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Post by mhbruin on Jan 28, 2024 9:18:45 GMT -8
The sermon this morning: "Jesus Walks on the Water." The sermon tonight: "Searching for Jesus."
Why Shouldn't She Celebrate? She Got $3.5.
Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba has been criticized extensively following the massive $83.3 million jury verdict against her client, but some legal and political experts say she's taking a victory lap anyway.
Habba, who has been accused of costing the former president millions of dollars with her poor performance at the trial, took to social media afterward with a vague, positive remark.
"This is far from over," Habba posted on social media on Friday. "We are just getting started." The attorney then included emojis of an American flag, a boxing glove, and the hashtag, "MAGA." To someone without knowledge of the court case, it might look like she had just been victorious.
The post prompted reactions from Trump biographer Tim O'Brien, who said, "The thing you say when you're utterly in over your head legally and you and your client just got hit with an $83.3 million judgment," as well as former White House correspondent Brian J. Karem, who also chose to chime in on Habba's X post.
"You are literally too stupid to know you're done," he said on Saturday. "Like a chicken with its head cutoff. You can walk around for a bit. But that doesn't mean you've got a future."
In another example of Habba's purported victory lap, she is seen commenting on a post that said, "If I ever need an attorney, I'm calling [Habba]." Habba's comment in a screenshot includes a bicep emoji and an American flag.
U.S. Army Iraq War Veteran Peter Henlein picked up on that interaction, saying "Alina Habba is in the replies of MAGA influencers, celebrating herself....the day after losing an 83M case."
"These people are idiots," he added. Jenna Ellis, the former Trump attorney who pleaded guilty after being charged alongside the ex-president in the Georgia criminal case alleging election subversion, reposted that quote.
She’s lost three trials so far, and I don’t think she’s ever won. She denied Trump a jury in his fraud trial by screwing up the paperwork, and infamously said she’s rather be pretty than smart because you can “fake being smart.”
On social media, the MAGA morons were trying to spin her massive $83.3 million dollar loss as a victory for Trump because reasons. Her antics were so bad that Carroll got many times over what she asked for. She’s the Lauren Boebert of lawyers.
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 28, 2024 9:20:17 GMT -8
Apparently Healthy and Sustainable Food Doesn't Make You Smart
Environmental protesters have thrown soup at the glass-protected Mona Lisa in France, calling for the right to "healthy and sustainable food".
The 16th Century painting by Leonardo da Vinci is one of the world's most famous artworks, and is held at the Louvre in central Paris.
The Louvre said the work was behind protective glass and was not damaged.
Video shows two female protesters wearing T-shirts that read "food counterattack" throwing the liquid.
They then stand in front of the painting, saying: "What is more important? Art or the right to healthy and sustainable food?
"Your agricultural system is sick. Our farmers are dying at work," they add.
Museum security are then seen putting black screens in front of them before the room is evacuated.
A group called Riposte Alimentaire (Food Counterattack) claimed responsibility for the stunt.
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 28, 2024 9:23:14 GMT -8
War! What Is It Good For? Absolutely Nothing!For Americans, the first decade of the 21st century may have been dominated by the 9/11 attacks and the bloody and controversial wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but by some measures, it was one of the most peaceful periods in recorded history, with fewer recorded battlefield deaths than the world had seen in a century. In the decade that followed, due largely to the raging conflict in Syria, the number of civilian and military deaths in state-based conflicts around the world climbed from just over 25,000 in 2011 to just short of 116,000 in 2014, according to data from the Uppsala Conflict Data Program and Peace Research Institute Oslo. But that’s still lower than many years in the 1970s and 1980s, when global totals often exceeded 200,000 annually, let alone the more than 400,000 who died on average per year in the late 1940s. By 2020, the number had fallen back below 54,000. Then came 2022, which, according to Uppsala and PRIO, saw more than 204,000 war deaths. That made it the deadliest year for conflict since the mid-1980s. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine made the biggest headlines... 
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 28, 2024 9:25:58 GMT -8
Who Won the Week?
Representation for Black Louisianans, as a new court-ordered congressional map is signed into law containing, for the first time, two majority-Black districts
Judge Lewis Kaplan, for keeping a tight leash on Trump during the E. Jean Carroll damages trial case...and the jury for making him pay $83 million
The million-plus German citizens who took to the streets in several cities to protest calls by a far-right political party to purify the country by deporting the “non-assimiliated”
President Biden: marks 3 years as accomplished POTUS; pauses LNG exports; signs orders protecting reproductive freedom; crushes it with NH write-ins; snags UAW endorsement
Turkey's parliament, for finally approving the admission of Sweden as the 32nd member of NATO
The wheels of justice, as Trump White House stooge Peter Navarro is sentenced to prison for defying the January 6th committee
Mexico's government, as a U.S. court says it can proceed with the lawsuit against U.S. gun makers for supplying weapons to cartels that use them for murder
The American economy, as 4th quarter growth (3.3%) defies all expectations and inflation continues to fall
Political satire, as Jon Stewart returns to The Daily Show through the 2020 elections as part-time host and executive producer
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 28, 2024 9:26:53 GMT -8
The War in the Middle East Keeps Heating Up
Three American service members were killed and “many” were wounded in a drone strike in Jordan, President Joe Biden said in a statement Sunday. He attributed the attack to Iran-backed militia groups.
They were the first U.S. fatalities in months of strikes against American forces across the Middle East by Iranian-backed militias amid the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, increasing the risk of escalation.
Biden said the United States “will hold all those responsible to account at a time and in a manner our choosing.”
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 28, 2024 9:27:54 GMT -8
Putting the Blame Squarely Where It Doesn't Belong
A plane’s door panel blowing out while 16,000 feet in the air. A cargo plane catching on fire. A wheel popping off of a commercial jet during takeoff.
These are just a few of the recent flight safety incidents that have shocked fliers across the country. Most of the scrutiny has focused on Boeing, a billion-dollar multinational corporation that has already come under fire.
But if you ask a conservative, these scary incidents weren’t caused by aircraft CEOs putting profits over safety — they happened because too many unqualified people of color have been hired for the sake of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 28, 2024 9:31:10 GMT -8
Don't We All Make $48 Million Mistakes on Our Taxes?Tucked into a footnote in a letter written by former federal judge Barbara Jones, the court-appointed special monitor overseeing Donald Trump's New York business fraud case is a bombshell that appears to indicate the former president may have engaged in massive tax evasion, according to a new report released by The Daily Beast. The letter, first reported by The Messenger, was delivered Friday to update Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron on Jones' findings while reviewing the former president's business dealings through his company, the Trump Organization. In it, Jones writes that the financial information filed to her by Trump's team has contained "incomplete" or "inconsistent" disclosures containing multiple "errors." However, she describes Trump and his businesses as "cooperative" with her investigation. But buried in the sixth footnote of the 12-page letter is what the Daily Beast indicated is a clue that Trump may have evaded taxes on $48 million in income, with Jones writing that the massive sum — which Trump has claimed for years that he owes as a debt to one of his companies — never existed. "When I inquired about this loan, I was informed that there are no loan agreements that memorialize the loan, but that it was a loan that was believed to be between Donald J. Trump, individually, and Chicago Unit Acquisition for $48 million," Jones wrote. She added: "However, in recent discussions with the Trump Organization, it indicated that it has determined that this loan never existed — and thus that it would be removed from any upcoming forms submitted to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) and would also be removed from subsequent versions of MAML," Jones wrote, referring to corporate financial statements filed by the company. Special monitor suggests Trump falsified disclosures over $48 million loan in what could be tax evasion, report says
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Post by mhbruin on Jan 28, 2024 9:32:39 GMT -8
Note to Coal, Mate: Bu-Bye
Australia can close down its largest coal-fired power plant and the residents of New South Wales wouldn’t experience any interruption in their electricity, according to a new report.
Clean Energy Finance director Tim Buckley analyzed the 2024-2030 power sector and determined New South Wales will get along just fine without depending on dirty old coal.
“There is no reason why the taxpayer should be on the hook for multiples of hundreds of millions of dollars to keep Eraring open,” Buckley told the Guardian. The 2,880-megawatt Eraring station is now set to close in August 2025.
There are multiple reasons why the Aussies are ready to move on from coal, a major one being that New South Wales is “leading the world in the financing, approval, and construction” of new battery storage systems, according to the report, as the Guardian summarized.
Numerous battery energy storage systems are in the works, including the Waratah Super Battery. Once complete, it is expected to be the largest standby network battery in the Southern Hemisphere, according to a government source quoted by Cosmos Magazine.
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