Trump’s Former Adviser Michael Flynn Might Have Broken Law, but the White House Refuses to Provide Documents

Yes, Russia again
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Tick tock. Another shoe has dropped in the investigation of the Trump gang’s contacts with the Russian government: House oversight: Michael Flynn might have broken law.

President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser did not properly disclose payments from Russia and may have broken the law, House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz and ranking Democrat Elijah Cummings said Tuesday after reviewing Michael Flynn’s application for a security clearance.

“As a former military officer, you simply cannot take money from Russia, Turkey or anybody else. And it appears as if he did take that money. It was inappropriate. And there are repercussions for the violation of law,” Chaffetz said.

Chaffetz and Cummings announced their findings to reporters on the Hill following a classified gathering of the committee in which they reviewed documents that Cummings described as “extremely troubling.”

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The news comes after the White House declined to provide documents related to Flynn that the panel investigating him had requested, according to a letter obtained by CNN.White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short outlined in a letter to the House oversight committee how it would not complete the request from the panel, referring some requests to the Department of Defense, saying the office doesn’t have custody of some of the other documents or simply stating “we are unable to accommodate” others.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:01:29pm

LOCK HIM UP!

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Stanley Sea  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:02:38pm

Look closely at this photo. There’s a tabloid on the desk & he’s playing with the drawer while talking to who know’s who. Probably Bibi.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:05:29pm

re: #2 Stanley Sea

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Look closely at this photo. There’s a tabloid on the desk & he’s playing with the drawer while talking to who know’s who. Probably Bibi.

Like I said downstairs about Flynn, anyone else would be under federal indictment already.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:06:22pm

Reposted from downstairs:

Spicer, asked whether WH failed in vetting ex-National Security Adviser Flynn, says applicants “fill out the forms”

The spokesidiot for the “master businessman” giving the most bureaucratic answer to a question: ‘He filled out all his forms properly.’

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:07:58pm

re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To

LOCK HIM UP!

Lock Them Up.

Who’s “them” - Trump, Manafort, Flynn, Sessions, and everyone else associated with this Administration who engaged in illegal actions, lying on security clearance forms (yeah, you got that with Jared too), acting as a foreign agent (Flynn and Manafort - with Flynn being an agent for multiple countries without declaring who he was working for).

Some of this was during the campaign, some was after they were already in the WH, but all of them are up to their eyeballs in actions that require and demand criminal investigations. I’m not just talking about the political investigations launched by Congress, where the levers of control are still obstructing investigations though the sheer amount of criminality and compromised figures associated with Trump is impossible to ignore.

I’m talking about the DOJ - which is headed by a guy who committed perjury himself about his contacts with Russians. That, combined with the evidence that Coretta Scott King was right about Sessions all along, should have gotten him dumped from the AG position. But then Trump gutted the DOJ’s federal attorneys around the country, and hasn’t nominated replacements, which means that top-level policy is stuck in limbo.

The GOP again has no problem with any of this, and none of this is normal.

By their actions, top GOP leadership in Congress is complicit with Trump’s actions, and enabling this administration will be a lasting and permanent stain on the GOP.

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wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:09:32pm

re: #4 Timothy Watson

Reposted from downstairs:

The spokesidiot for the “master businessman” giving the most bureaucratic answer to a question: ‘He filled out all his forms properly.’

‘But no, you can’t see any of them.’

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:13:21pm

Flynn and Kushner both lied on their security clearance forms.

Who else? I’d go with Sessions. And Ivanka. And Tillerson. And Ross. Throw in DeVos for good measure.

That’s just for starters.

What’s the penalty for lying on those clearance forms?

The security clearance background investigation process falls under federal guidelines, therefore any criminal charges must be filed in a Federal District Court by the charging agency. If convicted, the criminal penalties include fines of up to $10,000 and/or imprisonment up to five years. So why don’t we hear of anyone (other than background investigators) getting charged with and convicted for this offense? The reason most instances of falsification or misrepresentation on clearance applications do not result in criminal charges is simple. First, Office of the Inspector General Special Agents or that specific agency’s law enforcement officers have a big workload with more serious or higher priority investigations to pursue, so unless there are other criminal charges involved they most likely will not pursue it. Second, Federal prosecutors also have an enormous workload and don’t want to spend the resources, time and effort on these types of case.

This is where the Trump gutting of the DOJ and federal attorneys comes into play.

And the GOP enabled all of this.

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KGxvi  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:14:08pm
Another shoe has dropped in the investigation

A concept idea for the eventual Trump Presidential Library at the Trump National Golf Course and Trump Resort (possibly at the site of the old Taj Mahal in Atlantic City?):

Imelda Marcos would be embarrassed by all the shoes Trump has dropping

In all seriousness, though, ifwhen Trump gets impeached and removed, what is his inevitable Library going to look like? You know that he’s too vain to not have a Library, and he’ll probably take the Nixon approach and have it initially run by a private group and not the National Archives. At the least, I fully expect it to be a portal to an alternate dimension.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:14:30pm

That picture must never be cropped so that Stein is cut out.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:16:56pm

I am still laughing at Ivanka getting booed in Germany.

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:18:47pm

About Mr. Trump’s threat to impose an impost on Canadian dairy products:

Perhaps Mr. Trump would like to pick up a geography book or political map of the Great Lakes. Wisconsin does not border Canada.

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:22:20pm

re: #11 Anymouse

He’s also threatening to impose tariffs on lumber coming from Canada. I’m sure the construction industry just loves that.

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KGxvi  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:23:44pm

re: #12 lawhawk

He’s also threatening to impose tariffs on lumber coming from Canada. I’m sure the construction industry just loves that.

Which list is shorter now, the countries he’s threatened to start a trade war with or the one’s he hasn’t?

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Joe Bacon  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:24:20pm

re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To

LOCK HIM UP!

Yes, why are we not hearing that?

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FormerDirtDart  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:26:36pm
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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:27:52pm

re: #14 Joe Bacon

Yes, why are we not hearing that?

IOKIYAR

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The Crusher  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:28:49pm

I hope the Democrats scour under every rock before the next two elections.

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FormerDirtDart  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:31:21pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:33:10pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:35:19pm
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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:37:03pm

re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth

National security officials regularly have to report “close & continuing contact” w/ foreign nationals.

ANYONE with a clearance must report any contact.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:37:54pm
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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:38:34pm

Felix Randomkitty Update Number Six:

I just got off the telephone with the veterinarian. She tells me that Felix is no longer on an IV. He was active yesterday, but is a little lethargic today. His blood sugar has been swinging from 60 (way too low) to 600 (way too high).

She believes he has turned the corner, but the blood sugar swings may be related to the fact that sometimes cats’ diabetes improve and only require diabetic cat food with no further insulin. She has discontinued his insulin as of yesterday and wants to observe him for one more day. She suggests one more day for him in the kitty hospital, to which I agreed. So Felix will not come home today.

I also asked her if it would be too much trouble if she could get a picture of Felix, herself, and the staff that saved his life, so I could post it here to Little Green Footballs.

“Sure!” she said. She will E-mail that to me, and I will post it here in a sidebar article summarising Felix’s brush with death.

So, one more day for the Kitteh of Chez Tumbleweed.

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FormerDirtDart  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:41:04pm
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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:41:23pm

re: #20 Backwoods_Sleuth

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WTF.

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Jack Burton  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:42:17pm

re: #21 Belafon

ANYONE with a clearance must report any contact.

When has “What people with clearances should/must do” ever mattered to these clowns after election day?

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Shiplord Kirel  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:42:25pm

Unlike most of the old GOP chickenhawks, Pat did actually serve in the military in wartime, as “liquor officer” of the First Marine Division in Korea: “……. responsible for keeping the officers’ clubs supplied with alcohol.”

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piratedan  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:43:40pm

suspect Flynn is just the tip of the iceberg… have to figure he was on the payroll of both Turkey and Russia, who knows if that was the case while he was actively serving in the Military but most certainly while he was advising the Trump campaign.

My biggest fear is that Putin has has done such a thorough job of compromising so many key players, we may never get to the bottom of things…

namely, the GOP leadership, I have to suspect McConnell and Ryan, because their actions imply that they would just as soon all of “this” go away. Most likely Reince and most certainly Nunes. For attempting to frame what would be investigated and the money behind it all. Would not be shocked to see the GOP’s political advertising paid for by quite a few Russian based dark money laundering clearinghouses.

Plus there’s the media side… where the CDS was used by the Russians to shape the political reporting of the last election. No other explanation for the examination of the bullshit e-mail controversy when stacked against the racism, sexism and out right unlawfulness that is the Trump empire that is readily apparent with just the smallest amount of searching. He’s lied about everything, proven to have those lies exposed and yet NOTHING happens. How? He’s simply not THAT fucking rich. So how else can you explain how the NYT turned a blind eye (and the one, supposedly impartial) as well as CNN hiring his former campaign staff to speak on his behalf throughout the goddamn campaign?

Can we honestly expect the media and the GOP to act i any kind of good faith here?

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:43:56pm

Imagine if the press obsessed as much over this administration’s half-assed and self-serving approach to national security as they did over an email server. We might actually get some answers.

But, you know, he’s a Republican so it’s all good./////

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Joe Bacon  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:45:51pm

re: #28 piratedan

We’re dealing with full blown IOKIYAR here!

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:46:26pm

re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth

In other words, anyone with those clearances is required to log their contacts.

That’s what they’re supposed to do. What they’re actually doing is flouting the law at every turn. They don’t care, and it’s putting the nation at serious risk. Trump fans don’t care, or even realize, what their hero is doing - he’s undermining the very institutions of the government and national security with every day that passes.

That’s the opposite of what he says he’s doing. Making America Great? HA! He’s undermining US government and its institutions on a daily basis. He’s undermining the faith in those institutions and the people at those institutions.

And the GOP enables - because they want to sabotage government functioning too - all to push for more tax cuts.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:47:22pm

re: #27 Shiplord Kirel

Unlike most of the old GOP chickenhawks, Pat did actually serve in the military in wartime, as “liquor officer” of the First Marine Division in Korea: “……. responsible for keeping the officers’ clubs supplied with alcohol.”

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What do you care Pat, you thought we deserved 9/11, you wrinkly piece of racist shit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:47:43pm
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ObserverArt  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:48:08pm

re: #27 Shiplord Kirel

Unlike most of the old GOP chickenhawks, Pat did actually serve in the military in wartime, as “liquor officer” of the First Marine Division in Korea: “……. responsible for keeping the officers’ clubs supplied with alcohol.”

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Shut up you old coot. You’ve done you own part to help destroy America by feeding stupid conservative bullshit to ignorant fools who think you speak for a god. We end up with a real dangerous President in Trump because of fools like you.

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:48:56pm

re: #26 Jack Burton

When has “What people with clearances should/must do” ever mattered to these clowns after election day?

Fixed.

I know that as a lowly enlisted person, if I’d had a foreign contact or done something for a foreign government and failed to report it for my security clearance form (or after I got my clearance), I would have been hung from the highest yardarm and shot at dawn. (There are no bowsprits on aircraft carriers, though on the older ones they could probably tie you to the underside of the bridle arresting gear.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:49:27pm

:D

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:49:53pm

This is horrific==>

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:52:03pm

OT. Book related stuff. Feel free to skip.

So as you might have figured out from comments over the past year+, I’ve been writing a book. Today is release day, on Amazon for Kindle. (ISBNs are expensive but eBooks don’t require them so let’s see how this goes!) It’s a Regency England romance novel, of the sort I like to call literary twinkies and read rather more of than I should admit to.

IN CASE this sounds like your thing and you are interested in reading it, I’m sticking a link in the private section below. There is no pressure, but I think a few folks had expressed some interest at various points along the way. If you do enjoy, a review would be greatly appreciated. It’s also available through the Kindle Unlimited program so you could borrow it for free and read it that way.

I’m trying not to stalk the page or my purchase/read statistics too much today. This may be a failing effort.

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:52:17pm

re: #37 The Vicious Babushka

This is horrific==

Now I feel guilty for buying insulin for my cat.

No one in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world should have to do that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:52:58pm

Trump: “The wall’s gonna get built folks”
Q: When?
Trump: “Soon”
Q: 1st term?
Trump: [hesitates] “Yea. Yea. Sure…We have plenty of time”

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:53:50pm

re: #37 The Vicious Babushka

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Kragar  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:53:55pm
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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:54:22pm

From that article on the diabetic girl:

So her mom has turned to the black market, trading for the medication with other families with diabetes she meets online, a tactic that regulators and health experts warn is a health risk. And she cut a back-end deal with a sympathetic drug rep: If she bought one vial he would give her 10 vials from his sample kit, nearly a one year’s supply. Gabriella’s grandmother covered the cost.

Dying from diabetes is a health risk as well.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:57:23pm

re: #42 Kragar

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He’s such a pathetic douchebag.

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Kragar  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:58:18pm

re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:10:51pm

re: #42 Kragar

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Much like the Trump budget proposal to gouge the Coast Guard and TSA budgets to fund the wall, Cruz is suggesting that the best way to fund the wall is to further weaken the agencies that have the best track record for actually stopping drug smuggling.

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Kragar  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:13:33pm
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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:13:40pm

re: #46 Targetpractice

Much like the Trump budget proposal to gouge the Coast Guard and TSA budgets to fund the wall, Cruz is suggesting that the best way to fund the wall is to further weaken the agencies that have the best track record for actually stopping drug smuggling.

Cruz has no concept of how things are actually funded in his state. I’m sure hoping that when I vote next year, my vote helps someone beat him.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:13:50pm

Shaun & his fellow BernieBros should be booed and hissed every day for their little temper tantrum refusing to vote for Hillary and bringing this Trump horror upon us all.

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Kragar  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:14:22pm
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scottslemmons  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:16:07pm

This whole article was really impressive, and it got creepier and creepier the further down you read. If that guy isn’t a serial rapist, I’ll eat my hat. (My hat which is made of chocolate, just in case.)

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ObserverArt  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:16:28pm

Amazing how a wall that runs the length of the southern border of four states is going to stop all drugs, bad people and human traffickers. It would be the most incredible law and order addition to this country ever!

Why didn’t someone else think of this over all this time???

Because he is Trump and he is not like anybody else.

Now we just need to figure how to shuffle him along and make sure we get no other people that are like nobody else but Trump.

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:19:14pm

re: #47 Kragar

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On the eve of “Day 100,” Trump gets yet another slap across the face from the judiciary.

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Big Beautiful Door  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:23:45pm

re: #53 Targetpractice

On the eve of “Day 100,” Trump gets yet another slap across the face from the judiciary.

Thank our founding fathers for an independent judiciary.

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Kragar  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:24:43pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:26:09pm

Of course, the federal judge that just handed Trump his latest loss is in California, so look for yet more suggestions that the only judges that matter to this administration are ones in “Real ‘Murika!”

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Kragar  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:26:36pm
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Jay C  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:26:55pm

re: #42 Kragar

Presumably the “logic”* behind this statement is that once The Wall is built, no drugs will ever get into this country, so law enforcement won’t need the extra seizure money? QED??

*It’s functional-imbecile Ted Cruz: the scare quotes are quite deliberate (though not as scary as Ted)

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gocart mozart  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:27:18pm

ROBERT E. LEE.
HIS BRUTALITY TO HIS SLAVES.

It has frequently been represented by the friends and admirers of Robert E. Lee, late an officer in the rebel army, that, although a slaveholder, his treatment of his chattels was invariably kind and humane. The subjoined statement, taken from the lips of one of his former slaves, indicates the real character of the man:

My name is Wesley Norris; I was born a slave on the plantation of George Parke Custis; after the death of Mr. Custis, Gen. Lee, who had been made executor of the estate, assumed control of the slaves, in number about seventy; it was the general impression among the slaves of Mr. Custis that on his death they should be forever free; in fact this statement had been made to them by Mr. C. years before; at his death we were informed by Gen. Lee that by the conditions of the will we must remain slaves for five years; I remained with Gen. Lee for about seventeen months, when my sister Mary, a cousin of ours, and I determined to run away, which we did in the year 1859; we had already reached Westminster, in Maryland, on our way to the North, when we were apprehended and thrown into prison, and Gen. Lee notified of our arrest; we remained in prison fifteen days, when we were sent back to Arlington; we were immediately taken before Gen. Lee, who demanded the reason why we ran away; we frankly told him that we considered ourselves free; he then told us he would teach us a lesson we never would forget; he then ordered us to the barn, where, in his presence, we were tied firmly to posts by a Mr. Gwin, our overseer, who was ordered by Gen. Lee to strip us to the waist and give us fifty lashes each, excepting my sister, who received but twenty; we were accordingly stripped to the skin by the overseer, who, however, had sufficient humanity to decline whipping us; accordingly Dick Williams, a county constable, was called in, who gave us the number of lashes ordered; Gen. Lee, in the meantime, stood by, and frequently enjoined Williams to lay it on well, an injunction which he did not fail to heed; not satisfied with simply lacerating our naked flesh, Gen. Lee then ordered the overseer to thoroughly wash our backs with brine, which was done. After this my cousin and myself were sent to Hanover Court-House jail, my sister being sent to Richmond to an agent to be hired; we remained in jail about a week, when we were sent to Nelson county, where we were hired out by Gen. Lee’s agent to work on the Orange and Alexander railroad; we remained thus employed for about seven months, and were then sent to Alabama, and put to work on what is known as the Northeastern railroad; in January, 1863, we were sent to Richmond, from which place I finally made my escape through the rebel lines to freedom; I have nothing further to say; what I have stated is true in every particular, and I can at any time bring at least a dozen witnesses, both white and black, to substantiate my statements: I am at present employed by the Government; and am at work in the National Cemetary on Arlington Heights, where I can be found by those who desire further particulars; my sister referred to is at present employed by the French Minister at Washington, and will confirm my statement.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:28:40pm

re: #58 Kragar

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Where have all the Tenthers gone?

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KGxvi  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:31:06pm

re: #61 Timothy Watson

Where have all the Tenthers gone?

Same place the budget hawks went after a Republican moved into the White House…

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Le Coquí Résistance  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:31:32pm

re: #23 Anymouse

Felix Randomkitty Update Number Six:

I just got off the telephone with the veterinarian. She tells me that Felix is no longer on an IV. He was active yesterday, but is a little lethargic today. His blood sugar has been swinging from 60 (way too low) to 600 (way too high).

She believes he has turned the corner, but the blood sugar swings may be related to the fact that sometimes cats’ diabetes improve and only require diabetic cat food with no further insulin. She has discontinued his insulin as of yesterday and wants to observe him for one more day. She suggests one more day for him in the kitty hospital, to which I agreed. So Felix will not come home today.

I also asked her if it would be too much trouble if she could get a picture of Felix, herself, and the staff that saved his life, so I could post it here to Little Green Footballs.

“Sure!” she said. She will E-mail that to me, and I will post it here in a sidebar article summarising Felix’s brush with death.

So, one more day for the Kitteh of Chez Tumbleweed.

That’s good news! {{{ Anymouse }}}

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:33:59pm

re: #58 Kragar

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That last line is the one that will stick in his craw:

Federal funding that bears no meaningful relationship to immigration enforcement cannot be threatened merely because a jurisdiction chooses an immigration enforcement strategy of which the President disapproves.

Translation: “You can’t yank away a city’s money just because they won’t bow at your feet.”

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:34:45pm
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darthstar  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:34:51pm
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darthstar  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:37:17pm
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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:44:55pm

re: #68 darthstar

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“How can a judge on an island in the Pacific in a liberal city in Alto California block the orders of the President?” /s

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freetoken  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:47:07pm

re: #66 Charles Johnson

I am convinced that the rules have changed.

By that I mean what was once considered a scandal is now a non-event.

I’ll believe Trump is in trouble when the Republicans in Congress open an investigation. As they’ve decided not to do so as of today, why should I believe they will do so tomorrow?

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Le Coquí Résistance  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:50:57pm

re: #38 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:51:25pm
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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:51:27pm

re: #70 freetoken

I am convinced that the rules have changed.

By that I mean what was once considered a scandal is now a non-event.

I’ll believe Trump is in trouble when the Republicans in Congress open an investigation. As they’ve decided not to do so as of today, why should I believe they will do so tomorrow?

Recall it took two years to bring President Nixon down. This is moving a whole lot faster so far than Nixon’s Watergate scandal. The White House already refusing to release information Congress is authorised to get (Flynn’s contacts) is similar to Nixon refusing to release information at the request of Congress.

Moreover, Congress has never been particularly happy about the White House infringing on Congress’s powers, even when its own party is in the White House.

Additionally, it was Jason Freakin’ Chaffetz that said he thought Michael Flynn allegedly broke the law.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:52:10pm
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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:53:58pm

re: #74 darthstar

I heard the resident winger here at work complaining about how, in our two party system, one party (not his) was making it hard for government to get things done.

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:55:06pm

If Hillary had arrived on Day 100 with no legislative victories, a scandal that had dogged her for months, approval ratings in the toilet, and three of her major EOs slapped down by the courts, the media would not hesitate to suggest she needs to go and that the country had made a mistake in electing her.

Which is why I expect to get to Friday and instead be told that we need to give Trump “more time” because he’s “not a normal politician” and we can’t hold him to the same standards we’ve held every president since the inception of the Republic.

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:55:18pm

re: #75 Belafon

I heard the resident winger here at work complaining about how, in our two party system, one party (not his) was making it hard for government to get things done.

Gee, since the GOP controls the House, the Senate, and the White House, you might ask him how that works. Maybe he can explain it.

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:57:29pm

re: #75 Belafon

I heard the resident winger here at work complaining about how, in our two party system, one party (not his) was making it hard for government to get things done.

‘09-‘16: “Republicans are doing their job by keeping Obama from changing this country into a socialist hellhole!”

‘17: “HOW DARE THE DEMOCRATS DISRESPECT OUR PRESIDENT?!”

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:57:59pm

re: #76 Targetpractice

The President needs to be ready to go on Day One, not Day Nebulous. The media needs to quit normalising this.

In addition, if the President is really stuck on a difficult decision, he has five freakin’ former presidents, two from his own party and three from the Democratic Party he can call on for advice.

He also has an entire Civil Service (for now anyway) that can advise him.

“I’m new at this” is not an excuse.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:58:42pm

re: #72 darthstar

I always have the courage of my convictions. Unless I agree with Chris Cillizza about something and then I’m like uh-oh what am I becoming.

See also: George Will and election predictions.

Got burned bad in 2016 with that one.

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Stanley Sea  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:00:03pm

Because he’s addled.

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:00:19pm

re: #79 Anymouse

The President needs to be ready to go on Day One, not Day Nebulous. The media needs to quit normalising this.

In addition, if the President is really stuck on a difficult decision, he has five freakin’ former presidents, two from his own party and three from the Democratic Party he can call on for advice.

He also has an entire Civil Service (for now anyway) that can advise him.

“I’m new at this” is not an excuse.

I remember when Obama took office and the pundits were ruthless, constantly griping about how he had “no experience” and that the presidency was not the place for OJT.

Now the same pundits think we need to cut Trump some slack because he’s totally new to politics and needs time to get up to speed with the job.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:01:25pm

re: #75 Belafon

I heard the resident winger here at work complaining about how, in our two party system, one party (not his) was making it hard for government to get things done.

Just say, “Oh, did the Democrats give the Republicans too much rope and now they’ve gone and hangy-wangy’d themselves?”

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:01:37pm

re: #82 Targetpractice

I remember when Obama took office and the pundits were ruthless, constantly griping about how he had “no experience” and that the presidency was not the place for OJT.

Now the same pundits think we need to cut Trump some slack because he’s totally new to politics and needs time to get up to speed with the job.

Yup. They did the same with Jimmy Carter as well.

Liberal media my [censored].

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:03:31pm
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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:03:55pm

re: #37 The Vicious Babushka

This is horrific==>

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My son is alive because his health insurance pays for most of his meds. I hate health insurance companies. They don’t fucking care about health. Fuck them.

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:04:52pm

The same people who once screamed “HE HAS NO EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE!” at Obama and were prepared to spend 4 years blaming hormones and mood swings for any Hillary foul-ups are shrugging their shoulders and going “Look, we can’t expect Trump to act like past presidents.”

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:06:29pm
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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:08:38pm

wisdems.org

Wisconsin and Nebraska Democratic Parties slam Gov. Scott Walker (R-Wisc.) for campaigning in Omaha for Mayor Jean Stothert (R).

As Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert campaigns alongside Wisconsin’s Governor Scott Walker—a failed Republican presidential candidate who is one of the least popular governors in the entire country—the Nebraska Democratic Party and the Democratic Party of Wisconsin are highlighting the extreme views and out-of-touch policies Stothert and Walker share.

Mayor Stothert bragged to the media that Governor Walker “governed like I’ve governed.”

(More at the Wisconsin Democratic Party link above)

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:11:35pm

It’s becoming clear - if one pays attention - that everything bad that was said about Trump is largely true, except anything that required him to be strong, or a great dealmaker, or loyal to anyone or anything that isn’t either his own child or married to one of them.

Chuckie et al. were celebrating The Return Of The Alpha Males, but given how easily he’s caved at or even before encountering serious resistance on both the AHCA and now the Wall, he looks really weak. Add to that the ‘Xi explained it to me, and now I no longer think that China is a currency manipulator, OR that they can dictate to Korea’, and the ‘I didn’t know much about NATO when I said they were obsolete’, and the man just looks WEAK!

I suppose we should, perhaps, be thankful that he seems at least somewhat teachable, but really, it’s more that he’s easily swayed. WH aides and such purportedly work hard to be the last person to talk to him before a decision has to be made, because he always goes with the last person.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:12:21pm

re: #85 Anymouse

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No longer hitting on the models at the Trump Agency?

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:12:24pm
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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:13:18pm

re: #91 Blind Frog Belly White

No longer hitting on the models at the Trump Agency?

The Trump Agency is closing. Job creator, Mr. Trump.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:13:45pm

re: #38 klys (maker of Silmarils)

OT. Book related stuff. Feel free to skip.

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electrotek  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:15:05pm

Japan needs to do something about their reluctance to increase immigration if stories like this are of any indicator.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:15:43pm

re: #86 I Would Prefer Not To

My son is alive because his health insurance pays for most of his meds. I hate health insurance companies. They don’t fucking care about health. Fuck them.

The problem isn’t so much that health insurance companies don’t care about health. It’s that we expect them to. Insurance companies exist to make money by taking in as much as possible in premiums while paying out as little as they can get away with in claims. That’s why both ends of that need regulation, because expecting anything more from insurance companies than optimization of profits is a fool’s errand.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:16:19pm

re: #93 Anymouse

The Trump Agency is closing. Job creator crater, Mr. Trump.

FTFY

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:16:43pm

re: #88 goddamnedfrank

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Not to mention that the wingnuts just got done fighting it out in the courts that the President cannot unilaterally rewrite immigration laws or decide how they’re enforced without Congressional approval. Yet they want to argue that Trump has the power to coerce cities to enforce federal immigration laws as he sees fit.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:18:11pm

re: #12 lawhawk

I commented on that on a Canadian news site.

Our wingnuts showed up to tell me it’s all Justin Trudeau’s fault.

Oy.

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Jay C  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:18:15pm

re: #79 Anymouse

In addition, if the President is really stuck on a difficult decision, he has five freakin’ former presidents, two from his own party and three from the Democratic Party he can call on for advice.

Heh: this IS meant to be a humorous dig, right?
Even leaving aside the hideously inescapable fact that Donald Trump believes as a matter of fundamental faith that he knows better about everything than anybody else in the known universe….
Those two Republican ex-Presidents are the Bushes pere and fils; neither of whom would probably bother to piss on Donald Trump if he were on fire; the Dem “formers” are Jimmy Carter (designated GOP Historical Boogeyman), Barack Obama (ditto) - and Bill Clinton. And what sort of advice (outside of “resign, lawyer up and emigrate to Brazil”) are any of the latter likely to give?

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:20:19pm

re: #23 Anymouse

That’s great news.

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ObserverArt  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:20:52pm

Thank you internet.

The best place to find info to help diagnose a problem with your car.

It has been a help many a time. Today it calmed me down from worrying about a big repair.

I got back from doing some shopping this morning and as I backed the car into my garage I heard a metallic scraping noise that sounded like something was dragging on the ground. I looked under the car nothing. Rocked the car back and forth in neutral and I could hear the noise coming from the rear. Under power the sound was bad and loud.

So online I go, type into Google “VW Rabbit metallic scraping noise when backing car up.” There were several links, but one in particular sounded good as it was at a VW car forum.

I started reading and some were discussing brakes locking up, etc., but I knew that sound and this was completely different.

About 10 replies in some guy said if you’ve been around gravel it could be a small stone thrown up behind the rear brake rotor and caught by the rear protective shield which is like a thin metal disc. He said it makes a horrible sound like your dragging something metallic, but don’t worry just take the wheels off one at a time and check for stones.

I passed through a construction zone that had gravel thrown down and tarred to hold in place while they worked on the road when I was coming back from the store. Ah…ha!

So I remove one rear wheel, nothing. Go to other side and take off the second wheel. I press on the bottom of the metal shield behind the rotor and I hear a little “tink” and look under the wheel assembly and sure enough a little small stone covered in fresh tar with a bright white spot from wearing against the metal was there.

15 minutes and I am no longer worried about what this is going to cost me. Sure is amazing how much a little stone can make that protection shield sound like a muffler pipe dragging under your car. That shield was like an amplifier.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:21:29pm

re: #100 Jay C

Heh: this IS meant to be a humorous dig, right?
Even leaving aside the hideously inescapable fact that Donald Trump believes as a matter of fundamental faith that he knows better about everything than anybody else in the known universe….
Those two Republican ex-Presidents are the Bushes pere and fils; neither of whom would probably bother to piss on Donald Trump if he were on fire; the Dem “formers” are Jimmy Carter (designated GOP Historical Boogeyman), Barack Obama (ditto) - and Bill Clinton. And what sort of advice (outside of “resign, lawyer up and emigrate to Brazil”) are any of the latter likely to give

The Democrats would actually try to solve the problem. Trump would immediately do the opposite after trying to get his “advisors” to go along with any suggestions, though.

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BeachDem  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:22:07pm

re: #2 Stanley Sea

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Amid the Flynn discussion, still unclear how this happened, because this was a large error

No, Maggie dear, it wasn’t a fucking “error,” it was a deceitful, dishonest pile of bullshit that is pretty clear to anyone looking at it without yam colored glasses. (You have the words, Maggie—USE THEM)

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caseyjr  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:22:56pm

re: #76 Targetpractice

If Hillary had arrived on Day 100 with no legislative victories, a scandal that had dogged her for months, approval ratings in the toilet, and three of her major EOs slapped down by the courts, the media would not hesitate to suggest she needs to go and that the country had made a mistake in electing her.

Which is why I expect to get to Friday and instead be told that we need to give Trump “more time” because he’s “not a normal politician” and we can’t hold him to the same standards we’ve held every president since the inception of the Republic.

I have to think that in your scenario, the media would still be writing articles about how we need to sympathize with the sanguine concerns of the Trump Voter (tm)

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whitebeach  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:23:10pm

re: #52 ObserverArt

Amazing how a wall that runs the length of the southern border of four states is going to stop all drugs, bad people and human traffickers. It would be the most incredible law and order addition to this country ever!

I picture countless shrimpers and fishing guides from Louisiana to Florida eagerly refitting their trawlers and charter boats in anticipation of the coming windfall profits. Also, if the wall by some strange chance does happen to impact land transportation of drugs across the Mexican borders of the southwestern states, I plan to invest heavily in any company that makes cargo-capable drones, as the cartels will be buying them by the thousands.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:24:08pm

re: #35 Anymouse

They don’t keelhaul anymore? On an aircraft carrier that would be a really serious punishment. //

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freetoken  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:24:46pm

re: #95 electrotek

The “students” are indeed how the cheap labor is brought into Japan.

But in general, I think Japanese would think that Japan is already too crowded, and while the top lawmakers make noise about an aging population and population decline overall, many Japanese are probably quite fine with that.

The bigger question for the world at large, is for many nations the hope of many young people is to study abroad, and Japan being completely industrialize, electrified, and automated galore means quite a step up in living standards, even working long hours, compared to the home lands of the young people.

In the big picture I think this will abate somewhat as educational institutions grow around the world. Already, Latin America is pretty much a vibrant area of the world and while many young people from these countries may want to study in the US (to the chagrin no doubt to the Trumpers), one can live in Brazil or Argentina or Mexico and get a education (albeit there are many poor people who won’t.)

Japan will blunder through with a smaller population. Many xenophobes there lament all the foreigners anyway.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:26:00pm

re: #38 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Very cool. Congratulations.

I should get back to writing. :(

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:26:14pm

re: #106 whitebeach

I picture countless shrimpers and fishing guides from Louisiana to Florida eagerly refitting their trawlers and charter boats in anticipation of the coming windfall profits. Also, if the wall by some strange chance does happen to impact land transportation of drugs across the Mexican borders of the southwestern states, I plan to invest heavily in any company that makes cargo-capable drones, as the cartels will be buying them by the thousands.

I just imagined a horde of cargo drones, lifting off in Mexico and flying en masse over The Wall, to the tune of ‘The Ride Of The Valkyries’….

(“Well, of course, these are the Valkyries. And they are the NOISIEST women!”)

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:27:03pm

So a quick read of the initial analysis seems to be that the injunction rests largely on a major problem with the GOP’s talking points language: “Sanctuary city” has no legal definition and is largely arbitrary, as the DOJ (read: Sessions) can decide which localities that refuse to work with ICE fall under that designation and which don’t. In other words the court is acknowledging that the EO is largely about punishing “coastal elites” for not voting for Der Trumpenfuhrer.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:28:13pm

re: #109 Romantic Heretic

Very cool. Congratulations.

I should get back to writing. :(

I’m celebrating by working on the chapter outline for the next one in the trilogy.

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gocart mozart  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:29:24pm

re: #88 goddamnedfrank

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Blind Frog Belly White  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:31:33pm

re: #112 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I’m celebrating by working on the chapter outline for the next one in the trilogy.

Huge respect for people who can write fiction. I can’t even manage a short story. No imagination.

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:32:33pm

re: #102 ObserverArt

Ah, car troubles. A couple years ago my wife and I drove to Little Rock to attend a convention.

Returning on I-135 in Kansas, suddenly the car engine shut off. I restarted the engine, and above forty mph or so it shut off again.

I stopped in a restaurant and called the Smart national service line … after much discussion they though if I was willing to drive home to the Nebraska Panhandle I could do it as long as I drove under forty. Alternatively, they would put me up in a motel and send a tow truck to tow my car a couple hundred miles away.

I drove home. Every time I got above forty the car shut down.

The dealership in Denver sent a flatbed truck to my house to take my car to look at it. The engine sits between the rear wheels, and a computer chip ensures the engine is shut down if it vibrates too much.

Due to all the bad roads around here, apparently one of the wheel balance weights was loosened, then was thrown off a wheel at high speeds on the Interstate in Kansas.

They replaced the wheel weight and returned my car by flatbed truck. Cost: $0. They wrote it off as an interesting engineering question.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:33:17pm

re: #65 Anymouse

The look on Graham’s face makes me think that the weight of his sins is starting to wear him down.

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Skip Intro  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:35:56pm

If this was a Democratic administration, there would already be impeachment hearings going on, a special prosecutor, and the media would be talking about a Constitutional Crisis.

But with Trump it’s business as usual and nobody in power gives a shit. When he appoints his daughter as his successor, nobody will blink an eye, except us, and it won’t be worth a damn.

This is Trump’s real 100 days accomplishment.

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:36:45pm

New Keith Olbermann video drops:

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electrotek  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:37:48pm

re: #108 freetoken

The “students” are indeed how the cheap labor is brought into Japan.

But in general, I think Japanese would think that Japan is already too crowded, and while the top lawmakers make noise about an aging population and population decline overall, many Japanese are probably quite fine with that.

The bigger question for the world at large, is for many nations the hope of many young people is to study abroad, and Japan being completely industrialize, electrified, and automated galore means quite a step up in living standards, even working long hours, compared to the home lands of the young people.

In the big picture I think this will abate somewhat as educational institutions grow around the world. Already, Latin America is pretty much a vibrant area of the world and while many young people from these countries may want to study in the US (to the chagrin no doubt to the Trumpers), one can live in Brazil or Argentina or Mexico and get a education (albeit there are many poor people who won’t.)

Japan will blunder through with a smaller population. Many xenophobes there lament all the foreigners anyway.

It amazes me how the xenophobes in Japan direct such vitriol against Chinese and Koreans in the country, given the past.

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petesh  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:38:58pm

re: #100 Jay C

… the Dem “formers” are Jimmy Carter (designated GOP Historical Boogeyman), Barack Obama (ditto) - and Bill Clinton. And what sort of advice (outside of “resign, lawyer up and emigrate to Brazil”) are any of the latter likely to give

1. Make your peace with the Lord.
2. Not my problem any more, I’m sure you will figure it out eventually.
3. See that rusty chainsaw over there? Go apply it to your asshole.

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Skip Intro  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:39:04pm

re: #23 Anymouse

I hope you have a vet who works pro bono.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:40:51pm

re: #87 Targetpractice

The same people who once screamed “HE HAS NO EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE!” at Obama and were prepared to spend 4 years blaming hormones and mood swings for any Hillary foul-ups are shrugging their shoulders and going “Look, we can’t expect Trump to act like past presidents a rational human being.”

FTFY.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:44:48pm
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gocart mozart  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:46:01pm
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electrotek  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:48:01pm

re: #124 gocart mozart

That made me lol

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goddamnedfrank  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:49:38pm

Even for the Trump Administration this is stunningly inept & ridiculous.

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ObserverArt  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:52:25pm

After catching up a bit in this and the last thread I am left thinking about how much Trump is exactly everything that all the wingnuts tried to tell us Obama was.

A dictator in over his head.
Acts like he is a king.
Family acting like they are part of the government (Michelle Obama).
Arrogant and cocky.
Inexperienced and not fit to hold the office.
Received special favors to get where he is.
Can’t work with Congress.
Makes apologies and excuses for America.
Has no idea what he is doing in the Middle East.
(I’m sure there others…)

And so far, wingnuts like it all…now.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:52:55pm
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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:53:03pm

re: #123 Dr. Matt

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That’s part of it, but not entirely the case. It’s been tradition for generations in the royal family that they all do a term of service in the armed forces. Their father served as an officer in the Royal Navy and was an accomplished jet and helicopter pilot, as well as serving a stint as captain of a minesweeper. The Queen served in the Women’s Territorial Auxiliary as a driver while Philip served on various ships in the Royal Navy during WWII.

By contrast, the men of America’s growing aristocracy think military service is beneath them because that’s something that “The Help” is supposed to be for. If they do serve, it’s generally for one purpose: To set themselves up for a future in politics.

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Jebediah, RBG  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:56:21pm

re: #38 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:57:00pm

re: #121 Skip Intro

I hope you have a vet who works pro bono.

No. The vet is not working pro bono. She noted this is likely the most expensive treatment plan for a pet she has ever done.

It looks like our vacation to Yukon is going to be scotched - the bill is likely to be close to two thousand dollars.

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:57:13pm

re: #126 goddamnedfrank

Even for the Trump Administration this is stunningly inept & ridiculous.

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This is what you get when you’ve a DOJ that’s been hollowed out, leaving just the hatchetman at the top and the few career lawyers at the bottom who can’t afford to go looking for another job.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:59:40pm

Once you see this, you’ll be forever changed….

…for the worse.

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 3:00:11pm

re: #133 Dr. Matt

Put that behind a [ hide ] bar!!!

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2017 • 3:01:00pm

re: #133 Dr. Matt

Once you see this, you’ll be forever changed….

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…for the worse.

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2017 • 3:02:25pm

What’s sad is the DOJ lawyers didn’t even bother with the standard “He’s the president, he can do whatever the fuck he wants!” argument, they punted with this “It’s not really meant to have the force of law” BS.

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 3:07:24pm
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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 3:09:57pm
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Flying Squirrel Girl  Apr 25, 2017 • 3:11:03pm

re: #102 ObserverArt

When I lived in Costa Rica, we had an issue with our Mitsubishi Montero not shifting from 3rd into 4th and overdrive. We thought we needed a new transmission until one day we drove it on a wet road and it shifted normally. I knew then it was probably a wiring issue but mechanics still told us we would have to replace the tranny. I paid $60 to “speak” to a Mitsubishi mechanic online, and he stayed with me for several hours until we were able to correctly diagnose the problem. He even talked me through getting to the diagnostics by using a bobby pin! Best $60 I ever spent. We found a guy who trusted us enough to check out the wiring harness and find the problem, $250 to fix it instead of $2500 for a rebuilt tranny. I love the internet!

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electrotek  Apr 25, 2017 • 3:12:21pm

re: #139 Flying Squirrel Girl

When I lived in Costa Rica, we had an issue with our Mitsubishi Montero not shifting from 3rd into 4th and overdrive. We thought we needed a new transmission until one day we drove it on a wet road and it shifted normally. I knew then it was probably a wiring issue but mechanics still told us we would have to replace the tranny. I paid $60 to “speak” to a Mitsubishi mechanic online, and he stayed with me for several hours until we were able to correctly diagnose the problem. He even talked me through getting to the diagnostics by using a bobby pin! Best $60 I ever spent. We found a guy who trusted us enough to check out the wiring harness and find the problem, $250 to fix it instead of $2500 for a rebuilt tranny. I love the internet!

Montero? Aren’t they called Pajeros down there?

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 3:15:22pm
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Flying Squirrel Girl  Apr 25, 2017 • 3:16:08pm

re: #140 electrotek

We imported one from here, so it actually was a Montero. They are the same vehicle, except built to US safety standards and not Central/South American, so better crash protection, etc.

We paid $6000 for it here, then paid almost $8000 import tax to get it into Costa Rica! After driving it for 5 years there (if you know Costa Rican roads, you can imagine how beat up this sucker was), we sold it for $8000.

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Jay C  Apr 25, 2017 • 3:16:19pm

re: #137 Anymouse

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I followed the comments on Jaffy’s Tweet, and oddly; only one person that I could find brought up the point that “we” didn’t actually have El Chapo’s (or anyone else’s) $14 billion to spend on The Wall (or anything else).
Cruz is such a maroon…..

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Skip Intro  Apr 25, 2017 • 3:38:50pm

re: #131 Anymouse

I had a cat with kidney failure. I was going to put him down, but at the last minute I couldn’t do it.

I kept him alive for around 18 months by force feeding him and giving him subcutaneous fluids multiple times a day. I didn’t get a day off for the entire 18 months, and I imagine the total cost of keeping him alive would have bought me a late model pickup.

Still, I’m glad I did it, because up till the very end he was pretty much a normal cat. Plus his brother would have missed him.

So good luck with yours. It isn’t easy or cheap, but it’s even harder to let them go as long as there’s a chance.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 25, 2017 • 4:48:04pm

re: #143 Jay C

I followed the comments on Jaffy’s Tweet, and oddly; only one person that I could find brought up the point that “we” didn’t actually have El Chapo’s (or anyone else’s) $14 billion to spend on The Wall (or anything else).
Cruz is such a maroon…..

but you repeat yourself….

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CleverToad  Apr 25, 2017 • 5:27:06pm

re: #38 klys (maker of Silmarils)

OT. Book related stuff. Feel free to skip.

Bought my copy, Klys! Will get on there and post a review soon. Hopefully. If things settle down around here.

My sister is out for a week, helping take care of our mom, so I’m trying frantically to deal with the ton of schtuff I can’t always get to when I’m on my own. Haven’t been lizarding much, will need to catch up on politics next week. Assuming nobody’s dropped a nuke before that.
:P

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 25, 2017 • 5:28:47pm

re: #146 CleverToad

An e-mail out to you about it (and various publishing related bits) is still on this afternoon’s to do list. :)


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