By Sturgeone, a Trail Mix Contributor
Sometimes even the picture is painful.
Received this in an email from a friend who wound up with a flip-flop nailed to his foot after stepping on the nail. It should have been in his heel so it could stop that horrible flip-flop sound.
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speaking of pictures and as maxwell smart asks, “would you believe…?”
the guardian:
The Republican nominee for US Senate in Virginia on Friday tweeted out a bizarre Photoshopped image of his Democratic opponent, Tim Kaine, shaking hands with Joseph Stalin.
Under the hashtag #AntifaTimKaine, Corey Stewart described Kaine meeting Stalin to discuss “economic policy” in 1944. Kaine, who was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 2016, was born in 1958.
The tweet seemed to be an attempt to link Kaine with protesters who have repeatedly clashed with white supremacists in cities across the US……
[….]
The tweet was the latest bizarre social media gambit by a candidate who has played up his support for Donald Trump and who was backed by the president on Twitter in June. On Thursday, Stewart’s account tweeted a Photoshopped picture which purported to show a young Kaine with leftist guerrillas in Central America. It was quickly pointed out that the fighters shown in the doctored image were in fact rightwing contra rebels from Nicaragua.
Stewart has faced repeated questions over his ties to the far right, including his use of two neo-Confederate brothers as volunteer security officials.
Responding on Friday, Kaine’s spokesman, Ian Sams, tweeted the Stalin image and three pictures of Stewart: two in which he posed with the Confederate battle flag and one in which he is seen with Jason Kessler, an organizer of the 2017 white nationalist march in Charlottesville during which a counter-protester was killed.
“Only one of these pictures is photoshopped,” Sams wrote.
[…continues…]
unintended consequences?
excerpt from wapo: How Trump’s security-clearance gambit could actually get him in deeper trouble with Mueller
[…]
I was on an MSNBC panel Thursday night with Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York, who suggested Trump’s revocation of security clearances could be construed as retaliation against witnesses. “It’s a federal crime — §1513 if anyone wants to look it up — to retaliate against someone for providing truthful information to law enforcement,” he said. “So he’s getting closer and closer to really dangerous ground here.”
Here’s the text of Section 1513(e):
Honig explained to me Friday that he didn’t necessarily think Trump’s revocation of Brennan’s security clearance would be a violation, given Brennan isn’t a major figure on the probe’s key events. But if he presses on and does it with others, Honig argued, it could.
[…continues…]
wonderful story in wapo this morning on jimmy carter. also finally he speaks out about the twit [ BTW, craig, when are we going to hear from jim webb?]. here’s an excerpt:
Carter has been notably quiet about President Trump. But on this night, two years into Trump’s term, he’s not holding back.
“I think he’s a disaster,” Carter says. “In human rights and taking care of people and treating people equal.”
“The worst is that he is not telling the truth, and that just hurts everything,” Rosalynn says.
Carter says his father taught him that truthfulness matters. He said that was reinforced at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he said students are expelled for telling even the smallest lie.
“I think there’s been an attitude of ignorance toward the truth by President Trump,” he says.
Carter says he thinks the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has “changed our political system from a democracy to an oligarchy. Money is now preeminent. I mean, it’s just gone to hell now.”
He says he believes that the nation’s “ethical and moral values” are still intact and that Americans eventually will “return to what’s right and what’s wrong, and what’s decent and what’s indecent, and what’s truthful and what’s lies.”
But, he says, “I doubt if it happens in my lifetime.”
sorry, forgot to give you the link to wapo article
The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly in his Georgia hometown
in case you missed it last night
John Brennan, former CIA director, talks with Rachel Maddow about his criticisms of Donald Trump and his early awareness of Russian efforts to intrudce upon the 2016 presidential election.
she also pointed out in a different segment titled by MSNBC on youtube
Maddow: President Trump Isn’t Attacking Critics, He’s Going After Witnesses
some visiting talking head on an earlier program had also proffered this theory as being out and out evidence of obstruction of justice.
Other stupid foot games.
Sturg… OMG… that looks painful… it gives me the willies just looking at it!
Solarman… hola!
I tried to watch the Bannon interview with Ari Melber last night… I lasted maybe 3 minutes. Couldn’t stand looking at Bannon’s face… or listen to his bullshit schtick.
Thanks for your Saturday posts Sturg. Anybody else want to own a day? Five are available.
Here’s my screwy photo. You can see the screw holding my new hip in place.
The nail in his foot was bad enough, but then he got some kind of staph infection which like to have kilt him……
Jeeze that looks so painful– fortunately I have nothing to add
And if you plan to test your steel-toe boot, use a .22 short……give yourself a sportin’ chance.
Sorry for the absence. Fighting with Computers, Chrome, Safari, and the garage floor where I tried to break myself into pieces. All is well now as I’m logged in with Safari and my back has stopped screaming at me. In the meantime, fear and loathing of the current White House inhabitant is up to his usual insanity as I post poetry on my blog page to keep the blood pressure into the normal range.
Hope everyone else is doing well.
Any decent worksite will have a magnet on wheels to police-up hazards such as that 6d nail that got your friend. GIs will follow in others’ footsteps–literally
It’s 1000 Saturday–time to do the yard work. A cloudy day with rain in the forecast and a slight breeze and a current temp of 77-degF. Perfect. Finish this cup of coffee and I’m out the door.
Jamie, sorry to hear that. try to substitute that back pain of yours with the pain in the neck IMPOTUS coverage. they say you can feel only one pain at a time…..
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RR, I suffered through the whole Bannon interview (really like Ari, btw, a rising star). Trouble with Bannon’s schtick is that he’s really good at it, better than Trump, tones it down for a mainstream audience. Makes him more of a threat.
This was no decent worksite, it was his own home with the dreaded OSHA no where to be seen…..he’s a bit of a caveman carpenter, you know, smash-bang-make it fit, and apparently was a bit careless with his detritus…..but if he’d got it in the heel—–it would have only sounded like “Flip-Flip-Flip-Flip-Flip-Flip” all the way to the hospital. The sound of one Flip Flopping.
Ouch. I’m sending waves of sympathy your way, Ms Jamie.
I also had to flee the bannonov interview last night, as he and Ari Melber were trying their worst to yell over each other. I like Melber, but gadzooks, I thought those two would fry my electric ear trumpet. If I’d wanted that I’d have tuned in to jerry springer.
I just watched the panel recaps—that was pain enough.
Mulla?
heeheehee
I came close to marching in Ike’s funeral. Whatever company was in the sixth week of Coastie boot camp went to DC for the occasion….I missed the big show by a week.
IMPOTUS is such an idiot. His defense of Manipedi is based on lies. Manipedi was being investigated looooong before he hooked up with IMPOTUS. It’s important because of the opportunity it created for IMPOTUS.
Hey, for a money launderer, bank and tax cheat, and russian saboteur, manyfraud is a GREAT GUY. I mean look at the way he dresses.
Didja see that ostrich jacket ? He paid $21 thou$ for that baby. The lousy bird got it for free, but the point is manyfraud paid $21 thou$. I call that CLA$$Y.
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Kofi Anan dead at 80. His nemesis, norm coleman, will follow soon.
ny times: White House Counsel Has Cooperated Extensively With Mueller’s Obstruction Inquiry
WASHINGTON — The White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, has cooperated extensively in the special counsel investigation, sharing detailed accounts about the episodes at the heart of the inquiry into whether President Trump obstructed justice, including some that investigators would not have learned of otherwise, according to a dozen current and former White House officials and others briefed on the matter.
In at least three voluntary interviews with investigators that totaled 30 hours over the past nine months, Mr. McGahn described the president’s furor toward the Russia investigation and the ways in which he urged Mr. McGahn to respond to it. He provided the investigators examining whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice a clear view of the president’s most intimate moments with his lawyer.
Among them were Mr. Trump’s comments and actions during the firing of the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, and Mr. Trump’s obsession with putting a loyalist in charge of the inquiry, including his repeated urging of Attorney General Jeff Sessions to claim oversight of it. Mr. McGahn was also centrally involved in Mr. Trump’s attempts to fire the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, which investigators might not have discovered without him.
For a lawyer to share so much with investigators scrutinizing his client is unusual. Lawyers are rarely so open with investigators, not only because they are advocating on behalf of their clients but also because their conversations with clients are potentially shielded by attorney-client privilege, and in the case of presidents, executive privilege.
“A prosecutor would kill for that,” said Solomon L. Wisenberg, a deputy independent counsel in the Whitewater investigation, which did not have the same level of cooperation from President Bill Clinton’s lawyers. “Oh my God, it would have been phenomenally helpful to us. It would have been like having the keys to the kingdom.”
Mr. McGahn’s cooperation began in part as a result of a decision by Mr. Trump’s first team of criminal lawyers to collaborate fully with Mr. Mueller. The president’s lawyers have explained that they believed their client had nothing to hide and that they could bring the investigation to an end quickly.
Mr. McGahn and his lawyer, William A. Burck, could not understand why Mr. Trump was so willing to allow Mr. McGahn to speak freely to the special counsel and feared Mr. Trump was setting up Mr. McGahn to take the blame for any possible illegal acts of obstruction, according to people close to him. So he and Mr. Burck devised their own strategy to do as much as possible to cooperate with Mr. Mueller to demonstrate that Mr. McGahn did nothing wrong.
It is not clear that Mr. Trump appreciates the extent to which Mr. McGahn has cooperated with the special counsel. The president wrongly believed that Mr. McGahn would act as a personal lawyer would for clients and solely defend his interests to investigators, according to a person with knowledge of his thinking.
In fact, Mr. McGahn laid out how Mr. Trump tried to ensure control of the investigation, giving investigators a mix of information both potentially damaging and favorable to the president. Mr. McGahn cautioned to investigators that he never saw Mr. Trump go beyond his legal authorities, though the limits of executive power are murky.
Mr. McGahn’s role as a cooperating witness further strains his already complicated relationship with the president. Though Mr. Trump has fought with Mr. McGahn as much as with any of his top aides, White House advisers have said, both men have benefited significantly from their partnership.
[…]
Last fall, Mr. Mueller’s office asked to interview Mr. McGahn. To the surprise of the White House Counsel’s Office, Mr. Trump and his lawyers signaled that they had no objection, without knowing the extent of what Mr. McGahn was going to tell investigators.
Mr. McGahn was stunned, as was Mr. Burck, whom he had recently hired out of concern that he needed help to stay out of legal jeopardy, according to people close to Mr. McGahn. Mr. Burck has explained to others that he told White House advisers that they did not appreciate the president’s legal exposure and that it was “insane” that Mr. Trump did not fight a McGahn interview in court.
Even if the president did nothing wrong, Mr. Burck told White House lawyers, the White House has to understand that a client like Mr. Trump probably made politically damaging statements to Mr. McGahn as he weighed whether to intervene in the Russia investigation.
Inside the counsel’s office, lawyers feared that on the recommendation of Mr. Dowd and Mr. Cobb, the White House was handing Mr. Mueller detailed instructions to take down the president and setting a troubling precedent for future administrations by giving up executive privilege.
At the same time, Mr. Trump was blaming Mr. McGahn for his legal woes, yet encouraging him to speak to investigators. Mr. McGahn and his lawyer grew suspicious. They began telling associates that they had concluded that the president had decided to let Mr. McGahn take the fall for decisions that could be construed as obstruction of justice, like the Comey firing, by telling the special counsel that he was only following shoddy legal advice from Mr. McGahn.
Worried that Mr. Trump would ultimately blame him in the inquiry, Mr. McGahn told people he was determined to avoid the fate of the White House counsel for President Richard M. Nixon, John W. Dean, who was imprisoned in the Watergate scandal.
Mr. McGahn decided to fully cooperate with Mr. Mueller. It was, he believed, the only choice he had to protect himself.
“This sure has echoes of Richard Nixon’s White House counsel, John Dean, who in 1973 feared that Nixon was setting him up as a fall guy for Watergate and secretly gave investigators crucial help while still in his job,” said the historian Michael Beschloss.
[….]
Despite the Trump lawyers’ insistence that cooperation would help end the inquiry, the investigation only intensified as last year came to a close. Mr. Mueller had charged Mr. Trump’s former campaign chairman and his deputy and won guilty pleas and cooperation agreements from his first national security adviser and a campaign adviser.
Mr. Dowd said that cooperation was the right approach but that Mr. Mueller had “snookered” Mr. Trump’s legal team. The White House has handed over more than one million documents and allowed more than two dozen administration officials to meet with Mr. Mueller in the belief that he would be forced to conclude there was no obstruction case.
“It was an extraordinary cooperation — more cooperation than in any major case — no president has ever been more cooperative than this,” Mr. Dowd said, adding that Mr. Mueller knew as far back as October, when he received many White House documents, that the president did not break the law.
As the months passed on, the misinterpretation by Mr. McGahn and Mr. Burck that the president would let Mr. McGahn be blamed for any obstruction case has become apparent. Rather than placing the blame on Mr. McGahn for possible acts of obstruction, Mr. Trump has yet to even meet with the special counsel, his lawyers resisting an invitation for an interview. Mr. McGahn is still the White House counsel, shepherding the president’s second Supreme Court nominee, Brett M. Kavanaugh, through the confirmation process.
Mr. Mueller, armed with Mr. McGahn’s account, is still trying to interview witnesses close to the president. But the White House has a new lawyer for the investigation, Emmet T. Flood, who has strong views on privilege issues. When the special counsel asked to interview Mr. Kelly, Mr. Flood contested the request, rather than fully cooperate.
sorry about the lengthy post of that nyt piece. left out a whole bunch tho’ trying to cover the gist of what they were getting at. still not quite sure as to the “why” … CYA maybe?
Jamie… heal soon… glad to have you back with us.
And I forgot to tell you BiD… hope all is well with you.
Just got back from a local church fair… auction, used book sale, raffle, kid games, country store, pony rides, chicken bbq… etc. etc. Just as they were getting set to start serving the chicken, the skies opened up and it rained like hell. We barely made it through the muddy field where our car was parked. Thank god Subarus are all wheel drive! Did I mention it feels like Seattle up here…
save a few $$
float baby IMPOTUS in macy’s thanksgiving parade
have the naked emperor ride as parade martial
his very own starring role in the most yuuuge NYC parade should satisfy his insatiable appetite for attention even more than a military one… and it would save our troops from humiliation.
Color me somewhat (or highly) skeptical of Access Maggie’s NYT story on McGahn in terms of bad news for IMPOTUS. Major theme appears to be storyline that WH cooperation with Mueller is unprecedented. I have the feeling that Maggie is once again being used by the WH for its purposes and she’s acting as stenographer in order to keep her access. Anyone remember Judith Miller?
Manifraud — good one X-R
Heddy
I’m always cautious about NYT reporting. The 2016 election has several good examples of the Judith Miller syndrome. It seems to be a cultural thing.
Jack
A picture from the backpack event last Saturday. I’m the one with the hotdog hat in the back.
This was just a small bunch of the kids that day, We got it together for a picture with Jermaine Reed, our district councilman. ( the black gentleman in the blue shirt). Jermaine is an interesting person especially for some one running for Mayor. Jermaine should never play poker, what he is thinking shows on his face. If he is mad at you, you know it, if he is happy you know it. I’m not sure he knows how easy he is to read but after dealing with all the glib BSers, It is a joy to work with Jermaine.
Jack
One more picture from last Saturday. This is one of the required pictures every politicians take, The photo with a cute kid, The other one is the one with the old lady. The thing I like about this one is how obvious it that Jermaine likes children. Mrs Jack used his phone to take the picture and it was hard because he was so intent on the children that he forgot to pose. It shows in this picture.
Jack
Getting them off to a good start for the school year. Jack – Nice job.
Good neighbors are a great treasure in life, Mr Jack. Your heart warming pictures are REAL news.