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| 01-11-19 09:25pm - 2172 days | #8 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The thread title: "The death of the Internet and Amazon" was meant as hyperbole. Neither Amazon or the Internet are dying. But sometimes people (at PU or elsewhere) seem to take me literally, and are angry at my jokes (or what I meant to be jokes). | |
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| 01-11-19 11:27am - 2172 days | #1384 | |
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Trump Has Just Hired An Army Of 17 Lawyers To Hide From Mueller [Esquire] Olivia Ovenden Esquire•January 10, 2019 Despite his attempts to cause confusion and chaos with a national address on the proposed border wall - in which he said very little - the heat of the Mueller investigation is clearly getting to Donald. So much so that he's considerably strengthened his legal team in order to help protect himself as the feared contents of Mueller's report loom. The significantly larger team has been assembled with the aim of preventing Trump's discussions with top legal advisors being disclosed to House Democrats or revealed in Mueller's forthcoming report. The Independent report that, "The strategy to strongly assert the president's executive privilege on both fronts is being developed under newly arrived White House counsel Pat Cipollone, who has hired 17 lawyers in recent weeks to help in the effort." Were Trump to succeed in blocking areas of Mueller's report from becoming public it would enrage Democrats, many of which have long been hoping the contents of the report will give them grounds to issue subpoenas. With the report potentially due as soon as next month, Democrats are especially concerned that Trump's legal team is attempting to conceal obstruction of justice by the president - an impeachable offence. Hoping to hide behind an army of lawyers, Trump's legal team have told special counsel Robert Mueller he will not answer any more questions. Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani told Reuters, "As far as we're concerned, everything is over. We weren't convinced they had any questions they don't know the answer to." He added, "They could try to subpoena him if they want. But they know we could fight that like hell," he said. The investment in a bolstered legal team is particularly galling for federal government workers who continue to go unpaid amid the partial government shut down. Donny always said his priority was protecting American jobs, but perhaps he should have made clear he only meant his own. | |
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| 01-11-19 11:11am - 2172 days | #5 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
There might be pre-nups and post-nups and other legal documents. The details of the divorce settlement will probably never be publicly disclosed. And since a good part of the settlement to the wife will almost certainly be Amazon stock, it would be crazy for her to drive the stock price down, because it would be shooting herself in the foot, no matter how angry she might be. The news announcement states the wife will be active in Amazon affairs, presumably because she is such a large stakeholder. So she should continue to be, as she already is, one of the world's richest women. | |
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| 01-10-19 12:35pm - 2173 days | #414 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I think the main reason many PU members submit rev9ews of the same porn sites is that we tend to go back to the sites that gave quality content for a reasonable price. Many times, or even most times, when you join a new porn site, that has no reviews, the quality is questionable: You end up saying, "Why did I waste my money on this site, when there are so many better buys around?" Of course, some new great sites do come out once in a while. But you're taking a chance on a new site that hasn't been reviewed before: and newer sites usually have less content, so you're paying a high price to see what's there. But if PU wants to offer 3rd place as a 30 day membership, fine with me. Sign me up for MPL Studios. They have some almost beautiful models over there. Also, side note: the Adult Time network seems like a fantastic deal: a low cost way to view (and download) over 100 porn sites. Has PU reached out to list them yet? I know one PU member who complained that he never got the Adult Time membership that was advertised. And customer service apparently did not respond to his email asking for help. | |
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| 01-10-19 12:55am - 2173 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I am a member of Amazon Prime. But I no longer know if I can trust Jeff Bezos or Amazon or even the Washington Post. My faith in my fellow man has crumbled. Is there no true love anymore, no true faith? -------- -------- Jeff Bezos' Alleged Secret Relationship Revealed Hours After Announcing Divorce by Lena Grossman | Wed., Jan. 9, 2019 5:58 PM Jeff Bezos reportedly has a new love interest in his life. According to multiple reports, the Amazon CEO has been secretly seeing former Good Day L.A. co-host Lauren Sanchez. The news of their alleged relationship comes just hours after Bezos announced that he and his wife MacKenzie Bezos were getting a divorce after 25 years of marriage. "We want to make people aware of a development in our lives. As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends," the Washington Post owner said in a statement. It continued, "We feel incredible lucky to have found each other and deeply grateful for everyone one of the years we have been married to each other. If we had known we would separate after 25 years, we would do it all again. We've had such a great life together as a married couple, and we also see wonderful futures ahead, as parents, friends, partners in ventures and projects, and as individuals pursing ventures and adventures." Page Six reports Bezos and Sanchez became acquainted through her husband, Patrick Whitesell. He's the co-CEO of the major Hollywood agency WME. Jeff Bezos, Richest Man in the World, Getting Divorced After 25 Years: What's at Stake According to the publication, Whitesell represents some of the biggest names in the industry, including Matt Damon, Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Ryan Reynolds, John Krasinski and Michelle Williams. The Hollywood Reporter also confirms their relationship and reported that the Whitesells were regulars at Bezos' Seattle-area home. Bezos, Whitesell and Sanchez were all photographed together in 2016 at a party for the film Manchester by the Sea. Whitesell and Sanchez apparently separated just recently. A source told Page Six the couple "officially separated in the fall." They got married in 2005 and have two children together: a 10-year-old daughter and 12-year-old son. She also has an 18-year-old son from her first husband, former NFL star Tony Gonzalez. Sanchez runs her own company called Black Ops Aviation, which is an aerial filming company. She is a helicopter pilot and has worked on films such as Dunkirk and Miss Bala. The 49-year-old business owner also worked on a few videos for Blue Origin, which is Bezos' aerospace company. The tech giant and MacKenzie have four children together. At a net worth of over $136 billion dollars, Bezos is the richest man in the world. Forbes' Assistant Managing Editor Luisa Kroll told E! News how much is at stake in their divorce. "95 percent of his fortune is tied to Amazon stock. So his fortune goes up and down with the e retailer," she explained. While he also heads Washington Post and Blue Origin, Amazon remains the true epicenter of his wealth because "nearly almost all of [his assets are] tied up" in the online retail company. So what does MacKenzie get when all is said and done after being married to the richest man on the planet? "My assumption, especially since they live in Washington state where property is split between husband and wife, my assumption is that she is going to get a significant amount of shares," Kroll told us. The Forbes editor predicted MacKenzie will "get shares in the company" because Bezos' wealth is tied in directly with Amazon stock. Kroll believes the shares will be in her name, but he will "probably still be voting with them." Even in MacKenzie gets 50 percent of the shares, she would still be one of the wealthiest people in the world. Kroll explained, "If she were to get half, which is within the realm of possibility, she would be the 5th richest person in the world. She would by far be the richest woman in the world." If so, she would surpass Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page. Neither Bezos nor Whitesell has commented publicly about their rumored relationship. | |
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| 01-01-19 03:58pm - 2182 days | #1383 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Fake news update: Trump welcomes the new year with a government shutdown continuing. Trump defends his country by keeping out racist Mexicans, scummy blacks, terrorist Muslims, and other criminals. Keep America safe. Keep America White. Keep America the land that I love, that I believe in. ---------- ---------- Donald Trump rejects Democratic funding plan, wishes Happy New Year to 'haters' David Jackson, USA TODAY Published 9:13 a.m. ET Jan. 1, 2019 | Updated 5:46 p.m. ET Jan. 1, 2019 With the partial government shutdown stretching into 2019, here's what you need to know about the effects. USA TODAY WASHINGTON – With no end of a partial shutdown in sight, President Donald Trump rang in the new year Tuesday by denouncing a new Democratic plan to reopen the government because it lacks money for a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border. "The Democrats, much as I suspected, have allocated no money for a new Wall. So imaginative!" Trump tweeted. "The problem is, without a Wall there can be no real Border Security - and our Country must finally have a Strong and Secure Southern Border!" Democrats accused Trump of promoting the shutdown, in its 11th day as well as a new year, by insisting on an expensive wall that would do little or nothing to stop illegal border crossings. Trump "has given Democrats a great opportunity to show how we will govern responsibly & quickly pass our plan to end the irresponsible #TrumpShutdown – just the first sign of things to come in our new Democratic Majority committed to working #ForThePeople," Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi tweeted in promoting her plan. From the White House, Trump issued mocking season's greetings to his critics. "HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE, INCLUDING THE HATERS AND THE FAKE NEWS MEDIA!" Trump tweeted. He wrote, "2019 WILL BE A FANTASTIC YEAR FOR THOSE NOT SUFFERING FROM TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. JUST CALM DOWN AND ENJOY THE RIDE, GREAT THINGS ARE HAPPENING FOR OUR COUNTRY!" Later in the day, Trump issued a more sedate tweet: "Happy New Year!" Trump taunted Pelosi, who is likely to be elected House speaker for the new Democratic majority. "Border Security and the Wall 'thing' and Shutdown is not where Nancy Pelosi wanted to start her tenure as Speaker!" Trump tweeted. "Let’s make a deal?" The Trump administration invited congressional leaders to the White House on Wednesday for a briefing on border security, including plans for the wall. Pelosi and the Democrats said they already have a plan and will pass it when they take charge of the House of Representatives after it convenes Thursday. The proposal includes full-year funding for shuttered departments except for the Department of Homeland Security, which handles immigration and border security. The Democrats called for temporary funding of the DHS through Feb. 8 as Trump and Congress negotiate a long-term plan, though many Democrats oppose any federal funding for the wall. "The President is using the #TrumpShutdown to try to force an expensive & ineffective wall upon the American people, but Democrats have offered two bills which separate the arguments over the wall from the government shutdown," Pelosi tweeted. Though White House officials said they would not comment on any plan until Congress sends them one, Trump has said in tweets he would oppose any plan that lacks money for a wall. Monday, the president tweeted that "the Democrats will probably submit a Bill, being cute as always, which gives everything away but gives NOTHING to Border Security, namely the Wall. You see, without the Wall there can be no Border Security." Though Democrats will have the votes in the House to pass their plan, its fate in the Republican-run Senate is uncertain at best. Don Stewart, spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said the GOP Senate "is not going to send something to the president that he won’t sign." | |
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| 01-01-19 03:19pm - 2182 days | #1382 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
President Trump lies there is a 10 foot wall around the Obama house in Washington. Maybe Trump needs new glasses? Or a new brain? But Trump wants to build a wall about 3 or 4 times higher than the imaginary wall around Obama's house. And thousands of miles long, which would be much longer than the imaginary wall around Obama's house. What's the difference in cost: Obama 10 foot wall: Zero (there is no wall). Trump wall: Billions of dollars. -------- -------- January 1, 2019 1:02PM ET Trump Lies About ’10 Foot Wall’ Around Obama’s Home. There Isn’t One A neighbor confirmed the former president’s house is “100 percent visible from the street” By Peter Wade the Obama's red brick home that does not have a 10 foot wall around it The Obamas' home in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C In the midst of the government shutdown over funding of President Donald Trump’s border wall, the president tweeted a bizarre justification for wanting to build a barrier between Mexico and the United States, saying that former President Barack Obama has a “ten foot Wall” surrounding his home in Washington, D.C. But thanks to reporting by the Washington Post, we know that is patently false. It turns out the president was completely making up this assertion. According to one neighbor who spoke with the Post: “There’s a fence that goes along the front of the house, but it’s the same as the other neighbors have. It’s tastefully done.” And another neighbor confirmed to the paper that the house is “100 percent visible from the street.” While there is a fence and a guard house blocking part of the driveway to the Obamas’ $8.1 million-dollar home, installed by the Secret Service, the Post’s fact checker confirms the front of the house is open to the street, and nothing blocks the stairs leading up to the front door. And the mansion, located in the Kalorama neighborhood of D.C., certainly isn’t a compound, like Trump alleged. Trump also claimed in his tweet that his proposed border wall would be a “slightly larger version” of the wall he accused the Obamas of having. But even that was stretching the truth. His desired border wall would be three or four times as tall and thousands of miles long, significantly larger than the imaginary fence around President Obama’s house. | |
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| 12-27-18 11:52am - 2187 days | #1381 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
President Donald Trump tweets video of secretive SEAL team in Iraq. Remember Hillary Clinton, with the chant to lock her up. Now Trump might have broken the law, with tweets of a secretive Seal team in Iraq. God save President Trump. He belongs in prison for numerous crimes. In prison, Trump will have to chance to repent for his sins. Lock up Trump, and his family, and his allies. While the president has broad authority to declassify information, some observers called it a breach of operational security. You need to declassify information before releasing it. Not after. So Trump is breaking the law. ======= ======= Trump tweets video of secretive SEAL team in Iraq AFP AFP 3 hours ago US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump during an unannounced trip to Al Asad Air Base in Iraq (AFP Photo/SAUL LOEB) Washington (AFP) - President Donald Trump may have inadvertently unmasked a Navy SEAL team during his short visit to a US base in Iraq this week. Ordinarily, the whereabouts of special operations forces are a closely held secret. In the rare instances when they are filmed while in a combat zone, their faces and other identifying features are usually blurred out. But after his lightning trip to Al-Asad Air Base in western Iraq on Wednesday, Trump tweeted a video of him posing for photos with US troops, shaking their hands and signing mementos. In one scene, he is giving a thumbs up alongside a group of what appear to be special operations forces. According to the pool report of the event, held in a dining hall at the base, a man called Kyu Lee told Trump he was the chaplain for SEAL Team Five. Lee recalled Trump telling him: "Hey, in that case, let’s take a picture." While the president has broad authority to declassify information, so his tweet likely didn't run afoul of any rules, some observers called it a breach of operational security. Revealing identities "even if it's the commander-in-chief, would prove a propaganda boom if any of this personnel are detained by a hostile government or captured by a terrorist group," Malcolm Nance, a former US Navy intelligence specialist told Newsweek. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump also drew criticism in the US for repeating a previously debunked claim that he had secured military members a pay raise for the first time in 10 years, when in fact the Pentagon has increased pay each year. In Iraq following the visit, pro-Iran lawmakers called for the government to expel US forces. | |
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| 12-27-18 11:25am - 2187 days | #2 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
It's official: Miley Cyrus confirms marriage to Liam Hemsworth. However, the confirmation is not 100%. Miley might be married, or not. But there is love in the air. Or bullshit. Hard to tell with Miley. --------------- --------------- Miley Cyrus Confirms Marriage to Liam Hemsworth by Cydney Contreras | Wed., Dec. 26, 2018 1:06 PM Miley Cyrusis a blushing bride in new photos of her wedding to Liam Hemsworth. The famous singer posted photos of herself in a white dress, with her arms wrapped around the groom in a warm embrace on Wednesday. In the black-and-white pictures, there is a delicate bouquet perched beside the couple and Liam looks to be wearing a wedding band on his ring finger. For the ceremony, the "Wrecking Ball" singer wore a gorgeous off the shoulder Vivienne Westwood gown, with her blonde locks cascading down her back. As for Liam, he appeared to be wearing white Vans and a suit and tie for his formal attire. While Miley didn't confirm that a ceremony did indeed take place, she wrote "10 years later" as her caption. Fans believe this is the couple's way of announcing they are finally a married couple. Speculation began to mount on Sunday night after Miley's little sister Noah Cyrus shared photos of herself crying, as well as a photo with "Mr. & Mrs." balloons in the background. Moreover, Noah was clearly at Miley and Liam's home in Tennessee, where the pair is currently living following the loss of their home to fires in Malibu, Calif.. Photos Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth: Relationship Rewind There was also video of Liam, his brothers Luke Hemsworth and Chris Hemsworth drinking from a shot-ski with their father in celebration. Not to mention a video of Miley and Liam that looked like they were about to cut into a delicious looking wedding cake as there family and friends looked on. The wedding nuptials have been a longtime coming. Miley and Liam first met on the set of the movie The Last Song in 2008 and quickly fell in love. They continued dating off and on for many years until Liam popped the question for a second time in 2016. Their families must be overjoyed to officially call them their in-laws, since a source has told E! News, "Their family would love for them to finally tie the knot and are very excited about it." Congratulations to the newlyweds! | |
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| 12-27-18 11:15am - 2187 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Horror. Shame. Jonathan Rhys Meyers, an Irish actor, died on Vikings. Meyers went out in a blaze of glory. Thinking of his pagan love, Katheryn Winnick. Will God forgive Meyers, or will Meyers burn in ever-lasting hell? Watch the series, to find out if Meyers' soul is tormented in the fires of hell, or if Katheryn Winnick descends to the bowels of hell to save this doomed Christian? Katheryn Winnick's biggest mistake was splitting from Travis Fimmel. Travis was the man who could have made Katheryn queen of all the Vikings. | |
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| 12-24-18 07:41pm - 2190 days | #1380 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Fake news: the only real news that's fit to print. President Trump wants to shut down the news: newspapers, radio, TV. He wants to start his own national news center, "The Real News Reports" by the only honest man in the US government: Donald Trump. Vote for Trump, the man who will make America white and great again: Donald Trump, leader of the Moral Majority for a White America. --- --- Trump calls report about him 'lashing out' at acting AG Matt Whitaker 'fake news' Geobeats Dec 24th 2018 9:21PM President Trump on Monday called a recent report about him “lashing out” at acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker “fake news.” “I never ‘lashed out’ at the Acting Attorney General of the U.S., a man for whom I have great respect,” Trump tweeted. “This is a made up story, one of many, by the Fake News Media!” The tweet comes after CNN reported that Trump had expressed his anger at Whitaker over developments in the case against the president’s former lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen. According to the report, “Trump was frustrated, the sources said, that prosecutors Matt Whitaker oversees filed charges that made Trump look bad. None of the sources suggested that the President directed Whitaker to stop the investigation, but rather lashed out at what he felt was an unfair situation.” CNN claims there were two such confrontations—one after Cohen pleaded guilty and another after prosecutors suggested that Trump himself was complicit in campaign finance violations by agreeing to pay for the silence of his alleged mistresses during the 2016 election. Cohen was sentenced to three years in prison for charges that “included arranging hush-money payments to two women who said they had affairs with Mr. Trump, tax evasion, making a false statement to a bank and lying to Congress,” reports the New York Times. | |
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| 12-24-18 06:13pm - 2190 days | #1379 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
President Donald Trump pours shame on Christmas. Says there is not enough money to keep the National Christmas tree lit up. Trump is showing Christians the dark side of his real nature: Is Trump the anti-Christ, in sheep's clothing? Trump has also ordered that restroom facilities will be closed. So people can take a dump in the streets, if they are willing to chance being arrested for public indecency. ------- ------- National Christmas tree dark due to government shutdown HuffPost US Ron Dicker Dec 24th 2018 9:27AM Lots of folks aren’t seeing the light in Washington this week. The National Christmas Tree may stay dark during the partial government shutdown, according to reports on Sunday. “During the federal government shutdown, the White House Visitor Center and National Christmas Tree site will be closed,” the National Park Service wrote on its website. “Restroom facilities will be closed.” The tree, a massive Colorado blue spruce, was damaged Friday when a man in “emotional distress” tried to climb it, a park service spokesperson told The Hill. The shutdown has “complicated” repairs that would allow for the lights to be turned back on. There was a flicker of hope that might happen. The National Park Foundation, a charity that supports the park service, was providing materials and labor to get the lights working, a park service spokeswoman told WTOP. The lights flickered on and off Sunday as workers assessed the damage. The darkened tree, located on the Ellipse near the White House, adds a grinch-like note to the standoff between President Donald Trump and Congress over his demand for a $5 billion border wall. Trump’s acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, warned the shutdown could stretch into January. President Calvin Coolidge began the National Christmas Tree tradition in 1923, when he lit a tree with 2,500 bulbs in red, white and blue, according to the park service. Ninety-five years later, the prospects appear dim that the tree will be relighted in time for Christmas. Talk about a dark moment in history. | |
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| 12-24-18 05:45pm - 2190 days | #1378 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Will members of Donald's Trump family ever be indicted? Have members of Donald's Trump family ever lied? Do bears shit in the woods? (Or do they use a porta potty? Which would still qualify as shitting in the woods.) Enquiring minds want to know: ---------- ---------- the national interest Nov. 7, 2018 Donald Trump Jr. Expecting to Be Indicted by Mueller Soon By Jonathan Chait @jonathanchait Donald Trump Jr. Photo: Scott Sonner/AP/REX/Shutterstock Last year, Donald Trump Jr. testified that he never informed his father of a meeting with Russian officials promising “dirt” on Hillary Clinton. It seemed hard to believe that the ne’er-do-well son would neglect to seek credit for his expected campaign coup from the father whose approval he so obviously craves. And now it seems that Robert Mueller has obtained proof that it is not in fact true. The Trump family lies all the time, of course, but doing it under oath is a crime. Two days ago, Gabriel Sherman reported that White House officials are concerned about Donald Jr. “I’m very worried about Don Jr.,” a former West Wing official told Sherman, who fears Mueller will be able to prove perjury. Deep in a report about Trump’s 2020 campaign plans, Politico drops the news this morning that Trump Jr. “has told friends in recent weeks that he believes he could be indicted.” If it’s what you’re saying, we love it. Get unlimited access to Intelligencer and everything else New York. Learn More » The details of the expected indictment remain to be seen. But if Trump Jr. did lie under oath, the obvious question is why. He had a lawyer, who presumably informed him of the dangers of perjury. Why take the risk of perjury to deny having informed his father about a meeting with Russian officials if the contacts produced absolutely nothing? | |
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| 12-24-18 05:39pm - 2190 days | #1377 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
A US court orders North Korea to pay $501 million in US student's death. President Donald Trump reads the news, and says, what a great idea. He then offers a $50 bounty on Robert Mueller, dead or alive, for wasting US taxpayer dollars on a witch hunt. "There are no witches", President Trump declares. "I learned that as a boy, growning up in Salem, Ma." So why is Bob Mueller wasting all this money? He could have, instead, used the money to pay his golf club membership fees to me, and we'd both be happier people. ----- ----- U.S. court orders North Korea to pay $501 million in U.S. student's death Thomson Reuters Lesley Wroughton Dec 24th 2018 3:45PM WASHINGTON, Dec 24 (Reuters) - A U.S. court on Monday ordered Pyongyang to pay $501 million in damages for the torture and death of U.S. college student Otto Warmbier, who died in 2017 shortly after being released from a North Korea prison. Warmbier's parents sued North Korea in April over their son's death. The 22-year-old student died days after he was returned to the United States in a coma, and an Ohio coroner said the cause of death was lack of oxygen and blood to the brain. "North Korea is liable for the torture, hostage taking, and extrajudicial killing of Otto Warmbier, and the injuries to his mother and father, Fred and Cindy Warmbier," Judge Beryl Howell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colombia said in her ruling. Pyongyang has blamed botulism and ingestion of a sleeping pill for Warmbier's death and dismissed torture claims. Fred and Cindy Warmbier said in a statement they had promised their son justice. "We are thankful that the United States has a fair and open judicial system so that the world can see that the Kim regime is legally and morally responsible for Otto’s death," the Warmbiers said. "We put ourselves and our family through the ordeal of a lawsuit and public trial because we promised Otto that we will never rest until we have justice for him," they said. "Today’s thoughtful opinion by Chief Judge Howell is a significant step on our journey." Howell's ruling was a default judgment, a type of decision entered against a party that does not appear in court. Default judgments against foreign defendants are often difficult to collect. U.S. courts can compensate default judgment holders by ordering the seizure of funds or other assets located within the country, but that is unlikely in this case because sanctions prohibit North Korea from accessing the U.S. financial system. The ruling comes at a sensitive time in U.S.-North Korea diplomatic relations, as the two countries negotiate the dismantling of Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program. President Donald Trump has said that Warmbier did not die in vain and his death helped initiate a process that led to a historic meeting this year between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. A student at the University of Virginia, Warmbier was imprisoned in North Korea for 17 months starting in January 2016. He had been visiting the country as a tourist. North Korea state media said he was sentenced to 15 years of hard labor for trying to steal an item bearing a propaganda slogan from his hotel. (Additional reporting by Jan Wolfe; Editing by Mary Milliken and Cynthia Osterman) | |
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| 12-24-18 07:44am - 2190 days | #1376 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Making America White again, so White people can live in peace. Without worrying about whether some crazed Mexican rapist or dark-skinned person of color will come bursting through their kitchen door with a sawed-off shotgun or people-killer armed assault rifle firing 5 bazillion bullets per second. You can't trust everyone to be safe and sane like I am. I sleep with a Smith & Wesson .357 in my right hand. A Smith & Wesson .500 in my left hand. And a box of anti-personnel grenades strapped to my chest. Rolling over is a chore. But I sleep like a baby, knowing I'm prepared against the Chinks, the Slants, the Mexicans, the scummy Democrats that are outside my house. God bless Donald Trump, making America great again, making it White again. -------- -------- MSNBC TODAY 'Wow, I'm racist': In time of viral encounters, 'white spaces' are used to confront biases U.S. news 'Wow, I'm racist': In time of viral encounters, 'white spaces' are used to confront biases "I used to think I was this perfect little white person in a bubble that didn't do anything bad to black people, and so I was OK." Workshop offers candid talk on race, privilege and being white Dec. 24, 2018 / 7:11 AM PST By Erik Ortiz Nicole O'Connor, a nurse practitioner in St. Louis, was selling her dining room table on Facebook when a prospective buyer — a black man — reached out. She told her husband not to leave her alone if the man came to see the furniture, which she didn't feel the need to say when a white woman like herself had shown interest. That was her moment of clarity: "I was like, 'Oh my God, that's racism,'" O'Connor, 32, said in a group of all white adults this month. "So I told my husband. I'm like, 'I don't know what to do with this, but this is how I'm feeling.'" O'Connor felt vulnerable and embarrassed but also understood as she shared the story with seven others sitting in a circle at a school in suburban St. Louis. No one passed judgment. This was their "white space" — a concept that has been growing in communities like St. Louis where racial incidents have prompted anger and even unrest. A stream of viral videos this year involving white people — them calling police on black people doing ordinary activities perceived as suspicious, threatening to call ICE on Spanish-speaking workers or in racist rants — resonated in ways that have frustrated and disturbed not only minorities but white Americans who want to make sense of what they're watching. An NBC News|SurveyMonkey poll released in May found that 64 percent of respondents believe racism remains a "major problem" in America, and while 40 percent of blacks said they were treated unfairly in a store or restaurant, only 7 percent of whites said the same. O'Connor's group is one of several that began through the Metro St. Louis chapter of the YWCA, which has focused on racial justice in a region that has been historically segregated and where blacks have faced higher rates of poverty, infant mortality and unemployment than whites. The YWCA's program — based on the 2010 book "Witnessing Whiteness" — began in 2011, but interest climbed after the fatal shooting of black teenager Michael Brown in the suburb of Ferguson in 2014, said Mary Ferguson, the chapter's racial justice director. Now, as many as 16 groups meet in schools, churches and other community spaces, with up to 25 people in each, Ferguson said. More than dozen more groups are set to begin meeting in January. Enrollment is free and the groups are organized by volunteers, but there remains one catch: Participants must identify as white. "It was important to us that we had a group where people of color wouldn't be on the spot, wouldn't be asked to teach, wouldn't be asked to listen to white people as they struggle to understand racism," she added. Ferguson said having a place for white people to meet also promotes a more candid conversation. The sessions focus on book chapters such as "Culture, Tradition, and Appropriation?" and "Positions of Privilege." "One of the greatest fears that many of our participants express ... is the fear that they're going to offend," Ferguson said. "That they are going to show their ignorance, that they are going to upset other people and they sense it themselves. One way that we can open up the space for conversation is to make the group all white." Such "whiteness" programs have been scrutinized by whites and people of color who believe the courses are their own form of segregation. The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs scrapped an "Unmasking Whiteness" class in May since it was not intended for all races, The Gazette, the local newspaper, reported. But the assumption that America has moved into a "post-racial" space — particularly after the election of Barack Obama as president in 2008 — is a fallacy, said Debby Irving, who is white and the author of "Waking Up White and Finding Myself in the Story of Race," about the concept of white privilege. This year's trend of white women, in particular, calling police on black people — including a man trying to enter his own apartment building in St. Louis and a young boy in Brooklyn, New York, wrongly accused of sexual assault — shows that "white ignorance and white silence" remain chronic problems in America, Irving said. O'Connor, the nurse practitioner, said she had never heard the term "white privilege" until this year, but through "Witnessing Whiteness" sessions has realized how racism can be subtle and unintentional, not as overt as waving a Confederate flag and shouting the N-word, but real nonetheless. Nicole O'Connor said she had never heard the term "white privilege" until this year.NBC News One chapter in the book, she told the group, made her think, "Wow, I'm racist," and that she "used to think I was this perfect little white person in a bubble that didn't do anything bad to black people, and so I was OK." Speaking with her husband after the furniture-selling incident made her see the progress she was making because she could at least recognize and vocalize her subtle racism. "This class has done a lot for me in just the awareness and understanding of where this exists in my life," O'Connor told the group. "Do I know what to do with it right now? No. But you've got to start somewhere." Other people in the group were working out their own experiences: One man said the feeling of white guilt alone wasn't going to stop the shootings of black men by police. A woman wondered how she could be labeled as "privileged" if she was lower-middle class and worked hard just to get there. Vincent C. Flewellen, who is African-American and the former associate director of diversity and inclusion at a St. Louis-area private school that offered a "Witnessing Whiteness" program, said going through the sessions doesn't automatically transform someone. It's a process. But at a minimum, he said, he wants white people to not call police on black people "just because they're gathering in a park." Most important, he added, "the outcome is that they find their voice and are able to speak to, call out and stand up against racism." Sue Dersch, a group leader, has been trying to do just that. She began as a participant in the program in 2014, after the shooting in Ferguson. She hadn't necessarily thought of herself as racist — in fact, she and her husband had adopted two black sons more than 10 years ago. But going through the program led her to re-examine her life experiences. One time, before the adoption, she said she tensed up and became fearful when she saw a young black man in a hoodie walking toward her in a parking lot. A year ago, while she was stuffing letters into a mailbox, a young black man was walking toward her — again, she said, she grew tense. Dersch — no stranger to being targeted when her "Black Lives Matter" signs were vandalized repeatedly outside of her home three years ago — was mortified that she had had the same reaction. "I had the overwhelming feeling of, 'Oh my goodness, some other women could be feeling that same way about my sons,'" said Dersch, 63. "That really kind of shook me." When thinking about videos of white women calling police on black people — garnering nicknames on social media like "Pool Patrol Paula" and "Barbecue Becky" — she sometimes wishes she could freeze-frame the situation and tell them: "It's not your business. ... Take a step back, stay in your lane, go get your groceries, and go home and fix dinner." Ultimately, she said, it's easy to be critical of others, but white people can't be afraid to turn the mirror on themselves for fear of being branded as racist. For her, it's a progression, peeling back layer after layer of built-in bias. Her goal? "I want to be less racist tomorrow than I am today," Dersch said. Erik Ortiz Erik Ortiz is an NBC News staff writer focusing on racial injustice and social inequality. Shako Liu contributed. Edited on Dec 24, 2018, 11:21am | |
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| 12-24-18 05:57am - 2190 days | #4 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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My recommendation would be for you to join pick one of the holiday special deals. 21 Sextury, GirlsWay, Devils Film, etc. are all Adult Time sites. RabbitsReviews.com is offering links to special deals. (RabbitsReviews is a owned/operated by the PU/TBP sites owners/operators). Email customer support before joining any site. Email is to get it writing that you are getting the free Adult Time add-on, which is the way it's supposed to work, but doesn't always work in practice. You should automatically get the Adult Time network as a free add-on to your membership in any one of the Adult Time sites. Unlimited downloads, unlimited streaming, access to over 50,000 hardcore videos. Over 100 separate channels (Adult Time calls their sites channels). A fantastic deal, a huge amount of high quality porn, covering a wide range of niches, for a very low price. However, I think Adult Time is still in beta testing. And they can advertise different things. I see a Devils Film site description of Adult Time, where they give you 69+ porn channels free. But I also have a sub to 21Sextury, and they say they give you 129 porn channels free. So I recommend, choose the porn site in the Adult Time network, with a low discounted fee, and email customer support or do a live chat, and get a copy, to prove that you are entitled to what the email or chat tells you. Adult Time should give you a lot of high quality sites, for an amazingly low price. So there should be more than enough good content to get your money's worth. --------------- --------------- Being in the porn business means dealing with lots of fraud and other problems. Any porn site is normally considered a high-risk transaction. As well as the stigma of dealing with a porn site. So payment processors and credit card companies often question any transaction with a porn site. That helps explain why the payment processors (CCBill, Epoch, whatever) charge higher fees for porn payments. I've read that CCBill charges 16% per transaction. In addition to a security deposit. Other payment processors have very high fees for any porn transaction. Makes you wonder how the porn sites stay in business, because the payment processors are taking so much money from them. ---------- ---------- PS: I like your reviews. They are interesting to read. But I wouldn't join any of the sites you review. Different strokes for different folks, I think.  | |
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| 12-24-18 04:50am - 2190 days | #1375 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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In the spirit of Christian forgiveness, Donald Trump has made an amazing announcement: he forgives all his enemies, even the ones who will go straight to hell (where they belong) for criticizing his achievements. Also, Trump has issued general pardons to himself, his wife, and all his children, for any and all crimes they may have committed in the past. Trump, his wife and children are all innocent, but evil, scum-sucking Democrats have attacked his precious family, and Trump will defend his family to the last drop of his blood (unless they turn on him and agree to testify against him--in which case he will see that they spend the rest of their lives in prison). God bless America, God bless Donald Trump and his wonderful family. May the US public contribute billions of dollars to the Trump foundation, so Trump can make America great again, without worrying about paying for his next meal at McDonald's. Trump recently declared he'd be proud to shut down the government over border issues. Trump is a brilliant man, who drags us kicking and screaming into the glories of a new, Whiter America based on Christ's love of his fellow man. (Except for scummy Democrats, rapist Mexicans, people from shithole African countries, and a few other places Trump has yet to speak about.) | |
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| 12-23-18 09:43am - 2191 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Never heard of surfnet. So no opinion, except that CCBill, Epoch and Vendo are safe, easy to deal with. I suggest applying for a Visa card. They are free (no annual fee or processing charge), and should be easy to sign up for. I seem to get over 10 offers from credit card companies every week. But go on the internet for faster signup. If you want to be extra safe, use a pre-paid credit card. But I've never bothered. And so far, I've never gotten a fraud charge I've had to pay for. (Except I did have to pay for a 1-year membership to Sinemia that Discover ruled was a valid transaction, even though I never got a single movie ticket, and was supposed to get 3 tickets per month. And I sent Discover the email that Sinemia told me my membership was suspended, because I was disputing the membership fee ($179.8  , because, as Discover told me in writing, "the merchant is willing and able to provide their service." Which I told Discover was a lie. They never processed a single movie ticket after all my attempts, and when they suspended my membership, I could no longer log in to the Sinemia cell phone app: I got the message: Login denied!So either Discover did not believe me, when I said I never got a single movie ticket, or they did not believe the copy of the email from Sinemia stating my membership was suspended (since Discover said Sinemia was willing and able to provide the service), or Discover speaks nonsense English. So I've lost a lot of respect for Discover. | |
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| 12-23-18 05:41am - 2191 days | #1374 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Trump sends tsunami to Indonesia, killing at least 222 dark-skinned people. Trump wants to make America white again. But he is expanding his vision beyond the US borders. He is now looking at Indonesia, where people have dark skins, like the Mexican rapists. So he used his secret codes to send a Tsunami to Indonesia, increasing the white population of the county by a few percent. Once Trump is able to use his secret weapons of mass destruction better, the white population will grow in percentage, because Trump has vowed to destroy all dark-skinned rapists and murderers and terrorists. --------- --------- Tsunami triggered by volcano kills at least 222 The Associated Press Dec 23rd 2018 7:44AM CARITA BEACH, Indonesia (AP) — A tsunami believed to be triggered by a volcanic eruption killed at least 222 people in Indonesia during a busy holiday weekend, sweeping away hotels, hundreds of houses and a group of people attending a beach concert. More than 800 were reported injured and 28 missing after the tsunami hit around the Sunda Strait on Saturday night, the Disaster Management Agency said. The toll could continue to rise because some areas had not yet been reached. Scientists, including those from Indonesia's Meteorology and Geophysics agency, said Sunday that the tsunami could have been caused by undersea landslides or those occurring above sea level on the Anak Krakatau volcano's steep outside slope following the eruption. The volcano's name translates to "Child of Krakatoa," a volcanic island formed over years after one of the largest eruptions in recorded history occurred at the Krakatoa volcano more than a century ago. The scientists also cited tidal waves caused by the full moon. Dramatic video posted on social media showed an Indonesian pop band named "Seventeen" performing under a tent on a popular beach at a concert for employees of a state-owned electricity company. Dozens of people sat listening at tables covered in white cloths while others bobbed to the music near the stage as bright strobe lights flashed and theatrical smoke was released. A child could also be seen wandering through the crowd. Seconds later, with the drummer pounding just as the next song was about to begin, the stage suddenly heaved forward and buckled under the force of the water, throwing the band and all their equipment into the audience. The group released a statement saying their bass player, guitarist and road manager were found dead, while two other band members and the wife of one of the performers remained missing. "The tide rose to the surface and dragged all the people on site," the statement said. "Unfortunately, when the current receded our members are unable to save themselves while some did not find a place to hold on." Tourists were also affected during the long holiday weekend ahead of Christmas. "I had to run, as the wave passed the beach and landed 15-20m (meters, or 50-65 feet) inland," Norwegian Oystein Lund Andersen wrote on Facebook. The self-described photographer and volcano enthusiast said he was taking pictures of the volcano when he suddenly saw a big wave come toward him. "Next wave entered the hotel area where I was staying and downed cars on the road behind it," he wrote. "Managed to evacuate with my family to higher ground (through) forest paths and villages, where we are taken care of (by) the locals. Were unharmed, thankfully." The Anak Krakatau volcano lies in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra islands, linking the Indian Ocean and Java Sea. It erupted about 24 minutes before the tsunami, the geophysics agency said. The worst-affected area was the Pandeglang region of Java's Banten province, which encompasses Ujung Kulon National Park and popular beaches, the disaster agency said. Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said 222 deaths had been confirmed and at least 843 people were injured. Rescue workers were still trying to access other affected areas. Indonesian President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo expressed his sympathy and ordered government agencies to respond quickly to the disaster. "My deep condolences to the victims in Banten and Lumpung provinces," he said. "Hopefully, those who are left have patience." In the city of Bandar Lampung on Sumatra, hundreds of residents took refuge at the governor's office. At the popular resort area of Carita Beach, some survivors appeared lost. Azki Kurniawan, 16, said he was undergoing vocational training with a group of 30 other students at Patra Comfort Hotel when people suddenly burst into the lobby yelling, "Sea water rising!" He said he was confused because he did not feel an earthquake, but ran to the parking lot to try to reach his motorbike. By the time he got there, it was already flooded. "Suddenly a 1-meter (3.3-foot) wave hit me," he said. "I fell down, the water separated me from my bike. I was thrown into the fence of a building about 30 meters (100 feet) from the beach and held onto the fence as strong as I could, trying to resist the water, which feels like it would drag me back into the sea. I cried in fear. ... 'This is a tsunami?' I was afraid I would die." The 305-meter (1,000-foot) -high Anak Krakatau volcano, located about 200 kilometers (124 miles) southwest of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, has been erupting since June. In July, authorities widened its no-go areas to 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) from the crater. However, Anak Krakatau remains much smaller than Krakatoa when it blew in 1883, killing more than 30,000 people. Krakatoa launched far-reaching tsunamis and created so much ash, day was turned to night in the area and a global temperature drop was recorded. The violent explosions sank most of the island into the volcanic crater under the sea, and the area remained calm until the 1920s, when Anak Krakatau began to rise from the site. It continues to grow each year and erupts periodically. Gegar Prasetya, co-founder of the Tsunami Research Center Indonesia, said Saturday's tsunami was likely caused by a flank collapse — when a big section of a volcano's slope gives way. He said it's possible for an eruption to trigger a landslide above ground or beneath the ocean, both capable of producing waves. "Actually, the tsunami was not really big, only 1 meter (3.3 feet)," said Prasetya, who has closely studied Krakatoa. "The problem is people always tend to build everything close to the shoreline." Nine hotels and hundreds of homes were heavily damaged. Broken chunks of concrete and splintered sticks of wood littered hard-hit coastal areas, turning beach getaways popular with Jakarta residents into near ghost towns. Vehicles tossed by the waves remained belly up in the rubble or were lodged in the air under collapsed roofs. Debris from thatch-bamboo shacks was strewn along beaches. Indonesia, a vast archipelago of more than 17,000 islands and home to 260 million people, lies along the "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines in the Pacific Basin. In September, more than 2,500 people were killed by a quake and tsunami that hit the city of Palu on the island of Sulawesi, which is just east of Borneo. Saturday's tsunami rekindled memories for some of the massive magnitude 9.1 earthquake that hit on Dec. 26, 2004. It spawned a giant tsunami off Sumatra island in western Indonesia, killing more than 230,000 people in a dozen countries — the majority in Indonesia. Roads and infrastructure are poor in many areas of disaster-prone Indonesia, making access difficult in the best of conditions. ___ Associated Press writers Margie Mason and Ali Kotarumalos in Jakarta, Indonesia, contributed to this report. | |
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| 12-23-18 02:38am - 2191 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Fake news: the only news worth reading: Aquaman is only able to claim the number 1 position with $70 million. President Trump claims he is unimpressed with the Aquaman movie. If Trump was aquaman, he would be the ruler of not only the seas, but the entire world. Bigger than Superman and Batman combined. We need superheroes like Trump, who can blast out their superpowers to the world. --------- --------- Variety December 22, 2018 8:47AM PT Box Office: ‘Aquaman’ to Claim No. 1 Spot With $70 Million The DC universe’s latest installment, “Aquaman,” is headed for a splashy debut, with an estimated $70 million from 4,125 North American locations. The forecast sits at the higher end of most predictions for the film’s pre-Christmas debut. “Aquaman” has amassed $350.7 million internationally, including $18.9 million on Friday. Jason Momoa stars as the titular hero, with Nicole Kidman, Amber Heard and Patrick Wilson co-starring. Warner Bros. gave the film a pricey $200 million budget, which it has already recouped overseas. It’s the first standalone DCU film since 2017’s “Wonder Woman,” which debuted with $103 million last year, eventually totaling $412 million domestically. The Transformers franchise’s newest addition, “Bumblebee,” is edging “Mary Poppins Returns” for second place with an estimated $22 million from 3,550 domestic sites, compared to “Mary Poppins'” $21 million. “Bumblebee” earned $8.46 million on Friday with $2.15 million from Thursday previews. The Paramount pic opens in China, which has proven to be the “Transformers” franchise’s most successful market, on Jan. 4. The sixth “Transformers” pic tapped Travis Knight to direct from Christina Hodson’s screenplay, rather than franchise regular Michael Bay. Hailee Steinfeld stars in the prequel, alongside John Cena, Jorge Lendeborg Jr., John Ortiz, and Pamela Adlon. The sci-fi action film has a 94% certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes, by far the best score of any “Transformers” installment, and an A- CinemaScore. Emily Blunt and Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Mary Poppins” sequel is debuting at 4,090 theaters, and coming in slightly below earlier predictions. Rob Marshall directed the Disney film, which has a 77% certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes and A- CinemaScore. Ben Wishaw, Emily Mortimer, Dick Van Dyke, Julie Walters, Colin Firth, Meryl Streep, and Angela Lansbury also star. Sony-Marvel’s “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” is estimated to scoop up another $17.45 million in its sophomore frame to land fourth place, bringing its domestic total to $65.5 million. The animated superhero film earned $6.6 million Friday in its China debut, taking first place for the day. Clint Eastwood’s crime drama “The Mule” should round out the top five with about $9 million in its second weekend. It’s totaled $29.9 million in its first eight days. Romantic comedy “Second Act,” starring Jennifer Lopez, is debuting at No. 7 from 2,607 domestic sites. The STX Films pic should take in around $7 million from a $16 million budget, which is in line with earlier estimates. Peter Segal directed from Justin Zackham and Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas’s script, which follows Lopez as a low-paid employee who gets a chance to fulfill her ambitions when a firm mistakes her for a powerful consultant and hires her to negotiate an important deal. Leah Remini and Vanessa Hudgens also star. The film has a 42% RT score and a B+ CinemaScore. At the specialty box office, awards contender and Poland’s foreign language Oscar submission “Cold War” will debut at three theaters for Amazon Studios. “Ida” helmer Paweł Pawlikowski directed from his own script. | |
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| 12-22-18 01:02pm - 2192 days | #1373 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Trump is a pussy. He is asking advisers if he can legally fire the Fed chief. Trump is the President. Trump chose the Fed chief. If the Fed chief is not doing a proper job, of course Trump can fire him. Don't ask your advisers. Tell them what to do. Pussy! Pussy! Pussy! The nation has lost faith in Trump. He is not fit be the Commander in Chief. --------------- Trump asking advisers if he can legally fire Fed chief By Kevin Liptak, CNN Updated 9:31 AM ET, Sat December 22, 2018 Federal Reserve raises key interest rate (CNN)President Donald Trump has begun polling advisers about whether he has the legal authority to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, according to two people familiar with the matter, who described the President as newly furious at the Fed chief as markets tumble. Earlier this year, Trump's advisers told the President that it was doubtful he would have the law behind him if he fired Powell. But Trump has renewed the issue after the Fed again raised its benchmark interest rate this week. So far, the White House hasn't come to a final legal determination on Trump's authority to fire his Fed chairman, whom he nominated a year ago. The law states the President can fire a Fed governor for cause, but it hasn't been tested on the firing of a chairman. Top West Wing economic advisers have warned Trump that firing Powell would only exacerbate the problem the President is ostensibly trying to solve: nose-diving markets. The unprecedented move would likely cause more turmoil. Bloomberg first reported Trump's latest frustrations with Powell. CNN has previously reported that Trump's anxiety is mounting about the economy as warning signs of a global slowdown emerge. On days when the market is down triple-digits, Trump has surveyed his team about whether he'll catch the blame. Many have told him he likely will. Whipsaw markets and a string of steep dives have spawned a pervasive anxiety in the White House, according to senior officials, where for the past two years the strength of the US economy has provided steady reassurance amid even the deepest of political crises. As Trump faces fresh vulnerability — most aspects of his life are now under investigation just as Democrats are preparing to assume control of the House — the economy no longer offers the same comfort it once did, despite rising wages and the lowest unemployment rate in half a century, according to interviews with multiple White House officials and people close to Trump. The volatility comes after several disappointments, including General Motors' decision last month to shutter plants in Ohio and Michigan -- a business move that struck deep in the heart of MAGA country, where Trump wooed voters away from Democrats with repeated pledges to bring back lost manufacturing jobs. Trump's trade war with China has also generated mixed political results, with tariffs biting Trump's loyal base of farmers. The President, whose advisers promised him Wall Street would love a resolution with Beijing, has been irritated that markets instead tumbled after he revived the threat of escalated tariffs if the ongoing negotiations don't bear fruit. | |
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| 12-22-18 06:50am - 2192 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I just opened my email box, and found 2 novels: This is a free kindle book at Amazon. Hurry, before the price changes to $2.99. Bitter Rivalry By Heather Hildenbrand and S.M. Reine Werewolf Charlie has no intention of fighting her long-lost sister Regan to claim the position of pack alpha — until she discovers the prize is alluring vampire Owen… who she’s helplessly fallen for. Free! $2.99 Here is another low-cost kindle book at Amazon. Only $0.99. Soulless at Sunset By Deanna Chase Vampire-hunting witch Phoebe has always protected her town — but when her best friend goes missing, it becomes personal. Can she pull off a rescue with an interspecies war on the horizon? $0.99 $4.99 Instead of looking at man on woman sex, maybe we should start looking at werewolf on vampire sex? Or witch on vampire sex? What does the PU community think? Is this a great source of new ideas, or what? | |
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| 12-22-18 06:20am - 2192 days | #6 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Just a suggestion: but could you put the listing in 2 separate lists: -1. Alphabetical, so search is easier. -2. Price, from low to highest price. Sorry to make more work for you, but this would make searching and finding the sites easier. There are some great deals listed. I only wish I had the time and money to join them all.  | |
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| 12-22-18 06:10am - 2192 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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The least you could do is give an open invitation to our fellow PU members, so if we have the time, and are in the neighborhood, we could stop by and get a free drink at the fireside. Happy holidays, made even better with that free drink you are handing out! | |
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| 12-21-18 07:43pm - 2193 days | #1372 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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The US government is shutting down a bit. But not to worry. President Trump has ordered the Armed Services to arrest all scummy Democrats, who are the people responsible for the shutdown. But Donald Trump has vowed to stay on the job: he will sacrifice his personal liberty and stay away from the golf courses that are so dear to his heart. The Armed Services are carrying live rounds, so if a soldier orders you to raise your hands, raise them high, unless you want to be shot. ------ ------ Senate adjourns, partial shutdown ensured Thomson Reuters Dec 21st 2018 8:33PM WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government was to begin a partial shutdown at midnight on Friday after Republican senators failed to muster the votes needed to approve $5 billion that President Donald Trump wants for a border wall fiercely opposed by Democrats. Trump said the impending shutdown of some key parts of the federal government could last "a very long time," and he sought to blame Democrats. They, in turn, put the blame squarely on Trump, reminding him that last week he said he would be "proud" to shut the government down in order to get funding for a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico. Republican and Democratic senators earlier this week reached a deal on short-term funding legislation that did not include the $5 billion Trump wants, but the president said on Thursday he would not sign it. The impending shutdown was the latest evidence of dysfunction in Washington and does not bode well for next year, when Democrats will have a stronger hand as they take control of the House of Representatives. "President Trump has thrown a temper tantrum and now has us careening toward a 'Trump shutdown' over Christmas," Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said on the Senate floor. "You're not getting the wall today, next week or on January 3rd, when Democrats take control of the House," Schumer added. Hours before the midnight deadline, lawmakers met with Vice President Mike Pence and other White House officials in a last-ditch effort to find a compromise funding bill acceptable to both political parties and Trump. But they were unable to reach a deal. The adjournment of the House just before 7 p.m. and the Senate just after 8 p.m. ensured a government shutdown. Senators said talks would continue over the weekend. The Senate was set to return from recess at noon (1700 GMT) on Saturday. Congressional funding for about one-quarter of the federal government's programs expires at midnight (0500 GMT). Three-quarters of government programs are fully funded through next Sept. 30, including those in the Defense Department, Labor Department and Health and Human Services. But funding for other agencies, including the departments of Homeland Security, Justice and Agriculture, was set to expire at midnight on Friday. A partial shutdown begins with affected agencies limiting staff to those deemed "essential" to public safety. "GOING TO GET A WALL" Before meeting with Senate Republicans at the White House, Trump wrote on Twitter that "Democrats now own the shutdown." That contrasted with what he said during a televised argument with Schumer in the White House on Dec. 11. "I am proud to shut down the government for border security, Chuck, because the people of this country don’t want criminals and people that have lots of problems and drugs pouring into our country," Trump said. "I'll be the one to shut it down." Before the House and Senate adjourned, negotiators were discussing $1.6 billion for a range of border security measures - not specifically for a wall - and retaining financial assistance for areas hit by natural disasters that was added by the House, a Republican Senate aide said. That $1.6 billion would only be $300 million more than the amount the Senate approved in the temporary funding bill that it passed late on Wednesday, only for Trump to reject it. Trump earlier on Friday had said at the White House that chances of a shutdown "are probably pretty good," adding, "We're going to get a wall." Trump made a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border to combat illegal immigration and drug trafficking a key campaign promise in the 2016 election, when he said it would be paid for by Mexico. He sees it as a winning issue for his 2020 re-election campaign. Democrats oppose the wall, calling it unnecessary and ineffective. Republican Senators Lamar Alexander and Marco Rubio expressed frustration with what they said was Trump's shifting position. Rubio said that earlier in the week the Republicans went with their funding bill because Pence had told them the White House was open to such a proposal. "We had a reasonable path and there was every indication from the president that he would sign it," Alexander said. In a series of early-morning tweets on Friday, Trump called on Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell to use a "nuclear option" to allow a Senate vote on legislation with a simple majority, rather than the standard "supermajority" of 60 votes. But there was not enough support among Republican senators to do so. The possibility of a government shutdown fed investor anxieties and contributed to another down day for U.S. stocks on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 1.82 percent, the S&P 500 lost 2.06 percent and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 2.99 percent. The showdown added to tensions in Washington as lawmakers also grappled with Trump's sudden move to pull troops from Syria, which prompted Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to resign. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and possible collusion by Trump's campaign team is also hanging over the White House. In a shutdown, critical workers -- including U.S. border agents, and nonessential employees -- would not get paid until the dispute ends. National parks also would close unless the government declares them essential. More than half of the 1,700 people who work for the executive office of the president would be "furloughed," meaning they would be put on temporary leave. (Reporting by Richard Cowan, Ginger Gibson and Humeyra Pamuk; Additional reporting by Roberta Rampton, Steve Holland and Susan Heavey; Writing by Will Dunham and Bill Trott; Editing by Kieran Murray, Cynthia Osterman) | |
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| 12-21-18 07:10pm - 2193 days | #335 | |
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vogov.com Apparently a new site from the people running Teen Mega World. Seem like a site with not a lot of content yet. But the price is full-priced, so I would wait to let the site build some content before joining. The site seems to be building premium content, with top porn stars, 4K videos, 60 FPS video. So if you have a huge TV, this might be worth a sample. | |
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| 12-21-18 06:57am - 2193 days | #1371 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Note: All Americans can feel safe. Even if the US Government shuts down, Trump has vowed to stay at his desk in the White House, scrutinizing for any attacks by North Korea or Russia or the treacherous European allies who have hidden missiles that are aimed at America. Trump knows you can't trust anyone. That is why he is going to pick a new Secretary of Defense who will waterboard all enemies of the US, and find their secret plans to harm us. Trump is the man. Place your trust in Trump, and we will get through the time of bloodshed and terror that Mexican rapists and other dark-skinned people wish to inflict on our innocent men, women and children. Can you imagine a Mexican rapist on a white US child? The horror. The shame. Trump, I join my prayers with billions of other right-thinking people, wishing you the best in this holiday season. | |
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| 12-21-18 06:48am - 2193 days | #1370 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Trump vows to the American people: For the safety of the country, the government has to be shut down. This will drain the swamp in Washington. Hopefully, the scummy Democrats will drown in the cesspool of corruption they have created. And Republicans will rise in strength, to make America great again. Let us pray for President Donald Trump to be able to bear the burden of guiding our country through dangerous times. If the government shuts down, that means the country will save millions of dollars it won't have to pay to government workers. Hopefully, the government will never have to pay those workers, so the company will be much better off. The truth will set you free. And Trump is the man with the golden arm, who will provide our country, one nation under God, with the means to protect itself from Mexican rapists and dark-skinned people who are trying to destroy our religious freedoms. Death before dishonor. Thank you, Donald Trump, leader of the Moral Majority for a White America. ---------- ---------- Trump says a shutdown would 'last for a very long time' The Associated Press LISA MASCARO, MATTHEW DALY and CATHERINE LUCEY Dec 21st 2018 8:25AM WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing a midnight deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, President Donald Trump said Friday a closure would drag on "for a very long time" and he tried to build the case that congressional Democrats would bear responsibility if there's no deal over his demand for U.S.-Mexico border wall money. Only a week ago, Trump said he would be "proud" to shut down the government, which Republicans now control, in the name of border security. "I will take the mantle. I will be the one to shut it down," he asserted. But with the hours dwindling before the midnight deadline, Trump sought to reframe the debate and make Democrats the holdouts to settling an impasse that threatens hundreds of thousands of federal workers on the eve of the end-of-the-year holidays. And he exhorted the Senate's Republican leader to corral enough Democratic votes to send a House-passed plan to the White House, even though the measure is almost certain to be rejected in the Senate. "Senator Mitch McConnell should fight for the Wall and Border Security as hard as he fought for anything. He will need Democrat votes, but as shown in the House, good things happen. If enough Dems don't vote, it will be a Democrat Shutdown!" he tweeted. At the same time, Trump said he expected Democrats "will probably vote against Border Security and the Wall even though they know it is DESPERATELY NEEDED. If the Dems vote no, there will be a shutdown that will last for a very long time. People don't want Open Borders and Crime!" The Senate has been called back into session to consider a package approved by House Republicans late Thursday that includes the $5.7 billion Trump wants for the border with Mexico. Senators had passed their own bipartisan bill earlier in the week to keep the government running, with border security at existing levels, $1.3 billion, but no money for the wall. Both bills would extend government funding through Feb. 8. The White House said Trump would not travel to Florida on Friday as planned for the Christmas holiday if the government were shutting down. More than 800,000 federal workers will be facing furloughs or forced to work without pay if a resolution is not reached before funding expires at midnight Friday. At issue is funding for nine of 15 Cabinet-level departments and dozens of agencies, including the departments of Homeland Security, Transportation, Interior, Agriculture, State and Justice, as well as national parks and forests. Many agencies, including the Pentagon and the departments of Veterans Affairs and Health and Human Services, are funded for the year and would continue to operate as usual. The U.S. Postal Service, busy delivering packages for the holiday season, would not be affected by any government shutdown because it's an independent agency. The shutdown crisis could be one of the final acts of the House GOP majority before relinquishing control to Democrats in January. Congress had been on track to fund the government but lurched when Trump, after a rare lashing from conservative supporters, declared Thursday he would not sign a bill without the funding. Conservatives want to keep fighting. They warn that "caving" on Trump's repeated wall promises could hurt his 2020 re-election chances, and other Republicans' as well. The GOP-led House voted largely along party lines, 217-185, to attach the border wall money to the Senate's bill. House Republicans also tacked on nearly $8 billion in disaster aid for coastal hurricanes and California wildfires. Some Republicans senators cheered on the House, but prospects in the Senate are grim amid strong opposition from Democrats. Even though Republicans have a slim majority, 60 votes are needed to approve the bill there. One possibility Friday is that the Senate strips the border wall out of the bill but keeps the disaster funds and sends it back to the House. House lawmakers said they were being told to stay in town for more possible votes. ___ Associated Press writers Alan Fram, Kevin Freking and Zeke Miller in Washington contributed to this report. | |
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| 12-21-18 12:30am - 2194 days | #1369 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Secretary of Defense will resign. But Trump is the President. As President, Trump has the right to choose who will serve as Secretary of Defense. Perhaps Trump will make a better choice next time, and pick someone who knows how to successfully defend America. Mattis was an idjit. Why? Because he was unable to transform Trump's vision of a strong and true America into reality. Trump is the man God sent to earth to make America great again. We have to support Trump. Even when he steals millions of dollars and pisses on the rights of American citizens. As long as he doesn't allow any more rapist Mexicans and other dark-skinned people into our proud, white America. ----- ----- 'This is scary': Mattis' resignation triggers bipartisan chorus of concern on Capitol Hill NBC News Ali Vitali Dec 20th 2018 9:25PM Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' impending departure shook an already tense Capitol on Thursday night, with lawmakers in both parties reacting with concern over what Mattis' departure means for both Trump's administration, and the international community. In a letter announcing his resignation, Mattis told President Donald Trump that he had the right to have a secretary of defense whose worldview was "better aligned with yours" on subjects like "treating allies with respect" and "being clear-eyed" about malign actors. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, called Mattis "an island of stability amidst the chaos of the Trump administration." "This is scary," he tweeted. Mattis, in his letter, said he would depart at the end of February. "A Secretary of Defense quitting over a public disagreement with a President whose foreign policy he believes has gone off the rails is a national security crisis," Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., tweeted, surmising a "morale crisis at the Department of Defense right now" after both the news of Mattis' impending departure and Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. Republicans were also unbridled in voicing their concern. Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger, quote-tweeting the president's announcement about Mattis, said: "That's what happens when you ignore sound military advice." "This is a sad day for America because Secretary Mattis was giving advice the President needs to hear," Nebraska Republican Sen. Ben Sasse said in a statement. Trump first announced the news of Mattis' departure on Twitter, portraying it as a retirement. Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., attempted an optimistic view, saying he hoped the general's "decision to resign was motivated solely by a desire to enjoy a well deserved retirement." That sentiment was quickly replaced, however, after Rubio read Mattis' letter — which did not include any praises or compliments of the president and implicitly criticized the president's military judgment. To Rubio, the letter "makes it abundantly clear that we are headed towards a series of grave policy errors which will endanger our nation,damage our alliances & empower our adversaries." He also pressed for more oversight of the executive branch by Congress. Senator Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., had praised Mattis earlier in the day, noting disagreement between the president and the Pentagon chief over Trump's recently announced decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria. Though one of Trump's staunchest defenders, Graham has been vocal in his opposition to the move. Mattis "thought that it was not the time was not right to leave [Syria], for all the reasons just expressed. Secretary Mattis is one of the most seasoned national security people I know, he's got a great team around him, the President does, he just has to listen," Graham said in a news conference. Thursday night, Graham tweeted: "It is with great sadness that I was informed of the resignation of General Mattis." | |
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| 12-20-18 02:17pm - 2194 days | #4 | |
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What about specials to MPL Studios? ZEMANI? SOME OTHER SITES I HAVEN'T JOINED IN A WHILE?  | |
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| 12-20-18 02:05pm - 2194 days | #3 | |
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Sneak peak is messed up. Since I already have memberships to 21 Sextury, Girlsway, MetArt, SexArt. Why not have specials for $1 for 1 year to sites I don't already belong to?  | |
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| 12-20-18 11:38am - 2194 days | #1368 | |
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President Trump is a man of honor and principles. He will not bow down to scummy Democrats who want Trump to sign a bill that is against the American people. Instead, Trump will stick by his guns, and let the US government be shut down. Go, Trump, leader of the Free World. Trump, leader of the Moral Majority for a White America. If you're not white, go back to the rathole country you came from. Smell the clean air of America, because it's the last chance you will have to steal a breath from loyal Americans. --------- --------- Speaker Ryan says Trump 'will not sign' bill to keep government open Thomson Reuters Dec 20th 2018 1:38PM WASHINGTON, Dec 20 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump will not sign legislation to fund the federal government that passed the U.S. Senate, U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan told reporters after a meeting with the president on Thursday. Ryan, speaking alongside U.S. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy outside the White House, said Trump wanted any spending agreement to secure the U.S. border. House Republicans had serious concerns over funding and the wall but want to keep the government open, Ryan said ahead of Friday's midnight deadline. (Reporting by Steve Holland, Tim Ahmann and Makini Brice Writing by Susan Heavey Editing by Bill Trott) GoFundMe page aiming to pay for Trump's border wall raises over $4M in 3 days Trump says he won’t sign any legislation by Democrats without border wall funding U.S. ally in Syria says pullout will aid IS, cause instability | |
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| 12-19-18 04:07pm - 2195 days | #1367 | |
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Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son in law, earns praise for efforts to make the US justice system fairer. And and as first step, Kushner has volunteered to be the first member of President Trump's inner circle to volunteer for a 30-year prison term. "I know I've done some criminal things, but I was trying to help my wife and father-in-law make millions of dollars in illegal income. The Trump crime family loves money. Legal and illegal. So, with the President's approval, and the approval of my dear wife, I helped to commit illegal acts to make money for the Trump crime family. While in prison, I will pray for my wife and father-in-law, that they will see the error of their ways, and bring them closer to God. Amen." ----- ----- Kushner earns praise for backing criminal justice overhaul The Associated Press JILL COLVIN Dec 19th 2018 5:52PM WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the first time many liberal advocates had set foot inside President Donald Trump's White House. They had come at the invitation of presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner, a top White House adviser. Many liberal and good-government groups had questioning his lack of experience in government, and raised concerns about potential conflicts of interest and cozy relationship with foreign leaders, including Saudi Arabia's crown prince. But in White House conference rooms and lobbying trips to Capitol Hill, Kushner worked with advocates, legislators and those on both ends of the political spectrum to forge a deal intended to make the nation's criminal justice system fairer. Now Kushner, the likely subject of new investigations when Democrats take control of the House next year, is getting credit for helping to push through what could be the first major bipartisan legislative success of the Trump era. "I don't think this would have happened without him," said Sen. Corey Booker of New Jersey, a potential 2020 Democratic presidential contender. He said the bill would have "a profound effect on thousands of families who have been suffering as a result of this broken system." Inimai Chettiar, director of the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, attended multiple meetings at the White House and lobbied with Kushner on Capitol Hill. She said that while the center's policies are generally "very oppositional" to the Trump agenda, criminal justice offered a rare opportunity for cooperation. Kushner "understands why this is a very important issue and the effect that it could have," she said. For Kushner, the criminal justice issue has long been deeply personal. Kushner was in his early 20s and a law and business school student in the mid-2000s when his father was sentenced to federal prison on charges of tax evasion, witness tampering and illegal campaign donations. "When you're on the other side of the system, you feel so helpless," Kushner told The Associated Press in a recent interview. "I felt like, I was on this side of the system, so how can I try to do whatever I can do to try to be helpful to the people who are going through it" and deserve a second chance. Slideshow preview image 15 PHOTOS First Step Act, the criminal justice reform bill See Gallery The issue was never part of Trump's campaign message. But within months of his father-in-law taking office, Kushner was spotted in the hallways of Congress, coming and going from meetings on the subject. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said he talked to Kushner as often as five times a day. Kushner worked with groups including the ACLU, Brennan Center, and the conservative Koch brothers' network, along with Republican governors, law enforcement groups, former Obama special adviser Van Jones and reality star Kim Kardashian West. And he got the president on board. Even before Tuesday's Senate vote, though, some of the unlikely allies worked with Kushner on criminal justice were skeptical the working relationships built in recent months will translate into further bipartisan successes. A House vote is expected later this week. The administration enters a new era in January, when Democrats take control of the House. Democrats have made clear that they intend to use their subpoena power to investigate the administration, including Kushner. He is expected to face an onslaught of inquiries digging into everything from his businesses and security clearance to his relationship with the Saudi royal accused of ordering the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Revamping criminal justice, they say, was a unique and rare area of consensus. "The fact of the matter is that many of the policies of the Trump administration are squarely at odds with ACLU principles. And it's lovely to have a rapport on an issue you can agree with," said Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union. "It might be much harder to find common ground on any other issue." Kushner declined to comment on the record about the expected inquiries, and what the new reality might mean for the president and the White House. He also faced opposition from within the administration, including former Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who opposed sentencing changes that helped to bring Senate Democrats on board. Even on Tuesday, critics of the bill were making a final push to amend the legislation, which gives judges more discretion when sentencing some drug offenders and boosts prisoner rehabilitation efforts. But Romero, whose ACLU has filed 107 lawsuits against the administration so far, most challenging its immigration policies, praised Kushner's "tenacity" and "doggedness." "Though we have many areas of disagreement with the White House, it was refreshing to find one area where we could work together," Romero said, adding that, Kushner's personal commitment to the issue "allowed us to break through." Holly Harris, a conservative strategist and executive director of the Justice Action Network, credited Kushner's efforts to put Republican governors supportive of the legislation in front of the president to share their experiences about how similar efforts in their states had helped reduce crime. "Their voices were critical in showing another side of reform to the president," she said of Trump. "He never quit. He never slowed down. He kept moving things," added Grover Norquist, an advocate for lower taxes, who also worked with Kushner. ___ Associated Press writer Mary Clare Jalonick contributed to this report. | |
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| 12-19-18 01:23am - 2195 days | #4 | |
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Yikes. Great story.  | |
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| 12-18-18 06:51pm - 2196 days | #334 | |
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Woodman Casting X used to be listed. Maybe it was a computer error responsible for it being de-listed. Because if Wake Up N Fuck is listed, it seems that Woodman Casting X should be listed as well. | |
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| 12-18-18 11:57am - 2196 days | #405 | |
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Muchas gracias to PU staff for my holiday present. Going to Amazon now, to make my pick. | |
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| 12-18-18 11:40am - 2196 days | #2 | |
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A museum. The thrill of being caught and going to jail! Not my cup of tea. Masturbation is more of a private matter. Between me and God. Because God is everywhere. | |
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| 12-18-18 04:30am - 2196 days | #1366 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Trouble in paradise. CBS denies former CEO Les Moonves $120M severance package. A man slaves for most of his life at CBS. Now it's time to retire, and the man wants to leave with a few dollars so he can live in peace. So what happens? The company denies the poor man his retirement package, which is only $120 million. Life is not fair. Will Les Moonves be forced to eat at McDonald's, instead of at a better restaurant that serves real steaks? Will the US Government deny President Donald Trump his retirement package because of accusations he gropes women by their pussies? ---------- ---------- CBS denies former CEO Les Moonves $120M severance package Ahmed Jawadi Dec 18th 2018 4:24AM Former CBS Corporation CEO Les Moonves will not get his $120 million severance package. CBS' Board of Directors said in a statement Monday that it had finished its investigation into Moonves and found he had violated company policies and breached his contract. Earlier this month, The New York Times reviewed a draft report from the network's lawyers, which reportedly concluded that Moonves "engaged in multiple acts of serious nonconsensual sexual misconduct in and outside of the workplace." The Times report said he destroyed evidence as well as misled and "deliberately lied" to investigators. The network's statement added that the investigation found that the company had failed to hold "high performers accountable for their conduct" in the past. The board said it's now actively taking steps to improve the work environment for employees. Moonves left the company back in September after several allegations of sexual misconduct during his tenure. He denied some of the accusations, but did admit to making advances. Last week, CBS awarded 18 women’s advocacy groups $20 million of Moonves' $120-million severance package. | |
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| 12-18-18 01:18am - 2196 days | #1365 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Does our government lie to us? Does a bear shit in the woods? Or does the bear use a porta potty? Enquiring minds want to know. If an ordinary citizen lies to the police, that is against the law. But if a retired general, who is also the former head of a US intelligence agency, lies to the FBI, he doesn't realize it's a crime, because as a government employee, it's part of his job to lie. President Donald Trump lies to the US public all time. No crime. Because his lawyers claim it's political speech. Witch hunt. Donald Trump needs to get out the big guns and bury his enemies. That's the only way he can clean up the swamp in Washington. -------- -------- Run-up to Flynn sentencing tinged with unexpected drama The Associated Press ERIC TUCKER and CHAD DAY Dec 17th 2018 8:16PM WASHINGTON (AP) — Michael Flynn may have given extraordinary cooperation to prosecutors, but the run-up to his sentencing hearing Tuesday has exposed raw tensions over an FBI interview in which the former national security adviser lied about his Russian contacts. Flynn's lawyers have suggested that investigators discouraged him from having an attorney present during the January 2017 interview and never informed him it was a crime to lie. Prosecutors shot back, "He does not need to be warned it is a crime to lie to federal agents to know the importance of telling them the truth." The mere insinuation of underhanded tactics was startling given the seemingly productive relationship between the two sides, and it was especially striking since prosecutors with special counsel Robert Mueller's office have praised Flynn's cooperation and recommended against prison time. The defense arguments spurred speculation that Flynn may be trying to get sympathy from President Donald Trump or may be playing to a judge known for a zero-tolerance view of government misconduct. "It's an attempt, I think, to perhaps characterize Flynn as a victim or perhaps to make him look sympathetic in the eyes of a judge — and, at the same time, to portray the special counsel in a negative light," said former federal prosecutor Jimmy Gurule, a University of Notre Dame law school professor. Until the dueling memos were filed last week, the sentencing hearing for Flynn — who pleaded guilty to lying about a conversation during the transition period with the then-Russian ambassador — was expected to be devoid of the drama characterizing other of Mueller's cases. Prosecutors, for instance, have accused former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort of lying to them even after he agreed to cooperate. Another potential target, Jerome Corsi, leaked draft court documents and accused Mueller's team of bullying him. And George Papadopoulos, a Trump campaign adviser recently released from a two-week prison sentence, has lambasted the investigation and publicly claimed that he was set up. Flynn, by contrast, has been notably silent even as his supporters advocated a more combative stance. He met privately with investigators 19 times and provided cooperation so extensive that prosecutors said he was entitled to avoid prison altogether. Then came his sentencing memo. Although Flynn and his attorneys stopped short of any direct accusations of wrongdoing, they took pains to note that Flynn, unlike other defendants in Mueller's investigation, was not informed that it was against the law to lie to the FBI. They suggest the FBI, which approached Flynn at the White House just days after Trump's inauguration, played to his desire to keep the encounter quiet by telling him the quickest way to get the interview done was for him to be alone with the agents — rather than involve lawyers. They also insinuate that Flynn, of Middletown, Rhode Island, deserves credit for not publicly seizing on the fact that FBI officials involved in the investigation later came under scrutiny themselves. Former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, who contacted Flynn to arrange the interview, was fired this year for what the Justice Department said was a lack of candor over a news media leak. Peter Strzok, one of the two agents who interviewed Flynn, was removed from Mueller's team and later fired for trading anti-Trump texts with another FBI official. Mueller's team has sharply pushed back at any suggestion that Flynn was duped, with prosecutors responding in their own sentencing memo Friday that there was no obligation to warn Flynn against lying. "A sitting National Security (Adviser), former head of an intelligence agency, retired Lieutenant General, and 33-year veteran of the armed forces knows he should not lie to federal agents," prosecutors wrote. Former FBI Director James Comey criticized the broadsides on the Flynn investigation during a Monday appearance on Capitol Hill, saying, "They're up here attacking the FBI's investigation of a guy who pled guilty to lying to the FBI." Trump has made no secret that he sees Mueller's investigation as a "witch hunt" and has continued to lash out at prosecutors he sees as biased against him and those who help them. He's shown continued sympathy for Flynn, though, calling him a "great person" and asserting — erroneously — that the FBI has said he didn't lie. Flynn has not tried to retract his guilty plea, and there's every indication the sentencing will proceed as scheduled. Arun Rao, a former Justice Department prosecutor in Maryland, said the defense memo is striking because it's "inconsistent" with Flynn's cooperative stance so far. "You also wonder in this very unusual situation," he said, "whether it is a play for a pardon." It's also possible that at least some of the defense arguments may resonate with U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, who directed prosecutors to produce FBI records related to Flynn's interview. That included portions of the notes from Flynn's Jan. 24, 2017, FBI interview, which is at the center of his case. In response to Sullivan's order, prosecutors publicly filed a redacted copy of the FBI interview notes late Monday evening. The notes show that FBI agents interviewed Flynn about his contacts with Russia, including his past trips to the country and his conversations with Sergey Kislyak, then Russia's ambassador to the U.S. Last year, Flynn pleaded guilty to lying about the contents of his conversations with Kislyak during the presidential transition. The notes show Flynn told agents he didn't ask Kislyak not to escalate Russia's response to sanctions imposed by the Obama administration in response to election interference. But Flynn admitted in court papers last year that he did. The notes also show Flynn told agents he didn't ask Kislyak to see if Russia would vote a certain way on a United Nations resolution involving Israeli settlements. But in court papers last year he admitted that he did ask Kislyak to see if Russia would vote against or delay the resolution. Court papers show Flynn made that request at the direction of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. It's unclear what impact, if any, the notes will have on Sullivan's sentencing decision. Sullivan was the judge in the Justice Department's botched prosecution of now-deceased Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska. He dismissed the case after prosecutors admitted that they withheld exculpatory evidence, prompting the judge to say that in nearly 25 years on the bench, "I've never seen anything approaching the mishandling and misconduct that I've seen in this case." In an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal last year, Sullivan said the case inspired him to explicitly remind prosecutors in every criminal case before him of their obligation to provide defendants with favorable evidence. He says he has encouraged colleagues to do the same. But while Sullivan has proved especially sensitive to hints of government overreach, nothing about the Flynn case comes close, said Gurule, the law professor. "To portray him as somehow an innocent dupe, as somehow just this innocent victim in the process, this suggestion that there was a perjury trap — it's an absurd allegation," he said. ___ Follow Eric Tucker and Chad Day on Twitter: https://twitter.com/etuckerAP and https://twitter.com/ChadSDay ___ | |
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| 12-18-18 12:48am - 2196 days | #6 | |
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Apology denied. "Shape up or ship out." Something an old teacher who used to be in the navy kept repeating. LOL. | |
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| 12-17-18 11:13am - 2197 days | #1364 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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This is wrong. A federal judge is set to consider whether President Donald Trump has limits on his powers. Trump needs to send members of the Armed Forces (Trump is the Commander in Chief, remember) to arrest this judge, with orders to shoot to kill if the judge resists arrest. Trump is our leader. He must be forceful and brave, and put traitors in the ground. God bless America. God bless Donald Trump. ------ ------ Judge to examine Whitaker appointment in U.S. asylum policy case Thomson Reuters Sarah N. Lynch Dec 17th 2018 12:47PM WASHINGTON, Dec 17 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday is set to consider whether President Donald Trump violated the U.S. Constitution by appointing Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general, part of a broader lawsuit challenging his administration's restrictions on asylum for immigrants. Setting aside established succession practices, the Republican president last month named Whitaker, a Trump loyalist, as the top U.S. law enforcement official after ousting Jeff Sessions as attorney general. A decision by U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss could have ramifications for immigrants seeking asylum and for Whitaker's tenure at the Justice Department as he waits for the U.S. Senate to confirm President Donald Trump's permanent nominee for attorney general, William Barr. The lawsuit challenges Trump's asylum ban for immigrants who illegally cross the U.S. border on the grounds that it violates immigration laws and the Administrative Procedure Act, a statute that governs federal rule-writing procedures. The lawsuit also makes a constitutional case for why the asylum rules are invalid: that Trump violated the Constitution's so-called Appointments Clause when he appointed Whitaker because the job of attorney general is a "principal officer" who must be confirmed by the Senate, unlike Whitaker. It is unclear whether Moss will rule on that point. On Friday, Moss heard arguments in a different case also challenging Whitaker's legitimacy as acting attorney general. Altogether, there are at least nine different legal challenges pending in courts around the country to Whitaker's appointment. The asylum restrictions at issue in Monday's case were made by Trump through a presidential proclamation in November and an interim final rule issued by the departments of justice and homeland security. The rules were put on hold in November by San Francisco-based U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar. The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused to lift the temporary restraining order, saying the Trump administration had "not established that it is likely to prevail." Last week, the Justice Department asked the Supreme Court to let Trump's asylum order take effect as litigation over it proceeds. Tigar will preside over a hearing on Wednesday and will consider whether to impose a more long-lasting injunction. The case in court on Monday was filed on behalf of several immigrants seeking asylum, including a Honduran man who fled his country with his daughter after a gang threatened to kill his family. (Reporting by Sarah N. Lynch; Editing by Will Dunham) | |
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| 12-17-18 10:49am - 2197 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I don't pay any attention to a lot of internet platforms. Never heard of Tumblir. Never joined Twitter or Facebook or Snapchat or other what-ever-you call them. I get my porn mainly from paysites. Although I do look at porn tube sites sometimes. Tube sites can give you an introduction to some good sites, I've found. | |
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| 12-16-18 03:37pm - 2198 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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You can watch porn on YouTube now. Here is a famous porn star hitting multiple climaxes while watching himself on YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6qNej35yds I'm not sure if this will broaden the market for porn. What does the PU community think? | |
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| 12-16-18 11:58am - 2198 days | #332 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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https://freetour.adulttime.com/en/join Adult Time is one of the best bargains in online porn. A massive catalog of high grade hardcore porn. Access to over 100 sites in the network. You can now join Adult Time directly. But Adult Time is, according to some customer service reps, a free add-on when you join any of the sites included in Adult Time I recommend emailing customer service before joining any one of the member sites, to get it in writing that you are getting Adult Time membership with your membership to any one of the included sites: Because the Adult Time membership access is the main value. The value of any one site in the network is far less. I don't know if Adult Time is still in beta testing or not. Until recently, it was hard to get information about the network. And you could not join the Adult Time network directly: you were given Adult Time network access with a membership in one of the included sites. Apparently on a random basis. And apparently the Adult Time network access is still on a random basis: At least one PU member reported he got access to a site with his Adult Time login details. While another PU member reported he was denied entry to that site after entering his Adult Time login details. Whatever. In my opinion, Adult Time is a great bargain: A low cost entry to a lot of high-grade porn. (With a lot of other porn that is not as high-grade, of course.) | |
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| 12-15-18 11:21am - 2199 days | #1363 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Trump Crime Family starts to crumble under civil and criminal investigations. Jail time for President Trump, his daughter Ivanka, and sons Don Jr and Eric. The only reason Trump's wife will get a pass is she's too shrewd to bet caught up in the illegal activities of the Trump family. And 10-year-old Barron can plead he's only a minor, even though President Donald Trump has been grooming Barron to take over the Trump Crime Family ever since the kid was 5-years-old. Trump started grooming the kid at 5-years-old, because the kid was shielded from adult criminal charges. ----------- ----------- Rolling Stone December 15, 2018 12:41PM ET Investigation into Inaugural Committee Spending Reportedly Closes in on Ivanka Trump The president’s daughter may have improperly negotiated payments to the Trump Organization for inaugural events By Peter Wade New York federal prosecutors are looking into potential financial wrongdoing by President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee and Ivanka Trump’s involvement in price negotiations for space rental in the Trump International Hotel in D.C. According to reporting by WNYC and ProPublica, President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee paid large sums of money to the Trump organization to host events at the Trump-owned property, and the president’s daughter discussed charging $175,000 per day for the space, despite organizers’ concerns that it would look like the Trumps were lining their pockets. “These events are in PE’s [the president-elect’s] honor at his hotel and one of them is for family and close friends. Please take into consideration that when this is audited it will become public knowledge. I understand that compared to the original pricing this is great but we should look at the whole context. In my opinion the max rental fee should be $85,000 per day,” Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, an event planner who helped with the inauguration, wrote to caution Ivanka and others involved with the planning. While it is not known what price was ultimately negotiated, if it was above market rate, the committee may have violated tax law. “The fact that the inaugural committee did business with the Trump Organization raises huge ethical questions about the potential for undue enrichment,” former IRS official Marcus Owens told WNYC and ProPublica. A spokesperson for Ivanka Trump’s ethics lawyer denied the first daughter’s involvement in the negotiations: “When contacted by someone working on the inauguration, Ms. Trump passed the inquiry on to a hotel official and said only that any resulting discussions should be at a ‘fair market rate.’ Ms. Trump was not involved in any additional discussions.” The Trump inaugural committee also drew attention because it raised more money than prior inaugurations by a large amount. Trump’s committee raised almost $107 million dollars, dwarfing spending for other presidential inaugurations. Forty million dollars of that remains unaccounted for, thanks to lax reporting requirements for inaugural committee spending. “They had a third of the staff and a quarter of the events and they raise at least twice as much as we did,” Greg Jenkins, who ran George W. Bush’s second inauguration, told WNYC and ProPublica. “So there’s the obvious question: Where did it go? I don’t know.” The Wall Street Journal and New York Times have also published investigative reports on inaugural spending in the past few days, with the Times reporting that federal prosecutors are looking into whether foreign countries such as Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates illegally donated to the inaugural fund. Ivanka Trump is also under scrutiny for using her personal email account for government business. And the swamp continues to get swampier, thanks to the Trump family. Edited on Dec 16, 2018, 10:41am | |
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| 12-13-18 09:30pm - 2201 days | #1362 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Trump needs to fire Mueller, who is wasting taxpayer money on a witch hunt. Then Trump can appoint Brett Kavanaugh, a strong, loyal man who sits on the Supreme Court, to investigate if there was any collusion between the Russians and President Trump and his family. I look at Brett Kavanaugh, and I know he will be a fair and impartial judge, because he has sworn to uphold the laws of the United States of America. Go, Trump! Go, Kavanaugh! With leaders like these, the swamp in Washington will be drained! | |
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| 12-13-18 09:26pm - 2201 days | #1361 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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President Trump denies he broke the law. If Michael Cohen, the weakling that Trump used as a lawyer, broke the law, Trump says Michael Cohen deserves to go to prison, to teach Michael Cohen a lesson. But Trump was not aware of the criminal activities Michael Cohen was doing. Trump is the man of the people, the leader of the Moral Majority for a White America. That alone should convince his critics that Trump is innocent of all wrong-doing. ------- ------- Trump denies directing lawyer to break law [AFP] AFP•December 13, 2018 Michael Cohen (left) apologized for covering up the "dirty deeds" of US President Donald Trump Washington (AFP) - Donald Trump on Thursday denied directing his ex-lawyer Michael Cohen to break the law after the US president's longtime close ally was sentenced to three years for campaign finance violations and other crimes. "I never directed Michael Cohen to break the law. He was a lawyer and he is supposed to know the law," Trump tweeted. "It is called 'advice of counsel,' and a lawyer has great liability if a mistake is made. That is why they get paid." Cohen, 52, apologized Wednesday for covering up the "dirty deeds" of his ex-boss as he was handed jail time for multiple crimes including hush money payments implicating Trump. Pleading for leniency in a packed Manhattan courtroom before US District Court Judge William H. Pauley III, Cohen said he had been led astray by misplaced admiration for Trump. An emotional Cohen told the court he accepted responsibility for his personal crimes and "those involving the President of the United States of America." In his first public comments since Cohen's sentencing, Trump said on Twitter that legal experts had cleared him of any wrongdoing and repeated his denial that he had broken campaign finance laws, arguing that Cohen's crimes did not involve campaign finance. "Cohen was guilty on many charges unrelated to me, but he plead to two campaign charges which were not criminal and of which he probably was not guilty even on a civil bases," Trump tweeted. "Those charges were just agreed to by him in order to embarrass the president and get a much reduced prison sentence, which he did-including the fact that his family was temporarily let off the hook. As a lawyer, Michael has great liability to me!" Cohen admitted charges brought by federal prosecutors in New York of tax evasion, providing false statements to a bank and illegal campaign contributions. Cohen also pleaded guilty to making false statements to Congress -- a charge stemming from Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into whether Trump's 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russia to get him elected. Among the charges against Cohen was making secret payments to silence two women threatening to go public during the election campaign with claims they had affairs with Trump. | |
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| 12-13-18 04:33am - 2201 days | #400 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Cybertoad, the coupon is usually received by Thursday or Friday. Then you just redeem it at Amazon. A very simple process, where you just go click, and you get the value of the coupon credited to your Amazon account, to make future purchases. Hope this helps. If you don't have an Amazon account, you need to open one. It's free, and simple. | |
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| 12-12-18 03:53am - 2202 days | #397 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I said Cybertoad's review reminded me of the poetry of Kubla Khan by Samuel Coleridge. But I don't know if he's reached the level of Shakespeare yet. | |
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| 12-10-18 12:52pm - 2204 days | #320 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Welcome to the site, FreddyAdmin. Good to read that more PU staff are showing up here.  But I still miss Amanda. We need more females, staff or not. | |
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