Supreme Court Agrees To Hear ‘Bridgegate’ Case

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Friday June 28, 2019 · 11:56 AM PDT

2019/06/28 · 11:56

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2019/06/28/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-bridgegate-case/

“WASHINGTON (AP) – The Supreme Court agreed Friday to hear a case involving two former state officials convicted in New Jersey’s “Bridgegate” scandal. The justices announced they will hear a case in the fall involving Bridget Kelly and Bill Baroni.”

Apparently, gerrymandering is not enough — this supreme court also wants to legalize political acts of revenge. Where does this end?

Seth Abramson is Scaring the Hell out of me

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Sunday December 10, 2017 · 1:26 PM PST

2017/12/10 · 13:26

Seth Abramson has been writing a very scary story on twitter about the Fake News website “True Pundit” likely run by at least one ex-FBI agent and it’s relationship with current FBI agents, the Trump campaign/administration, and Russia.

(THREAD) It's time to tell the biggest untold story of the 2016 election: how a cadre of pro-Trump FBI agents and intel officers—some active, some retired—conspired to swing the election to Trump. The story involves Flynn, Prince, Giuliani, and others. Hope you'll read and share.

1/ In Part 1 of this thread (see below), I discussed how a former FBI agent calling himself "Thomas Paine" launched the fake-news website True Pundit on the same day in June 2016 Don Jr., Kushner, and Manafort met with Kremlin agents at Trump Tower Moscow.

The untold story part 1

(THREAD) This is Part 2 of a thread on "True Pundit," the fake-news website—launched by a former FBI agent—that helped swing the 2016 election to Trump by blackmailing James Comey into reopening the Clinton email investigation just before Election Day. Hope you'll read and share.

The untold story part 2

Sure hope Mueller is all over this. The Republicans will do nothing about it.

Washington Post article about previous Seth Abramson tweet storms:

People can’t stop reading a professor’s theory of a Trump-Russia conspiracy — true or not

I’d love to see some comments pointing out something wrong in his “True Pundit” tweets.

BREAKING UPDATE:

CONFIRMED: The True Pundit Hoax will be investigated by Congress. The Hoax: a gaggle of Trump advisors appear to have used a fringe website to coerce the FBI—with fraudulent digital evidence—into interceding in the 2016 election days before Election Day.

CONFIRMED: The True Pundit Hoax will be investigated by Congress.

Politico story link:

Democrats seek alleged evidence of anti-Clinton 'bias' at the FBI

Is Trump requiring NDAs for his new hires?

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Tuesday November 15, 2016 · 10:12 AM PST

2016/11/15 · 10:12

Simple question: Is Trump requiring anyone who joins his administration to sign the NDAs that are standard in his companies? Anyone know?

I’d think that would be illegal, but that wouldn’t stop the Orange SG.

Johnson neck and neck with Trump in Heated Stupidest Presidential Candidate Race

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Wednesday September 28, 2016 · 5:57 PM PDT

2016/09/28 · 17:57

This is briefly mentioned in the comments of another Johnson thread, but I thought it deserved it’s own thread.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/9/28/1575695/-Hoo-Boy-HARDball-Gary-Johnson-Wouldn-t-Trust-Hils-With-Nuclear-Football

Who knew that there was more than one Presidential candidate who loves stepping on his own dick (no pun intended, OK, it was intended. LOL)?

MSNBC's host Chris Matthews asked Johnson to name any foreign leader "of any country in any continent" that he respects or looks up to.

Too bad he didn’t ask him which newspapers he reads so we could insert a Sarah Palin joke here.

What the heck, Johnson’s Sarah Palin imitation is flawless!

Johnson, loudly exhaled as he struggled to think of a name.

"I guess I am having an Aleppo moment," he said before offering "the former president of Mexico."

Yes, not only did Johnson have a Sarah Palinesque failure to think of even ONE SINGLE name of a foreign leader, but he also thought it was wise to remind everyone of his other Sarah Palin moment!

So, everyone watching who didn’t know, was probably googling “Gary Johnson Aleppo”

Sad!

But when Matthews asked "which one," Johnson said he couldn't remember the name.

OOPS.

Man, I miss Rick Perry being in this contest. Woulda made a trifecta of stupid.

http://www.thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/298411-johnson-has-an-aleppo-moment-cant-name-any-foreign-leader

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/09/palin-redux-watch-libertarian-candidate-gary-johnson-unable-to-name-one-world-leader-he-admires/

ALMOST makes me wish I actually watched the thing.

MEANWHILE,

knowing that he is losing bigly in the Stupid race, Trump goes on O’Reilly and:

Trump reiterated he had very little interaction with the former Miss Universe, noting if you "added up all the time I spoke to her, it's probably less than five minutes."

Because everyone knows that it is perfectly OK to fat shame someone as long as you don’t actually KNOW THEM ALL THAT WELL!

"I had nothing to do with this person, but they wanted to fire her. I saved her job ... You know what happened, look what I get out of it. I get nothing," Trump said.

And hell, she’s an ungrateful beeyotch seeing how he saved her job and all.

"I helped somebody and this is what you get for helping somebody," Trump said. "But I just don't know her."

Then the “no good deed goes unpunished” defense.

http://www.thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/298415-trump-on-former-miss-universe-i-helped-somebody-and-this

Proof you can get a US Patent for Anything

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Wednesday September 02, 2015 · 1:49 PM PDT

2015/09/02 · 13:49

Proof you can get a US Patent for anything, even an Elon Musk Hyperloop stood on end!

Space Elevator?

Ambitious plans to build a twenty kilometer (12.4 miles) tall space elevator tower have been announced by a Canadian space technology firm.
Although this distance is a mere fraction of that reached in space missions, Thoth Technology says its ThothX Tower will make a major cost reduction in space flights by helping navigate the difficult first 50 kilometers (31 miles) of travel that traditionally requires rockets. The latter are inefficient, particularly regarding fuel consumption. In addition to needing to carry sufficient fuel to get a payload into orbit, they need extra fuel in order to carry the required fuel to reach that point in the first place.

OK, so somehow a 20 Kilometer tower is going to get you to an elevation of 50 Kilometers? Let's say that isn't a typo and somehow is magically possible without using rockets. You still have to get up to about 354 Kilometers to say, reach the International Space Station, another 304 Kilometers up.

But that's not good enough, you also need to reach a tangential velocity of about a whopping 28,000 Km per hour. Starting from zero the top of this tower.

But heck, we saved extra fuel! Only need one rocket stage to do that! Ya, sure.

In rocket launches mass is expelled at a high velocity to achieve thrust in the opposite direction. Thoth says its space elevator would take 30 percent less energy, because no expulsion mass is required against gravity. Thoth says their technology could make it cheaper and easier for privately funded companies to conduct space travel.

30 percent less energy to do what exactly? Certainly not to get into obit. You don't even have to make any back of the envelope calculations to see this is ridiculous.

“There’s a lot of opportunities for the structure,” said Tomaszewski. “Tourism is one. You’d have a great sight of the earth at 20 kilometers up, you’d see about 1,000 kilometers in any direction. Communications. So right now geostationary satellites, once they’re up there you can’t really service them. If we had facilities on the tower it would have that same 1,000 kilometer range and you’d be able to service them.”

You mean like the view from an airplane? OK that's just 9 kilometers up or so, but I'd say close enough. Communications? Sounds like an AWACS plane to me.

This patent is for sale. Cheap! I bet.

Heckuva Job Brownie Writes Heckuva Politico article!!

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Thursday August 27, 2015 · 4:25 PM PDT

2015/08/27 · 16:25

Heckuva Politico Article!!

Was this article secretly written by the Onion?

It was the Governor's fault:

After I advised the president to federalize the response, he sat with Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Air Force One and outlined his plan. We immediately started drafting the federalization documents for the president’s signature, but Governor Blanco requested time to think it over and the president acquiesced. While the governor considered her options, the city became more and more dysfunctional. Blanco ultimately rejected the president’s plan, and political considerations eventually pushed the idea aside.

It was the Mayor's fault:

Prior to Katrina making landfall, I asked then-National Hurricane Center Director Max Mayfield to forcefully explain on a secure video conference call with Blanco and Nagin the catastrophe they were potentially facing if they failed to evacuate at least two or three days prior to landfall. When that didn’t work, I called President Bush at the ranch and implored him to call Mayor Nagin and encourage him to evacuate his city. The president called; the mayor dallied.

He was livid!

While I was urging people to leave New Orleans, Mayor Nagin announced a “shelter of last resort,” the New Orleans Superdome. In other words, despite calls to evacuate, if you choose not to evacuate, or are now unable to evacuate because you lack transportation, run to the Superdome.
I was livid.

Blame game:

But the blame was not placed on those responsible. The blame was placed on me—the one person who had no authority to do anything at that point except get out the checkbook and start paying the Department of Defense to evacuate people from that hellhole to a place of safety. And that is exactly what I did.
Soon the blame started coming at me from another direction—higher up.

Dick Chaney or God?

National Review Doesn't Even Know what Day of the Week it is

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Wednesday August 19, 2015 · 3:49 PM PDT

2015/08/19 · 15:49

It's Thursday!!

The strategy began Wednesday evening during a press conference with the candidate herself. Repeatedly asked by Fox News’s Ed Henry whether she had “tried to wipe the whole server,” Clinton dodged the question multiple times before she got snarky. “What, like with a cloth?” she said sarcastically. “I don’t know how it works digitally at all.”

Just in case you thought that was just a typo:

The Clinton camp stepped up their attacks Thursday, blaming reporters for instigating an illegitimate e-mail controversy. “I think when you get to the point where you’re answering questions about wiping servers, that you’re nearing the end of legitimate questions for her to answer,” Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri said on MSNBC.

Chris Christie gets schooled by Judge

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Monday February 23, 2015 · 4:09 PM PST

2015/02/23 · 16:09

The pension woes in NJ are, to a great extent, the result of past governors' actions, but IMO Christie owned it as of his 2011 law/union negotiation package (that he is trying to renege on this year).

His argument that "I don't have to abid by my own agreement because my own agreement is unconstitutional!!! Ha, ha, suck it, ya liberal union pensioners, gotta pay for dem tax cuts!" is a pretty bizarre argument for a lawyer/ex state's attorney to make.

I don't think it is going to fly. How'd you like this guy as your President?

Christie gets schooled by judge

In January, attorneys for the state argued that Christie could not make full payments because the 2011 law was violated a debt limitation clause and an appropriations clause in the state constitution.
But in today's ruling, Jacobson said Christie "now takes the unusual position in this court of claiming that this legislative contractual guarantee, which embodied significant reforms for which he took substantial credit with great national fanfare, violates the New Jersey constitution."

Jacobson also ruled that the state must reimburse the unions for legal costs.

If I didn't actually have to live in New Jersey, I'd find this funny, along with the "bridge stuff."

U.S. Attorney Issues Subpoena to Committee Probing George Washington Bridge Scandal

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Friday April 25, 2014 · 8:38 AM PDT

2014/04/25 · 08:38

U.S. Attorney Issues Subpoena to Committee Probing George Washington Bridge Scandal according to the Wall Street Journal.

Bridgegate subpoena

New Jersey U.S. attorney Paul Fishman has issued a subpoena to a legislative committee investigating the George Washington Bridge closures for its documents pertaining to the matter, a sign that prosecutors are continuing to delve into the issue.

I wonder if the focus of this subpoena is limited to only Bridgegate?
It appears that they are asking for everything including the kitchen sink.

No wonder the Repubs on the committee want the investigation ended.

The subpoena was issued by prosecutors for “any and all records” produced or obtained by the New Jersey Legislative Select Committee on Investigation in the course of its work, according to a copy viewed by The Wall Street Journal.

Louie Gohmert accidentally tells the truth

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Friday April 11, 2014 · 6:07 AM PDT

2014/04/11 · 06:07

Louie Gohmert says he "could care less" about racism (my translation) during Fox News interview about his recent conflict with Eric Holder.

Actual quote when Megyn Kelly asked her predictable question about whether Holder was "playing the race card:"

"He didn't say race, and he was very careful about that," Gohmert said. "It doesn't matter to me, I could care less. I want to get to the bottom of it."

but still wants to "get to the bottom of it."

link from Talking Points Memo:
Head of Asparagus

No comment on vegetables.
Benghazi!

Samson Resigns

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Friday March 28, 2014 · 11:42 AM PDT

2014/03/28 · 11:42

Breaking news:

Chris Christie just announced that PA head Samson has resigned.

He's also describing the PA as like the Hatfields and McCoys.

Says that Samson couldn't talk to Mastro because of "attorney-client privilege."

NBC News

Claims that Samson didn't benefit financially from PA chairmanship.

TPM story now up:
Samson resigns

"I don't know if we'll ever know what the motive is," Christie told reporters. "As I said when I was here on Jan. 9, it mystifies me on every level why this was done. And I hope someday to have an answer to why it was done. But I certainly don't have a crystal ball and I can't tell you if or when I'll ever know. But do I hope to after all this? You bet I hope to."

Motive for Bridgegate?

Yet he didn't ask Bridget Kelly why?
His answer to that doesn't "ring true."

He got PO'd when a reporter asked him if the reason he didn't ask Kelly anything was that he didn't want to know. Which, of course, is the truth.

Best Example of turning Chicken Droppings into Chicken Dumplings Ever

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Tuesday February 25, 2014 · 10:54 AM PST

2014/02/25 · 10:54

Smog is China’s top defence against US laser weapons, says PLA Navy admiral

China's thick smog is the best defence against US laser weaponry, a PLA researcher said in a state television interview, after the American navy recently announced it was preparing to deploy its first laser weapon aboard a transport ship.

Navy Rear Admiral Zhang Zhaozhong, a military expert at the National Defence University, said on CCTV's Haixia Liangan (Cross-Straits) current affairs programme last week that the lasers were "most afraid of smog".

How long before the GOP starts to tout this as a reason to eliminate the EPA?

Here's the link:
Droppings into Dumplings

Indignant backlash:

Zhang's assessment immediately drew criticism on the popular Sina Weibo social media site, where the news was reposted and commented on more than 10,000 times.
In response, the rear admiral told the Beijing Youth Daily that his statements were taken out of context, and urged his detractors to watch the entire interview before passing judgment. Zhang noted that he talked about laser weapons on the show for 12 minutes, but the interview was edited into a two-minute clip, featuring soundbites that led to some "misunderstanding".

In other words:

"I just stated a laser weapon's weakness," Zhang said. "I don't support smog."

The bright side: LA is safe from the dirty Commies.
Or something.

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