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Morning Larry...42 on the way to 49 today with rain
At least....in Vegas for NASCAR...Sunday...Partly Cloudy 68° 49°
Damn that's some deep chit...
they should start a new party...there are some Repubs that could join as well...Hypocrat party
I heard a Canadian caller on Breitberg on my way in but just looked it up'''
Trudeau Stares Into Abyss After Former AG’s Explosive Testimony
Bloomberg
Josh Wingrove and Theophilos Argitis
BloombergFebruary 27, 2019
(Bloomberg) -- Justin Trudeau is facing the most explosive crisis of his administration after his former attorney general detailed a months-long campaign by the Canadian prime minister’s office to quietly end a legal problem for an iconic Quebec construction firm.
In dramatic testimony that lasted nearly four hours, Jody Wilson-Raybould broke her silence with a detailed account of efforts by Trudeau and top aides to persuade her to step in and end prosecution of SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. She argues it amounted to interference in the judicial system, though concedes it wasn’t illegal, while Trudeau says he was trying to prevent job losses in his home province of Quebec.
“I experienced a consistent and sustained effort by many people within the government to seek to politically interfere,” the former attorney general said Wednesday afternoon. Wilson-Raybould, who quit cabinet this month, also said she faced “veiled threats” about what might happen if she refused to order an out-of-court settlement.
Her testimony shook the core of the Trudeau’s team, naming him, his finance chief and his most senior aides. The Conservative leader trying to unseat Trudeau in this fall’s election called for his resignation, but the prime minister stood his ground and rejected Wilson-Raybould’s version of events.
The public airing of grievances will inflame the scandal, which has driven the governing Liberals lower in national polls. The ordeal dredges up ghosts of the party’s past, which is marked by hand-in-glove ties with corporate Canada -- particularly in Quebec. The political fallout, however, is difficult to predict. Trudeau’s path to re-election runs through the largely French-speaking province, where his defense of SNC-Lavalin is being applauded.
Protecting Jobs
“I and my staff always acted appropriately and professionally,” Trudeau said Wednesday night in Montreal, where he was celebrating a Liberal Party by-election victory. “Our government will always focus on jobs and our economy.”
SNC-Lavalin had been pushing for what’s known as a deferred prosecution agreement to end a criminal case dating back more than a decade, related to corruption charges. The company’s stock plunged the most in six years Oct. 10 when it revealed that the Public Prosecution Service of Canada ruled out a negotiated settlement that would have staved off a trial. Settling out of court would also help the company, which employs about 9,000 people in Canada, avoid a ban on bidding for federal government contracts.
Wilson-Raybould pulled back the curtain on the effort to change that decision and help the company, in testimony that was aired on national television in its entirety. She spoke to lawmakers only after Trudeau waived privilege to allow her to do so, and believes she wasn’t even legally able to intervene.
Inner Circle
She said the prime minister and his aides wanted to end the case in part to prevent the company’s relocation -- and also to avoid electoral fallout for both the federal Liberals and the party’s provincial wing. Wilson-Raybould said she resisted intervening because she wanted to uphold the principle of judicial independence and the rule of law, but officials ignored her repeated instructions to stop raising the issue.
The former attorney-general identified a series of phone calls and meetings between her or her staff, and Trudeau or several of his top advisers. They include chief of staff Katie Telford; former principal secretary Gerald Butts, who resigned this month; and senior aides Mathieu Bouchard and Elder Marques. She also cited communications with Finance Minister Bill Morneau and his chief of staff Ben Chin.
One of the meetings was with Trudeau himself, in September. “The prime minister raised the issue immediately. The prime minister asked me to help out, to find a solution here for SNC,” Wilson-Raybould said. She said she’d told him she had made up her mind.
London Calling
“The prime minister again cited the potential loss of jobs and SNC moving,” while also stressing that he represents an electoral district in Quebec. She said Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick, the country’s top bureaucrat, also warned her the company “will likely be moving to London” without her intervention.
Discussions continued. Wilson-Raybould said Bouchard at one point said bluntly: “We can have the best policy in the world but we need to get re-elected.”
She met Butts in December in Ottawa, and was already frustrated by what she called “the barrage of people hounding me and my staff.” She pushed back. “I raised how I needed everybody to stop talking to me about SNC, as I had made up my mind and that the engagements were inappropriate.”
She read a text-message conversation with her chief of staff, Jessica Prince, who was relaying a conversation with Butts and Telford. Wilson-Raybould said Prince was told by Butts “there is no solution here that does not involve some interference.” She said Prince told her Telford said: “We don’t want to debate legalities anymore.”
Opposition Reaction
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer, who is Trudeau’s top rival, demanded the prime minister step down over the revelations. Jagmeet Singh, leader of the third-place New Democratic Party, called for a full public inquiry.
Wilson-Raybould was ultimately moved in a cabinet shuffle last month, before the scandal broke. Trudeau at first sought to downplay it by saying Wilson-Raybould’s presence in cabinet should speak for itself. She resigned the next day.
To be sure, she said she didn’t believe Trudeau or his aides broke the law, but that their interventions were inappropriate. Wilson-Raybould also said no one ever flatly directed her to intervene. Trudeau has echoed that. The former attorney general said she didn’t think it was inappropriate to discuss the potential of job losses early on, but became inappropriate to continually do it, and to raise the political ramifications of the situation.
SNC-Lavalin has said it’s no longer focused on getting a remediation agreement, but instead on fighting the case. It’s also facing legal proceedings that allege it delayed disclosing that it would not get an offer of a deferred prosecution agreement, from Sept. 4 to Oct. 10. SNC-Lavalin said Wednesday the prosecutor’s “final decision” was only made Oct. 9.
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To contact the editors responsible for this story: David Scanlan at dscanlan@bloomberg.net, Stephen Wicary, Chris Fournier
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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trudeau-former-ag-alleges-veiled-214856618.html
Morning...I'll get my satisfaction in the fact just having Mr T as President is driving them bat chit crazy...
Now just get the damn wall built...
Morning Gman...the faster this year goes the better as far as I'm concerned...let's get to August soon please.
Seriously think about it...Mr T is in Vietnam having a Summit with Rocketman...trying to negotiate a treaty that will not only make the US safer but . the rest of the world...and the Dems want to hold a smear campaign at the same time in the hopes to discredit the President...what does that tell you about the Dems concern for this Country as a whole...add in the fact they want open borders...I'll leave it up to your interpretations
Morning board...Friday Eve...
Your thoughts please...after yesterday is Trudeau going down...possibly with obstruction of Justice charges???
Oh and good morning...
I don't have the full story on it but NOTHING would allow the old man to be attacked.
Honestly I wouldn't wear one either...seems most of these turds travel in a pack...and there is no logical reasoning with them...demented they are.
Surprise...surprise...surprise...Hoosiers beat Wisconsin in double OT...75-73
Sparty will be gunning for payback on Sat
Low life scum...what a piece of crap
'Russia, Russia, Russia' not selling well for Democrats in Iowa
By Monica Showalter
Democrats have gone balls-to-the-wall in their attempt to pin Russia collusion charges onto President Trump. Tankerfulls of ink and light years of pixels have already been spilled about the matter from their press allies. Democratic House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff is suing the Trump administration to make special counsel Robert Mueller's final report public. Investigations, even on tangential matters, such as a new one focused on President Trump's dishonest former lawyer Michael Cohen, continue to mushroom.
And Democrats show no signs of stopping. Here's a headline from yesterday's Politico: "Hillary Clinton: Congress should be 'doing more' on Russia probe." Here's another one, from Feb. 21's World Tribune, "Democrats: Regardless of Mueller report, ‘this is going to keep on going’."
So what does all this "banging and slamming and booming and crashing" mean to Iowa voters, who are now the focus of Democrats' attention as they seek to win the 2020 election against President Trump?
Zero. Zip. Nada.
Center-left Axios sent someone out on the road to watch the Democratic candidates in action as they played retail politics with voters, presumably mostly Democrats, driving 264 miles to six events and found this:
At a half-dozen events 2020 candidates held in Iowa over the weekend, attendees barely mentioned President Trump — and not a single person asked about Robert Mueller’s investigation or Russia.
The big picture: Instead, most of the questions were about policies — most often health care, climate and immigration.
The attendees at a soup dinner, meet-and-greets, and town halls asked hard-hitting questions about biofuels, money in politics, taxing the wealthy, preventive health care, arts in education, immigration reform, the environment, abolishing the filibuster rule in the Senate, and foreign policy.
Why it matters: Voters are giving the Democrats space to build specific brands based on their own visions and proposals.
Nope. They're tuning out on the Democrats' non-stop, getting-old-as-dirt, boring-as-heck beltway clown show on the Russia, Russia, Russia thing and trying to find out if Democrats actually have anything useful to offer.
Which goes to show just how mistaken they've been in trying to take down President Trump instead of carve out some kind of identity for themselves. If even the Democratic voters are sick of this drivel, which seems to obsess the Beltway denizens, just imagine what the independents and Republicans are thinking.
It's particularly noteworthy that the most prominent voice among those Democrats calling for more of this dreck is Hillary Clinton herself, who these days is champing at the bit for another run against Trump. If this is what she thinks is most important, and if this is the response from the Midwest, how's she going to do in another presidential run in the famous corn state, or even more significantly, in the state just past Iowa's northern border, name of Wisconsin?
She's not going to make it.
And as for the Democrats putting all their seed corn into defeating Trump through the special counsel's office, their campaigns can look to buying the farm.
How stupid can Democrats be? Their big sheet show on Russia collusion and the Mueller report is not selling in Iowa. Russia, Russia, Russia, spells Loser, Loser, Loser. And based on this Axios road trip, it looks like they're about to learn that the hard way.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/russia_russia_russia_not_selling_well_for_democrats_in_iowa.html#ixzz5gkiAZ3AT
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ROFLMAO...
3:25 p.m.
U.S. President Donald Trump is continuing to take political shots on foreign soil even as he prepares for a high-stakes meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
Trump is tweeting during downtime at his hotel in Hanoi that he has now "spent more time in Vietnam than Da Nang Dick Blumenthal."
Trump was referring to Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who served in the Marine Corps Reserves during the Vietnam War and apologized in 2010 for saying he had served in Vietnam.
Trump adds that Blumenthal's "war stories of his heroism in Vietnam were a total fraud."
Blumenthal is a Trump critic and has brushed off Trump's attacks in the past, tweeting in 2017 that Trump's "bullying hasn't worked."
Trump also is tweeting that he talked about the incident in his meetings with Vietnam's leaders Wednesday. That would be a highly unusual topic of conversation for an American president on the world stage.
https://trib.com/news/world/the-latest-trump-in-vietnam-tweets-about-blumenthal/article_5254946e-4a80-553f-8705-7bfcbcb7126d.html
A necessary evil...<g>
Quite a variety of home movies in there all narrated...I think you'll enjoy but pretty sure will bring back memories...
Man this is giving me a glimpse of what Dad saw from the Slicks...wow
YW...just found it today...pretty awesome so far...in between calls...LOL
Damn work just gets in the way...
Just starting to watch now...thought you might like this...
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrEZ_x1m3ZcbwUAle0PxQt.;_ylu=X3oDMTByMjB0aG5zBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzYw--?p=home+of+the+wolfpack+vietnam+movie&fr=yhs-mnet-001&hspart=mnet&hsimp=yhs-001#id=1&vid=1b3590544739c85cda66c80d9d5c908a&action=view
True Dat...Morning P_S_H
Couldn't agree more EZ...and...I actually believe CNN would have preferred Mr T start a war with Rocketman instead of talks
You killing me Smalls...and I sold EXAS at 49 I think
US air power scares the Russian bear
By Ed Timperlake
USAF chief of staff General David Goldfein, reflecting on the success of the F-35 at a recent USAF "Red Flag" exercise, gave both the People's Liberation Air Force and the Russians what we fighter pilots call a "face shot."
Red Flag is a brilliant exercise in which many combat aircraft flying from Nellis AFB engage to simulate real combat scenarios within a well designed and instrumented extremely stressful air combat environment. A "face shot" is slamming a missile right into the face, head on, of your enemy.
The U.S. Air Force put the F-35 up against "the most advanced weapons systems out there" during the recent Red Flag air combat exercise, and the fight-generation stealth fighters apparently dominated — so much so that even the rookie pilots were crushing it.
The F-35A is "exceeding our expectations when it comes to not only being able to survive, but to prosecute targets," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Dave Goldfein said Tuesday, according to Air Force Times.
A lasting phrase used by President Obama is actually appropriate in this situation: the Russian are getting all "wee-weed up."
The Russian Embassy in the US took aim at America's F-35 stealth fighters on Friday in a threatening message apparently tweeted in response to an earlier speech by the chief of staff of the US Air Force.
"If a Russia... ever was to see an F-35 inside its airspace', we would love to send Chief of Staff of the [US Air Force] Gen. David L. Goldfein 'message with two words' — 'remember Vietnam," the tweet read, adding, "An F-35 will never be alone."
Okay, "Ivan" — let's remember Vietnam...and now the fights is on!
A historical takeaway from the cold and hot war air battles between the U.S. Air Force and the USSR is that in the air-to-air mission, a country that equips its fighters with airborne radar and sensors allows more autonomous action and actually favors tactical simplicity and operational autonomy — even though the equipment becomes more complex. In air-to-ground, airborne simplicity indicators are usually smaller formations and allowance to maneuver independently into weapon launch envelopes primarily in a weapons-free environment. Embedding technology into the weapon itself — bombs and rocket-fired weapons — has also made a revolutionary difference.
A key conclusion is always to assume that a reactive enemy can develop the necessary technology to mitigate any advantages. With the worldwide proliferation of weapons, even a second- or third-world nation might have state-of-the art systems. The air war over the skies of Vietnam was between two peer competitors because of USSR support and constraints by the U.S. national command authority on how the U.S. would fight an air campaign.
The peer fight in the air abruptly ended when President Nixon unleashed the full power of U.S. air in the famous Christmas bombing of 1972. The war ended quickly after that. When the North invaded the South in 1975, U.S. air power was not used like the first invasion in1972, which was a dismal failure.
The lesson on the U.S.-USSR rivalry is that air combat leaders must be able to adjust during the course of an air battle or war by changing strategy and tactics, to achieve exploitation of the enemy's mistakes or weakness. Aircrews must be adaptable enough to follow changing commands from leadership and also, on their own initiative, to change tactics to achieve local surprise and exploitation. Like the quote from Animal House, "knowledge is good." In the cockpit, it can be a life-saver and an aid in "mission accomplished."
An air-to-air engagement totally slaved to a ground-controlled radar attack, the USSR model was a colossal failure and deadly to a lot of pilots locked into such a system. A bottom-up approach with evolving aircraft system capabilities in a competitive airframe makes for adaptive, creative air crews who will have a large repertoire of tactical moves and a better chance of getting inside an opponent's OODA loop. This is true for both air-to-air and air-to-ground combat missions.
As the history of war in the air shows, it was a constantly evolving process of human factors integrated into technology. The Cold War ended well for humanity, and a lot of courageous pilots, bold leaders, and smart technologists deserve a lot of credit for this great victory.
General Goldfein well remembered the lessons learned when he mentioned the awesome capabilities of the F-35. All U.S. air power combat pilots along the way will always recognize and honor the loss of good men and women in the air who paid in their blood for America today to have the best technology available flown by the best Air Force, Navy, and Marine aviators this country can produce. The future for American air power is to shape its concepts of operations in order to take advantage of the fifth-generation aircraft and the associated new tools of combat.
The recent Red Flag reporting results complimenting the F-35 are telling us that the future is now — apparently truly scaring the Russians.
Read more: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/02/us_air_power_scares_the_russian_bear.html#ixzz5gjdjFeF6
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F4 and B17 were my two all time favorites...when we moved to Bergstrom it was loaded with the recon version...RF4C's...we lived next door to the Officers club...off the 9th fairway of the golf course but more important...1/2 mile from the repair shop.
The first time at 2 AM they tested the afterburners of the Jet they were working on...I nearly hit the ceiling...OMG couldn't believe how loud they were...but within a Month...it stopped waking me up.
While it has been weird for me...I can only imagine how it is for you who actually served over there...
Just for you...
Sadly I don't think he is the only Vegas CEO guilty of it...
That was at Bergstrom AFB...Ive been highlighting photos from Bergstrom the last week...a lot of great memories here.
Sadly it is pop corn time...
I will I will....as soon as peeps get to work...lazy bums...
Morning EZ
The blocking filters might be the reason...either way the ads are still on the site...and I don't blame you for expecting faster service...I do as well.
I am feeling better...having scrambled eggs right now.
Have a good evening...catch you later
Might be all the adverts and extras they have going on in the Hub...if all your other sites are working normally I wouldn't sweat it...
You betcha Rodney...that was a good investment...now if APHA can getup there...woot
Howdy Clem....I'm doing good with gold line...they do a once a year free shipment...I'll get mine next Oct...
Looking good today
Aphria Inc. (APHA)
10.23 ^ 0.54 (5.57%)
Si Amigo...<g>
Birds of a feather...
There is the saying...
Fool me once shame on you
Fool me twice shame on me
For a reason
Lightning CAN strike twice
And this FIdiot wants to survive...she LIKES her new digs...hypocrite that she is.
My biggest fear about her is she is dumb like a Fox...and somehow gets re-elected...
To her credit...she lives in a voter apathy district...was running against a LAZY incumbent...was a relative unknown...former bartender who was a College Grad...she went out and drummed up just enough voters to win.
Now that she claims to have run off Amazon and brags about it...has come out in support to the program that wants to take AWAY modern conveniences from her voters...won't fare very well in the next election...that is provided they don't take away her district by combining it with several other districts...she has pissed off many in high places with Amazon...LMAO
Her little I'M the boss tantrum will NOT set well with the establishment