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Just kind forgot that little thing...
And the evidence of continued nuclear work...
details. Distracting details.
Now, if Don the con could get the Taliban AND Kimmie Kim Kim to Camp David THAT would be a sleepover. Maybe invite some missionaries in North Korea... oh wait, they're all in jail. Well, he'll think of something...
Sheriff Joe
DA
September 14, 2019
In Illinois, dead people not only can vote, but can get free medical care
By Thomas Lifson
Illinois clearly is the pioneer in the not yet existent deceased rights movement, which I have heard is having trouble with turnout for its rallies. But if the dead ever do rise from their graves in a zombie apocalypse, as so often dramatized on cable television, they will no doubt demand that other states follow the lead of Illinois.
They're not dead, they're a constituency:
Photo credit: Max Pixel.
Illinois Policy reveals that the state has spent $4.6 million on Medicaid for dead people:
An audit by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Office of Inspector General, or OIG, found Illinois spent $4.6 million on Medicaid coverage for dead people.
From October 2015 to September 2017, Illinois made 84 insurance payments for 80 deceased individuals that the state did not recover, according to OIG's audit. The state now owes the federal government $3.2 million – the portion of the $4.6 million Illinois received from the federal health department
State officials blamed the errors on a "technical flaw," according to the Chicago Tribune, and said the state failed to enter the individuals' death dates into the system.
I wonder if "Technical Flaw" has any siblings, cousins, or children on the public payroll? This being Illinois, I wouldn't rule it out.
In Illinois, dead people not only can vote, but can get free medical care
By Thomas Lifson
Illinois clearly is the pioneer in the not yet existent deceased rights movement, which I have heard is having trouble with turnout for its rallies. But if the dead ever do rise from their graves in a zombie apocalypse, as so often dramatized on cable television, they will no doubt demand that other states follow the lead of Illinois.
They're not dead, they're a constituency:
Photo credit: Max Pixel.
Illinois Policy reveals that the state has spent $4.6 million on Medicaid for dead people:
An audit by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Office of Inspector General, or OIG, found Illinois spent $4.6 million on Medicaid coverage for dead people.
From October 2015 to September 2017, Illinois made 84 insurance payments for 80 deceased individuals that the state did not recover, according to OIG's audit. The state now owes the federal government $3.2 million – the portion of the $4.6 million Illinois received from the federal health department
State officials blamed the errors on a "technical flaw," according to the Chicago Tribune, and said the state failed to enter the individuals' death dates into the system.
I wonder if "Technical Flaw" has any siblings, cousins, or children on the public payroll? This being Illinois, I wouldn't rule it out.
It's ok. Our Socialist president will bail them out.
https://www.daytondailynews.com/bus...g-poor-growing-season/1vcDZCD0yMsHtIYXTxPxCP/
https://www.daytondailynews.com/bus...g-poor-growing-season/1vcDZCD0yMsHtIYXTxPxCP/
Sheriff Joe
DA
Umm. You people just can’t help yourselves.
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Even Brett Kavanaugh has questions
New York Times describes 'a penis in the face' as 'harmless fun' in tweet promoting Kavanaugh story
Sep 14, 2019 7:41pm PDT by Jessica Sutherland, Daily Kos Staff
126184
The New York Times outdid itself on Saturday, when staff took to social media to promote an excerpt from an upcoming book about alleged rapist and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s time at Yale. The book excerpt, repackaged as an essay called “Brett Kavanaugh Fit In With the Privileged Kids. She Did Not,” focuses on the experiences of Deborah Ramirez, who, along with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, came forward with accusations of sexual assault by the then SCOTUS-nominee in early 2018.
Unlike Dr. Ford, Ramirez was denied a chance to confront her accuser—or at least tell her story to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Deemed a “credible” allegation by FBI agents and confirmed by numerous witnesses, Ramirez’ encounter with Kavanaugh during their freshman year at Yale is described as a quick one: He whipped out his penis at a party, and stuck it in her face, forcing her to swat it away with her hand.
The essay goes on to explore how that incident, along with other issues Ramirez faced at Yale as a woman of color who didn’t come from money, shaped her experiences at the Ivy League school during the 1980s. Kavanaugh’s penis in her face is described as just “one of many painful encounters at Yale.” It’s a good, if rage-inducing piece, that chronicles her struggles after she finally came forward in 2018, which is a journey in and of itself. It also reveals a “previously unreported” allegation of Kavanaugh doing the same thing at another party.
We also uncovered a previously unreported story about Mr. Kavanaugh in his freshman year that echoes Ms. Ramirez’s allegation. A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. Mr. Stier, who runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate and Mr. Stier has declined to discuss it publicly.
All of this is to say that “Privileged Kids” is a harrowing investigative report, with lots of nuance and a solid narrative arc that ends in something like vindication for Ramirez. Not a bad pitch for the book itself, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, by NYT Culture writer Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, who covers Wall Street for the Grey Lady.
So of course—OF COURSE—the Times screws it up, with one “poorly phrased” tweet, which has since been deleted … as well as the “apology” tweet that followed it (and included a screenshot).
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Even Brett Kavanaugh has questions
New York Times describes 'a penis in the face' as 'harmless fun' in tweet promoting Kavanaugh story
Sep 14, 2019 7:41pm PDT by Jessica Sutherland, Daily Kos Staff
The New York Times outdid itself on Saturday, when staff took to social media to promote an excerpt from an upcoming book about alleged rapist and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s time at Yale. The book excerpt, repackaged as an essay called “Brett Kavanaugh Fit In With the Privileged Kids. She Did Not,” focuses on the experiences of Deborah Ramirez, who, along with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, came forward with accusations of sexual assault by the then SCOTUS-nominee in early 2018.
Unlike Dr. Ford, Ramirez was denied a chance to confront her accuser—or at least tell her story to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Deemed a “credible” allegation by FBI agents and confirmed by numerous witnesses, Ramirez’ encounter with Kavanaugh during their freshman year at Yale is described as a quick one: He whipped out his penis at a party, and stuck it in her face, forcing her to swat it away with her hand.
The essay goes on to explore how that incident, along with other issues Ramirez faced at Yale as a woman of color who didn’t come from money, shaped her experiences at the Ivy League school during the 1980s. Kavanaugh’s penis in her face is described as just “one of many painful encounters at Yale.” It’s a good, if rage-inducing piece, that chronicles her struggles after she finally came forward in 2018, which is a journey in and of itself. It also reveals a “previously unreported” allegation of Kavanaugh doing the same thing at another party.
We also uncovered a previously unreported story about Mr. Kavanaugh in his freshman year that echoes Ms. Ramirez’s allegation. A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. Mr. Stier, who runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate and Mr. Stier has declined to discuss it publicly.
All of this is to say that “Privileged Kids” is a harrowing investigative report, with lots of nuance and a solid narrative arc that ends in something like vindication for Ramirez. Not a bad pitch for the book itself, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, by NYT Culture writer Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, who covers Wall Street for the Grey Lady.
So of course—OF COURSE—the Times screws it up, with one “poorly phrased” tweet, which has since been deleted … as well as the “apology” tweet that followed it (and included a screenshot).
Umm. You people just can’t help yourselves.
Attribution: Getty Images
Even Brett Kavanaugh has questions
New York Times describes 'a penis in the face' as 'harmless fun' in tweet promoting Kavanaugh story
Sep 14, 2019 7:41pm PDT by Jessica Sutherland, Daily Kos Staff
126184
The New York Times outdid itself on Saturday, when staff took to social media to promote an excerpt from an upcoming book about alleged rapist and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s time at Yale. The book excerpt, repackaged as an essay called “Brett Kavanaugh Fit In With the Privileged Kids. She Did Not,” focuses on the experiences of Deborah Ramirez, who, along with Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, came forward with accusations of sexual assault by the then SCOTUS-nominee in early 2018.
Unlike Dr. Ford, Ramirez was denied a chance to confront her accuser—or at least tell her story to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Deemed a “credible” allegation by FBI agents and confirmed by numerous witnesses, Ramirez’ encounter with Kavanaugh during their freshman year at Yale is described as a quick one: He whipped out his penis at a party, and stuck it in her face, forcing her to swat it away with her hand.
The essay goes on to explore how that incident, along with other issues Ramirez faced at Yale as a woman of color who didn’t come from money, shaped her experiences at the Ivy League school during the 1980s. Kavanaugh’s penis in her face is described as just “one of many painful encounters at Yale.” It’s a good, if rage-inducing piece, that chronicles her struggles after she finally came forward in 2018, which is a journey in and of itself. It also reveals a “previously unreported” allegation of Kavanaugh doing the same thing at another party.
We also uncovered a previously unreported story about Mr. Kavanaugh in his freshman year that echoes Ms. Ramirez’s allegation. A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. Mr. Stier, who runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate and Mr. Stier has declined to discuss it publicly.
All of this is to say that “Privileged Kids” is a harrowing investigative report, with lots of nuance and a solid narrative arc that ends in something like vindication for Ramirez. Not a bad pitch for the book itself, The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation, by NYT Culture writer Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, who covers Wall Street for the Grey Lady.
So of course—OF COURSE—the Times screws it up, with one “poorly phrased” tweet, which has since been deleted … as well as the “apology” tweet that followed it (and included a screenshot).
It appears you are promoting the news that Kavanaugh committed perjury, and that the FBI knew it, and that they were held back from a full investigation by the leadership of the DOJ. Is that what you intended?
Payrolls rise 164,000 as labor force sets a record high
PUBLISHED FRI, AUG 2 2019 8:30 AM EDTUPDATED FRI, AUG 2 2019 10:11 AM EDT
KEY POINTS
- The Labor Department reports that payrolls increased 164,000 during July, just 1,000 below the 165,000 Dow Jones forecast.
- Wages increased 3.2% year over year, topping expectations by one-tenth of a percentage point. Average weekly hours edged lower to 34.3.
- The total labor force came in at a record-high 163.4 million.
The Labor Department reported Friday that payrolls increased 164,000 during the month, just 1,000 below the 165,000 Dow Jones forecast. This also was about the average monthly gain for the year. In 2018, the economy created 223,000 jobs a month.
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/02/us-jobs-report-july-2019.html
Looks like CNN is using a double barrel shot gun on their hull
now....the .22 wasn't good enough to sink their own Network.
Kavanaugh is going to own that Network if they keep this
stupidity up...........
Bruddah IZ
DA
Lol!
Bruddah IZ
DA
What a deal.
Bruddah IZ
DA
With the help of spigot boy.
Nonononono
PREMIER
I saw Kavanaugh with his pants down.
Did he say "Size doesn't matter"?
Hüsker Dü
DA
He said, "I like beer, and it was cold."
Bruddah IZ
DA
Hanapaa!!
Sheriff Joe
DA
Don’t know what you are trying to say but,
The New York Times Anti-Kavanaugh Bombshell Is Actually a Dud
By JOHN MCCORMACK
September 15, 2019 11:55 AM
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh departs the House Chamber, February 5, 2019. (Reuters/Joshua Roberts)
The authors omit the fact that the alleged victim has no memory of the alleged incident.
If you opened Twitter on Sunday morning, you were likely greeted with the bombshell headline of the top trending news story: “NYT reporters’ book details new sexual assault allegation against Brett Kavanaugh.”
The allegation, Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly write in a New York Times story adapted from their forthcoming anti-Kavanaugh book, is this: “We also uncovered a previously unreported story about Mr. Kavanaugh in his freshman year that echoes Ms. Ramirez’s allegation. A classmate, Max Stier, saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student.”
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No, if I’m reading Pogrebin and Kelly right, the friends didn’t push Kavanaugh in the back. Rather, the “friends pushed his penis.”
What? How does that happen? Who are the friends? Who is the female student? Were there any witnesses besides Stier?
All that the authors write in the New York Times essay about corroborating the story is this: “Mr. Stier, who runs a nonprofit organization in Washington, notified senators and the F.B.I. about this account, but the F.B.I. did not investigate and Mr. Stier has declined to discuss it publicly. (We corroborated the story with two officials who have communicated with Mr. Stier.)”
writes on Twitter: “The book notes, quietly, that the woman Max Stier named as having been supposedly victimized by Kavanaugh and friends denies any memory of the alleged event.” Omitting this fact from the New York Times story is one of the worst cases of journalistic malpractice in recent memory.
weird non-sexual “naked parties”would recognize both the female student and Kavanaugh are both alleged victims in this alleged incident, barring an additional allegation that a college-aged Kavanaugh asked his “friends” to “push his penis.”
The new allegation is supposed to help lend credence to the on-the-record allegation that Kavanaugh’s Yale classmate Deborah Ramirez made in 2018. Pogrebin and Kelly sum up Ramirez’s allegation: “She and some classmates had been drinking heavily when, she says, a freshman named Brett Kavanaugh pulled down his pants and thrust his penis at her, prompting her to swat it away and inadvertently touch it. Some of the onlookers, who had been passing around a fake penis earlier in the evening, laughed.”
Pogrebin and Kelly downplay Ramirez’s own doubts about whether Kavanaugh did what she now alleges, choosing rather to lard up their New York Times story with details that are supposed to demonstrate how under-privileged Ramirez was: She had to sell ice cream during the summer in high school, bought a cheap car, and only had an above-ground swimming pool as a teenager (the horror).
None of these details corroborates her accusation against Kavanaugh. But the story is framed to make it seem like Kavanaugh was the type of privileged jerk who might expose himself in front of an under-privileged college classmate.
As I wrote last October, here’s why Ramirez’s allegation was dubious:
Deborah Ramirez is the Yale classmate of Kavanaugh’s who now claims that Kavanaugh exposed himself as a college freshman at a party. Ramirez’s claim was already dubious because (1) named eyewitnesses deny the allegation and (2) Ramirez herself wasn’t sure in recent weeks if Kavanaugh had done what she now alleges. “Ms. Ramirez herself contacted former Yale classmates asking if they recalled the incident and told some of them that she could not be certain Mr. Kavanaugh was the one who exposed himself,” the New York Times reported. Ramirez was only willing to make the allegation, the New Yorker reported, after “six days of carefully assessing her memories and consulting with her attorney.”
Pogrebin and Kelly write that a couple of students say they had heard about the alleged incident in the days after it allegedly occurred, but the authors provide no indication there is any first-hand witness to corroborate the allegation.
We already knew before Kavanaugh was confirmed last October that the “corroborating” source for Ramirez’s claim, classmate Kenneth Appold, was not present when the alleged incident occurred, but Appold told the New Yorker he was “one-hundred-percent-sure” he heard about it from an eyewitness. Shortly before Kavanaugh was confirmed, the New Yorker reported that Appold’s supposed eyewitness “said that he had no memory of the incident.”
Maybe Pogrebin and Kelly’s book is stronger than their essay. But I’m skeptical. “In the end they turn up no smoking gun,” Hanna Rosin writes in her New York Times review of the book.
Sometimes young men of college (and even high school!) age put their peckers in places they shouldn't, especially if they like beer. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge, don't do that again young man or it will go on your Permanent Record! Years later we can (and I include myself in that "we") look back and wonder how we could have been so stupid as not to have been prepared for the first few times that the mixture of alcohol and testosterone hit our young bodies in the presence of young ladies enjoying the effects of similar (alcohol) but different (whatever hormone it is that makes young ladies suddenly think that drunk young men are so attractive) chemical mixtures. We know many others have been in the same situation and we can reminisce (fantasize?) about those days with them over a pitcher or two ("Remember when you ran your pecker around the rim of M's coffee cup and after he filled it and took a sip you told everyone he was giving you a virtual blowjob so we laughed at him all day and he didn't know why?").
But (trying to get back to the point here) - when it comes down to serious adult conversations (and by "serious" I mean situations such as when one is testifying under oath during a process to determine one's moral and intellectual fitness for a lifetime of judging other citizens' legal rights) and someone brings up those childish episodes, is it better to admit it happened ("I still like beer and ladies but I no longer act like a doped-out teenager") and cast one's lot with the politics of the day, or to deny that any of that ever happened and hope that a Permanent Record of a different nature doesn't surface?
But (trying to get back to the point here) - when it comes down to serious adult conversations (and by "serious" I mean situations such as when one is testifying under oath during a process to determine one's moral and intellectual fitness for a lifetime of judging other citizens' legal rights) and someone brings up those childish episodes, is it better to admit it happened ("I still like beer and ladies but I no longer act like a doped-out teenager") and cast one's lot with the politics of the day, or to deny that any of that ever happened and hope that a Permanent Record of a different nature doesn't surface?