Top Republican Lawyer: No One’s Asking to Be on Trump’s Legal Team

Top Republican Lawyer: No One’s Asking to Be on Trump’s Legal Team
On Sunday, President Donald Trump reacted to news reports that he was having trouble recruiting lawyers for his legal team. “Many lawyers and top law firms want to represent me in the Russia case…don’t believe the Fake News narrative that it is hard to find a lawyer who wants to take this on. Fame & fortune will NEVER be turned down by a lawyer, though some are conflicted,” he tweeted. “Problem is that a new….lawyer or law firm will take months to get up to speed (if for no other reason than they can bill more), which is unfair to our great country – and I am very happy with my existing team.”


New Report Finds Adult Film Star May Have Paid Over $130,000 To Cover Up Sexual Encounter with Trump. - The Onion

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Cambridge Analytica accused of violating US election laws in new legal action
• Russia Will Test New Weapons And Missile Force To Show They Are Ready To Attack
• Britain's May calls for 'long-term response' to Russia after spy poisoning
• FBI investigating suspicious packages have arrested a suspect in Seattle
• North Korean leader was in delegation visiting Beijing: source

The White House deserves credit for expulsion of the Russia diplomats.  It took five White House aides to hold Trump down while other officials expelled ‘em. - Tea Pain

Russia & China Developing Super Sonic Missiles. US Isn't. 
Russia and China are outpacing the United States in the development of super-fast missile technology, Pentagon officials and key lawmakers are warning.
Russia says it successfully tested a so-called hypersonic missile this month, while China tested a similar system last year expected to enter service soon.

I Know Why Trump Is Afraid Of Putin. He's Afraid Putin Will Poison Him.
Christopher Wylie, the former employee of Cambridge Analytica who alleged that the data firm had harvested data from 50 million Facebook users, told Members of Parliament in the U.K. that he believes his predecessor at the firm was poisoned in a Kenyan hotel room after a deal went wrong.





I like how people who want more God in govt voted for a hybrid of Judas, the Golden Calf & Caligula. - John Fugelsang

Republican Shenanigans

• Stormy Daniels friend: She "still has the dress" she wore the night of alleged Trump affair
• Stormy Daniels' friend says she also plans to sue Michael Cohen
• Conway: Diplomats’ expulsion ‘upends the whole narrative’ that Trump isn’t tough on Russia
• Elizabeth Smart demands her name be taken off anti-porn bill
• Parkland student rips Santorum: CPR won't save you if you 'take a bullet from an AR-15 to the head'
• GOP Minnesota state lawmaker compares March for Our Lives organizers to Hitler Youth
• Trump Ally Sues Qatar For Hacking His Email
• Ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort seeks to dismiss Virginia charges
• Nevada lawmaker: 'Rumor mill' says Ryan headed for exit
• New details suggest Cambridge Analytica played bigger role in helping Colorado Republicans win in 2014

White House on lockdown after television hurled through window. - Andy Borowitz

EVANGELICALS: “We can’t judge Donald Trump because God has forgiven him.”
GOD: “No, I didn’t forgive him. You have to ask. And he never did. Checkmate, hypocrites.” - Mrs. Betty Bowers

Saudi Arabian Magazine Coming To A Supermarket Near You!
A nearly 100-page magazine published by Donald Trump’s allies at American Media Inc. is providing a different kind of celebrity gossip than the American supermarket shopper is used to seeing. It’s selling America on a fellow Trump ally, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

I am a Catholic, and go to church each week, and post many readings from Bible, and I also know that you don’t have to believe in God or Jesus to live a life of love and meaning.  Also, if you hate others, or use faith to divide, you aren’t really a Jesus follower. - Matthew Dowd, ABC



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Subject: People with Passion Can Change the World

Lisa,

  Twenty years ago, Apple computer put out a large-format booklet titled "1998: The Year of Thinking Different" which saluted people who changed the world for the better, with a descriptor and a few brief paragraphs about each person.

Albert Einstein - Questioner
Mahatma Gandhi - Leader
Pablo Picasso - Creator
Alfred Hitchcock - Master of Suspense
Rosa Parks - Human Being

Bob Dylan - Troubadour
Buzz Aldrin - Moonwalker
Muhammad Ali - Champion
Thomas Edison - Tinkerer
Martha Graham - Mother of Dance

Jim Henson - Muppeteer
Maria Callas - Virtuoso
Dalai Lama - Idealist
Amelia Earhart - Aviator
Ansel Adams - Conservationist

Joan Baez - Citizen
Paul Rand - Purist
Miles Davis - Improviser
Lucy (Ball) & Desi (Arnaz) - Pioneers
John (Lennon) & Yoko (Ono) - Dreamers

  Today, a new generation of young people are leading the way to improve the world.  And a bunch of old farts are doing what they can to stop that progress.  But the youth will win, because they will out live the status quo fools.

  May you be well,

 - Sol

Beautiful, Sol. Thank you for writing.



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Military refuses to participate in Trump's parade citing bone spurs - Andy Borowitz

Rock The Voter News

• Ex-Obama official says he warned of Russian trolls in 2014
• Students leading gun violence protests seen more favorably than NRA: poll

NRA Admits It Took Foreign Money & Spent It On Campaigns. Wait. What? 

The National Rifle Association acknowledged this week that it has moved money from accounts with foreign donation to accounts that are used for spending on U.S. political campaigns. The organization insists the transactions are “permitted by law.”


Breaking:  the CDC recommends that all porn stars use protection while having sex with Mr. Trump. - Edel Rodriguez

I love these delusional gun fetishists who imagine themselves making a brave stand against a tyrannical government, as if said tyrannical government wouldn't just call in an air strike on your dimwitted inbred ass. - Jeff Tiedrich


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Business/Tech News

• OPEC, Russia consider 10- to 20-year oil alliance - Saudi Crown Prince
• Justin Trudeau to Donald Trump: Canada will block backdoor steel shipments
• Zuckerberg will send top Facebook officials instead of facing UK lawmakers
• Here's the Chinese government massively ambitious plan to lead in the field of artificial intelligence by 2030

Mark Zuckerberg agrees to testify on Capitol Hill which is controlled by Republicans, many who have used the services of Cambridge Analytica, but he won’t testify in the UK which is currently taking action against the corrupt company and Russia simultaneously. Telling. - Ricky Davila

Trump Wants U.S. Military To Pay For His Wall
President Donald Trump has privately floated the idea of funding construction of a border wall with Mexico through the US military budget in conversations with advisers, two sources confirmed to CNN Tuesday.






Cop Explains How It Feels To Live Every Day In Fear Someone Might Record You Brutalizing A Civilian - The Onion

MOME is where the Meart is

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Odd News

• Naked Trump statue going up for auction
• Two pilots report seeing UFO in southern Arizona skies
• Ring-bearing owl causes chaos at British wedding
• Pet store burglar struggles to stuff pythons into duffel bag
• Mummy found in Egyptian coffin that was thought to be empty

Time To Deflate Photo

Thank you for allowing me to indulge in my several recent space photo posts. This photo is the south pole of Jupiter. It resembles a geode slice. What did Einstein's theory essentially say? What goes around, comes around?

Peace.

Happy Monday. It's the President & the Porn Star Day!

Stormy Daniels accuses Trump attorney Michael Cohen of defamation in newly amended lawsuit
Adult film star Stephanie Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels, amended a lawsuit against Donald Trump to include allegations of defamation by his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.


Coming of age: Trump's son is 12 years old and entering the age of puberty. You know he is watching all this porn star stuff.  I hope he's embarrassed and not impressed.

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Fox & Friends urges Trump to ‘declare an emergency’ the morning after Stormy Daniels’ CBS interview
• US Army veteran who served two tours in Afghanistan has been deported to Mexico
• Russia fire: Scores of children feared among at least 64 killed as investigators reveal fire exits were blocked
• Kim Jong Un Is Making a Surprise China Visit, Sources Say
• These are all the countries that are expelling Russian diplomats
• ‘Hitler’s regime took guns’: Televangelists say Parkland students are like ‘demonic’ Nazis who ‘rape’ gun owners
• Gun-loving Ohio Republican mocks Parkland teens: They’d ‘rather be eating Doritos and playing video games’
• ‘The View’s’ Meghan McCain lashes out at Parkland student David Hogg for using profanity to attack the NRA

If you believe the biggest threat to our nation are the survivors of a school massacre, it’s time to question the validity of the political philosophy that brought you to that conclusion. - Tea Pain

I Love These Kids!
They were defiant, outraged and determined. And they had a resounding message for lawmakers in Washington: Enough gun violence.
Thousands of students, teachers and supporters gathered in the nation's capital Saturday for the March for Our Lives rally, organized by survivors of a shooting that left 17 people dead at a Florida high school.

Here's some of my favorite signs from the march

Wow. Trump Finally Punishes The Russians. Huh?
President Donald Trump will expel 60 Russian intelligence officers and order the Russian government to close its consulate in Seattle, the administration announced Monday morning, as a retaliatory measure for the nerve agent attack on a former spy living in the United Kingdom.




If you didn't understand why Betsy DeVos and conservatives want to destroy public schools, I'm sure you do now, after watching the Parkland kids speak. - LOLGOP

Stormy Daniels to CBSNews: "I really don't need sixty minutes to talk about something that didn't last one. - Mrs. Betty Bowers

Republican Shenanigans

• Ann Coulter: The only people Trump screws repeatedly are his voters
• Retiring House Republican: We're talking about porn stars and the president instead of taxes
• Students marching 50 miles to House Speaker Paul Ryan's Wisconsin hometown to call for gun reform
• Trump to fire Shulkin: report
• More Upheaval For Trump's Special Counsel Legal Team: DiGenova Out Before Beginning
• Ex-FBI official: Trump would likely be denied White House security clearance if he weren’t president
• Anthony Scaramucci goes down in flames on CNN after comparing Trump White House to a start-up business
• Treasury secretary asserts Congress can override Supreme Court's line-item veto ruling; Fox News host corrects him
• WV GOP chair brushes off candidate’s prison term for miner deaths: ‘Most of us should be in jail’
• Notes, emails reveal Trump appointees' war to end HHS teen pregnancy program
• Jared Kushner's brother attends March For Our Lives, reportedly gives $50000 to cause
• Evangelical support for Trump proves they value ‘Christian nationalism’ over Christian morality: survey
• ‘She can describe his genitalia’: Attorney says Stormy Daniels is prepared to tell all about Trump

President Trump is now being sued by a porn star, a reality star, and a Playboy model – or as Trump's evangelical supporters call that, "the holy trinity." - Conan O'Brien

Did Stormy Daniels Unleash Pandora's Box?
Stormy Daniels’ 60 Minutes turn was compelling television. But like other segments in that program’s storied history, it also portended deepening legal liability for its targets:  President Trump and his lawyer Michael Cohen. The revelations from the interview make the pair's already serious legal problems even more challenging.

CNN Needs To Can This Conservative
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student David Hogg and his sister Lauren called out former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), who said Sunday that more students should take personal responsibility and help during school shootings, instead of marching or attacking the National Rifle Association. Alternately, he suggested they learn CPR.


Rick Santorum clearly read the memo that being wrong and/or offensive on Cable News has become the swiftest path to a job in the White House. - John Fugelsang

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All 30 Major League baseball teams are extending netting to protect fans from baseballs. This in a country where almost anyone with a screw loose can buy a semi-auto weapon the likes of which the founding fathers never imagined. I sense a contradiction there. - Stephen King

Rock The Voter News

• Obama wants to 'create a million young Barack Obamas'
• Jimmy Carter Says Don't Impeach Trump Even If Mueller Finds Dirt on President in Russia Investigation
• Parkland survivor throws up, continues 'incredible speech' at March for Our Lives

This girl who watched people die in front of her just got up on national TV to speak, puked half way through due to nerves, said "I just puked on national TV & it felt great!" then kept going.

I am literally never allowed to be too afraid to do anything ever again. - Bree

75-year-old Joe Biden wants to fight 71-year-old Donald Trump. The winner takes on Bob Newhart. - Conan O'Brien


Methinks Cambridge Analytics Is In Deep Sh*t
Former workers reportedly said Cambridge Analytica sent non-U.S. citizens to advise U.S. campaigns in 2014.
The Washington Post reported that dozens of non-U.S. citizens helped to give advice on strategy and messaging to GOP candidates....One former worker who spent months in the U.S. working on Republican campaigns told the Post that "we knew that everything was not above board, but we weren't too concerned about it."


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I hope President Trump knows what he’s doing with these tariffs. Just had two eggrolls at Panda Express and it cost me $611.00. - Conan O'Brien


Business/Tech News

• Stocks surge as trade-war fears ease; the Dow jumps 669 points, its best day since 2015
• Facebook stock plunges on FTC probe and news it records users' call logs
• Tesla's Plummeting Share Price Shows That Musk Is Running Out Of Time
• Read Elon Musk's bold Mars colony plan for free online
• Remington, one of America's oldest gun makers, files for bankruptcy
• Stormy Daniels interview gives "60 Minutes" its highest ratings in 10 years 

For his next rocket ride he will become lasagna rain.

Flat Earther Rockets Himself 1875 Feet To See If The Earth Is Flat. Wouldn't It Be Easier To Take A Jet Flight At 30,000 Feet?
He finally went up — just like the self-taught rocket scientist always pledged he would.
He came back down in one piece, too — a little dinged up and his steam-powered vessel a little cracked up...."Mad" Mike Hughes, the rocket man who believes the Earth is flat, propelled himself about 1,875 feet into the air Saturday before a hard landing in the Mojave Desert.

A new trend has emerged where women are having diamonds pierced into their finger instead of wearing engagement rings. "The pain reminds me I'm alive," [photo of Melania] said one woman.- Seth Myers

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Odd News

• Orange Snow? Rare Meeting of Siberia, Sahara Over Europe
• Dash cam captures fireball's flight across Colorado sky
• Florida woman seeks to save tree by marrying it
• Python undergoes surgery to remove pilfered slipper from stomach
• Astronomer portrayed by Jodie Foster in 'Contact': Man will discover alien life by 2100

Time To Deflate Photo

The Butterfly Nebula. I wonder if Starman will drive by it in his Tesla.

Peace.

Stop the world I want to get off

McMaster Is Out, an Even Bigger North Korea Hawk Is In

On Thursday, Donald Trump replaced a man who built the case for war with North Korea as a last resort with a man who just made the case for war with North Korea as more of a first resort. Trump announced that National-Security Adviser H.R. McMaster will be succeeded by John Bolton, the George W. Bush-era United Nations ambassador who has advocated for U.S. military action to prevent Saddam Hussein, Ayatollah Khamenei, and most recently Kim Jong Un from amassing weapons of mass destruction.

Soon the government will be Fox News and Fox News will be the government and we will huddle for warmth beneath the trees we call our homes.
Happy Friday, everyone! - Rex Huppke

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• More than 26,000 children and teens have been killed in gun violence since 1999
• US destroyer sails close to contested island in South China Sea
• Record number of US Marines to train in Australia in symbolic challenge to China
• Suspect, 3 victims reportedly killed in France "terror attack"
• Uproar over Sacramento police shooting spills onto I-5, steps of Golden 1 Center
• Kings owner tells crowd after Sacramento protests: 'We are all united in our commitment'
• US sells 6700 missiles to Saudi Arabia as part of $1 billion deal
• Trump pick Bolton a ‘friend’ of Israel, reviled by Palestinians

Kim Jong Un Sets Meeting with Trump for April First - Andy Borowitz


Trump Won't Tweet About This!
The hacker Guccifer 2.0, who claimed responsibility for providing WikiLeaks with the stolen Democratic National Committee emails, has been identified as an officer of Russia’s main intelligence directorate, or GRU, according to a new report.

In Show of Loyalty, Bolton Offers Mustache to Cover Trump’s Bald Spot- Andy Borowitz


Republican Shenanigans

• Karen McDougal to Melania: I'm sorry for sleeping with Donald Trump
• Jared Kushner is now involved in 3 separate investigations for alleged illegal activity
• McMaster firing upends plan to oust other top Trump officials
• Conway: 'Get with the program or get out'
• Arnold Schwarzenegger says Republican donors should 'starve' the party until it shapes up
• ‘Can I sign up with Mueller?’ Ann Coulter melts down over Trump’s empty veto threat
• Woman admits she was paid to make fake conspiracy videos about Parkland sheriff
• NRATV taunts Parkland students over their dead classmates
• Senate GOP chairman calls on Zuckerberg to testify

Data Mining With Duck Dynasty! Thanks Facebook!
Leaked document reveals how Cambridge Analytica used Duck Dynasty and Politico to sway Facebook users to Trump.A former employee shared a 27-page internal document produced by officials who worked most closely on President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, and it serves as a blueprint for the strategy Cambridge Analytica used on a variety of social media platforms .





“Mueller said I was the most innocent person he’d ever come across, and maybe in history,” Trump said. - Andy Borowitz

Our Children Are Now Acting Like The Adults Should. I Love These Kids.
They can’t buy a beer or rent a car and most aren’t even old enough to vote, yet the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have spearheaded what could become one of the largest marches in history with nearly 1 million people expected in Washington and more than 800 sister marches from California to Japan.

A few kids from Florida have put together a march for millions of people across the world this weekend. 
My son left the house this morning with his shoes on the wrong feet. - Andy Lassner

We are the only civilized country that allows citizens easy access to military grade weapons. 
This is why we lead the world in mass shootings.
It isn't rocket science, it is common sense.


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Rock The Voter News

• Barack Obama gets a traditional nose-rubbing welcome in New Zealand
• Hoax claims that Barack Obama broke the law to reclaim the presidency from Donald Trump
• Seth Meyers on Biden and Trump's trash talk, aka the 'Thrilla in Vanilla'
• Dems ask FTC to probe if other companies also obtained Facebook data

I hope every editor who had the opportunity to kill yet another Hillary's Emails story, and decided instead to print it, looks at themselves in the mirror tonight and understands the role they played in igniting John Bolton's wars. - Ian Millhiser

This is worth a repeat of the New York Times' assault on Hillary

Trump Wants A Line-Item Veto!
President Trump on Friday asked Congress to provide him with a line-item veto on spending bills, as he signed a $1.3 trillion omnibus spending package that includes provisions he doesn't like.

7 mos after Sandusky arrested for molesting 30 boys the NCAA fined Penn State 60 million & imposed massive penalties. It’s been 19 months since Nassar’s arrest for molesting 100’s of girls. NCAA has taken 0 action against Michigan State.  That’s misogyny and it’s wrong.- John Manly

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Business/Tech News

• Dow plunges 724 points as trade war fears rock Wall Street
• Craigslist Is Shutting Down Its Personals Section
• Apple Tries to Win Back Students and Teachers With Low-Cost iPad
• Bumped United passenger walks away with $10000 voucher
• 3D-printed homes turn sludge into shelter

Trump Supporters Excited to Pay More for Chinese Goods at Walmart - Andy Borowitz

EU Nations to Take More Action Against Russia Over Spy
Several European Union countries say they may follow Britain in expelling Russian diplomats over the poisoning of a former spy, as EU chief Donald Tusk predicted member states would take more measures against Moscow starting next week.





She died as she lived: entering her 357th password guess into an online form. - Kashana

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Odd News

• China's Tiangong-1 Space Lab Expected to Fall to Earth Over Easter Weekend
• Genetic tests reveal tragic reality of Atacama 'alien' skeleton
• Rescuers scramble to help beached whales after mass stranding in Australia
• Newborn Taken by Miccosukee Police From Hospital Returned to Mother
• Turkish chefs cook up 1,135-pound baklava for Guinness record
• Snownado interrupts man's shoveling outside home

Time To Deflate Photo

The Pillars of Creation. Photo: Hubble 1995. What an incredible universe that we live in. I hope you enjoy some of it this weekend.

Peace.