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| 02-08-19 06:19am - 2144 days | #83 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
@Shen, new members are always welcome (except for some shills). You gave an excellent first review: comprehensive, informative, etc. Hoping to see you here more often. | |
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| 02-07-19 01:19pm - 2145 days | #90 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
https://www.pornusers.com/forum/forum_th...&showPost=89#_89 A very useful thread about how to write an excellent site review. There are a lot of factors to review. This is a roadmap for a complete review, which no one follows any more. But it would pay for newbies, and oldtimers, to scan the thread, to read what some of the top PU members had to say about how to write a review. Like I say, no one follows the cheat sheet or guidelines that were set out so clearly: mainly because it would take so much time and effort and thought to write such a comprehensive review. Toadsith was the master. Wittyguy his lead acolyte. Gone but not forgotten. (They will occasionally drop by, but they used to really contribute to the PU site.) Seriously, this thread should be given a permanent place at the top of the thread headings: as a guide for newbies to write a review, as a reminder to older members of what a review could be. The cheat sheet does not have to be followed completely. It's just a guide. But still very useful. | |
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| 02-07-19 10:15am - 2145 days | #477 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I understand why PU wants more new sites to be reviewed, and that some PU members feel the same. But as I wrote a while back, a lot of new or unknown or un-reviewed sites can have problems, which a PU member can overlook or complain about: The simple reason that many sites have multiple reviews is that the sites have content that is worth paying for. Let's take the biggies, the sites that have been reviewed many times: MetArt, MPL Studios, Diesel network, Teen Mega World, 21 network sites, etc. They have quality content, large content, and most members feel the sites are worth the money. That's why the sites are successful: because PU members and others join the sites and had a good exerience, so they got their money's worth. The problems with new sites, unreviewed sites, are: new sites usually have less content; you could be paying a high price for a small amount of content; you could be paying a high price for content that is poor quality; you could be paying for a site that has technical issues: download limits, no downloading privileges, slow downloading speeds, navigation issues, etc. And that, in brief, is why so many of the PU reviews are of sites that have been reviewed before. You're playing it safe: it's your money, and you don't want to spend it on a site that is ripping you off or gives poor value. As far as the PU site being insular: Most PU members are polite and welcoming to old and new members. It's very rare that serious arguments break out. The PU site is one of the most polite, friendliest group community sites I know of. Yes, management wants to increase membership and participation by members. That's always been the case. But to label the PU community as insular seems strange. As I said, the PU community has been a polite and friendly place, that normally welcomes existing and new members with open arms. Compared to other communities and blogs where flame wars can break out suddenly, PU is like heaven on earth. I'm not saying PU is perfect, that all members are perfect (except I got my angel's wings on my 13th birthday, when I discovered my brother's stash of Playboy magazines and read them in secret, skipping over the nasty pictures so that I could spend more time on the articles: so maybe I am a perfect member of the PU community[joke]). My suggestion: bring back Amanda, if only on a part time basis. Freddie and Amanda would make a great team. And they would increase the female presence at PU. PU has always seemed light on the female presence. Since a PU staff member doesn not appear to have to be physically present at some physical location, but can contribute to the site through the internet, I don't see why both Amanda and Freddie can't be staff members. Let them work out, with the PU business, the hours they can put in. And let Freddie choose an avatar that she likes, that we can get a better picture of what she looks like. Edited on Feb 07, 2019, 10:20am | |
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| 02-07-19 02:48am - 2145 days | #464 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Great news for fans of brief, concise reviews. There is a new review by a newbie, RayHacker, who reviewed the Tuk Tuk Patrol site. His review consists of 3 words, covering the PROS, CONS, and BOTTOM LINE: PROS: 50 CONS: 50 BOTTOM LINE: 50 I think this is the shortest review I've ever read. Are we starting a trend here, where reviews will be easy to read, and easy to understand? I was thinking of writing a short review myself, but this guy has me beat before I start.   Edited on Feb 07, 2019, 02:51am | |
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| 02-06-19 11:13am - 2146 days | #4 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Freddie says she's a woman. Until she changes her mind (joke). Welcome back, OneMan. The PU site has grown more quiet since you were here last. New management took over the site. But it's still around. Would like to read any reviews or comments you might make. | |
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| 02-06-19 09:01am - 2146 days | #447 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Wonderful post. Thanks for explaining your position. And also giving a brief history of yourself. | |
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| 02-05-19 04:33pm - 2147 days | #444 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Personally, I thought most of the reviews submitted that were eligible for this week's raffle were good to excellent: rearadmiral exotics4me marcdc1 mbaya Cybertoad Yes, the 2 reviews submitted by the newbies were poor and wouldn't have been accepted by Khan, or earned a single point: Seashell143 Mikek But as Freddie wrote, the PU staff is trying to reach out to new members and encourage them to participate. There were a few reviews recently that also earned a single point, that should have been rejected under the current rules (I assume the current rules have been in place for years, now). I don't think that Freddie or any of the current PU staff is trying to tear the site down: they want to expand the membership as much as possible. And they probably don't have the experience of dealing with fraud or other forms of bad faith that Khan did. Instead of trying to knock down the PU staff, if any PU member has a criticism or point to make to improve the way the site is run, they can either post to this thread, or start a new thread or blog on ways to improve the site. That's what Freddie and the other PU staff are trying to do. Amanda mentioned that idea repeatedly: she wanted to make the site better, increase membership, encourage submissions by PU members both old and new, encourage the flow of ideas, the sense of community. The truth is that the sense of community, the activity of the thread, has dropped considerably since Khan and the previous management moved on. The new owners are trying to do the things that Amanda wanted: increase membership, improve the site. It only makes business sense. Like I said, it's just my 2 cents worth. But I think Freddie is acting in good faith. One question: off topic: Is Freddie a boy or a girl? Or a man or a woman? The answer shouldn't make a difference, but I still miss Amanda. We need more female participation at the site. As far as Mikek winning this week's raffle based on a poor review, I think since it was announced that he was a winner, he should get his prize. But in the future, reviews should be graded more stringently: both of the reviews by the newbies were poor (like shit), and should have been rejected, and were not worth a single point. It's suspicious that 2 newbies posted short reviews on the same day about a site that had no previous reviews. Maybe Khan would have rejected the 2 reviews for insufficient content and banned the newbies from the site for posting spam. But like I said, the new PU staff still seem to be learning about porn and running a porn site. They certainly don't have Khan's years of experience. And they are working to increase the membership. Which helps explain why they are loosening the rules. But if PU members object, they can post to this thread, or start a blog on how the PU site should be run. I haven't read the rules for what a review should contain in a long time: but a review should have some value, to give the reader a sense of whether a site is worth joining. I hope my reviews have some value, but very few members post replies to reviews any more, and you have to wonder how many people are reading these reviews. End of ramble. | |
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| 02-05-19 12:20pm - 2147 days | #439 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Khan was a great staff member, but he's not coming back. (I made a small donation to his gofundme acount (or whatever it was called) when I heard he was sick. So we have to give the new staff time to settle in and learn the rules. Amanda was here only 2 years, but she was lovely. I think Freddie and whatever other staff are trying to do their job, but I'm not sure how much time they are being paid for or how much instruction they've gotten. But if some PU members want to start a blog trying to help explain their concerns (plus and minus) about the site, the PU staff could read the blog and learn from it. Just my 2 cents. | |
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| 02-05-19 07:32am - 2147 days | #1403 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Trump announces winter is coming. Says that Climate Control is one of his top priorities. Right after arresting and executing all scummy Democrats and other opposition leaders who stand in the way of making America Great, White, and Morally Christian. Thank God that Trump is standing firm on the Great Walll to the South that will keep out Mexican bandidos and other bad people who have brown skin or other diseases. Lord, we thank you for sending us Donald Trump, a man we can trust and believe in, to do the right thing. Amen.   | |
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| 02-04-19 08:08pm - 2148 days | #4 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The late 1960s and early 1970s had a lot of horror movies. That was the time Hammer Studios (he British company) was making a lot of Dracula and other horror movies. But I saw The Creature from the Black Lagoon in a theater in my local town (we had one movie theater, that showed two movies per admission, in those days. Ricard Carlson, the male lead, was also on TV as the hero of "I Led Three Lives",where he was a spy for the FBI investigating communists, the villains of Democracy and the United States. Those were the good old days, when the FBI was portrayed as heroic and patriotic and dedicated to law and order. How times have changed. Or maybe it's more perceptions. The FBI is no longer considered the True Blue Hero of Law enforcement. Especially under Trump. Where he wants all law officers to be personally loyal to Trump, and to prosecute and persecute his enemies. | |
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| 02-04-19 12:11pm - 2148 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Julie Adams, ‘Creature From the Black Lagoon’ Star, Dies at 92 Thom Geier | February 4, 2019 @ 5:01 AM Last Updated: February 4, 2019 @ 5:21 AM Julie Adams, an actress best known for playing the damsel in distress in the 1954 monster movie “Creature From the Black Lagoon,” died Sunday at age 92, according to her official website. Guillermo del Toro, whose 2017 Oscar winner “The Shape of Water” was inspired by the Universal cult classic, paid tribute to Adams online. “I mourn Julie Adams passing. It hurts in a place deep in me, where monsters swim.” During her long career in Hollywood, Adams starred opposite Rock Hudson in 1953’s “Lawless Breed,” Van Helfin in 1953’s “Wings of the Hawk” Elvis Presley in “Tickle Me,” and Dennis Hopper in 1971’s “The Last Movie.” Her most recent film credit was a voiceover in Roman Polanski’s 2011 drama “Carnage.” The Iowa native also had a long career in television, notably playing the Cabot Cove real estate agent Eve Simpson opposite Angela Lansbury in the long-running mystery “Murder, She Wrote” in the 1980s and early ’90s. She also appeared on shows like “Perry Mason,” “Quincy” and the short-lived early ’70s series “The Jimmy Stewart Show” as Stewart’s wife. Also Read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2019 (Photos) But she will be best remembered for her role in “Creature From the Black Lagoon,” a horror movie update on “The Beauty and the Beast” that she was at first reluctant to do despite being under contract at Universal. | |
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| 01-31-19 01:59pm - 2152 days | #431 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Freddie, My login problem at Letsdoeit was solved. I emailed their support, and they changed my email address. But thanks for the help. | |
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| 01-31-19 10:43am - 2152 days | #430 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Freddie, thanks for the quick response. And for the gift card, as well.  | |
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| 01-30-19 01:41pm - 2153 days | #428 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
FreddieAdmin, When you click on the hot link to send an email to you, a page comes up that states: This User is Invalid. You've reached a user that is invalid or no longer exists. Could someone fix the link, so private emails can be sent to you? I need help with a membership prize that was given to me a few months ago from PU, around 2018-10-22. The site used to be named: porndoepremium.com The current name is: letsdoeit.com When I enter my login details (username and password), the site says: wrong email or password. But the link to recover or reset the password is based on the username that was given to me for signing in, which I don't have access to. My username at the site is: 15rabbit(at)porndoe.com (I substituted (at) for the @ character.) Or send me an email with the name of the support staff I should make this request to. Thanks in advance. lk2fireone | |
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| 01-29-19 01:12pm - 2154 days | #1402 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Donald Trump is hoping that China and Russia will improve his position in the 2020 elections. US intel agencies fear that Donald Trump will remain president of the US for 4 more years, if China and Russia have their say. Neither China or Russia are legal states in the United States of America, but both countries have the power to sway American voters. US intel also thinks North Korea will keep its nuclear weapons, in spite of Donald Trump declaring in June 2018 that North Korea was "no longer a nuclear threat." (Maybe Trump was being optimistic, or counting on North Korea to honor its promises. However, Trump himself has a history of making promises that don't hold up. ----------- U.S. intel agencies: Russia and China plotting to interfere in 2020 election NBC News Ken Dilanian Jan 29th 2019 12:46PM U.S. intelligence agencies assess that Russia and China will seek to interfere in the 2020 presidential election, having learned lessons from Russia's operation in 2016, according to the annual public survey of national security threats issued Tuesday. "We assess that foreign actors will view the 2020 U.S. elections as an opportunity to advance their interests," Dan Coats, the director of national intelligence, told the Senate intelligence committee at the worldwide threats hearing. In another notable statement, Coats noted that U.S. intelligence agencies believe North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons because "its leaders ultimately view nuclear weapons as critical to regime survival." That view stands in stark contrasts to comments from President Donald Trump, who in June declared that North Korea was "no longer a nuclear threat," citing his talks with leader Kim Jong Un. Coats also refuted Trump's statement that ISIS has been defeated. He said the group was "nearing" military defeat in Iraq, but has returned to its "guerrilla warfare roots," continues to plot attacks and "still commands thousands of fighters in Iraq and Syria." On political interference, the written assessment added that intelligence analysts expect American adversaries "to refine their capabilities and add new tactics as they learn from each other's experiences, suggesting the threat landscape could look very different in 2020 and future elections." Political interference, using social media and cyber attacks, was scarcely mentioned in threat assessments before last year, but was listed second behind cyber attacks in Tuesday's array of the challenges facing U.S. national security policy-makers. "Russia's social media efforts will continue to focus on aggravating social and racial tensions, undermining trust in authorities, and criticizing perceived anti-Russia politicians," says the written threats assessment. "Moscow may employ additional influence toolkits—such as spreading disinformation, conducting hack-and- leak operations, or manipulating data—in a more targeted fashion to influence US policy, actions, and elections." China and Iran may also seek to influence American politics, the assessment said. And China and Russia are working together as never before in recent history. "China and Russia are more aligned than at any point since the mid-1950s, and the relationship is likely to strengthen in the coming year as some of their interests and threat perceptions converge, particularly regarding perceived US unilateralism and interventionism and Western promotion of democratic values and human rights," the assessment says. The worldwide threats hearing is generally the one time during the year that all the heads of major U.S. intelligence agencies testify in public about the threats facing the nation. FBI Director Christopher Wray may be asked about the acting attorney general's comment Monday that the Mueller investigation is wrapping up, and he may be pressed about how much of Mueller's findings will be made public. | |
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| 01-29-19 11:52am - 2154 days | #6 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I like the way the brother shares his food (sometimes it's Pusic's food) with Pusic. | |
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| 01-29-19 06:18am - 2154 days | #12 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I can see Milwaukee on a google map. Lots of bright lights and big buildings. Seems like a photo taken at night. Not sure if this is current conditions. Maybe taken a while back. My recommendation is to wear a hat. That bald head is sexy, but comfort is more important. Maybe a hat with horns sticking out on top? Ming the Merciless was one of my favorite characters. A great change of pace from all the super do-gooders back in the day. And he had a fucking lovely daughter, that was just gorgeous. (Whatever happened to his wife? I never thought about the wife, while staring at the daughter. LOL.) | |
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| 01-29-19 04:25am - 2154 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Man charged in assault with a dangerous weapon was released on $500 bail. Where I live, I think that running a red light carries a charge of $490. So if a man, supposedly because of road rage zooms up to 70 mph while a guy he's aguing with is clinging to the front hood of the man's car, that seems like a cheap bail. Of course, both men pleaded not guilty. And maybe the judge was drunk when he set bail. $500 bail, for what I think is reckless endangerment: if the man clinging to the hood of the car fell off, he could have died or suffered serious injuries. $500 bail? --------- --------- Driver, man clinging to hood in road rage case, arraigned Associated Press•January 28, 2019 WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — Two Massachusetts men involved in an apparent case of road rage in which one drove at speeds of up to 70 mph with the other clinging to the hood of his vehicle, some of which was caught on video , were released after their arraignments Monday. Mark Fitzgerald, 37, of Ashland, was released on $500 bail after pleading not guilty to charges including assault with a dangerous weapon on a person over 60. Richard Kamrowski, 65, of Framingham, was released on his own recognizance after pleading not guilty to charges including malicious destruction of a motor vehicle. Police say the men were involved in a minor accident Friday on the Massachusetts Turnpike in Weston. Kamrowski got out of his pickup truck to exchange insurance information with Fitzgerald, who stayed in his car, police said. At some point, Fitzgerald drove forward and Kamrowski jumped on his hood. Fitzgerald then drove up to 3 miles, at speeds of up to 70 mph, slowing down and accelerating, with Kamrowski clinging to the hood, state police said. Kamrowski, who had grabbed a metal water bottle out of Fitzgerald's car, used it to smash his windshield. The encounter ended when Fitzgerald stopped and a third driver, who is a licensed gun owner, held him at gunpoint until police arrived. Lawyers for both men blamed the other for being the aggressor. Fitzgerald's attorney, Michael Chinman, said only part of the story was told in court. "They did not read the part of the eyewitness who says that the other party was the aggressor, the other party was angry, the other party approached Mr. Fitzgerald's car and appeared to be fighting him," he said outside of court. Kamrowski smashed the windshield in an attempt get Fitzgerald to stop, said his attorney, Joseph Comenzo. "No, he was propelled onto the hood while he was on the road and was trying to make the car stop and that's the first time that he struck the windshield with the water bottle," he said. Both men are due back in court on March 13. | |
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| 01-29-19 01:29am - 2154 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Since this is a fantasy, why limit yourself to only one porn star? Are you marrying her, and want to stay faithful? Too many cute and lovely models to limit yourself to one, in my opinion. | |
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| 01-29-19 01:23am - 2154 days | #11 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Weather forecast for today in northern Los Angeles county: 49 - 74. But I am just getting over a cold. So I will finally be getting out of bed to enjoy a little sunshine. (We had some rain last week, so that encouraged me to stay in bed some more.) If we want to see snow, we can go to the mountains. But I prefer to see snow in a movie. Less cold, that way. | |
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| 01-28-19 10:33am - 2155 days | #4 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Unfortunately, I am allergic to cats. And dogs are better behaved. And friendlier. So, while I enjoy looking at photos of cats, there are some really great videos at YouTube about dogs. And YouTube is still free, mainly, except you have to get through the ads. | |
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| 01-27-19 08:05pm - 2156 days | #1401 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Trump and his administration say workers who aren't paid can take out loans. And if contractors aren't paid back wages, they are still in favor of building a wall to protect our country. Trump is the man. He wants the American public to know that he cares about the common man. ------ ------ Mick Mulvaney dodges question on back pay for contract employees hurt by shutdown HuffPost US Hayley Miller Jan 27th 2019 6:04PM Mick Mulvaney, the White House’s budget director and acting chief of staff, danced around a question Sunday on whether government-contracted employees would be reimbursed for wages they missed during the partial government shutdown. Margaret Brennan, host of CBS’ “Face The Nation,” asked Mulvaney if and when both federal employees and government-contracted workers should expect to receive back pay for work they missed or continued to do without financial compensation during the 35-day shutdown. ″What about all of those contractors who don’t necessarily have job guarantees?” Brennan asked Mulvaney. “Are they going to be made full?” But Mulvaney breezed past the plight of contractors in his response, noting that the roughly 800,000 federal employees stung by the shutdown would likely receive retroactive pay in the coming days. ″Uh, the contractors will depend on the contract and, um, let’s talk about the (government) employees for a second because I know a little bit more about that,” Muvlaney said. “Some of them could be early this week,” he said of back pay for federal employees. “Some of them may be later this week. But we hope that by the end of this week all of the back pay will be made up. And, of course, the next payroll will go out on time.” Though shutdowns are anxiety-ridden events for federal employees living paycheck to paycheck, they have almost always received back pay once the government reopened. But most government-contracted workers usually aren’t as lucky. It’s unclear how many of contracted workers ― employed in a range of occupations, including food services, janitorial, security and computer software development ― were impacted by the recent shutdown. Estimates range from hundreds of thousands to millions. President Donald Trump and other high-ranking officials downplayed the shutdown’s effects on Americans, pointing out that federal employees would eventually receive back pay. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross on Thursday said he didn’t “quite understand” why some workers needed to rely on food pantries during the shutdown ― the longest such closure in U.S. history ― when they could just take out loans until the government reopens and they receive their back pay. AdChoices The Trump administration’s tone-deaf statements also failed to acknowledge government-contracted workers who may never see the money they missed during the shutdown. The president signed a bill on Jan. 16 that guarantees back pay for federal employees at “the earliest date possible” once the government reopens, but the legislation did not extend protections to contractors ― many of whom are low-income earners. After vowing to veto a spending bill that would reopen federal agencies hit by the shutdown if it did not include $5.7 billion for a U.S.-Mexico border wall, Trump caved to Democrats on Friday and signed a measure to keep the government open for three weeks. He has vowed to continue his push for wall funding during this period and, if again stymied, unilaterally move forward with erecting the barrier it by declaring it’s needed for national security reasons. “If we don’t get a fair deal from Congress, the government will either shut down on Feb. 15, again, or I will use the powers afforded to me under the laws and Constitution of the United States to address this emergency,” he said Friday. Mulvaney on Sunday said he believes Trump is prepared to shut down the government again if his demands aren’t met. ″He’s willing to do whatever it takes to secure the border,” Mulvaney said. “He doesn’t want to shut the government down ― let’s make that very clear. He doesn’t want to declare” a national emergency in order to get it built. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have strongly spoken out against Trump’s suggestion that he would declare a national emergency to secure funds for his long-promised border wall, which he had vowed Mexico would pay to build. “I don’t think it’s a good idea,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) told NBC’s” Meet The Press” on Sunday. “I think it would be a terrible idea. I hope he doesn’t do it. I don’t think it’s leverage either. ... It’s just not a good precedent to set in terms of action. It doesn’t mean that I want border security ― I do. I just think it’s the wrong way to achieve it.” This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 01-27-19 03:49pm - 2156 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Great find, LK2. I can't wait until some of them grow up to legal age. (Is doggy years the equivalent of human years for legal requirements?) Too many cuties to choose from to have any one favorite. Talking to myself, since no one seems willing to comment. LOL. | |
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| 01-26-19 05:46am - 2157 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Warning: some of them are still underage, but they all have potential. They can be noisy when practicing their future performances. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1gQdfoJPHc | |
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| 01-25-19 07:49am - 2158 days | #1400 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Trump orders all police officers: Shoot first, ask questions later. Here's an example of a St. Louis police officer killing another officer. The surviving officer says it was accidental. But the dead police officer tells another story: "He shot me in the back, Ma", cries the ghost of the dead officer. Trump says he only honor live heroes, so the dead cop is not a hero. Trump will give the Presidental Medal of Honor to the surviving cop, for courage and bravery under unusual circumstances: (The circumstance was the second cop lived while the first cop died). The cop who died was a female. Trump knows no females are fit to be cops. Just like he knows no transgendered people or gays or other weirdos don't fit into our proud military. Go, Trump, you are the Man! -------- -------- St. Louis police officer kills another officer in accidental shooting: Authorities [Good Morning America] MORGAN WINSOR ,Good Morning America•January 24, 2019 St. Louis police officer kills another officer in accidental shooting: Authorities originally appeared on abcnews.go.com An off-duty police officer was accidentally shot and killed by another officer in St. Louis early Thursday morning, authorities said. The accidental shooting occurred around 1 a.m. local time after two off-duty officers stopped by one of their homes during their shift. Officer Katlyn Alix, who was off-duty at the time, came by the residence and was shot in the chest, St. Louis Police Chief John Hayden Jr. told reporters at a press conference. The two officers took Alix, 24, to the hospital where she died, Hayden said. No further information was immediately released, including the names of the other officers. St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson called the shooting "terribly sad." The Metropolitan Police Department, City of St. Louis (SLMPD) confirmed via Twitter early Thursday morning that one of its officers had died from a gunshot wound. "We are deeply saddened to announce that the officer transported to the hospital has succumbed to her injuries. We ask that you keep the officer's family and the entire SLMPD in your thoughts and prayers as we mourn the loss of our officer and friend," the department tweeted. We are deeply saddened to announce that the officer transported to the hospital has succumbed to her injuries. We ask that you keep the officer’s family and the entire SLMPD in your thoughts and prayers as we mourn the loss of our officer and friend. pic.twitter.com/NGcU4tpXiU — St. Louis, MO Police (@SLMPD) January 24, 2019 This is the second law enforcement officer in the U.S. to die from gunfire in the past week. Officer Sean Tuder was shot and killed in the line of duty Sunday while attempting to serve an arrest warrant in Mobile, Alabama. 17 hours ago "The accidental shooting occurred around 1 a.m. local time after two off-duty officers stopped by one of their homes during their shift. Officer Katlyn Alix, who was off-duty at the time, came by the residence and was shot in the chest, St. Louis Police Chief John Hayden Jr. told reporters at a press conference. The two officers took Alix, 24, to the hospital where she died, Hayden said." How are you off-duty during your shift? Were there two officers total, or three? A lot of mysteries in the prose of this "journalist." BBA 23 hours ago My condolences to the family. I'm sad to hear that yet again another life has been taken, but I'm confused. Was this off duty officer shot by another off duty officer. Where is the rest of the story. I don't understand. Ryan 17 hours ago Katlyn Alix, 24, was off-duty when she was accidentally shot by an on-duty officer at an apartment, SLMPD spokeswoman Officer Michelle Woodling told CNN. Another on-duty officer was also at the scene. The two on-duty officers -- both described only as 29-year-old white men -- met Alix at the apartment. Police have not said who lived at the residence. While they were sitting in the living room, one of the officers "mishandled a firearm" and shot Alix in the chest, Woodling said in an email. According to the SLMPD's statement, a call for "officer in need of aid" was put out at 12:56 a.m., and the third officer told the dispatcher they were taking Alix to the hospital. She was pronounced dead shortly after arrival, the statement said. | |
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| 01-24-19 12:51pm - 2159 days | #1399 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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This is a dark day in the history of the United States. Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, has been subpoenaed by the Senate Intelligence Committed. What does the Senate Intelligence Committee want to know? Are they investigating Donald Trump, our beloved President who has probably been guilty of more corruption than any President in US history? Will the Republicans defend Trump by turning a deaf ear to any comments by Cohen? Will the Republicans continue to slander Cohen, making him out to be the bad guy who tried to lead Trump astray, who tried to make Trump commit crimes for personal gain? Or was Trump willing and able to do those crimes, on his own, but needed a fall guy to take the blame if things went wrong? Is Donald Trump the teflon Don, the head of a criminal family that reached heights of power no former mafioso ever dreamed of? Stay tuned for further developments. Trump is the man: leader of the Moral Majority for a White America. Note: Can Trump legally order his secret service, sworn to protect the President, to put a hit on Cohen? Or, can Trump, in secret, order a hit squad to take out Cohen and his entire family, as a warning to former workers about the dangers in turning against Trump, our elected President? Enquiring minds want to know: Can Trump ask his pal, Putin, for help in arranging for "accidents" to Cohen? ------- ------- Michael Cohen subpoenaed by Senate Intelligence Committee NBC News Dartunorro Clark Jan 24th 2019 11:58AM The Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday subpoenaed Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer and fixer. The move comes a day after Cohen delayed his public testimony before the House Oversight Committee over alleged "ongoing threats against his family from President Trump" and members of his legal team, Cohen attorney Lanny Davis said in a statement Wednesday. In December, Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for what a Manhattan federal court judge called a "veritable smorgasbord" of criminal conduct, including making false statements to Congress about the scope and status of the Trump Tower Moscow project. Prosecutors said Cohen provided the Senate Intelligence Committee inaccurate information about the project to minimize links between the president and efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow and to give the false impression that the project had ended before the Iowa caucuses in February 2016. The committee's chairman, Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and the top Democrat on the committee, Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, declined to comment. | |
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| 01-24-19 07:56am - 2159 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Sasha Grey tried to get into mainstream acting. Marilyn Chambers tried to get into mainstream acting. That was back in the 1970s. But the porn stigma stopped Chambers from making it big in mainstream. I saw Rabid, her movie directed by David Cronenberg, and thought it was very good. I'm sure there are other porn stars who have appeared in mainstream movies, but only in very short roles. My guess is that porn is still a big stigma for a woman to overcome for a mainstream career. | |
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| 01-24-19 07:45am - 2159 days | #1398 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Who are you gonna believe? Donald Trump, a serial liar? Rudy Guiliani, another serial liar following in the steps of his boss, Donald Trump? Special prosecutor Mr Mueller, who plays games hiding the truth because it's part of his job description: his job is not to reveal the truth to the American public, but to give his report to the Attorney General. The Attorney General can then decide what is done with the report. --------- --------- Trump's Moscow Tower designs 'revealed in leaked documents' after Rudy Giuliani said 'no plans exist' [The Independent] Andrew Buncombe ,The Independent•January 22, 2019 Blueprints for a luxury Moscow skyscraper and hotel bearing the name of Donald Trump have been published, a day after the president’s lawyer insisted “no plans were ever made”. In an interview with the New Yorker, Rudy Giuliani sought to downplay previous comments in which he told the New York Times and other media outlets over the weekend that discussions about a proposed Trump Tower in the Russian capital had continued throughout 2016. The comments were made amid claims Mr Trump had directed his then lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to congress about The Apprentice star’s property dealings. “First of all, the Times was absolutely wrong. Probably just as wrong as BuzzFeed was. I never said he had conversations about a skyscraper in Moscow,” the New Yorker quoted Mr Giuliani as saying in an interview published on Monday. “The only thing that ever happened was that they submitted a letter of intent about a possible project in Moscow that never went beyond that. No money was ever paid, no plans were ever made. There were no drafts. Nothing in the file. Nothing ever happened to it. Much ado about nothing, because the New York Times wants to crucify the president.” No more than a day later, BuzzFeed News published what it said were indeed the plans for a proposed Moscow Trump Tower. The building would have been the tallest in Europe, the news site reported, beneath a headline that said: “Trump’s lawyer said there were “No Plans” for Trump Tower Moscow. Here they are.” It said its story about the towers was based on “hundreds of pages of business documents, emails, text messages, and architectural plans, obtained by BuzzFeed News over a year of reporting”. It said it had obtained a plan by a New York architect for a building with a glass obelisk that would have been 100 stories high. The project never went ahead, though the plan is now part of the investigation by Robert Mueller into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the nation's alleged attempt to influence the 2016 election. It quoted Russian real estate developer Andrey Rozov saying to Cohen in September 2015: “The building design you sent over is very interesting and will be an architectural and luxury triumph. I believe the tallest building in Europe should be in Moscow, and I am prepared to build it.” Last week, BuzzFeed News reported that special prosecutor Mr Mueller believed Cohen had been directed by Mr Trump to lie to Congress about his plans for the tower. Mr Trump and the White House denied the report and Mr Mueller issued a rare statement saying: “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the special counsel’s office, and characterisation of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate.” BuzzFeed has said it stands by its report. There has been no response to the latest report by Mr Trump or his lawyer. | |
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| 01-24-19 12:30am - 2159 days | #1397 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Breaking news: Trump says the union has busted. Says he will not make a State of the Union address until the government shutdown has ended. If the government shutdown does not end, Trump will be forced to declare martial law and have the scummy Democrats arrested and hanged. Without benefit of trial, since these are dangerous times and harsh measures must be taken to protect the Presidency and the Nation, one Nation under Trump and under God. ------- ------- Trump says he'll wait until shutdown over to make State of the Union address Thomson Reuters Jan 24th 2019 12:00AM Jan 23 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said in a late night Tweet on Wednesday that he will wait until the government shutdown is over to deliver a State of the Union address from the House of Representatives. Trump also criticized House leader Nancy Pelosi for withdrawing a previous invitation to deliver the address. The House Speaker said she changed her mind because of the shutdown, which has lasted more than a month and affected 800,000 federal workers. "This is her prerogative - I will do the Address when the Shutdown is over. I am not looking for an alternative venue for the SOTU Address because there is no venue that can compete with the history, tradition and importance of the House Chamber," the president said in the tweet. | |
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| 01-23-19 01:32pm - 2160 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Brand loyalty is a concept that died many years ago. The drive is for new subscribers, who get better discounts for a service than people who are already subscribers. This is found everywhere. If you are a member of Time Warner (now Spectrum), you will get a higher price than a new subscriber for the same service. This is true for most businesses. Sign up for a newspaper sub, and you get a cheaper rate than current subscribers. I'm not into VR porn, but a number of site have offered it for years. Also the 4K Ultra High Definition videos. So porn sites are trying to keep up with the times. Many sites are offering a quality product for a very low price. | |
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| 01-22-19 05:30pm - 2161 days | #1396 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Texas pastor says that Trump's border wall is blessed by God. Even heaven will have a wall. So Trump's border wall has been blessed by God. But a minister rejects the pastor's words: saying that not all walls are blessed by God. Will the two preachers duke it out on TV, for a fight to the death? Or will the two preachers fight a war of words, about what God means for Trump to do? Stay tuned to this channel: Enquiring minds want to know: Is Trump the most corrupt President the US has ever had? -------- -------- Pastor In Favor Of Trump’s Border Dream Claims Even Heaven Will Have A Wall One evangelical preacher is supporting Trump’s border wall dream and using the Bible to support it, even claiming that heaven itself will have a wall around it. Pastor of First Baptist Dallas Church in Texas, Robert Jeffress has been a huge supporter of Trump — and recently appeared on “Fox & Friends” Sunday to give his thoughts on Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) as well as other Democrats. “The Bible says even Heaven itself is gonna have a wall around it,” Jeffress stated on the show. “Not everybody is going to be allowed in. So if walls are immoral, then God is immoral.” But not all American Christians adhere to the pastor’s bold stance. President and general minister of the United Church of Christ, Rev. John C Dorhauer, shared with HuffPost how his denomination rejects the idea of building a wall between nations is either moral or biblical. He referenced examples like the Berlin Wall as well as walls used in Europe to divide Jewish people into ghettos. “A wall indicates a failure to love our neighbor as ourself, the foundation of a law Jesus asked his disciples to embrace,” Dorhauer shared. But Jeffress defended Trump’s policies and believes there is nothing immoral about building a border wall. “The Bible teaches that the primary responsibility of government is to maintain order and keep its citizens safe, and there’s nothing wrong with using a wall to do that,” he shared. He then referenced two biblical passages to support his point – ones he has referenced multiple times in the past to support Trump’s plan for a wall. Jeffress alleged that God instructed Nehemiah, a 5th-century B.C. Jewish leader, to construct a wall around Jerusalem to keep its people safe. Jeffress also made the claim that heaven itself will also be surrounded by a wall — a reference to a passage from Revelation 21, where it says there will be a “great and high wall” surrounding a “New Jerusalem” at the end of the world. On Tuesday, Trump discussed the morality of his border wall during a Oval Office address that was televised – arguing how politicians do not build walls around their homes because they hate the people on the outside, “but because they love the people on the inside.” Jeffress tweeted out how Trump gave a “powerful speech,” shortly after the address. But research shows how American Christians are across the board regarding their feelings about the border wall. According to the Public Religion Research Institute, stats show that white Christians support the wall, including 67 percent of white evangelicals, 52 percent of white mainline Protestants and 56 percent of Catholics. But Christians who are not white have differing opinions – 73 percent of Hispanic Catholics, 66 percent of Hispanic Protestants and 70 percent of black Protestants oppose the border wall. Also, the morality of the border wall in the bible is not as black and white as Jeffress makes it out to be. Because while the Bible includes stories of constructing walls – it also contains stories about Joshua, a Jewish leader who tore down walls. Leader of the Franciscan Action Network, Jason Miller, who spearheads the Catholic social justice group, shared with HuffPost how its possible to “cherry-pick” any reference from the Bible to defend one’s point of view. But when it comes to Christians, the biblical command to love God and one’s neighbors should stand above all other teachings. After all, it is the golden rule. | |
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| 01-22-19 04:54pm - 2161 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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There are supposed to be two sides to every argument. But if a sex performer has tested positive for a sexually transmitted disease, the rights of other performers she or he may have come in contact with seem to outweigh the right to privacy of the infected performer. He/she tested positive for Syphilis? In some cases, the performers keep on working, since they need the money. So how many other performers are exposed to the disease? I think producer Dan Leal and the Prevedig lab took the moral position of warning other models about the danger, instead of keeping quiet and risking the disease spreading much further. Just my two cents worth. | |
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| 01-21-19 05:02pm - 2162 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Two Models Test Positive for Syphilis in Czech Republic Producer Dan Leal Offers Update January 14, 2019 9:59 AM Entertainment - By John Roland Two Models Test Positive for Syphilis in Czech Republic LOS ANGELES—Two female models in the Czech Republic have tested positive for syphilis, according to Europe-based producer Dan Leal, the CEO of Immoral Productions. The first of these two models, Patient A, found out that she was infected on December 12 when she tested at Prevedig lab in the Czech Republic. "This lab has an arrangement with a production company in Prague that we will call Company A," Leal said. "The lab sends the results of the tests to directors of Company A and those directors notify talent if there are any issues, rather than the lab calling performers." When Patient A found out that she had syphilis neither her Czech agent nor the director at Company A told anyone about her results and she began treatment, Leal said. "Instead of letting the other performers she worked with know that she was positive and had been exposed to syphilis they all kept silent," he said. "The performers who were exposed all kept working thereby possibly exposing numerous others to syphilis. According to a contract director of Company A, it is not the lab's responsibility to notify performers if they have been exposed to syphilis." On November 20, a German performer named Jason Steel was notified by Interlab in Budapest that he tested positive for syphilis. He announced on Twitter that he had contracted syphilis and began cooperating with everyone so it would not spread. With the help of Interlab and two agents in Budapest (Jul Models and Brill Babes) they contacted the eight models with whom he worked. All eight models were quarantined and told not to shoot again until the New Year. The reason that these eight models were prohibited from working for so long is that it takes up to six weeks for syphilis to be detected, Leal said. Patient A was not one of the eight models who worked with Jason, nor did she work with any of the eight exposed female models. These two instances are completely unrelated other than that patient A and Steel both worked in Prague. Patient A and her agent mistakenly thought that she would be able to get a new test that would show she no longer had syphilis after only three weeks of treatment, according to Leal. She attempted this test at another lab in Prague, he said. When this lab found out that she had syphilis it came to light that she was aware of her condition, and so were her agent in the Czech Republic as well as the director and lab—all of whom did not reveal the result, Leal said. "This is why myself and numerous others just now became [aware] of this scandal," he added. Patient A was in a large group orgy scene on November 13 for Company A; now another model, Patient B, who was unaware that she had been exposed in this scene, has tested positive for syphilis as well, Leal reported. "As a result of the inexcusable and irresponsible behavior, we have decided that we will no longer accept any tests from any lab that does not post their results online and notify performers when they have been exposed to syphilis or any other life-threatening STIs," Leal said. "As a result of previous Syphilis situation in Europe Interlab in Budapest requires performers to sign a consent form. This form allows the lab to release their results to the agents and any performers that may have [been] exposed in the event of a positive life-threatening STI. To the best of our knowledge, Interlab in Budapest is the only lab that does this. In the event a performer does not have a test from Interlab we will pay for it. Brill Babes agency in Budapest has agreed to the same policy for companies that book their models." | |
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| 01-20-19 01:44am - 2163 days | #5 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
A PU staff member said that Adult Time is still in beta testing. Maybe that means that different versions are being offered to random members. Anyway, the Adult Time site shows 47,943 as the number of videos at the site, although I've seen Adult Time also advertise over 50,000 videos at the site. As far as sites (Adult Time calls sites channels), there are over 100 channels listed. I assume that the sites are from Gamma Entertainment, which manages the 21 networks, Fame Digital (Devils Film, Rocco Siffredi, etc.), Evil Angel, Girls Way, etc. I've got full access (streaming and downloading) at those sites. The current number of channels that I see listed is 139, most of the channels are premium porn sites that either required a separate membership or were part of a porn network that required a separate membership. I have a separate membership to Devils Film, that I paid for, that has months to go before expiring. But since I get full access to Devils Film through the Adult Time network, that was wasted money: except they didn't give me the Adult Time membership until I joined 21 Sextury. I don't know in what form or how they will offer the Adult Time network once it's past beta testing. But I got lucky with my 21 Sextury membership, because they gave me the Adult Time membership for free, with apparently full access to the entire Adult Time network, as far as I can tell. https://www.adulttime.com/ This is the adult time site. You might be able to see what they are offering if you go to the site and hit the join link. That doesn't work for me, because when I go to the site, since I'm already a member, it transfers me directly to the member's area, so I can't tell what the join site is advertising for it's contents or members. | |
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| 01-19-19 03:42pm - 2164 days | #1395 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate Majority Leader, who is one of the finest Americans alive, backs President Trump 100%. McConnell says the Democrats are evil scum who have shut down the US governmemt. Putting government employees out of work, and leaving those employees scrambling to find food and money to pay their bills. Why are Democrats so evil and unfeeling and the scum of the earth? Is it because they are envious of the wealth that Republicans have created for the common US citizen? Vote for the party of the Moral Majority for a White America. Vote for Trump, the greatest President we've ever had. The man who would have gone to Vietnam to end the war, except his family convinced him to get a solid education before risking his life. And then the bone spur happened, keeping him out of the military. God save Donald Trump, hero of all White Americans and Fundamentalist Christians. | |
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| 01-19-19 11:51am - 2164 days | #1394 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Real news: Trump threatens the nation: impeach me if you want to see a stock market crash. Trump is hiding away from friends (does he have any?) and family (he hasn't slept with his wife since she got preggies with that fake boy of hers that she passes off as Donald Trump's son). Get rid of Trump before he destroys the American family values that he shits on every day. -------- -------- Trump: Impeach me if you want to see a stock market crash Geobeats Jan 19th 2019 10:47AM President Trump on Saturday warned that if he’s impeached, the country could face an economic crisis. “The Economy is one of the best in our history, with unemployment at a 50 year low, and the Stock Market ready to again break a record (set by us many times) – & all you heard yesterday, based on a phony story, was Impeachment. You want to see a Stock Market Crash, Impeach Trump!” Trump wrote on Twitter. The impeachment chatter was recently fueled following a since disputed BuzzFeed report alleging that Trump directed his former attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Trump has addressed impeachment in other tweets as well. “How do you impeach a president who has won perhaps the greatest election of all time, done nothing wrong (no Collusion with Russia, it was the Dems that Colluded), had the most successful first two years of any president, and is the most popular Republican in party history 93%?” Trump tweeted on January 4. Years ago, he did, however, call for former President Obama’s impeachment. “Are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence?” Trump wrote in 2014. | |
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| 01-19-19 09:55am - 2164 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Not quite the same thing, but there have been times when I joined too many sites to visit them all. A waste of money. Sometimes I forget I have a sub to a porn site. Not a joke. Getting old, and my brain forgets. So I should write down my subs and keep better track of them. I have some subs that I wish would run out, so I could replace them with better ones. But---I really don't have the time or enthusiasm to visit all the subs I have, even the good ones. That Adult Time is like a gold mine. Over 100 sites, many of them top quality. Not enough time or energy to visit and look over what's there. A shame. But you're still young enough to enjoy the amazing variety offered on the internet. For a very low price. Wait until you're 20 years older, then you will look back at the good old days, and think, "Wow, smell the roses!" Seriously, enjoy what you have. And if you can't enjoy it, then take break and come back when you're ready. | |
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| 01-18-19 09:36am - 2165 days | #1393 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Michael Cohen, President Trump's former lawyer, said he would take a bullet for Trump. Cohen was that loyal. But now that Cohen is making deals trying to reduce his time in prison, Trump has turned on Cohen, saying Cohen was convicted of perjury and fraud, and may have stolen thousands of dollars. It's a shame Cohen and Trump can't remain friends, but Trump has a habit of firing people and then saying they are not worth shit. --------- --------- ‘Lying to reduce his jail time’: Trump lashes out at Cohen, threatens father-in-law after BuzzFeed report Geobeats Jan 18th 2019 11:33AM President Trump has tweeted an apparent response to a recent BuzzFeed News report that alleges he told his former attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. Citing a quote from a Fox News personality, Trump wrote on Friday: “Kevin Corke, @FoxNews ’Don’t forget, Michael Cohen has already been convicted of perjury and fraud, and as recently as this week, the Wall Street Journal has suggested that he may have stolen tens of thousands of dollars….’ Lying to reduce his jail time! Watch father-in-law!” Trump suggested during a Saturday interview with Fox News that he had damaging information about Cohen’s father-in-law, notes The Hill. Cohen has since reportedly been reconsidering his decision to testify before Congress in February. The attorney was sentenced to three years in prison for charges that “included arranging hush-money payments to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump, tax evasion, making a false statement to a bank and lying to Congress,” according to the New York Times. The BuzzFeed report released on Thursday had noted: “Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter.” | |
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| 01-18-19 09:28am - 2165 days | #1392 | |
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Real news: Chris Christie (former New Jersey Governor) rips into Trump's white house: says Trump is surrounded by "Amateurs, Grifters, Weaklings." -------- -------- Chris Christie Tears Into Donald Trump's White House: 'Amateurs, Grifters, Weaklings' [HuffPost] Lee Moran ,HuffPost•January 17, 2019 Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie reportedly delivers a savage critique of President Donald Trump’s inner circle in his upcoming book, Let Me Finish. In an exclusive excerpt of the tell-all memoir that was obtained by Axios, Christie wrote that Trump has a “revolving door of deeply flawed individuals” working for him in the White House. They are “amateurs, grifters, weaklings, convicted and unconvicted felons” who “were hustled into jobs they were never suited for, sometimes seemingly without so much as a background check via Google or Wikipedia,” he added in the tome, which is due out Jan. 29. Christie, who was axed from the Trump transition team just days after the 2016 election, also said the president “trusts people he shouldn’t, including some of the people who are closest to him.” “They set loose toxic forces that have made Trump’s presidency far less effective than it would otherwise have been,” he wrote. “If this tragedy is ever going to be reversed, it is vital that everyone know exactly how it occurred.” In another excerpt published by British newspaper The Guardian on Tuesday, Christie accused Trump’s son-in-law and senior White House adviser Jared Kushner of conducting a revenge political “hit job” on him. Christie prosecuted Kushner’s father, Charles Kushner, for witness tampering and tax evasion in 2005. | |
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| 01-17-19 02:26pm - 2166 days | #1391 | |
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The real news: Guiliani (one of President Trump's many lawyers) now says he never said there was no collusion with Russia. Who will Guiliani throw under the bus, to save President Trump? Trump's two sons, who Trump does not seem to care for? Or Trump's daughter Ivanka, who Trump would like to jump on, if she wasn't his daughter? Enquiring minds want to know: who will be the next victim of Trump's guilt? If Trump is sent to prison, would he be able to share a cell with his daughter, Ivanka? That would help pass the time for both of them. -------- -------- Giuliani: 'I never said there was no collusion' with Russia [AFP] AFP•January 16, 2019 Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, on Wednesday insisted he "never said there was no collusion" between Trump's 2016 presidential election campaign and Russia -- only that Trump himself was not involved. Speaking to CNN's Chris Cuomo, the former New York mayor said he did not know if others involved in the campaign had worked with Russia. "I never said there was no collusion between the campaign, or between people in the campaign," Giuliani said. "I said the President of the United States," he added. "There is not a single bit of evidence the President of the United States committed the only crime you can commit here, conspiring with the Russians to hack the DNC." A day earlier, Trump had insisted he "never worked for Russia" following two bombshell reports. "It's a disgrace that you even ask that question," he told reporters on the White House's South Lawn. "It's all a big fat hoax." In the first report, The New York Times said the FBI opened an investigation into whether Trump was acting on Russia's behalf soon after he became president. Meanwhile, The Washington Post detailed what it said were the unusual lengths taken by Trump to hide the contents of his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Both men's comments come as Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation looms large in the background, punctuated by guilty pleas, convictions and indictments of former Trump associates. These include his former national security advisor Michael Flynn, former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort and Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen. Manafort has admitted to sharing polling data with a Russian during the 2016 presidential race, according to a court filing inadvertently made public by his lawyers. CNN reported that the intended recipients were two pro-Russia Ukrainian oligarchs. But on Wednesday, Giuliani suggested that was "not collusion". "Polling data is given to everybody," he told CNN. | |
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| 01-16-19 09:08am - 2167 days | #4 | |
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FORTUNATELY FOR US, AFTER TRUMP BUILDS HIS WALL IN THE SOUTH, HE WILL START HIS WALL IN THE NORTH. THAT'S TO KEEP OUT PEOPLE LIKE JUSTIN BIEBER, RYAN REYNOLDS, WILLIAM SHATNER, AND OTHER THIEVES WHO SNEAK INTO THE US AND STEAL OUR JOBS AND MONEY. NO NEED TO SEND SNOW TO LOS ANGELES. WE'RE CURRENTLY HAVING LOTS OF RAIN. THE NEXT BEST THING TO SNOW. HAH!!! | |
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| 01-15-19 02:38pm - 2168 days | #420 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Thanks for the raffle prixe. And for the compliment that my reviews are poetry. I try, but there was a review, by Cybertoad?, that was real poetry. | |
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| 01-15-19 09:49am - 2168 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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But I have seen the new trailers. And the sun is coming out, as well. So the brother and his two sisters are down in the tombs, looking at their forebears? And the ice men are creeping closer. Who will survive? Will the Dragon Queen be able to save her love? Stay turned, for further updates. | |
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| 01-15-19 04:27am - 2168 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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A kindergarter brought a handgun to school. The gun was tucked inside his pants. Does the kid have the right to defend himself if there is an emergency? What if President Trump, the man who will storm a school if there is illegal gunfire on school grounds, was not around? Who would the kid depend on? Himself, of course. That's why all 5- and 6-year olds, who have passed a basic handgun safety course, need to be armed and ready in case of an authorized school shooting. And if there is an un-authorized school shooting, the kids need to be armed with .357 Magnum ammo. ----------- ----------- USA TODAY Kindergartner brings handgun to school tucked inside pants Ashley May, USA TODAY Published 8:48 a.m. ET Jan. 14, 2019 | Updated 1:11 p.m. ET Jan. 14, 2019 This handgun was found on a Ohio kindergartener as he came to school on Friday. Police took the weapon and say the 6-year-old boy will not be charged. (Photo: Columbus Division of Police) Police confiscated a handgun from an Ohio kindergartner on Friday. The 6-year-old boy was spotted walking with the gun in his pants, according to Columbus Division of Police. School staff stopped him at the door to the entrance of the Africentric Early College school in Columbus, Ohio. A high school resource officer took the handgun, which appears with a magazine loaded with bullets from a photo shared on Facebook by police. The child will not be charged because of his age, police said, but will face "appropriate discipline" according to a statement from the school, local TV station WSYX ABC 6 reports. "Whether in the neighborhood or at home, young people at every age need to understand the dangers of having a gun, taser, or other type of weapon — even fake ones that look real," the school statement to parents obtained by ABC 6 reads. "We need families to have thoughtful age-appropriate conversations about the types of items that are never appropriate to bring to school." Police also urged gun owners to secure any weapons stored at home for the safety of others. | |
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| 01-15-19 12:55am - 2168 days | #1390 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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This is fake news: President Trump is the bravest man I've ever known. He said he would charge a gunman to protect innocent lives. Without even a weapon. Just his bare hands. So how dare a reporter question the bravery of our glorious president? ------- ------- Trump said he would charge a gunman. Here’s what he’s actually done in the face of danger. How Trump has fared in the face of danger in the past By Eli Rosenberg February 26, 2018 President Trump’s assertion that he would have run toward the Parkland, Fla., gunman had he been near the school would have been a bold claim for just about anybody to make. “I really believe I’d run in, even if I didn’t have a weapon,” he said during a meeting at the White House on Monday. Trump has no background in law enforcement or the military, and the boastful nature of the statement — the president was nowhere near the shooting when it occurred — immediately raised questions about his intent. And given Trump’s public track record in the face of proximate danger, his words instead ended up underscoring a separate truth: His actions have, at times, read differently than his tough talk. Spooked at a rally The most frightened that Trump has ever seemed in public was perhaps a moment during a campaign rally in Dayton, Ohio, in March 2016. The then-candidate was in the midst of speaking about manufacturing, when a man hopped the barrier behind him and rushed the stage. Trump stopped speaking, looked nervously behind him and grabbed and started to duck behind his lectern. He was then swarmed by Secret Service agents, who steadied him. Trump continued his speech after the disruption, and gave the audience a thumbs-up, claiming that he could have handled the attacker himself, despite his first reaction. “I was ready for him,” Trump said, “but it’s much easier if the cops do it.” A Secret Service agent suffered a minor injury in the episode, and the suspect, whom police identified as Thomas Dimassimo, was arrested and charged with two misdemeanors. The moment was later immortalized in a doctored video in which a seated Sen. Bernie Sanders yelling “boo” was edited into the frame the moment before Trump was spooked. Later that year at another rally, Trump was hustled off a stage in Nevada, after the someone in the audience yelled “gun.” No weapon was found. An eagle named Uncle Sam In 2015, Trump was beaten out by German Chancellor Angela Merkel for Time magazine’s Person of the Year. But as a runner-up (the magazine said he was third, behind Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi), he was still given a write-up and photo shoot for the magazine. Time paired him with a 27-year-old bald eagle named Uncle Sam during the shoot, but the bird didn’t want to stay still, flapping its wings so hard it blew Trump's hair as it sat on his gloved hand. And in the midst of a separate pose that photographers arranged with Trump at his desk and the bird perched beside him, Uncle Sam lunged at Trump as he went to grab something near its feet. Trump quickly shrank away from the bird, recoiling so far that he nearly fell out of the camera frame. “We’re not doing it again; don’t worry,” Trump told the crew. “What you will do for a cover. This bird is seriously dangerous but beautiful.” [Trump says he would have rushed in to protect students from gunman at Florida high school] The Vietnam War Trump’s detractors call him “Cadet Bone Spurs” for his failure to serve in the Vietnam War though he was of age, and they have some facts on which to ground their epithet. While 9 million Americans served in the military during the Vietnam War — 1.8 million were drafted — the future president was given five deferments from the draft: four related to his college studies and one for bone spurs in his heel, though the problem was not severe enough to prevent him from playing sports such as football, tennis and golf as a young man. For years, Trump had explained his lack of service by the luck of a high lottery number. The year of Trump’s graduation from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, 1968, was the bloodiest for American troops of the war: about 16,900 service members were killed that year. By the time the war ended in 1975, 58,000 Americans had died. In contrast, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, whose investigation into Russian interference Trump routinely maligns, chose to enlist in the Marine Corps and was deployed to Vietnam to lead a rifle platoon that year, earning two awards for valor and suffering a gunshot wound to his leg. Decades later, Trump told radio host Howard Stern that avoiding sexually transmitted diseases was “my personal Vietnam.” “I feel like a great and very brave soldier,” Trump said. Blood, germs and feels Trump, who has a reputation as a germaphobe, has spoken about his fear of contamination for years. He told Stern about his penchant for hand-washing and drinking through straws, saying he was concerned about glasses being dirty and the cleanliness of other people’s hands. He also told the radio host that he was terrified of blood. “I’m not good for medical,” he said in a 2008 interview. “In other words, if you cut your finger and there’s blood pouring out, I’m gone.” He told Stern about an old man falling from the stage during a benefit at his Mar-a-Lago club. “I said, ‘Oh my God, that’s disgusting,’ and I turned away,” Trump said. “I didn’t want to touch him.... He’s bleeding all over the place. I felt terrible. You know, beautiful marble floor, didn’t look like it. It changed color. Became very red. And you have this poor guy, 80 years old, laying on the floor unconscious, and all the rich people are turning away. ‘Oh my God! This is terrible! This is disgusting!’ And you know, they’re turning away. Nobody wants to help the guy.” Trump said Marines at the benefit came to the aid of the fallen man, and the future president kicked into action. “I was saying, ‘Get that blood cleaned up! It’s disgusting!’ ” said Trump. “The next day, I forgot to call to say he’s okay.” No-go zones For decades, presidents have visited troops overseas at least once a year, especially during their first year in office. Vice President Pence went to Afghanistan on Trump’s behalf before Christmas, and he visited troops who are fighting the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq at an undisclosed military base last month. But Trump has yet to visit a combat zone, despite the United States’ military entanglements overseas. In an editorial that urged the president to visit a war zone, USA Today writer Gregg Zoroya noted the risks involved, pointing out that the Kabul airport where Defense Secretary Jim Mattis landed in September had come under an intense rocket attack that resulted in civilian deaths. “Most of the time, these trips produce little political payoff. News coverage is scant. Most Americans back home are asleep during the visit,” Zoroya wrote. “It’s also a long way to travel with living conditions far less accommodating than the White House or a luxury Florida resort like Trump's Mar-a-Lago.” President Trump covers himself from the rain with an umbrella while his son, Barron Trump, walks behind as they board Air Force One in West Palm Beach, Fla., after a holiday weekend in January. (Andrew Harnik/Associated Press) Trump also waited nearly two weeks to visit hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico in October, then made a series of remarks that some saw as gaffes. “I’ve been to Puerto Rico many times ... and I’ve always loved it,” he said in his remarks. “And your weather is second to none, but every once in a while you get hit.” Trump has talked exceedingly tough on North Korea, to the chagrin of some foreign-policy experts, but a highly touted trip to the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea in November — all but one president since Ronald Reagan has made the pilgrimage — was canceled at the last minute because of hazy skies. A month after the launch of his presidential campaign, he made a show of visiting the border near Laredo, Tex., repeatedly talking up the danger of the visit. “I may never see you again, but we’re going to do it,” he told Fox News. His trip to Laredo — a news conference at an airport hotel and a brief visit to the bridge connecting the city to Mexico — lasted less than three hours. Laredo is one of the safest cities in Texas and has a lower murder rate than Trump’s home town, New York City. ‘You never stand in front of the door’ During an interview with The Washington Post in 2016, Trump spoke about collecting rent from buildings his father owned in “dangerous” areas, such as Coney Island, Brooklyn and Cincinnati, where he said he was “liable to get shot” if he came at the wrong time. “You know when you collect rent — and you may have heard this — but you never stand in front of the door,” Trump said. “And you always knock this way because you get bad things coming through that door.” | |
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| 01-14-19 09:37am - 2169 days | #1389 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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BREAKING FAKE NEWS: TRUMP SHUTS DOWN THE IRS. SAYS AMERICANS NO LONGER HAVE TO PAY SALES TAXES. SAYS AMERICANS NO LONGER HAVE TO PAY INCOME TAXES. TRUMP SUES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR ALL TAXES HE HAS PAID SINCE HER WAS AN INFANT. GOOD LUCK, MR. TRUMP: WHO IS STRONGER: THE IRS, OR MR. TRUMP? | |
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| 01-14-19 07:35am - 2169 days | #1388 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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President Trump jokes about working for the Kremlin after the Republican Party gives him a free pass on any crimes he may have committed. "Trump is our man", the lying hypocrites of the Republican part chant. "It doesn't matter what he did-legal or criminal. We stand behind Trump, our leader." So the Republican party is revealed, time and again, as hypocrites with no morals, no sense of guilt for putting a rapist on the Supreme Court, for helping a man become president who is a serial womanizer and guilt-free liar. ---------- ---------- 'Thought he worked for the Kremlin?' Trump jokes about Russia ties after claims the FBI investigated him as a potential Russian agent Business Insider Sinéad Baker Jan 14th 2019 8:54AM US President Donald Trump joked about his ties to Russia after a bombshell report said that the FBI had investigated him as a potential Russian agent. Trump said that his policies resulted in low gas prices and more domestically produced oil, which did not help Russia. "But this is bad news for Russia, why would President Trump do such a thing? Thought he worked for Kremlin?," he tweeted. The FBI began investigating whether President Donald Trump was a witting or unwitting Russian agent after he fired FBI director James Comey in May 2017, The New York Times reported. US President Donald Trump joked about his alleged ties with Russia after claims that the FBI had started to investigate whether he was a Russian asset. Trump cited "Fox and Friends" on Twitter on Monday morning, touting a claim that gas prices in the US are falling because he had curtailed regulations on the industry. Trump wrote that this meant the US is "now producing a great deal more oil than ever before." Trump then joked that he wouldn't do this if he was allied with Russia. "But this is bad news for Russia, why would President Trump do such a thing? Thought he worked for Kremlin?," he tweeted. “Gas prices drop across the United States because President Trump has deregulated Energy and we are now producing a great deal more oil than ever before.” @foxandfriends But this is bad news for Russia, why would President Trump do such a thing? Thought he worked for Kremlin? The FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation into whether Trump was intentionally or unintentionally working for the Russians after he fired FBI Director James Comey in May 2017, according to a bombshell New York Times report. The bureau is already investigating whether Trump's 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Moscow, but this report is the first indication that the FBI thought that the president himself could have been acting, wittingly or unwittingly, as a Russian agent. It is not clear if the counterintelligence investigation is still underway. Trump first responded to the report on Saturday, when he tweeted that former FBI leaders were "corrupt" and opened up an investigation with "no reason & with no proof." He also repeated his now-familiar attacks on Comey, calling him "Lyin' James Comey" and a "total sleaze." | |
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| 01-13-19 06:37pm - 2170 days | #1387 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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GOP part stands behind Trump 1000%. The GOP party has a deaf ear when it comes to reports that people it favors might have committed crimes: The GOP part is the party that backs possible rapists, pussy-grabbers, thieves and adulters (if they are of the Republican party, otherwise, if a Democrat, Democrats are shameful scum who should be executed for doing things only a Republican has the right to do). So what is Trump is a racist? He's the president. The president has a right to his personal beliefs. So what if Trump is a possible traitor? He's the president. And no right-thinking Republican will criticize the president who's a member of their party. Go, GOP. the biggest hypocrites alive (except for Donald Trump, the biggest liar of them all). The only good Republican is a dead Republican. Clean the swamp in Washington. Put all the Republicans in jail. --------- --------- GOP shrugs off report that Trump concealed details of Putin meetings HuffPost US Igor Bobic Jan 13th 2019 7:11PM Top Republican lawmakers appeared unfazed Sunday by reports that President Donald Trump has “gone to extraordinary lengths” to conceal his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the last two years. The Washington Post reported over the weekend that Trump has repeatedly sought to hide his interactions with Putin, often one of the main U.S. adversaries in international affairs. According to the story, Trump’s actions included “taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials,” such as former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. As a result, U.S. officials told the Post, there exists “no detailed record, even in classified files,” of Trump’s meetings with the Russian leader at five locations over the past two years. The unusual attempts at secrecy did not appear to concern a pair of top congressional Republicans, who downplayed the matter as part of an unconventional strategy employed by an equally unconventional president. “This is not a traditional president. He has unorthodox means but he is president of the United States. It’s pretty much up to him in terms of who he wants to read into his conversations with world leaders,” Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” Johnson speculated that Trump felt “burned earlier by leaks of other private conversations” between him and other world leaders, prompting his effort to keep interactions with Putin from members of his own administration. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), appearing on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” similarly dismissed the Post report, arguing that Trump’s administration has been tough on Russia and that concerns about the president’s affinity for Putin are unfounded. “I know what the president likes to do. He likes to create a personal relationship, build that relationship, even rebuild that relationship like he does with other world leaders,” McCarthy said. Asked whether he’d like Congress to investigate the matter, including potentially calling the president’s translator to testify, McCarthy said, “I’d like the president to be able to build these relationships.” A Democratic congressional leader on Sunday questioned why Trump has a habit of being friendly with Putin. “Why is he so chummy with Vladimir Putin, this man who is a former KGB agent, never been a friend to the U.S., invaded our allies, threatens us around the world, and tries his damndest to undermine our elections, why is this President Trump’s best buddy? I don’t get it,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said on ABC’s “This Week.” | |
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| 01-13-19 01:46am - 2170 days | #1386 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Trump has concealed details of his meeting with Putin. But that's all right. As long as Trump was not paid under the table, but in an open and fair manner in bank transfers, then Trump can claim he was acting as a businessman, trying to encourage Putin to act like a capitalist, and selling Putin secrets for more money than the secrets were worth. Trump has plenty of lawyers to back up his claims, of innocence. --------------------- Trump has concealed details of his face-to-face encounters with Putin from senior officials in administration By Greg Miller January 12 at 10:05 PM President Trump has gone to extraordinary lengths to conceal details of his conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, including on at least one occasion taking possession of the notes of his own interpreter and instructing the linguist not to discuss what had transpired with other administration officials, current and former U.S. officials said. Trump did so after a meeting with Putin in 2017 in Hamburg that was also attended by then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. U.S. officials learned of Trump’s actions when a White House adviser and a senior State Department official sought information from the interpreter beyond a readout shared by Tillerson. The constraints that Trump imposed are part of a broader pattern by the president of shielding his communications with Putin from public scrutiny and preventing even high-ranking officials in his own administration from fully knowing what he has told one of the United States’ main adversaries. As a result, U.S. officials said there is no detailed record, even in classified files, of Trump’s face-to-face interactions with the Russian leader at five locations over the past two years. Such a gap would be unusual in any presidency, let alone one that Russia sought to install through what U.S. intelligence agencies have described as an unprecedented campaign of election interference. Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is thought to be in the final stages of an investigation that has focused largely on whether Trump or his associates conspired with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign. The new details about Trump’s continued secrecy underscore the extent to which little is known about his communications with Putin since becoming president. After this story was published online, Trump said in an interview late Saturday with Fox News host Jeanine Pirro that he did not take particular steps to conceal his private meetings with Putin and attacked The Washington Post and its owner Jeffrey P. Bezos. He said he talked with Putin about Israel, among other subjects. “Anyone could have listened to that meeting. That meeting is open for grabs,” he said, without offering specifics. When Pirro asked if he is or has ever been working for Russia, Trump responded, “I think it’s the most insulting thing I’ve ever been asked.” [A beefed-up White House legal team prepares for battle with special counsel] Former U.S. officials said that Trump’s behavior is at odds with the known practices of previous presidents, who have relied on senior aides to witness meetings and take comprehensive notes then shared with other officials and departments. Trump’s secrecy surrounding Putin “is not only unusual by historical standards, it is outrageous,” said Strobe Talbott, a former deputy secretary of state now at the Brookings Institution, who participated in more than a dozen meetings between President Bill Clinton and then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin in the 1990s. “It handicaps the U.S. government — the experts and advisers and Cabinet officers who are there to serve [the president] — and it certainly gives Putin much more scope to manipulate Trump.” A White House spokesman disputed that characterization and said that the Trump administration has sought to “improve the relationship with Russia” after the Obama administration “pursued a flawed ‘reset’ policy that sought engagement for the sake of engagement.” The Trump administration “has imposed significant new sanctions in response to Russian malign activities,” said the spokesman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity and noted that Tillerson in 2017 “gave a fulsome readout of the meeting immediately afterward to other U.S. officials in a private setting, as well as a readout to the press.” Trump allies said the president thinks the presence of subordinates impairs his ability to establish a rapport with Putin and that his desire for secrecy may also be driven by embarrassing leaks that occurred early in his presidency. The meeting in Hamburg happened several months after The Washington Post and other news organizations revealed details about what Trump had told senior Russian officials during a meeting with Russian officials in the Oval Office. Trump disclosed classified information about a terrorism plot, called former FBI director James B. Comey a “nut job” and said that firing Comey had removed “great pressure” on his relationship with Russia. The White House launched internal leak hunts after that and other episodes and sharply curtailed the distribution within the National Security Council of memos on the president’s interactions with foreign leaders. “Over time it got harder and harder, I think, because of a sense from Trump himself that the leaks of the call transcripts were harmful to him,” said a former administration official. Senior Democratic lawmakers describe the cloak of secrecy surrounding Trump’s meetings with Putin as unprecedented and disturbing. ------------------ Rep. Eliot L. Engel (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in an interview that his panel will form an investigative subcommittee whose targets will include seeking State Department records of Trump’s encounters with Putin, including a closed-door meeting with the Russian leader in Helsinki last summer. “It’s been several months since Helsinki and we still don’t know what went on in that meeting,” Engel said. “It’s appalling. It just makes you want to scratch your head.” The concerns have been compounded by actions and positions Trump has taken as president that are seen as favorable to the Kremlin. He has dismissed Russia’s election interference as a “hoax,” suggested that Russia was entitled to annex Crimea, repeatedly attacked NATO allies, resisted efforts to impose sanctions on Moscow, and begun to pull U.S. forces out of Syria — a move that critics see as effectively ceding ground to Russia. At the same time, Trump’s decision to fire Comey and other attempts to contain the ongoing Russia investigation led the bureau in May 2017 to launch a counterintelligence investigation into whether he was seeking to help Russia and if so, why, a step first reported by the New York Times. It is not clear whether Trump has taken notes from interpreters on other occasions, but several officials said they were never able to get a reliable readout of the president’s two-hour meeting in Helsinki. Unlike in Hamburg, Trump allowed no Cabinet officials or any aides to be in the room for that conversation. Trump also had other private conversations with Putin at meetings of global leaders outside the presence of aides. He spoke at length with Putin at a banquet at the same 2017 global conference in Hamburg, where only Putin’s interpreter was present. Trump also had a brief conversation with Putin at a Group of 20 summit in Buenos Aires last month. Trump generally has allowed aides to listen to his phone conversations with Putin, although Russia has often been first to disclose those calls when they occur and release statements characterizing them in broad terms favorable to the Kremlin. In an email, Tillerson said that he “was present for the entirety of the two presidents’ official bilateral meeting in Hamburg,” but he declined to discuss the meeting and did not respond to questions about whether Trump had instructed the interpreter to remain silent or had taken the interpreter’s notes. In a news conference afterward, Tillerson said that the Trump-Putin meeting lasted more than two hours, covered the war in Syria and other subjects, and that Trump had “pressed President Putin on more than one occasion regarding Russian involvement” in election interference. “President Putin denied such involvement, as I think he has in the past,” Tillerson said. Tillerson refused to say during the news conference whether Trump had rejected Putin’s claim or indicated that he believed the conclusion of U.S. intelligence agencies that Russia had interfered. Tillerson’s account is at odds with the only detail that other administration officials were able to get from the interpreter, officials said. Though the interpreter refused to discuss the meeting, officials said, he conceded that Putin had denied any Russian involvement in the U.S. election and that Trump responded by saying, “I believe you.” Senior Trump administration officials said that White House officials including then-National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster were never able to obtain a comprehensive account of the meeting, even from Tillerson. “We were frustrated because we didn’t get a readout,” a former senior administration official said. “The State Department and [National Security Council] were never comfortable” with Trump’s interactions with Putin, the official said. “God only knows what they were going to talk about or agree to.” Because of the absence of any reliable record of Trump’s conversations with Putin, officials at times have had to rely on reports by U.S. intelligence agencies tracking the reaction in the Kremlin. Previous presidents and senior advisers have often studied such reports to assess whether they had accomplished their objectives in meetings as well as to gain insights for future conversations. | |
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| 01-12-19 05:48am - 2171 days | #1385 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
As a matter of national security, President Trump must be bold: he must fire and arrest the secret cadre inside the FBI which is working to undermine his goal of making America white and great again. The signs of treason are obvious: the FBI has secretly probed whether Trump has ever been, or is currently, working for Russia. Mueller was and possibly still is involved in the probe. To defend the integrity of the United States Presidency, Trump must fire immediately all dis-loyal FBI agents and place them in prison, where they will be forced to admit to their illegal crimes. Trump has called the Mueller investigation a "Witch Hunt". It turns out he was 100% correct. The secret FBI cadre wants to drag Trump down, even though Trump's Presidency is one of the most glorious and powerful efforts to bring greatness back to the American people (American people excluding Mexican rapists, murderers, people from shithole countries like Africa, and other un-desirables that want to feed off the teat of White America while shitting all over America's most holy white parts). ------------ ------------ Report: FBI probed whether Trump secretly worked for Russia The Associated Press Jan 11th 2019 9:46PM WASHINGTON (AP) — The New York Times reports that law enforcement officials became so concerned by President Donald Trump's behavior in the days after he fired FBI Director James Comey that they began investigating whether he had been working for Russia against U.S. interests. The report, published late Friday, cites unnamed former law enforcement officials and others familiar with the investigation. Special counsel Robert Mueller took over the investigation when he was appointed soon after Comey's firing. The Times says it's unclear whether Mueller is still pursuing it. Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani told the Times that he had no knowledge of the inquiry but said that since it was opened a year and a half ago and they hadn't heard anything, apparently "they found nothing." | |
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