[Hot Air] Well, it took them a while to get there but the NY Times has finally taken notice that the Steele dossier appears to contain a lot of false and unverifiable garbage:
The 35-page dossier, spiced up with tales of prostitutes and spies, sketched out a hair-raising story more than two years ago. Russian intelligence had used bribery and blackmail to try to turn Donald J. Trump into a source and ally, it said, and the Kremlin was running some Trump campaign aides practically as agents.
But the release on Thursday of the report by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, underscored what had grown clearer for months — that while many Trump aides had welcomed contacts with the Russians, some of the most sensational claims in the dossier appeared to be false, and others were impossible to prove. Mr. Mueller’s report contained over a dozen passing references to the document’s claims but no overall assessment of why so much did not check out…
Interviews with people familiar with Mr. Steele’s work on the dossier and the F.B.I.’s scramble to vet its claims suggest that misgivings about its reliability arose not long after the document became public — and a preoccupation of Trump opponents — in early 2017. Mr. Steele has made clear to associates that he always considered the dossier to be raw intelligence — not established facts, but a starting point for further investigation.
Hold on a minute. If Steele considered the dossier raw intelligence and merely cause for further investigation, why was he talking to multiple news outlets about the dossier prior to the election? He gave quotes to Mother Jones about it in October of 2016. That doesn’t sound like someone who is handling raw intelligence. It sounds like someone helping to dump oppo prior to the election.
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If Steele considered the dossier raw intelligence and merely cause for further investigation, why was he talking to multiple news outlets about the dossier prior to the election?
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It met the highest standard of journalism - "unnamed sources."
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Nothing?
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I cannot help but wonder, since it's clear the warrants used by Muller was obtained under false pretense, if all the charges brought by Muller would be "fruit of the poisoned tree"?
In which case all the "guilty" pleas/findings would be thrown out and the injured parties be made whole again?
[NYPOST] Vermont is on the brink of abolishing Columbus Day in a politically correct blow against colonialism.
"You know, it’s just a day, and we’ll get through it," said Vermont Gov. Phil Scott (R).
He also said he is likely to sign the measure, which passed both houses of the state legislature this week, into law.
The legislation will officially recognize the second Monday in October as "Indigenous People’s Day," instead of honoring the explorer once credited with discovering America.
A last-ditch Republican attempt to preserve the October holiday and create a separate February holiday to honor Native Americans was defeated Wednesday.
The law would make Vermont the third state, after New Mexico and South Dakota, to yank Columbus Day off official calendars in favor of an anti-colonialist alternative.
Critics have attacked Columbus statues and celebrations in New York City and elsewhere, denouncing him as a murderer who mistreated Native Americans.
But Italian-Americans celebrate him as a national hero and mark the holiday as a point of ethnic pride.
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Vermont 2000 population of Vermont: 608,827 (2000 census)
Rank Ancestry % of Population
1. English 18.4
2. Irish 16.4
3. French 14.5
4. German 9.1
5. French_Canadian 8.8
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But Italian-Americans celebrate him as a national hero and mark the holiday as a point of ethnic pride.
That was the point. Integrating a large number of Italian immigrants into the 'melting pot'. I guess if you really don't want a country but tribes, go ahead.
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When I was a kid, Vt was a great place, full of loggers, sawmill workers and other Yankee rednecks*, then the Hippies/Yuppies from Boston and NYC moved in. Now it's Bernie Sandersville.
* most people think the Appalachians end somewhere around WVa - not true, they go all the way to Canada and so do (did) the rednecks. The only real difference between Southern and Yankee rednecks (besides the mutually incomprehensible dialects) was that in VT, our mothers would beat the cr*p out of us if we tried to sit at the table with out hats on.
[Breitbart] House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) on Thursday evening backtracked on his position that impeaching President Donald Trump after the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report would not be "worthwhile at this point" after his left-wing primary challenger called him a coward and stated that she was "in favor" of impeachment.
Hoyer told CNN earlier in the day that "the American people will make a better judgment" about whether to remove Trump than Congress in the 2020 election.
"Based on what we have seen to date, going forward on impeachment is not worthwhile at this point. Very frankly, there is an election in 18 months and the American people will make a judgment," Hoyer said.
In what may be a sign of things to come with other Democrats, after left-wing activists immediately started to call for Hoyer to be primaried, Hoyer then said that "all options ought to remain on the table."
"Congress must have the full report & all underlying evidence in order to determine what actions may be necessary to ensure that the Congress & the American people have all the info they need to know the truth & all options ought to remain on the table to achieve that objective," Hoyer tweeted later in the evening after receiving intense blowback from his left.
Mckayla Wilkes, Hoyer’s primary challenger, said she was "in favor" of impeaching Trump and left-wing activists started to immediately hype her primary campaign against Hoyer.
"Hoyer continues to show that he lacks the courage to stand up to the status quo. It’s times like this that we ask, "who’s side is he on?" @LeaderHoyer, if you stand for nothing, what’ll you fall for?" Wilkes tweeted. "@LeaderHoyer reminded us that an election is to come in 18 months implying that WE are responsible for stopping Trump. Time should not be the factor. Does honor, ethics and the rule of law mean nothing? Our republic is in grave danger under Trumps [sic] corrupt leadership! #Period." He can "fronttrack" once if he wins re-election.
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[Hot Air] Well, it took them a while to get there but the NY Times has finally taken notice that the Steele dossier appears to contain a lot of false and unverifiable garbage:
Nothing? 
[NYPOST] Vermont is on the brink of abolishing Columbus Day in a politically correct blow against colonialism.
