March 16, 2018 11:07 AM
Morning Reads for Friday, March 16th, 2018 (Brunch Edition)
Filling in for Ginny and running late! TGIF…
- Florida is still in recovery mode after the bridge collapse this week.
- After 30 years of trials, appeals, and multiple investigations, the Stocking Strangler was executed last night around 10:30pm.
- Happy 100th Birthday to Dewey Reaves! A successful business owner, father of two, and all around great guy will be doing the jitterbug this evening as he celebrates 100 years in this wonderful world.
- Vice President Pence is coming to Savannah for St. Patty’s Day.
- 7 U.S. service members were killed yesterday in a helicopter crash yesterday in Western Iraq.
- Well, this makes Bitcoin seem even more like it’s not worth it…
- 7 year old Winder native, Tripp Halstead, has died after he was hit by a falling limb in October of 2012.
- With the opioid crisis on the rise, here’s some helpful information.
- It would be a sad day to not have H.R. McMaster in the White House as a voice of reason, but is his departure coming?
- And according to the Washington Post, the President is looking at replacing cabinet members with Cable News personalities.
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Oh wow, Mike Pence on the party scene. That should be a real hoot!
Does he even drink?
I just pulled from Galloway that the ACLU is trying to get an injunction against Savannah officials, to stop them from enforcing a security provision “laid down in preparation for Vice President Mike Pence’s attendance at Saturday’s St. Patrick’s Day festivities” , which is a “ban on displaying hand-held poster signs in view of Vice President Mike Pence along the St. Patrick’s Day Parade route.”
I’ve never heard of this type of ban before. Is it a normal security procedure? Or does Pence just not want to read the opinions of some real Americans?
Apparently they think Pence is a snowflake.
They won, so signs allowed below a set size. The drag queens in a 200 mile radius and the SCAD students are going to be out in force to get to the security line before the 7:00 AM entry so they can all get prime seats.
My cousins on the farm, not one of his fans….
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-16/away-from-spotlight-sonny-perdue-remakes-usda-in-trump-s-image
Make the animals suffer more, make the smaller farms go out of business by letting agribusiness run amok, oh…and lets shame the poor a little more with a box of government picked food…because…is it smaller government, less government intrusion, I get confused with the message du jour.
Sonny was a horrible governor so it makes sense he is in the Trump administration that seeks out the worst possible people (John Bolton edition coming to a screen near you soon)
This is going to be interesting…
https://www.axios.com/exclusive-james-comey-to-come-out-hot-on-book-tour-1521194341-e80832f7-6db7-4f4f-89a2-8d6c03e87bc0.html
Turns out time in space didn’t really change the astronaut’s DNA after all.
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2018/03/15/csu-professor-dna-space-kelly/
Uh oh. Sarah Palin’s at Mar-a-Lago.
I wonder if she brought some copies of here resume.
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/378212-sarah-palin-to-keynote-gop-fundraising-dinner-at-mar-a-lago
I’ve come to realize that it’s all an update of Gulliver’s Travels. We are all just living in the modern, reality teevee version. Of course the casting should include bringing the Wasilla Hillbillies down to DC, swamp that is, swimming pools, Fox and Friends stars…
I know right. ‘Idiocracy’ wasn’t cynical enough.
Crooked cop McCabe is toast! Thank goodness Sessions fired him before he could start drawing that undeserved $1.8 million retirement from American taxpayers. He’s been dirty for years, but now they have the goods on him for conspiring to overthrow a sitting President of the United States. That’s called treason, and the Justice Dept. needs to make him do the perp walk.
Thousands of good, honorable FBI agents have been watching to see if he would be held accountable, knowing that any of them would have been fired for far less. This goes a long way toward restoring their and the public trust in the whole department. Draining the swamp!
Correct! Next up? Criminal charges…
I’m curious to hear what he actually did wrong. “Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor — including under oath — on multiple occasions.”
Doesn’t exactly sound like anything outside the normal course of business in DC these days.
It’s called illegally leaking and then lying about that. Perjury there. Felony. See my reference to Danbury. Crooked = Dog’s Hind Leg.
At this point in time it appears that McCabe’s greatest sin was not immediately bending the knee upon becoming the acting FBI Director. He had the audacity to show up on the Narcissist in Chief’s teevee disputing his statement that Comey had lost the support of rank-and-file F.B.I. agents. This was obviously another one of those alternative facts that the President has admitted just this week he pulls out of his ass. In his former world he is not accustomed to having anyone call BS on him when he is simply throwing it out there to see if it will stick. Especially someone who he views as a subordinate. This started the ball rolling and Sessions doesn’t want fired this week either and this firing will only add more fuel to the fire that President Trump is trying to obstruct justice in more interference with the FBI and Mueller’s probe.
As a libertarian I’ve had my differences in the past with the role of the FBI as set up by J. Edgar. They have definitely abused their power and the law itself at times. That being said I do realize that we have a need for a national police force, but the crux of it at this point in time to me is: Do we really want our national policing agency to act as the president’s lap dog? Is this not the road to true fascism or a dictatorship?
He’s done sooooooooo much for us that his own organization recommended his termination! LM-AO!!!! You two blithering sycophants keep on whistling past that graveyard!!!
Already at the vodka today? Your trolling game is off. Name calling when you don’t have a valid counterpoint should at least make sense in the English dictionary. Though I will grant you that this President appears to only want the company of sycophants. In what universe have I appeared to be one of those? Or a suck-up to any other being on this planet? I wish you could hear from a couple of my former bosses. Of course they did come to realize that I could be relied upon for unvarnished truth as I saw it even if I was wrong. You see, I believe in civil debate and putting my views out there so that if proven wrong I will change my own perceptions. Debate without civility is pointless and has evolved to being even moreso in today’s Facebook, Twitter, blog… environment.
Tell me what criminal actions have been committed by McCabe at this point? And just where did the $1.8 million figure come from? Is that extrapolated from a life expectancy of 120 to sensationalize a ~$50K per year pension? Screwing a cop out of their pension will not go over well with the other cops. I don’t care how you slice it.
I thought of one time that I did act in an obsequious manner to a politician and it is even related to Georgia politics. Herman Talmadge while on his last threads as a senator showed up to help dedicate the brand new Riverdale recreation center. As someone who had been involved on the periphery with its creation I was on the podium. I offered to hold his overcoat. ?
That overcoat used to be famous for housing illegal cash. Hope you grabbed a handful.
Nah, all I got was stink eye along with an expelled sigh of locomotive breath.
There was talk of why Mueller subpoenaed business documents from the Trump Organization instead of just asking for them.
It’s not like the Trump organization is rife with lying leadership, paid $25,000,000 in connection with its fraud, or illegally occupied a building to be able to shred Trump business documents relating to the occupation or anything.
Four words: Danbury Minimun Security Prison.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/russia-collusion-real-story-hillary-clinton-dnc-fbi-media/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/03/muellers-investigation-flouts-justice-department-standards/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
Apparently not…Lol! ‘Nuther One Note response! To be expected, really.
A little behind the times, Eric. Your ilk already brought a gun.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03/eric-holder-gop-want-knife-fight-gonna/
Lacking candor is legal-speak for lying. People who lie under oath to the FBI go to jail. This dude lied under oath on multiple occasions, according to the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility, who recommended to the DOJ that he be fired. The FBI itself obviously realized he was not entitled to draw a pension (for likely about 30 years) as if he were one of the honest, honorable FBI agents. He should be arrested and prosecuted — not rewarded with cushy retirement at 49. Here’s the official termination statement from last night:
“After an extensive and fair investigation and according to Department of Justice procedure, the Department’s Office of the Inspector General (OIG) provided its report on allegations of misconduct by Andrew McCabe to the FBI’s Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR).
Pursuant to Department Order 1202, and based on the report of the Inspector General, the findings of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility, and the recommendation of the Department’s senior career official, I have terminated the employment of Andrew McCabe effective immediately.”The FBI’s OPR then reviewed the report and underlying documents and issued a disciplinary proposal recommending the dismissal of Mr. McCabe. Both the OIG and FBI OPR reports concluded that Mr. McCabe had made an unauthorized disclosure to the news media and lacked candor − including under oath − on multiple occasions.
The FBI expects every employee to adhere to the highest standards of honesty, integrity, and accountability. As the OPR proposal stated, ‘all FBI employees know that lacking candor under oath results in dismissal and that our integrity is our brand.’
Pursuant to Department Order 1202, and based on the report of the Inspector General, the findings of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility, and the recommendation of the Department’s senior career official, I have terminated the employment of Andrew McCabe effective immediately.”
Actually without seeing the report itself there is no way we can determine the veracity of the AG’s statement. Perhaps a little balance is due in looking at Mr. McCabe’s response:
“The investigation by the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has to be understood in the context of the attacks on my credibility. The investigation flows from my attempt to explain the FBI’s involvement and my supervision of investigations involving Hillary Clinton. I was being portrayed in the media over and over as a political partisan, accused of closing down investigations under political pressure. The FBI was portrayed as caving under that pressure, and making decisions for political rather than law enforcement purposes. Nothing was further from the truth. In fact, this entire investigation stems from my efforts, fully authorized under FBI rules, to set the record straight on behalf of the Bureau, and to make clear that we were continuing an investigation that people in DOJ opposed.”
” The OIG investigation has focused on information I chose to share with a reporter through my public affairs officer and a legal counselor. As Deputy Director, I was one of only a few people who had the authority to do that. It was not a secret, it took place over several days, and others, including the Director, were aware of the interaction with the reporter. It was the type of exchange with the media that the Deputy Director oversees several times per week. In fact, it was the same type of work that I continued to do under Director Wray, at his request. The investigation subsequently focused on who I talked to, when I talked to them, and so forth. During these inquiries, I answered questions truthfully and as accurately as I could amidst the chaos that surrounded me. And when I thought my answers were misunderstood, I contacted investigators to correct them.”
Another advocate for Second Special Counsel. Needed now. Right now. For the reasons listed. Expect Magoo to announce this this week! M&KAGA!
https://nypost.com/2018/03/17/a-second-special-counsel-should-be-investigating-the-fbi-leaks/
I would have leaked this as well:
The day after he fired James Comey as director of the FBI, a furious President Donald Trump called the bureau’s acting director, Andrew McCabe, demanding to know why Comey had been allowed to fly on an FBI plane from Los Angeles back to Washington after he was dismissed, according to multiple people familiar with the phone call.
McCabe told the president he hadn’t been asked to authorize Comey’s flight, but if anyone had asked, he would have approved it, three people familiar with the call recounted to NBC News.
The president was silent for a moment and then turned on McCabe, suggesting he ask his wife how it feels to be a loser — an apparent reference to a failed campaign for state office in Virginia that McCabe’s wife made in 2015.
McCabe replied, “OK, sir.” Trump then hung up the phone.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-s-gripes-against-mccabe-included-wife-s-politics-comey-n842161
How Trump Consultants Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions
Cambridge Analytica secured a $15 million investment from Robert Mercer, the wealthy Republican donor, and wooed his political adviser, Stephen K. Bannon, with the promise of tools that could identify the personalities of American voters and influence their behavior. But it did not have the data to make its new products work.
So the firm harvested private information from the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million users without their permission, according to former Cambridge employees, associates and documents, making it one of the largest data leaks in the social network’s history. The breach allowed the company to exploit the private social media activity of a huge swath of the American electorate, developing techniques that underpinned its work on President Trump’s campaign in 2016…
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/cambridge-analytica-trump-campaign.html