Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Paul Manafort Sentenced To 43 Months

Paul Manafort Sentenced To 43 Months
Paul Manafort was not watching during the first part of the hearing, while prosecutor Andrew Weismann described Paul Manafort’s extensive criminal conspiracy and why it deserved a strong sentence...Judge Amy Berman Jackson: "Court is one of those places where facts still matter."


LOCK HIM UP SOME MORE.  
LOCK HIM UP SOME MORE. - Middle Age Riot tweet







The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

I set my clock forward for Daylight Savings Time and my Doomsday Clock forward for everything else. - Stephen Colbert




Navy warship USS Fort McHenry has outbreak of viral infection paratitis since December. Most recent case March 9, All 703 Sailors/Marines getting vaccines. Preventive medical team being deployed. Not certain when/if next port call according to Fifth Fleet. - Barbara Starr, CNN



Did Tillerson and Cohn Drop The Dime On Kushner?
Donald Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was confronted by two of the most senior US government officials for mixing his personal interests with US foreign policy, according to a new book.
Kushner, an envoy to the Middle East for his father-in-law, is said to have been robustly challenged by both Rex Tillerson, then secretary of state, and Gary Cohn, formerly Trump’s top economic adviser.






Being a Trump supporter is pretty much all about finding the president's hand in your pocket and going "let me help you with that, sir" - Jeff Tiedrich


Republican Shenanigans

I do get why Mitt Romney likes Twinkies. They’re exactly like him: white on the outside, but somehow even whiter on the inside. - Trevor Noah





#BeBest Melania or #BeBreast, You're Better At That!
A spokeswoman for first lady Melania Trump tore into the all-women hosts of "The View" on Tuesday, accusing them of having a “petty, mean-girl spirit” after they mocked an ongoing conspiracy theory about the president’s wife using a body double.






Grand Old Pedophile Party
Fox News host Tucker Carlson made sexually explicit jokes about a Miss Teen USA contestant during a 2007 radio interview that resurfaced ...


Stephen Colbert on Tucker Carlson: 'I think R Kelly just got a character witness'









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I watched the news & saw poor people busted for illegal mood-altering drugs. Then came the commercials for the legal ones. - John Fugelsang





Stormy Daniels And Her Lawyer Part Ways
Michael Avenatti, who became famous as the lawyer for Stormy Daniels, said Tuesday that he no longer represents the porn actress who alleged she had an affair with President Donald Trump...Daniels said in her own post that she's hired another attorney, Clark Brewster, who will "review all legal matters" that she's been involved in.






Manafort (shorter): "I'm very sorry for what I've done, especially the part where I got caught." - Tea Pain


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“You know how the conspiracy theorists say, ‘Everything is rigged for the wealthy and famous’? Well, as a wealthy and famous person, let me just respond by saying: You’re absolutely right.” — Stephen Colbert


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Now that the Hollywood Bribery Ring has been busted, the only thing helping rich kids get into college are legacy admissions, private tutors, board member connections, unpaid summer internships, interview coaches, and a lifetime of Ivy-bound grooming!!! - Bess Kalb


I Wonder If Boeing Has Anticipated The Domino Effect
Ethiopian Airlines said on Wednesday it would send the black boxes from its crashed Boeing 737 MAX abroad.
Separately, a Norwegian airline sought compensation from the U.S. planemaker after two thirds of that model were grounded globally.





I covered airline safety and the FAA for four years, and I cannot remember a time when the FAA was so alone among world regulators on a serious safety issue. When a major accident like this happened, global aviation authorities conferred with the FAA -- which took the lead. - Glenn Kessler, Washington Post





Religious Conservatives Argue Adam And Eve Would Never Have Been Banished From Eden If They’d Had Guns. - The Onion





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The Pillars of Creation, my favorite Hubble photograph.

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Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Trump Embraces Jexodus

Trump promotes model's fringe 'Jexodus' campaign encouraging Jews to leave Democratic Party
President Trump on Tuesday kept up his campaign to turn Jewish voters away from the Democratic Party, tweeting support for an organization founded only a week ago called “Jexodus.”

 Ironically, white supremacists elected a white president who consistently proves himself inferior to a black one. - Middle Age Riot tweet




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Is anyone investigating Mar-a-Lago?






Tucker Carlson Fights Back! Minus The Fisticuffs, Of Course.
A defiant Tucker Carlson refused again Monday night to apologize for his comments about women and child rape that emerged Sunday night on social media.
Minutes later, Media Matters, a self-described "progressive media watchdog," that published the clips and transcripts, dropped a second batch of audio offerings in which Carlson can be heard making racist and xenophobic remarks about Iraq, Afghanistan Muslims, the Obamas and immigrants.


From earnest family-values conservative to reality show flunky to white nationalist defender of lechery, Tucker Carlson's decades-long quest to make mediocre white males believe he's cool is a mirror of a party's decline from Eisenhower to a mean crypto-fascist doughiness. - John Fugelsang




Republican Shenanigans

If you want to get the "lock her up" crowd to shut up, ask them what country Benghazi is in. - Middle Age Riot tweet






He's Baaaaack
Steve Bannon will travel next week to Cincinnati to rally and raise money for a wall on private land along the border with Mexico.
Bannon, a former chief strategist for President Donald Trump and controversial editor of Breitbart.com, will join other conservative celebrities for a town hall downtown on March 12 organized by the non-profit We Build The Wall.







Trump Budget Includes Twenty Million Dollars For Bail. - Andy Borowitz




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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez keeps causing controversy by saying things that make sense. - Andy Borowitz


Mueller Is Funded Through September. September? I Can't Take Much More Of This!
Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the team he assembled to investigate U.S. President Donald Trump and his associates have been funded through the end of September 2019, three U.S. officials said on Monday, an indication that the probe has funding to keep it going for months if need be.




Trump complains about modern technological complexity into a hand held super computer that instantly delivers his message world wide. - Schooley tweet

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Give a college administrator a few thousand dollars to get your kid in and it’s a bribe. Give a college $2.5 million to get your kid in and it’s business as usual for the super rich. (Hi, Jared.) - Matthew Miller





FAA Allows Boeing Max To Fly, But Not Britain
Britain's Civil Aviation Authority is the latest to announce that it would be grounding all Boeing 737 Max aircraft following a fatal Ethiopian crash...


"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. 
On our flight today we'll be using paper maps, compasses, and a stopwatch to navigate. 
We've also turned off the FMS, the ADS-B, the TCAS, and the boosted flight and stability controls.
Hope it's not stormy out there!" - Rick Wilson




With the ridiculously obscene price of college tuition, I’m gonna bribe schools to not accept my kids. - Andy Lassner




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Something I'll never see, a sunrise from 8700m on Mount Everest.

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Monday, March 11, 2019

It just gets dirtier and dirtier

Massage parlor magnate helped steer Chinese to Trump NYC fundraiser, attendee says
A Chinese-American massage-parlor entrepreneur arranged for a group of Chinese business executives to attend a paid fundraiser for President Donald Trump in New York City at the end of 2017, according to a source who was present at the event.


Pretty weird how the people who blew a f*cking gasket over an imaginary sex ring run out of the basement of a pizza parlor that has no basement have all gone silent over the actual sex ring run by the denizens of the president's tacky golf resort and omelet bar, why could that be. - Jeff Tiedrich




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Anyone who was truly "pro-life" would want to make getting a gun at least as difficult as getting an abortion. - Middle Age Riot





Boeing 737 MAX  Being Suspended In Many Countries
Airlines in multiple countries have suspended the use of Boeing's new 737 MAX 8 aircraft over concerns about its safety, after an Ethiopian Airlines flight of the same model crashed Sunday killing all 157 people on board.





Having trouble sleeping? 
Scared that slow moving caravans will get past Border Patrol & clog your commute? 
Worried an asylum seeker will sit next to you at the diner? 
You may be suffering from National Emergency Anxiety. IT'S DAY 24 OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY! Can you feel it? 
- Rep. Ted Lieu


Republican Shenanigans



I've always wondered why Trump didn't give Cohen a position in the White House. Cohen knew all his secrets. There's more to this story. My guess is Jarvanka axed Cohen.





"The President has suggested that members of his own Justice Department should be locked up for investigating the President. Now, if people were to get indicted or not indicted, on the basis of whether the President likes them...we would have a banana republic." - George Conway, husband of the president's adviser, Kellyanne Conway


Trump Sends Blackface Code To His Base
During a private speech with Republican National Committee donors on Friday night at Mar-a-Lago, President Trump reportedly attempted to mock Democrats for the controversy surrounding Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and his racist yearbook photo, by joking that his Secret Service agents at the White House were “in blackface,” Axios reported.





It’s cool that Trump autographs Bibles because he & God both used ghost writers. - John Fugelsang




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Biden is named after what he's doing with his time. - Stephen Colbert




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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Warns Michael Cohen To Leave Lying To Professionals. - Andy Borowitz


He needs a bra.



In 1982 TV Guide Nailed It. Did They Get A Pulitzer? No.




Who Knew Tucker Carlson Was A Sicko? All Sane People.
In unearthed audio, Tucker Carlson makes numerous misogynistic and perverted comments
During interviews on Bubba The Love Sponge, Carlson said he "love[s]" the idea of young girls sexually experimenting, used sexist terms to refer to a number of women, and defended statutory rape






I'm So Old I Remember When Jon Stewart Warned Us About Tucker Carlson in 2004




1) Tucker Carlson won't apologize for calling women "extremely primitive" 
2) Jeannine Pirro said wearing a hijab is un-American 
3) Trump said Dems are "anti-Jewish" 
4) Every House Dem voted for a resolution *decrying bigotry* 
5) Media spent the week talking about "Dems in chaos"
- Seth Abramson 


Apparently, Melania Doesn't Listen To Her Briefings Either
Australia's former foreign minister says she was mistaken for the spouse of a politician by US First Lady Melania Trump, in her latest comments on the subordinate role of women in conservative politics.




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Donald Trump Jr. Takes Son On Hunting Trip In National Zoo  - The Onion







Trump: The New Chinese Pimp?
Chinese authorities have granted preliminary approval for dozens of Donald Trump-branded spas, escort services, hotels and massage parlours....









Best thing about daylight savings time is that we lost an hour of Trump. - Ken Olin





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The White House press room was a laundry room in 1909 when yellow journalism was all the rage.

Peace.