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Republican operative Roger Stone was found guilty Friday of all seven counts against him, including witness tampering and making false statements.
Prosecutors portrayed Stone, 67, as a serial liar who tried to bully witnesses into not cooperating with authorities. They charged Stone, a confidant of President Donald Trump, with making false statements, obstruction and witness tampering in a case that was an offshoot of special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.
First off the "Teller" made a statement to police calling it a false alarm and no attempted robbery took place. Secondly, the armed robber was actually a branch manager checking in on the bank manager. Thirdly, after close examination, it turns out the alarm was faulty and programmed to go off when this manager showed up asking too many questions about things we don't want others to know.
Oh no, Roger Stone (an otherwise unimportant name that you never heard of before) made the nothingburger Mueller investigation take a little longer because he answered 5 questions from hundreds of interviews incorrectly. Remember this all happened when we all still believed in the fabricated Russia story, but now we've moved onto the mortal enemy of Russia and colluding or bribing with javelins or something silly with Ukraine. Or am I missing something -- did we just prove Collusion finally and can now finally after 3 years impeach Trump?!
You know what else is a nothing burger -- these inquiry witnesses with nothing to offer but sad stories about how sad they are.
I'll bet that hand is smooth, and yet dry, because she's not the kind of gal who uses moisturizer (which is icky) and yet has naturally thin / delicate skin.
You know what I mean- some people, myself included, have very thick and coarse skin on the palms and the palm-side of the fingers. Not calloused per se, just a bit rough.
I'll bet she doesn't.
All I can think about right now is what it would feel like being very deliberately rubbed across my face, starting with the palm at the forehead and then progressing down the cheek, as the fingers work their way around my closed eyelids, down across the lips and then looping sideways across the bottom of the chin.
The fact that the fingernails are trimmed very tightly is a huge plus.
I'm trying to eat popcorn to this whole situation, but I'm struggling. I think it would be more entertaining if it was happening to someone else's country. This gif kind of captures my feeling about the hearings
President Donald Trump's personal pastor and spiritual advisor Paula White is asking followers to give her $229 in order to receive "prophetic instruction" on how to defeat the enemies in their lives this November.
Buried in the campaign finance reports available to the public are some troubling connections between a group of wealthy donors with ties to Russia and their political contributions to President Donald Trump and a number of top Republican leaders. And thanks to changes in campaign finance laws, the political contributions are legal. We have allowed our campaign finance laws to become a strategic threat to our country.
.... and by the same token, Trump's former adviser Roger Stone was recently found guilty of lying to congress about WikiLeaks, witness tampering, and obstructing a House intelligence committee investigation.
But it's important to remember that neither Roger Stone nor Paula White are Donald Trump. Just because a person surrounds themselves with criminals and fraudsters, we cannot project all of their behavior onto the person.
^ Again, Trump is obviously innocent of everything (and also a deity), despite the fact that so very many of his associates / staffers / employees are being convicted of various crimes at a rate virtually unknown in American jurisprudence.
In entirely unrelated news, here's an older photo that kind of sums up every NIMBY advocate around:
... We have allowed our campaign finance laws to become a strategic threat to our country. ...
I believe that happened decades ago.
Originally Posted by Joe Perez
^ Again, Trump is obviously innocent of everything (and also a deity), despite the fact that so very many of his associates / staffers / employees are being convicted of various crimes at a rate virtually unknown in American jurisprudence.
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I believe that rate is entirely commensurate with the degree to which congress is looking up the ******* of every single person associated with his administration. Further, I would expect no less a rate of discovery/conviction if that same veracity was applied to ANY of the presidential administrations over my lifetime (and probably even further back).
I believe that rate is entirely commensurate with the degree to which congress is looking up the ******* of every single person associated with his administration. Further, I would expect no less a rate of discovery/conviction if that same veracity was applied to ANY of the presidential administrations over my lifetime (and probably even further back).
I completely agree with the point which you make. The sociopolitical landscape has changed.
I cannot help but chuckle at the "looking up the *******" part, as someone who designed and built a sanitizing system for the flexible sigmoidoscopes used by general practitioners in a small town in gulf-coastal Florida (which was not well-served by mainstream medical device manufacturers at the time) in the early 1990s. I was a teenager at the time, and of course this was the Beavis & Butthead era, so it was difficult for me to maintain composure while discussing this with physicians, knowing full well that the thing which was going to be inserted into my cleaning tube has just been inserted into a tube of another kind.
But I digress. President Trump, while not uniquely corrupt among presidents of the late 20th / early 21 century, is uniquely embarrassing on the global stage. I say this as the chief engineer of a TV station which was nationally famous in the 1980s-90s for a puppet goose and a clown. We made astonishing amounts of money from that duo, and benefit from their legacy to this day, but are honest about the fact that "This is literally a clown and a sock-puppet."
A good man is hard to find, especially in this economy.
The country is facing a crisis of broke dudes, according to new research from Cornell University — and it’s left successful ladies single and disgruntled.
In the study, published in the Journal of Marriage and Family, Cornell sociologists explored America’s declining marriage rate. They discovered a lack of financially eligible bachelors.
“There are shortages of economically attractive men,” lead study author Daniel T. Lichter tells The Post. Although we like to think marriage is based on love, he says, it “also is fundamentally an economic transaction,” and women want partners whom they can call their equals.
Lichter, who has been studying marriage for 30 years, says the gig economy and a “lack of good jobs” have contributed to the dearth of well-to-do dudes. So has the fact that women are outpacing men educationally, upending the age-old dominance of the male breadwinner over the past five to 10 years.
“Now it’s the case that more highly educated women are marrying down,” says Lichter. “Men have to get with the program.”
Single New Yorker Gina Thibodeaux has some theories of her own about the fella famine.
“I find generally that dudes these days just do less across the board,” says the nurse practitioner. “Their parents have coddled them and taken care of them, and they just don’t go out there and make more money.”
The 38-year-old Upper East Sider stresses that she’s not looking for “anything outrageous” — “safety and security, as far as finances go” — but she’s still coming up empty on dates.
She says it’s because the men she goes out with don’t feel the innate “push” to succeed that she does.
“I think for years they’ve always just taken their role in society for granted, and I think that they’re just getting lazy culturally,” she says.
Morgan Jordan, a staff administrator at a South Carolina college, says she’s also struggling to find a partner on her level.
“I don’t even consider myself all that successful. I just make a living wage and I’m comfortable,” says the 32-year-old, who lives in upstate South Carolina and recently paid off her student loans.
But the majority of guys she meets can’t say the same.
“Most men that I encounter, they’re really underemployed and they can’t seem to make a living themselves,” she says, adding that many are “wildly in debt” and intimidated by her stability.
“You can tell that some men really want to be the more traditional breadwinner,” says Jordan.
Boston single Jake Rivas gets where they’re coming from.
“My prospective partner’s income is something I consider,” says the 28-year-old, who works as a staff caregiver at a group home. “Being on the lower end [myself] only serves to feed insecurity.”
Graduate student Isaac Suárez says he’s not turned off by a woman who means business — but he has found that his relationships tend to last longer when he makes a similar amount as his partner.
“I have dated women with money . . . [and] full-time professional women tend to be busier, and it’s more difficult to find time to spend together,” says the 26-year-old, who lives in Portland, Ore.
Thibodeaux says she knows it’s “not necessarily [a guy’s] fault” if he’s struggling financially. Still, given the circumstances, she’s had to devise a Plan B for her future: If Mr. Right doesn’t come along soon, she may just shack up with some lady friends at her professional level.
“Maybe in a few years we’ll move in together,” she says. “They’re successful, and I like them.”
That article makes those women sound like absolute gems.....
Though I have been seeing more and more articles and studies on this subject. As women continue to obtain college and graduate degrees at higher rates then men. Definitely an interesting societal shift a foot.
Donald Trump’s massive debts—he owes hundreds of millions of dollars—are the subject of continuous congressional and journalistic scrutiny. But for years, one Trump loan has been particularly mystifying: a debt of more than $50 million that Trump claims he owes to one of his own companies. According to tax and financial experts, the loan, which Trump has never fully explained, might be part of a controversial tax avoidance scheme known as debt parking. Yet a Mother Jones investigation has uncovered information that raises questions about the very existence of this loan, presenting the possibility that this debt was concocted as a ploy to evade income taxes—a move that could constitute tax fraud.
Here’s what is publicly known about this mystery debt: On the personal financial disclosure forms that Trump must file each year as president, he has divulged that he owes “over $50 million” to a company called Chicago Unit Acquisition LLC. The forms note that this entity is fully owned by Trump. In other words, Trump owes a large chunk of money to a company he controls.
I'm totally at the opposite end of that line of thought.
My ideal lifestyle is the DINK lifestyle. And you maximize that by having both parties as high-earners.
To be perfectly honest, this was one of a small number of factors which created extreme discomfort in my first engagement, and ultimately led to its dissolution. I was working in the city, earning a comfortable six-figure salary. She didn't really care about any of that, and was perfectly comfortable as a social worker in a small town well outside the city, with no ambitions for more. Major mismatch, and one that I took far too long to recognize.
I'd love nothing more than to find a woman who I really meshed with, and who also happened to be a physician or an attorney who out-earned me.
My wife finally edged me out last year. We've got a friend couple, and the husband says that he doesn't want his wife making more than he does. I told him to not see it as a competition, but rather to see it as a partnership; a very lucrative partnership.
This is the outcome the ladies get when they convince each other that "fairness" is more important than "happiness". Go earn that degree, girl, you're going to make a future stay-at-home dad very happy! After all, he demands reparations for the toils of all the men who came before him.
This was my life when I was married, still no kids but my girlfriend probably makes 50% of what my ex-wife did. We lived in a very inexpensive house, very little debt, so we went to the Caribbean every year, and other vacations. Nice dinners/booze, new cars when we wanted, while still socking away quite a bit of money.
My girlfriend finishes her BA in the spring, finally. Hopefully she will find a better paying job (I'm hoping I can get her on here at Oracle) and I can get back to taking vacations and having a track car again.
I just got back from the Bahamas last night, travelling on a whim. Cant do that with kids who hate you even though you spend all your money and revolve your lives around them.
also, still have crummy journalism in 2019:
AFP News Agency reported on a recent UN report that claimed 100,000 children were held in migration-related detention centers in the US.
Reuters and several outlets like NBC News and Huffington Post also ran with this story.
Until, they discovered it was from 2015... Who was president in 2015?
Hint: it starts with an "O" and ends in "bama"...
Then, these "news" agencies started retracting, withdrawing and outright deleting the story.
Instead of reporting on this Obama-era scandal, they now decided to cover it up.
This is why we can't trust mainstream media.
These are the same people that say Obama never had a scandal besides the time he wore a tan suit.
The mainstream media never did their damn jobs and hid Obama's scandals for the entirety of his presidency.
This is why no one trusts the mainstream media.
- JW
And since ambassadors are in the news lately, lest us not forget:
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