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Post by mhbruin on Sept 28, 2023 8:05:35 GMT -8
I have a few jokes about unemployed people, but none of them work.
With All the Archaic Rules That Make the Senate Disfunctional, Senators Decide That This is What Needs Fixing.
The Senate has unanimously passed a formal dress code requiring business attire on the chamber floor, including a coat, tie and slacks for men.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had quietly changed the dress code last week to allow casual dress, sparking backlash from both sides of the aisle. Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., , known for his more laid-back wardrobe of shorts and a hoodie, was at the center of the clothing controversy.
Led by Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the new resolution reverses Schumer’s original decision.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 28, 2023 8:35:11 GMT -8
Can They Get a Witness? Apparently Not.
Lawyer Jonathan Turley was ridiculed as "shameless" after he was announced as a Republican witness willing to speak out at the House Oversight hearing that would advocate for the impeachment of President Joe Biden.
But, as the hearing started Thursday, he was pouring cold water on the GOP's plan.
In a statement, the George Washington University Law School professor declared: “ I do not believe that the evidence currently meets the standard of a high crime and misdemeanor needed for an article of impeachment.”
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Instead, Turley intends to use his time on the stand to attack the past impeachment of former President Donald Trump.
"The purpose of my testimony today is to discuss how past inquiries pursued evidence of potentially impeachable conduct," the statement continues. ---------------------------------- Bruce Dubinsky, a forensic accountant, told lawmakers that Republicans had amassed a great deal of evidence involving Hunter Biden and questions about the propriety of his overseas business dealings.
“However, much more information is still needed in order to be able to answer these questions and make a final determination as to whether or not the Biden family and its associates’ businesses were involved in any improper or illicit actvities, and whether those activities, if any, were connected to President Joe Biden or then-Vice President Biden,” Dubinsky said.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 28, 2023 8:37:18 GMT -8
We Now Have the Evidence to Impeach. Joe Biden Corruptly Used His Not Being in Office.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 28, 2023 8:44:58 GMT -8
She's Got You Babe, Even If She Has to Hire Kidnappers
Cher has been accused of hiring men to kidnap her son from a hotel where he was staying with his wife last year.
Court documents filed by Elijah Blue Allman's wife, Marieangela King, allege that four men "removed" him from a New York hotel room on their anniversary in November 2022.
The pair had reportedly been at the hotel attempting to save their marriage after filing for divorce in 2021.
The BBC has contacted representatives for Cher and Ms King for comment.
In court documents filed as part of divorce proceedings in Los Angeles Superior Court that have recently been made public, Ms King said she and Mr Allman had spent 12 days at the hotel "working out our marriage".
But "after spending these 12 days together in New York, on 30 November 2022, the night of our wedding anniversary, four people came to our hotel room and removed [Mr Allman] from our room," she claimed in a court declaration made in December 2022.
"I was told by one of the four men who took him that they were hired by [Mr Allman's] mother," she alleged.
In the court documents, Ms King said her husband had been receiving treatment at a medical facility since August 2022 - but she claimed she had not been told where it was and had no means of contacting him.
"I am currently unaware of my husband's wellbeing or whereabouts," she said in December, adding that she was "very concerned and worried about him".
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 28, 2023 8:47:28 GMT -8
The Queen of Canada?She claims to be the Queen of Canada, and now she's holding court in an abandoned school. Romana Didulo, a QAnon-inspired conspiracy theorist, leads a group of supporters who have spent the last few years traveling around Canada in motorhomes and other vehicles. Recently, the group moved into Richmound, a village of around 150 people in south-western Saskatchewan, and settled in at a former school. Ms Didulo and around 15 to 25 of her followers have been at the site for about a week, says Thomas Fougere of Community TV, a local independent news outlet based in nearby Medicine Hat. Soon after their arrival, the neighbours began pushing them to leave. Around 100 local residents drove around the school on Sunday in tractors, semi-trucks and other vehicles, trying to drive out the incomers, according to Mr Fougere. "It's the only place in the village where there's a playground and where kids can safely ride their bikes away from the highway," he said. "It's become a high tension situation. The town doesn't want them." Ms Didulo, 48, emigrated from the Philippines to Canada as a teenager. She set up several businesses before forming a fringe political party in 2020. Following endorsements from QAnon leaders, she built up a band of followers, declared that she had overthrown the legitimate government of Canada, and says her claim to the "Queen of Canada" title is backed by secret, powerful US military interests. On her most popular Telegram channel she has issued "decrees" to absolve her more than 36,000 followers from bills and debts. That has resulted in followers losing their homes, cars and possessions, says Christine Sarteschi, a professor at Chatham University in Pittsburgh and an expert on extremism and the sovereign citizen movement - a broad collection of anti-government groups who dodge taxes and make up their own fake legal systems. A QAnon 'queen' and the Canada town that wants her gone
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 28, 2023 8:49:02 GMT -8
What You Need to Know From Yesterday's Republican Debate
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 28, 2023 8:51:18 GMT -8
You Can't Stop the Beat ... Or the Trials of Previous Guy
Should Congress fail to pass spending legislation before Oct. 1, the federal courts will have enough funds to keep the doors open for a while, though many civil cases would taper off because of the shutdown’s effect on Department of Justice operations, according to a contingency plan published this week.
The plan states the Justice Department will exempt more than 84 percent of the department’s workforce, or more than 96,000 employees, from a shutdown furlough. That includes employees “necessary to protect life and property” like the Bureau of Prisons, Drug Enforcement Administration and others. [...]
The contingency plan noted that criminal prosecutions would continue as normal. Funding for Special Counsel John L. “Jack” Smith, supervising the criminal cases against Trump in Washington and Florida, comes from a “permanent, indefinite” appropriation which continues in the event of a shutdown.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 28, 2023 8:54:59 GMT -8
Maybe Having An Affair With An Asshole Sheriff Isn't a Good IdeaIn 2014, Bryan Bailey, the sheriff of Rankin County, Miss., made what seemed like a series of routine requests of the local district attorney’s office. He needed grand jury subpoenas, he said, to force the phone company to turn over records of calls and text messages for what he called a “confidential internal investigation.” Sheriff Bailey scrawled a brief note on a subpoena form and gave it to a paralegal in the district attorney’s office. “Please keep this confidential between you and I,” the note read. “Possible wrongdoing by school district employee.” But his requests had nothing to do with alleged wrongdoing, or any criminal investigation, according to a previously undisclosed report obtained by The New York Times and the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting at Mississippi Today. Instead, Sheriff Bailey tapped into the power of a grand jury at least eight times over a year to spy on his married girlfriend and the school employee with whom she was also “unfaithful,” the documents show. The investigative report, compiled in 2016 by the district attorney at the time, Michael Guest, laid out evidence that Sheriff Bailey had duped the prosecutor’s office and potentially violated state law on fraud, a felony that carries up to five years in prison. Mr. Guest, now a U.S. congressman and chairman of the House Committee on Ethics, decided he could not pursue the case further because of conflicts of interest, including his years long friendship with the sheriff. He told two local judges what he had discovered and passed his investigation on to the state attorney general. And that’s where the matter ended. The Sheriff, His Girlfriend and His Illegal Subpoenas
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 28, 2023 9:06:36 GMT -8
Mike Pence Tries Comedy. It Goes About As Well As You Might Expect.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 28, 2023 9:10:59 GMT -8
When is An Auto Worker Not An Auto Worker?
About 400 to 500 Trump supporters were inside a Drake Enterprises facility for the speech. Drake Enterprises employs about 150 people, and the UAW doesn't represent its workforce. It wasn't clear how many auto workers were in the crowd for the speech, which was targeted at them.
One individual in the crowd who held a sign that said "union members for Trump," acknowledged that she wasn't a union member when approached by a Detroit News reporter after the event. Another person with a sign that read "auto workers for Trump" said he wasn't an auto worker when asked for an interview. Both people didn't provide their names.
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Post by mhbruin on Sept 28, 2023 9:13:14 GMT -8
If the Call Was Perfect, Why Doesn't He Want the Jury to Hear It?
In public, Donald Trump says his conversation with the Georgia secretary of state asking to "find" votes for him was "a perfect call." But in private, sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone, the former president sounded a different tone about the conversation, asking his attorneys to draw up proposals for how to suppress its use in the criminal case against him.
Facing defeat in Georgia by nearly 12,000 votes, Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in early January 2021 demanding that he "find 11,780 votes," a number which Trump noted "is one more than we have because we won the state." Raffensperger released a recording of the call shortly thereafter - triggering months' worth of claims from Trump that he did nothing wrong.
As his criminal prosecution in Fulton County, Georgia, built momentum in recent months, that call only gained in importance. Since last year, Trump has been briefed multiple times by some of his legal advisers on specific strategies for attempting to get the tape tossed out in court, according to two sources familiar with the matter. At Trump's urging, some of the former president's legal advisers have prepared arguments to try and suppress the call, and discussed them at the upper ranks of Trumpland for months.
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