[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] ...months after she offloaded stock following a classified coronavirus briefing
New York Stock Exchange CEO Jeff Sprecher donated $1million to pro-Trump group America First Action on April 29 Ahah! Plutocrats supporting Publicans, is it?
Couple are facing mounting criticism for offloading stock after Covid briefing And we all know the chairman of the Noo Yawk stock exchange doesn't have all that many spare millions lying around...
Loeffler & her husband sold stocks valued up to $3.1 million in the weeks after a classified briefing Obviously it's one of those selfsame 3.1 millions that went into the Trump coffers...
The couple also purchased between $450K and $1 million worth of shares in a popular teleconferencing company, who benefit from work-from-home models I mean, everybody knew they were gonna be rolling in bucks.
The couple deny wrongdoing and say stock trades were made without their knowledge A likely story. No way stocks managed in a blind trust were gonna make money.
[FoxNews] Dead drunk: Mayor lies in a coffin and pretends to be a coronavirus victim to avoid arrest after breaking curfew rules to go drinking in Peru Jaime Rolando Urbina Torres, mayor of a small town in southern Peru, accused of breaking coronavirus lockdown to go drinking with friends Drinkin can make folk stupid
When police turned up he jumped into a coffin and pretended to have died Officers were not fooled and charged him with breaking nationwide curfew Torres has been accused by locals of failing to take the virus seriously Here's how to help people impacted by Covid-19
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8343297/Peru-mayor-pretends-dead-police-arrest-breaking-lockdown.html
Jaime Rolando Urbina Torres, mayor of a small town in Peru, jumped into an open casket and pretended to be dead when police arrived to arrest him for breaking curfew
The Americas is now at the epicentre of the global coronavirus pandemic, with the region seeing coronavirus case totals and deaths rise faster than any other region.
The region currently has 2.1million cases of coronavirus, a higher total than previous epicentre Europe which has 1.9million.
Europe still has the most deaths of any region at more than 169,000, but deaths in the Americas are increasing at a faster rate.
Peru has recorded a total of 104,020 cases and 3,024 deaths, and is among the top four countries in terms of the rate at which deaths are increasing.
Brazil and Mexico, also in the Americas, are also on the list along with Russia.
In total, there are now more than 5million cases of coronavirus confirmed worldwide after the WHO reported the single-largest daily increase of the pandemic Wednesday at 106,000.
[ZeroHedge] Since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak, American leftists have been repeatedly caught parroting the rhetoric of the CCP as they decried President Trump's use of the term "Chinese Virus" as racist while amplifying unfounded claims that President Trump is solely responsible for all of the deaths in the US, despite the growing body of evidence that the coronavirus was spreading in the US even earlier than initially believed (the first known death has been dated to Feb. 6 in California, which suggests the virus was likely spreading in the US before the end of January).
As a reminder, China didn't inform the world about the evidence of human to human transmission (which they likely possessed for 6+ weeks at that point) until Jan. 22.
Despite all of this, Democrats have taken a distinctly "soft on China" tack, in opposition to President Trump's increasing hawkishness, even going so far as to side with the CCP (which, remember, just put 1 million+ Muslims into concentration camps) over the White House, as the National Review pointed out in a recent article.
One of the most galling examples of this phenomenon to date occurred Thursday, when former Obama-era ambassador and noted Sinophile Max Baucus, also a former Democratic Senator from Montana, compared President Trump to Hitler during an appearance in the Chinese press. Good WHORES stay bought
The former U.S. ambassador to China during the Obama administration has compared President Trump to Adolf Hitler and Joseph McCarthy on Chinese state-run television.
Max Baucus, who served as Montana senator from 1978 to 2014 until he was appointed ambassador to Beijing, compared Trump’s rhetoric on China to that of Hitler and McCarthy during a May 6 interview on CNN. Since then, Baucus has appeared on Chinese state television and repeated his claims.
"Joe McCarthy [and] Adolf Hitler...rallied people up, making people believe things that were really not true," Baucus told China Global Television Network on May 12. "The White House and some in Congress are making statements against China that are so over the top and so hypercritical, they are based not on the fact, or if they are based on fact, sheer demagoguery, and that’s what McCarthy did in the 1950s."
#5
This is obviously the Arkansas chicken truck strategy, which calls for the driver to overload the flatbed by a good 50%. You can do that but it necessitates stopping and whacking all Hell out of the side of the truck, thus keeping the birds airborne for another 10 miles.
In this case plainly Klobuchar needs must be the truck driver. Thus when Uncle Badfinger goes off the reservation she can break out a cricket bat and get him back on narrative. Fortunately the adults are in charge.
[Breitbart] Baltimore Mayor Jack Young (D) wants President Donald Trump to cancel his plans to visit the city’s Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine on Memorial Day, citing health concerns stemming from the Chinese coronavirus and the price tag attached to a presidential visit.
"I wish that the President, as our nation’s leader, would set a positive example and not travel during this holiday weekend," Young said, according to CBS Baltimore. "I would hope that the President would change his mind and decide to remain at home. If he decides, however, to move forward with his scheduled trip to Baltimore we will, of course, be prepared for his visit."
Young also said the city "can’t afford to shoulder" the cost of the president’s visit as it loses $20 million monthly.
This week, the White House announced President Trump and first lady Melania Trump will travel to Baltimore Monday.
"The City of Baltimore remains under a Stay at Home order that was put in place to help safeguard our residents from the dangers associated with COVID-19," the president said in a statement. "We have worked closely with our health professionals to educate the public about the benefits of social distancing and staying home, unless leaving for an essential reason, like visiting a doctor or picking up groceries."
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R), a frequent critic of the Trump administration, said he will not meet with the president and instead plans to celebrate his birthday with family.
[Just The News] Democrat Ralph Northam invoked executive privilege to initially block release of travel dates but relented on appeal.
On a Saturday night in the dead of August last year, Virginia taxpayers footed the bill as a state-operated plane roared from Richmond to one of North Carolina's desirable beach destinations. The King Air 350 turboprop made the journey twice in six hours.
The VIP passengers? Democratic Gov. Ralph Northam and his wife, Pamela, the first lady of Virginia.
The listed purpose for a back-and-forth jaunt? The Northams took a brief break Aug. 31, 2019 from their Outer Banks beach vacation home in Manteo, N.C., to attend a horse race at the Colonial Downs track back in their home state and ceremoniously hand out a trophy to the winner. Then, they went back to the beach.
The trip is one of about two dozen that the Northams took to and from their beach home at taxpayer's expense since January 2019, spending part or all of 65 days in the North Carolina resort community, according to travel records obtained by Just the News under Virginia's Freedom of Information Act.
The governor's public calendar posted online for citizens to see does not show the trips or dates, and when Just the News first sought the records, Northam invoked executive privilege to deny release of his office calendar notations showing the dates he stayed at the beach home.
Just the News appealed, and the governor's office on Wednesday night relented and provided the calendar notations for his Outer Banks trips.
Those records show Northam spent about 13% of his last 505 days in office at his out-of-state beach home, which he first bought more than a decade ago as a private doctor before he was elected to the Virginia legislature or governor's mansion.
Dare County, N.C., tax records show the Northams' beach home is valued at more than $579,000, was built in 2001, and has four bedrooms and three bathrooms spread out over more than 2,500 square feet.
The governor's spokeswoman said Northam makes no apologies for the frequent trips, which cost taxpayers pilot time, driver time, fuel, and security detail expenses.
"The Governor has owned his house on the Outer Banks for over 16 years, prior to entering politics. He and the First Lady sold their Hampton Roads home (a short drive from Manteo) shortly after moving to the Executive Mansion, but like other governors, he continues to maintain a property outside of Richmond," spokeswoman Alena Yarmosky told Just the News.
"He travels there occasionally on the weekends, but has not been there since travel restrictions were put in place, nor since Stay at Home Orders went into effect. As you know, it is required that a governor's security detail go where the governor goes ‐ as with previous governors, this includes travel to their properties outside of the Executive Mansion," she added.
Emails released under the FOIA show that Northam's aides on some occasions had to schedule official events around the first family's many trips to Manteo, or decline invitations for official appearances. For instance, a June 5, 2019 email from aide David Cary to the first lady declined an invitation for her to attend a state business opening because she was going to be at the beach house.
"Just an FYI that this invite came in today for a day when you are in Manteo. I congratulated them on the opening and thanked them for thinking of us but said that evening doesn't work," Carey wrote the first lady.
#2
I know it's easy to dismiss this, well, the governor with all the usual observations and critiques so often brought to the fore. That he is a stooge, or moon walking simpleton, or that favorite of the Rt 15 corridor, congenital maturbator.
But a closer look reveals a, well, the governor left behind by the world like Charles Foster Kane. Consider his pitiful future after leaving the peoples' house in Richmond. Endlessly annoying capable adults with his incoherent stammering and moonwalk.
Tragically reduced at length to wandering downcast along the back streets with his colorful little jacket and tin cup in perennial search of that organ grinder who is never again to appear.
#6
Apologies, TW, I tried to break this informal survey of opinion as gently as possible. I DID leave out the more sprightly thoughts from the tawdry flesh pots of Loudon co.
No Borgia, I. But I was a junior teamster several lives ago.
Neither Cuban, although I grew up around a lot of Cuban and Hungarian refugees. I must admit I didn't fully appreciate what some of my school mates had been through.
[JustTheNews] A federal appeals court Thursday has agreed to hear a request from Michael Flynn's legal team to remove the district judge overseeing his case, and has also ordered the judge to explain his controversial and unorthodox conduct in handling it.
Judge Emmett Sullivan has been given a June 1 deadline to respond. The government has also been invited to "respond in its discretion" during that window.
Flynn's legal team had filed a request on Tuesday asking the appeals court to remove Judge Emmett Sullivan from the case, claiming the judge was biased against the defendant. Following the Justice Department's request earlier this month to dismiss the case against Flynn, Sullivan had appointed retired federal Judge John Gleeson to file an amicus curiae brief arguing in favor of not dropping the case against the general.
Flynn's lawyers sharply criticized Sullivan's handling of the case.
"The district judge's latest actions - failing to grant the Government's Motion to Dismiss, appointing a biased and highly-political amicus who has expressed hostility and disdain towards the Justice Department's decision to dismiss the prosecution, and the promise to set a briefing schedule for widespread amicus participation in further proceedings - bespeaks a judge who is not only biased against Petitioner, but also revels in the notoriety he has created by failing to take the simple step of granting a motion he has no authority to deny," the Tuesday petition read.
It accused Sullivan of being "an umpire who has decided to steal public attention from the players and focus it on himself. He wants to pitch, bat, run bases, and play shortstop." If an appeals court is ordering a judge to explain his actions, they are really fucking serious about this. Hopefully Sullivan gets thrown off the bench soon.
#4
...yes. For the last hundreds years the judiciary as granted itself powers and purview that is not in the Constitution or granted by the legislative branch. It's all pretense. Or an awareness that if he can do it, then all those Trump 'young' appointed judges can play the same game for a long time to whomever follows.
#10
As a Twitter thread from an appellate court laywer found by John Sexton explains: Yes, it's a huge deal.
Most of the thread is below, but here are the main points:
1. The appellate court could have just dismissed this motion out of hand, which they do most of the time. (As I noted, when you're dealing with a jailhouse lawyer's frivolous filings, it's only a matter of time before he cries prejudice and demands a new judge.)
They did not do this, obviously. They're taking this seriously. That fact means that this motion has already cleared a "huge hurdle" -- the appellate court accepts that this is serious matter requring their attention and not just a desperate last-chance gamble.
2. They could have politely "invited" Sullivan to file a reply with the court. Which is friendly and collegial.
They did not. They "ordered" him to. Which is unfreindly and reminds Sullivan who the ranking officers are here.
3. They could have asked an amicus -- a friend of the court; a respected lawyer or judge or legal commentator -- to file a reply on Sullivan's behalf and thereby spare him the indignity of having to, effectively, defend himself and act as his own lawyer.
They did not do that. They insisted that Sullivan himself reply.
This all seems like good news.
The three judges on this panel were appointed by Reagan, Obama, and Trump.
[BREITBART] The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted to authorize a subpoena related to the GOP investigation into Hunter Biden and Burisma Holdings on Wednesday.
Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson opened a vote to subpoena Blue Star Strategies, which is accused of trying to influence State Department policies. The consulting firm worked with Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings while Hunter Biden was still on the board.
The vote, originally intended to take place last week, was postponed for one week "out of an abundance of caution, and to allow time for [committee members] to receive additional briefings." Despite initial resistance to the idea, Utah Senator Willard Mitt Romney, aka Pierre Delecto ...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012, now Senator from Utah. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. He is currently a trans Republican and a member in good standing of the Never Trump Party, attempting to assume the mantle of the late John McCain... joined fellow committee members in a unanimous vote in favor of the subpoena.
Blue Star Strategies CEO Karen Tramontano sent a letter to Johnson ahead of the vote, asserting their history of cooperation and questioning the need for a subpoena after the firm has already volunteered for an interview. Tramontano also reminded Johnson that the firm has already provided documents related to "meetings with the U.S. government regarding Burisma."
[PJMedia] The United States Department of Justice announced criminal charges against an election official for stuffing a ballot box with fraudulent votes to help Democratic judicial candidates.
United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced today that Domenick J. DeMuro of Philadelphia, a former Judge of Elections, an elected official responsible for elections, has been charged and has entered a guilty plea. What did DeMuro do? He literally stood at the voting machine and cranked in vote after vote after vote for particular Democrat judicial candidates. He was allegedly paid by various unnamed political consultants for the behavior.
The Trump administration’s prosecution of election fraud stands in stark contrast to the total failure of the Obama Justice Department to enforce these laws. Right now, other federal prosecutors are aware of cases of double voting in federal elections as well as noncitizen voting.
Such dramatics! A reminder, dear state attorney general: you are not the boss of the president of the United States..
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
Michigan's attorney general said President Donald Trump will be told not to come back if he refuses to wear a face mask when he tours a Ford Motor plant
'Honestly, if he fails to wear a mask, he's going to be asked not to return to any enclosed facility inside our state,' Dana Nessel, a Democrat, told CNN
Michigan requires some type of face covering in public enclosed spaces
Nessel threatened to take legal action against Ford Motors if the president doesn't wear a face covering
[WashingtonTimes] 'I didn't want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it'
President Trump wore a mask while touring a Ford Motor Co. plant in Michigan Thursday, deliberately out of view of TV cameras.
“I didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it,” the president told reporters after his tour.
He pulled out of his pocket a Navy blue mask that appeared to have the presidential seal on it, showing it to reporters without putting it on again.
The Ford plant in Ypsilanti is building ventilators instead of cars and trucks, to help in the fight against the coronavirus crisis.
Ford confirmed in a statement that the president did wear a mask during his tour on the plant floor, as per company policy.
“[Chairman] Bill Ford encouraged President Trump to wear a mask when he arrived,” the company said. “He wore a mask during a private viewing of three Ford GTs from over the years. The president later removed the mask for the remainder of the visit.”
#3
And why is Michigan suddenly suffering from an outbreak of Bitchy Female Elected Officials?
Never registered for the draft? Haven't had the epiphany that you didn't own your own body? That one day you might be asked to give the 'last full measure of devotion' for all that power you throw around?
The law, the authority behind the law, and the power derived from the consent of the governed. You can claim any of it, but ultimately if you don't have the consent it means you're just screaming at the moon. Consent is not established by any ritual. Consent can be withdrawn at anytime when those you claim for your legitimacy decide its not a good day to die.
#7
Sorry, have to agree that no mask is bad in several wys: it gives fuel to the '2sets of rules' class, but more importantly, in other situations where unmasked folks entered a business there was a period devoted to deep cleaning the areas that person was in. What give DJT super no Covid coties powers? And how much down time followed to clean the place up?
IMHO, he stepped in it this time.
#8
Screw the bitch. And screw the masks. We should only wear them if we want to, and every show of defiance to this BS attitude of 'Do as I say or else!" is a good one. He didn't step in it, he rubbed their faces in their own nonsense, and more people should to the same.
He is taking hydroxychloroquine and zinc daily as a prophylactic. Also, he wore a mask inside the factory, but not outside for the press.
Separately, it isn’t just Bitchy Michigan Females, but Bitchy Maryland Males as well. And not even only Democratic politicians — Trump Derangement Syndrome is only majority-Democrat.
#14
Seems to me the Michigan AG is the perfect candidate for getting sent to a 'stan black site for some enhanced interrogation techniques of Demorat election fraud.
[IsraelTimes] US President Donald Trump ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party... ’s former personal lawyer and fixer, Michael Cohen, is released from federal prison to serve the remainder of his sentence at home because of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... pandemic.
Wearing a surgical mask and a baseball cap, Cohen arrives at his Manhattan apartment building at around 10:40 a.m. after his release from FCI Otisville in New York.
He removes boxes of legal documents from the trunk of a car. A uniformed doorman at the luxury residence, not far from Trump Tower, carries them into the lobby on a luggage cart.
Cohen, who pleaded guilty to tax charges, campaign finance fraud and lying to Congress, doesn’t stop to speak with news hounds gathered on the sidewalk.
Cohen, 53, is released on furlough as part of an attempt to slow the spread of the virus in federal prisons. He began serving his sentence last May and had been scheduled to remain in prison until November 2021.
Prison advocates and congressional leaders have been pressing the Justice Department for weeks to release at-risk inmates, arguing that the public health guidance to stay 6 feet (1.8 meters) away from other people is nearly impossible behind bars.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[FoxNews] Dead drunk: Mayor lies in a coffin and pretends to be a coronavirus victim to avoid arrest after breaking curfew rules to go drinking in Peru Jaime Rolando Urbina Torres, mayor of a small town in southern Peru, accused of breaking coronavirus lockdown to go drinking with friends 
[Just The News] Democrat Ralph Northam invoked executive privilege to initially block release of travel dates but relented on appeal.
[JustTheNews] A federal appeals court Thursday has agreed to hear a request from Michael Flynn's legal team to remove the district judge overseeing his case, and has also ordered the judge to explain his controversial and unorthodox conduct in handling it. 
...former governor of Massachussetts, the Publican nominee for president in 2012, now Senator from Utah. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. He is currently a trans Republican and a member in good standing of the Never Trump Party, attempting to assume the mantle of the late John McCain...
[PJMedia] The United States Department of Justice announced criminal charges against an election official for stuffing a ballot box with fraudulent votes to help Democratic judicial candidates.
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
