22 thoughts on “Here’s What Six Octaves Sound Like”

  4. this should be the start of a lot of bad for the former guy (aka the loser)

    Trump Loses Case to Enforce Omarosa Manigault Newman’s N.D.A. (msn.com)

    Former President Donald J. Trump has lost an effort to enforce a nondisclosure agreement against Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former White House aide and a star on “The Apprentice” who wrote a tell-all book about serving in his administration.
    The decision in the case, which Mr. Trump’s campaign filed in August 2018 with the American Arbitration Association in New York, comes as the former president is enmeshed in a number of investigations and legal cases related to his private company.
    “Donald has used this type of vexatious litigation to intimidate, harass and bully for years,” Ms. Manigault Newman said in a statement. “Finally the bully has met his match!”
    The decision, dated on Friday and handed down on Monday, calls for her to collect legal fees from the Trump campaign.
    Mr. Trump’s campaign filed the case shortly after Ms. Manigault Newman published her book, “Unhinged.” It claimed that she violated a nondisclosure agreement she had signed during the 2016 campaign stipulating that she would not reveal private or confidential information about his family, business or personal life.
    The book paints a picture of an out-of-control president who is in a state of mental decline and is prone to racist and misogynistic behavior. Ms. Manigault Newman’s book also casts the former president’s daughter Ivanka Trump and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, in a negative light. When Trump advisers tried to cast doubt on Ms. Manigault Newman’s accounts, she released audio recordings that backed up several of her claims.
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  7. “Autumn” is perhaps the least well-known of Antonio Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons.” But this delightful concerto, meant to evoke people celebrating the bountiful harvest season, is a great accompaniment to your pumpkin-spiced brew of choice.

     

  9. Mr. Kudaibergen is incredible. From soprano to tenor. Remarkable. 

    Mitch. The pure political animal. Not a shred of concern for the country, the truth or what anyone thinks about what he says or does.

  10. Dumbass is learning that freedom of speech is an actual thing and that arbitration clauses do not insure a preordained result, just a process – and if they aren’t entered into at arm’s length, not even that. 

  11. pogo, only agree partially with your observation about mitch. the last part about his not being concerned  “what anyone thinks about what he says or does” really depends on who you mean is the audience.  sure, he doesn’t care one whit about most of us but he does deeply care what his big benefactors think about his  allusion and exercise of power

  12. R.I.P. woody

    wapo via msn:

    The “Lord God Bird” is dead.
    The ivory-billed woodpecker, a ghostly bird whose long-rumored survival in the bottomland swamps of the South has haunted seekers for generations, will be officially declared extinct by U.S. officials after years of futile efforts to save it. It earned is nickname because it was so big and so beautiful that those blessed to spot it blurted out the Lord’s name.

    Even the scientist who wrote the obit cried.

    “This is not an easy thing,” said Amy Trahan, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist who reviewed the evidence and wrote the report concluding that the ivory bill “no longer exists.”
    “Nobody wants to be a part of that,” she added, choking up in a Zoom interview. “Just having to write those words was quite difficult. It took me awhile.”
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  16. pat, point well taken @ Mitch. Mother’s milk of politics and all that. 

    I saw the article about the ivory billed WP and hate that. Species go extinct but it’s happening much more quickly and regularly now thanks to us. I’ll have to be content with my Pileated WP sightings.

  17. Rebren
    A goodly measure of French Huguenots.   Maybe after 1789?    Not sure of their history but they got they own big church downtown. 

  18. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9995249/R-Kellys-victims-sex-trafficking-trial-represented-lawyer-pressured-sign-NDA.html

    “R Kelly’s accusers were finally able to testify against him last month after their hush-money NDAs, which paid up to $1.5million each in exchange for their silence, was overturned by a Brooklyn judge. Prosecutors say Kelly suppressed allegations against him for years by pressuring accusers into signing non-disclosure agreements in exchange for cash settlements. “

    Minors can’t sign contracts anyway. If done under duress, they’re no good.

    I wonder how many other NDAs others have out there?

  19. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/09/29/texas-redistricting-adam-foltz/

    “A Republican redistricting operative whose clandestine work helped drag Wisconsin into a legal morass last decade appears to now be on the payroll of the Texas Legislature as lawmakers work to redraw maps that will determine the distribution of political power for years to come. The operative, Adam Foltz…

    “…state employment records show that Foltz is actually on the payroll of the Texas Legislative Council, a nonpartisan state agency that supports the Legislature in drafting and analyzing proposed legislation — and manages the internal mapping tool lawmakers use to redraw political maps.“

    “Without a doubt, the Legislature made a conscious choice to involve private lawyers in what gives every appearance of an attempt — albeit poorly disguised — to cloak the private machinations of Wisconsin’s Republican legislators in the shroud of attorney-client privilege,” the court said in a 2012 ruling. “What could have — indeed should have — been accomplished publicly instead took place in private, in an all but shameful attempt to hide the redistricting process from public scrutiny.”

  20. BiD, mInors can sign contracts but they are voidable by the minor (at least in WVA & VA). It’s a matter of state law, which varies from state to state. NDAs are a special kind of contract and again, depends on the state law. 

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