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| 12-09-18 05:51pm - 2205 days | #1360 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Donald Trump is my hero. And scummy Democrats are trying to crucify him. As the bible tells us, Trump should love his enemies. He should let them crucify him, even put him and his criminal family in prison. And the government should take his properties, since the government has the right to seize illegal assets. Power to the people. Power to Donald Trump, leader of the Moral Majority for a White America. ------ ------ Trump 'at center of massive fraud against Americans', top Democrat says Erin Durkin in New York Sun 9 Dec 2018 11.50 EST First published on Sun 9 Dec 2018 10.43 EST New court filings show Donald Trump was “at the center of a massive fraud” against the American people, the incoming chair of the House judiciary committee said on Sunday. Mob mentality: how Mueller is working to turn Trump's troops Read more Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat set to take over the panel in January, said Trump would have committed impeachable offenses if it is proven that he ordered his lawyer to make illegal payments to women to keep quiet about alleged sexual encounters. “What these indictments and filings show is that the president was at the center of a massive fraud – several massive frauds against the American people,” Nadler said on CNN’s “State of the Union”. Another top Democrat, the California representative Adam Schiff, said Trump “could face the very real prospect of jail time”. Federal prosecutors said in court filings on Friday that Trump directed his then lawyer, Michael Cohen, to commit two felonies: payments made to women who said they had sex with Trump in return for their silence, in an effort to influence the 2016 election. 1:51 Trump: 'Michael Cohen is weak and trying to get a reduced sentence' – video “They would be impeachable offenses,” Nadler said, though he added it would still be a judgment call for lawmakers whether the offenses were important enough to warrant impeachment proceedings, which should only be launched in the gravest circumstances. “Whether they are important enough to justify an impeachment is a different question,” he said. “But certainly, they’d be impeachable offenses, because even though they were committed before the president became president, they were committed in the service of fraudulently obtaining the office.” The Republican Congress absolutely tried to shield the president. The new Congress will not try to shield the president Jerrold Nadler After Democrats take control of the House, Nadler said, they will aggressively investigate what happened during the campaign. “The Republican Congress absolutely tried to shield the president,” he said. “The new Congress will not try to shield the president. It will try to get to the bottom of this in order to serve the American people and stop this massive fraud on the American people.” Perhaps consciously echoing a famous phrase from the Watergate scandal which brought down Richard Nixon, he added: “What did the president know and when did he know it about these crimes?” Schiff, the incoming chair of the House intelligence committee, said the filings indicate prosecutors may move to indict Trump as soon as he leaves office. The justice department has taken the position that a sitting president cannot be indicted and prosecuted, though the point is disputed among legal scholars and politicians. “There’s a very real prospect that on the day Donald Trump leaves office, the justice department may indict him – that he may be the first president in quite some time to face the very real prospect of jail time,” Schiff said on CBS’s Face the Nation. The California Democrat said the “powerful case” prosecutors made for Cohen to serve a prison sentence would apply “equally” to the man identified in filings as “Individual 1”: the president. “To have the justice department basically say that the president of the United States not only coordinated but directed an illegal campaign scheme that may have had an election-altering impact is pretty breathtaking,” he said. Schiff also said the intelligence committee will call Cohen to testify before Congress again. Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in prior testimony. Schiff said the committee has already been in touch with Cohen’s lawyer. Senator Marco Rubio, a Florida Republican, said Trump’s alleged actions were “things that cannot and should not be ignored”. “We want to know everything, and we will know everything that has happened here at some point,” Rubio said, also on CNN. “If someone has violated the law, the application of the law should be applied to them like it would be to any other citizen in the country.” Comey transcripts: early Russia suspects and claims he 'hugs' Mueller Read more Appearing on CNN, ABC and CBS, Rubio repeatedly said a presidential pardon for Paul Manafort, the former Trump campaign chair whose links with Russia were also detailed in court filings on Friday, would not be a good idea. Trump has publicly declined to take the idea off the table. “I believe it’d be a terrible mistake,” he told ABC’s This Week. “Pardons should be used judiciously. They’re used for cases with extraordinary circumstances.” Senator Angus King, an independent from Maine who caucuses with Democrats, sounded a note of caution about the possibility of impeachment, saying there is not yet evidence that would broadly convince Americans they are warranted. “If impeachment is moved forward on the evidence that we have now, at least a third of the country would think it was just political revenge and a coup against the president,” he told NBC’s Meet the Press. “That wouldn’t serve us well at all. The best way to solve a problem like this, to me, is elections.” “You’re overturning the will of the voters,” he said. “I’m a conservative when it comes to impeachment. I think it’s a last resort and only when the evidence is clear of a really substantial legal violation … we may get there, but we are not there now.” | |
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| 12-09-18 05:44pm - 2205 days | #1359 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Reality Winner, a NSA contractor was jailed for 5 years after leaking to a US newspaper the truth that Russia interfered in US elections. In other words, the US government did not want the US public to know that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election. Trump still denies that Russia interfered. So, a woman gets a 5 year prison term, and her life is ruined, because she wanted US citizens to know that Russia was illegally interfering in US elections. While Trump cronies and associates, who have lied to the FBI investigators about Trump's activities, often get off with a slap on the wrist, and with little jail time. ---------- ---------- Reality Winner: NSA contractor jailed for five years over classified report leak Winner, who leaked report on Russian election interference, is first person Trump administration charged under Espionage Act Amanda Holpuch in New York @holpuch Thu 23 Aug 2018 12.39 EDT First published on Thu 23 Aug 2018 11.17 EDT Prosecutors said that NSA contractor Reality Winner printed a classified document showing Russian interference in the US election. The NSA contractor Reality Winner was sentenced on Thursday to five years and three months in prison for leaking a top-secret document about Russian interference in the US election. Winner, 26, was sentenced at a federal court in Georgia after pleading guilty in June as part of a deal with government prosecutors. She is the first person the Trump administration has charged under the Espionage Act for a document leak. The justice department did not pursue the maximum sentence and instead recommended a 63-month penalty. Government attorneys said that would be the longest sentence ever for an unauthorized disclosure to the media. Prosecutors said that in May 2017, Winner, who was working for the defense contractor Pluribus International Corporation, printed a classified document that showed how Russian military intelligence hacked at least one voting software supplier and had attempted to breach more than 100 local election systems in the days before the November 2016 vote. That document was the basis of a story published on the news site the Intercept about one hour before the justice department announced Winner’s arrest in June 2017. In court on Thursday, Winner said she took responsibility for “an undeniable mistake that I made”. Wearing an orange jumpsuit, Winner apologized for the leak and said: “My actions were a cruel betrayal of my nation’s trust in me.” Winner has been jailed since her arrest and in June she pleaded guilty to one felony count of transmitting national security information, a crime that carries a maximum penalty of 10 years’ imprisonment. After the sentencing, the justice department said that Winner had abused her government job to reveal sources and intelligence gathering methods. “This defendant used her position of trust to steal and divulge closely guarded intelligence information,” US attorney Bobby Christine said in a statement. “Her betrayal of the United States put at risk sources and methods of intelligence gathering, thereby offering advantage to our adversaries.” Winner’s attorneys challenged the lengthy recommended sentence in a court filing last week. “Despite her singular criminal act, as set forth below, the stipulated sentence of 63 months is in excess of many prior Espionage Act cases where the government has prosecuted ‘leakers’ of national defense information, including cases where the factual conduct, and information leaked, was arguably worse,” attorneys wrote. On Thursday, they struck a different tone. One of Winner’s attorneys, John Bell, told reporters her legal team was grateful the judge agreed to the recommended sentence. “It’s a serious matter and she can now get on with her life,” Bell said. Free speech advocates have warned that the Trump administration’s use of the Espionage Act – instead of less harsh laws that are crafted to penalize people for leaking government information – in Winner’s case perpetuates the aggressive attacks on whistleblowers seen under Barack Obama’s administration. The Intercept’s editor-in-chief, Betsy Reed, said Winner “should be honored, not punished” in a statement after the sentencing. “Selective and politically motivated prosecutions of leakers and whistleblowers under the Espionage Act – which dramatically escalated under Barack Obama, opening the door for the Trump justice department’s abuses – are an attack on the first amendment that will one day be judged harshly by history,” Reed said. Reed said the Intercept had not known the source of the document, but learned about Winner’s arrest shortly after the story was published. She also said there were “shortcomings” in how the news site handled the document. Reed said: “However, it soon became clear that the government had at its disposal, and had aggressively used, multiple methods to quickly hunt down Winner.” | |
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| 12-09-18 05:30pm - 2205 days | #1358 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Why has the Mueller investigation taken so long? Because they are investigating people who held powerful positions, therefore they have access to high-priced lawyers. And even if the accused have committed crimes (such as stealing millions of dollars or not paying taxes on millions of dollars in legal or illegal income), the punishment of these convicted criminals is usually a slap on the wrist. Bad boy, or bad man, you stole millions of dollars, maybe you will spend a few months in jail. Unless Donald Trump pardons you, because you stood up to Mueller and did not give hard evidence against Donald Trump. We live a free and open Democratic society, where the powerful steal millions, and get away with it. How much of the Trump family business was passed down to the President Donald Trump and his family, without paying the taxes that were due? The Trump family wealth is based on criminal gains. And supposedly, due to the statue of limitations, they have gotten away with it. ------- ------- Done With Michael Cohen, Federal Prosecutors Shift Focus to Trump Family Business Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime lawyer, leaving court in Manhattan last month. Prosecutors have been examining whether other Trump Organization executives were involved in campaign finance violations.CreditAndrew Kelly/Reuters Image Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s longtime lawyer, leaving court in Manhattan last month. Prosecutors have been examining whether other Trump Organization executives were involved in campaign finance violations.CreditCreditAndrew Kelly/Reuters By Ben Protess, William K. Rashbaum and Maggie Haberman Dec. 9, 2018 When federal prosecutors recommended a substantial prison term for President Trump’s former lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, they linked Mr. Trump to the crimes Mr. Cohen had committed in connection with the 2016 presidential campaign. What the prosecutors did not say in Mr. Cohen’s sentencing memorandum filed on Friday, however, is that they have continued to scrutinize what other executives in the president’s family business may have known about those crimes, which involved hush-money payments to two women who had said they had affairs with Mr. Trump. After Mr. Cohen pleaded guilty in August to breaking campaign finance laws and other crimes — he will be sentenced on Wednesday — the federal prosecutors in Manhattan shifted their attention to what role, if any, Trump Organization executives played in the campaign finance violations, according to people briefed on the matter. Mr. Cohen, Mr. Trump’s self-described fixer, has provided assistance in that inquiry, which is separate from the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III. In addition to implicating Mr. Trump in the payments to the two women, Mr. Cohen has told prosecutors that the company’s chief financial officer was involved in discussions about them, a claim that is now a focus of the inquiry, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. Mr. Cohen has told prosecutors that he believes Mr. Trump personally approved the company’s decision to reimburse him for one of the payments, one of the people said. Neither the chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, nor any other executives at the Trump Organization have been accused of wrongdoing and there is no indication that anyone at the company will face charges in connection with the inquiry. But in recent weeks, the prosecutors contacted the company to renew a request they had made this year for documents and other materials, according to the people. The precise nature of the materials sought was unclear, but the renewed request is further indication that prosecutors continue to focus on the president’s company even as the case against Mr. Cohen comes to a close, the people said. At the time of the payments to the two women, Mr. Trump was the head of the company, and although he turned over its management to his elder sons, he still owns it through a trust. While the prevailing view at the Justice Department is that a sitting president cannot be indicted, the prosecutors in Manhattan could consider charging him after leaving office. It is also possible the prosecutors could seek his testimony before he leaves office if they continue the investigation into anyone else who might have had a role in the crimes, a person briefed on the matter said. A spokeswoman for the Trump Organization did not respond to requests for comment. A spokesman for the federal prosecutors in Manhattan, the United States attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, declined to comment. A lawyer for Mr. Weisselberg, Mary E. Mulligan, also declined to comment, as did Guy Petrillo, a lawyer for Mr. Cohen. | |
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| 12-09-18 08:25am - 2205 days | #6 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
@mbaya, Did yujin fix the problem about your porn site membership prize? I mean, you won the membership, you should be able to use it. I don't mean to pry. Ignore if you want. | |
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| 12-09-18 08:05am - 2206 days | #5 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Worth repeating at least twice. LOL. Agree that Adult Time should have its own listing at PU. But the new site listing thread seems to have been ignored by the PU staff lately. | |
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| 12-09-18 01:31am - 2206 days | #1357 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
China does not understand how free, Democratic countries work. "Perhaps because the Chinese state controls its judicial system, Beijing sometimes has difficulty understanding or believing that courts can be independent in a rule-of-law country. There's no point in pressuring the Canadian government. Judges will decide," Paris tweeted in response to the comments from Beijing. I'm glad I live the United States of America, where the courts are free of political influence, and only President Donald Trump and the US Senate have the power to pack the Supreme Court with beer drinkers and liars and men who abuse women sexually. And where Donald Trump has the power to issue pardons to people he believes had the right to break the law and were unfairly punished by evil Democratic scum. God bless America, and Donald Trump, leader of the Moral Majority for a white America. And of course it's evil and vile that China tries to spy on people and steal trade secrets and other information. The United States of America would never do that. That's why NASA and other secret agencies spend billions of dollars each year spying on US citizens and our allies throughout the world, to make sure no one is stealing secrets or committing crimes against the US. Even Donald Trump, our glorious President, might be spied on, since he does not follow security protocol when using a phone. Which might be crime, since that is what he wanted to lock Hillary Clinton up for. Remember, "Lock her up"? Trump has committed numerous crimes, but since he is the President, who's gonna lock him up? --------- --------- ------- ------- World China: Canada's detention of Huawei exec 'vile in nature' [Associated Press] Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press ,Associated Press•December 8, 2018 China: Canada's detention of Huawei exec 'vile in nature' In this courtroom sketch, Meng Wanzhou, right, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, sits beside a translator during a bail hearing at British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver, on Friday, Dec. 7, 2018. Meng faces extradition to the U.S. on charges of trying to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran. She appeared in a Vancouver court Friday to seek bail. (Jane Wolsak/The Canadian Press via AP) BEIJING (AP) -- China summoned the Canadian ambassador to protest the detention of a top executive of leading Chinese tech giant Huawei, calling it "unreasonable, unconscionable, and vile in nature" and warning of "grave consequences" if she is not released. A report by the official Xinhua News Agency carried on the Foreign Ministry's website said that Vice Foreign Minister Le Yucheng called in Ambassador John McCallum on Saturday over the holding of Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou, who is reportedly suspected of trying to evade U.S. trade curbs on Iran. Huawei is the biggest global supplier of network gear for phone and internet companies and has been the target of deepening U.S. security concerns over its ties to the Chinese government. The U.S. has pressured European countries and other allies to limit use of its technology, warning they could be opening themselves up to surveillance and theft of information. Le told McCallum that Meng's detention at the request of the United States while transferring flights in Vancouver was a "severe violation" of her "legitimate rights and interests." "Such a move ignores the law and is unreasonable, unconscionable, and vile in nature," Le said in the statement. "China strongly urges the Canadian side to immediately release the detained Huawei executive ... or face grave consequences that the Canadian side should be held accountable for," Le said. Roland Paris, a former foreign policy adviser to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, said that Chinese pressure on the Canadian government won't work. "Perhaps because the Chinese state controls its judicial system, Beijing sometimes has difficulty understanding or believing that courts can be independent in a rule-of-law country. There's no point in pressuring the Canadian government. Judges will decide," Paris tweeted in response to the comments from Beijing. A Canadian prosecutor urged a Vancouver court to deny bail to Meng, whose case is shaking up U.S.-China relations and worrying global financial markets. Meng, also the daughter of Huawei's founder, was detained at the request of the U.S. during a layover at the Vancouver airport Dec. 1 — the same day that Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping of China agreed over dinner to a 90-day ceasefire in a trade dispute that threatens to disrupt global commerce. The U.S. alleges that Huawei used a Hong Kong shell company to sell equipment in Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. It also says that Meng and Huawei misled American banks about its business dealings in Iran. The surprise arrest raises doubts about whether the trade truce will hold and whether the world's two biggest economies can resolve the complicated issues that divide them. Canadian prosecutor John Gibb-Carsley said in a court hearing Friday that a warrant had been issued for Meng's arrest in New York Aug. 22. He said Meng, arrested en route to Mexico from Hong Kong, was aware of the investigation and had been avoiding the United States for months, even though her teenage son goes to school in Boston. Gibb-Carsley alleged that Huawei had done business in Iran through a Hong Kong company called Skycom. Meng, he said, had misled U.S. banks into thinking that Huawei and Skycom were separate when, in fact, "Skycom was Huawei." Meng has contended that Huawei sold Skycom in 2009. In urging the court to reject Meng's bail request, Gibb-Carsley said the Huawei executive had vast resources and a strong incentive to bolt: She's facing fraud charges in the United States that could put her in prison for 30 years. The hearing will resume Monday after Meng spends the weekend in jail. Huawei, in a brief statement emailed to The Associated Press, said that "we have every confidence that the Canadian and U.S. legal systems will reach the right conclusion." Canadian officials have declined to comment on Chinese threats of retaliation over the case, instead emphasizing the independence of Canada's judiciary along with the importance of Ottawa's relationship with Beijing. Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland said Canada "has assured China that due process is absolutely being followed in Canada, that consular access for China to Ms. Meng will absolutely be provided." "We are a rule of law country and we will be following our laws as we have thus far in this matter and as we will continue to do," Freeland said Friday. While protesting what it calls Canada's violation of Meng's human rights, China's ruling Communist Party stands accused of mass incarcerations of its Muslim minority without due process, locking up those exercising their right to free speech and refusing to allow foreign citizens to leave the country in order to bring pressure on their relatives accused of financial crimes. The party also takes the lead in prosecutions of those accused of corruption or other crimes in a highly opaque process, without supervision from the court system or independent bodies. ___ Associated Press writer Robert Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report. | |
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| 12-09-18 12:55am - 2206 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
SPAM!!! SPAM!!! Just kidding. An impressive and useful post. I was and am impressed as hell with what a great deal Adult Time offers: a low (or free) admission price to a lot of fine porn sites. Also, I'm wondering where you found the text listing: I've been trying to find a text listing for the sites or channels that Adult Time offers. When I first was given a free membership with Adult Time through my 21 Sextury membership, I thought it was a gold mine of porn. I still think it's a gold mine of porn. Thanks for the list. | |
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| 12-09-18 12:46am - 2206 days | #318 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I can't argue that the PU staff seems to ignore the thread. Doesn't make a lot of sense, because the more sites PU lists, the more revenues they can make off those sites. As for general site activity, it seems to have gone down the last few years. PU members were more active with reviews, posts, comments, whatever, a few years back. Not sure if there is a specific reason or what. | |
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| 12-07-18 08:06am - 2208 days | #390 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Much thanks, PU. Happy holidays to all!  | |
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| 12-04-18 02:32am - 2211 days | #2 | |
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Egypt is a country with low morals. After filing for a trial of Egyptian actress on charges of public indecency (she exposed her legs in a see-through dress), the lawyers have dropped the lawsuit. The actress has no shame. The lawyers have no shame. The law provides a punishment of up to 5 years in prison for public indecency. The actress apologized, and said she meant no harm. But the lawyers should have punished her anyway: with whips and beatings and a little sado-masochistic tableau to let Egypt know that such costumes will not be tolerated. Egypt needs to invite President Donald Trump, leader of the Moral Majority for a White America, to come to Egypt to show their citizens how a decent, God-fearing White Man behaves. -------- -------- Lawsuit Dropped Against Egyptian Actress Rania Youssef After She Was Sued Over Sheer Red Carpet Dress [People] Colleen Kratofil ,People•December 3, 2018 Egyptian Actress Rania Youssef Sued for Wearing Sheer Dress on Red Carpet Egyptian Actress Rania Youssef Sued for Wearing Sheer Dress on Red Carpet 1 / 2 Lawsuit Dropped Against Egyptian Actress Rania Youssef After She Was Sued Over Sheer Red Carpet Dress Egyptian Actress Rania Youssef Sued for Wearing Sheer Dress on Red Carpet Egyptian actress Rania Youssef’s revealing sheer gown worn on the Cairo International Film Festival red carpet gained more attention than she expected. In fact, her outfit choice almost landed her in jail. The actress, 44, was sued by three Egyptian lawyers over her red carpet dress claiming that the dress and its completely sheer skirt displayed public obscenity and created “incitement to debauchery,” according to the New York Times. One of the lawyers who filed the suit, Samir Sabri, told AFP that Youssef’s appearance “did not meet societal values, traditions and morals and therefore undermined the reputation of the festival and the reputation of Egyptian women in particular.” The trial was set for January and if convicted, she could have faced five years in prison. But on Monday, the lawyers released a statement to Arabic outlet El Watan News, announcing that they were withdrawing the charges. The statement, obtained by the Huffington Post, reads: “First, when we took legal action against the artist Rania Youssef, this was not for the purpose of personal gains or benefits, nor was it intended to deprive her person, but was out of concern for public order and ethics and sensing the danger facing the Egyptian society as a result of that incident, committed by a popular public figure with an audience that will try to imitate them, which may lead to the spread of chaos and the violation of standards of values ??and ethics. Second, we affirm our full respect and appreciation for the art and the artists, and that the legal procedures have been taken against a certain incident which we see surpasses the limits of freedom and social custom and contradicts the provisions of the law (which regulates the relationship of the individual to society) and constitutes a crime punishable by law if it is deliberately committed. And the freedom of thought, creativity, opinion, expression and other freedoms compatible with the international conventions and conventions stipulated in the Egyptian Constitution, but against all forms and forms of vulgarity. Third, the artist Rania Youssef presented an apology to the Egyptian family and society for this incident and its affirmation that it was not intentional, that it was placed in circumstances beyond its control and that the behavior was wrong and unintentional. We decided to waive the legal measures taken against it. Finally, we call upon all public figures from artists and others to take into account their behavior and behavior as role models and as the highest ideals for many young men and women in Egypt.” The apology mentioned was a message Youssef shared on social media. “I probably miscalculated when I chose to wear this dress,” she wrote on Instagram. “It was the first time that I wore it and I did not realize it would spark so much anger…I reaffirm my commitment to the values upon which we were raised in Egyptian society.” According to the Times, Youssef’s case is not too unusual for celebrities. Under the authoritarian rule of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, celebrities have been targeted for outfits and behavior that goes against public morals. One example cites singer Laila Amer, who was detained in January for making suggestive gestures in a music video. | |
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| 12-04-18 02:16am - 2211 days | #1356 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
President Trump is my hero. He's not afraid to let it all hang out: warts and typos and other mistakes, in his effort to spread the word from Donald Trump, leader of the Moral Majority for White America. Please note: Trump serves as a model for other great leaders: if a man is dishonest or disloyal to Trump, Trump wants that man punished: Trump wants Michael Cohen, his former personal lawyer, to serve a long prison term for cowardice and lies about Donald Trump, our greatest hero and man of the people. ------- ------- 'Scott Free' or 'scot-free'? Even Merriam-Webster mocked Trump's typo Taryn Ryder ,Yahoo Celebrity•December 3, 2018 President Trump’s Twitter rant against former personal attorney Michael Cohen made headlines Monday, but it was a typo that really stole the show. In a flurry of tweets, Trump argued that Cohen — who recently pleaded guilty to lying to Congress — shouldn’t get off scot-free … except he wrote “Scott Free,” kind of like the name of a person. The gaffe delighted Twitter, with even Merriam-Webster throwing some shade. Chrissy Teigen was a little less PC, writing, “f***ing dumbass thinks Scott Free is a person.” “Scott Free” has been trending for hours. This is a perfect example of why many people are against Twitter adding an “edit” button. (Sorry, Kim Kardashian!) | |
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| 12-01-18 05:14pm - 2213 days | #1355 | |
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President Trump warns General Motors: I have national guards with rifles and handguns. And these guards are carrying live ammo. So if you keep firing employees, which I said would not happen, instead, I said that auto workers would have new jobs in the US, I will send the guards to put you in jail. GM workers feel that Trump made promises, that were broken. How can that be true? Trump is the most loyal, hard-working President the US ever had. GM and other workers need to support Trump, to make America great again. ----- ----- Salaried workers beware: GM cuts are a warning for all The Associated Press TOM KRISHER and JOSH BOAK Dec 1st 2018 4:32PM DETROIT (AP) — For generations, the career path for smart kids around Detroit was to get an engineering or business degree and get hired by an automaker or parts supplier. If you worked hard and didn't screw up, you had a job for life with enough money to raise a family, take vacations and buy a weekend cottage in northern Michigan. Now that once-reliable route to prosperity appears to be vanishing, as evidenced by General Motors' announcement this week that it plans to shed 8,000 white-collar jobs on top of 6,000 blue-collar ones. It was a humbling warning that in this era of rapid and disruptive technological change, those with a college education are not necessarily insulated from the kind of layoffs factory workers know all too well. The cutbacks reflect a transformation underway in both the auto industry and the broader U.S. economy, with nearly every type of business becoming oriented toward computers, software and automation. "This is a big mega-trend pervading the whole economy," said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who has researched changes being caused by the digital age. Cities that suffered manufacturing job losses decades ago are now grappling with the problem of fewer opportunities for white-collar employees such as managers, lawyers, bankers and accountants. Since 2008, The Associated Press found, roughly a third of major U.S. metro areas have lost a greater percentage of white-collar jobs than blue-collar jobs. It's a phenomenon seen in such places as Wichita, Kansas, with its downsized aircraft industry, and towns in Wisconsin that have lost auto, industrial machinery or furniture-making jobs. In GM's case, the jobs that will be shed through buyouts and layoffs are held largely by people who are experts in the internal combustion engine — mechanical engineers and others who spent their careers working on fuel injectors, transmissions, exhaust systems and other components that won't be needed for the electric cars that eventually will drive themselves. GM, the nation's largest automaker, says those vehicles are its future. "We're talking about high-skilled people who have made a substantial investment in their education," said Marina Whitman, a retired professor of business and public policy at the University of Michigan and a former GM chief economist. "The transitions can be extremely painful for a subset of people." GM is still hiring white-collar employees, but the new jobs are for those who can write software code, design laser sensors or develop batteries and other devices for future vehicles. Those who are being thrown out of work might have to learn new skills if they hope to find new jobs, underscoring what Whitman said is another truism about the new economy: "You've got to regard education as a lifetime process. You probably are going to have multiple jobs in your lifetime. You've got to stay flexible." Whitman said mechanical engineers are smart people who could transfer their skills to software or batteries, but they'll need training, and that takes time and money. "In the past with these kinds of changes, eventually new jobs have been created," she said. "Will it happen this time, or is the change taking place too fast for everybody to be absorbed? I don't know." Although the job cuts took him and co-workers by surprise, Tracy Lucas, 54, a GM engine quality manager, decided to take the buyout and change careers. His children are grown and on their own, and with 33 years in at GM, he will get a pension and health care. The buyout will also give him about eight months of pay, enough time to take his newly earned master's degree in business administration and look for different work. He said he will be glad to leave some tedious management tasks behind but will miss seeing through a lot of work to reduce engine warranty claims. AdChoices He is leaving in part, he said, to save a job for younger co-workers. GM got 2,250 white-collar workers to take buyouts, and will have to complete the cutbacks by way of layoffs. "I really hate that we have to go into the whole process of tapping people on the shoulder," Lucas said. "I don't think the second wave is going to be pretty at all. It's going to be brutal." The white-collar cutbacks — combined with more to come at Ford, which is likewise making the transition from personal ownership of gasoline-burning vehicles to ride-sharing and self-driving electric cars — could hamper the renaissance underway in Detroit, which is emerging from bankruptcy and a long population decline. Many of these automotive industry engineers and managers are pulling down six-figure salaries, and some may have to move out of the Detroit metro area for new jobs. The Brookings Institution's Muro wonders whether auto companies will bring more electrical engineers and software developers to Michigan or put them in places where such jobs are already clustered, such as San Francisco, Seattle, Boston or near major research universities. "This is how regions change and labor markets change," Muro said. GM says it will hire in the Detroit area, but its autonomous-vehicle workforce has grown to over 1,000 at offices in San Francisco and Seattle. Nearly all of the 8,000 white-collar cutbacks will be in metropolitan Detroit, largely at GM's technical center in Warren, a suburb north of the city. That's equal to about 4 percent of the managerial and engineering jobs in the Detroit-Warren area, according to the Labor Department. Managerial salaries in the area average $124,000. Ford, which is just beginning its salaried workforce downsizing, hasn't said how many will go. But even if it's half of GM's total, the white-collar losses around Detroit will approach those during the financial crisis of a decade ago, when the metro areas shed 14,450 managerial and engineering jobs. That was 8.9 percent of those types of jobs in the metro areas. Layoffs are also likely to spread to auto parts suppliers, which won't need to design and build as many parts for gas-powered cars. While GM says cutting these positions is necessary to save money to invest in the new technology, there are possible long-term costs to shedding so many experienced workers in one swoop, especially if the switch to electric vehicles stalls, said Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, a management professor at Brandeis University. If that were to happen, the cutbacks could leave GM without the vital expertise it needs. Even the most skilled white-collar workers need to spend less and be prepared to change jobs or locations to stay employed, said Rick Knoth, a retired GM industrial engineer who survived a 2008 downsizing by taking an early retirement package after 37 years with the company. Knoth said he is confident most engineers are smart enough to turn their skills into a new career. But all white-collar employees need to be ready for change because it comes fast, he said. "The world isn't like it used to be, that's for sure," he said. "You can't count on anything." ____ Corey Williams contributed to this report from Warren, Michigan. Boak reported from Washington. Follow Tom Krisher on Twitter . | |
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What the news article fails to mention is that her arms and hands were bare. Examine the photograph, and you will see her face was naked. No niqab. Shame on her. https://www.thewrap.com/rania-youssef-eg...cairo-film-festival/ The Wrap Egyptian Actress to Face Trial for Wearing Revealing Dress to Cairo Film Festival Rania Youssef could serve up to five years in prison if convicted Tony Maglio | December 1, 2018 @ 2:41 PM Last Updated: December 1, 2018 @ 3:14 PM Egyptian actress Rania Youssef will face trial next month after being charged with public obscenity for wearing a partially see-through dress to a film festival in Cairo, according to the Associated Press. The black, lacy dress revealed most of her legs. Here’s her outfit: A group of lawyers filed a complaint to the chief prosecutor; Youssef’s trial is set to start on Jan. 12. She could face up to five years in prison if convicted. Youssef released the following statement on her Facebook page: Here is a rough translation of Youssef’s statement, courtesy of Facebook’s translate tool: In Respect of the feelings of every Egyptian family that pissed off the dress I wore at the Cairo International Film Festival, I would like to emphasize that I did not mean to appear in a way that was infuriating and angry by many For the first time, I didn’t expect it to raise all this anger And the opinions of fashion designers and fashion specialists often affect the choice of clothing decisions, and they may have taken into account that we are And I wasn’t expecting everything that happened, and if I knew why I wore the Here, I reiterate that we hold on to the values and morality that we have been raised in the Egyptian Society, which has been, and If I am proud to be an artist with a good and positive balance in my audience, I wish everyone to understand my good faith and not want to upset anyone, and if God wants I I also cherish the fact that the union of artists and its role are being protected and protected for values and their defence of art and artists. #Rania _ Youssef Egypt is a conservative country. The majority of its citizens are Muslim. | |
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When you join so many new sites, it's hard to do the contents of each site justice. A lot of your joins are premium sites, with excellent content. And obviously some of the most beautiful women on the internet. I suggest taking more time with MPL Studios, because it's high-grade photography, and some really stunning models. Since you spent the cash to join, you should try to get your money's worth. I've joined all the sites you mentioned, except for Domingoview, and I really think you need to take time (although there are only 24 hours in a day) to savor the fine content at each site. All the sites you listed are worthwhile joins (except I haven't joined Domingoview, so I have no opinion on that site). My problem is that I have too many memberships, to really enjoy the content at each site. So I'm preaching what I don't follow. Except it's good advice, that I need to follow myself.  Also, I suggest waiting for holiday discounts on your new joins. That's what I try to do. Makes your porn dollars go much further. | |
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| 11-30-18 06:21pm - 2214 days | #1354 | |
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The Trump crime family is starting to crumble. President Trump calls the Mueller investigation an illegal hoax. The next step would be to have Mueller arrested for wasting taxpayer money. Lock him up, the slogan Trump used for Hillary Clinton. Now he must lock Mueller up, before any other charges are brought against Trump and his allies. Or else, Trump could face impeachment, civil and possibly criminal charges. Can Trump order his secret service agents to take Mueller to jail? And on the way to jail, if Mueller resists arrest, shoot Mueller to death? Thus eliminating a criminal (Mueller) who belongs in jail. Also, President Trump called his former lawyer, Michael Cohen, a weak person, and a liar. But Trump praised Paul Manafort his former campaign chairman, for standing up to Mueller. Enquiring minds want to know: when will Trump be impeached? When will he face civil and criminal charges for his illegal activities? -------- -------- USA TODAY 'This is an illegal hoax': Trump calls for end to Mueller investigation after Cohen pleads guilty Christal Hayes, USA TODAY Published 10:35 p.m. ET Nov. 29, 2018 CLOSE President Donald Trump says ex-lawyer Michael Cohen is a 'weak person' who is 'lying' to get a reduced sentence.' Trump made the comments shortly after Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about a Trump real estate deal in Russia. (Nov. 29) AP WASHINGTON - After his former attorney pleaded guilty to lying in hopes of covering up potential Russian ties, President Donald Trump ended his Thursday lashing out at the special counsel investigation and calling for its demise. In a pair of tweets after landing in Argentina for the G20 summit, the president called the two-year investigation a "total witch hunt" and accused special counsel Robert Mueller of ignoring crimes committed by the "other side." "This is an illegal hoax that should be ended immediately," the president said on Twitter late Thursday. "Mueller refuses to look at the real crimes on the other side. Where is the IG REPORT?" It's far from the first time the president has attacked Mueller and his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, but as time has gone on, Mueller's investigation has inched closer to the president and his closest advisers. More: Report: Trump Organization planned to give $50 million penthouse to Putin amid Moscow deal Earlier Thursday, Michael Cohen, the president's former attorney and fixer, pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in an aim to cover up Trump's ties to Russia, court documents show. Cohen admitted to lying about plans for a Trump Tower in Moscow, telling lawmakers the plans ended in January 2016 when it really lasted well into Trump's presidential campaign. Prosecutors said that Cohen lied to the committees to “minimize links between the Moscow Project and (Trump) and give the false impression that the Moscow Project ended before the Iowa caucus and the very first primary in hopes of limiting the ongoing Russia investigations.” After the guilty plea was made public, Trump fought back on criticism and what the plea deal could mean for him. He called Cohen "a weak person" and said even if his testimony were true, it was perfectly legal for him to negotiate a real-estate deal while campaigning. “He's a weak person and not a very smart person," Trump said. "Even if he was right, it doesn't matter because I was allowed to do whatever I wanted during the campaign. I was running my business." The guilty plea came amid a flurry of activity from Mueller, who personally signed Cohen's deal. On Monday, Mueller voided a plea deal with Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chairman, for lying repeatedly to investigators. Manafort has a hearing Friday to get a possible sentencing date for charges of conspiracy and obstruction of justice for representing a pro-Russia faction in Ukraine. | |
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| 11-30-18 03:27am - 2215 days | #1353 | |
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Lock them up. Is the Trump family a crumbling crime family? Did the family engage in illegal or shady deals, with Ivanka and Don Jr. part of the deals? Ivanka, golden girl of the Trump family, a criminal? You look at her smiling face, and wonder, is she a chip off her father? President Donald Trump has stated he is not part of his family business (even though he owns the business). He transferred control of the business to his children. So if the businesses make millions of dollars from foreign sources, it has nothing to do with him. Right. He still owns the businesses. But the businesses have nothing to do with him. That makes no sense. Will that argument hold up in court? Because lawsuits are coming, that President Trump is making illegal, personal profits from his Presidency. -------------- -------------- Mueller eyes Ivanka and Don Jr.’s work on Trump Tower Moscow Yahoo News Hunter Walker Nov 29th 2018 8:18PM WASHINGTON – Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into President Donald Trump’s efforts to build a skyscraper in Moscow has led him to ask questions about the role two of the president’s children played in attempting to secure a Russian real estate deal, sources tell Yahoo News. Mueller’s interest in the Trump family real estate company’s Russia skyscraper plans was confirmed on Thursday when Michael Cohen, the president’s former attorney and fixer, pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the proposed deal. In charging documents, Mueller said Cohen falsely claimed the effort to build a Trump Tower Moscow “ended in January 2016” in an attempt to “minimize” links between Trump and the project and to “give the false impression” the effort ended before the Republican primaries in 2016. Yahoo News first reported in May that congressional investigators had obtained text messages and emails showing Cohen’s work on Trump Tower Moscow went on for longer than he admitted under oath. But Cohen wasn’t the only person at the Trump Organization who was pursuing deals to build a skyscraper in the Russian capital. Multiple sources have confirmed to Yahoo News that the president’s elder daughter, Ivanka, who is now a top White House adviser, and his eldest son, Don Jr. were also working to make Trump Tower Moscow a reality. The sources said those efforts were independent of Cohen’s work on the project. One of the sources said Ivanka was also involved in Cohen’s efforts. And a separate source familiar with the investigation told Yahoo News that Mueller has asked questions about Ivanka and Don Jr.’s work on Trump Tower Moscow. Mueller’s charging documents against Cohen included a line that described the Trump family’s involvement in the project. According to Mueller, one of the things Cohen lied about was that he “briefed family members” of Trump’s who worked at the Trump Organization about the proposed Moscow skyscraper. Prior to joining the White House, Ivanka was an executive at the company. Don Jr. and Trump’s middle son, Eric, remain with the Trump Organization. A spokesperson for the special counsel’s office declined to comment on this story. Cohen and his attorney, Guy Petrillo, did not respond to requests for comment, nor did lawyers representing the president. A source familiar with the Trump Organization confirmed to Yahoo News that Ivanka and Don Jr. engaged in separate efforts to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. The source said these efforts began “years earlier” than Cohen’s project and concluded in 2013. “They were not looking at any other deals after that,” the source said. The source also confirmed that both Ivanka and Don Jr. were aware of Cohen’s attempts to build in Moscow. According to the source, Ivanka’s role was limited to recommending an architect and Don Jr. was only “peripherally” aware of the plan. “Michael was looking at that deal. Don and Ivanka knew about it and Don testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee that he was peripherally aware of it,” the source said, adding, “That’s why we’re so perplexed Cohen would lie about briefing them because no one’s ever disputed that they knew he was looking at it.” Don Trump Jr. did not respond to a request for comment on this story. An attorney for Ivanka Trump declined to comment on record. Just prior to his inauguration, Trump vowed his family’s real estate company would do no new deals abroad while he was in office. It would not be illegal for the Trump Organization to have conducted business in Russia prior to that point, and Mueller inquiring about Ivanka and Don Jr.’s work on Trump Tower Moscow does not mean they are targets of his investigation. The source familiar with the Trump Organization said the pair were not aware of any work Cohen did on the project beyond the period he initially described to congressional investigators. “There’s no question they knew about it, but they had no knowledge of any work on the project after January 2016,” the source said. The Trump Organization’s dealings in Moscow have attracted added attention due to the U.S. intelligence community’s conclusion Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 presidential election to help Trump. The president has repeatedly denied he colluded with Russia and has called Mueller’s probe a politically motivated “witch hunt.” Messages obtained by the government show Cohen reached out to Putin’s office for help as he pursued the Moscow project. He initially said the Russian government did not respond to his overtures, but Mueller’s charging documents said Cohen did receive a response from Putin’s government. “On or about January 20, 2016, COHEN received an email from the personal assistant to Russian Official 1 (“Assistant 1”), stating that she had been trying to reach COHEN and requesting that he call her using a Moscow-based phone number she provided,” Mueller wrote. According to Mueller, Cohen and the official’s assistant spoke for “approximately 20 minutes” and he “requested assistance in moving the project forward, both in securing land to build the proposed tower and financing the construction.” Mueller said Felix Sater, a developer who was working on the project with Cohen, subsequently followed up. Sater is a Russian-born, longtime business associate of Trump’s who first met Cohen while they were both in high school. During the mid 2000’s, Sater, worked with Trump’s real estate company to build hotels in Florida and New York. He also discussed potential projects in Russia with Trump’s company during that period. As part of his deal to build Trump-branded properties, Sater had an office in the Trump Organization’s Manhattan headquarters and a company business card. Sater was convicted on charges related to a stock fraud scheme orchestrated by Russian organized crime figures in 1998. He then became a federal informant who spent years providing crucial information to the government about mobsters and terrorists. Sater declined to comment on this story beyond saying his work to build a Trump Tower in Moscow began in 2003. Correspondence provided by Sater to government investigators that was obtained by Buzzfeed showed he reached out to Cohen in May 2016 and said Putin’s top spokesman Dmitry Peskov wanted to invite him to attend an economic forum in St. Petersburg the following month. Sater said Peskov wanted to talk with Cohen there and “possibly introduce” him to Putin. Peskov was the same official who Cohen emailed in January 2016. According to Mueller’s charging documents, Cohen eventually told Sater he couldn’t make the trip to Russia “on or about June 14, 2016,” right as Trump was on the way to securing the Republican presidential nomination. Trump never managed to build a skyscraper in Russia, but he has tried for the better part of three decades. His first attempt came in 1987 when he traveled to the former Soviet Union to examine possible building sites. According to Buzzfeed, Trump’s company announced another “exploratory trip” in 1996 and that he had his eye on an abandoned factory in the country in 2005. Reports have previously emerged detailing Ivanka and Don Jr.’s involvement in the Trump Tower Moscow efforts.. The Buzzfeed report revealed Sater accompanied the two Trump children to Moscow in 2006. A source told Yahoo News that, while there, the pair held meetings about the project separately from Sater. “ The book Russian Roulette, which was written by Yahoo News chief investigative correspondent Mike Isikoff and David Corn, detailed a 2013 effort that involved the Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov and his son Emin. According to the book, Don Jr. was “in charge” of that project and Ivanka “flew to Russia and scouted sites with Emin.” The Agalarovs helped Trump host his Miss Universe pageant in Russia in 2013 and helped arrange the infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting. The Trump Organization registered the web address TrumpTowerMoscow.com in December 2012. A source familiar with the deal said this was in conjunction with the work being done with Agalarovs. Trump tweeted at Aras Agalarov about the deal on Nov. 11, 2013, two days after the pageant. He expressed optimism they would get the skyscraper built together.c “I had a great weekend with you and your family,” Trump wrote, adding, You have done a FANTASTIC job. TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next.” | |
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| 11-29-18 03:44pm - 2215 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUrpeYqVfj0 Bella Thorne Promotes Makeup Line & Teases New Music by Writhing Around Naked in Whipped Cream People November 29, 2018 Bella Thorne Gets Naked in Whipped Cream in Video Bella Thorne has a sweet tooth. On Instagram on Wednesday, the I Still See You actress, 21, turned heads by posting a raunchy music video, which she labeled “SEXUAL CHOCOLATE.” In the footage, Thorne rolls around makeup containers in pink underwear, covers her nearly naked body in whipped cream as she sits in front of a pole and smears chocolate all over herself as she cuddles up to a fondue machine. Her provocative moves include kicking her whipped cream-speckled legs in the air and licking the chocolate off of her hand. The music video appeared to advertise her makeup line Thorne by Bella, which markets eye and lip products. Thorne noted in the caption that the post includes her own music, which Mod Sun produced. “Song I’m a hoe 2 by bella thorne,” she wrote. “Another video I directed and did creative on,” she added. | |
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| 11-29-18 03:25pm - 2215 days | #1351 | |
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Trump learned that President Obama was not born in the United States. This means that Obama was a fake President. Put Obama and his family in prison, for tricking the American public about his birth place. Obama and his family have made millions of dollars from a fake Presidency. Trump needs to man up, and have Obama (and Hillary Clinton) prosecuted and in prison,where criminals belong. Trump promised to drain the swamp in Washington. He needs to put career criminals Obama and Clinton (and her lecherous husband, Bill Clinton) in prison, to make the country safe from thugs, rapists, and dark-skinned people everywhere. Edited on Nov 29, 2018, 03:31pm | |
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| 11-29-18 03:20pm - 2215 days | #1350 | |
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Michael Cohen, former lawyer for President Trump, says he lied about Trump's knowledge of Moscow project. Who do we trust? Cohen says he lied to Congress to stay loyal to Trump during his run for president. The President says Cohen is a liar: Cohen can not be trusted: President Trump says he did nothing illegal: whatever Trump did, it was within the law. So, did Trump lie to the public about his dealings with Russia? Does it matter? This is for the lawyers to work out, since Trump is the President, the man who above the law, since he is doing things that are too important for him to be arrested or impeached. So the truth does not matter: what really counts, are the stories Trump tells about what a great job he is doing. And if anyone accuses the President of illegal acts, it's a goddamn witch hunt, and those accusers belong in jail. Trump: man of the people. The whitest President the US ever had: the most moral President we've ever had. ------- ------- Michael Cohen pleads guilty, says he lied about Trump's knowledge of Moscow project By Erica Orden, Kara Scannell, Pamela Brown, Stephen Collinson and Gloria Borger, CNN Updated 2:58 PM ET, Thu November 29, 2018 NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 21: Michael Cohen, former lawyer to U.S. President Donald Trump, exits the Federal Courthouse on August 21, 2018 in New York City. Cohen reached an agreement with prosecutors, pleading guilty to charges involving bank fraud, tax fraud and campaign finance violations.(Photo by Yana Paskova/Getty Images) (CNN)President Donald Trump spoke more extensively during the presidential election with his-then attorney Michael Cohen about the proposed Trump Tower project in Moscow than Cohen admitted to Congress last year, Cohen said while pleading guilty Thursday in federal court to a charge from special counsel Robert Mueller's office. Cohen, who previously said talks about the Moscow project had ended in January 2016, just prior to the Iowa caucuses, said he had lied out of a sense of obligation to Trump. "I made these statements to be consistent with Individual-1's political messaging and out of loyalty to Individual-1," Cohen said. Individual-1 was identified in court filings as Trump, and Cohen identified him as such in a New York courtroom Thursday. Cohen, who famously once declared he would "take a bullet" for Trump, is cooperating with Mueller and has spoken with the special counsel's office for more than 70 hours on topics beyond Moscow, a source with knowledge of the discussions told CNN. He pleaded guilty earlier this year to eight counts in a separate case from the Manhattan US attorney's office. Cohen did not have an agreement to cooperate with prosecutors on that case. Thursday's revelations are potentially significant because they appear to show that Trump was engaged in business dealings with Russia in the midst of a campaign in which Moscow interfered to help elect him. They could also intersect with other information that Mueller knows to create political and legal jeopardy for the President. Trump responded to Cohen's admission at the White House on Thursday, calling his former lawyer "very weak." "He's a weak person," Trump said before departing for Buenos Aires, Argentina. "He was convicted with a fairly long-term sentence with things unrelated to the Trump Organization," Trump said. "What he's trying to do is get a reduced sentence." In fact, Cohen hasn't been sentenced in either case, and the charges to which he pleaded guilty in August included information about his reimbursement by the Trump Organization for payments he made or helped orchestrate to conceal allegations from two women about sexual encounters with Trump before he ran for office. Trump has denied those claims. Cohen was also charged in the Manhattan US attorney's office case with tax fraud and false statements to a bank. He is scheduled to be sentenced in both cases on December 12. Cohen left the courthouse Thursday without making a statement. Schiff: If Cohen misled, Trump misled country Cohen's cooperation with Mueller has included meetings with federal prosecutors on at least seven occasions beginning August 7, 2018, two weeks before he was first charged in New York, according to court filings. Cohen had previously said talks about the Moscow project had ended in January 2016. In a letter to Congress and in congressional testimony, Cohen had also stated that he never agreed to travel to Russia in connection with the project, and that he hadn't considered asking Trump to travel for the project. He had also said he didn't recall speaking to the Russian government about the project. Trump abruptly cancels planned Putin meeting All of those statements were false, Cohen said Thursday. "In truth and in fact, and as Cohen well knew, Cohen's representations about the Moscow Project he made to (House and Senate Intelligence committees) were false and misleading," Mueller's office said in a court filing. "Cohen made the false statements to (1) minimize links between the Moscow Project and Individual 1 and (2) give the false impression that the Moscow Project ended before 'the Iowa caucus and . . . the very first primary,' in hopes of limiting the ongoing Russia investigations," prosecutors said in court filings. Discussions with 'Individual-2' on Moscow project The charges provide a much fuller picture of the Trump Organization's efforts to advance the project in Moscow. As late as June 2016, according to prosecutors, Cohen and another man, identified in filings as "Individual-2," discussed efforts to gain Russian government approval for the Moscow project. Individual-2 is Felix Sater, a Russian-born onetime business associate of Trump's, according to people familiar with the matter. Cohen discussed the project with Trump on more than the three occasions he had previously mentioned, prosecutors said, and he briefed Trump family members working within the Trump Organization about the efforts. Cohen also agreed to travel to Russia and asked Trump about the possibility of Trump going there in service of the project. In addition, Cohen "asked a senior campaign official about potential business travel to Russia," according to prosecutors. In May 2016, after Sater asked Cohen when the trip involving Trump should occur, Cohen responded that Trump's trip should take place "once he becomes the nominee after the convention." Sater and Cohen communicated extensively about plans for Cohen's own prospective trip, filings show, but in June 2016, Cohen told Sater he wouldn't go. In court Thursday, Cohen added: "I would like to note that I did not in fact travel there, nor have I ever been to Russia." After Cohen outlined his lies concerning the extent of his discussion with Trump and his plans for travel to Russia, a special counsel prosecutor, L. Rush Atkinson, told US District Judge Andrew Carter that Cohen had neglected to admit to a third set of falsehoods -- those concerning his direct contact with the Russian government about the Moscow project. Cohen had had a 20-minute phone call with a representative of the Kremlin in January 2016, according to filings. Atkinson was joined in court Thursday by special counsel prosecutors Jeannie Rhee and Andrew Goldstein. The charge to which Cohen pleaded Thursday carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, a maximum fine of $250,000 and supervised release of no more than three years. Democrats vow to investigate House Democrats, who will retake the majority early next year, plan to use their new power to investigate the disclosures revealed in the new set of charges against Cohen. California Rep. Adam Schiff, the incoming House Intelligence Committee chairman, said his panel will try to bring in Cohen and investigate whether there was any money laundering by the Russians through the Trump Organization. Democrats in Congress vow to investigate after Cohen pleads guilty to making false statements "If Mr. Cohen misled the Congress about the President's business dealings in Russia deep into the campaign, it also means that the President misled the country about his business dealings, and that the Russians were apparently attempting to gain financial leverage over the potential President of the United States," Schiff told CNN's Christiane Amanpour. Status of Mueller investigation Trump has criticized the Mueller probe and his own Justice Department almost daily, fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions earlier this month and has hinted at a pardon for his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort. But Cohen is the latest former Trump associate to say he lied -- apparently to protect the President -- a circle of defense that now seems to be quickly unraveling. Who is Michael Cohen? The news comes a few weeks after the President installed a skeptic of the Russia probe, Matt Whitaker, as his acting attorney general. The move was seen by some critics as an attempt to disrupt Mueller and to stop him from making new indictments. The latest charges also cross what Trump has set as a red line -- an investigation into his family's business empire -- that the President has warned would cause him to fire the special counsel. This story has been updated. CNN's Betsy Klein, Manu Raju, Sunlen Serfaty, Sarah Mucha and Julia Jones contributed to this report. | |
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| 11-29-18 03:03pm - 2215 days | #1349 | |
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This is wrong. Trump is the man. He needs to be seen as a strong leader. One whose word is bond. The Trump administrations proclaimed it would not stand for lawlessness from the illegal caravan of migrants. US authorities fired tear gas into Mexico, to stop the illegal caravan. But they did not arrest these criminals. Is Trump a pussy? Who will be pushed around by criminals and other illegal immigrants? Shame on Trump. He should have ordered the National Guard to fire live rounds into Mexico, to stop these scumbags and rapists and low-life bottom feeders from polluting our borders. Lock them up, Trump. Don't be a pussy. Democracy is strengthened by the blood of these ruthless criminals. ---- ---- No one arrested in border clash is prosecuted The Associated Press ELLIOT SPAGAT Nov 29th 2018 4:18PM SAN DIEGO (AP) — No criminal charges will be filed against any of the 42 people associated with a caravan of Central American migrants who were arrested in a clash that ended with U.S. authorities firing tear gas into Mexico. The Associated Press has learned that the federal government decided not to prosecute the migrants despite proclamations from the Trump administration that it will not tolerate lawlessness over the caravan. Customs and Border Protection declines to say why no one was prosecuted but a U.S. official says many came as families — which are generally exempt. The official said that in other cases, authorities didn't collect enough information to pursue charges, including names of the arresting officers. The official was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The official says two of the 42 were referred to the Justice Department for prosecution but charges weren't filed because the accused had medical conditions. | |
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| 11-29-18 03:10am - 2216 days | #2 | |
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@slutty, Nice to see you dropping by the site. The site seems to have really slowed down the last few years. As far as billers, CCBill, Epoch, and FameSupport are my favorite billers. CCBill and Epoch have been excellent for years. FameSupport has vastly improved over the last few years. It used to be a hassle cancelling a membership with them, but now it's much easier. And their customer support is excellent: among the best customer support teams on the internet. They have a 24/7 live chat that responds very fast, with helpful, knowledgeable staff. The FameSupport used to be horrible, to cancel, but it's completely changed. As far as poor billing practices, it's not just porn companies, but regular businesses than can cause you problems. I had a coupon I got from Amazon for around a $5 discount to an item: the company disregarded the coupon and charged me full price. I sent an email to their customer support, saying I was over-charged. They replied that I was charged the correct price. I then sent an email with a photo of the coupon, and the discount I was supposed to get. Company responded, saying they were sorry I was having a problem, but asking for proof that I paid a higher price. I emailed them a copy of my credit card charge. They return emailed me, saying, sorry you're having a problem: what is the problem? I then sent an email to Amazon customer service, showing the coupon I had, plus the complete history of my emails to the company I bought the item from. Amazon gave me a credit, with no hassle. I spent hours on the issue, for a $5 overcharge. The strange thing is: all the emails I sent to the company's customer support were sent to the same person: the person who first stated that my charge was correct, and after sending a copy of the coupon and after sending a copy of my credit card charge by the company, at the end of this, she emails me that she's sorry I'm having a problem with the company, she's there to help me with the issue, and what is the issue I am having (ignoring the fact that all the emails were sent to her personal email address at customer support.) For a $5 overcharge. They got my money, and there was no way they were giving any of it back. Unless I was able to get President Trump to send in the Army Reserve with rifles loaded to demand my $5 overcharge. And since Trump and I are not really close buddies, I turned to Amazon, which gave me a refund with no hassle (after I sent them a copy of the emails I sent to the company, and the company responses). Edited on Nov 29, 2018, 09:40am | |
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| 11-28-18 12:08am - 2217 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Here's a case where a man claims he was eating a McDonald's hash brown. But the police gave him a ticket for talking on his cell phone while driving. Price of the ticket: $300.00. Increase in car insurance because of the ticket: $1,000.00. The man claims he was eating a hash brown from McDonald's. Says his phone records prove he did not make a call in the hour surrounding the traffic stop. But says the judge ruled against him anyway (taking the word of the cop against the man's proof he did not use his cell phone). Why would the judge take the word of the cop? Why not? $300 profit to the city. So the man is hiring a lawyer for $1,000 to fight the ticket. The man gets screwed any way you look at it. --------- --------- Man says hash brown to blame for $300 distracted driving ticket, not phone Veuer Troy Frisby Nov 27th 2018 5:05PM A Connecticut man claims he was falsely fined $300 for distracted driving because police thought he was holding up a cell phone — when, in actuality, he was just eating a McDonald’s hash brown. Jason Stiber is taking the matter back to court after losing his initial trial. Despite phone records showing he hadn’t made a call in the hour surrounding the traffic stop in April, the court ruled against him. Now, according to Times Union, Stiber says, “I’m going to trial for justice.” He also insists he has Bluetooth and would have no reason to hold his phone up to his ear. AdChoices His retrial is set for December 7th, according to the Associated Press. The Times Union also reported that the $1,000 cost to hire a lawyer matches the hike in Stiber's insurance because of the ticket. Westport Lt. Jillian Cabana told the outlet, “He was pulled over for talking on his cellphone and given an infraction. I’m sure his claim is different.” | |
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| 11-25-18 10:23pm - 2219 days | #4 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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It's very difficult to dispute a pre-checked charge, because the the billing company says you agreed to the charge legally. So, for most sites, you just have to eat the charge. The only sites, off-hand, that I think that will reverse a pre-checked cross-sale are the MetArt sites, which seem willing to reverse those charges without a fight. Which is why I take a long time reading the join pages of any porn site, looking for the pre-checked cross-sale. I spend more time looking for the pre-checked cross-sale than I do filling out most of the rest of the forms. But there are a very few sites that do not have a pre-checked cross-sale on the join page, and I spend even more time on those pages, because I don't want to get dinged. LOL. | |
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| 11-23-18 02:23am - 2222 days | #4 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I read comics in the 1950s. Times were simpler then: it was Good versus Evil. No sex. Today, Superman has an illegitimate baby. That he didn't know about until Lois revealed her secret. So comics reflect the time the were written in. But I stopped reading comics in the 1960s. When I pick up a comic book or graphic novel today, it's really hard for me to get into them. The stories are no longer simple Good versus Evil. | |
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| 11-23-18 02:18am - 2222 days | #8 | |
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Eat the pumpkin pie with coffee, otherwise the pumpkin is too sweet.  | |
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| 11-22-18 04:44pm - 2222 days | #1347 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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President Trump has pardoned 2 White House turkeys. But has, in tears, ordered his daughter, Ivanka Trump, to surrender to police after she admitted to illegally sending emails. The White House will be dark this thanksgiving, while the President confers with his lawyers and advisors whether he should pardon Ivanka before or during or after her trial. Remember, Donald Trump's chant of "lock her up" for Hillary Clinton, for sending emails? Now that has come back to bite Donald Trump in the ass. As an honorable man, he had no choice to order police to arrest his favorite child, Ivanka, before he could issue her a pardon. But since the Trump family is above the law, he will give Ivanka a pardon for any and all crimes she may have committed. Edited on Nov 23, 2018, 02:14am | |
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| 11-22-18 10:56am - 2222 days | #1346 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Trump is forced to admit the truth: The Saudi Crown Prince was not guilty of the supposed death of a journalist. The Saudi Crown Prince, who is a close friend of President Trump, and Trump both think alike: if the journalist was murdered, it was a crime. Both Trump and the Prince hate crime, and hate cover-ups. (That is why Trump paid those women hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep quiete about his affairs: he hates cover-ups, but wants his private life to be kept private.) The fake media reported that the CIA said the Prince was involved in the murder. That was fake news. Donald Trump wants the real news: the CIA really said the Prince “might have done it, which is a big difference”. Thank God we have such honest and moral leaders in the world, that we can depend on to tell us the truth. ------- ------- Trump: CIA 'didn't conclude' Saudi crown prince ordered Khashoggi death President disagrees with his own intelligence agency after a report said it had assessed Mohammed bin Salman did order the murder Martin Pengelly @MartinPengelly Thu 22 Nov 2018 12.31 EST First published on Thu 22 Nov 2018 10.51 EST Donald Trump has ranged himself against his own intelligence community, disputing that the CIA has “concluded” that Mohammed bin Salman was responsible for the death of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Saudi prince's presence at G20 offers leaders a photo op to dread – will he go? Read more The president spoke a week after the Washington Post first reported that the agency had assessed that the Saudi crown prince did order the murder. Khashoggi, a Saudi national, US resident and Post columnist, went missing after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October. He is believed to have been killed and dismembered. His body has not been found. Sign up for the new US morning briefing Prince Mohammed, Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader, has denied any involvement in or knowledge of the murder. After offering numerous contradictory explanations, Riyadh said last week Khashoggi was killed and his body dismembered when “negotiations” to persuade him to return to Saudi Arabia failed. Maybe the world should be held accountable, because the world's a very very vicious place Donald Trump “They didn’t conclude,” Trump insisted, asked about the CIA report when peaking to reporters at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. “No no, they didn’t conclude. I’m sorry. No they didn’t conclude. They did not come to a conclusion. They have feelings certain ways. I have the report … they have not concluded, I don’t know if anyone’s going to be able to conclude the crown prince did it. “I will say this: I don’t know, I don’t know. But whether he did or whether he didn’t, he denies it vehemently. His father denies it, the king, vehemently. The CIA doesn’t say they did it, they do point out certain things and in pointing out those things you can conclude that maybe he did or maybe he didn’t.” The latest major Trump resignations and firings Read more Trump said media were guilty of “false reporting” on the issue, and claimed the CIA had said Prince Mohammed “might have done it, which is a big difference”. The president has been widely criticised for choosing not to act over the death of Khashoggi. On Wednesday, Khashoggi’s editor at the Post, Karen Attiah, posted to Twitter a number of ways in which she said Congress could act instead. Incoming Democratic chairs of House committees could move to declassify the CIA report, she said. Among other suggestions, Attiah suggested such committees could also investigate financial ties between Trump, his son in law and adviser Jared Kushner and Saudi Arabia. On Thursday, Trump repeated recent remarks about how the needs of US foreign and economic policy governed his response on the issue. He said people should “take a look at what’s going on in Iran, the vicious situation that’s taking place there and the number of people that are being killed and slaughtered”. “We have a very strong ally in Saudi Arabia,” he said, “an ally that said at the very top level, the crown prince, they did not commit this atrocity, and it’s an atrocity, it’s a terrible thing. I dislike it more than you do. But the fact is they’ve been a very strong ally, they create tremendous wealth in their purchases, but more importantly they keep the oil price down.” Asked who should be held accountable for Khashoggi’s death if not the Saudis, Trump said: “Maybe the world should be held accountable, because the world’s a very very vicious place.” Turkey attacks Trump's 'comic' stance on Khashoggi killing Read more Turkey’s government has repeatedly said the order for Khashoggi to be killed came from the “highest levels” of the Saudi government, although it has not directly accused Prince Mohammed. On Thursday France said it had imposed sanctions, including travel bans, on 18 Saudi citizens linked to the murder, and warned that more could follow depending on results of the current investigation. “The murder of Mr Khashoggi is a crime of extreme gravity, which moreover goes against freedom of the press and the most fundamental rights,” the French foreign ministry said in a statement. “France asks that all light be shed on the manner in which such an act may have been committed. It expects from the Saudi authorities a transparent, detailed and exhaustive response.” Denmark said it was halting exports of military equipment to Saudi Arabia, citing the war in Yemen and Khashoggi’s death. In Florida, Trump also said that “if we go by a certain standard, we won’t be able to have allies with almost any country”. He added: “I hate the crime, I hate what’s done, I hate the cover-up. I will tell you this: the crown prince hates it more than I do.” | |
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| 11-22-18 08:58am - 2222 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Bill Maher Tries to Clarify Stan Lee Remarks by Slamming the Value of Comic Books Bill Maher attempted to clarify his controversial remarks over Stan Lee's death, but he's only dug himself a deeper hole. Zack Sharf Nov 21, 2018 4:29 pm Bill Maher weighed in on the controversy surrounding his remarks over Stan Lee’s death by throwing even more shade at comic books and comic book movies. The HBO late night host appeared on “Larry King Now” and explained that he hadn’t been paying attention to the backlash since he “doesn’t follow every stupid thing people lose their shit about” on social media. Following Stan Lee’s passing earlier this month, Maher took to his “Real Time” blog on November 17 to criticize fans for idolizing Lee through tribute posts and essays. “The guy who created Spider-Man and the Hulk has died, and America is in mourning,” Maher wrote. “Deep, deep mourning for a man who inspired millions to, I don’t know, watch a movie, I guess. Someone on Reddit posted, ‘I’m so incredibly grateful I lived in a world that included Stan Lee.’ Personally, I’m grateful I lived in a world that included oxygen and trees, but to each his own.” Stan Lee’s team at POW! Entertainment responded to Maher’s blog post earlier this week, calling his remarks “disgusting.” The statement read, “Comic books, like all literature, are storytelling devices. When written well by great creators such as Stan Lee, they make us feel, make us think and teach us lessons that hopefully make us better human beings.” Maher clarified his post to King by saying he didn’t mean to “take a swipe at Stan Lee.” Maher said he was commenting on the culture at large as the Stan Lee tributes held comic books and comic book movies in a regard that Maher finds ridiculous. “I am agnostic on Stan Lee,” Maher said. “I don’t read comic books. I didn’t even read them when I was a child. What I was saying is, a culture that thinks that comic books and comic book movies are profound meditations on the human condition is a dumb fucking culture. And for people to get mad at that just proves my point.” | |
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| 11-22-18 08:50am - 2222 days | #6 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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@exotics4me, Congrats on the upcoming happy event. If I'm reading the pre-announcemen correctly. | |
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| 11-22-18 08:44am - 2222 days | #384 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Some very nice low-priced deals are offered. But I already have too many memberships that I don't have time to enjoy.  Any way to extend these offers to when my other memberships expire? | |
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| 11-21-18 08:56am - 2223 days | #1345 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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After discovering the extent of her email use in September 2017, White House lawyers relied on Lowell, Ivanka Trump’s attorney, to help review her personal emails to determine which were personal and which were official business, according to the people. The White House Counsel’s Office did not have access to her personal account and could not review it without invading her privacy and possibly violating privileged communications with her attorneys, people familiar with the review said. After his review, Lowell forwarded emails that he had determined were related to official business to Ivanka Trump’s government account, a move he viewed as rectifying any violations of the records law, they said. Lowell’s review found fewer than 1,000 personal emails in which Trump shared her official schedule and travel plans with herself and her personal assistants, according to two people familiar with the review. Separately, there were fewer than 100 emails in which Trump used her personal account to discuss official business with other administration officials. The scope of her personal email use had not emerged in response to American Oversight’s records request, which sought Trump’s correspondence with Cabinet agencies in early 2017. Most internal White House communications are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act. “I’m disappointed — although not entirely surprised — that this administration disregarded clear laws that they more than anyone should have been aware of,” Evers said. In many cases, government officials contacted Ivanka Trump first at her personal email address. That was the case with a note she received in April 2017 from Treasury Department official Dan Kowalski, who was seeking to set up a meeting between the president and the secretary general of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international economic group of which the United States is a member. “I apologize for reaching out to you on your personal email for this, but it is the only email I have for you,” he wrote, according to an email obtained by American Oversight. “For future reference my WH email is [redacted],” Ivanka Trump replied. “Thanks for reaching out and making this introduction.” But other times, Trump used her private email to initiate official business. In April 2017, she used her personal email to write to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s chief of staff, Eli Miller, suggesting that he connect with her chief of staff, Julie Radford. The email chain, obtained by American Oversight, was copied to Radford’s government account. “It would be great if you both could connect next week to discuss [redacted],” she wrote. “We would love your feedback and input as we structure.” | |
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| 11-21-18 08:55am - 2223 days | #1344 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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In a stunning development, Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails about government business. Many of them in violation of federal records rules. Lock her up. And lock up Donald Trump, the father who allowed his daughter to use emails in violation of the law. Citizens demand that Trump be held accountable: both the father and the daughter. ------- ------- Ivanka Trump used a personal email account to send hundreds of emails about government business last year Here's why private email accounts can be problematic in the White House By Carol D. Leonnig and Josh Dawsey November 19 at 6:56 PM Ivanka Trump sent hundreds of emails last year to White House aides, Cabinet officials and her assistants using a personal account, many of them in violation of federal records rules, according to people familiar with a White House examination of her correspondence. White House ethics officials learned of Trump’s repeated use of personal email when reviewing emails gathered last fall by five Cabinet agencies to respond to a public records lawsuit. That review revealed that throughout much of 2017, she often discussed or relayed official White House business using a private email account with a domain that she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner. The discovery alarmed some advisers to President Trump, who feared that his daughter’s practices bore similarities to the personal email use of Hillary Clinton, an issue he made a focus of his 2016 campaign. He attacked his Democratic challenger as untrustworthy and dubbed her “Crooked Hillary” for using a personal email account as secretary of state. Some aides were startled by the volume of Ivanka Trump’s personal emails — and taken aback by her response when questioned about the practice. She said she was not familiar with some details of the rules, according to people with knowledge of her reaction. The White House referred requests for comment to Ivanka Trump’s attorney and ethics counsel, Abbe Lowell. In a statement, Peter Mirijanian, a spokesman for Lowell, acknowledged that the president’s daughter occasionally used her private email before she was briefed on the rules, but he said none of her messages contained classified information. “While transitioning into government, after she was given an official account but until the White House provided her the same guidance they had given others who started before she did, Ms. Trump sometimes used her personal account, almost always for logistics and scheduling concerning her family,” he said in a statement. Mirijanian said Ivanka Trump turned over all her government-related emails months ago so they could be stored permanently with other White House records. And he stressed that her email use was different from that of Clinton, who had a private email server in the basement of her Chappaqua, N.Y., home. At one point, an archive of thousands of Clinton’s emails was deleted by a computer specialist amid a congressional investigation. “Ms. Trump did not create a private server in her house or office, no classified information was ever included, the account was never transferred at Trump Organization, and no emails were ever deleted,” Mirijanian said. Like Trump, Clinton also said she was unaware of or misunderstood the rules. However, Clinton relied solely on a private email system as secretary of state, bypassing government servers entirely. Ivanka Trump often discussed or relayed official White House business last year using a private email account with a domain that she shares with her husband, Jared Kushner. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Both Trump and Clinton relied on their personal attorneys to review their private emails and determine which messages should be retained as government records. Clinton originally said none of the messages she sent or received were “marked classified.” The FBI later determined that 110 emails contained classified information at the time they were sent or received. Austin Evers, executive director of the liberal watchdog group American Oversight, whose record requests sparked the White House discovery, said it strained credulity that Trump’s daughter did not know that government officials should not use private emails for official business. “There’s the obvious hypocrisy that her father ran on the misuse of personal email as a central tenet of his campaign,” Evers said. “There is no reasonable suggestion that she didn’t know better. Clearly everyone joining the Trump administration should have been on high alert about personal email use.” Ivanka Trump and her husband set up personal emails with the domain “ijkfamily.com” through a Microsoft system in December 2016, as they were preparing to move to Washington so Kushner could join the White House, according to people familiar with the arrangement. The couple’s emails are prescreened by the Trump Organization for security problems such as viruses but are stored by Microsoft, the people said. Trump used her personal account to discuss government policies and official business fewer than 100 times — often replying to other administration officials who contacted her through her private email, according to people familiar with the review. Another category of less-substantive emails may have also violated the records law: hundreds of messages related to her official work schedule and travel details that she sent herself and personal assistants who cared for her children and house, they said. People close to Ivanka Trump said she never intended to use her private email to shroud her government work. After she told White House lawyers she was unaware that she was breaking any email rules, they discovered that she had not been receiving White House updates and reminders to all staffers about prohibited use of private email, according to people familiar with the situation. Using personal emails for government business could violate the Presidential Records Act, which requires that all official White House communications and records be preserved as a permanent archive of each administration. It can also increase the risk that sensitive government information could be mishandled or hacked, revealing government secrets and risking harm to diplomatic relations and secret operations. Revelations about Clinton’s personal email system led to an FBI investigation of whether she had mishandled classified information. The scandal shadowed Clinton throughout the 2016 White House race, culminating in then-FBI Director James B. Comey’s controversial decision to hold a news conference a few months before the election to announce his conclusion that she had been reckless with government secrets but that there was not sufficient evidence she had intended to skirt the law. During the campaign, Donald Trump said the Democratic nominee’s “corruption is on a scale we have never seen before” and called her personal email use “bigger than Watergate.” Trump supporters still chant “Lock her up!” at his rallies, and the president, nearly two years into his administration, continues to tweet about Clinton’s emails. “Big story out that the FBI ignored tens of thousands of Crooked Hillary Emails, many of which are REALLY BAD,” he tweeted in August, referring to a Fox News story about claims that the bureau did not scrutinize all her emails. “Also gave false election info. I feel sure that we will soon be getting to the bottom of all of this corruption. At some point I may have to get involved!” Ivanka Trump first used her personal email to contact Cabinet officials in early 2017, before she joined the White House as an unpaid senior adviser, according to emails obtained by American Oversight and first reported by Newsweek. In late February 2017, she used her personal email to contact Small Business Administration chief Linda McMahon and propose they meet to explore “opportunities to collaborate.” The following month, she emailed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, suggesting that their staffers meet to discuss ways to collaborate on “locational/workforce development and k-12 STEM education.” While her messages were largely about government work, Trump was not then subject to White House records rules. When she joined the White House on March 30, Trump pledged to comply “with all ethics rules,” responding to complaints that her voluntary role gave her all of the access and perks of the White House — but none of the legal responsibilities or constraints. “Throughout this process I have been working closely and in good faith with the White House counsel and my personal counsel to address the unprecedented nature of my role,” she said in a statement at the time. But Trump continued to occasionally use her personal email in her official capacity, according to people familiar with the review. Her husband’s use of personal email for government work drew intense scrutiny when it was first reported by Politico last fall. The revelation prompted demands from congressional investigators that Kushner preserve his records, which his attorney said he had. At the time, administration officials acknowledged to news organizations, including the New York Times and Politico, that Ivanka Trump had occasionally used a private account when she joined the White House. But Trump had used her personal email for official business far more frequently than known, according to people familiar with the administration’s review — a fact that remained a closely held secret inside the White House. “She was the worst offender in the White House,” said a former senior U.S. government official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal dynamics. | |
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| 11-21-18 08:42am - 2223 days | #1343 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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The government is failing Donald Trump. Trump is the President of the United States. Elected by the people of the United States. But the government is failing to act as Trump wishes: Trump wants Hillary Clinton and James Comey in jail, for their crimes. Why can't Trump, as President, order his subordinates to put Hillary Clinton and James Comey in jail, for their crimes? Hillary Clinton and James Comey are criminals, for criticizing and obstructing justice. Lock them up. That is the only way to treat these criminals. ------- ------- This is a stress test of the US government Analysis by Z. Byron Wolf, CNN Updated 10:16 AM ET, Wed November 21, 2018 Trump pushed for prosecution of Clinton, Comey Toobin rips Ivanka over using private email Washington (CNN)If you weren't taking President Donald Trump literally, you were wrong. "Lock her up!" and "America First!" are more than just slogans. He's stress-testing the government for ways to punish his rival Hillary Clinton and absolving Saudi Arabia for the way its titular leader dispatched with one of his critics in exchange for their participation in the US arms market. Freedom to dissent and the peaceful transfer of power between opponents are supposed to be what sets the US apart from undemocratic societies. But when Trump shot back at Clinton during a 2016 presidential debate that if he were President she'd be in jail, it was a prelude to him actually targeting his former rival and pressuring the Department of Justice to actually "lock her up." He's tweeted as much since then, complaining that the DOJ wasn't doing enough to investigate her. Top Trump officials saved the President from himself But his view on political rivals like Clinton and critics like former FBI Director James Comey, whom he fired, is that the government -- HIS government, he believes -- should be mobilized against them. His former White House counsel Don McGahn stood in the way, according to The New York Times. But he's also asked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Matt Whitaker, then Attorney General Jeff Sessions' chief of staff who has since become acting attorney general, for updates on the investigation. "We live in a democracy and you don't go after your political rivals," said Alberto Gonzales, who served as both White House counsel and attorney general for Republican President George W. Bush. But Gonzales added during an interview with CNN's John Berman on "New Day" Wednesday that so far, the people around Trump have kept his power dreams in check. The process, he argued, has worked. "Sometimes I think this President in particular says things out of frustration but nothing comes of it, and so long as we have good people serving in these senior positions, both in the White House and in the Department of Justice, I have to be confident the rule of law is going to be respected," Gonzales said. This is the place to point out that that particular counsel is gone and hasn't been replaced. Trump is also in the market for a new attorney general. The man stepping in temporarily is Whitaker, who has been publicly critical of the special counsel investigation that Trump calls a witch hunt. Nowhere has Trump's personal frustrations with the government around him and his desire to influence the Justice Department been more evident than on that government's ability to investigate possible collusion with Russia by his campaign. While his political grudges have influenced his interactions with justice officials, Trump has ignored the politically inconvenient determinations of his intelligence community. One of Trump's main slogans since becoming President is "America First!" and that was the subhead of his stream-of-conscious-dictated statement meant to silence debate about how or whether the US should react to Saudi Arabia's official involvement in the death and dismemberment of Virginia resident and Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi. "Maybe they did or maybe they didn't," Trump said in the release, again contradicting his intelligence community. That line seems to be code for the fact that he doesn't care what Saudi Arabia does to its dissidents at long as the government there is buying US-made weapons. The din in Trump's ear on Saudi Arabia, which the US has long backed as an ally in the Middle East, had grown as evidence grew in the eyes of US intelligence agencies that the operation against Khashoggi had the imprimatur of the kingdom's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Trump, after inking a deal for Saudi Arabia to buy more US weapons doesn't want to hear that, so he affixed eight exclamation points in his statement to drive the point home. Trump's Saudi support highlights brutality of 'America First' doctrine Trump's Saudi support highlights brutality of 'America First' doctrine He's also grown tired of the intelligence community's assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election -- the one that gave him his current job -- so he's routinely tried to distract from the inquiry into whether his campaign was complicit in that interference by returning again and again to Clinton, the rival he vanquished and the person Russia tried to keep from winning. The difference between Saudi Arabia -- a kingdom -- and the United States -- a representative democracy with checks and balances -- is that in Saudi Arabia, a prince can dispatch a team of agents to deal with an inconvenient public critic in a foreign land. They can arrest scads of political rivals and lock them up in the Ritz Carlton during a power grab. Trump, despite his desires, is hemmed in by the system he leads, which puts us a long way from that kind of naked abuse of power in the US, where the institutions of government do not as easily allow for that moral flexibility. His absolution of Saudi Arabia of any consequences for the killing of Khashoggi drew reactions from Republicans like Sens. Lindsey Graham and Rand Paul, as well as Sen.-elect Mitt Romney. "America can't excuse & minimize the brutal & gruesome murder of Jamal Khashoggi, a US resident & columnist. Our country is defined by human values, by principle above convenience, & by commitment to morality. We must subject the perpetrators of this outrage to withering sanction," Romney tweeted after the release of Trump's statement. Not that such admonitions are likely to influence Trump's thinking. They don't even signal new Republican opposition to the President after the party suffered losses at the ballot box that cost them control of the House and gave Democrats a new foothold in Washington. Top Republicans slam Trump for statement backing Saudi Arabia Trump has said he sees the election as a victory because Republicans picked up two seats in the Senate. And Republican control of that chamber means he is likely safe, for now, from serious censure or biting legislative counteractions. It has long been a far different thing for Republicans to criticize Trump as opposed to voting against his policies, which means Trump will likely maintain a protective buffer in the Senate from anything the newly powerful House Democratic majority does to contain him. The progression of Trump policy from tweet to slogan to action has become more familiar, even though his ideas and tweets seem designed for shock value. The lasting legacy of the Trump administration will be very dependent on how the government -- whether in the form of the courts, the Congress, the special counsel or the bureaucracy and staff around him -- can contain his attempts to use the government as his own political tool. The tension between powers is what keeps the US government in balance, but as he does with everything, Trump has supercharged the stress. | |
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| 11-21-18 07:35am - 2224 days | #1342 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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The US Senate is revolting. President Trump needs to have the disloyal senators arrested and put in front of a firing squad. President Trump also stands firm with his friend the Saudi Crown Prince, who has unfairly been smeared in the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. First, Khashoggi was a journalist, and Trump knows that most journalists are scum. Second, Khashoggi was not even a US citizen, so why are US citizens getting hot and bothered about the death of a foreign journalist? Third, the Saudi Crown Prince is a wonderful guy, friendly, warm-hearted, a buddy of Trump. Trump stands behind his friends, until it's time to step away. And the Saudi Crown Prince is responsible to giving lots of money to the Trump businesses, so it's not yet time to step away. --------- --------- Senate demands answers on Khashoggi murder after Trump stands by Saudis HuffPost US Willa Frej Nov 21st 2018 7:27AM Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on both sides of the aisle voiced their opposition to President Donald Trump’s proclamation of support for the Saudis, demanding answers into Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s (MBS) specific involvement in the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) penned a letter to Trump on Tuesday asking the administration to do more to clarify what happened to Khashoggi. Specifically, they want an answer within 120 days into whether MBS is responsible. “In light of recent developments, including the Saudi government’s acknowledgment that Saudi officials killed Mr. Khashoggi in its Istanbul consulate, we request that your determination specifically address whether Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman is responsible for Mr. Khashoggi’s murder,” they wrote in the letter. In a statement released Tuesday, Trump reinforced the strength of the U.S. alliance with Saudi Arabia, noting that Khashoggi’s murder may forever remain shrouded in mystery, despite the fact that the CIA reportedly was able to directly link MBS to the incident. “We may never know all of the facts surrounding the murder of Mr. Jamal Khashoggi,” Trump said in the statement. “In any case, our relationship is with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. They have been a great ally in our very important fight against Iran. Our intelligence agencies continue to assess all information, but it could very well be that the Crown Prince had knowledge of this tragic event – maybe he did and maybe he didn’t!” The backlash from many Republican Senators was swift: Khashoggi was reported missing after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. Turkish authorities determined that he was tortured, dismembered and beheaded inside. After initially denying responsibility, MBS later acknowledged that Saudi officials were involved in the killing, though he never took any personal blame. A Saudi prosecutor is also seeking the death penalty for five out of the 11 suspects charged. This article originally appeared on HuffPost. | |
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| 11-21-18 07:22am - 2224 days | #26 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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The Wrap Robert Rodriguez Launches VR Action Film ‘The Limit’ Starring Michelle Rodriguez Brian Welk | November 20, 2018 @ 7:32 AM STXsurreal, the VR studio for Robert Simonds’ STX Entertainment, announced on Tuesday the launch of “The Limit,” a new VR film from director Robert Rodriguez. Michelle Rodriguez, Norman Reedus “and YOU” star in the immersive new story from Rodriguez, a 20-minute action movie captured in a new VR format that stretches wider than 180 degrees. It’s designed to bridge the gap between traditional, large-format filmmaking and newer 360-degree video. “The launch of ‘The Limit’ is a watershed moment in VR, and gives fans of premium scripted entertainment a compelling reason put their headsets back on,” Andy Vick and Rick Rey, co-presidents of Virtual Reality & Immersive Entertainment at STXsurreal, said in a statement. “In keeping with STX’s talent-driven model, we enlisted Robert, Michelle and Norman, who collectively have millions of passionate fans across the globe, to break new ground and bring this category-busting cinematic VR film to life.” In “The Limit,” you, the viewer, play a rogue agent with a mysterious past who enlists the help of enhanced super-assassin M-13 (Michelle Rodriguez) to retrieve your identity and strike against the deadly organization that created you. STXsurreal also partnered with Academy Award-winning visual effects company DNEG. This is the first in a series of upcoming live-action VR projects from the studio. Other in-development projects include a Jay and Silent Bob project from writer and director Kevin Smith, a crime-thriller from director Christian Gudegast, an untitled Dave Bautista action-comedy, and an underwater sci-fi-thriller from Johannes Roberts. Robert Rodriguez will participate in a fireside chat on the Oculus Venues live event platform on Friday, Nov. 23 to discuss “The Limit” and show clips from the VR film. Audiences can tune-in on Oculus Go and Gear VR. You can also purchase and download “The Limit” as an app now on major VR Platforms, including Oculus, Steam, Samsung VR, Viveport, Google Daydream, Google Play and Apple iOS. | |
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| 11-21-18 01:26am - 2224 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Thanks, biker. That's my plan. | |
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| 11-20-18 02:06pm - 2224 days | #78 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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@mikeg123, Click on my username (lk2fireone) near the top center of the home page. That brings up my user profile. Right side of page, "Site Reviews", the number to the right of that heading is a hot link. Click in the hot link, and it brings up 25 of my most recent reviews. Click on "Next Page" hot link near the bottom of the "Site Reviews" page, and you get the next 25 reviews, and so on. I've done 242 reviews of sites: softcore and hardcore. Most of the sites I review are teens. Mofos, Brazzers and Reality Kings would not be among my favorites. However, you can't look at the score of a site and decide it's a good fit for you. That depends on your personal interests. I enjoy the MetArt sites, but many PU members want something harder. I enjoy TMW (Teen Mega World), a low-cost hardcore teen network. But I think that currently a join to one of the 21 Sextury sites, if it comes with a membership in the Adult Time network, is a great deal. The problem is that Adult Time is in beta, you can't join it directly. And the type of membership they might or might not give you seems random. I joined 21Sextury for 1 year at a discounted price, and they gave me a free lifetime membership to Adult Time. The Adult Time membership (I'm not sure of the details, because Adult Time is in beta, and the conditions can change), seems to be a lifetime membership to what is currently 70 separate porn sites, many or most of them sites that are worth joining separately. So I plan on keeping the 21 Sextury membership for years: as long as the Adult Time membership gives me access to sites that I enjoy. It appears that you can get a membership to Adult Time by joining one of the member sites they manage: 21Sextury has about 20 sites in the network. You get all of 21Sextury, plus the other 21 sites, plus a bunch of other major networks, plus some other sites, for around 70 sites that you can access with an Adult Time membership: full downloading and streaming privileges. So, I suggest emailing customer service at 21Sextury or whatever other site in the Adult Time network you are interested in, to make sure you get access to the Adult Time hub/network. | |
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| 11-20-18 12:17pm - 2224 days | #75 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Welcome to the PU site. The site is less active than it used to be. But it can be a good place to find porn answers and opinions. And most of the members are friendly, and try to be helpful. | |
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| 11-18-18 02:00pm - 2226 days | #1340 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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President Trump has come out swinging. Just say no to forest fires. Save billions of dollars in federal aid by refusing federal dollars to California. That money is needed for a wall to keep Mexicans and other low-life scum from crossing the border into America. Let us bow our heads in prayer, as Trump leads us to make America great again. And California, land of hippies and tree-huggers, can drop into the Pacific Ocean as far as Trump is concerned. Good bye, California. And good riddance. | |
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| 11-18-18 08:40am - 2226 days | #1339 | |
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Donald Trump twitter on California forest fires (November 10, 201 :"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor. Billions of dollars are given each year, with so many lives lost, all because of gross mismanagement of the forests. Remedy now, or no more fed payments." | |
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| 11-18-18 07:52am - 2227 days | #1338 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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President Trump hangs tough. Puts on a black baseball cap and black windbreaker jacket to show sympathy for the dead in California. But says that it's fake news to blame California wildfires on climate change. Climate change is a hoax, spread by the Chinks. If Trump was in charge of California, he would use the water to stop the fires. Moonbeam governor has no clue to helping stop the fires. Trump is a mastermind, who knows what to do: After all, he is not only a genius businessman, who started from nothing and built a billion dollar real estate empire (ignore the fact that his father illegally bypassed tax law to pass the properties to his children), but also a scientific genius who calculates in his head the best solutions to all problems. California has been really horrible to President Trump. But Trump has such a big heart, he is willing to forgive California. And the fires are probably God's work in cleaning out the deadwood in California, those evil Democrat scum who deserve their fate. Go, Trump, White Man of the Year, leader of the Moral Majority and the birther leader (I still don't know why Trump did not have Obama arrested and put in prison for claiming he was a US citizen.). -------- -------- Death toll rises to 76 in California fire with winds ahead The Associated Press SUDHIN THANAWALA and TERENCE CHEA Nov 18th 2018 8:22AM CHICO, Calif. (AP) — Northern California crews battling the country's deadliest wildfire in a century were bracing for strong winds, with gusts up to 50 miles per hour, creating the potential to erode gains they have made in containing a disaster that has killed at least 76 and leveled a town. Even as hundreds of searchers sift through the rubble in the town of Paradise looking for the dead, nearly 1,300 people remain unaccounted for more than a week after the fire sparked in Butte County, Sheriff Kory Honea announced Saturday night. Authorities stressed that the long roster does not mean they believe all those people are missing. Honea pleaded with fire evacuees Saturday to review the list of those reported as unreachable by family and friends and call if they are safe. Deputies have located hundreds of people to date, but the overall number keeps growing because they are adding more names, including those from the disaster's chaotic early hours, Honea said. "It's really very important for you to take a look at the list and call us if you're on the list," he said. The remains of five more people were found Saturday, including four in the decimated town of Paradise and one in nearby Concow, bringing the number of dead to 76. Honea said among the dead was Lolene Rios, 56, whose son Jed tearfully told KXTV in Sacramento that his mother "had endless amount of love for me." President Donald Trump toured the area Saturday, joined by California's outgoing and incoming governors, both Democrats who have traded sharp barbs with the Republican administration. He also visited Southern California, where firefighters were making progress on a wildfire that tore through communities west of Los Angeles from Thousand Oaks to Malibu, killing three people. The president pledged the full support of the federal government. Gov. Jerry Brown and Gov.-elect Gavin Newsom thanked him for coming out. "We've never seen anything like this in California, we've never seen anything like this yet. It's like total devastation," Trump said as he stood amid the ruins of Paradise. Rain was forecast for midweek, which could help firefighters but also complicate the search for remains. Northern California's Camp Fire has destroyed nearly 10,000 homes and torched 233 square miles (603 square kilometers). It is 55 percent contained. The fire zone in Northern California is to some extent Trump country, and that enthusiasm was on display as dozens of people cheered and waved flags as his motorcade went by. Kevin Cory, a wildfire evacuee who lost his home in Paradise, praised Trump for coming to a state that is often at odds with the White House. "I think that California's been really horrible to him and the fights. I mean they're suing him," he said. "It's back and forth between the state and the feds. It's not right." But for the most part, survivors, some who had barely escaped and no longer had homes, were too busy packing up what little they had left or seeking help to pay much attention to the president's visit. Michelle Mack Couch, 49, waited in line to get into a Federal Emergency Management Agency center in the city of Chico. She needed a walker for her elderly mother and tags for her car. "Let's hope he gets us some help," said Couch, who voted for Trump and whose rental home burned down last week. But as far as taking time out to watch the president, she said wryly, "We don't have a TV anymore." Honea expressed hope that Trump's visit would help with recovery, saying the tour by the Republican president and California's Democratic leaders "signals a spirit of cooperation here that ultimately benefit this community and get us on a path toward recovery." In Southern California, Trump also met briefly at an airport hangar with families and first responders touched by the shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks more than a week ago. Trump called the shooting at a country music bar, which left 12 dead, "a horrible, horrible event." ___ Associated Press writers Jonathan Lemire in Paradise, California, and Janie Har and Daisy P. Nguyen in San Francisco contributed to this report. \ | |
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| 11-17-18 09:03pm - 2227 days | #1337 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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President Trump is one of the bravest Presidents we've ever had. He is willing to shut down the US government if he doesn't get funding for his border wall. Does that mean that, if the government is shut down, he won't be getting a salary? And what about Congress? Will their salaries be withheld? Forget about federal police and postal workers and other federal employees. They make too much money, anyway. And they have unions to protect them. Shut down the government. Drain the swamp in Washington. Trump is the man. ------- ------- Kellyanne Conway suggests Trump is willing to shut down government over wall funding Geobeats Geobeats Nov 17th 2018 5:30PM White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Friday indicated that President Trump is ready to shut down the government if that’s what it takes to get the U.S.-Mexico border wall funded, reports The Hill. Her comment came after ‘Fox & Friends’ host Steve Doocy pointed out that the upcoming spending bill will not likely include money for the barrier and asked if a shutdown is among the president’s possible responses. Conway stated: “The president is keeping all options open.” Trump has previously indicated that he is willing to take that extreme measure, telling reporters in July: “If we don’t get border security after many, many years of talk within the United States, I would have no problem doing a shutdown.” A day later, he tweeted: “I don’t care what the political ramifications are, our immigration laws and border security have been a complete and total disaster for decades, and there is no way that the Democrats will allow it to be fixed without a Government Shutdown.” | |
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| 11-17-18 03:32pm - 2227 days | #1336 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin says zombies and abortions are the cause of mass shooting in America. The problem is not guns: it's the crazies who shoot them. But not to worry: Bevin is willing to stand firm against the zombies and crazies, and will paint his state red with the blood of these evil things that are less than human. Bevin also blamed Hillary Clinton for the lack of moral decency in America. ----- ----- Rolling Stone November 17, 2018 3:29PM ET Kentucky Governor Blames Zombies for Mass Shootings in America Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin has a unique take on the topic of mass shootings: Lack of gun regulations aren't to blame, the problem is… zombies? Kentucky Republican Governor Matt Bevin has a unique take on the topic of mass shootings in America. Lack of gun regulations are not to blame, the problem is… zombies? Bevin told conservative radio talk show host Leland Conway this week that American culture rewards and celebrates death and that the brain-eating monsters are invading the minds of our country’s youth, the Louisville Courier Journal reported. “What’s the most popular topic that seems to be in every cable television network? Television shows are all about, what? Zombies! I don’t get it … that’s what we are,” Bevin said. Zombies are, of course, a problem according to Bevin, but let’s not forget abortion: “When a culture is surrounded by, inundated by, rewards things that celebrate death, whether it is zombies in television shows, the number of abortions… there’s a thousand justifications for why we do this.” Unhappy with Bevin’s accusation, Tony Moore, one of the creators of The Walking Dead comic books and the internationally broadcasted television show, penned an op-ed in the Louisville Courier Journal responding to the governor’s remarks. “Bevin’s words paint fandom as a degenerate sensibility, when I have only ever known kindness and generosity from them.” Moore, a Kentucky native, pulled no punches, attacking Bevin for encouraging violence during the 2016 campaign. “This attack comes from the same Gov. Bevin who howled that modern American conservatism may need to be protected with actual bloodshed… Implying that under a liberal administration, it could be a likely necessity for a new civil war, a literal armed insurrection murdering Americans, to protect his political ideology.” Moore was referring to Bevin’s comment that if Hillary Clinton had won the presidency, and said: “Somebody asked me yesterday, I did an interview. ‘Do you think it’s possible, if Hillary Clinton were to win the election, do you think it’s possible that we’ll be able to survive, that we’d ever be able to recover as a nation?’ And while there are people who have stood on this stage and said we would not, I would beg to differ. I do think it would be possible, but at what price? At what price? The roots of the tree of liberty are watered by what? The blood of who? The tyrants, to be sure, but who else? The patriots.” “Whose blood will be shed?” he continued, “It may be that of those in this room. It might be that of our children and grandchildren. I have nine children. It breaks my heart to think that it might be their blood is needed to redeem something, to reclaim something that we, through our apathy and our indifference, have given away. Don’t let it happen.” So death is OK with Bevin — even if he has to sacrifice his own children — as long as it’s in service of his conservative ideals. But once we put zombies on television, that is a bridge too far. | |
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| 11-17-18 03:18pm - 2227 days | #314 | |
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@pinkerton, Adult Time site. I haven't tried it on a mobile platform. I use it on a laptop or desktop PC. In my opinion, Adult Time gives you access to maybe 70 separate sites. The main sites would be, as you mentioned, "21Sextury sites, Devils Film, Fame Digital, Fantasy Massage, Girlsway, Pretty Dirty, Pure Taboo, Rocco Siffredi, Vivid". The Adult Time hub/network could use a few tweaks, to make it even better. But the main problem currently is that the membership join is random: how much you are charged for the Adult Time add-on, or if you get it at all. Since I got the Adult Time lifetime membership free through a low-cost membership to 21 Sextury, I plan to keep that 21 Sextury membership active for a long time. Because it's a low-cost way of accessing so many premium pay sites. | |
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| 11-16-18 12:30pm - 2228 days | #3 | |
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There are so many comic book heroes and villains it's impossible to keep track of them. Meet The New Lex Luthor: Jon Cryer Lands Iconic Villain Role For ‘Supergirl’ by Geoff Boucher November 16, 2018 12:01pm Jon Cryer, the Emmy-winning co-star of Two and A Half Men, will return to primetime television to play the scheming, evil genius Lex Luthor as a recurring character on the CW series Supergirl. The plan is for Cryer to make his debut as Luthor in the 15th episode of the current season which airs in early January. The series switched to Sunday nights in October when it launched its Season Four storyline. The season’s sixth episode, titled Call to Action, airs this Sunday. Cryer won two Emmys for playing the feckless chiropractor Alan Harper on the CBS sitcom Two and A Half Men (2003-2015). His career breakthrough, however, was way back in 1986 when he portrayed an awkwardly smitten teen named “Duckie” Dale in Pretty in Pink. His other credits include Hot Shots! (1991) and Shorts (2009). Cryer recently wrapped production on the feature film Big Time Adolescence opposite of Saturday Night Live cast member Pete Davidson. Warner Bros. Cryer is no novice when it comes to Kryptonians and their screen exploits. That’s because after his Pretty in Pink success Cryer appeared in the 1987 film Superman IV: The Quest For Peace. The then-21-year-old actor portrayed Lenny Luthor, the dutiful nephew of Lex Luthor (Gene Hackman) who helps his uncle escape his penitentiary cellblock. Supergirl Executive Producer tandem of Robert Rovner and Jessica Queller said in a joint statement Friday that they are thrilled to have Cryer on board as a once-and-future Luthor. “We are enormous fans of Jon Cryer, and he was instantly our dream actor to play the iconic role of Lex Luthor” Rovner and Queller said. “Jon is a super-talent, and the fact that he played Lenny Luthor in Superman IV brings an added layer of legacy to his casting. We’re beyond thrilled to welcome Jon to the Supergirl family.” Last month, when the Supergirl team announced they were casting the Lex Luthor role, Rovner and Queller made it clear that the megalomaniacal tycoon has been on their mind since the series launched in October 2015. “We’ve talked about having Lex on the show since it’s inception and we’re excited to have him finally arrive. We can’t wait for him to shake things up in National City and watch him go toe-to-toe with not only Supergirl, but his sister, Lena Luthor (Katie McGrath).” In the pages of DC comic books, Luthor dates back to April 1940. The brilliant, bad (and usually bald) archenemy of Superman made his first screen appearance In 1950. When Kirk Alyn was Superman, actor Lyle Talbot (later in Ed Wood’s infamously bad Plan 9 From Outer Space) played the title villain in Atom Man vs. Superman — but in the end Atom Man was revealed to be none other than Luthor in disguise. Luthor’s signature screen moment arrived almost three decades later when it was Christopher Reeve wearing the red cape for the first time. That’s when Hackman was first tapped by director Richard Donner to portray a slippery con-man version of Luthor in Superman, which was the most expensive film in history at the time of its release in December 1978. More recent Luthors on the silver screen include Kevin Spacey (in Bryan Singer’s Superman Returns in 2006) looking like a slimmed-down Daddy Warbucks and Jesse Eisenberg (in Zack Snyder’s Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice in 2016) as a twitchier, savage-nerd version of the bad guy. On television, John Shea brought a debonair flair (and a full head of hair) to the character on Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman in the 1990s. For a decade of Smallville (2001-2011), Michael Rosenbaum portrayed the youngest and most-sustained version of Luthor as a cunning and charismatic frenemy to Tom Welling’s Clark Kent. Supergirl airs on Sundays at 8pm ET on The CW. Cryer is represented by Forward Entertainment, UTA and attorney David Fox. | |
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| 11-16-18 03:29am - 2229 days | #379 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Yes, still sent out by email. It takes a few days to be sent. A lottery ticket scratcher would be faster, but messier. LOL. PS: If you haven't gotten it by Friday or Saturday, email yujin with your current email address. | |
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| 11-15-18 03:54pm - 2229 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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This is the movie that will make Michael Bay a Master Director, on the same level as Christopher Nolan and James Cameron. With Bay's guidance, the Bumblebee transformer will challenge Optimus Prime to become the new leader of the Autobots. Hailee Steinfeld, as Charlie, will finally reach the level of stardom she has been seeking since her breakout role in True Grit. The movie will be released on December 20, 2018. Be there. Or be square! | |
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| 11-14-18 01:43pm - 2230 days | #1335 | |
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I think the site is more tolerant today than a few years ago. Under the previous management, this thread would have been shut down immediately. Because this thread is not about porn, except that Trump has made pussy-grabbing an acceptable way of saying hi to an attractive female. So maybe Trump is porn in action. | |
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| 11-14-18 03:38am - 2231 days | #1333 | |
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Trevor Noah reveals that the Republican party is the party of liars and hypocrites who killed his grandfather. Trevor is a loving, warm-hearted man who tries to forgive his enemies. But Republicans are the true scumbags of politics, who are difficult to forgive. Look at whats-his-name, Brett Kavanaugh, accused of atttemped rape and other sex crimes, who boasted about his excessive drinking but lied to the US Senate and the Republican party made Kavanaugh a poster boy by putting him on the Supreme Court. Republicans, the party of liars and hypocrites. The party of Donald Trump, the most corrupt President of the United States we've ever had. Go, Trump, the man who smiles as he lies to the public, the man elected to the highest office in the country. You can expect politicians to lie, but Trump has made it an art form. No wonder the Republican party loves him. --------- --------- The Wrap Trevor Noah Compares Recount Drama in Florida to Accidentally Killing His Grandfather (Video) “The Daily Show” host didn’t actually kill pop pop, but the situation in Florida is pretty crazy Ross A. Lincoln | November 13, 2018 @ 10:36 PM Last Updated: November 13, 2018 @ 10:53 PM On Tuesday, the “Daily Show” took a look at the recount drama in Florida, or as Trevor Noah called it, “the Florida of states.” The situation is so crazy, Noah said, it’s a lot like if you accidentally killed your grandfather through neglect. At issue are mandatory recounts in Florida’s gubernatorial and senate races, and how Republicans have pushed back against the recount through claims that the recounts, required by law, are efforts by Democrats to steal the election. People who say this “are lying. Nobody’s stealing the election,” said Noah. “But that doesn’t mean Florida doesn’t have big issues with its voting. All over Florida, the elections have been a clusterf—.” Noah then discussed Broward County, where the election supervisor approved inscrutable ballots that put the space for senate candidates underneath the instructions, and separate from all other ballot selections, leading at least 25,000 people to forget to cast a vote for the senate. “Even if the senate ballot was on a weird place on the form, how as a voter are you leaving that voting booth without voting for the main thing,” Noah asked. “I sort of understand. Like one time my grandfather sent me to the pharmacy to get his insulin, and then I came back with Shampoo, gum, People magazine. And we was like ‘where’s my insulin’ and I was like ‘ah I forgot the most important thing.’ And then he died and we laughed.” But don’t worry, Noah quickly clarified that he was just kidding: “He died for other reasons. It was the shampoo, he was allergic.” | |
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| 11-13-18 08:09pm - 2231 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Trump has taught us we can't always believe what the newspapers print. We have to ask outself: is this fake or true? Enquiring minds want to know. -------- -------- New Zealand newspaper mixes up Stan Lee and Spike Lee in obituary Taryn Ryder Yahoo Celebrity November 13, 2018 As Stan Lee tributes continue to roll in, there is one standing out for all the wrong reasons. A New Zealand newspaper mixed up the comic book legend and film director Spike Lee on its front page. The Gisborne Herald used a photo of Stan Lee, but misidentified him in print writing: ‘“Characters first, superheroes next: Spike Lee dies at 95.” Director Spike Lee is very much alive at age 61. The gaffe was quickly shared on Twitter. There’s something different about Spike Lee but i can’t quite place it 🤔 pic.twitter.com/bjs6fxaHKY — Kenny Williams (@Ohheykenny) November 13, 2018 Stan Lee, who helped create Spider-Man, the Hulk, Iron Man, Black Panther, and so many more, passed away Monday in Los Angeles. While his official cause of death has not been revealed, he battled health issues this year. In January, Lee was hospitalized for shortness of breath and an irregular heartbeat. The following month, he suffered pneumonia. Marvel stars, including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Pratt and Mark Ruffalo, paid their respects to Lee yesterday. Thanks for everything Stan Lee! What a life, so well lived. I consider myself extraordinarily lucky to have gotten to meet you and to have played in the world you created.   pic.twitter.com/ryUjG7PL8D— chris pratt (@prattprattpratt) November 12, 2018 Sad, sad day. Rest In Power, Uncle Stan. You have made the world a better place through the power of modern mythology and your love of this messy business of being human… pic.twitter.com/x6yZ6ClNSX — Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) November 12, 2018 There have been no photo mix-ups (so far) from Hollywood. | |
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