[NYPOST] Authorities are investigating whether the woman who accused lawyer Sanford Rubenstein of rape was drugged while visiting his posh penthouse, The Post has learned.
The man who is "hung like a cashew" needed a date rape drug? Say it ain't so!
"They're testing her blood to see if there were any drugs in her system, because she doesn't know what happened and doesn't know why she kept passing out [there]," a law-enforcement source said Tuesday. "Even the next morning, she was still passing out. She passed out in [Rubenstein's] limo on the way home."
The 42-year-old woman -- a top official in the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network -- told cops she had two drinks at last week's star-studded 60th birthday party for Sharpton, which was also attended by longtime Sharpton pal Rubenstein. She said she downed two more drinks after arriving at Rubenstein's apartment with the legal eagle and a female friend, who left before she was allegedly attacked while passed out, sources said.
"They were all out on the balcony at one point," one source said of the trio. Then, "they left [Rubenstein] alone there while the two women went to the bathroom, and he was out there with their drinks."
In their search of the pad, cops went looking for dirty drinking glasses to test, but it's unclear if they found any, sources said.
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So according to Whoopi Goldberg, it wasn't "rape rape", right?
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Because periodically one wonders if Belgium is still getting on without an actual government.
[AnNahar] Belgium's main center-right parties agreed Tuesday to form a coalition with French-speaking liberal Charles Michel as prime minister, ending a five-month period since elections without a government.
Michel -- who at 38 becomes one of Europe's youngest leaders and Belgium's youngest since 1840 -- replaces the socialist Elio di Rupo.
The breakthrough came after months of negotiations but is still far shorter than Belgium's previous wait for leadership in 2010, when it took politicians 18 months to form a national government, a world record.
But the new government is likely to face the same problems as before, most notably a bitter division between Belgium's Phlegmish-speaking north, which tends to be more conservative, and a French-speaking, more liberal south.
The coalition agreed on Tuesday groups three Phlegmish conservative parties and Michel's French-speaking liberals.
Belgium's King Philippe, who plays an important constitutional role, tasked Michel and Phlegmish Christian Democrat leader Kris Peeters to form a government back in July.
Over the years, greater powers have been devolved to the regions to ease communal tensions, with separate governments elected in Flanders, Wallonia and for the bilingual Brussels capital region.
Michel began his rapid rise to power in the shadow of his father Louis Michel, a former minister and European commissioner, and has been part of the Belgian political landscape for more than 15 years.
More here about the very Belgian new prime minister, apparently a bit of a child prodigy who shockingly speaks Flemish as well as his native French.
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“I’d have Obama on an evangelistic schedule of black churches all over the country,” said Willie Brown, the former mayor of San Francisco. “I think he really should go to the black base. I don’t think there’s any other place I would trust he wouldn’t create an adverse reaction rather than a positive reaction.”
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I like the graph that suggests the Pubs have a 66% chance of taking the Senate to Donks 34% chance of keeping the Senate. About 2:1 in favor of the Pubs are nice odds. Odds. The numbers are hopeful but could change with the day's news. Maybe Obama has dug the hole deep.
Had the Democratic machine been so enamoured of our former Secretary of State, they never would have allowed Barack Obama to steal so many of the primaries in 2008. They don't want her, they want her husband, the Ronald Reagan of the Democratic party.
[FREEBEACON] Sen. Kay Hagan ...Niece of former senator and Florida governor Lawton Chiles, married to a transaction lawyer, who has a net worth between $10.7 million and $40 million. He is a former Democrat ward heeler, which explains a lot. She defeated the listless Elizabeth Dole in 2008... (D., N.C.) admitted following Tuesday night's debate that she missed an Armed Services Committee hearing because she was at a fundraiser.
The Washington Free Beacon reported last month that on the night of a classified hearing regarding the rise of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... there was a fundraiser held for Hagan in New York City, making it unlikely that Hagan was able to attend both the classified hearing and the fundraiser.
After weeks of avoiding questions on her whereabouts the day of the classified hearing, Hagan admitted to news hounds in a post-debate presser that she missed the Armed Services Committee hearing due to a fundraiser.
When asked about the hearing after the debate, Hagan said that she was unable to attend because the hearing was postponed till the afternoon.
"There was one and what had happened at that hearing, it was scheduled early in the day, and then votes were scheduled, and that hearing then had to be postponed later that day, so yes, I did miss that one," said Hagan.
She can go to a hearing any time. Funders, you strike while the iron is hot...
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It's all about getting and keeping the job---the ones interested in doing it don't have a chance in the competition.
[TownHall - Katie Pavlich] Late last night the Washington Post broke a story about a connection between White House aides and the 2012 Secret Service prostitution scandal. When the scandal broke two years ago, the White House denied involvement or knowing about the details of what happened. The Post story proves otherwise and provides evidence a White House volunteer officially checked a prostitute into his hotel room in Cartagena, Colombia. The report also details threats made against the Inspector General, who was asked to delay the release of embarrassing and damaging information about the connection between the White House and the scandal until after the 2012 presidential election. Shocking !
Now, journalists who cover the White House are confused about why the administration would lie and cover-up such a minor issue. Shocked, confused? No, no one is that dull.
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They are just shocked he lied to them. They expect to be passed the official lies to parrot then told some of what is going on so they can not report that part.
[WAPO] As nearly two dozen Secret Service agents and members of the military were punished or fired following a 2012 prostitution scandal in Colombia, Obama administration officials repeatedly denied that anyone from the White House was involved.
But new details drawn from government documents and interviews show that senior White House aides were given information at the time suggesting that a prostitute was an overnight guest in the hotel room of a presidential advance-team member — yet that information was never thoroughly investigated or publicly acknowledged.
The information that the Secret Service shared with the White House included hotel records and firsthand accounts — the same types of evidence the agency and military relied on to determine who in their ranks was involved.
The Secret Service shared its findings twice in the weeks after the scandal with top White House officials, including then-White House Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler. Each time, she and other presidential aides conducted an interview with the advance-team member and concluded that he had done nothing wrong.
Meanwhile, the new details also show that a separate set of investigators in the inspector general’s office of the Department of Homeland Security — tasked by a Senate committee with digging more deeply into misconduct on the trip — found additional evidence from records and eyewitnesses who had accompanied the team member in Colombia. Interesting indeed. Little wonder there's a morale problem and a significant amount of 'butt hurt' circulating at the Secret Service. Attorney General Holder may be able to shed some li...... oh wait !
Ignatius is perhaps the most reliable cheerleader Champ has at WaPo...
[Wapo] Presidents often need new energy and talent to refurbish their second terms. George W. Bush opted for such a shake-up in 2006, and it arguably saved his presidency. Barack Obama is now facing a similar moment, and there are signs he’s looking to make some personnel changes after the November congressional elections. ValJar stays, everyone else goes ?
Presidents value loyalty, to be sure, and Obama must be feeling especially grateful for team players after publication this week of Leon Panetta’s scorching memoir. It’s a bitter irony that after assembling his famous “team of rivals” — strong, independent personalities such as Panetta, Robert Gates and Hillary Clinton — Obama found himself second-guessed in memoirs by the former secretaries of defense and state. The next president may decide to include a nondisclosure form along with the oath of office for Cabinet hires. Here, sign this NDS and keep your mouth shut !
Champ’s current team can’t be faulted for disloyalty. And if they all stay on board for the last two years, that would at least delay publication of their autobiographies. But loyalty aside, Champ appears to be interested in a talent infusion that would add depth and expertise; a model was his recent appointment of retired Gen. John Allen as special envoy for Iraq and Syria. More such top-level hires may be coming in an effort to widen the administration’s bandwidth. I'm sick of these people, few of them golf and they continue to bring me the wrong answers.
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What Fred said! Champ doesn't want expertise or added depth; just gold medal levels of boot licking and synchopanting.....
Golf skills would be a plus.
Since the entire lot of them have been asleep at the switch for anything except spinning poor decisions into nonsense, I thought for a moment he wanted to have some advisers who were not sleeping.
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Talk about too little too late.
This may have helped 3 years ago, now? Not so much.
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talent infusion? “I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters,” Mr. Obama told Patrick Gaspard, his political director, at the start of the 2008 campaign, according to The New Yorker. “I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m going to think I’m a better political director than my political director.”
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Governor William J. Le Petomane: [pointing to a member of his cabinet] I didn't get a "harrumph" out of that guy!
Hedley Lamarr: Give the Governor harrumph!
Politician: Harrumph!
Governor William J. Le Petomane: You watch your ass.
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Funny, David wants intelligent, but loyal. Able, but subservient.
Thing is, Mr. Obama has done nothing that inspires loyalty. He has set no definable objectives. He doesn't attend briefings or, based something like the ACA rollout, doesn't appear to follow up on the doings of his Cabinet, even through a staff member. Despite all the blather, his is not a strong personality. He clings to a small coterie whose primary focus is on a Domestic Long March.
Allen may be a good choice. However, like Besoeker, I wonder if there's other reasons below the surface for the pick.
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“I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m going to think I’m a better political director than my political director.”
After the POTUS gig, I predict a long career as the poster boy for the Dunning-Kruger Foundation.
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He will probably hire more stupid commies and staffers who don't know shit again. He is such a worthless piece of shit. Put that in an intel brief.
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He doesn't listen to them anyway so this is an opportunity to move folks out who know where the bodies are buried while those folks are overly tainted. And a new batch of niave fools will come in and take the heat for all the failure.
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#7 The cleaning out has to stop at the very top. Is he going to resign?
#7 The cleaning out has to start at the very top. Is he {Obumble] going to resign? The problem is that the cleaning out has stopped short of the top guy. FIFY
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Mr. Pruitt's in-lines are Post-it note yellow, a throwback to the days of his youth when the analysts passed reports around the group, each adding his comments on post-it notes to the thing. Highlighter yellow in-lines belong to the non-moderator who submitted the article. In this case, Besoeker. :-)
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