Tuesday, May 14, 2019

CIA, FBI, Director of National Intelligence working with Attorney General Barr to review Russia probe origins

CIA, FBI, Director of National Intelligence working with Attorney General Barr to review Russia probe origins
Attorney General William Barr is working closely with the CIA to review the origins of the Russia investigation and surveillance issues surrounding Donald Trump's presidential campaign, according to a source familiar with the matter, broadening an effort that the President has long demanded to involve all major national security agencies.

Curious to see what turns out to be a bigger sh-tshow. The series finale of Game of Thrones or the series finale of the United States. - OhNoSheTwint





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Fighting with China to borrow from China to try to not bankrupt the farmers who market to China to own the libs. - Bruce Bacon






Trump Is Putting 120,000 Troops In Harm's Way
The top U.S. defense official has presented an updated military plan to President Donald Trump’s administration that envisions sending up to 120,000 troops to the Middle East should Iran attack American forces or accelerate work on nuclear weapons, the New York Times reported on Monday.







I like when the people who said Obama lacked experience defend Jared Kushner setting policy. - John Fugelsang




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Trump's budget takes money away from Pell Grants to give to NASA, so now we can both land on the moon and have citizens so uneducated they think it's fake. - Nick Jack Pappas



Trump&Co Find New Ways To Be Cruel To Immigrants
On Friday, the Department of Housing and Urban Development officially published its proposed rule to evict undocumented immigrants from public housing. Tens of thousands of children with US citizenship or legal status could be displaced.
“The cruelty of Secretary Carson’s proposal is breathtaking,” Diane Yentel, President and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition said in a statement. “The harm it would inflict on children, families and communities is severe.”








The only thing stupider than this trade war is the actual war that John Bolton wants. - Brian Schatz

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Immigrants and refugees are not a problem that we need to handle, they are an asset to our nation and an essential part of the fabric of this country — our policies must reflect that. - Pete Buttigieg 


Al Gore Warned Us
“We don’t know a planet like this...” Startling news from the well-respected Mauna Loa observatory in Hawaii: Carbon Dioxide levels have reached the highest they’ve been in human history. 





Fox News is a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists—it’s designed to turn us against each other, risking life and death consequences, to provide cover for the corruption that’s rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class. - Elizabeth Warren

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How to get a Netflix special the hard way: do stand up for a decade 
The easy way: be a serial killer. - Conan O'Brien






My My My. Mitch McConnell Lucked Out With Russia!
Russian aluminum giant Rusal spent most of last year under US sanctions. Now it's pumping $200 million into a new project in Kentucky.
Rusal, the largest producer of aluminum outside China, will help fund and supply a low-carbon aluminum rolling mill under construction in the eastern part of the state, parent company En+ Group said Sunday.








I own the Red Hen restaurant that asked Sarah Sanders to leave. Business is still good. Better than good, actually. And besides the boost to our area charities, our town’s hospitality and sales revenue have gone up, too. - Edward Fitzgerald




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A pinyon pine tree clings to the rocks on Windy Ridge, in the Grand Canyon. “Life, uh, finds a way.”- Dr. Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park.

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Monday, May 13, 2019

Trade Spat Wipes Out $1 Trillion From Global Stock-Market Values

Trade Spat Wipes Out $1 Trillion From Global Stock-Market Values 
The flare-up in trade tensions sent global equities to the steepest losses of the year, wiping more than $1 trillion from stock values around the world Monday. The MSCI All-Country World Index fell 2% as of 12:55 p.m. in New York, headed for the worst day since early December.


Don't worry, this trade war with China will only affect you if you frequently buy... (checks list) products. - Stephen Colbert





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You know we're going through a rough patch when "Jeff Bezos Announces Plans for Space Colonization" is the least jaw-dropping headline you've read all week. - Bette Midler





Police Take Sledgehammer To 1st Amendment
San Francisco police raided the home and office of a freelance journalist on Friday, taking a sledgehammer to the gate of his house and seizing his computers, phones and other devices.









I Wonder What Kompromat Putin Has On Pence
Vice President Mike Pence played a key role in the events that eventually led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller — and increasingly paranoid right-wingers are starting to notice.









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When "George Conway" directly calls out his dingbat, sociopath, congenital-liar wife, I'll start to take him seriously. Until then, however, the two of them must be seen as running a "good cop, bad cop" routine on the country, and nothing more dignified than that. - D. Lowther tweet





Roe v Wade Will Be On The SCOTUS Chopping Block
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer on Monday issued what appeared to be a dire warning about his right-wing colleagues overturning more precedents in ways that will send shock waves through the American political landscape.





Pence says Buttigieg's homosexuality is an attack on his faith. When following your faith requires that you demand others stop being who they are, it has crossed from religion to bigotry. Unless Buttigieg is physically attacking you, Mike, it's just your imagination. - John Leguizamo 


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Is everyone enjoying their tax increase? Because that's what you get from this trade war. - Rick Wilson tweet




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The CIA Spy Who Was Outed By The Bush Administration Is Running For Office 
Former CIA operative and author Valerie Plame officially announced her candidacy Thursday for an open U.S. congressional seat in northern New Mexico, joining several other Democrats in an increasingly crowded race.





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So, who in the White House went short on stocks last week before Trump started this latest round in the U.S.-China trade war?The SEC had better find out. - Richard W. Painter

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The only person who knows less about this trade war we're in than me is the president of the United States. - LOLGOP


Uh Oh. I Think The FBI Director Is Getting A Pink Slip
President Trump tweeted a lengthy quote Sunday night from a conservative commentator criticizing FBI Director Christopher Wray.
"'Just another abuse of power in a long series of abuses of power by the Democrats that began during the Obama Administration, continued through the Mueller FBI operation, & now the baton has been passed to Jerry Nadler to continue to abuse power to harass President Trump and the Democrat National Committee,'" Trump tweeted, quoting Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.






“I've never met an animal I didn't like, and I can't say the same thing about people.” - Doris Day who passed away today






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Friday, May 10, 2019

Pentagon to transfer $1.5 billion to border wall from Afghan forces, other areas

Pentagon to transfer $1.5 billion to border wall from Afghan forces, other areas
Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has approved the transfer of $1.5 billion to build more than 80 miles of barriers on the border with Mexico, U.S. official said on Friday, including taking about $600 million in savings from an account meant for Afghan security forces.


No leader since Hitler has been so intent on destroying families.
Meanwhile, the self-styled "party of family values" actively enables each successive outrageous act of destruction. - Suave Hellion tweet




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Nero fiddled.  Trump tweets. - Col. Morris Davis 




I Wonder Where Yang's Yin Is?
The FBI has opened a public corruption investigation into Republican donor and South Florida massage-parlor entrepreneur Li “Cindy” Yang, focusing on whether she illegally funneled money from China into the president’s re-election effort or committed other potential campaign-finance violations, the Miami Herald has learned.




Trump Motorcade Picks Up Few Lyft Passengers To Help President Make Ends Meet. - The Onion


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Trump Says He Has Been Very Unfairly Treated by People Who Wrote the Constitution. - Andy Borowitz



Roger Stone Gives Me The Creeps
Federal prosecutors handling Roger Stone’s case were ordered on Thursday to turn over to a judge any unredacted sections of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report relating to the longtime GOP operative that could help prepare his defense for their upcoming trial.







Every time Mike Pence praises Trump for "religious freedom" I'm reminded of all those nights I spent in prison bc I said "Merry Christmas"under a Democratic presidency.

(I'm also reminded that Pence is revoltingly un-Christian and that Trump support is incompatible w/Jesus.) - John Fugelsang





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Without Trump, we have no Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and without Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, we have no emboldened Republican states passing medieval abortion laws with a SCOTUS to uphold them. but thank god we denied the presidency to the email lady, what a nightmare that would have been. - Jeff Tiedrich



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The law Gov. Kemp signed in Georgia bans women from making their own health care decisions. It literally makes them criminals if they leave the state to seek the care they need. Health care decisions should be between patients and doctors. End of story. - Sen. Amy Klobuchar


I Wonder Which GOP Senator Will Be The First To Throw Don Jr. Under The Bus?
Republican senators are rallying around Donald Trump Jr. after one of their colleagues issued him a subpoena — and he plans to fight it tooth and nail.







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Guns in church. Because, hey, “faith.” - John Fugelsang


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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders called China’s tariffs on its full range of tanning products an “act of war.” - Andy Borowitz





Here Comes The Tariffs!
President Donald Trump boosted tariffs Friday on $200 billion in goods from China and was preparing more in his most dramatic steps yet to extract trade concessions, further roiling financial markets and casting a shadow over the global economy.


We're all going down the very day robots learn to click I Am Not A Robot. - Jason Roeder




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I paid a total of $309 for the cabinet and wardrobe. I'm a very good shopper, correction, hunter.

The roof estimate is around $750 including labor.


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19th century Firefighters resemble Darth Vader and C3PO. Wouldn't that metal mask get hot?

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