONIO ― Thomas Homan, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, doubled down Wednesday on his controversial comments from last year that all undocumented immigrants should be worried about getting arrested and deported under the Trump administration. “I’ll never back down on those words,” Homan said at the Border Security Expo in San Antonio, a conference that connects law enforcement with companies looking to win contracts. “If you violate the laws of this country, if you enter illegally ― which is a crime ― it’s not going to be OK anymore.” The acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement thinks people who haven't walked in his shoes have no business offering him opinions. (Jonathan Ernst / Reuters) A career immigration enforcement official who started as a Border Patrol agent more than three decades ago, Homan loudly championed some of President Donald Trump’s most contentious immigration positions on Wednesday. That included the White House’s opposition to standalone legislation to grant legal status to young undocumented immigrants who have benefited from Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama administration program that Trump canceled. “If we get a clean DACA bill, shame on all of us,” Homan said. Immigrant rights groups have pressured Congress to pass a bill that would address the plight of these Dreamers, after Trump threw their tenuous legal status into jeopardy last year. But the White House has insisted that any legislation to deal with the cancellation of DACA should also include billions of dollars for Trump’s proposed border wall expansion, along with cuts to legal immigration. The impasse played a key role in the brief shutdown of the federal government earlier this month. Addressing DACA without also cracking down further on immigration would only spur more unauthorized immigration, Homan said ― even as he acknowledged that illegal crossings had plummeted to their lowest levels in four decades. “I 100 percent support the wall,” Homan added. He spent much of his speech lashing out at so-called “sanctuary” cities that limit cooperation with federal immigration authorities, often by declining to hold some undocumented immigrants accused of lesser state crimes until federal authorities can pick them up. Homan said it irritated him that politicians who have “never carried a badge and a gun” can limit his agents’ ability to go into local jails to make arrests. Working through the jails, he said, expedites the deportation process and makes it safer for ICE agents, because they don’t have to go knocking on people’s doors. Restricting ICE’s access to local jails, he said, will only drive his agents to target undocumented immigrants in their neighborhoods, which will result in more unauthorized immigrants without criminal records being picked up. ICE under Homan’s watch has received much criticism from immigrant rights groups and some Democratic politicians for an uptick in arrests of unauthorized immigrants without criminal convictions. Those critics deride the Trump administration’s tactics as unfocused, saying they breed fear in immigrant communities. Some local law enforcement officials, including some of the police chiefs and sheriffs for the largest cities and counties in Texas, have also warned that indiscriminate deportation efforts make immigrants distrustful of local cops. Less than a week after Trump took office, his administration tossed out Obama-era guidelines that focused deportation efforts on recent border-crossers, people with serious criminal histories and those who had prior deportations on their records. But according to Homan, the only way to resolve the country’s contentious immigration problems is by cracking down on undocumented immigrants more uniformly. And he characterized critics ― whether local officials, journalists or “people on on the left” ― as unworthy of contradicting him on policy, unless they’ve worked in law enforcement. “When they’ve seen what we’ve seen, then they can have an opinion,” Homan said, addressing himself to the immigration agents and officials in the room. “Until then, we’re going to enforce the law without apology. And I’m not going to stop talking.” This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 02-01-18 02:27pm - 2516 days | #142 | |
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Fake news: President Trump says he is the greatest President the United States ever had. Greater than Washington and Lincoln. (Trump didn't say this himself, but his good friend Senator Orin Hatch said it.) (But a spokesperson for Hatch corrected this, by saying, Senator Hatch did not say Trump was the greatest President, but that Trump could be the greatest President the US ever had.) However, Trump claims he is now ready to be immortalized on Mount Rushmore, where the faces of lesser persons like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln are shown. Go, Trump! You are the greatest! ---- ---- Trump tells GOP retreat he's ready for Mount Rushmore Dylan Stableford 1 hour 45 minutes ago President Trump appeared to be in a jovial mood at a GOP retreat in West Virginia on Thursday, boasting about how his administration has “fulfilled far more promises than we’ve promised.” And without quite saying so himself, he claimed Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, once told him that he is “the greatest president in the history of our country.” “And I said, ‘Does that include Lincoln and Washington?’” Trump recalled. “And he said, ‘Yes.’ I said, ‘I love this guy.’” A spokesman for Hatch told a reporter for the Guardian newspaper that the senator has said Trump “can be” the greatest president ever to hold the office, but never said he “is” the greatest ever. Trump’s remarks at the annual gathering of Republican members of Congress at the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.V., came a day after the train taking lawmakers there hit a dump truck, killing the driver of the vehicle. The president extended prayers to those affected by the train accident before launching into a freewheeling speech that elaborated on the themes of Tuesday’s State of the Union address — with Trump veering off the script numerous times during his 35-minute talk. Trump boasted about the accomplishments of his administration’s first year. President Trump pauses while speaking at the 2018 House and Senate Republican Member Conference at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. (Photo: Andrew Harnik/AP) “That was one of the greatest years in the history of politics,” Trump said. “We had a year that was unlike, I think, any.” Trump then lauded himself for what he said were campaign promises kept, including the passage of tax reform, the repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate and the lifting of a ban on drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, or “ANWR.” The latter two were provisions included in the GOP tax bill. “We’ve fulfilled far more promises than we’ve promised,” the president said. “I call it promises plus.” Trump called for the creation of more vocational schools to supplement the economy with skilled workers, but seemed to mix them up with community colleges. “When I was growing up, we had vocational schools,” the president recalled. “I remember I was in high school, and there were people in class, I remember one person in particular, he wasn’t, like, the greatest student. He just wasn’t. And I saw him one day and he was able to fix a car blindfolded. “I think the word ‘vocational’ is a much better word than, in many cases, a community college,” he continued. “A lot of people don’t know what a community college means or represents.” Related: Trump’s 1st State of the Union vs. Obama’s: By the numbers Later, while discussing immigration, Trump called for a permanent fix to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an expiring Obama-era program shielding undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children — so-called Dreamers — from deportation. President Trump, flanked by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., left, and House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., addresses the Republican congressional retreat at the Greenbrier resort in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., Feb. 1, 2018. (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters) “I’ve been hearing about DACA for so many years, some people call it Dreamers,” Trump said. “It’s not Dreamers, don’t fall into that trap.” The president then reiterated a quote from his State of the Union. “I said the other night, ‘We have Dreamers in our country too,’” he said. “We’re either going to have something that’s fair and equitable, or we’re going to have nothing at all.” Earlier Thursday, Trump falsely claimed that the 45.6 million television viewers for his first State of the Union address was “the highest number in history.” According to Nielsen, an estimated 45.6 million people tuned in to watch Trump’s State of the Union speech Tuesday night — millions less than the number who watched President Barack Obama’s and President George W. Bush’s first State of the Union addresses, in 2010 and 2002, and about a quarter-million less than President Bill Clinton’s first State of the Union in 1994. Trump did not mention the ratings at the retreat. He criticized Democrats for not clapping during his State of the Union address, particularly when he made a claim about African-American unemployment. Trump asserted that the unemployment rate for African-Americans is the lowest ever, but observers have pointed out that it has been declining for years. “When I made that statement the other night, there was zero movement from the Democrats,” the president said. “They sat there stone cold, no smile, no applause. You would’ve thought on that one they would’ve at least clapped a little bit.” | |
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| 01-31-18 05:15pm - 2517 days | #141 | |
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Trump calls for powers to fire federal workers more easily.' Federal job protections make it difficult for the government to oust civil servants. But Trump advisers have discussed making that task easier, as well as instituting hiring freezes, weakening staff unions and reducing retirement benefits, as HuffPost has previously reported. This is a good thing. Maybe we can fire Trump, who does a shithole job of running this country. It's difficult to impeach a President. How about passing a law that says: Take a vote of the US voters: if 50.0000001% or more of the voters vote to remove the President, fire him, and have a new election to re-elect a new President. Sounds good. And this is what Trump is demanding: the right to fire Federal employees. ---- ---- Politics Trump Calls On Congress To Empower Agencies To Oust Federal Workers HuffPost Chris D'Angelo,HuffPost 20 hours ago WASHINGTON — In a speech that repeatedly touched on the importance of job creation, President Donald Trump also called on Congress to give government agencies the power to oust federal workers. WASHINGTON — In a speech that repeatedly touched on the importance of job creation, President Donald Trump also called on Congress to give government agencies the power to oust federal workers. “All Americans deserve accountability and respect ― and that is what we are giving them,” Trump said during his first State of the Union Address. “I call on the Congress to empower every Cabinet secretary with the authority to reward good workers and to remove federal employees who undermine the public trust or fail the American people.” His comments drew applause from the Republican-controlled Congress. In his push to “drain the swamp,” Trump has promised to drastically reduce the size of government. And his 2018 budget request called for sweeping cuts at numerous federal agencies. Federal job protections make it difficult for the government to oust civil servants. But Trump advisers have discussed making that task easier, as well as instituting hiring freezes, weakening staff unions and reducing retirement benefits, as HuffPost has previously reported. In a post to Twitter, Walter Shaub, the former director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, said Trump’s statement Tuesday “serves the goal of politicizing the career ranks.” Tony Reardon, the national president of the National Treasury Employees Union, told FCW News that the president’s comments were “unfortunate” and left “the impression that federal employees are not dedicated to public service.” “Federal employees must retain existing protections that stop unfair and arbitrary management practices, along with political favoritism and retaliation,” he told the publication. “Our workforce is non-partisan and merit-based and any reduction in due process protections is a step backward for our country,” Reardon said in an emailed statement. Last week, The New York Times reported that Trump had attempted to fire Robert Mueller, the special counsel overseeing the FBI’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. He reportedly abandoned the idea after White House counsel Don McGahn threatened to resign. This story was updated with a quote from Tony Reardon. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 01-31-18 08:07am - 2518 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Young porn star practicing her first climax. Is she acting, or showing her true emotions? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnBgPrPPtaQ I think she might be a he. I can't really tell. Edited on Jan 31, 2018, 01:03pm | |
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| 01-31-18 07:50am - 2518 days | #140 | |
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More fake news. Trump gave his first State of the Union Address last night. Late night TV comedians dis-respected our great President with fake humor. Should Trump send his Nazi and Commie supporters after these enemies of the US Government? Enquiring minds want to know. ---- ---- Jimmy Kimmel and Stormy Daniels won the late night Trump speech analysis Ken Tucker 2 hours 5 minutes ago Stephen Colbert and The Daily Show both went live on Tuesday night in order to react to the president’s State of the Union speech. Jimmy Kimmel’s coup, of a sort, was booking adult-film star Stormy Daniels, who has in the past claimed to have had an affair with Donald Trump. Colbert came out, as he usually does, with verbal guns blazing. He did what amounted to an annotated replay of the speech, with comic footnotes. After a clip of Trump talking about the hurricane recovery in Puerto Rico (“We are with you, we love you, and we will pull through together”), Colbert observed, “That will be a touching message for the people of Puerto Rico once they have electricity to turn on their TV’s.” Unlike the wild, improvised, often angry post-election live show Colbert did after Trump’s election, this live show stuck to the Late Show formula, which reminded us how low-boil-despairing Colbert and his audience remain. On The Daily Show, Trevor Noah delivered such lines as, Trump “reached across the aisle — and not just to grope someone” and commented that the stony silence to the speech from the Black Congressional Caucus in the room was “like reverse-Showtime at the Apollo.” As usual, Noah was occasionally clever without any sort of overarching framework to his political comedy. Not trying to be coherent at all, yet landing some of the strongest humor-punches was Jimmy Kimmel. He prefaced the Stormy Daniels interview with a clip from that morning’s The View, with guest S.E. Cupp. (You don’t know S.E. Cupp? You mean you don’t watch her daily conservative talk show on HLN? Congratulations, you’re an American.) Cupp whined that Kimmel booking Daniels was unfair to Republicans because “Monica Lewinsky was also caught having an affair with a president. Who’s booking Monica Lewinsky?” Kimmel then played clips from three times he has interviewed Monica Lewinsky. “Put that in your S.E. Cupp and smoke it,” he said. The Stormy interview wasn’t all that much. She’s sticking by the non-disclosure agreement she signed in allegedly being paid to remain silent on the subject of Trump. But she didn’t deny the salacious details in the In Touch interview Daniels granted in 2011. Kimmel asked if she found it odd that Trump, during his campaign, brought out a group of women who’ve accused Bill Clinton of sexual misconduct to try and psyche out Hillary before a debate. “Odd, no — dirty, yes,” said Daniels with a puncturing terseness. Kimmel also did a fascinating segment in which he brought out a Latino couple who came to this country illegally many years ago, to engage in a discussion with six people who said they were strongly against illegal immigration. The segment had few laughs, and mostly just proved that the most extreme opinions emanated from the most aggressively pro-Trump supporters. “I want to start deporting illegals even before MS-13,” said a man with a long white beard and a red Make America Great Again ball-cap on. (He was referencing the MS-13 Latino gang that Trump equated with all illegal immigrants in his speech.) No one gave their full names, but this guy — “Bad Santa” was Kimmel’s nickname for him — was unashamed to sit in front of this man, woman, and their infant daughter and say, “They should throw them out.” In a way, Kimmel was being as manipulative as Trump was in his speech, bringing out civilians as living illustrations of various triumphs of Trump’s first year. But it was effective in showing the stark contrast between Republicans who disagree about our immigration laws, and MAGA zealots without a shred of politeness. I have to say that the night’s best Good Old-Fashioned Talk-Show Joke goes to Conan O’Brien, who said, “Trump said he now supports a plan for young immigrants to become citizens. When asked why, Trump said, ‘Because I may have to look for a new wife soon.’” Johnny Carson would have told one like that. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. on CBS. The Daily Show airs weeknights at 11 p.m. on Comedy Central. Jimmy Kimmel Live airs weeknights at 11:35 p.m. on ABC. Conan airs weeknights at 11 p.m. on TBS. | |
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| 01-30-18 02:17pm - 2518 days | #16 | |
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More fake news. This story has to be fake, because it says that Trump (who owns lots of golf courses) cheats at golf. How can a man who owns lots of golf courses cheat at golf? ---- ---- Trump 'Cheats Like Hell' at Golf, Says LPGA Star, Who Questions His Business Acumen Newsweek Greg Price,Newsweek 6 hours ago President Donald Trump “cheats like hell” when he plays golf and is not nearly the caliber of player he claims to be, a top LPGA player told a Norwegian newspaper during an interview. Suzann Pettersen, who has won two majors and 15 tour events and has known Trump for more than a decade, employed an old adage that likens one’s golf game to how one conducts himself or herself in the business world. "He cheats like hell," Pettersen said, according to golf.com. "So I don't quite know how he is in business. They say that if you cheat at golf, you cheat at business." The Norway native also said Trump’s drives often look they are flying well off the fairway but somehow stay out of the rough—and suggested he might be paying his caddies to help him on the course. She also questioned the top-notch scores Trump routinely claims to have shot. "He always says he is the world's best putter. But in all the times I've played him, he's never come close to breaking 80," she said, according to golf.com. "But what's strange is that every time I talk to him he says he just golfed a 69, or that he set a new course record or won a club championship some place. I just laugh." The pair were reportedly close and spoke monthly before Trump took over the White House last year. Pettersen said she does not agree with Trump’s policies and she questioned how he conducted himself on the campaign trail. "I'm not a supporter of what he says or stands for," Pettersen said. "I thought it was very strange during the presidential campaign that he wasn't smarter about how he communicated." Trump has received significant flak throughout his presidency for the amount of time he spends on golf courses. He has visited his golf properties more than 90 times during his first year as president, according to NBC News, and drew criticism last year for driving a cart on a green—a major faux pas in the golf world. This article was first written by Newsweek | |
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| 01-29-18 11:00pm - 2519 days | #11 | |
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The truth will set you free! The 9/11 attacks were an inside job conducted by the American government and the Sandy Hook school killings in Newtown, Conn., were also faked. And the FBI is being used by criminals to blacken the name of President Trump. Is this the United States of America, or some third-world crackpot shithole country? With Trump in charge, I'm not sure if there is any difference. --- --- GOP Rep. Gaetz joins the 'Infowar' against the FBI Christopher Wilson 8 hours ago Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., did an extended interview Monday with Alex Jones, the nation’s leading peddler of conspiracy theories, in an attempt to prove he was not a conspiracy theorist. Interviewed on Jones’s show, Infowars, Gaetz urged the release of a House Intelligence Committee memo that many Republicans say will cast doubt on the legitimacy of the FBI investigation into President Trump’s campaign. Democrats have said that the memo is based on incomplete information and creates a false narrative, and the Justice Department has warned that releasing the memo without a security review would be “extraordinarily reckless.” “We’re called conspiracy theorists because we see this cabal right in front of us,” said Gaetz. “We’re able to aggregate these data points and show what was really going on.” Jones is a right-wing conspiracy theorist who has charged that the 9/11 attacks were an inside job conducted by the American government and that the Sandy Hook school killings in Newtown, Conn., were also faked. After a gunman fired shots in a Washington, D.C., restaurant, Jones apologized for pushing the theory that the proprietors of Comet Ping Pong were running a child pedophile ring out of its basement. (The gunman said he was a frequent listener of Jones and was on a self-appointed mission to rescue the imaginary victims.) Last year Jones was also forced to apologize to the Chobani yogurt company and the city of Twin Falls, Idaho, after broadcasting that refugees working in Chobani’s plant were spreading disease and crime. Gaetz, a first-term congressman and Freedom Caucus member, is not the first well-known Republican politician to visit Jones. In December 2015, then candidate Trump told the host he had an “excellent reputation.” Jones claims he is still in contact with Trump, although Axios has reported that officials in the White House were attempting to limit Trump’s access to Infowars. Jones assured Gaetz that while media companies would criticize him for appearing on the show, he should be proud of visiting. “MSM’s [mainstream media] gonna attack you for coming on the show,” said Jones, “but that’s a badge of honor, the president’s come on before.” Gaetz mentioned text messages between an FBI lawyer and FBI agent that he claims show a conspiracy to stop Trump from winning the 2016 election, and subsequently to remove him from the White House. (Republican legislators last week pushed the idea of a secret society of agents to depose Trump, claims that were later debunked.) A member of the far-right Freedom Caucus, the congressman has been pushing for months for the resignation of special counsel Robert Mueller. The House could vote on releasing the controversial Intelligence Committee memo as soon as Monday. After the vote, Trump would have five days to either allow the release to move forward or file an objection. Monday also saw the resignation of FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who has been the object of suspicion by many Republican representatives. | |
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| 01-29-18 10:47pm - 2519 days | #10 | |
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FAKE NEWS ALERT!!! US issues Putin List of Russian politicians. Trump attacks Putin, which will lead to Putin's downfall. Trump caves in to US Congress, vows to fight to the death Putin's allies, and to kill forevermore the Commie threat to the United States. All hail Trump, the greatest, most fearless President the United States has ever had. END OF FAKE NEWS ALERT.... If you read the news article below, you begin to understand how Trump is the master of the deal. Congress orders the executive branch to punish Russia with sanctions. And Trump responds: Ha, ha, I've punished Russia with sanctions. State Department officials said the threat of sanctions had been deterrent enough, and that 'sanctions on specific entities or individuals will not need to be imposed.' ==== ==== US issues 'Putin list' of Russian politicians, oligarchs Associated Press JOSH LEDERMAN,Associated Press 9 minutes ago WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration late Monday released a long-awaited list of 114 Russian politicians and 96 "oligarchs" who have flourished during the reign of President Vladimir Putin, fulfilling a demand by Congress that the U.S. punish Moscow for interfering in the 2016 U.S. election. Yet the administration paired that move with a surprising announcement that it had decided not to punish anybody — for now — under new sanctions retaliating for the election-meddling. Some U.S. lawmakers accused President Donald Trump of giving Russia a free pass, fueling further questions about whether the president is unwilling to confront America's Cold War foe. Known informally as the "Putin list," the seven-page unclassified document is a who's who of politically connected Russians in the country's elite class. The idea, as envisioned by Congress, is to name-and-shame those believed to be benefiting from Putin's tenure just as the United States works to isolate his government diplomatically and economically. Being on the list doesn't trigger any U.S. sanctions on the individuals, although more than a dozen are already targeted under earlier sanctions. Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is among the 114 senior political figures in Russia's government who made the list, along with 42 of Putin's aides, Cabinet ministers such as Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and top officials in Russia's leading spy agencies, the FSB and GRU. The CEOs of major state-owned companies, including energy giant Rosneft and Sberbank, are also on the list. So are 96 wealthy Russians deemed "oligarchs" by the Treasury Department, which said each is believed to have assets totaling $1 billion or more. Some are the most famous of wealthy Russians, among them tycoons Roman Abramovich and Mikhail Prokhorov, who challenged Putin in the 2012 election. Aluminum magnate Oleg Deripaska, a figure in the Russia investigation over his ties to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, is included. The Trump administration had until Monday to issue the list under a law passed last year. After declining to answer questions about it throughout the day Monday, the Treasury Department released it with little fanfare 12 minutes before midnight. Even more names, including those of less-senior politicians or businesspeople worth less than $1 billion, are on a classified version of the list being provided to Congress, officials said. Drawing on U.S. intelligence, Treasury also finalized a list of at least partially state-owned companies in Russia, but that list, too, was classified and sent only to Congress. There was no immediate comment early Tuesday from the Kremlin or the Russian Embassy in Washington. In the works for months, the list has induced fear among rich Russians who are concerned that it could lead to U.S. sanctions or to being informally blacklisted in the global financial system. It triggered a fierce lobbying campaign, with Russia hawks in Congress pushing the administration to include certain names and lobbyists hired by Russian businessmen urging the administration to keep their clients off. The list's release was likely to at least partially diffuse the disappointment from some lawmakers that Trump's administration opted against targeting anyone with new Russia sanctions that took effect Monday. Under the same law that authorized the "Putin list," the government was required to slap sanctions on anyone doing "significant" business with people linked to Russia's defense and intelligence agencies, using a blacklist the U.S. released in October. But the administration decided it didn't need to penalize anyone, even though several countries have had multibillion-dollar arms deals with Russia in the works. State Department officials said the threat of sanctions had been deterrent enough, and that "sanctions on specific entities or individuals will not need to be imposed." "We estimate that foreign governments have abandoned planned or announced purchases of several billion dollars in Russian defense acquisitions," said State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert. She did not provide evidence or cite any examples. Companies or foreign governments that had been doing business with blacklisted Russian entities had been given a three-month grace period to extricate themselves from transactions, starting in October when the blacklist was published and ending Monday. But only those engaged in "significant transactions" are to be punished, and the United States has never defined that term or given a dollar figure. That ambiguity has made it impossible for the public to know exactly what is and isn't permissible. Late last year, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said one reason the U.S. was proceeding cautiously was that major U.S. allies have much at stake. Turkey, a NATO ally, has a deal to buy the S-400, Russia's most advanced air defense missile system. And key security partner Saudi Arabia recently struck an array of deals with Moscow, including contracts for weapons. It was unclear whether either country had since abandoned those deals to avoid running afoul of the U.S. sanctions. New York Rep. Eliot Engel, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, lambasted the move to punish no one, saying he was "fed up" and that Trump's administration had chosen to "let Russia off the hook yet again." He dismissed the State Department's claim that "the mere threat of sanctions" would stop Moscow from further meddling in America's elections. "How do you deter an attack that happened two years ago, and another that's already underway?" Engel said. "It just doesn't make sense." ___ Associated Press writer Jill Colvin contributed to this report. | |
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| 01-29-18 12:19pm - 2519 days | #6 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Trump is inspired by true events. But just like in the movies, he uses artistic freedom. To shape the events to his own purposes. That is why he speaks about fake news: fake news that does not fit his version of the truth. But his truth is flexible. It shifts to fit Trump's needs and visions and realities. Does that make sense? I think so. There are many people who believe their own bullshit. And Trump is probably one of them. I'm the greatest. If I own a car, it's the greatest car. If I own a house, it's the greatest house. That's just the way some people think. And Trump takes it to an extreme. | |
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| 01-29-18 09:21am - 2520 days | #4 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I don't agree. Maybe in a perfect world respect is a 2-way street. In the real world, respect is usually a 1-way street. Trump says, continuously, he loves everyone. What that translates to is that he loves himself. He respects himself. Everyone else is a sucker, that he will use, and then discard as needed. Maybe I'm simplifying. Trump just doesn't pit one party against the other. When he ran for president, he attacked everyone in his party that was a competitor. With the most outrageous lies. He said Ted Cruz's father was involved in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Then Trump said it was proved because Ted Cruz did not deny it. (Even though Ted Cruz did deny it-Trump kept claiming Ted Cruz did not deny it.) Trump said, again and again, Obama was not born in the US, which would have made Obama not eligible to be President. Trump lies constantly. That's part of the reason he uses the fake news: any criticism of Trump is fake news. Whether the news is true or not does not matter: it's fake news. Most politicians learn to lie. It's part of the job. The public must be protected from Government secrets. But Trump takes lying to an extreme. And the public, and his party, seems to allow his lies. Truth is a matter of viewpoint. That's basic. That's a two-way street (or more than a two-way street, because most facts and events can be interpreted in many ways.) If you look at Nixon's scandals, at Clinton scandals, you will often find truth depends on which party the politician belongs to. And that is also true for how politicians view and support Trump: it depends on which party the politician belongs to. My party right or wrong: Except if Trump is President, and you're a Republican, Trump can do no wrong. (A simplification, but that's the general idea.) | |
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| 01-28-18 12:20pm - 2520 days | #139 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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By June, Trump had so openly begun discussing firing Mueller that Bannon and Reince Priebus, who was then chief of staff, grew “incredibly concerned,” huddling to strategize about how to dissuade the president and enlisting others to intervene with him. In mid-June, Christopher Ruddy, the chief executive of the conservative Newsmax Media and a longtime Trump confidant, voiced those concerns publicly, telling PBS “NewsHour,” “I think he’s perhaps terminating the special counsel.” And that same month, Trump did, in fact, order McGahn to fire Mueller, a directive first reported Thursday by the New York Times. But McGahn told West Wing staff — though not the president — that he would quit before carrying out Trump’s directive, and the president ultimately backed down, people familiar with the events said. Allies of the president said that his demands for absolute loyalty are not unreasonable — and not indicative of any attempts to obstruct justice. “Of course the president ought to be able to expect loyalty,” said Newt Gingrich, an unofficial Trump adviser. “He is the chosen president of the United States by the American people, and he is the chief executive. If they’re not loyal to him, who the hell are they supposed to be loyal to?” In recent weeks, Mueller’s team has questioned White House staff about the June episode in which Trump expressed interest in firing Mueller, a person familiar with those interviews said. Mueller has also asked about Trump’s repeated outbursts against his attorney general, including a moment in late July when Trump nearly ousted Sessions out of anger at the Russia probe. Although McGahn had called Sessions at Trump’s request in early March to urge him not to recuse himself, Sessions stepped aside that same day — and the president was furious. By July 19, Trump was venting publicly, telling the Times that it was “very unfair” of Sessions to recuse himself from the Russia investigation and that he would not have nominated Sessions to be attorney general if he had known of his plans. The next day, facing Trump’s public criticism, Sessions announced that he would remain attorney general “as long as it is appropriate.” That same day, a White House adviser told a Post reporter that Trump was “stunned” that Sessions had not yet quit. The president, this adviser added, has been hoping that Sessions would be embarrassed enough by Trump’s scathing public remarks to leave on his own. Shortly after, Trump issued a directive to Priebus: Go to Sessions and secure his resignation, according to two people with knowledge of the episode. But Priebus hesitated, declining to outright ask Sessions to quit and instead working to manage Trump’s anger, those two people said. In the following days, Republicans rallied to Sessions’s defense, and Trump backed off. A person who has interacted with Mueller’s team said the prosecutors seem to be pursuing a theory that Trump’s actions over months have followed a consistent pattern. “Their theory appears to be that he goes after people who are not loyal,” this person said. “He wants in place people who are loyal, to make sure he doesn’t get in trouble in the investigation.” This person added that key episodes in this narrative include Trump’s order that Sessions not recuse himself from the investigation; the firing of Comey; his efforts to intervene to get the Flynn investigation dropped; and then, above all, Trump’s dictation aboard Air Force One in July of a misleading statement to be released by his son, Don Jr., about his meeting with the Russian lawyer at Trump Tower during the campaign — “the most obvious obstructive act,” this person said. To prove obstruction of justice, Mueller would have to show that Trump didn’t just act to derail the investigation but did so with a corrupt motive, such as an effort to hide his own misdeeds. Legal experts are divided over whether the Constitution allows for the president to be indicted while in office. As a result, Mueller might seek to outline his findings about Trump’s actions in a written report rather than bring them in court through criminal charges. It would probably fall to Rosenstein to decide whether to submit the report to Congress, which has the power to open impeachment proceedings. Local Politics Email Alerts Breaking news about local government in D.C., Md., Va. As Trump faced growing questions about myriad concerns from his June directive to fire Mueller to his more recent grousing about Rosenstein, the White House was largely silent. In response to several specific queries, White House spokesman Hogan Gidley offered a written statement that addressed few of them. “The president has been clear publicly and privately that he wants absolute transparency throughout this process,” Gidley said in the statement. “Based on numerous news reports, top officials at the FBI have engaged in conduct that shows bias against President Trump and bias for Hillary Clinton. The president has said repeatedly for months there is no consideration of terminating the special counsel.” Philip Rucker and Matt Zapotosky contributed to this report. | |
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| 01-28-18 12:18pm - 2520 days | #138 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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The Washington Post Democracy Dies in Darkness Trump does not understand why, as President, he can not control the investigation on himself. Why he can't direct the agents investigating him, demand their loyalty, fire them if they are disloyal. He is the President, for God's sake. How dare people under his command (he is the Commander in Chief of the nation) investigate him!!! ---- ---- Politics Trump sought release of classified Russia memo, putting him at odds with Justice Department Trump on Russia probe: ‘You fight back, oh, it’s obstruction’ President Trump on Jan. 24 suggested that he could be investigated for obstruction of justice for his decision to “fight back” against the Russia probe. (Video: David Nakamura/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) By Ashley Parker, Rosalind S. Helderman, Josh Dawsey and Carol D. Leonnig January 27 at 4:37 PM On Wednesday, as Republicans were clamoring to make public a secret document they think will undercut the investigation into Russian meddling, President Trump made clear his desire: Release the memo. Trump’s directive was at odds with his own Justice Department, which had warned that releasing the classified memo written by congressional Republicans would be “extraordinarily reckless” without an official review. Nevertheless, White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly relayed the president’s view to Attorney General Jeff Sessions — although the decision to release the document ultimately lies with Congress. Kelly and Sessions spoke twice that day — in person during a small-group afternoon meeting and over the phone later that evening — and Kelly conveyed Trump’s desire, a senior administration official said. Trump and his Republican allies have placed special emphasis on the classified memo, which was written by staff members for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) and suggests that the FBI may have relied on politically motivated or questionable sources to justify its request for a secret surveillance warrant in the investigation’s early phase. Democrats have characterized the memo as misleading talking points designed to smear the FBI. They said it inaccurately summarizes investigative materials that also are classified. Trump “is inclined to have that released just because it will shed light,” said a senior administration official who was speaking on the condition of anonymity to recount private conversations. “Apparently all the rumors are that it will shed light, it will help the investigators come to a conclusion.” The intervention with Sessions, which has not previously been reported, marked another example of the president’s year-long attempts to shape and influence an investigation that is fundamentally outside his control. Trump, appearing frustrated and at times angry, has complained to confidants and aides in recent weeks that he does not understand why he cannot simply give orders to “my guys” at what he sometimes calls the “Trump Justice Department,” two people familiar with the president’s comments said. Such complaints, and Trump’s repeated attempts to pressure senior law enforcement officials through firings or other means, have now become one of the main focuses of the investigation — including Trump’s order last summer to fire special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, which prompted White House counsel Donald McGahn to threaten to quit before Trump backed down. Trump recently revived his complaints that Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein was not properly supervising Mueller’s probe, and suggested that he should fire Rosenstein — a highly controversial action against the person officially overseeing the special counsel’s investigation, an adviser who speaks frequently with Trump said. The president also made clear in recent days that he hopes that new questions facing the investigation allow him or his associates to make changes at the Justice Department, two people familiar with Trump’s comments said. The president has told close advisers that the memo is starting to make people realize how the FBI and the Mueller probe are biased against him, and that it could provide him with grounds for either firing or forcing Rosenstein to leave, according to one person familiar with his remarks. He has privately derided Rosenstein as “the Democrat from Baltimore.” Rosenstein is not a Democrat. He was appointed as a U.S. attorney in Maryland by President George W. Bush and was kept in that post by President Barack Obama. One senior White House official said he personally had not heard the president make comments about getting rid of Rosenstein, which were first reported by CNN. A spokesman for the Justice Department declined to comment. As Mueller narrows his probe — homing in on the ways Trump may have tried to impede the Russia investigation — a common thread ties many of the incidents together: a president accustomed to functioning as the executive of a private family business who does not seem to understand that his subordinates have sworn an oath to the Constitution rather than to him. On Wednesday, speaking briefly to reporters, Trump defended his actions in the probe as “fighting back” against unfair allegations. “Oh, well, ‘Did he fight back?’ ” Trump said. “You fight back, ‘Oh, it’s obstruction.’ ” The Russia probe has also figured prominently in Trump’s souring relationships with some former allies and confidants. Trump first became enraged with Sessions after the attorney general recused himself from overseeing the Russia investigation, which Trump thinks led to the appointment of Mueller. Later, after his former chief strategist, Stephen K. Bannon, accused Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, of a “treasonous” and “unpatriotic” meeting with a Russian lawyer in a new book, the furious president cast Bannon out of his orbit, as well. Sally Q. Yates, the acting attorney general whom Trump fired early last year for failing to enforce his travel ban, said in an interview that Trump’s behavior — from his June decision to call for Mueller’s firing to other meddling throughout the year — is “beyond unusual” and “really dangerous.” “If you get to what’s most essential and important and, I think, really damaging to our country, beyond just the confines of this administration, it’s this attack on our democratic institutions and particularly the Department of Justice,” she said. “It is a firm tradition at the Department of Justice that the White House just has absolutely no involvement in criminal investigations or prosecutions, period.” She added: “It seems like there are almost weekly efforts to try to get DOJ to open up a case on his former political rival. . . . The near daily attacks on the FBI — we’ve never seen anything anywhere close to this before.” Indeed, Trump has shown a repeated pattern of attempting to regain control of the Russia investigation and deploy the Justice Department for his own protection and personal gain — comments and actions Mueller’s team could include in the obstruction-of-justice portion of their probe. The problem, said Barry Bennett, a former senior adviser on the Trump campaign, is that subordinates sometimes confuse Trump’s angry venting for actual administration directives. “Some people still either don’t understand the difference between the president’s bark and his bite, or they’re more than willing to take advantage of the bark to assume that it was a bite,” Bennett said. “Trust me, everybody on the campaign was ‘fired’ more than once, but it never really happened.” The arc of a potential case of obstruction of justice stretches back to the earliest days of Trump’s presidency. In January 2017, at a one-on-one dinner, then-FBI Director James B. Comey said, Trump told him: “I need loyalty. I expect loyalty.” A month later, in February, Trump dismissed others from the Oval Office and told Comey that Michael Flynn — Trump’s former national security adviser who was fired for misleading Vice President Pence about his contacts with Russians — had done nothing wrong, according to Comey’s testimony to Congress. “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Trump said at the time, according to Comey. “He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.” Then, in phone calls in March and April, Trump told Comey that he needed him to lift the “cloud” of the Russia investigation and “get out” that Trump personally was not under investigation. And then on May 9, an angry Trump finally fired the FBI director. Shortly after dismissing Comey, the president asked Andrew McCabe, his acting FBI director, whom he voted for in the 2016 election, according to people with knowledge of the conversation. In December, when The Washington Post reported that McCabe intended to retire in early 2018 once he becomes fully eligible for his pension benefits, Trump took to Twitter to criticize him. A person who has spoken with Mueller’s team said investigators’ questions seemed at least partially designed to probe potential obstruction from Trump. “The questions are about who was where in every meeting, what happened before and after, what the president was saying as he made decisions,” this person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to recount a private session. This person added that while it seemed unlikely Mueller’s team would yield any evidence of a coordinated effort to aid the Russians — “If you were on the campaign, you know we couldn’t even collude with ourselves,” he said — the investigators might find more details to support obstruction of justice. | |
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| 01-28-18 09:34am - 2521 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Pornographic dances are illegal in many countries unless you first get a special license for them. These idiots in Cambodia did not get a special license. So they were arrested. Make sure, when travelling, if you are a PU member, that you bring your PU badges with you, to show you are a member in good standing in the PU club.... -------- -------- The Washington Post Asia & Pacific Cambodia charges foreigners after pornographic dance arrests By Sopheng Cheang | AP January 28 at 9:33 AM PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodian prosecutors charged 10 foreigners Sunday with producing pornographic pictures after they were arrested at a party in Siem Reap town, near the country’s famed Angkor Wat temple complex. Police said they raided a rented villa on Thursday where the foreigners were taking part in what organizers billed as a pub crawl and found people “dancing pornographically.” While almost 90 foreigners were detained, all but 10 were released. The 10 arrested are five British nationals, two Canadians, one Norwegian, one New Zealander and one from the Netherlands. A statement on the arrests posted on the National Police website Sunday included photos showing clothed young adults rolling around together on a dance floor. The prosecutor of the Siem Reap provincial court, Samrith Sokhon, told The Associated Press by phone that those charged face up to a year in prison if convicted. He said after producing the photos, the foreigners shared them on social media. “Any people producing pornography is contrary to Cambodia’s traditions,” he said. The United Kingdom’s Foreign Office confirmed they were in contact with British nationals in Cambodia. “We are assisting five British men arrested in Cambodia and are providing support to their families,” the office said in an emailed response to questions from the AP. Copyright 2018 The Associated Press. | |
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| 01-28-18 08:58am - 2521 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I just started reading: YOU CAN'T SPELL AMERICA WITHOUT ME. This a book about Donald J. Trump. It's supposed to be a parody. But it think it's a truly amazing view into the life and thoughts of our greatest American President and the leader of the free world. This is a book that will open your mind and heart to the man who loves everyone (while still wanting to build a wall to keep out people from shithole countries that are rapists, murderers, thieves, and low-life scum). Trump is the least racist person you will ever meet. He is like Jesus reborn. Better than Jesus, because he is a genius, billionaire businessman who is making America great again. Read this book, and you will become an acolyte of Saint Trump. Edited on Jan 28, 2018, 09:29am | |
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| 01-27-18 03:44pm - 2521 days | #137 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Draining the swamp in Washington. Judge rules that Kushner firm must disclose partners' names. Donald Trump ran on the promise of draining the swamp of Washington. Now, his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is going to reveal some of his business partners. He didn't want to. Privacy is important. But what's more important, is the public's right to know. (Just like the Federal Government argues that it has the right to know everything, along with the crooked FBI and crooked Hilary). Why hasn't Trump put Crooked Hilary and Fake Obama (who was not born in the US) in jail? Shame on Trump, a God-fearing man who never hesitates to tweet the truth. ---- ---- Associated Press Court rules that Kushner firm must disclose partners' names Associated Press Bernard Condon, AP Business Writer,Associated Press 21 hours ago FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 11, 2017, file photo, White House senior adviser Jared Kushner listens as President Donald Trump answers questions at a news conference, in Bedminster, N.J. A federal judge ruled on Friday, Jan. 26, 2018 that the family company once run by Jared Kushner isn’t allow keep the identity of its business partners in several Maryland properties secret. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File) NEW YORK (AP) -- A federal judge ruled Friday that the family company once run by Jared Kushner isn't allowed to keep secret the identity of its business partners in several Maryland properties. A U.S. district judge in the state rejected the argument that the privacy rights of the Kushner Cos. partners outweigh the public interest in obtaining judicial records in a lawsuit before the court. The decision means the company tied to President Donald Trump's son-in-law might be forced to provide a rare glimpse into how it finances its real estate ventures. The ruling backed the argument by The Associated Press and other news organizations that the media has a "presumptive right" to see such court documents and the Kushner Cos. had not raised a "compelling government interest" needed by law to block access. U.S. District Court Judge James K. Bredar ruled that Westminster Management, a Kushner Cos. subsidiary, must file an unsealed document with the identity of its partners by Feb. 9. The ruling stems from a lawsuit filed by tenants last year alleging Westminster charges excessive and illegal rent for apartments in the state. The lawsuit seeks class-action status for tenants in 17 apartment complexes owned by the company. Westminster has said it has broken no laws and denies the charges. In addition to its privacy argument, the Kushner subsidiary had said media reports of the Maryland dispute were "politically motivated" and marked by "unfair sensationalism." Disclosure of its partners' names would trigger even more coverage and hurt its chances of getting an impartial decision in the case, it had said. In Friday's ruling, the judge said these are not "frivolous concerns," but the public's right to know is more important. "Increased public interest in a case does not, by itself, overcome the presumption of access," Bredar wrote. "In fact, it would logically strengthen it, particularly when the interest is due to the presence of important public figures in the litigation." He added that he saw no reason to buck "the presumption, and tradition, that the Court conducts its business in the sunlight." The AP joined ProPublica, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun and Baltimore TV station WMAR-TV in filing its motion. "The decision recognized the important principle that the courts are open to the public, especially in cases involving major public figures," said Nathan Siegel, a lawyer with Davis Wright Tremaine who represented the media in the motion. Kushner Cos. spokeswoman Christine Taylor said, "Although we did not prevail, we appreciate the careful consideration Judge Bredar gave to the issue." The Kushner Cos. has ownership stakes in a skyscraper on Fifth Avenue in New York, a residential tower across the Hudson River in New Jersey and dozens of smaller buildings in the area and in other states, including multi-family apartments at the center of the Maryland lawsuit. Jared Kushner stepped down as CEO of the Kushner Cos. early last year to become a senior adviser to Trump. He sold stakes in properties to comply with federal conflicts of interest rules, but held onto many of other assets. Not much is known about who has invested alongside his family over the years, how much money has come from overseas, and which banks and other financial institutions have lent to it. A financial disclosure report that Kushner filed with the federal government in July shows the names of limited liability companies that own properties, but not many of the owners behind them. In the report, Kushner showed he still owned a stake in Westminster Management, the subsidiary in the Maryland case. The report showed he received $1.6 million in income from it. | |
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| 01-27-18 03:01pm - 2521 days | #136 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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messmer, I hear it gets cold up in Canada. Would you kick a warm-blooded woman like Stormy out of your bed on a dark, chilly night? Or maybe Stormy isn't as hot-blooded as I like to dream about. She might have cold, hard cash running through her veins. An electric blanket might be a cheaper and safer alternative, now that I think about it. LOL. | |
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