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'Finally stepping up': Hunter Biden settles child support case
[WashingtonTimes] Hunter Biden reached a temporary settlement in his child support dispute, just two days before he was scheduled for a mandatory court appearance to explain why he had not turned over his financial information.

Biden has been fighting the paternity suit, filed by the mother of his one-year-old child, Lunden Alexis Roberts, since last May. The agreement was approved Monday afternoon by Arkansas Circuit Court Judge Holly Meyer, postponing Biden's in-person court appearance on Wednesday to determine whether he should be held in contempt of court for allegedly failing to submit his tax records for the past five years and other financial documents.

Biden agreed to pay monthly child support starting Feb. 1, according to a copy of the order filed in the Independence County Circuit Court in Arkansas. The amount of the support was redacted, but the court said the final figure will be determined after Biden turns over relevant financial records. He will also have to pay support retroactively dating back to Nov. 2018, according to the deal.

The agreement delayed a hearing on motions to hold Biden in contempt that were filed by Roberts’ attorneys last week. Her attorneys claim Biden has failed to provide information ordered by the court, including the names of any of his businesses, tax documents and all sources of income for the past five years. The contempt motions will be considered during the next scheduled pre-trial hearing on Mar. 13 and will be withdrawn if Biden turns over the relevant documents by Mar. 1, according to the deal.

Biden also agreed to pay an undisclosed sum to Roberts for her "attorneys fees and costs."

An attorney for Roberts welcomed the deal.

"He's doing the right thing by finally stepping up and paying what he should've been paying," Clint Lancaster said in a statement to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette on Monday. "He's going to begin paying monthly child support. He's going to pay retroactive child support back to November of 2018. And he's going to pay attorney's fees and costs."

Brent Langdon, an attorney for Hunter Biden, told the Gazette that the agreement "would avoid the necessity of a hearing on Wednesday."

Biden had denied that he was the father of Roberts' 17-month-old child. A court-mandated paternity test determined in January that Biden was the father.

Biden said in a court filing that he has been unemployed with no income since last May. He also claimed he had significant debts.

He has been living in a $12,000-per-month Hollywood Hills rental home since last summer.
How does this play with his destruction in the Senate today by the fine lady from FL?

Related: Hunter Biden snapped grabbing lunch with pregnant wife at Waldorf Astoria

Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The photos were snapped while Hunter Biden faces a court order to disclose his financial information in a paternity lawsuit filed by his former lover, Lunden Alexis Roberts of Arkansas. The Washington Examiner revealed that Biden and his wife are currently renting a $3.8 million designer home in Hollywood Hills for $12,000 a month.

150K Panamera.

This is all likely to come to a sudden stop.
Posted by: KBK || 01/28/2020 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  This is all likely to come to a sudden stop.

Doubtful. Hunter Biden owns 10% of the (initial) $1.5 billion Chinese investment fund. It is now worth a bit over $2 billion. When the fund liquidates and the $1.5B returned, that leaves Hunter with $50+ million as his share. Think he will be upgrading to a Bugatti.
Posted by: Lampedusa Cruth2141 || 01/28/2020 1:01 Comments || Top||

#3  ^ Lampedusa nails it.

Bye baby bunting /
Hunter's gone a -hunting /
To shelter Daddy's funds offshore /
And fund hisself a Porsche once more....

=> this is the beauty of a) private equity, and b) offshore funds structuring.

Don't think for a second that this wasn't by design, Young Grasshoppa
Posted by: Lex || 01/28/2020 2:48 Comments || Top||

#4  Well then why can't he afford a pair of socks that will stay up?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 01/28/2020 10:25 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ more likely stashing his day's supply into his sock
Posted by: Lex || 01/28/2020 11:13 Comments || Top||

#6  'Finally stepping up'? More like 'Finally cornered'.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 01/28/2020 13:24 Comments || Top||

#7  More like 'Daddy told him to'
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 01/28/2020 15:07 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
'It works both ways': Lawyer for Jeffrey Epstein's victims suggests US might be open to extraditing fugitive driver Anne Sacoolas if Prince Andrew flew over to face FBI's 'sex slave' quiz
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/28/2020 13:07 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  US gummint always says it doesn't play the hostage game, then it finds ways to play. Not saying that will happen in this instance, just sayin...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/28/2020 14:01 Comments || Top||

#2  A fair trade.
Posted by: Lex || 01/28/2020 15:17 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes. Sacoolas sounds like such a WASP name...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/28/2020 18:22 Comments || Top||


ERIC BOLLING, So good that someone finally stands up to the ‘Fox in the Henhouse’ liberal Chris (Wallace)
[GatewayPundit] Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace lit into Fox contributor Katie Pavlich during a panel discussion Monday, angrily lecturing Pavlich to "get your facts straight!" The conflict came in a discussion about potential witness testimony at the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump set to resume Monday, comparing the Clinton impeachment with Trump's. Moderator Bret Baier told Wallace to "tone it down".






Prissy and Judge Napolitano should do a show together, on CNN
Posted by: Woodrow || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fox in the hen cuck-house
Bend over, cuck-boy. Take it on the Wallechin-ski
Good Boy!
Posted by: Lex || 01/28/2020 3:09 Comments || Top||

#2  I think Chrïstopher has a thing for that Cherokee sqaw candidate.
Posted by: Varmint Splat1454 || 01/28/2020 3:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Yup. His very own Lil' White Dove.

Running Bear loved Little White Dove /
With a love big as the sky /
Running Bear loved Little White Dove /
With a love that couldn't die /
Running Bear dove in the water /
Little White Dove did the same

Posted by: Lex || 01/28/2020 3:36 Comments || Top||

#4  Pavlich is usually well studied up and correct. I will be polite and not discuss the other fellow.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2020 4:50 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm not polite - he's a smarmy little liberal scumbag who should be beaten daily, just for general violations of ethics and intelligence
Posted by: Frank G || 01/28/2020 5:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Check when Wallace's contract ends with Fox. He is presently auditioning for the MSM.
Posted by: b || 01/28/2020 7:00 Comments || Top||

#7  Yes, he wants to follow in daddy's pawprints on Sickly Minutes.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/28/2020 15:00 Comments || Top||

#8  CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, ESPN...

I think Fox needs to understand that if people want to be fed garbage there are all of the above dumps they can go to. Not necessary at all for them to have trash on their own network.
Posted by: Goober Tingle7365 || 01/28/2020 17:39 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
'Pete Buttigieg Tells Woman Her Pro-Life Views Not Welcomed In Democrat Party
[Daily Wire] Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg refused to tell a Democrat voter on Sunday that her pro-life views were welcomed in the party after being repeatedly pressed about the issue during a Fox News town hall event.

"I am a proud pro-life Democrat," Kristin Day, a member of the audience, told Buttigieg. "So, do you want the support of pro-life Democrats, pro-life Democratic voters? There are about 21 million of us, and if so, would you support more moderate platform language in the Democratic Party to ensure that the party of diversity and inclusion really does include everybody?"

"Well I respect where you’re coming from and I hope to earn your vote, but I’m not going to try to earn your vote by tricking you," Buttigieg responded. "I am pro-choice and I believe that a woman ought to be able to make that decision. I know that the difference of opinion that you and I have is one that we have come by honestly and the best that I can offer, and it may win your vote, and if not, I understand, the best I can offer is that if we can’t agree on where to draw the line, the next best thing we can do is agree on who should draw the line and in my view it’s the woman who’s faced with that decision in her own life."

Fox News host Chris Wallace interjected: "This is an interesting moment because President Trump spoke at the March to Life movement, he was the first president ever to actually appear at the March to Life movement, and I’m curious, Kristin, were you satisfied with the answer you got for the mayor?"
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2020 06:15 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Forked tongue kak packer speaks truth !
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2020 9:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Bending Bear actually handled the lady's question rather well. Score one for the direct-commissioned Summer Soldier.
Posted by: Lex || 01/28/2020 11:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Didn't think he had the right to answer that question unless he is the wife.

Still, better than suggesting she go spend some time out in the field with the basketball players.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 01/28/2020 16:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Can't wait til science makes the abortion of gay genes possible. Shoe, meet other foot...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/28/2020 18:24 Comments || Top||


'Newest GOP Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler goes after Mitt Romney for
[Right Scoop] Senator Kelly Loeffler, a new GOP Senator who was appointed the seat of Johnny Isakson by Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, is hitting Mitt Romney today for ’appeasing the left’ with the entire Bolton saga:

Keep in mind that she’s running in 2020 to keep her seat and plans to spend big bucks to do so. Some are interpreting this tweet as her way of trying to appeal to the pro-Trump base. I’d say mission accomplished.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2020 05:50 || Comments || Link || [11 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She's flooding the zone with teevee adds in Georgia. She's hitting the easy 25m target with the Mittens stuff.

Golf clap for you Senator. Yes, that's all. Just a polite golf clap.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2020 5:56 Comments || Top||

#2  That's more than my Ohio Senators Portman(R) and (hold my nose) Brown(D) are doing.
Posted by: Thimp Clusort2035 || 01/28/2020 6:45 Comments || Top||

#3  I question anyone that has an investment in the WNBA
Posted by: Beavis || 01/28/2020 9:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Ref #3: I question anyone that has an investment in the WNBA

I suspect there is little need to question the motivation for the investment. It's was a long-term political play. Just guessing, but I'd say we're likely to be seeing much, much more of Loeffler before 2024.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2020 9:22 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm with you besoeker, they were worried she wouldn't be right wing enough. Looks like she is starting out good to me just by telling it like it is to Romney.
Posted by: Chris || 01/28/2020 11:56 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh it’s definitely her over pajama boy Ossoff any day. I thought I was done with him but his yard signs are re-emerging here in Brookhaven
Posted by: Beavis || 01/28/2020 12:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Doug Collins who Trump was lobbying for is going to primary her anyway.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/28/2020 14:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Saw that on the news last night beavis, still waiting on the Abrams signs
Posted by: Chris || 01/28/2020 16:48 Comments || Top||

#9  Can't miss em, they're YUGE
Posted by: Frank G || 01/28/2020 18:02 Comments || Top||

#10  #8 my burden to bear for being ITP Chris, but I couldn’t take the commute from Alpharetta any more
Posted by: Beavis || 01/28/2020 22:24 Comments || Top||

#11  omg, you live ITP? I'm so sorry for you.
Posted by: Chris || 01/28/2020 23:34 Comments || Top||

#12  LOL Brookhaven is awesome. Traveled SSI today for work, fresh shrimp and tomorrow River St
Posted by: Beavis || 01/28/2020 23:44 Comments || Top||

#13  I can handle 16 I can’t take 400
Posted by: Beavis || 01/28/2020 23:45 Comments || Top||


Bondi Time: Fox10 Phoenix’s Pam Bondi Details Hunter Biden Ukraine Connection
Posted by: 3dc || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Spend the time to watch this Senate testimony. She buried the Bidens and Schiff.
Posted by: 3dc || 01/28/2020 0:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Right between the Bond-eyez!

Take that, Mad Hatter!
Too bad the Nadler-Dormouse wasn't sentient and present to take a hit (or two, or twelve...)
Posted by: Lex || 01/28/2020 3:12 Comments || Top||

#3  You've got to wonder if Biden decided to run for the presidency to gain cover for his and his son's Ukraine shenanigans. Biden announced his run on April 25, 2019. Trump had his conversation with Zelensky on July 25, 2019, about 3 months after Biden announced. The whistleblower, a Trump-hater and associate of Biden and Brennan, most likely knew about or anticipated impending threats from a Trump initiated Ukraine corruption investigation. Report: Schiff Aide, Whistleblower Wanted To “Take Out” Trump. What Did Schiff Know and When Did He Know It?

If there are going to be witnesses, let’s have a real investigation into Ukraine corruption. Let’s hear from:
1. Adam Schiff,
2. Jerrold Nadler
3. The whistleblower
4. John Brennan
5. Alexandra Chalupa
6. The Bidens and others who had interests in Barisma.
7. Others
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/28/2020 10:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Tape that one to the wall for additional monitoring. Thx John.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2020 10:57 Comments || Top||


House wants to give all human spaceflight to Boeing?
How fortunate that the House can accomplish nothing when the Senate and President Trump disagree.
[Twitter]








Even with stuff like this happening almost every day:



Posted by: 3dc || 01/28/2020 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well, it'll be a miserable failure, but at least it will be woke and diverse and Muslim friendly.

And it's "free rein" dammit! Sorry, pet peeve.

Posted by: charger || 01/28/2020 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  No.

Keep it open for competition. Only way to improve things and make it affordable.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/28/2020 0:33 Comments || Top||

#3  And it's "free rein" dammit!

Oh my goodness, yes! It refers to letting the horses move freely without controlling them via the reins.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/28/2020 0:53 Comments || Top||

#4  $$$ will rain down from the congressional welkin ... into the Boeingian (executives') pockets
... andinto the pockets of their captive Congresscritters
Posted by: Lex || 01/28/2020 2:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Just like foreign aid.

Looks like some house members families want a sinecure at boeing.

#CronyRentierism
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 01/28/2020 5:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Sure thing, Dems - as soon as you sign off for $75 billion for a border wall. That or something similar should be brought up if / when this bill goes to conference.
Posted by: Raj || 01/28/2020 8:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Gotta support those retired US military officers in the employ of Boeing.
Besides, the US gum'ment bailed Boeing out in the '70s or so. What's a little single-source contract gonna hurt?
Posted by: DooDahMan || 01/28/2020 8:28 Comments || Top||

#8  Snarks are easy, this is a bit more complex. SpaceX is successful because they control the vendors and the process, not unlike what NASA is trying to do with Boeing. When NASA has multiple vendors on the program there is redundancies that are not complimentary, causing costs to soar. Take the Boeing or SpaceX name out and ask if it is still a bad idea. We have shown that NASA is way to expensive, other space providers have proven cost effective. And I think the days of forcing companies to team on Govt contracts are about over. It has proven time and time again to be a schedule and price killer. BTW, Boeing does not need a bail out. With the 737Max line running and not delivering Boeing still made a profit this year, not great but in the green. Boeing has hundreds of aircraft to deliver this year, they don't need this to survive and prosper.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 01/28/2020 10:22 Comments || Top||

#9  Thx Panster.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/28/2020 10:30 Comments || Top||

#10  Rand Simberg's Transterrestial Musing is the first blog I go to on this subject: The House NASA Authorization Bill(Jan 27)
Posted by: magpie || 01/28/2020 13:52 Comments || Top||

#11  #10 If this analysis is correct, then I'm even less enamored of this move than I was.

It seems to me that the mission should drive the requirements; this appears to be the reverse.

And not using lunar to facilitate Mars missions?

I mean, if it can't be made to work, that's one thing; but to mandate separation of the efforts seems ... strange.
Posted by: charger || 01/28/2020 17:58 Comments || Top||



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