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Paul Manafort tampering with witnesses, say Mueller investigators
[…]In a court filing on Monday, prosecutors working for the special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, said Manafort and an associate “repeatedly” attempted to contact witnesses using his phone and an encrypted messaging application. They allege it happened shortly after a grand jury returned a new indictment against him, violating the terms of his house arrest. [….] FBI agent Brock Domin wrote in court documents that Manafort “contacted and attempted to contact” two unnamed witnesses, “in an effort to influence their testimony and to otherwise conceal evidence”. He added: “The investigation into this matter is ongoing.” […continues…]
BiD, welcome to new-speak words where “mistake” replaces “lie” and “alternate facts” replace “reality”… likely their next replacement will be “exalted ruler” instead of president.
[suggested protocol in that case will be to address the twit as “your heinie-ness” as one bows in reverse with pants lowered.]
“Donald Trump doesn’t think the American people want to see his tax returns, so let’s show him that we do in the classiest way possible!” states the description for the event, which is using #rumpsagainsttrump for social media platforms.
the guardian:
Lawyers for Donald Trump argued in court on Tuesday that a former Apprentice TV show contestant should not be able to obtain information on the president’s discussions of other women during the election campaign who have also accused him of sexual misconduct.
The court hearing was the first since a Manhattan judge turned down Trump’s attempt to dismiss Summer Zervos’s defamation lawsuit or delay it until after his presidency. Zervos has sued the president for saying her sexual misconduct claims were lies.
“It’s a defamation case,” Trump’s lawyer Marc Kasowitz told the Manhattan state supreme court justice Jennifer Schecter. As for information about other women who are not part of the case, “those claims, that evidence … is irrelevant”, he said. Mariann Wang, the lawyer representing Zervos, said outside court that the other women’s accusations were indeed relevant: “It’s a defamation case, so we are required to prove the falsity of the statements, and his statements include statements about other women.”
Zervos’s lawyers have issued subpoenas seeking a range of information about Trump’s behavior toward women, including any Apprentice material that features Zervos or Trump talking about her or discussing other female contestants in a sexual or inappropriate way.
They also have requested any Trump campaign records concerning Zervos, any other woman who has accused Trump of inappropriate touching, or the 2016 emergence of a 2005 Access Hollywood show recording of Trump talking about aggressively groping women.
Zervos’s lawyers also have subpoenaed security video, records of Trump’s stays and some other information from the Beverly Hills Hotel, where Zervos says Trump made unwelcome advances toward her.
While Trump’s lawyers emphasized that they are continuing to ask appeals courts to toss out or postpone the case, the judge set deadlines for a number of information-gathering steps – including depositions, or sworn questioning of both Trump and Zervos by 29 January 2019.
[….]
Trump’s attorneys have said his statements were true, and also that his remarks were “non-defamatory opinions” that came amid the heated public debate of a national political campaign.
They also argue that a sitting president cannot be sued in a state court.
And Bill Clinton should stay out of anything where he is going to be asked anything about the me too movement. In other words go back in your hole and stay there …your sell by date if long past and your usefulness is over go away
It’s election day here and there will be some surpises not all of them good.
This is the primary Californians wanted so if it ends up with goopers (it won’t) then we will all be surprised
PayPal is a wonderful way to make birthday donations to the not-for-profit account of Craig Crawford’s Trail Mix. Fees are not charged to either the donor or the recipient. Who’s going to be number two? number thirteen?
KC, hard to say – Cleveland does pretty well in the Q, but I’m not making any predictions at this point. But for 5 seconds of stupidity by Ty Lue and J.R. it would be 1-1 right now.
The trail shares a birthday with my mom – but she ain’t celebrating them any longer.
patd, a sitting president can indeed be sued in federal court – a la Jones v. Clinton (and presumably in State Court) for acts that occurred prior to taking office but probably not for acts that occur while in office. I don’t know why the state/federal distinction is being made, except that Zervos filed in state court. The judge has already ruled that the case can proceed.
It’s worth noting that the 8th Circuit found that “the President, like all other government officials, is subject to the same laws that apply to all other members of our society.” The 8th Circuit’s opinion was affirmed by SCOTUS. SCOTUS ruled that they did not need to decide “whether a claim comparable to petitioner’s assertion of immunity might succeed in a state tribunal” but noted that “If this case were being heard in a state forum, instead of advancing a separation-of-powers argument, petitioner would presumably rely on federalism and comity concerns”. Comity might support the argument that the case could proceed and federalism might support the counter argument. Even if a court were to agree that a suit against the prez could only proceed in federal court, it would apply the law of the state the suit arose in. The advantage for a defendant in federal court is that federal courts love to dispose of cases or parts of cases on the basis of summary judgment motions – which are not commonly used in state courts. I suspect that is why Zervos’s lawyers filed in state court.
“for acts that occurred prior to taking office but probably not for acts that occur while in office”
pogo, maybe only official acts (not immune from personal blunders before or during presidency) according to this from law&crime:
[scotus] ruling that the President can indeed be sued for alleged actions that took place prior to taking office or that are not related to the Presidency. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in his 1997 opinion that while Presidents may be protected from liability regarding official actions in office so they can “perform their designated functions effectively without fear,” that protection does not extend to unofficial conduct. The protection against damages for official acts was determined by the Supreme Court in the 1982 Nixon v. Fitzgerald decision.
[….]
So Trump would technically not be immune from any of his pending civil cases while in office, but the judges would have to determine whether it’s worth going forward right away or waiting until his term is over. And many experts believe they may end up being delayed.
business insider:
The special master reviewing the files obtained by the government during the FBI’s raids of President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen’s home, office, and hotel room found that almost none of what she’s looked over so far is protected by attorney-client privilege.
That means almost all of the documents could be used by prosecutors from the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where Cohen is under criminal investigation for possible campaign-finance violations and bank fraud, in a potential prosecution.
In a Monday report filed to US District Judge Kimba Wood, special master Barbara Jones, a retired federal judge, said:
Just 162 of the roughly 300,000 documents she has reviewed so far fall under the privilege designations she laid out in a May court filing.
Of 639 paper documents, she said 14 fell under the guidelines.
Of the 291,770 electronic files, she said 148 are privileged.
That means that, so far, Jones assessed that less than 0.01% of the documents reviewed so far are privileged.
In addition, Jones said she disagreed with Cohen, Trump, and the Trump Organization on three items over which they claimed privilege. On Thursday, Wood issued an order saying that any objections to Jones’s determinations must be filed within a week of her review.
[…continues..]
“first they burned the books” or was that fired the political cartoonists? guess it’s better than killing them like the ones in Denmark and france.
from philly inquirer:
For the past week, there’s been a feature noticeably absent from the editorial pages of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette — the political cartoons of award-winning cartoonist Rob Rogers.
Rogers, who has drawn cartoons for the Post-Gazette since 1993, has seen six cartoons killed in a row by Keith Burris, who took over as the newspaper’s editorial director in March when the paper’s editorial board merged with its sister newspaper, the Toledo Blade. The cartoons included criticism of President Trump and of the NFL’s decision to prohibit players from protesting racial injustice during the national anthem.
Rogers has, however, been posting cartoons that were killed on social media:
[…. some cartoons shown here…]
Rogers told the Inquirer and Daily News that he couldn’t comment on the situation. Rogers confirmed that he’s still employed as the paper’s staff cartoonist, and that he’s working on a new cartoon for Tuesday’s newspaper.
[….]
It is unusual for a staff cartoonist to have an entire week’s worth of political cartoons spiked. Signe Wilkinson, the Inquirer and Daily News’ Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, said she has had just one cartoon killed in her tenure — a drawing that was spiked from the Inquirer but ran in the Daily News.
Rogers’ cartoons were replaced in print by the work of syndicated artists and three cartoons by Toledo Blade staff cartoonist Kirk Walters. In last Tuesday’s paper, under a cartoon about gun control by syndicated cartoonist Robert Ariail, Rogers was listed as having “the day off.”
[….continues…]
Ha, gotta love the hoopla over the big dawg. If Bill and Monica had conceived a child while they were playing in the oval office it would be old enough to drink, 21 years ago folks. The Big Dawgs enemies, on the right and left, still can’t let it go.
A New York judge set a series of deadlines for former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos’ defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, as she declined to put the case on hold pending an appeal from Trump’s legal team.
[….]
Schecter also set a deadline for depositions of Jan. 31, 2019, raising the possibility that Trump himself will be questioned in the case. She also set deadlines for discovery, which is likely to lead to further motions and legal wrinkles in the case this summer.
Jamie, if x-r will scoot over and make room, my druthers are for justify to win, place or show and to keep the mueller case alive according to the spell cast by fearless leader.
no, say it isn’t so, guardian. faux news wouldn’t do a thing like that ~~~
Fox News accused of ‘propaganda’ after implying praying players knelt for anthem
Fox News may have hit on a problem as it looked to report on Donald Trump’s decision to disinvite the Philadelphia Eagles from a White House visit “because he insists that they proudly stand for the National Anthem, hand on heart, in honor of the great men and women of our military and the people of our country.” The hitch being that none of the Eagles’ players knelt for the anthem last season (some players did stage other protests such as raising fists).
In search of striking images, Fox used pictures of Eagles players taking a knee on the field suggesting they had knelt for the anthem. Those players were not protesting at racial injustice though: they were praying as players across the league have done before games for years. Eagles tight end Zach Ertz, who is a committed Christian, tweeted his displeasure at Fox on Tuesday: “This can’t be serious…. Praying before games with my teammates, well before the anthem, is being used for your propaganda?! Just sad, I feel like you guys should have to be better than this.”
Christopher Wallace, executive producer of Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream, later apologized for what he described as an “error”. “During our report about President Trump canceling the Philadelphia Eagles’ trip to the White House to celebrate their Super Bowl win, we showed unrelated footage of players kneeling in prayer,” said Wallace in a statement. “To clarify, no members of the team knelt in protest during the national anthem throughout regular or post-season last year. We apologize for the error.”
[….]
Last year Trump withdrew the NBA champion Golden State Warriors’ invitation to the White House after their players said they would not attend. The Warriors are playing the Cleveland Cavaliers in this year’s NBA finals and neither team appear to be inclined to visit the White House if they win the championship. “I know no matter who wins this series, no one wants to go anyway,” Cavaliers star LeBron James told reporters on Tuesday. The Warriors’ Stephen Curry took the same line: “I agree with Bron,” he said. “Pretty sure the way we handled things last year, we’d stay consistent with that.”
The mayor of Philly for prez! Loved his response to the big-fat-baby-in-chief pulling the plug on the Eagles & then, as is his nature, lying about it. (His ego couldn’t take throwing a party & not having folks show up.) Maybe this will finally sour Trumpsky’s PA supporters on him.
jack – Crackers is right. Bill Clinton should, indeed, crawl back into his hole. It’s not just Monica Lewinsky. It’s Paula Jones & Kathleen Willey & Juanita Broaddrick…
The info on Manafort gets more interesting. Reports are that he was conspiring with a Russia operative to contact two witnesses. And now Trumpsky is whining that the FBI should’ve warned him about Manafort. Lord. Want to have it both ways much?
Haven’t read that one in years, Thinking about revolution?
I recently reread the “man who sold the moon”. It read like a blueprint for so many of the tech billionaires. The influence that a lowly pulp genre writer had on this world.
So I went down to the basement and browsed through the book shelves. (eight ft high, 30 ft long, really, Mrs Jack just doesn’t understand) Think I’ll read along with you, but to have balance I also brought up Ursula LeGuin’s “Four Ways to Forgiveness”
When I was a wee skidder I joined one of those science fiction book clubs where they they send you a book every month…….the very first one was 3 by Heinlein which contained THE PUPPET MASTERS, and WALDO…….a couple of mighty fine yarns. The book club didnt last long, but the Heinlein was a world-class find.
Perspective: Dianne Feinstein (b 1933) is older than the Dionne Quints (b 1934.)
Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Emilie & Marie.
If you have any clue about what I speak I will purloin some of xrepublican’s cyber loot & give it to you.
Anyhoo, Senator Feinstein is old. Should this matter? At what point should Party leadership butt in & say time to pass the torch? Uncomfortable but inevitable. Everyone has an expiration date.
Getting back to our topic cartoon, above, Yanni is coming back for a concert this week. He attended the University of MN. Honest. Yanni is a gen U wine, bone fide Gopher*. Weird, huh ?
*Minnesota’s ‘golden gopher’ is actually the 13 Lined Ground Squirrel, a prairie pest. Making out that a ground squirrel is a gopher is kinda trumpish. Also, knowing that Yanni is a Minnesota Gopher is kind of psychedelic – in a weird trumpish way. The world is far stranger than is dreamt of in your philosophies all right.
sjwny, re diane, some are still vibrant and able in their 80s to be very useful to their country; e.g. ben ….one of his last great quotes came as Franklin knew his life was near its end.
In November 1789, Franklin wrote French scientist Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, concerned that he hadn’t heard from Le Roy since the start of the French Revolution. Franklin wrote in French and the letter was later translated for the 1817 printing of his private correspondence.
After asking about Le Roy’s health and events in Paris for the past year, Franklin gives a quick update about the major event in the United States: the Constitution’s ratification a year before and the start of a new government under it.
“Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes,” Franklin said. He concluded with a note about his own mortality to his friend: “My health continues much as it has been for some time, except that I grow thinner and weaker, so that I cannot expect to hold out much longer.”
Franklin would succumb to a combination of illnesses at the age of 84 in Philadelphia on April 17, 1790.
Mueller accuses Manafort of witness tampering https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/04/politics/mueller-manafort-witness-tampering/index.html
BiD, and here’s the coverage from
the guardian:
Paul Manafort tampering with witnesses, say Mueller investigators
[…]In a court filing on Monday, prosecutors working for the special counsel Robert Mueller, who is investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, said Manafort and an associate “repeatedly” attempted to contact witnesses using his phone and an encrypted messaging application. They allege it happened shortly after a grand jury returned a new indictment against him, violating the terms of his house arrest. [….]
FBI agent Brock Domin wrote in court documents that Manafort “contacted and attempted to contact” two unnamed witnesses, “in an effort to influence their testimony and to otherwise conceal evidence”. He added: “The investigation into this matter is ongoing.” […continues…]
and from wapo: Mueller accuses Paul Manafort of witness tampering
and here if you want to read the document that was filed
so will he soon be trading his expensive tailored suit for a natty orange or a sophisticated black stripe jumper?
Opinion: Trump’s executive privilege argument is a loser https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/04/opinions/trump-executive-privilege-fail-wright-eisen/index.html
Giuliani on shifting Trump Tower story: ‘It was a mistake. I swear to God.’ https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/04/politics/rudy-giuliani-trump-tower-cnntv/index.html
Somebody is is about to throw a bucket of water on Trumpsky & the “witch hunt” will be over.
Happy Anniversary?
About as good an excuse as I know for great music: La Negra
and if you feel like dancing for the anniversary
BiD, welcome to new-speak words where “mistake” replaces “lie” and “alternate facts” replace “reality”… likely their next replacement will be “exalted ruler” instead of president.
[suggested protocol in that case will be to address the twit as “your heinie-ness” as one bows in reverse with pants lowered.]
Farting in his general direction, as the Pythons said.
and hand over heart to show depth of feeling about it all
abc rept in february last year: Hundreds of protesters gathered along the Chicago River, dropped their pants and mooned Trump Tower.
also described by patch:
A little more than 1,000 demonstrators said they planned to participate in “Operation: Kiss Our Asses, Release Your Taxes,” a protest Sunday, Feb. 12, to demand President Donald Trump divulge his tax returns. Participants planned to drop their drawers and moon Trump International Hotel and Tower, 401 N. Wabash Ave., according to the protest’s Facebook page.
“Donald Trump doesn’t think the American people want to see his tax returns, so let’s show him that we do in the classiest way possible!” states the description for the event, which is using #rumpsagainsttrump for social media platforms.
Anniversary of the D-Day invasion and how an actual LEADER handles the possibility of defeat
In Case of Failure
So Manipedi has a slush fund set by a friend to solicit donations anonymously I wonder how much Don jr has donated
Yep BiD, today Trail Mix is officially a teenager (note: I waited to make this the 13th comment of the day).
well, doo wop a doo trail mixers!
https://youtu.be/ZCNUlAuBKSM
DeVos: School safety commission won’t focus on guns https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/politics/betsy-devos-school-safety-guns/index.html
She says they’re focusing on school safety but won’t look at guns. Stupid is, as stupid does.
the guardian:
Lawyers for Donald Trump argued in court on Tuesday that a former Apprentice TV show contestant should not be able to obtain information on the president’s discussions of other women during the election campaign who have also accused him of sexual misconduct.
The court hearing was the first since a Manhattan judge turned down Trump’s attempt to dismiss Summer Zervos’s defamation lawsuit or delay it until after his presidency. Zervos has sued the president for saying her sexual misconduct claims were lies.
“It’s a defamation case,” Trump’s lawyer Marc Kasowitz told the Manhattan state supreme court justice Jennifer Schecter. As for information about other women who are not part of the case, “those claims, that evidence … is irrelevant”, he said. Mariann Wang, the lawyer representing Zervos, said outside court that the other women’s accusations were indeed relevant: “It’s a defamation case, so we are required to prove the falsity of the statements, and his statements include statements about other women.”
Zervos’s lawyers have issued subpoenas seeking a range of information about Trump’s behavior toward women, including any Apprentice material that features Zervos or Trump talking about her or discussing other female contestants in a sexual or inappropriate way.
They also have requested any Trump campaign records concerning Zervos, any other woman who has accused Trump of inappropriate touching, or the 2016 emergence of a 2005 Access Hollywood show recording of Trump talking about aggressively groping women.
Zervos’s lawyers also have subpoenaed security video, records of Trump’s stays and some other information from the Beverly Hills Hotel, where Zervos says Trump made unwelcome advances toward her.
While Trump’s lawyers emphasized that they are continuing to ask appeals courts to toss out or postpone the case, the judge set deadlines for a number of information-gathering steps – including depositions, or sworn questioning of both Trump and Zervos by 29 January 2019.
[….]
Trump’s attorneys have said his statements were true, and also that his remarks were “non-defamatory opinions” that came amid the heated public debate of a national political campaign.
They also argue that a sitting president cannot be sued in a state court.
Impeach him then….
And Bill Clinton should stay out of anything where he is going to be asked anything about the me too movement. In other words go back in your hole and stay there …your sell by date if long past and your usefulness is over go away
It’s election day here and there will be some surpises not all of them good.
This is the primary Californians wanted so if it ends up with goopers (it won’t) then we will all be surprised
They also argue that a sitting president cannot be sued in a state court.
hmmmm, was that before or after they told the judge the earth is flat and that pigs fly
PayPal is a wonderful way to make birthday donations to the not-for-profit account of Craig Crawford’s Trail Mix. Fees are not charged to either the donor or the recipient. Who’s going to be number two? number thirteen?
Will the Warriors sweep the Cavs or will there be a pity loss
KC, hard to say – Cleveland does pretty well in the Q, but I’m not making any predictions at this point. But for 5 seconds of stupidity by Ty Lue and J.R. it would be 1-1 right now.
The trail shares a birthday with my mom – but she ain’t celebrating them any longer.
Flatus,
I sent a gift to the Trail last week. I’m an early bird.
Not a bad idea to send donations any time of the year – just because is always a legit reason.
patd, a sitting president can indeed be sued in federal court – a la Jones v. Clinton (and presumably in State Court) for acts that occurred prior to taking office but probably not for acts that occur while in office. I don’t know why the state/federal distinction is being made, except that Zervos filed in state court. The judge has already ruled that the case can proceed.
Happy birthday Trailmix from Cape Cod!
right now looking at vineyard sound and reading Heinlein’s the moon is a harsh mistress…
Bill Clinton is a creepy strange old man. The uncle you do not invite to family dinners.
It’s worth noting that the 8th Circuit found that “the President, like all other government officials, is subject to the same laws that apply to all other members of our society.” The 8th Circuit’s opinion was affirmed by SCOTUS. SCOTUS ruled that they did not need to decide “whether a claim comparable to petitioner’s assertion of immunity might succeed in a state tribunal” but noted that “If this case were being heard in a state forum, instead of advancing a separation-of-powers argument, petitioner would presumably rely on federalism and comity concerns”. Comity might support the argument that the case could proceed and federalism might support the counter argument. Even if a court were to agree that a suit against the prez could only proceed in federal court, it would apply the law of the state the suit arose in. The advantage for a defendant in federal court is that federal courts love to dispose of cases or parts of cases on the basis of summary judgment motions – which are not commonly used in state courts. I suspect that is why Zervos’s lawyers filed in state court.
“for acts that occurred prior to taking office but probably not for acts that occur while in office”
pogo, maybe only official acts (not immune from personal blunders before or during presidency) according to this from law&crime:
[scotus] ruling that the President can indeed be sued for alleged actions that took place prior to taking office or that are not related to the Presidency. Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in his 1997 opinion that while Presidents may be protected from liability regarding official actions in office so they can “perform their designated functions effectively without fear,” that protection does not extend to unofficial conduct. The protection against damages for official acts was determined by the Supreme Court in the 1982 Nixon v. Fitzgerald decision.
[….]
So Trump would technically not be immune from any of his pending civil cases while in office, but the judges would have to determine whether it’s worth going forward right away or waiting until his term is over. And many experts believe they may end up being delayed.
business insider:
The special master reviewing the files obtained by the government during the FBI’s raids of President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer Michael Cohen’s home, office, and hotel room found that almost none of what she’s looked over so far is protected by attorney-client privilege.
That means almost all of the documents could be used by prosecutors from the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, where Cohen is under criminal investigation for possible campaign-finance violations and bank fraud, in a potential prosecution.
In a Monday report filed to US District Judge Kimba Wood, special master Barbara Jones, a retired federal judge, said:
Just 162 of the roughly 300,000 documents she has reviewed so far fall under the privilege designations she laid out in a May court filing.
Of 639 paper documents, she said 14 fell under the guidelines.
Of the 291,770 electronic files, she said 148 are privileged.
That means that, so far, Jones assessed that less than 0.01% of the documents reviewed so far are privileged.
In addition, Jones said she disagreed with Cohen, Trump, and the Trump Organization on three items over which they claimed privilege. On Thursday, Wood issued an order saying that any objections to Jones’s determinations must be filed within a week of her review.
[…continues..]
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“first they burned the books” or was that fired the political cartoonists? guess it’s better than killing them like the ones in Denmark and france.
from philly inquirer:
For the past week, there’s been a feature noticeably absent from the editorial pages of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette — the political cartoons of award-winning cartoonist Rob Rogers.
Rogers, who has drawn cartoons for the Post-Gazette since 1993, has seen six cartoons killed in a row by Keith Burris, who took over as the newspaper’s editorial director in March when the paper’s editorial board merged with its sister newspaper, the Toledo Blade. The cartoons included criticism of President Trump and of the NFL’s decision to prohibit players from protesting racial injustice during the national anthem.
Rogers has, however, been posting cartoons that were killed on social media:
[…. some cartoons shown here…]
Rogers told the Inquirer and Daily News that he couldn’t comment on the situation. Rogers confirmed that he’s still employed as the paper’s staff cartoonist, and that he’s working on a new cartoon for Tuesday’s newspaper.
[….]
It is unusual for a staff cartoonist to have an entire week’s worth of political cartoons spiked. Signe Wilkinson, the Inquirer and Daily News’ Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, said she has had just one cartoon killed in her tenure — a drawing that was spiked from the Inquirer but ran in the Daily News.
Rogers’ cartoons were replaced in print by the work of syndicated artists and three cartoons by Toledo Blade staff cartoonist Kirk Walters. In last Tuesday’s paper, under a cartoon about gun control by syndicated cartoonist Robert Ariail, Rogers was listed as having “the day off.”
[….continues…]
Ha, gotta love the hoopla over the big dawg. If Bill and Monica had conceived a child while they were playing in the oval office it would be old enough to drink, 21 years ago folks. The Big Dawgs enemies, on the right and left, still can’t let it go.
Now what was that about a political has been?
Jack
variety:
A New York judge set a series of deadlines for former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos’ defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, as she declined to put the case on hold pending an appeal from Trump’s legal team.
[….]
Schecter also set a deadline for depositions of Jan. 31, 2019, raising the possibility that Trump himself will be questioned in the case. She also set deadlines for discovery, which is likely to lead to further motions and legal wrinkles in the case this summer.
Here are the contenders and current odds for the Belmont Stakes. Odds will be updated after the post position draw at 5:30 PM ET
Horse – Odds
Justify 4/5
Hofburg 4/1
Bravazo 7/1
Vino Rosso 8/1
Tenfold 10/1
Blended Citizen 14/1
Gronkowski 25/1
Noble Indy 33/1
Free Drop Billy 50/1
Okay, before Vinno Ross0 becomes a favorite at one of the French ‘boucheries chevaline’, I will pick once again.
patd, good catch on the JPS language about unofficial acts. Let’s see how SFB’s attorneys try to argue around that.
Jack, nice point – ironically, they were dallying while Mrs. P & I were doing the same – and in our case LP was the result.
Renee, sounds like you’re having a large time. Continue to enjoy it.
Here you go gang. Post position and final morning odds.
150th Belmont Stakes
Post
Horse
Trainer/Jockey
Odds
1.
Justify
Baffert/Smith
4-5
2.
Free Drop Billy
Romans/Albarado
30-1
3.
Bravazo
Lukas/Saez
8-1
4.
Hofburg
Mott/Irad Ortiz Jr.
9-2
5.
Restoring Hope
Baffert/Geroux
30-1
6.
Gronkowski
Brown/Jose Ortiz
12-1
7.
Tenfold
Asmussen/Santana Jr.
12-1
8.
Vino Rosso
Pletcher/Velazquez
8-1
9.
Noble Indy
Pletcher/Castellano
30-1
10.
Blended Citizen
O’Neill/Frey
15-1
RR
Good reading choice, but with Heinlein I always go with Time Enough For Love .
BTW, what is everyone reading at the moment? I’m just finishing Horseman Riding By and about to start The Good Spy
The Poles stand for us; I stand for them: Gronkowski.
My cyber-$100 is down on
1. Justify
2. Restoring Hope
3. Blended Citizen
4. Tenfold
If I win, I’ll take you all to cyber-dinner w/cyber-champagne & all the cyber-caviar you can eat.
Vino Rosso gonna rule
Eulogy for Gary, the dead racehorse.
“Truth doesn’t matter, loyalty does.”
Rep Jackie Speier, California June 5,2018
Jamie, if x-r will scoot over and make room, my druthers are for justify to win, place or show and to keep the mueller case alive according to the spell cast by fearless leader.
no, say it isn’t so, guardian. faux news wouldn’t do a thing like that ~~~
Fox News accused of ‘propaganda’ after implying praying players knelt for anthem
Fox News may have hit on a problem as it looked to report on Donald Trump’s decision to disinvite the Philadelphia Eagles from a White House visit “because he insists that they proudly stand for the National Anthem, hand on heart, in honor of the great men and women of our military and the people of our country.” The hitch being that none of the Eagles’ players knelt for the anthem last season (some players did stage other protests such as raising fists).
In search of striking images, Fox used pictures of Eagles players taking a knee on the field suggesting they had knelt for the anthem. Those players were not protesting at racial injustice though: they were praying as players across the league have done before games for years. Eagles tight end Zach Ertz, who is a committed Christian, tweeted his displeasure at Fox on Tuesday: “This can’t be serious…. Praying before games with my teammates, well before the anthem, is being used for your propaganda?! Just sad, I feel like you guys should have to be better than this.”
Christopher Wallace, executive producer of Fox News @ Night with Shannon Bream, later apologized for what he described as an “error”. “During our report about President Trump canceling the Philadelphia Eagles’ trip to the White House to celebrate their Super Bowl win, we showed unrelated footage of players kneeling in prayer,” said Wallace in a statement. “To clarify, no members of the team knelt in protest during the national anthem throughout regular or post-season last year. We apologize for the error.”
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Last year Trump withdrew the NBA champion Golden State Warriors’ invitation to the White House after their players said they would not attend. The Warriors are playing the Cleveland Cavaliers in this year’s NBA finals and neither team appear to be inclined to visit the White House if they win the championship. “I know no matter who wins this series, no one wants to go anyway,” Cavaliers star LeBron James told reporters on Tuesday. The Warriors’ Stephen Curry took the same line: “I agree with Bron,” he said. “Pretty sure the way we handled things last year, we’d stay consistent with that.”
McConnell cancels August recess for Senate https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/politics/mitch-mcconnell-cancels-august-recess/index.html
Sounds like Yertle is worried about November…no recess in order to push through more of Trumpsky’s agenda.
[ Wallace] “We apologize for the error.”
chris, apology accepted if you mean the “error” you’re sorry for is you and your fox buddies pimping the twit 24/7
The mayor of Philly for prez! Loved his response to the big-fat-baby-in-chief pulling the plug on the Eagles & then, as is his nature, lying about it. (His ego couldn’t take throwing a party & not having folks show up.) Maybe this will finally sour Trumpsky’s PA supporters on him.
jack – Crackers is right. Bill Clinton should, indeed, crawl back into his hole. It’s not just Monica Lewinsky. It’s Paula Jones & Kathleen Willey & Juanita Broaddrick…
Press aide who mocked McCain is out at the White House https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/politics/kelly-sadler-white-house/index.html
The info on Manafort gets more interesting. Reports are that he was conspiring with a Russia operative to contact two witnesses. And now Trumpsky is whining that the FBI should’ve warned him about Manafort. Lord. Want to have it both ways much?
Mitch McConnell plays a little dirty to keep his majority https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/05/politics/mcconnell-political-rules/index.html
Diabolical, old turtle.
The old saying “you measure a man by his enemies”.
The Big Dawg hasn’t been president for almost 20 years yet he still drives his enemies nuts.
What measure…..
Jack
Renee
Haven’t read that one in years, Thinking about revolution?
I recently reread the “man who sold the moon”. It read like a blueprint for so many of the tech billionaires. The influence that a lowly pulp genre writer had on this world.
So I went down to the basement and browsed through the book shelves. (eight ft high, 30 ft long, really, Mrs Jack just doesn’t understand) Think I’ll read along with you, but to have balance I also brought up Ursula LeGuin’s “Four Ways to Forgiveness”
Jack
America may soon face its biggest labor strike in decades http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/05/news/companies/ups-teamsters-negotiations/index.html
When I was a wee skidder I joined one of those science fiction book clubs where they they send you a book every month…….the very first one was 3 by Heinlein which contained THE PUPPET MASTERS, and WALDO…….a couple of mighty fine yarns. The book club didnt last long, but the Heinlein was a world-class find.
Interesting how every news outlet I saw today ( even local ) tied the Kate Spade story into crisis services & how to contact them.
So far the assistant jockeys are riding:
Flatus – Gronkowski
XR – Justify
Sturgeone – Vino Rosso
Pat D – Justify
Jamie – Tenfold
Perspective: Dianne Feinstein (b 1933) is older than the Dionne Quints (b 1934.)
Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Emilie & Marie.
If you have any clue about what I speak I will purloin some of xrepublican’s cyber loot & give it to you.
Anyhoo, Senator Feinstein is old. Should this matter? At what point should Party leadership butt in & say time to pass the torch? Uncomfortable but inevitable. Everyone has an expiration date.
Ms NY, I’ll be happy to supply you with purloins. You prefer roasts or steaks ?
Ms Pat, I’m happy to ride with you. Shall we take the jockey along too, or would he overburden our steed ?
Getting back to our topic cartoon, above, Yanni is coming back for a concert this week. He attended the University of MN. Honest. Yanni is a gen U wine, bone fide Gopher*. Weird, huh ?
*Minnesota’s ‘golden gopher’ is actually the 13 Lined Ground Squirrel, a prairie pest. Making out that a ground squirrel is a gopher is kinda trumpish. Also, knowing that Yanni is a Minnesota Gopher is kind of psychedelic – in a weird trumpish way. The world is far stranger than is dreamt of in your philosophies all right.
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk xrepublican. ?
As for horse topics around here, Anthony Bourdain did a Parts Unknown segment about Sicily. A favorite street food is skewered grilled horse meat.
Flowers for the winner ?, olive oil & garlic for the loser. ?
sjwny, re diane, some are still vibrant and able in their 80s to be very useful to their country; e.g. ben
….one of his last great quotes came as Franklin knew his life was near its end.
In November 1789, Franklin wrote French scientist Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, concerned that he hadn’t heard from Le Roy since the start of the French Revolution. Franklin wrote in French and the letter was later translated for the 1817 printing of his private correspondence.
After asking about Le Roy’s health and events in Paris for the past year, Franklin gives a quick update about the major event in the United States: the Constitution’s ratification a year before and the start of a new government under it.
“Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes,” Franklin said. He concluded with a note about his own mortality to his friend: “My health continues much as it has been for some time, except that I grow thinner and weaker, so that I cannot expect to hold out much longer.”
Franklin would succumb to a combination of illnesses at the age of 84 in Philadelphia on April 17, 1790.