Chu:The State Department denied Shokin a visa out of what George Kent averred, providing no facts or details whatsoever, a "broadbased consensus," that for Shokin to allege corruption at the US embassy must itself be corrupt. [p. 50, George Kent statement (out of 355 empty rambling pages, in closed session, Nov. 6, 2019)]. What this is, is self-dealing. It is bias and an obvious conflict of interest from which State Department
officials had a duty to recuse from any decision upon, and refer to their White House superiors for decision. They knew the White House decision would have been to admit Shokin (and his successor prosecutors) to meet and testify to Giuliani and his team, so it was insubordinate of State to block such entry and testimony from Shokin (and other Ukrainian prosecutors). A lot of firings are very likely warranted here.
“Why do the Lords of the West sit there in peace unending, while we must die and go we know not whither, leaving our home and all that we have made? . . . Why should we not envy the Valar, or even the least of the Deathless? For of us is required a blind trust, and a hope without assurance, knowing not what lies before us in a little while. And yet we also love the Earth and would not lose it.”
Have i referenced tim powers declare recently its lecarre blended with lovecraft, its not a light read as it goes back to the 19th century and forward to 1988, with kim philby smack dab in the middle.
Trump tonight unloaded on the Dems and Media at a new level. The Rally tonight was like Patton’s speech to the D-Day troops that opened the movie Patton, but without the censorship of Patton’s language.
CJ John Roberts can't preside at the Senate trial. He's gonna be a witness and he has a prejudice against Trump.
28 U.S. Code section 455. Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate judge, (a) Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned. (b) He shall also disqualify himself in the following circumstances: (1) Where he has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding.
See also Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 605, The presiding judge may not testify as a witness at the trial.
Roberts’s certainly involved because he made the FISA court appointments and oversees the FISA court generally. Which means that the Senate GOPers defending the president will call him as a witness.
What’s more, Roberts is on record rebuking Trump on the Obama judges remark. In short, Roberts’ ability to act as an impartial is non-existent.
sometimes old spy novels entertain, sometimes they present a better world version of our shabby deep state, sometimes Poussin just decides that someone has gotta paint the Realm of Flora or the apotheosis of that scene from the Battle of the Bulge where J.D. said this is just too much .
Still no pictures of our Slovenian-American first lady on Vogue and its ilk, well Moliere's statute cannot be found at the Comedie Francaise .... Sad !
Via Instapundit: “I’ll take things I wish I never knew about for $200, Alex.”
“In the post, she explains that “30 seconds of sunlight on your butthole is the equivalent of a full day of sunlight with your clothes on,” and that it is “an ancient Taoist practice that’s been around for a while!”
"He supervised billions of dollars of aid that went from the U.S. taxpayer to Ukraine," Hilton said of Biden. "Much of that went to Burisma, a gas company that was paying his son." https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2019/nov/11/no-proof-biden-or-kerry-channeled-us-aid-ukraine-b/
So we were likely paying for Hunter Biden's crack habit. But he used up all the money and wouldn't pay support for his little child.
Friendsgiving is a wonderful concept. We had about two dozen dishes plus a smoked turkey as the centerpiece. Four different guitarists, including yours truly, and a mandolin player. Good clean fun...
And speaking of good music, here’s a tune from c. 1970 that I heard for the first time last week. Josefus ‘Crazy Man’.
wildswan said...So we were likely paying for Hunter Biden's crack habit. But he used up all the money and wouldn't pay support for his little child. -- He supported single moms at Archibald's...
MadTownGuy: "WaPo's Max Boot comes out in favor of uniparty rule: For Aiding Trump's Abuse of Power, GOP Deserves to Be Voted Out of Existence."
Max has been saying that since the fall of 2016. Max is irrelevant. Hence his whining and crying article he penned after writing his book and his new masters on the left simply ignored him or attacked him for his previous policy stances and conservatives and republicans ignored him and laughed at him for his hilariously reversed policy positions he took to get a lefty billionaire paycheck.
Poor little Max.
Imagine being pathetic Max Boot where he has to go into CNN everyday and suck up to everyone in the building at all times on all issues since his biggest fear is losing that paycheck.
Did you know Max is now a big time Climate Change activist? And big time feminist? And big time Black Lives Matter fella? And all for abortion on demand? And all for increasing taxes on the "rich" (middle class)?
If you didn't know better, you'd think Max Boot was Maxine Waters!!
Love this interview with Jeremy Corbyn: https://www.facebook.com/conservatives/videos/1022243018135007/?v=1022243018135007 The Labour Party has disciplined hundreds of its members for making anti-Semitic comments! So the Labour Party can't be anti-Semitic!
Via Lucianne: MIAMI – A 60-Year-old Miami man said he was forced to shoot and kill a gunman who had broken in to his van early Monday morning in an attempt to rob him of his jewelry. “The guy I killed last night, he put an AK-47 to my damn face,” said Donovan Stewart. Stewart told CBS4’S Peter D’Oench that he had to act quickly because he was worried about the safety of his 11-year-old son and girlfriend who were in the van with him. “I am from Kingstontown in Jamaica,” he said, “and I am not going to go out like a punk. So I emptied my Glock in his chest.
In a major policy reversal that critics say will cost the city and taxpayers millions of dollars, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has abandoned his long-stated goal of getting the city’s public employee unions to pay a portion of their healthcare costs. Under contracts signed this year that were supported by the mayor, many of City Hall’s largest unions will continue to contribute nothing toward their healthcare premiums. Garcetti also backed agreements with several smaller unions, allowing those employees who had been contributing 10% of their premiums to stop paying in January....
Corbyn, BTW, does not come from worker stock. He is bourgeois, his mother was an educator and his father was engineer. Corbyn was given (that is, he did not earn) and elite education at private schools.
so what ever happened to the other guy, Joe Pientka?
some interesting questions, etc per brian cates
Pientka is the guy that can not only blow the lid off of the Flynn frame up by the SpyGate plotters....
did you know he was ***also*** directly involved in that cool secret BACKCHANNEL beween the FBI & Fusion GPS beginning in October of 2016?
it's been public knowledge for going on 2 years now that the other FBI agent interviewing @GenFlynn along with Peter Strzok is JOSEPH PIENTKA, his name is still redacted in all official documents.
It's now late November 2019 and FBI Special Agent Joseph Pientka is ***STILL*** the Dept. of Justice's designated Invisible Man.
. In short, Roberts’ ability to act as an impartial is non-existent... _____&&&&---- Nice strategy on his part. Many moves back before anyone else figured out endgame.
Clarence Thomas on hot seat.
Can Thomas delegate? RBG for instance to flush her out in the open!
Ken B: "Mr Corbyn does not do well. Oh my no, Mr Corbyn does not do well at all. This is the whole interview, posted online by the Conservative party."
I had heard about this earlier today and just finished watching it.
O. M. G.
Astonishingly bad performance turned in by Corbyn...and by "performance" I of course mean that Corbyn made it quite clear where he stands anti-semitism, tax and spend programs and national security.
What a disaster for him...which means its going to be great for the Brits who have already seen Johnson surge to a large lead.
Perhaps Corbyn made the mistake of assuming all BBC interviewers would roll over for him as a leftist the way the US media rolls over for the democrats. If so, he made a bad guess!!
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
I got to the 11 o'clock weather late, just at the end, then the break and a Lightening teaser, teased enuff so I pondered how we ever got a freaking hockey team and I don't care, long enough to a see the Bloomberg ad. Long ad. Really good. Hard hitting but not too such. Referred to you know who as HIM. He got the best and they spent some time on the thing I think. He's comin for Florida.
Why doesn’t Max Boot bust out for some war zone or other, grab a gun, and join in. He loves war and maybe it is no longer his role to create wars, maybe he should just settle for fighting in one.
The Brexit part of the Corbyn interview gets overshadowed, but it was just as bizarre: As Prime Minister, you are going to take no position on the biggest domestic issue of our times? You won't campaign for the Brexit deal you promise to negotiate? If you won't campaign for the Corbyn deal, who will?
Mollie is doing great work, aka: investigative reporting. They accuse Nunes, and other Republicans they don't like, of trying to "get dirt" on Joe Biden. Not fabricate or manufacture dirt, aka: lies, like the pee tape, but uncover facts, truths, that would be politically inconvenient or injurious to Biden.
They really are panicked about this impeachment expedition and its failure.
Thanks. We are at the second hospital, waiting on tests and possible gall bladder surgery. Not the most serious medical condition but incredibly painful for her.
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Seems like a lot of music talk lately. I've posted some links to classic rockers reconsidering their hits. Here's another one:
A dynamite version of A Whiter Shade of Pale from 2006.
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes is pitching softballs to the coup plotters at Fusion GPS.
What a fucking tool.
Chu:The State Department denied Shokin a visa out of what George Kent averred, providing no facts or details whatsoever, a "broadbased consensus," that for Shokin to allege corruption at the US embassy must itself be corrupt. [p. 50, George Kent statement (out of 355 empty rambling pages, in closed session, Nov. 6, 2019)]. What this is, is self-dealing. It is bias and an obvious conflict of interest from which State Department
officials had a duty to recuse from any decision upon, and refer to their White House superiors for decision. They knew the White House decision would have been to admit Shokin (and his successor prosecutors) to meet and testify to Giuliani and his team, so it was insubordinate of State to block such entry and testimony from Shokin (and other Ukrainian prosecutors). A lot of firings are very likely warranted here.
a. blunt was interesting on Poussin, missed lots of the references to Orlando Furioso, not sure he knew much
Enjoy this month's Twitter primary for the Democratic Presidential race.
Questions.
“Why do the Lords of the West sit there in peace unending, while we must die and go we know not whither, leaving our home and all that we have made? . . . Why should we not envy the Valar, or even the least of the Deathless? For of us is required a blind trust, and a hope without assurance, knowing not what lies before us in a little while. And yet we also love the Earth and would not lose it.”
nothing in this world is worth more than trusting a friend.
Blunt the art expert and soviet apy.
Have i referenced tim powers declare recently its lecarre blended with lovecraft, its not a light read as it goes back to the 19th century and forward to 1988, with kim philby smack dab in the middle.
Trump tonight unloaded on the Dems and Media at a new level. The Rally tonight was like Patton’s speech to the D-Day troops that opened the movie Patton, but without the censorship of Patton’s language.
CJ John Roberts can't preside at the Senate trial. He's gonna be a witness and he has a prejudice against Trump.
28 U.S. Code section 455. Disqualification of justice, judge, or magistrate judge,
(a) Any justice, judge, or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.
(b) He shall also disqualify himself in the following circumstances:
(1) Where he has a personal bias or prejudice concerning a party, or personal knowledge of disputed evidentiary facts concerning the proceeding.
See also Federal Rules of Evidence, Rule 605,
The presiding judge may not testify as a witness at the trial.
Roberts’s certainly involved because he made the FISA court appointments and oversees the FISA court generally. Which means that the Senate GOPers defending the president will call him as a witness.
What’s more, Roberts is on record rebuking Trump on the Obama judges remark. In short, Roberts’ ability to act as an impartial is non-existent.
sometimes old spy novels entertain, sometimes they present a better world version of our shabby deep state, sometimes
Poussin just decides that someone has gotta paint the Realm of Flora or the apotheosis of that scene from the Battle of the Bulge where J.D. said this is just too much .
Still no pictures of our Slovenian-American first lady on Vogue and its ilk, well Moliere's statute cannot be found at the Comedie Francaise .... Sad !
Declare has an interesting twist,
That support for Warren has "plunged" buoys my confidence in the discretion of the voters.
As for music, I recommend another listen of The Court of the Crimson King. Start at the beginning and listen all the way through.
Via Instapundit: “I’ll take things I wish I never knew about for $200, Alex.”
“In the post, she explains that “30 seconds of sunlight on your butthole is the equivalent of a full day of sunlight with your clothes on,” and that it is “an ancient Taoist practice that’s been around for a while!”
https://jezebel.com/sunbathe-your-asshole-for-wellness-1840031856
What fresh hell:
https://youtu.be/DuQ4WSF6MkQ
That was the jezebel link.
On that note:
https://mobile.twitter.com/nypost/status/1199502515861118976
"He supervised billions of dollars of aid that went from the U.S. taxpayer to Ukraine," Hilton said of Biden. "Much of that went to Burisma, a gas company that was paying his son."
https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/article/2019/nov/11/no-proof-biden-or-kerry-channeled-us-aid-ukraine-b/
So we were likely paying for Hunter Biden's crack habit. But he used up all the money and wouldn't pay support for his little child.
Friendsgiving is a wonderful concept. We had about two dozen dishes plus a smoked turkey as the centerpiece. Four different guitarists, including yours truly, and a mandolin player. Good clean fun...
And speaking of good music, here’s a tune from c. 1970 that I heard for the first time last week. Josefus ‘Crazy Man’.
https://youtu.be/prMpL4Vi7kU
Midwest Nice
Midwest Voice Translator"
Walesa is going to Hong Kong. Fucking hell but what a great man.
Narisco: I reviewed Declare for National Review back in the day...
Do-Nothing Speaker Pelosi Blows Off All Her Work in DC Will Join Global Warming Summit in Madrid with Greta Thunberg
Sid you, its a rather remarkable undertaking.
Booker falls ,Buttigieg plunges..
Did you, the work itself although to properly review it, andrew hale the protaginist is an intriguing fellow.
WaPo's Max Boot comes out in favor of uniparty rule:
For Aiding Trump's Abuse of Power, GOP Deserves to Be Voted Out of Existence.
He say hes a fan of stalin, and lenin dissolved the constituent assembly so...
wildswan said...So we were likely paying for Hunter Biden's crack habit. But he used up all the money and wouldn't pay support for his little child.
--
He supported single moms at Archibald's...
In a manner of speaking:
https://mobile.twitter.com/paulsperry_/status/1199031202726006785
MadTownGuy: "WaPo's Max Boot comes out in favor of uniparty rule:
For Aiding Trump's Abuse of Power, GOP Deserves to Be Voted Out of Existence."
Max has been saying that since the fall of 2016. Max is irrelevant. Hence his whining and crying article he penned after writing his book and his new masters on the left simply ignored him or attacked him for his previous policy stances and conservatives and republicans ignored him and laughed at him for his hilariously reversed policy positions he took to get a lefty billionaire paycheck.
Poor little Max.
Imagine being pathetic Max Boot where he has to go into CNN everyday and suck up to everyone in the building at all times on all issues since his biggest fear is losing that paycheck.
Did you know Max is now a big time Climate Change activist? And big time feminist? And big time Black Lives Matter fella? And all for abortion on demand? And all for increasing taxes on the "rich" (middle class)?
If you didn't know better, you'd think Max Boot was Maxine Waters!!
Love this interview with Jeremy Corbyn: https://www.facebook.com/conservatives/videos/1022243018135007/?v=1022243018135007
The Labour Party has disciplined hundreds of its members for making anti-Semitic comments! So the Labour Party can't be anti-Semitic!
Via Lucianne: MIAMI – A 60-Year-old Miami man said he was forced to shoot and kill a gunman who had broken in to his van early Monday morning in an attempt to rob him of his jewelry. “The guy I killed last night, he put an AK-47 to my damn face,” said Donovan Stewart. Stewart told CBS4’S Peter D’Oench that he had to act quickly because he was worried about the safety of his 11-year-old son and girlfriend who were in the van with him. “I am from Kingstontown in Jamaica,” he said, “and I am not going to go out like a punk. So I emptied my Glock in his chest.
They don’t live in the real world.
Via Lucianne:
In a major policy reversal that critics say will cost the city and taxpayers millions of dollars, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has abandoned his long-stated goal of getting the city’s public employee unions to pay a portion of their healthcare costs. Under contracts signed this year that were supported by the mayor, many of City Hall’s largest unions will continue to contribute nothing toward their healthcare premiums. Garcetti also backed agreements with several smaller unions, allowing those employees who had been contributing 10% of their premiums to stop paying in January....
Corbyn, BTW, does not come from worker stock. He is bourgeois, his mother was an educator and his father was engineer. Corbyn was given (that is, he did not earn) and elite education at private schools.
Wow, that Corbyn interview was an epic "own goal".
I'm sure the BBC guy was a lefty, but he didn't hold back. Why can't anyone grill our pols this way?
“I am from Kingstontown in Jamaica,” he said, “and I am not going to go out like a punk. So I emptied my Glock in his chest.“
Johnny Too Bad in the flesh. I’m glad we lifted our lamp beside the golden door for this cat.
so what ever happened to the other guy, Joe Pientka?
some interesting questions, etc per brian cates
Pientka is the guy that can not only blow the lid off of the Flynn frame up by the SpyGate plotters....
did you know he was ***also*** directly involved in that cool secret BACKCHANNEL beween the FBI & Fusion GPS beginning in October of 2016?
it's been public knowledge for going on 2 years now that the other FBI agent interviewing @GenFlynn along with Peter Strzok is JOSEPH PIENTKA, his name is still redacted in all official documents.
It's now late November 2019 and FBI Special Agent Joseph Pientka is ***STILL*** the Dept. of Justice's designated Invisible Man.
https://twitter.com/drawandstrike/status/1199484162060816384
"Why do the Lords of the West sit there in peace unending, while we must die and go we know not whither"
And thus the fate of Numenor was decided.
. In short, Roberts’ ability to act as an impartial is non-existent...
_____&&&&----
Nice strategy on his part. Many moves back before anyone else figured out endgame.
Clarence Thomas on hot seat.
Can Thomas delegate?
RBG for instance to flush her out in the open!
Jeremy Corbyn interviewed.
https://m.facebook.com/conservatives/videos/1022243018135007/
Mr Corbyn does not do well. Oh my no, Mr Corbyn does not do well at all. This is the whole interview, posted online by the Conservative party.
Ken B: "Mr Corbyn does not do well. Oh my no, Mr Corbyn does not do well at all. This is the whole interview, posted online by the Conservative party."
I had heard about this earlier today and just finished watching it.
O. M. G.
Astonishingly bad performance turned in by Corbyn...and by "performance" I of course mean that Corbyn made it quite clear where he stands anti-semitism, tax and spend programs and national security.
What a disaster for him...which means its going to be great for the Brits who have already seen Johnson surge to a large lead.
Perhaps Corbyn made the mistake of assuming all BBC interviewers would roll over for him as a leftist the way the US media rolls over for the democrats. If so, he made a bad guess!!
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
narciso said...
Blunt the art expert and soviet apy.
Along with others who went to Marlborough. I avoided expulsion by the narrowest of margins.
I got to the 11 o'clock weather late, just at the end, then the break and a Lightening teaser,
teased enuff so I pondered how we ever got a freaking hockey team and I don't care, long enough to a see the Bloomberg ad. Long ad. Really good. Hard hitting but not too such. Referred to you know who as HIM. He got the best and they spent some time on the thing I think. He's comin for Florida.
My wife is being transported from one hospital to another. Part way there, the ambulance broke down. Now sitting by the side of the road.
On the road again. New and newer ambulance
Bill, hope things are within the “can handle OK” range. Best wishes.
“30 seconds of sunlight on your butthole is the equivalent of a full day of sunlight with your clothes on"
We are truly living in the end times.
I guess outdoor furniture manufacturers need to think about redesigning some chaises.
“30 seconds of sunlight on your butthole is the equivalent of a full day of sunlight with your clothes on"
This is an opportunity for a new, special formula CopperTone, with custom applicator.
Why doesn’t Max Boot bust out for some war zone or other, grab a gun, and join in. He loves war and maybe it is no longer his role to create wars, maybe he should just settle for fighting in one.
It did remind me of the old Coppertone ad, taken a few steps further.
Bill: What Quayle said.
Having watched part of the Corbyn interview, wow. Corbyn comes off horribly I'd love to have seen the post-interview meeting at Labor HQ.
I just invented a full spectrum bung bulb. Batteries and KY jelly not included.
What's up with all the Deutsche Bank suicides. Keeping up with the Klintons?
The Brexit part of the Corbyn interview gets overshadowed, but it was just as bizarre: As Prime Minister, you are going to take no position on the biggest domestic issue of our times? You won't campaign for the Brexit deal you promise to negotiate? If you won't campaign for the Corbyn deal, who will?
Excellent questions. No good answer.
Dejavu
https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/27/medias-latest-anti-nunes-smear-is-michael-cohen-in-prague-all-over-again/
Mollie is doing great work, aka: investigative reporting. They accuse Nunes, and other Republicans they don't like, of trying to "get dirt" on Joe Biden. Not fabricate or manufacture dirt, aka: lies, like the pee tape, but uncover facts, truths, that would be politically inconvenient or injurious to Biden.
They really are panicked about this impeachment expedition and its failure.
Thanks. We are at the second hospital, waiting on tests and possible gall bladder surgery. Not the most serious medical condition but incredibly painful for her.
Poor little Max.
An unexpected bonus of the Trump presidency is that fake conservatives are being outed.
prayers for you, bill Crawford,
What's up with all the Deutsche Bank suicides. Keeping up with the Klintons?
There’s more?
Older rumor it was going to collapse.i think they got a fair chunk of Our QE money.
Prayers, Bill.
Drago
Yes. It was wonderful. The question, can a middle aged man have a thirty minute orgasm I can now answer in the affirmative.
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