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Hey, it's her 78th birthday today. We better see some news about a big ass party for her down there.
Gee, were you that patient with the Mueller investigation taking the time to do the same?
It takes time to get Grand Jury indictments and schedule trials.
Go Houston. Twist the WH in knots about what to do.
The Catholic Church is getting a benefit from Caesar, a tax break. Why should the Caesar back off from an insistence on health coverage that includes methods to reduce both incidence of STD's as well as the number of abortions? (Verifiable facts.)
Do we know that God or Jesus doesn't support those demonstrable health benefits?
I say take the tax breaks but don't deny the health care coverage that taxpayers fund with their taxes. Neither of those are rendered unto god. And we are not a theocracy, for the sake of our own safety AND health.
At almost the same time as the CNN town hall, the Little Sisters of the Poor, who serve the elderly and impoverished, were again in court asking for protection from the ObamaCare mandate that tells them they must include contraceptive coverage in their employee health plans. It’s been a long legal journey: The Supreme Court has already been involved.
So has the Trump administration, whose directives regarding religious protection have been challenged by certain states, which got injunctions, which have been upheld by the appellate courts. The Sisters are forced to appeal to the high court again, which will, please God, affirm, with clarity and force, the constitutional rights without which they cannot exist.
First Space Force base named after Confederate general for some reason
October 25, 2019 By blondesoverbaghdad
FORT NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST, Moon – Space Force Planners announced the first space force base would be named after a confederate general for “reasons,” a Pentagon press release announced Monday.
“In a tradition dating back to 1916, and maybe probably earlier, the Space Force will carry on the tradition of naming its bases after losing generals,” the unsigned release noted. “Starting with Fort Forrest, we expect all Space Force bases to be named after mediocre short-time martialists by 2038. “
The announcement was lauded at Fort Benning, Fort Bragg, Fort Gordon, Fort Lee, Fort Rucker, and Fort Polk. Fort Longstreet could not be reached for comment.
Several Space Force generals considered naming the forts after Medal of Honor recipients, heroes of modern conflicts, non-treasonous humans who have actually walked on the moon, or commanders who win the battles they fight. Instead, they decided that the Confederate General thing was pretty cool and classy sounding.
“Those guys drank mint juleps,” one general said, on condition of anonymity.
Some in the Navy have argued for naming the base after the Confederate admiral, but on closer examination saw that naval bases were usually named after geography, and “Moon Space Force Station, Moon,” didn’t have the spirit they were going for.
“Although Space Force is new, we want to evoke the traditions of the past,” said General Braxton Higgs-Botham, Space Force Commander. “Naming our first fort after Confederate generals shows the values we want Space Force to have. If you declare rebellion against your government and then lose the war you started, you should get something named after you.”
“Lost causes, etc., etc.”
https://www.duffelblog.com/2019/10/first-space-force-base-named-after-confederate-general-for-some-reason/
U.S. General blessed the rains down in AFRICOM
October 24, 2019 By Addison Blu
CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti — Gen. Stephen Townsend visited the continent whose US forces he commands for the annual blessing of the rains down in AFRICOM.
“The US Army has a long tradition of blessing the rains down in AFRICOM,” said AFRICOM Public Affairs spokesperson Jory Steinberg, whispering in a quiet conversation with reporters after arriving at 1230 local time.
“Believe it or not, the practice informally started in 1982, predating the formal creation of AFRICOM by decades.”
As part of the ceremony, Townsend addressed the 449th Air Expeditionary Group, also known as the Wild Dogs. He encouraged the troops to “do what’s right” and to take some time to do the things they never had while on the African continent.
“It’s gonna take a lot to drag us away from you,’ Townsend said. “As sure as Kilimanjaro rises above the Serengeti.”
The actual blessing consists of playing an ancient African melody taught to British troops by the Zulu of South Africa after one of their many conflicts. The original translation of the African lyrics, while now forgotten, have been captured in essence by the current English version, which talks about fighting and winning while outnumbered in force strength by over a hundred to one.
First Space Force base named after Confederate general for some reason
October 25, 2019 By blondesoverbaghdad
FORT NATHAN BEDFORD FORREST, Moon – Space Force Planners announced the first space force base would be named after a confederate general for “reasons,” a Pentagon press release announced Monday.
“In a tradition dating back to 1916, and maybe probably earlier, the Space Force will carry on the tradition of naming its bases after losing generals,” the unsigned release noted. “Starting with Fort Forrest, we expect all Space Force bases to be named after mediocre short-time martialists by 2038. “
The announcement was lauded at Fort Benning, Fort Bragg, Fort Gordon, Fort Lee, Fort Rucker, and Fort Polk. Fort Longstreet could not be reached for comment.
Several Space Force generals considered naming the forts after Medal of Honor recipients, heroes of modern conflicts, non-treasonous humans who have actually walked on the moon, or commanders who win the battles they fight. Instead, they decided that the Confederate General thing was pretty cool and classy sounding.
“Those guys drank mint juleps,” one general said, on condition of anonymity.
Some in the Navy have argued for naming the base after the Confederate admiral, but on closer examination saw that naval bases were usually named after geography, and “Moon Space Force Station, Moon,” didn’t have the spirit they were going for.
“Although Space Force is new, we want to evoke the traditions of the past,” said General Braxton Higgs-Botham, Space Force Commander. “Naming our first fort after Confederate generals shows the values we want Space Force to have. If you declare rebellion against your government and then lose the war you started, you should get something named after you.”
“Lost causes, etc., etc.”
https://www.duffelblog.com/2019/10/first-space-force-base-named-after-confederate-general-for-some-reason/
U.S. General blessed the rains down in AFRICOM
October 24, 2019 By Addison Blu
CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti — Gen. Stephen Townsend visited the continent whose US forces he commands for the annual blessing of the rains down in AFRICOM.
“The US Army has a long tradition of blessing the rains down in AFRICOM,” said AFRICOM Public Affairs spokesperson Jory Steinberg, whispering in a quiet conversation with reporters after arriving at 1230 local time.
“Believe it or not, the practice informally started in 1982, predating the formal creation of AFRICOM by decades.”
As part of the ceremony, Townsend addressed the 449th Air Expeditionary Group, also known as the Wild Dogs. He encouraged the troops to “do what’s right” and to take some time to do the things they never had while on the African continent.
“It’s gonna take a lot to drag us away from you,’ Townsend said. “As sure as Kilimanjaro rises above the Serengeti.”
The actual blessing consists of playing an ancient African melody taught to British troops by the Zulu of South Africa after one of their many conflicts. The original translation of the African lyrics, while now forgotten, have been captured in essence by the current English version, which talks about fighting and winning while outnumbered in force strength by over a hundred to one.
We need Adam Sandler's opera singer.
Italy: Barr said where you hiding the servo, we told him no conspiro.
LMAO!
Barr is going to go 0 for 5. Ukraine has also blown up in his face.
No, you can infer that I would say that. i posted what I posted.
Look up how well Trump is polling in the swing States he barely won and get back to us about his 'path'.
You're the one who needs to get a grip. Move your lips as you read...
Justice Department officials have shifted an administrative review of the Russia investigation closely overseen by Attorney General William P. Barr to a criminal inquiry.
Doesn't say Durham requested it, does it?
And what does 'closely overseen' mean to you.
Let's see how far Durham goes along with Barr's bullshit mission before he resigns.
Right you are.
Every leading Dem candidate polls as beating Trump.
The Dems don't have anyone that can beat Trump.
Uh no, Durham didn't make the request, he's following Barr's orders.
Justice Dept. Is Said to Open Criminal Inquiry Into Its Own Russia Investigation
The move is likely to open the attorney general to accusations that he is trying to deliver a political victory for President Trump.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/politics/john-durham-criminal-investigation.html
Justice Department officials have shifted an administrative review of the Russia investigation closely overseen by Attorney General William P. Barr to a criminal inquiry, according to two people familiar with the matter. The move gives the prosecutor running it, John H. Durham, the power to subpoena for witness testimony and documents, to convene a grand jury and to file criminal charges.
The opening of a criminal investigation is likely to raise alarms that Mr. Trump is using the Justice Department to go after his perceived enemies. Mr. Trump fired James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director under whose watch agents opened the Russia inquiry, and has long assailed other top former law enforcement and intelligence officials as partisans who sought to block his election.
Mr. Trump has made clear that he sees the typically independent Justice Department as a tool to be wielded against his political enemies. That view factors into the impeachment investigation against him, as does his long obsession with the origins of the Russia inquiry. House Democrats are examining in part whether his pressure on Ukraine to open investigations into theories about the 2016 election constituted an abuse of power.
The move also creates an unusual situation in which the Justice Department is conducting a criminal investigation into itself.
Mr. Barr’s reliance on Mr. Durham, a widely respected and veteran prosecutor who has investigated C.I.A. torture and broken up Mafia rings, could help insulate the attorney general from accusations that he is doing the president’s bidding and putting politics above justice.
It was not clear what potential crime Mr. Durham is investigating, nor when the criminal investigation was prompted. A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.
Thursday TOONs - The Crooks Brothers Riot
The Crooks Brothers Riot
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212617275
THIS is what she meant by 'pipe dream'. I just call it plain old pulling it out of your ass RW conspiracy theorizing.
There is NO predicate for the DOJ investigation. Barr is engaging in wishful thinking that will blow up in his fat fucking face.
That's the only thing that you'll be able to book.
Italy already told Barr he's full of shit with his conspiracy theory road trip to their country.
They are even considering Hillary as likely. LOL!!
Criticism for the Gestapo attempt to find a cause to impeach Trump.
And an opening of a criminal investigation of the Obama Justice and Intelligence Departments for their election interference in the 2016 election.
All you have are baseless assertions, no charges because no evidence.
Mueller nailed enough Trump associates to place his administration up there with Nixon and Reagan for indictments and convictions of Admin members.
You mfr's are your own crime wave.
NYPD is more definitive:
NYPD Would Arrest Trump if He Shot Someone on Fifth Avenue: 'It's as Simple as That'
By Alexandra Hutzler On 10/24/19 at 3:02 PM EDT
https://www.newsweek.com/nypd-says-theyd-arrest-trump-if-he-shot-someone-1467588
Donald Trump's lawyer asserted on Wednesday that the president could shoot someone on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and not be prosecuted, but the New York Police Department said that is absolutely not the case.
NYPD First Deputy Commissioner Benjamin Tucker was pressed on the issue during an unrelated press conference on Thursday. Asked by a reporter if the police department would arrest Trump if he shot someone, Tucker began laughing.
"We would. I mean, it's as simple as that," he said.
Mayor Bill de Blasio agreed, telling members of the media that "if anybody shoots someone, they get arrested. I don't care if they're the president of the United States or anybody else."
De Blasio entered the 2020 Democratic primary race in hopes of taking on Trump in the general election but dropped out in September after consistently polling around 1 percent.
"Anyone who calls themselves a lawyer who can say that should not be a lawyer, let's start with that," de Blasio added. "But if you shoot someone, that's a crime, and no one is above the law. He would be arrested, period."
On Wednesday, attorney William Consovoy said in federal court that presidential immunity would spare Trump from prosecution for a crime while he is in office, even if he were to shoot someone. Consovoy made the remarks while being questioned by judges in the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where he was fighting a subpoena by the Manhattan district attorney's office for Trump's financial records and tax returns.
Trump's legal team has argued that the subpoena should be thrown out because anyone who serves as president of the United States "enjoys absolute immunity from criminal process of any kind" while in office. But Circuit Judge Denny Chin pushed back on that argument.
"What is your view on the Fifth Avenue example?" Chin asked Consovoy, referring to Trump's infamous 2016 campaign remark about being able to get away with shooting someone on the famous New York City street. "The local authorities couldn't investigate? They couldn't do anything about it?"
Consovoy replied that the president could only be prosecuted once he left office and that was his official position on the matter.
While running for president, Trump had hypothesized that he could shoot someone and not lose any of his supporters.
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn't lose any voters, OK? It's, like, incredible," Trump said during an event in Iowa. When he made the remark, he mimicked firing a gun with his fingers.
Ted Lieu
@tedlieu
Special Counsel investigation resulted in:
-34 indictments
-8 convictions/guilty pleas
-A finding that Russia interfered in US elections in a sweeping & systematic manner
AG Barr of @TheJusticeDept is now essentially trying to say that none of that should have happened. Really? https://twitter.com/Susan_Hennessey/status/1187522685502459904 …
Susan Hennessey??Verified account? @Susan_Hennessey
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Barr takes DOJ even deeper down a very ugly path. The Department must know every move here will be scrutinized for years. And we haven't seen anything yet that looks even close to a criminal predicate.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212620134
The fuck he was. He's been a bag man for the GOP going way back. Read his shit lately, another wannabe theocrat.
Investigations of Dems? You forgot your Benghaziazims and Fast & Furious? NO indictments.
How about that birth certificate bullshit. ALL GOPERS ever have are conspiracy theory fueled wet dreams. Barr's having another one.
As for Barr? WOW, he was great before he became attorney general with the Trump Administration.
Like Porge the first thing that popped into my head was Chevy Chase's bit.
I knew that I could write it well enough to get a few people on the hook.
When you read enough of The Onion or Shower Cap, you end up writing like them.
Nooooo, that's just me fucking around.....credibly, apparently.
LOL!
I emailed this response to a friend who raised this subject earlier today.....
Teabagger redeux is all, with a hearty WOVLERINES!! thrown in for good measure.
First they fight the police and then the National Guard, THEN the 82nd Airborne kept on alert for domestic disturbances, used in Detroit in ’67 I believe.
Fuck ‘em, bring it on.
It's D.C., it will be a procedure minded crowd. First, a trial. LOL!
Let me get this clear
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212617404
Donnie was basically in the clear. Off the hook in the 2016 election, even though the Mueller report was pretty devastating, it didn't seem like we'd see him impeached for whatever reason.
He couldn't leave well enough alone and he couldn't stand the fact that most everybody sees him as illegitimate, so he sent out his lackeys to try and manufacture the evidence that it was I guess Biden and his son involved in the 2016 election, based on a conspiracy from the nutballs on the right, and no one could talk him out of self-immolation?
All I can say is, it is good damn luck that the democrats are in power in the house and he's so fucking stupid.
LOL! Does this Kevlar make me look fat?
No one has flung a bat into a skybox. No way the SS will allow him within hot dog tossing distance.
Bet he's talked out of it. They will boo his ever loving fat ass out of the stadium, guaranteed. Maybe an IMPEACH HIM chant.
VERY well said. I've read several descriptions of the GOPER clusterfuck as a flash mob.
This message should be hand delivered to GOPER leadership in a file folder marked 'Be Careful What You wish For/
#callingyourfuckingbluff'
Possible public hearings: Democrats plan on holding public hearings with some witnesses who have been deposed as part of their plan to provide some transparency to the impeachment inquiry. The hearings could begin in mid-November or after Thanksgiving depending on the witnesses.
Pic Of The Moment: Band Of Buttheads
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/23/impeachment-diary-republicans-fight-impeachment-with-extra-cheese/
Pic Of The Moment: Band Of Buttheads
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/10/23/impeachment-diary-republicans-fight-impeachment-with-extra-cheese/
'Other than that family being republican, they're pretty nice'.....
….is like saying 'aside from THAT, what did you think of the play Mrs. Lincoln?'
And if Freddy had been present in the doctor's office his moral suasion would have prevailed and you'd still be saying 'Hi Hally', in a perfect theocratic world.
Next Arkansas story:
Arkansas hunters armed with AR-15's storm woods seeking vengeance on deer population.
EMT's and ER's on alert because, well, heavily armed stupid on stupid casualties expected.
It wrote itself, with a little help from me.
The fundamental problem with the amoral right is that so many of them would like to look over the shoulders of parents in a doctor's office so that they can wag their sanctimonious fingers and pronounce what THEY think is best for a fetus, a mother, a child.
Because in so very many spheres of their own lives they demonstrate by their words and behavior that they clearly know what is best, for everyone else.
Walking their talk? Not so much.
Spain exhumes late dictator Gen. Franco's remains
Byciaran giles, associated press
MADRID — Oct 24, 2019, 8:47 AM ET
Spain has exhumed the remains of Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco Franco from his grandiose mausoleum outside Madrid and flown them by helicopter for reburial in a small family crypt north of the capital.
The government-ordered, closed-door operation on Thursday satisfies a decades-old desire of many in Spain who considered the vainglorious mausoleum that Franco built an affront to the tens of thousands who died in Spain's Civil War and his subsequent regime as well as to Spain's standing as a modern democratic state.
After his coffin was extracted from under marble slabs and two tons of granite, a brief prayer was said in line with a request from Franco's family before the coffin began its journey to its new resting place 57 kilometers away (35 miles).
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/spain-begins-exhuming-late-dictator-gen-francos-remains-66493552?cid=clicksource_4380645_null_headlines_hed
Chevy Chase was secretly flown to Madrid to be present at the exhumation, where he announced before TV cameras that Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
Spain exhumes late dictator Gen. Franco's remains
Byciaran giles, associated press
MADRID — Oct 24, 2019, 8:47 AM ET
Spain has exhumed the remains of Spanish dictator Gen. Francisco Franco from his grandiose mausoleum outside Madrid and flown them by helicopter for reburial in a small family crypt north of the capital.
The government-ordered, closed-door operation on Thursday satisfies a decades-old desire of many in Spain who considered the vainglorious mausoleum that Franco built an affront to the tens of thousands who died in Spain's Civil War and his subsequent regime as well as to Spain's standing as a modern democratic state.
After his coffin was extracted from under marble slabs and two tons of granite, a brief prayer was said in line with a request from Franco's family before the coffin began its journey to its new resting place 57 kilometers away (35 miles).
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/spain-begins-exhuming-late-dictator-gen-francos-remains-66493552?cid=clicksource_4380645_null_headlines_hed
Chevy Chase was secretly flown to Madrid to be present at the exhumation, where he announced before TV cameras that Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
It's new, I've seen the promos. I hope you're right. I'd like to see Bill Hader's coatless, overwrought, snarling Jordan, again.