[CAMPUSREFORM.ORG] The Board of Multicultural Student Affairs at Providence College recently invited students to stab a “Trumpkin” as a way of relieving stress, eliciting outrage from conservative students. Administrators removed the display shortly after being made aware of it by members of the College Republicans, saying the "Trumpkin" had never been authorized by the school.
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They really don't understand how this kind of thing is wrong. To them it's obvious that everyone agrees with them and if you don't you're an evil person. For real.
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Soliciting kicks at "Dung-hillary,"
His kitschy depiction of Killary,
Was somewhat imprudent,
Sez edgy art student
From Providence College's pillory.
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Besoeker, Just maybe civilization is being restored. I am hopeful (hopeful I'm not a Pollyanna anyway). I see momentum building for the overdue Swamp-Cleaning. The Swamp is large and the Progs have been at work for decades in the universities and government.
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Much blood, from a history unheeded,
Had flowed, but the flood soon receded.
We'd foundered, but grounded,
Rebounded, astounded
That no reconstruction was needed.
Cuz everything had landed, brick on brick, just as it stood before. Yay!
[FINANCE.YAHOO] Special counsel Robert Mueller's grand jury is investigating a prominent Democratic lobbyist and a former GOP congressman for their involvement in an influence campaign on behalf of Ukrainian interests tied to Paul Manafort, according to a person with direct knowledge of the investigation.
At the center of the widening probe are Tony Podesta, a longtime Democratic operative, and Vin Weber, a former GOP congressman and leader of his own high-powered lobbying firm, Mercury LLC. The two men were hired as part of a multimillion-dollar lobbying effort directed by Manafort and longtime associate Rick Gates.
With the emphasis on the Ukrainian lobbying efforts, Mueller's criminal probe is moving beyond investigating ties between the Trump campaign and Russia and is aggressively pursuing people who worked as foreign agents without registering with the Justice Department. More witnesses are expected before the grand jury in coming weeks.
Representatives for Weber's firm and Podesta said they are cooperating with the special counsel's investigation. Podesta, whose brother was the chairman of Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary Crooked Hillary Clinton ... former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away... 's campaign, has resigned from his firm.
FBI agents working for Mueller are asking witnesses about meetings between Gates, Podesta and Weber to discuss the lobbying work in detail and any communication with representatives of a pro-Russian Ukrainian political party, according to two people familiar with the interviews who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the investigation.
"There were questions about how much Podesta and Vin Weber were involved. There was a lot of interest there," one of them said.
FBI agents also expressed interest in the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, which produced a 2012 report used to justify the jailing of an opposition politician in Ukraine.
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Mueller is hard to figure. Is he part of the Swamp or not? If you look at who he surrounds himself with and what he has been involved in, you'd think he is a part of the Swamp. Occasionally, I hear and read otherwise.
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One of the problems Mueller has is that he was appointed Special Counsel, not Independent Counsel. It's a different animal, with different legal requirements.
The bottom line is there better be a violation of a law at the other end or the investigator is in trouble.
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It is highly suspicious that Podesta was not indicted at the same time as Manafort.
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Maybe Podesta "lacked intent". /sarc
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Good one, Abu!
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[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] Howard 'Howie' Rubin, 62, is accused of rape and assault by three women
They are all models from Florida who say he lured them to New York in or after 2016
Rubin's staff within 'the enterprise' contacted them on Instagram, they say
Once in Manhattan, they say he raped them in a sex dungeon in a penthouse apartment bought specifically for the attacks
He then left to go 'back to his wife and kids' on the Upper East Side, they claim
The attacks were 'covered up by members of the 'enterprise' and his associates'
Rubin worked for George Soros's investment fund between 2008 and 2015
Before that he had a notorious and colorful 30-year career on Wall Street
He is married with three children and has not responded to the allegations
The alleged victims are demanding $27million from him in a 63-page lawsuit
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There certainly is an epidemic of this sort of thing showing up across the country. Makes me wonder "Why now?" This isn't just happenstance. I don't think this can be written off just as contagion.
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I suspect Sessions has to focus on trafficking since everything else seems to be Russian-related. Wiener's laptop opened the spigot--the Clinton cesspool has smelly trails but President Trump will be blamed as the Nazi Fascist shutting down their "rights" to be lawless "heathens" immune from accountability and entitled to their "fair share" which they have not worked for. The entitled arrogant elites treat others as property & do indefensible atrocities while demanding respect. Respect is earned and love freely given. Those who do not get the principle of equality & impartiality are supremacists of some flavor, and against American principles. Those seeking justice have become enemies of the state but we have the right to self-defense. We need to go Wild, Wild West on them. The 'Doctrine of Discovery',, based upon a papal bull currently incorporated into US law, would allow the Trump administration to put the heathens on government reservations in the territories, & shot if they left the grounds, just as they did in the Indian Territories. Revolving door incarceration of the incorrigible, catering to diet whims, and even the death penalty is cost prohibitive, so maybe an open door design of a self-contained facility where residents have to be self-sufficient in their banned community would work. No guards, medics, or cooks with only snipers to target those who dare to venture outside. Better yet, a oneway ticket to the moon....
[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) predicted that President Donald Trump will eventually resign from office to avoid impeachment by making up an excuse such as "somebody is trying to kill Barron" Trump, his 11-year-old son.
"We just have to, like the slogan says, stay woke; just stay woke, be careful, because I can see the wheels turning now...we’re marching toward impeachment, there’s no question about it. If that happens, are we prepared? Because it’s going to happen," Wilson said Thursday at the annual Legislative & Policy Conference organized by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network (NAN) on Capitol Hill.
"So we have to make sure, Rev. Sharpton, that we are prepared when this happens so we don’t just wake up one day blindsided," she added. "...I think it’s just going to get so tight and it’s going to close in and then everybody is going to be indicted around this president, and then he is going to realize he is probably next on the list. And I think he is going to come up with an excuse like ’somebody is trying to kill Barron, and so I’m going to resign.’"
Wilson went public last month with her account of Trump’s phone conversation with Myeshia Johnson, the widow of Sgt. La David Johnson, one of four U.S. soldiers recently killed in Niger. Wilson said Trump told Johnson that her husband knew "what he signed up for"; Myeshia Johnson later confirmed this. Trump tweeted that Wilson’s recollection of the conversation was a "total lie."
"Wacky Congresswoman Wilson is the gift that keeps on giving for the Republican Party, a disaster for Dems. You watch her in action & vote R!" Trump tweeted.
Wilson, who has reported receiving death threats, said she has received a lot of support from the Democratic Party and military families during the back-and-forth with Trump.
[Gaetz Website] Washington, D.C. ‐ U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz (R-FL), member of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced a resolution today calling for the resignation of Robert Mueller, former Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from his position as Special Counsel.
"Evidence has emerged that the FBI withheld information from Congress and from the American people about Russian corruption of American uranium companies. A confidential U.S. witness, working in the Russian nuclear industry, revealed that Russia had deeply compromised an American uranium trucking firm through bribery and financial kickbacks.
Although federal agents possessed this information in 2010, the Department of Justice continued investigating this "matter" for over four years. The FBI, led at the time by Robert Mueller, required the confidential witness to sign a non-disclosure agreement. When the witness attempted to contact Congress and federal courts about the bribery and corruption he saw, he was threatened with legal action. By silencing him, Obama’s Justice Department and Mueller’s FBI knowingly kept Congress in the dark about Russia’s significant and illegal involvement with American uranium companies.
These deeply troubling events took place when Mr. Mueller was the Director of the FBI. As such, his impartiality is hopelessly compromised. He must step down immediately," Rep. Gaetz said in a statement.
Cosponsors of the resolution currently include Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Rep. Louis Gohmert (R-TX).
In July 2017, Rep. Gaetz offered an amendment in the House Judiciary Committee, as well as a stand-alone resolution, calling for a special counsel to investigate former FBI Director James Comey’s collusion with Robert Mueller, the FBI’s mishandling of the Hillary Clinton investigation, and former Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s infamous "tarmac conversation" with former President Bill Clinton. To view Rep. Gaetz’s amendment, and his stand-alone resolution, click HERE and HERE. To watch Rep. Gaetz offering his amendment, click HERE.
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IMO, the time is overdue for getting rid of this Special Counsel. They have been at the Russian collusion investigation for too long and they have found nothing. Their initial charge has gone far astray. Anything found by the Special Counsel is the fruit from the poisoned tree since the counsel and its mission were based on a lie to begin with.
[DAWN] A Twitter employee on their last day with the company was responsible for taking down Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... 's account, the social network said on Thursday, as the president resumed tweeting after the 11-minute outage.
Twitter users visiting Trump's account around 7:00 pm were greeted with the message "Sorry, that page doesn't exist!"
Twitter initially said the account had been "inadvertently deactivated due to human error", but later indicated it was done intentionally by a departing worker.
"Through our investigation, we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day," it said.
"We are conducting a full internal review," it said on the official Twitter Government account.
Earlier today @realdonaldtrump’s account was inadvertently deactivated due to human error by a Twitter employee. The account was down for 11 minutes, and has since been restored. We are continuing to investigate and are taking steps to prevent this from happening again.
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Doesn't anyone know how to play this game? (Classical reference) You do not allow an employees access to the system after the decision has been made to terminate, voluntarily or involuntarily. Have security escort them to their desk/cubical to gather their personal belongings and to the personnel office for processing of paperwork. It's nothing personal, it's business.
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P2k, I'm not sure your suggestion is entirely practical especially in the case of employees who are leaving voluntarily. I think a prosecution for industrial sabotage might be more like it.
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[DAILYCALLER] CNN’s Wolf Blitzer said Thursday that it’s “shocking” that Hillary Clinton rigged the Democratic National Committee to secure her own presidential nomination.
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She may have been caught but will anything come of it? I still hear the pleasing but distant refrains of "Lock Her Up" from Trump's supporters during the election. Still waiting.
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Betcha Blitzer didn't know Donna Brazille was getting those debate questions either.
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Boy howdy! Quite a phase lag about getting the real story. You could have got the real story if you dispensed with the rectal-cranial inversion and looked around for a while.
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I'll bet he's shocked Illary was actually ill when they threw her into that van.
[POLITICO] The Democratic National Committee dismissed its top fundraiser Thursday after just five months on the job, two Democrats familiar with the move told POLITICO.
Emily Mellencamp Smith, the party’s finance director, was let go in a shake-up of the party’s big shotship designed to energize the party's fundraising.
"We are grateful for Emily Mellencamp Smith’s work to help build a fundraising team that will raise the funds to win in 2017, 2018 and beyond. Emily is going back to consulting and helping elect Democrats in upcoming races, including staying on in a consulting role for the DNC at this time," said DNC press secretary Michael Tyler.
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Thought Hillary was recently the top fund-raiser? The only problem was that all the money showed up in her purse.
[100PercentFedUp] Ha! PBS had a live feed on Facebook for the "Democratic Woman of the Year Award" but it didn’t go as planned because the comments were overwhelmingly negative. PBS finally announced they were shutting down the live feed on Facebook and moving it over to YouTube where they conveniently disabled comments. LOL!
Comments below the PBS announcement on Facebook were 99% against PBS airing anything to do with Hillary Clinton. To put it mildly, people were ticked off that PBS was airing this on their Facebook live feed: Your tax $ @ work.
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The left used to have a saying "Suppose they gave a war and nobody came?" Today's version seems to be "What if Crooked Hillary had a book signing and nobody showed up?" Or worse they showed up and everyone booed, hissed and dissed?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Beset by challenges at home, President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... on Friday embarked on the longest trip to Asia by an American president in more than a quarter century, looking for help to pressure North Korea to stand down from a nuclear crisis.
Trump’s tour of Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines from Friday to Nov. 14 will take him out of Washington, where he has been beset by several issues.
These include an intensifying federal investigation into Russian meddling in last year’s election, New York’s recovery from an attack that killed eight people and debate over a tax-cut plan that if approved by Congress would be his first major legislative victory.
The trip began just days after Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was indicted in the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election and his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, faced Democratic calls to appear before Congress again to clarify his previous testimony about the campaign’s Russia contacts.
Amid the furor caused by the revelations, the Kremlin said on Friday a meeting between Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... was being discussed and Trump said it might happen.
"We may have a meeting with Putin," Trump told Fox News. "And, again - Putin is very important because they can help us with North Korea. They can help us with Syria. We have to talk about Ukraine."
Court documents made public on Monday also disclosed a Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, George Papadopoulos, pleaded guilty last month to lying to the FBI. They cited a March 2016 meeting, attended by Trump and Sessions, in which Papadopoulos offered to help arrange a meeting between candidate Trump and Putin.
While tweeting about developments vigorously this week, Trump told the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... on Wednesday that he was "not angry at anybody" about the case and there was nothing to suggest any collusion by his campaign and Russia.
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Trump is going to be gone for 11 days. Does anyone find this unusual?
[DailyCaller] Two male, liberal columnists this week launched personal attacks against White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.
Los Angeles Times columnist David Horsey mocked Sanders’ appearance, saying she "looks more like a slightly chunky soccer mom who organizes snacks for the kids’ games."
"Rather than the fake eyelashes and formal dresses she puts on for news briefings, Sanders seems as if she’d be more comfortable in sweats and running shoes," Horsey wrote on Wednesday. "Yet, even if Trump privately wishes he had a supermodel for a press secretary, he is lucky to have Sanders."
Another columnist, the New York Times’ Frank Bruni, similarly went out of his way on Friday to bash Sanders for her personal characteristics, in this case her way of speaking.
Bruni wrote that Sanders is "serving a function other than communication, which turns out not to be her forte."
"To listen to her pronounce ’priorities’ is akin to hearing the air seep out of a flat tire, and she leaves half of the consonants on the curb," Bruni added parenthetically, mocking Sanders for her Southern accent. Keep swingin' for the fences, Libs.
Bright Pebbles provides us with a Fox News article on the unfortunately named Mr. Horsey, which adds:
Shortly after Fox News asked for comment, the Times removed all references to Sanders’ appearance and added a note from Horsey.
Whoops!
"I want to apologize to Times readers – and to Sarah Huckabee Sanders -- for a description that was insensitive and failed to meet the standards of our newspaper. It also failed to meet the expectations I have for myself. It surely won’t be my last mistake, but this particular error will be scrupulously avoided in my future commentaries. I’ve removed the offending description,” he wrote.
How about apologizing to Mrs. Trump and Ms Trump? They, too, have been described insensitively. It is not meet to describe successful businesswomen as Barbie dolls, even if they happen to be attractive.
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You guys are gonna be sitting the back row next to CNN soon...
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I want to apologize to Times readers – and to Sarah Huckabee Sanders -- for a description that was insensitive and failed to meet the standards of our newspaper.
I think he met the NYT standards quite well.
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"To listen to her pronounce ’priorities’ is akin to hearing the air seep out of a flat tire, and she leaves half of the consonants on the curb,"
Sounds like somebody overheard a wit at the gay man event. But by all means, tell us what you really think; please continue to share the bathroom talk.
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Man, I'm so old I remember when it was considered sexist to mock a woman over her appearance.
Wait, that doesn't work because it makes me about, what, 3? Anyway the usual rules don't apply here because Sanders works for the Evil Party. Personally, I like her. She's spunky.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Senate Republicans cleared 27 Trump appointees on Thursday as part of a confirmation blitz that is expected to last for weeks.
They don't seem to be passing any bills, but this kind of thing matters, too.
The list, passed by voice vote, included 16 new ambassadors who will represent the United States in nations including Monaco, Haiti, Mauritania, Cameroon ...a long, narrow country that fills the space between Nigeria and Chad on the northeast, CAR to the southeast. Prior to incursions by Boko Haram nothing ever happened there... , Denmark, and Niger, where a deadly 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.... ambush left four soldiers dead earlier this month.
Lawmakers also confirmed several assistants and under secretaries for the Departments of State and Energy as well as two nominees tapped to serve on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
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Hope these State Dept. officials were all well-vetted and just not more of the same old, same old.
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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[CAMPUSREFORM.ORG] The Board of Multicultural Student Affairs at Providence College recently invited students to stab a “Trumpkin” as a way of relieving stress, eliciting outrage from conservative students. Administrators removed the display shortly after being made aware of it by members of the College Republicans, saying the "Trumpkin" had never been authorized by the school.
Perennial Presidential Campaigner Hillary 
[PJ] WASHINGTON ‐ Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) predicted that President Donald Trump will eventually resign from office to avoid impeachment by making up an excuse such as "somebody is trying to kill Barron" Trump, his 11-year-old son.
[DAILYCALLER] CNN’s Wolf Blitzer said Thursday that it’s “shocking” that Hillary Clinton rigged the Democratic National Committee to secure her own presidential nomination.
North Korea
...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead...
"Rather than the fake eyelashes and formal dresses she puts on for news briefings, Sanders seems as if she’d be more comfortable in sweats and running shoes," Horsey wrote on Wednesday. "Yet, even if Trump privately wishes he had a supermodel for a press secretary, he is lucky to have Sanders."
