March 29, 2019 6:45 AM
Morning Reads for Friday, March 29, 2019
- Really hope this is a hoax.
- Road trip(s)!
- What could go wrong?
- Sine Die is next Tuesday. April Fool’s Day +1.
- Oops. Fake research is expensive.
- When childhood was fun.
- Good stress helps kids mature.
- Voting “Present” must be the new thing.
- Buzz Aldrin and the remaining Apollo astronauts, stylin’ and profiling’.
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Ginny
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Hi Ginny! we have some links that are going to the sites and giving out 404 and file not found messages…
Or my new (only 12 days old) computer has taken a dislike to you.
And the first read is not a hoax…
I think this is what they mean by bad optics.
Ralston client charged in brutal hammer attack while earlier case was on hold.
Ginny or DeepDark,
A few of your links don’t work:
Fake research
Voting Present
Road Trip
What could go wrong
Imagine if the Starr Report had been provided only to President Clinton’s Attorney General, Janet Reno, who then read it privately and published a 4-page letter based on her private reading stating her conclusion that President Clinton committed no crimes. — tweet by Orin Kerr.
It’s would be good news that the President seeks release of the full report except that Trump is the President. Remember when Trump released his tax returns after the IRS audit was complete? Neither do I.
Trump will hide behind national security concerns expressed by others, though the national security concerns of others didn’t stop top secret clearances to family members or release of other national security information.
Sigh. Bill Clinton was impeached – but not removed – for perjury, suborning perjury and obstruction of justice in order to sabotage a civil suit. That the mainstream media has allowed Democrats to get away with claiming successfully that Clinton was impeached for his private behaviour is an exhibit of why so few conservatives trust the mainstream media. Also, Starr’s decision to include those details in the report and the media’s choosing to print and focus on it are two different things, especially since there are plenty of things that the media exercises its prerogative to cover or not cover, and sometimes only addresses when pressured to by alternative media, such as the infamous case where national media outlets initially refused to cover the Kermit Gosnell case claiming it as a “local crime story” but only relented when challenged over the similar “local crime story” Trayvon Walker. If anything, one could even say that the media focused almost solely on Lewinsky in order to avoid talking about perjury, suborning perjury and obstruction.
Also, we have to realize that Kenneth Starr operated under the independent counsel statute that was written by – John Conyers to go after Nixon over Watergate. It was then used during the Reagan and Bush administrations. It was only after it was seen how that statute could be (ab)used by Republicans to go after Democratic presidents that it was decided that it was best that the statute be allowed to expire, a position that a lot of conservatives, libertarians and civil libertarians had expressed for decades. Mueller is operating under a different statute. People who wanted the Mueller probe to be more like the Nixon/Reagan/Clinton probes were bound to be disappointed, and people who are pretending as if the Clinton probe alone should have been more like the Mueller probe, but the Nixon/Reagan/Trump probes should have been like the Starr ones are just being partisan.
Finally, Congress will get the Mueller report after it is redacted in a few weeks. That has already been agreed to by the Senate Judiciary Committee and the speaker of the House is not opposed to those terms. Schiff and Cummings – by demanding the unredacted report immediately – are simply grandstanding so they can later claim “the truth is out there but being suppressed.” Yes, the Starr, Watergate etc. reports were given directly to Congress in unredacted form but that was under a different legal paradigm. Schiff, Cummings and people like Reid and Behar on MSNBC are free to play to their bases but serious people should not take them seriously.
So why shouldn’t the full report be given to Schiff? Does he lack some security clearance?
Schiff! Lawd. Adam Schiff, the biggest clown to possibly ever serve in Congress. He has as much reason to have any clearance or to serve on the Intel committee as my dog does. He is an abject embarrassment and a congenital liar.
But keep collusion hope alive Benevolus. Go for it.
So you’ve managed to get in your name calling on Congressman Schiff.
Now, list one lie, with evidence supporting that it was in fact a lie.
Or will you continue to follow your junior high playbook and go back to name calling ?
How many times do I have to dunk on your head Chatsprint. How about the most obvious lie, that the clown Schiff has SEEN proof beyond circumstantial, that Trump colluded with Russia. So, Schiff has seen this, but Mueller has not. Okay. Schiff has evidence that Mueller missed. Yea, okay. So why did Schiff not inform Mueller of his evidence?
Any sentient being knows the answer,
So you did some more name calling. Provided nothing to substantiate your position. Then boast of dunking on my head ?
Unless you’re way up the food chain at DOJ or are a member of a congressional committee, then you have no idea what proof the congressman or Mueller have seen.
Not sure why in the world the leadership allows you remain on this board.
Same reason Noway and DTM persisted as long as they did. The key is to ignore trolls like beta bro as best you can. Kinda feel bad for the guy, it’s lonely out there on the Internet for crusty ol’ boomers like him.
It’s not me making you look like a fool Chatsprint. You are doing that yourself.
You and Schiff just keep looking for that collusion evidence. It has to be there somewhere. LMAO
I don’t know man, the guy currently suing the “Devin Nunes’ Mom” and “Devin Nunes’ Cow” Twitter accounts makes it hard for me to label Schiff the biggest clown in the history of Congress. Dude isn’t even the biggest clown on his own committee.
I presume your opposition to “congenital liars” extends to your boy Drew Ferguson, who was given a whole front page post on this very website to lay out lies and falsehoods that are way more readily disprovable than anything Schiff has said.
We sure beta bro up here isn’t another Noway dummy account?
Good of you to bring up Devin Nunes. A lot of folks owe him an apology. He has turned out to be at least pretty much correct about everything Russiagate related, and at most, possibly a hero of the entire ordeal.
Anyone now comparing Nunes to Schiff is an idiot. Period.
Seeing as you’re calling me an idiot, I should probably weigh in here….
Nunes is currently suing Twitter because two anonymous accounts were mean to him. If that doesn’t get you into the Hall of Fame for butthurt doofuses, I don’t know what does.
It may actually be helpful to compare Nunes and Schiff. Especially since you seem to think Schiff is a “congenital liar.”
Nunes, you’ll recall, released a four-page memo that: (1) egregiously misrepresented what the FBI/DOJ told the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court about the political nature of the Steele Dossier; (2) misrepresented Andrew McCabe’s testimony;, and (3) misrepresented why George Papadopoulos was mentioned in the FISA application.
Before the memo, Nunes (and the President, among others) had been all over the news claiming that the DOJ and FBI intentionally withheld from FISC that the Steele Dossier was originally commissioned as campaign opposition research. Nunes (and the President, among others) were also all over the news telling folks that the Steele Dossier was the only basis the DOJ/FBI used for a FISA warrant. Turns out those were both lies. Not only did the DOJ/FBI disclose the political nature of the Steele Dossier, they had troves of additional evidence demonstrating probable cause for the issuance of the FISA warrant and the intelligence gained from that warrant produced additional evidence which justified multiple renewals of that warrant. On these two points I can state, with irrefutable evidence, that Devin Nunes (and the President, among others) is a liar.
In addition to perpetuating lies and misrepresentations in his memo, Nunes’ memo also destabilized our intelligence sharing relationships with foreign governments. We know that Australians provided us with information regarding one of Trump’s senior foreign policy advisers, George Popadopoulos, by alluding to that information in the f-ing memo, like an idiot, Nunes’ memo sent a clear message to every country that shares intelligence with us that any intelligence shared with the United States may be released by a bozo like Devin Nunes for political gain.
I’m not trying to argue that Devin Nunes is the biggest moron in the long line of doofuses, dingbats, and dimwits that have walked the halls of Congress. But I feel pretty confident he’s significantly worse than Schiff.
It doesn’t matter whether he is a clown or not. That’s not a good reason to not give him (or the Gang of 8) the full report. They all have any necessary clearance.
Hey, didja hear about Cap’n Tinyhands calling Schiff a little pencil neck? He’s doing the GOP proud.
Here’s my thought… if the thing completely exonerates the President (like he claims it does) just release it all right now.
Additionally, I’d note that the Mueller report is 300 pages and Barr gave us a not-quite 4 page letter. I’m not expecting a wild divergence from Barr’s summary and the Mueller report, but 300 pages is a lot of pages for something that shows absolutely no wrongdoing by President Trump.
Lastly, the reporting out of DC is that Barr plans on giving Congress a summary of the Report, not the report itself (something he’s allowed to do, I’d note). So I think it’s a little presumptuous to assume Congress is going to get their hands on the actual Mueller Report.
Interesting take on the issue.
https://www.axios.com/drug-pricing-debate-stuck-in-past-10ba315e-0ddf-4013-8c5a-f8ee89c2f530.html
https://www.wsav.com/news/local-news/watch-live-mayoral-candidate-alderman-van-johnson-again-addressing-black-media-only-meeting/1886544508
When I saw this story a few days ago, I thought I had to be dreaming. No way my former hometown would allow anyone to host a meeting, in a church at that. which excluded people based upon the color of their skin.
No way, Van Johnson, whom I know, would in any way be a part of such a meeting. But here he is backtracking now that this story has gone viral and made Savannah an object of scorn internationally. Shame on Van and anyone else who was involved in this event. No amount of backtracking can justify a black man walking by a sign that is the equivalent of the the “no coloreds” signs of the fifties and sixties and not saying “what the hell is this doing here?” He should have refused to go in unless everyone was allowed and he should have done so loudly and with no equivocation.
I can’t vote in Savannah but I have lots of family and friends that still reside there. No way you can vote for Van for anything again and then complain about how polarized Savannah is and always has been. This is a part of the problem not a solution to anything!
So much for local control!
https://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt–politics/late-gop-push-delay-future-gwinnett-marta-votes-angers-democrats/trypIJCypVvxyyODigkECL/
Why do republicans hate democracy when unless they’re in the majority?
Nine GOP members of the Intelligence panel signed a letter demanding Adam Schiff step down as chairman, questioning whether he was abusing his position and damaging the panel’s integrity. Damaging integrity after Nunes tenure focused on Obama instead of Trump, and where when Trump did come up was told about it by Nunes? The bizarre world of the GOP, the party of healthcare.
The Gwinnett County General Assembly GOP delegation slipped in an amendment to SB200 prohibiting Gwinnett from calling any new MARTA votes until 2026 without any consultation with the delegation majority.
“It would simply provide a cooling off period so that the will of the voters is respected. It’s important that we respect the message that was sent by voters on March 19. And calling a series of votes until a desired outcome is reached is not respecting the message that the voters sent.” —Chuck Efstration
I respect the will of the voters. Except that the Gwinnett GOP required a March 19 election because it thought a special election would undermine to broad will of the voters, including their personal campaigns. Seven years? And for only this and not other local referenda?
The amendment circumvents local control, and thumbs it nose at the General Assembly’s local legislation process. New rules. See what compromising with the GaGOP gets you?
A conservative commenter noted here a week or ago or so that the ends justify the means. Other new rules will be crafted as necessary to ensure minority party control.
https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/the-jolt-gop-lawmakers-gwinnett-would-push-next-marta-vote-2026/tp4pgIDjCU7YqtyfG5KdjL/