Saturday, August 25, 2018
Walkies
The nice thing about urban walks is if you go too far you can usually find a bus to get you back where you belong.
Capone
This is...the weirdest "defense" I have ever seen, but, hey, it's Trump and his brain is filled with worms.
Capone spent some time in Philly the first time he went to prison. His cell was a bit nicer than typical, for reasons you can guess. The prison (Eastern State Penitentiary) is now a museum and one of those things you should see if you ever visit the hellhole.
Capone spent some time in Philly the first time he went to prison. His cell was a bit nicer than typical, for reasons you can guess. The prison (Eastern State Penitentiary) is now a museum and one of those things you should see if you ever visit the hellhole.
Friday, August 24, 2018
Winning The War On Christmas
We have to start earlier, folks.
Trump with the usual fiction: "They're saying Christmas again now, right. Remember at the beginning of my campaign, it was December and I'd go see these stores and they'd never say Merry Christmas. They're all saying Merry Christmas now."
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 24, 2018
Horrible People
You, dear readers, know that I have not forgotten about how bad the Bush administration was and am quite mad that many others have. Still... there were a lot of bad people in the Bush administration... and a few that certainly could have held their own in the Biggest Shit Person competition in the Trump White House, and yet... they weren't all quite so... lacking in any redeeming qualities whatsoever. At least some of them were...smart? Or at least, not so stupid. Evil, but not entirely dumb. I never wondered if Dick Cheney and Ari Fleischer knew how to tie their shoes. Even the young stupid ones were the Gen-X versions of Young Republicans, not the Millennial versions. Somehow being raised on Rush Limbaugh is better than being raised on Ben Shapiro and Erick Erickson. Not a lot better...but...
I've Never Even Met Eric and Don Jr.
NEWS: TrumpWorld v worried the Weisselberg immunity deal is shifting the crosshairs onto the Trump children, I'm learning.
— Niall Stanage (@NiallStanage) August 24, 2018
Sources insist family member would have had to authorize payments to Michael Cohen.
(Remember MC's first monthly invoice was not sent till Feb 2017.)
Witch Hunt
DOW JONES: *Allen Weisselberg, Longtime Trump Organization CFO, Granted Immunity by U.S. Prosecutors in Cohen Investigation -- Sources
— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) August 24, 2018
Rotating Cast of Deplorables
You hired him, CNN.
On CNN, new pro-Trump contributor confirms he is contractually forbidden from criticizing Trump.
Home For The Holidays With The Hunters
Family life must be great.
(CNN)Rep. Duncan D. Hunter seemed to shift any blame onto his wife, Margaret, on Thursday for alleged campaign fund abuses, saying she was the one handling his finances.
"She was also the campaign manager, so whatever she did that'll be looked at too, I'm sure," the California Republican said on Fox News.
"But I didn't do it," Hunter said. "I didn't spend any money illegally."
Thursday, August 23, 2018
Criminal Enterprise
Lock'em up!
The Manhattan district attorney’s office is considering pursuing criminal charges against the Trump Organization and two senior company officials in connection with Michael D. Cohen’s hush money payment to an adult film actress, according to two officials with knowledge of the matter.
A state investigation would center on how the company accounted for its reimbursement to Mr. Cohen for the $130,000 he paid to the actress, Stephanie Clifford, who has said she had an affair with President Trump, the officials said.
Not So Safe
Still, as reporters keep reminding us, people who love Trump love Trump, as if there is some sort of Zen meaning in this tautology.
NEW YORK (AP) — The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its cozy relationship with Donald Trump leading up to the 2016 presidential election, people familiar with the arrangement told The Associated Press.
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The AP cannot say whether the documents were destroyed or simply were moved to a location known to fewer people.
Immunity
Stories about people "cooperating" with law enforcement are a bit ambiguous, especially when written by the gossip reporters of the newspaper, because "cooperating" can mean various things. That they were given immunity means... a bit more.
And now Trump’s most powerful media ally next to Fox News has broken with him. According to two sources briefed on the Cohen investigation, prosecutors granted immunity to David Pecker, chairman of The National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc., and A.M.I.’s chief content officer, Dylan Howard, so they would describe Trump’s involvement in Cohen’s payments to porn star Stormy Daniels and Playboy Playmate Karen McDougal during the 2016 campaign. The Wall Street Journal first reported Pecker’s cooperation on Wednesday night. (Pecker and Howard did not respond to multiple requests for comment. A spokesperson for the Southern District of New York declined to comment.)
America's Worst Humans
Charles Blahous.
Though really it's his buddies in the press. Our "fact checkers" are dumdums who just recycle whatever their pals on their rolodexes say, and when it comes to policy, those pals are right wing think tank propagandists.
Though really it's his buddies in the press. Our "fact checkers" are dumdums who just recycle whatever their pals on their rolodexes say, and when it comes to policy, those pals are right wing think tank propagandists.
The Politics of Health Care Are Very Complicated
Practically nothing gets this kind of support, but better be careful say many well-paid Democratic strategists worried about their next big lobbying job.
(Scroll down. 70% polled support Medicare for all. not 70% of Democrats. 70%).
(Scroll down. 70% polled support Medicare for all. not 70% of Democrats. 70%).
NIMBYs
I think we've found Philadelphia's worst humans.
There's a daycare around the corner from me. I enjoy when the toddler train goes by my house and interrupts my peace and quiet for 20 seconds.
“One person complained and said, are we going to have to listen to the sounds of kids laughing and yelling?” developer Jason Nusbaum told Billy Penn. “We could have worse problems.”
While zoning board members ultimately voted to welcome the childcare facility into the tony neighborhood, their unanimous decision did not come without a massive argument about noise, traffic and, of course, parking.
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“There is total gridlock in the neighborhood,” said Kristin Hayes, who said she’s raised two daughters from her home at 22nd and Pine. “Traffic is backed up through Graduate Hospital. It’s going to be a complete fiasco.”
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Still, residents’ complaints about the influx of parents and children seemed inexhaustible. Car traffic at drop-off times, people with strollers crossing Pine Street, and “the noise of those children” — all this would disrupt the neighborhood’s desired rhythm, residents argued.
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Another resident, Frederick Masters, pursued recourse options for the daycare’s worst offenders. Could the ZBA, he asked, force the developer to expel students if their parents park illegally while dropping them off for daycare?
There's a daycare around the corner from me. I enjoy when the toddler train goes by my house and interrupts my peace and quiet for 20 seconds.
Abolish ICE
It's filled with white supremacists and sadists who understandably don't think there are any limits on or accountability for their behavior. Burning (metaphorically) the whole thing to the ground is the only way.
I don't want to hear any Democrats talk about modestly changing the mission parameters blahblahblah. What's going on are crimes against humanity - not to mention blatant violations of US law which our system is unwilling and unable to deal with. Just close all of the doors and send everybody home to spend the rest of their lives wondering when their day of justice will come (it never will, of course).
That's when Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at the children's shelter, slapped handcuffs on Orellana's wrists, chained them to his waist, and shackled his legs together. The agents drove Orellana to the Broward Transitional Center, an infamous immigration jail in Pompano Beach, where he was thrown into a cell with men twice his age.
Orellana's saga isn't just shocking — it's also illegal, say Miami immigration attorneys who have succeeded in forcing ICE to release several other 18 year olds in recent months. Even worse, they say what happened to the Guatemalan refugee seems to have become ICE's national policy.
"When they turn 18, it's basically, 'Happy birthday,' and then they slap on handcuffs and take them off to adult detention centers," says Lisa Lehner, an attorney with the nonprofit Americans for Immigrant Justice who is representing Orellana.
I don't want to hear any Democrats talk about modestly changing the mission parameters blahblahblah. What's going on are crimes against humanity - not to mention blatant violations of US law which our system is unwilling and unable to deal with. Just close all of the doors and send everybody home to spend the rest of their lives wondering when their day of justice will come (it never will, of course).
Zeno
Haberman, just now pic.twitter.com/VC2rrlvOA9
— Will Stancil (@whstancil) August 23, 2018
Click for the whole thread, as the kids say.
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