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Rouhani and his VP both reported to have coronavirus
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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Catherine Pugh Sentenced To Three Years In ‘Healthy Holly' Scandal
[WJZ Baltimore] — Former Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison and three years of probation after pleading guilty to multiple charges in the “Healthy Holly” book scandal.

Pugh walked into a federal courthouse Thursday morning for her sentencing in a lucrative, years-long scheme in which she sold her self-published children’s books to nonprofits and foundations to promote her political career and fund her run for mayor.

The sentencing came hours after Pugh’s lawyers released a pre-produced video apology from her.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/28/2020 07:16 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When I was a reporter, a news photographer told me it's possible to get a bad picture of anyone. But, jeebus, just when you think you can't see a worse looking picture of this person...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/28/2020 8:06 Comments || Top||

#2  will they let her wear her page-boy wig in prison?
Posted by: Bob Grorong1136 || 02/28/2020 8:45 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Perhaps one of the reasons Pres. Trump placed his VP at the helm of the Corona crisis
[Politico] Some supporters of President Donald Trump see a threat bigger than the spread of a highly contagious novel coronavirus: a conspiracy by deep state actors to use the virus against the president.

One key piece of evidence fueling their theory: An official from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention making public statements on the outbreak is the sister of Rod Rosenstein, the former deputy attorney general who oversaw the Mueller probe and, according to a disputed report, once discussed removing Trump from office.

Dr. Nancy Messonnier, head of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases ‐ who got a shoutout from her brother for attending his 2017 confirmation hearing ‐ warned Americans in a Tuesday media briefing that an outbreak in the U.S. is inevitable.

Messonnier’s comments got widespread attention, sparking calls for further actions by the administration, which had long struck a more reassuring note. The furor appeared to catch Trump flat-footed while en route back from his summit with the Indian prime minister, during which he had declared the outbreak "very well under control."
Emphasis added para 2.
Posted by: Chomonter Uletch6397 || 02/28/2020 07:55 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If you like your cushy CDC job, you can keep your cushy CDC job. Simply run your news releases through the VP and his staff. Thanks.

One team, one fight !

Posted by: Besoeker || 02/28/2020 8:44 Comments || Top||


Democrats Buttigieg, Klobuchar latest to skip AIPAC conference
[IsraelTimes] Two leading Democratic presidential hopefuls said Wednesday that they would not attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s (AIPAC) upcoming conference, shrinking the list of potential 2020 Democrats to show up as the pro-Israel lobby tries to maintain its bipartisan identity.

Former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
and Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar
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Posted by: trailing wife || 02/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [8 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Kapo Sanders sets the tone...other sheep follow.
Posted by: borgboy || 02/28/2020 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Juice are icky?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/28/2020 2:36 Comments || Top||

#3  So, "I hate Jews more than the other candidates do" is now one of the pander points. Lovely.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/28/2020 5:08 Comments || Top||

#4  "I hate Jews more than the other candidates do"

Especially Sanders & Bloomberg?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/28/2020 5:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Democrapic racism from the founders of the KKK? Gasp.
Posted by: Woodrow || 02/28/2020 7:24 Comments || Top||

#6  If they're not careful, they will only get 70% of the Jewish vote.
Posted by: charger || 02/28/2020 17:05 Comments || Top||


Judge denies Hunter Biden's bid to delay child support deposition
[NY Post - Page Six] An Arkansas judge has nixed Hunter Biden‘s bid to put off his child support deposition until after most of the key Democratic primaries are over, according to a news report.

"He needs to make himself available unless his hair is on fire," Circuit Court Judge Holly Meyer fired back at Biden's lawyers during a conference call Wednesday, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. "He needs to be in Arkansas and he needs to be in a deposition."

Biden, 50, the son of former vice president and Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden, had asked Meyer to postpone his deposition until April.

That would place the questioning after the March dates of many of the decisive state primaries ‐ including Super Tuesday next week ‐ in which his father is battling for the Democratic party's nomination.
Posted by: Frank G || 02/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Can someone in Burg shipping & receiving please send Circuit Court Judge Holly Meyer a MAGA hat ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/28/2020 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe he (the judge) is just honest?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/28/2020 5:15 Comments || Top||

#3  ...gasp!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 02/28/2020 6:39 Comments || Top||

#4  Perhaps the guilt surrounding this fellow is so egregious it simply cannot be ignored.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/28/2020 6:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Too busy at his job, oh wait.
Posted by: Woodrow || 02/28/2020 7:17 Comments || Top||

#6  Fatal "overdose" in the offing for Strawz Biden?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 02/28/2020 8:08 Comments || Top||

#7  If Hunter has any affairs not fully in order, he may wish to tidy up lose ends rather quickly. My guess is he's got a bulls eye painted on his arse.
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/28/2020 9:09 Comments || Top||

#8  $10 says Hunter conveniently contracts the coronavirus and needs to be quarantined for, like, the next eight months.
Posted by: Raj || 02/28/2020 9:14 Comments || Top||

#9  Fine...He can attend via Teleconference video...
Posted by: Warthog || 02/28/2020 10:16 Comments || Top||

#10  Stripper scored an anchor baby.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 02/28/2020 10:30 Comments || Top||

#11  #8 Ha good one, Raj. No question that the DNC are figuring out a way to keep Hoover Crackpipe out of sight for the next 8 months.

If not the virus then maybe they'll just rely on a strict embargo by their media wing, complete with perfunctory dismissals of any reference to Biden family corruption as a "debunked" "conspiracy theory."
Posted by: Lex || 02/28/2020 10:40 Comments || Top||



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