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Update on the Manafort situation:
A Flynn sentencing memo is due Tuesday, and memos about Manafort and Cohen are slated for Friday. All three documents are expected to yield significant new details on what cooperation the three of them provided to the Russia investigation.
But Peter Carr, spokesman for the special counsel, confirmed to Yahoo News on Monday that the Manafort memo “will be public,” although he added there could be some portions that are redacted or filed as a sealed addendum. The Manafort memo has been requested by the federal judge in his case so that prosecutors could, for the first time, spell out what matters they believe Manafort has lied to them about.
This will be an interesting week.
Although, I don’t think the entire investigation is wrapping up, as Manifort thread is.
Edited by megaeliz on Dec 4th 2018 at 1:08:54 PM
In a rather sweet story, George W. Bush’s service dog, Sully, laid next to his casket after he died,
and even accompanied him to Washington DC, and has a place of honor at his funeral
.
Of course, he got a lot of love afterwards,
and was even allowed to sleep on the bed.
here’s Sully’s Instagram account.
I believe they were matched through America’s VetDogs foundation
, after he lost his wife, and he seemed to have become part of the family.
He will temporarily be going back to the Vet Dogs headquarters in Smithtown New York, over the holidays, before going to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., to help with other veterans.
Edited by megaeliz on Dec 4th 2018 at 1:24:30 PM
The campaign arm of the Republican party was hacked during the 2018 election.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/04/politics/nrcc-hack-midterms/index.html
Can't wait to here how this means the election should be invalidated or something.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.The court is in a very dangerous place right now, all it would take is a key governor or two to refuse to recognise its legitimacy and chaos would break out.
I still maintain that once control of the Senate and White House rolls back around to us, putting Merrick Garland, specifically on the Supreme Court is the way to go. The fact that the Republicans stole his nomination from him gives us a shield against the inevitable accusations of corruption that would come with court-packing.
The Right will accuse that we're trying to steal the Supreme Court, and we can fire right back that Garland should have already been there in the first place and, if anything, Kavanaugh is the odd man out.
Trying to add any other Justice will leave us with
- R: They're trying to twist the Supreme Court to suit their party's views over ours!
- D: Well, yeah. That's exactly what we're doing.
But with Garland, we actually have a leg to stand on.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Dec 4th 2018 at 11:46:48 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.A What the Fuck Just Happened Today preview:
Paul Manafort tried to get Ecuador to hand over Julian Assange in exchange for debt relief from the United States. Manafort originally flew to Ecuador in May 2017 to convince then-incoming President Lenín Moreno to let Manafort broker an energy deal between China and Ecuador. But the talks shifted to Ecuador's desire to rid itself of Assange, who has been staying the Ecuadorean embassy in London since 2012. Manafort suggested that he could negotiate a deal for the handover of Assange, but the deal quickly fell apart once it became clear that Manafort was a major target of Mueller's Russia investigation. There is no evidence that Trump was aware of or involved in Manafort's dealings with Ecuador. (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/us/politics/manafort-assange-wikileaks-ecuador.html
Whether irony or projection, wasn't this something people expected Clinton to do?
Frankly, Assange is such a shit that I'd welcome almost any deal to extradite him.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Indeed, that fascist enabling, probable rapist needs to face the consequences of at least some of his actions.
Sweden doesn't have any outstanding charges against him as of now, IIRC.
Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) was convinced by a CIA briefing that Crown Prince bin Salman ordered the Khashiggi killing.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/04/politics/haspel-briefing-khashoggi/index.html
Edited by Rationalinsanity on Dec 4th 2018 at 3:21:06 PM
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Meanwhile, in "did you even read this crap?" news, in writing exemptions for medical abortion into a fetal homicide law, the New Hampshire state legislature accidentally legalised all forms of homicide by a pregnant woman
.
@Tobias, remember that Kavanaugh isn’t the one who took the seat that should have gone to Garland, he took Kennedy’s seat, he’s scum, but the illegitimacy about his seat comes down to Trump’s illegitimacy.
Also if we’re only replacing one reactionary justice it shouldn’t be with Garland, Garland was a compromise candidate and we shouldn’t be putting compromise candidates on the Supreme Court.
Now if the votes to impeach Kavanaugh ever appear I’m all for it, but that should be a bonus, not the key strategy for taking back the Supreme Court.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranAssange was supposed to escape to Russia, not the Ecuadorian embassy. There have, in the past, been motions made to try to get him to Russia, but they've been blocked thus far.
In light of this, I would not trust any extradition arranged by Manafort. It just reeks of, "WHOOPS we accidentally sent him to Moscow, MY BAD YOU GUYS."
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. She seems like such a pleasant person
One thing is for sure, this is a normal amount of emotional investment in the question of whether a single photograph of a dog you've never met depicts the dog in a state of mourning.
You know, I really love dogs, but I actually agree with her about all the puff pieces being deeply obnoxious. George HW Bush was a terrible person,
and I am sick of all the doting coverage on this poor dog.
Edited by wisewillow on Dec 4th 2018 at 3:46:04 PM
Oh look, another person who doesn't understand how to use twitter. Dear everyone writing super long twitter chains: stop doing it. Write it elsewhere and make it into an image! Or link it! Stop using the super-condensed character limit site for essays!
Anyway, what sort of person he was doesn't have much bearing on one person having a fundamental misunderstanding of how dogs work.
It’s just a mean-spirited, unnessary, and clickbaity piece, written by someone that has clearly never had any experience with Dogs, much less service Animals, and the she goes on twitter to double down on it. Is this really the hill she wants to die on?
Edited by megaeliz on Dec 4th 2018 at 3:57:04 PM

It used to be worse. When new governments took office on March 4th, that left lame ducks four whole months to enact last minute skulduggery.
"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die."