Well here’s a weird side-effect of everyone in our country owning a gun…
Actually fewer and fewer people own guns in the US, but those who own them own more and more of them. The increasing guns-per-capita statistics hide this.
https://twitter.com/HouseInSession/status/926191150259585024
Oh, Carter Page really should have had a lawyer present to prevent him from saying this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Hubbell
So either he’s saying every single document in his possession incriminates him personally, or he’s just needlessly antagonized a bunch of US Reps and probably landed himself cause for an obstruction and conspiracy charge. Not that the House itself will do anything under current leadership, but they’ve all got phone numbers for the FBI.
There’s another sealed indictment.
Scroll down to the part where they’re talking about Indictment (A) and Indictment (B). The one we just saw was (B). (A) is still under seal. Nobody is sure why, but one reason for this would be if the person under Indictment (A) is still cooperating and providing useful information to the investigation.
How do we know that he actually felt this way at all?
…That’s a serious question, not a rhetorical one.
It’s documented, I believe through personal letters, that he was one of the more conflicted Confederate figures. But this has been expanded/exploited by Confederate apologists to the point where people say the conflict proved he was actually honorable in spite of his actions (which is a commonplace stretch of the evidence), and then so were the other Confederates (which is the point where you need to start booking a room at Ye Loco Klansman Hotel)
I am pretty sure it is that Lee himself was not pro secession, but he could either make war against the country or against his own home state.
There’s a gap between reluctant treason and honor.
So was marching him through a crowded parking garage where any idiot could take a shot at him.
They thought he had assassinated the President of the United States. They probably weren’t too worried about protecting him too much.
They would be the dumbest people on earth if they weren’t too worried about protecting him.
Dead men don’t talk.
https://youtu.be/L7e3RK_xSvcWhat the hell is that‽
this is a clip from the 1977 Movie “Kentucky Fried Movie”. This skit is about a John F. Kennedy assassination board game.
Which covers all the conspiracy theories people believed in at the time and probably still do.
Naw, Ted Cruz’s dad never shows up.
But I can understand the urge to not even briefly glance in the direction of YouTube comments.
Would it be at all realistic to expect ESB 2.5 to come out by the release of Eps VIII?
I expected it last autumn, and I thought I was being pretty realistic at the time. So… sure 😉
Mueller has convinced a judge to waive Manafort’s attorney-client privilege, so that his lawyer can testify before the grand jury.
“Essentially, the judge is saying that it is probable or likely that the clients had a criminal or fraudulent purpose in hiring the lawyer, even if (we would hope) the lawyer did not know it,” Gillers told POLITICO.
Further, once you can pierce the privilege, there’s no telling what information you can go on to discover. This decision will be useful in other contests to discover lawyer-client communications, even communications with different law firms, if any.
You don’t say.
For the first time in over a decade, the American Bar Association has rated a federal judge nominee “not qualified”. I expect that slow pace should pick up over the next few years.
Wow, he didn’t even make it through the month before nominating another unqualified judge.
Bah! Shows what I know, modern Tagalog uses Latin characters. Nevertheless, we have some very plausible scenarios where we could end up with a subtitle in a new script (Tamil, just by transcribing the dubs, would be pretty quick work). So we’ll have an improved backup font in 10.1 to cover any eventuality. Over 60,000 characters at this point, covering nearly all of the language groups in the BMP, and a smattering in the SMP. And I’ll be incorporating ConScript Unicode Registry glyphs so people can do subtitles in Sindarin or Klingon, because why not?
Also, the term “active informant” comes up in the Papadopoulos documents. A lot of people have been saying this is law enforcement-speak for “he wore a wire”. If so, this investigation is truly Nixon-bound.
The real interesting story of the day seems to be George Papadopolous. He talked, he was charged, he pled guilty. His active part in this story is already over.
But the story he told indicates things are just getting started:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4163402/Papadopoulos-Statement-Offense.pdf
First time I’ve ever heard “Rick” and “Gates” as consecutive words.
Rick “Olie” Gates?
What’s Monday going to throw us?
The mainstream pick: Manafort
The wishful thinking: Jarvanka
The obscure but important curveball: Sater
The nobody of consequence: Pence (hee hee)
The beginning: multiple persons, like Manafort/Stone/Kushner, etc
Just continuing to go down the line of absolutely everything in this project to see if it could be improved for the next release, and I hit upon the font resource called Droid Sans Fallback which has been included with this project since we went Unicode. It’s basically a Unicode fallback font I kept in my back pocket for new languages. I never actually used it, but upon testing, it actually does a pretty dreadful job, so it’s going away.
So I’ve chosen a new Unicode fallback font for the next version, a customized version of the Noto Sans font (which is actually Google’s successor to Droid Sans) merged into a single file. The CJK flavor I’ve chosen is traditional Chinese, simply because I’ve already got all the major CJK languages covered with their own fonts, and any future CJK language support would have to be some regional Chinese dialect, which tend to favor traditional Chinese characters. Will I actually use this font? Probably not – but we could get a chance with the Tagalog subtitles, assuming there’s not a preferred font for Tagalog. But those who are on the lookout for a font covering a really wide range of the Unicode spec could do a lot worse.
You have to be using a font that handles Egyptian hieroglyphs, but…
EDIT: Removed. Better safe than sorry. Unicode 130B8 for the curious.
Well, maybe it’s not technically punctuation, but I bet there are people out there who would try to stick this anywhere.
And all those calls are probably being recorded by someone.
And there’s a pretty good chance it’s not just the GRU recording them.
The best thing about sealed indictments in an ongoing investigation of an amateur operation is the phone calls. Who’s calling who tonight… that may just be enough to add an obstruction or conspiracy charge for those lined up for the next round.
It’s hard to feel like Trump is the worst human on Earth when there is so much competition these days.
Here’s more!
Rosa Maria Hernandez was brought to the United States illegally from Mexico in 2007 when she was 3 months old, according to her mother, Felipa de la Cruz, to get access to better medical care. The family lives in Laredo, Texas, and all are undocumented.
The girl was traveling in an ambulance — accompanied by her cousin — to Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi on Tuesday when federal immigration officers stopped the vehicle at a checkpoint.
The Border Patrol agents followed the ambulance to the hospital. According to the family’s lawyer, Leticia Gonzalez, the agents insisted the door to her hospital room be left open at all times to keep an eye on her.
On Wednesday, the hospital discharged Rosa Maria. The lawyer, reading the discharge papers on a conference call with reporters, said doctors recommended the child be released to “a family member who is familiar with her medical and psychological needs.”
But officers decided to transport the girl to a government-contracted juvenile shelter in San Antonio, 150 miles from Laredo, and put her into deportation proceedings.
Here’s the dangerous criminal that our country is now protected from.
Guys, armadillos crossing the border is a serious problem.
Armadillos carry leprosy. They are a way more serious problem than that one time when someone’s racist grandpa had a dream where there’d been a net flow of illegal immigrants into our country sometime in recent memory.
Gorka is like a fifth rate villain in a third rate 007 knockoff.
Back to this again are we?
Goldshower
He’s the man, the man with the moistened touch
A Russian touch
Such a short finger
Beckons you to enter his web of sin
But don’t go in
Incoherent words he will tweet to the world
But his lies can’t disguise what you fear
For a golden girl knows when he’s grabbed her (by the…)
It’s the grab of death from
Mister Goldshower
It’s hard to feel like Trump is the worst human on Earth when there is so much competition these days. Enter Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona, who recently floated the idea that the modern neo-Nazi movement in the US is being funded and coordinated by a liberal Holocaust survivor. After being roundly criticized by everyone with a sense of shame, including all seven of his siblings, CNN decided to give him a chance to pretend his first remark on the matter was just a big misunderstanding. Given this chance, Rep. Gosar decided to make it clear he’s exactly as full of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories as he seems.
Please tell me Arizona voters are surprised they’re represented by an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist and will kick this asshole to the curb at the next possible opportunity. Or will he get primaried for not presenting the Charlottesville Nazis in a positive enough light?
Good speech. This week may convince some people that as Republicans in Congress went to unprecedented lengths to grant Trump as much power to achieve his aims as possible, Jeff Flake, John McCain, and Bob Corker simply would not go along with it. I suspect it won’t convince Merrick Garland, though.
convince Merrick Garland of what?
Convince him Jeff Flake, John McCain, and Bob Corker didn’t go to unprecendented lengths to grant Trump as much power to achieve his aims as possible. Considering they went to extraordinary lengths to throw him an extra Supreme Court nomination, in addition to the ones he’d normally get by being President. You know, John “we can get by just fine with eight justices for the rest of the Obama presidency and the entire hypothetical Clinton presidency but jeeze now that Trump’s nominating let’s hurry this process right up” McCain and his opposing-Trump-with-the-awesome-power-of-press-releases pals.
Good speech. This week may convince some people that as Republicans in Congress went to unprecedented lengths to grant Trump as much power to achieve his aims as possible, Jeff Flake, John McCain, and Bob Corker simply would not go along with it. I suspect it won’t convince Merrick Garland, though.
It’s just as well they’re retiring, so they don’t have as much of an opportunity to fail to live up to their words.
In completely coincidental news, the reward for information leading to the impeachment and removal of Trump has been increased to $10,025,000.
😃
darn information that would lead to Trumps impeachment and get me $10,025.000. I wish I had that info.
The trick is we all have that info. It’s public knowledge. The problem with Flynt’s gambit is that it’s seeking the wrong thing. Documentation of impeachable offenses? I think I could probably rattle off seven thoroughly documented offenses without breaking a sweat. What’s missing is the backbone to act on the evidence we already have. I suppose Flynt is maybe thinking maybe there’s something so outrageously illegal the Republicans would have to act. He probably thinks Trump’s claim that he could shoot a guy on Fifth Avenue was exaggeration too.
In completely coincidental news, the reward for information leading to the impeachment and removal of Trump has been increased to $10,025,000.
