In December of 2006, I embarked on my ninth USO Tour to entertain our troops, my eighth to the Middle East since the 9/11 attacks. My father served in Vietnam and my then-boyfriend (and now husband, Chris) is a pilot in the Air Force, so bringing a ‘little piece of home' to servicemembers stationed far away from their families was both my passion and my privilege.
Also on the trip were country music artists Darryl Worley, Mark Wills, Keni Thomas, and some cheerleaders from the Dallas Cowboys. The headliner was comedian and now-senator, Al Franken.
Franken had written some skits for the show and brought props and costumes to go along with them. Like many USO shows before and since, the skits were full of sexual innuendo geared toward a young, male audience.
As a TV host and sports broadcaster, as well as a model familiar to the audience from the covers of FHM, Maxim and Playboy, I was only expecting to emcee and introduce the acts, but Franken said he had written a part for me that he thought would be funny, and I agreed to play along.
When I saw the script, Franken had written a moment when his character comes at me for a ‘kiss'. I suspected what he was after, but I figured I could turn my head at the last minute, or put my hand over his mouth, to get more laughs from the crowd.
On the day of the show Franken and I were alone backstage going over our lines one last time. He said to me, "We need to rehearse the kiss." I laughed and ignored him. Then he said it again. I said something like, ‘Relax Al, this isn't SNL…we don't need to rehearse the kiss.'
He continued to insist, and I was beginning to get uncomfortable.
He repeated that actors really need to rehearse everything and that we must practice the kiss. I said ‘OK' so he would stop badgering me. We did the line leading up to the kiss and then he came at me, put his hand on the back of my head, mashed his lips against mine and aggressively stuck his tongue in my mouth.
I immediately pushed him away with both of my hands against his chest and told him if he ever did that to me again I wouldn't be so nice about it the next time.
I walked away. All I could think about was getting to a bathroom as fast as possible to rinse the taste of him out of my mouth.
I felt disgusted and violated.
Not long after, I performed the skit as written, carefully turning my head so he couldn't kiss me on the lips.
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They keep referring to him as a comedian?I've never heard anything from him that was funny. He was one of the SNL crew that that convinced me they had lost it.
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A frantically spankin' Al Franken:
"Romantically, how'm I ranking?"
"Well, rather than nailed,
I'd prefer to be jailed
And subjected to genital shankin'."
Former radio talk show host Melanie Morgan claims the democratic politician wouldn’t take no for an answer, and continually pursued and bothered her after the two met in 2000, on the set of Bill Maher’s old show Politically Incorrect.
“I made a statement about the budget numbers, Franken challenged me, I challenged him back,” she recalled. “It was about spending priorities, actually just a mundane discussion. But he obsessed over it.”
[RT] US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings show the George Soros' investment fund has disposed of its holdings in Apple and Snap in the last quarter, reducing stakes in other tech giants such as Facebook and Twitter. According to the filings, the fund sold 1,700 shares of Apple and 1.55 million of Snap stock. It also reduced its stake in Twitter by 5,700 shares while still holding 18,400 shares of the social media site. The investor got rid of 367,262 shares in Facebook; he has now 109,451 of the network’s shares.
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The evil man that thinks he is GOD, because he has money.
#3
Getting cash ready for the 2018 races, Skidmark.
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That and seeing what damage he can do to the stock market.
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Avoiding taxes? President Trump favors bringing companies back to the US rather than park money in Ireland and offshore....Soros intends to destroy our economy to pick up the pieces for his NWO and cryptocurrency regulated from Brussels...he is putting billions into his Foundation until then as his war chest. The banksters have risked our futures with unsanctioned investments. Soros should be made Public Enemy # 1 and send an Elliott Ness after the Untouchables.
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He has screwed almost every Country. Nations in Africa included. He distorts the markets and then hedges against the Currency of the Nations he has destroyed financially.
The guy is a Global parasite. He and his organization needs a power check more desperately than most any issue today.
He really is the top evil man of this Earth.
And you must spit him out if you would like to continue to have some good days.
#10
Soros is a blood-sucking vampire. He has tried to overthrow a number of countries as well as suck the blood out of companies. I thought it was illegal for American citizens to try to overthrow countries. The hedge funds bet on companies to drop in value or even fail. It seems counter to the notion of trying to build up a company and make it better. You invest in a company and earn while its on its way up; then you pull your money out and bet on its downward slide or failure. These guys have screwed up the stock market for main street and caused much of the market volatility.
[TheHill] Shortly before last year’s election, FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe wrote an email on his official government account stating that the Hillary Clinton email probe had been given “special” status, according to documents released Wednesday.
McCabe’s Oct. 23, 2016, email to press officials in the FBI said the probe was under the control of a small group of high-ranking people at the FBI’s headquarters in Washington.
“As I now know the decision was made to investigate it at HQ with a small team,” McCabe wrote in the email. He said he had no input when the Clinton email investigation started in summer 2015, while he was serving as assistant director in charge of the FBI's Washington office.
“[The Washington office] provided some personnel for the effort but it was referred to as a ‘special’ and I was not given any details about it,” he wrote.
FBI officials on Wednesday night refused to answer what McCabe meant by calling the Clinton email probe a “special” or why it was restricted to a small team at headquarters when it began.
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FBI officials on Wednesday night refused to answer what McCabe meant by calling the Clinton email probe a “special” or why it was restricted to a small team at headquarters when it began
Containment and smothering it
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Gives new meaning to the term "Untouchables."
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The judge in the corruption trial of Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey declared a mistrial on Thursday after jurors said they were unable to reach a verdict, bringing an inconclusive end to the first federal bribery trial of a sitting United States senator in decades.
"We cannot reach a unanimous decision on any of the charges," the jurors said in a note to Judge William H. Walls.
"We have each tried to look at this case from different viewpoints but still feel strongly in our positions, nor are we willing to move away from our strong convictions," the note said.
After interviewing the jurors individually in his chambers, Judge Walls emerged to tell the court that the jurors were hopelessly deadlocked and that as a result "there is no alternative but to declare a mistrial."
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Can't have CHristie appoint a Republican on his way out when the Senate is within reach! Spread around enough money in enough ways and people get persuaded. Wonder what an investigation into second level family members bank accounts and property holdings might reveal?
#2
So at least we get another trial, right? Right?
Posted by: Abu Uluque ||
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#1 Can't have CHristie appoint a Republican on his way out. If Christie did appoint a Senator to replace Menendez, wouldn't that set the Donk's hair on fire. They would scream bloody murder. Well, it is a cultural and political war.
[Breitbart] The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has posted two billboards in front of the White House which declare America was built by foreign ’Dreamers,’ not by native-born Americans, who apparently have no place in the billboards or in America’s society. "It is absolutely an insult to Americans, but the Chamber knows that, which is why this isn’t a broad-based campaign" conducted outside Washington D.C., said Mark Krikorian, director at the Center for Immigration Studies. He continued:
The implicit message is that immigrants are better than Americans, that Americans are the supporting players, and the immigrants are the stars. It really is kind of the idea that immigrants are somehow magical people, not normal humans with all the strengths and weaknesses and foibles of regular people, that they are somehow magical...
Don’t American kids have dreams? [Silicon valley creators] David Packard and Bill Hewlett were not immigrants. Bill Gates wasn’t an immigrant. Tom Watson [founder] of IBM wasn’t an immigrant. Obviously immigration is an important part of America’s story, but it is just one part.
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"You didn't build that." I wonder where they cribbed that chestnut from?
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
11/16/2017 3:41 Comments ||
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Businesses that support this need to be boycotted.
Not brought out is how cheap immigrant labor depresses investment in labor saving technology, and consequently reduces productivity gains making everyone poorer (except those who gain directly from cheap immigrant labor).
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Meanwhile, an increasing number of tech visas are being given to frauds. In the last year I've interviewed one foreign national who was being prompted by someone off-camera, and another who wasn't the person the contract agency sent. Other teams report similar issues, and that they're more frequent.
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How about outsourcing the USCC to Mexico City. Seems fitting. Think of the personnel savings on salaries.
[NYSUN] It is hard not to look upon the Roy Moore imbroglio as another well-timed hit-job from a familiar and well-practiced source ‐ the same people who thought they had destroyed the Trump campaign by releasing the Billy Bush tape from eleven years before, and, when that didn’t finish Mr. Trump off, tried the nuclear option late in the campaign by shopping to the press the Steele dossier, which the Clinton campaign had commissioned, with its salacious and seditious elements.
The dossier was so extreme in its allegations and so thoroughly unsupported and unverifiable that even the most rabid Democratic mouthpieces wouldn’t touch it. They could only get a nibble from Yahoo before the election, despite Democratic senator Harry Reid
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Black is urbane and erudite, but his constant refrain that - any minute now - common sense, rationality, fair play and justice are going to prevail is just a case of stretching the Silly Putty™ waaaaay past the breaking point.
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The Progs are attacking Mr. Moore for behaviors with girls/women who are of age of AL consent (16 y/o) or better.
Yet, they celebrate as diversity a "religion" (1) allowing the marriage of an 80 y/o male and a, say, 12 y/o girl who, btw, has no concept of "consent" in relationships, and (2) Actively promotes the general subjugation of women.
Is Moore a letch? Maybe, but this is for the voters of AL (Many of whom, by the way, may, owing to Ivanka's pronouncement of yesterday, decide that "Trump 2020" is a bridge too far.) to decide.
As I told my Conspriatess last evening, we have entered "The Era of the Aggrieved Woman™," and nothing good will come of it. She agreed.
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"The Era of the Aggrieved Woman™," and nothing good will come
These claims of sexual harassment are being used by the left and by the right as a political weapon to take down anyone who disagrees with your side. It is like a friggin chess game. Moore gets hit by the left and the right comes back and says "I'll raise you a Franken." Eventually, the left will go for "Checkmate." The left will probably have another run at Trump with Allred's fake Jane Doe vs. Trump case which was initially filed in CA and tossed out of the court. Then it was filed in NY. Now it has been filed in DC I think. Politics is a very dirty business and it is played for keeps. The left is more skillful at this game. The Pubs still have a shred of morality.
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The shame of it is there was and still is a perfectly good conservative candidate there who is far better than Moore, Mo Brooks.
As it stands, the damage is done and this seat will go to the Democrat based on latest polling if Moore stays in. 50-42% margin among likely voters. The main reason seems to be that GOP turnout (likely voters) is down, probably because the unfavorable opinion jumped from 27% to 49% due to the allegations and constant hammering in the mainstream press.
They have less than a month to fix this or the GOP senate majority becomes very fragile. Keep your eyes on the prize. Majority Leader Schumer, anyone?
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[RT] US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings show the George Soros' investment fund has disposed of its holdings in Apple and Snap in the last quarter, reducing stakes in other tech giants such as Facebook and Twitter. According to the filings, the fund sold 1,700 shares of Apple and 1.55 million of Snap stock. It also reduced its stake in Twitter by 5,700 shares while still holding 18,400 shares of the social media site. The investor got rid of 367,262 shares in Facebook; he has now 109,451 of the network’s shares.
[Breitbart] The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has posted two billboards in front of the White House which declare America was built by foreign ’Dreamers,’ not by native-born Americans, who apparently have no place in the billboards or in America’s society. "It is absolutely an insult to Americans, but the Chamber knows that, which is why this isn’t a broad-based campaign" conducted outside Washington D.C., said Mark Krikorian, director at the Center for Immigration Studies. He continued:
[NYSUN] It is hard not to look upon the Roy Moore imbroglio as another well-timed hit-job from a familiar and well-practiced source ‐ the same people who thought they had destroyed the Trump campaign by releasing the Billy Bush tape from eleven years before, and, when that didn’t finish Mr. Trump off, tried the nuclear option late in the campaign by shopping to the press the Steele dossier, which the Clinton campaign had commissioned, with its salacious and seditious elements.
