Billions Spent on U.S. Cyberdefenses Failed to Detect Giant Russian Hack

Billions Spent on U.S. Cyberdefenses Failed to Detect Giant Russian Hack
It now is clear that the broad Russian espionage attack on the U.S. government and private companies, underway since spring and detected by the private sector only a few weeks ago, ranks among the greatest intelligence failures of modern times.

The definition of coronavirus relief is Trump leaving office. - Andy Borowitz

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Trump Ex-Homeland Security Adviser Warns of Devastating Consequences From Russia Hack: Magnitude of This Breach 'Hard to Overstate'
• Top US general meets with Taliban negotiators
• US hits grim new daily record with 3,656 coronavirus deaths
• Trump cuts $200M in health care funds to California over abortions
• Sweden's King On Coronavirus: 'We Have Failed'
• Russia barred from using name at Olympics, world championships for two years

Americans keep saying “well China is lying about their Covid numbers” as if the governor of Florida didn’t just send a gestapo unit to pull guns on a scientist who refused to lie about the numbers. - Mac tweet

 

If Putin Didn't Poison Navalny, Who Did?
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday blasted reports about a poisoning attempt targeting opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, saying if Russian agents wanted him dead they would have “probably finished it.”

“WE WANT THEM INFECTED. WE WANT THEM TO SPREAD IT AROUND?!”

The Trump administration ACTIVELY wanted people infected? 

I’m sick to my stomach. - Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Trump Floated Not Leaving White House on January 20
• Pence may leave for overseas trip after certifying vote: report
• Trump taps Giuliani’s son for membership on the Holocaust Memorial Council.
• House GOP leaders ask Pelosi to remove Swalwell from Intelligence Committee
• Senate Confirms Another Trump Nominee, 36, to Lifetime Judgeship During Lame Duck Session
• Steve Bannon’s New Lawyer Was Rudy Giuliani’s ‘Backchannel’ to Keep Michael Cohen from Flipping on Trump
• Tucker Carlson doubles down on mocking 'illiterate' Jill Biden
• DeVos: 'Let me leave you with this plea: Resist'

Tucker Carlson. He applied to CIA.  He was rejected. I’m just saying. - Gen. Michael Hayden, former CIA Director

 

 

Hey, Mitch, Trying To Bribe Georgians With $600 To Vote GOP May Backfire As It's Quite Insulting

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's decision to support $600 payments to Americans as part of a new round of federal coronavirus relief was motivated by fears for the Senate runoff elections in Georgia

What would make you feel safer right now: more aircraft carriers or $2000/month in your pocket? - Ro Khanna

 

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People who stood by Donald Trump for the last four years are now claiming to be offended that a Democratic campaign manager used a curse word? I don't think so. - Hillary Clinton

Rock The Voter News

• Biden to tap North Carolina environmental regulator Regan to head EPA
• Biden to tap former Michigan Gov. Granholm to lead Energy Department
• 'Conspiracy theories and lies': Dems cry foul as GOP airs unsupported election claims
• Biden campaign manager calls GOP lawmakers 'a bunch of f---ers'

Bidding Begins To Blowup Trump's Bankrupt Casino

 One of President Donald Trump’s former Atlantic City casinos will be blown up next month, and for the right amount of money, you could be the one to press the button that brings it down.

The demolition of the former Trump Plaza casino will become a fundraiser to benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Atlantic City that the mayor hopes will raise in excess of $1 million.

Republicans- Crazy Nancy, Crooked Hillary, Pocahontas, Low IQ Maxine Waters, Dumb AOC, Sleepy Joe...

Democrats- Shut up, f*ckers.

Republicans- *clutching pearls* why I never how can we work with you oh jesus help me I can’t do this anymore. - Tony Posnanski

 

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Business/Tech News

• Weekly jobless claims rise to 885,000
• Trump Vows Veto of of Veto-Proof Military Spending Bill Over Tech 'Censorship' of Conservatives
• More than 30 states file suit demanding breakup of Google
• Chinese official unveils future moon mission plans including possible lunar base

After the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy, the only thing that trickled down was Rudy’s hair dye. Time to raise them back up, folks. - George Takei

 

 

I Love Football But There Should Not Be A Super Bowl, In My Humble Opinion
The NFL hopes to honor health care workers at the Super Bowl in Tampa, Fla. in February, including by inviting vaccinated front-line workers to the event, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell announced Wednesday.

If Donald Trump refused to leave the White House and had to be dragged out by the Secret Service, it would get the highest ratings in TV history. 

Your move Donald Trump. - Hamish Mitchell

 

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Well, my Internet is down again. The problem is overload of users. They are working on it but have no idea when it will be repaired.

I'm using my neighbor's wifi but it is quite slow.

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Odd News

• Astronomers detect possible radio emission from exoplanet
• Deadly 'Brain-Eating' Amoeba Slowly But Surely Expanding Its Footprint in The US
•  Wisconsin trooper pulls over car covered with Christmas lights
• Goat, sheep, three lambs besiege municipal building in Turkey
• Hawk flies into home, perches on Christmas tree

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Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky. - Kahlil Gibran

Peace and love.

Congress close to coronavirus deal that includes stimulus checks

Congress close to coronavirus deal that includes stimulus checks

Senate and House leaders are on the cusp of a coronavirus relief deal that will include direct $600 to $700 direct stimulus payments and $300-per-week supplemental unemployment assistance, according to sources familiar with the talks.

White House Staff To Be Vaccinated First Despite Total Absence of Essential Workers. - Andy Borowitz

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Durbin says alleged Russian hack 'virtually a declaration of war'
• ‘We want them infected’: Trump appointee demanded ‘herd immunity’ strategy, emails reveal
• Trump appointees describe the crushing of the CDC
• Houston Doctor Reveals HALF of His Nurses Wont Take Covid-19 Vaccine for 'Political' Reasons

Wonder why over 300,000 Americans already died from #COVID19 and the US has the worst pandemic response of any civilized country? It wasn’t just incompetence, it was actual malice by the Donald Trump Administration. - Rep. Ted Lieu

 

Pompeo Held A Party And Less Than 10% Showed Up

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo found out what happens when you send out 900 invitations to an indoor holiday party during a pandemic that has killed at least 300,000 Americans: not that many people show up.

The Tuesday event for the families of diplomats in high-risk locations was hosted by Pompeo and his wife, Susan, in Washington, D.C. As of Monday night, only about 70 people had accepted their invitations, and even fewer showed up...

It took over three months to reach the first million cases of Coronavirus in the U.S.

The last million took five days. - JRehling

 

Republican Shenanigans

• Secretary of State Pompeo Quarantines After Virus Exposure 
• Trump retweets call to jail Georgia governor and secretary of state
• Trump Ramps Up Attacks on Former Favorite Network: ‘Fox News is Dead’
• Graham: Trump should name special counsel to probe Bidens
• WH lawyers warned Trump not to fire Chris Wray
• Ex-Houston cop hired by GOP megadonor arrested for aggravated assault while hunting fake ballots
• Trump Breaks Silence on McConnell's Public Congratulation of Joe Biden in 12:40 AM Tweet: 'People are Angry!'
• Anderson Cooper Serves Up Sarcastic, 'Slow Clap' Takedown of McConnell for 'Bare Minimum' Acceptance of Biden Win
• Sen. Kelly Loeffler campaigns in Fort Oglethorpe, touts Trump

Pence Refuses Vaccine After Learning He Would Be Alone In Room With Female Nurse. - Andy Borowitz

 

 

One Of Trump's Friends?

The Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard was charged on Tuesday with sex trafficking, racketeering and other crimes targeting dozens of women and underage girls over a quarter century in three countries, U.S. authorities said.

Kelly Loeffler’s net worth is between $800 million and $1 billion dollars. Yet, she’s panhandling on Twitter for $5 like Lindsey Graham at a truck stop. - Hoodlum tweet

 

I feel like the fact that after receiving classified briefings about COVID Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue downplayed the virus to the public and invested in BODY BAGS should have been a bigger a story. - OhNoSheTwitnt

 

 

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Ugh, I get so irritated with folks who want to blame Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats in the House of Representatives for not understanding that no matter what they write up or pass, it has to pass the Republican dominated Senate. 

Blame the Senate Majority Leader. - Kathy Griffin

 

Rock The Voter News

• Ocasio-Cortez: I'm 'not ready' to be Speaker but Pelosi and Schumer need to go
• Kamala Harris Applauds McConnell for Acknowledging Biden Win: ‘It Would Have Been Better If It Were Earlier’
• George Clooney Remembers Donald Trump as the Guy Hitting on Cocktail Waitresses on the New York Party Circuit

Begrudgingly acknowledging the reality of gravity when the final apple falls on your head doesn’t make you worthy of any commendation. - Dan Rather

 

Well, Well, Well. If Trump Isn't A Legal Resident of Florida, Were The Votes He & Melania Cast Legal?

A number of President Trump’s neighbors in Palm Beach, Fla., are arguing that he is legally barred from taking up primary residence at his Mar-a-Lago resort after leaving the White House.

In the letter to Palm Beach officials obtained by The Washington Post, the residents cited an agreement Trump signed in 1993 to convert the facility to a private club, which they said bars him from using it as a primary residence. The agreement bars members from spending more than 21 days per year there or for more than seven days straight.

REPORT: GOP in Massachusetts have declared Donald Trump the winner of the 2020 Boston Marathon. - JRehling

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Business/Tech News

• Nearly 8 million Americans fell into poverty since June: study
• Fox News inks new multi-year deal with Laura Ingraham
• Jeffrey Toobin Scrubbed From HBO's The Undoing — But Remains at CNN
• Florida's Sun Sentinel found an odd gap in state COVID-19 deaths ahead of the election

CDC Announces Children Will Be Last To Receive Covid Vaccine Because What Are Those Little Twerps Going To Do About It  - The Onion

 

Google Is Giggling

Texas plans to hire Ken Starr, the former independent counsel in the investigation that led to President Bill Clinton’s impeachment, to represent the state in an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc.’s Google, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Whenever I see someone trying to parallel park I avert my eyes and continue walking giving them the privacy they need because I’m a decent human being. - Tomi Obaro 

 

 

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My Internet connection is properly functioning. 

Finally. 

Thank you for your patience.

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Odd News

• Tom Cruise Tears Into ‘Mission: Impossible 7’ Crew for Not Following COVID-19 Safety Protocols
• Chicken-Sized Dinosaur Enthralls Scientists: 'Like Nothing I've Seen In Nature Before'
• Spiders Figured Out How to Build Webs in Space
• Scientists find two new species of fungi that turn flies into 'zombies'
• Chihuahua dog missing for 5 years in California is found

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The Rookery Building Oriel Staircase designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Chicago, 1905, gives me a touch of vertigo.

Peace.

William Barr steps down as Trump's attorney general

William Barr steps down as Trump's attorney general

The US attorney general, William Barr, one of Donald Trump's staunchest allies, has resigned just weeks after he contradicted the president by...

In the end, it was a very low Barr. - Dan Rather

 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• U.S. COVID-19 death toll passes 300000 as vaccine rolls out
• All 538 electors have voted, formalizing Biden's 306-232 win. Here's how the electoral vote works
• Russia's Putin congratulates Biden on winning U.S. election
• Proud Boys Say They've Had a Member 'at the White House For Four Years'
• Driver yells anti-Semitic slurs, assaults man during Hanukkah celebration in Kentucky

Putin beat Mitch McConnell to congratulating our president elect.

Good job, Senate GOP. - Steven Pasquale

 

The national security negligence is stunning: the Commander in Chief is chasing a false allegation of election fraud at home, while a very real foreign adversary executed a very real hack of large swaths of his government - and his admin missed it. - Jim Sciutto, CNN

Is Putin Cleaning House Before Trump Vacates?

The longtime aide to “Putin’s Congressman” Dana Rohrabacher died suddenly from a head injury over the weekend.

Paul Behrends was found by emergency responders close to his home on Friday night with severe head trauma. He was taken to a local hospital where surgeons fought to save him, but he passed away on Saturday, according to a spokesman for Rohrabacher.

Behrends was a controversial figure on Capitol Hill who lost his job as staff director for the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee after The Daily Beast reported on his links to Trump Tower lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya’s operation in the U.S.

Republican Shenanigans

• Gov. DeSantis suggests one dose of Pfizer vaccine may be enough
• Rogue Florida Guv’s Next Pandemic Fiasco: Vaccine Rollout
• Top GOP senators acknowledge Biden as president-elect after Electoral College vote
• Trump attorney Jenna Ellis reportedly lied about being fired from DA's office
• Bette Midler blasts McConnell: 'How did he win with an 18% approval rating?'
• CDC’s Redfield told staff to delete email, official tells House watchdog
• Trump campaign files lawsuit over New Mexico election, objecting to ballot drop boxes

Let Donald Trump's hair be a reminder that he is never going to admit he lost anything. - LOLGOP

 

Will $28.5 Million Buy Ghislaine Maxwell A Get-Out-Of-Jail Card?
Ghislaine Maxwell, the former associate of Jeffrey Epstein accused of aiding his alleged sex-trafficking operation, has asked for a $28.5 million bond after a judge rejected her offer of $5 million earlier this year.

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SURGEON GENERAL'S WARNING: watching Donald Trump lose this election over and over can be habit-forming. - Jeff Tiedrich

Rock The Voter News

• Percentage of Americans who say they'll get vaccine right away doubles since September: poll
• Biden to nominate Buttigieg as transportation secretary
• Fauci: Biden and Trump should get Covid-19 vaccine

Pete Buttigieg’s first order of business as Secretary of Transportation should be to add Mike Pence to the no fly list. - Jesse Lifson

BEHOLD: A Republican Turned Independent.

Rep. Paul Mitchell, R-Mich., said Monday he is leaving his party and becoming an Independent because Republicans have not stood up to President Donald Trump's attempts to overturn the election.

Mitchell said in an interview with CNN that the breaking point for him was the amicus brief signed by over 100 Republican House members in support of the unsuccessful Texas-led bid to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's win at the Supreme Court, which made unsupported claims of widespread voter fraud and argued that voting procedures in four battleground states violated their own state laws.

I can't get over part where 15 minutes after the Electoral College certified for Biden, William Barr quit. - Stonekettle

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Business/Tech News

• Text messages promising $1,200 stimulus checks are actually scams, IRS warns
• Trump administration rolls back efficiency standards for showerheads, washers and dryers
• Facebook takes down French, Russian networks targeting African nations
• Twitter confirms Trump can be banned from inauguration day onwards
• Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church took $4.4M PPP loan

McConnell Says He Would Have Congratulated Biden Earlier But Was Busy Thwarting Stimulus Package. - Andy Borowitz

 

Melania Didn't Care Then and Doesn't Care Now. Evil To The Core.

First lady Melania Trump broke stated mask policy at Children's National Hospital Tuesday when she removed her mask to read a holiday book to children.

Trump, who has visited children at the hospital each year during her time as first lady, continued the tradition despite the coronavirus pandemic and record cases in Washington, DC.

I’m starting to think the only person Trump ever hired who was actually qualified to do her job was Stormy Daniels.- Andrea Junker

 

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Deep apologies for the late post. My Internet connection is acting up again. Sigh, and to think 20 years ago, I used dial-up!

Thank you all for the birthday wishes and gifts. 

I am truly humbled.

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Odd News

• Customer leaves $5,600 tip for Ohio restaurant employees
• A pocket watch worth up to nearly $27,000 that was presented by US President Woodrow Wilson has been stolen
• Reverse waterfall - High-speed winds from Storm Ciara blew the water from a waterfall in Scotland back up
•  Florida woman finds raccoon in her Christmas tree
•  'My adrenaline was just rushing': Hero catches victims jumping from burning Georgia apartment

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Capitol Hill. Washington, D.C., in case you wondered how wealthy Washingtonians lived.

Peace.