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I have nothing to write about. Trump has become boring and predictable. Only the ignorant and persons who can't manage their perceived anger will vote for him.

Things seem stable for the time being in Sinaloa. Yes, a nephew of Zambada-Garcia (Edgar Parra Juvanny Zambada, age 42) got killed, but he seemed like a straight arrow working for a seafood company. Maybe it was road rage? (Added: Probably not. His brother, Juan Jose Parra Zambada, alias "El Juanjo", was arrested with Jesus "El Rey" Zambada Garcia (El Mayo's brother) in 2008 and their father, Juan Jose Parra "El Diablo", was Zambada Garcia's brother in law, having married his sister Ana Maria Zambada Garcia. According to an interview El Mayo gave to the magazine Proceso, Juan Jose Parra "El Diablo" introduced Ismael Zambada-Garcia to drug trafficking when he was 16. [More...]

Another son of Jesus "El Rey" Zambada Garcia, and nephew of El Mayo, Jose Vicente Zambada- Reyes, was killed in a shooting in December.

These kidnappings/killings seem to have more markings of Alfredito Beltran Guzman (son of Alfredo Beltran Leyva, for whom the U.S. Government is seeking a Life sentence and a $10 billion forfeiture),rather than CJNG, although some say the two groups re collaborating. Again, if Alfredito Beltran Guzman is behind it, it sounds like a family feud to me, not an attempt to gain physical control over big swathes of territory.

ISIS on the brink of losing Sirte, Libya. The West has been claiming this for months, but it could be true this time. What does it mean? The BBC has a new article examining what's next for ISIS after Sirte.

The MTV Music Awards are on tonight. Brittany Spears is going to be a featured performer. She was on Carpool Karoake this week with James Corden. It was easily the worst one he ever did. She barely sang, when she did, it was in a whisper. Or she lip-synced. Poor James did all the heavy lifting, including hitting the high notes she didn't even bother to try for. She came across as as a dumb teenager (she's 33) and someone severely in need of a brain from the Scarecrow. Maybe that should be her next part--in the Wizard of Oz.

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

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    On Sunday nite tv (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 08:54:55 AM EST
    I would DVR Brittany and watch the 2 hour finale of The Night Of.

    The Night Of (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by Militarytracy on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 10:30:30 AM EST
    Became riveting quickly.

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    I don't know....I'm left feeling like (none / 0) (#35)
    by ruffian on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 09:43:31 PM EST
    it was riveting because I kept expecting it to get better.

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    The Night Of--- (5.00 / 1) (#54)
    by KeysDan on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 10:05:02 AM EST
    --50/50: A hung jury, 6/6; Father believes, Mother not so much; Detective Box, did/did not  do his job; Mrs. Weiss, the prosecutor, not following through on new evidence plus her own doubts of his guilt; Chandra, the lawyer, tragically split between her heart and brain, only to be played by Naz and Freddy, John Stone believing the source was Box;  and Naz, did he do it, or did he not do it, even he was not sure. Or, the viewer, other than an easy conclusion of his serial bad judgment.

    The series provided very engaging story-telling, with Naz portrayed as progressing from innocent to junkie to pariah. The criminal justice system, or, was he so innocent, after all? The reasonable doubt stemming from Duane Reed, the Stepfather, and, Ray, Andrea's financial planner. And, his believability, if you so chose.

     Ray, was a late entry, sort of like the old Charlie Chan movies where Mr. Chan explains who the murderer was to Number One Son and others gathered---always someone who just entered the picture and only Charlie knew.

     But, in this case the jury did not even know about Ray, but he did impact Mrs. Weiss's thinking. John Stone's summary argument before the jury was masterful, not only for its elegance but its inelegance.  Not for his appearance, but despite it.

    The final episode was flat. And, round. And, light. And, dark.  Keeping the viewer wondering even during the release of Naz from jail. What would Freddy do to his unicorn, would Naz be shanked on the way out? Dad but not Mom to greet him. And, John Stone's cat, just like Naz a symbol of a second chance. The cat will likely take it; but will only fake it?  50/50.


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    I have seen pictures of the cat reappearing in (5.00 / 1) (#59)
    by ruffian on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 11:22:50 AM EST
    tweets, but totally missed it when viewing the episode. Will have to watch at least the end again tonight.

    Laid it out like you did, it is a show I should have loved, but I just didn't, for whatever reason. Maybe it was dialogue like successive witnesses saying things like 'You'll have to ask Cupid', and "You'll have to ask Freud". Come ON.

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    I thought it was terrific (5.00 / 1) (#60)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 11:31:02 AM EST
    Better than that.  What's the word for better than terrific.  
    IMO the comparisons with TD are beyond apples and oranges.

    Of all the glowing reviews VOX may have nailed it

    The Night Of season 1 finale: "The Call of the Wild" is profoundly unsatisfying -- in a mostly good way
    By leaving things hanging, it forces us to think about its weightier themes.

    The Night Of wanted to be both a detailed examination of what the words "criminal justice" mean and a more conventional genre treat. It didn't ultimately work as well as the latter as it did as the former, but I found the effort riveting, if nothing else.

    On a completely different subject Mr Keys
    If I may ask, in what part of the keys are you?

    Massive and extensive road trips are coming.  Fish has been harping for ever that I should go south and I think I will.

    Never been to FL.

    You could respond to my listed email and avoid personal blog clogging.


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    Yes - not comparable in many ways (5.00 / 1) (#63)
    by ruffian on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 12:14:07 PM EST
    I'm only comparing them in how much I liked the viewing experience.

    Count me in on a FL get-together - I can at least come down for a drink with you all, if not do any actual fishing!

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    I only fish for (5.00 / 1) (#64)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 12:15:37 PM EST
    Compliments

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    Good series overall but the courtroom scenes (none / 0) (#58)
    by McBain on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 11:21:45 AM EST
    didn't seem realistic a all.  Almost as if they were trying to do that.

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    Finally watched (none / 0) (#37)
    by TrevorBolder on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 05:21:36 AM EST
    True Detective

    Found that riveting.

    The winding path of the criminal case ,

    And the winding path of the personal relationships, were both done so very well.

    In many of these series I just love the main story, and side stories and personal stuff covered  do not add to the show, for me.

    In this case it was a total home run

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    I liked True Det much better than Night Of (5.00 / 1) (#41)
    by ruffian on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 07:05:44 AM EST
    Even the 2nd season of TD which some found disappointing.

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    Time is a flat circle.. (5.00 / 2) (#45)
    by jondee on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 07:28:18 AM EST
    What is that, Nietszche? Shut the f*ck up!

    TD Season One just kicked ace. The whole dark, labyrinthine story, the setting, and the dialogue and chemistry between Harrelson and McConaughey were fantastic.

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    TD Season One (none / 0) (#56)
    by KD on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 11:04:57 AM EST
    The story really did wind. It started with a fully grown dead woman and antlers and ended with child abuse. The case itself never made much sense to me.


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    Read (none / 0) (#79)
    by TrevorBolder on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 05:00:24 PM EST
    Many of the so so reviews for Season 2, yours is on the few "likes" I have seen. Might put it back on eventual list.
    Saw Season 1 & 2 of Bosch (I have read all of Connellys novels, love the character) and enjoyed them.
    I 'll start another one soon

    Night Manager, PennyDreadful, Deadwood, are all on deck

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    Found a new one Sunday and was up till (none / 0) (#105)
    by ruffian on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 01:54:51 PM EST
    2am last night watching (mistake, as it turns out. Enjoyed it, but now I need a nap!)

    'Five Days', if you have HBO Now or Go. It is an older Brit mystery mini-series. Great cast - Janet McTeer, Hugh Bonneville, a very young Rory Kinnear, that actress who always plays basically the same part:Cousin Isobel on Downton Abbey, others I recognize but could not name.

    Good mystery, lots of social subtext, emotional relationships of all stripes. One of my favorite co-worker relationships ever in McTeer and Bonneville. Great stuff.

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    I need to keep (none / 0) (#109)
    by TrevorBolder on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 04:33:33 PM EST
    A notebook handy to write down these names. Added The Fall also.

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    I agree with Trevor on One thing (none / 0) (#134)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Sep 07, 2016 at 08:37:07 AM EST
    And that scares me

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    Useless but interesting... (5.00 / 3) (#25)
    by desertswine on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 04:36:15 PM EST
    During a 1992 state dinner, President George H. W. Bush, ill with the flu, lost his lunch in the lap of the Japanese prime minister. Bush's faux pas led the Japanese to coin a slang word, bushusuru, which translates as "to do the Bush thing," and means "to vomit."


    Saw 'Florence Foster Jenkins' last night. (5.00 / 2) (#28)
    by ruffian on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 07:08:04 PM EST
    Really well done. Hope Meryl Streep has room for another Oscar.  Could have been a really one note character...pun intended ...but she does her magic. High Grant is good too - good to see him on screen again. And I read that the young man that plays her accompanist does his own playing - on a Bechstein oculus!

    I hunk at this point Streepmis just looking for challenges - she's done all of the accents and everything else. Now why not sing off key? Hownstlyntheynrelaly did a good job of spacing out the singing. It is funny and horrifying at the same time. It was still firing my neurons a half hour later.

    Pardon the iPad typing . Hope it is decipherable (none / 0) (#29)
    by ruffian on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 07:08:48 PM EST
    In case your intercranial synapses need ... (none / 0) (#65)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 12:58:13 PM EST
    ... further stimulation, here's Darlene Edwards -- the lounge singing alter ego of Jo Stafford, a very popular WWII-era vocalist who was actually renowned for her perfect pitch.

    Ironically, the professional career of "Darlene Edwards" began as an act of spite, when Ms. Stafford rebelled against Columbia Records' artistic director Mitch Miller over his dictatorial insistence on selecting her material exclusive of any input from her.

    So she and her husband, concert pianist Paul Weston, showed up at the recording studio one evening, where Stafford sang several selections from Miller's requisite playlist in her comic persona as the incompetent Darlene, who had heretofore only made occasional appearances at the Westons' private parties where she'd "entertain" their guests. They then left the tapes for Miller to hear and ponder.

    Furious at Stafford's obvious and insulting insubordination, Miller took the recording directly to his bosses at Columbia Records in an effort to get Stafford disciplined or dismissed. Instead, the head honchos found it hilarious, and approached Stafford and Weston with the idea of her recording an entire album as Darlene Edwards.

    Needless to say, "Jonathan and Darlene Edwards in Paris" subsequently became a monster hit and would go on to earn Ms. Stafford her only Grammy Award, for Best Comedy Album of 1960.

    Aloha.

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    Great story! (none / 0) (#70)
    by ruffian on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 03:01:18 PM EST
    Love the recording too. Those would have been some great parties!

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    It's MoDo! (5.00 / 1) (#68)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 02:06:50 PM EST
    (With optional musical accompaniment.) This week, the erstwhile New York Times columnist and full-time CDS coordinator insists that the real tragedy of the Trump campaign isn't its systemic ignorance, racism and bigotry per se but rather, that its aforementioned systemic ignorance, racism and bigotry unjustly obscures the true unbridled horror of Hillary Clinton.

    Here's hoping that MoDo gets a well-deserved dousing, sooner than later.

    Marijuana research hits a new snag (5.00 / 2) (#81)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 06:54:35 PM EST
    this is funny

    With an increasing number of US states and countries around the world relaxing their laws on medical and recreational marijuana, the need to rigorously study the biological effects of smoking weed becomes ever more pressing. Many of these trials and experiments are conducted on lab rats, the latest of which has revealed that the rodents tend to become too lazy to bother with difficult cognitive tests when they are stoned.



    Is it rat laziness.... (none / 0) (#91)
    by kdog on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 08:32:56 AM EST
    or is it rat wisdom to bother no more with the two-legged jailer's stupid cognitive tests?  

    Spark one up and ponder that sh&t!

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    My thoughts exactly (none / 0) (#92)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 09:29:46 AM EST
    One man's lack of motivation... (none / 0) (#93)
    by kdog on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 09:41:21 AM EST
    is another man's evolving past the mundane. ;)

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    It reminds me of the difference in my two dogs (none / 0) (#94)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 10:44:36 AM EST
    The golden retriever who I love without limits will fetch a ball, or anything else, as long as you will throw it.

    My huskie who thinks more like a human than any dog I have ever know looks at you like, 'what, you threw it over there.  Go get it yourself if you want it'

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    My golden is a cross between the two (none / 0) (#101)
    by ruffian on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 11:49:04 AM EST
    She will watch the ball from afar until it appears another dog is going to go near it...then she goes and gets it.

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    In other news (5.00 / 1) (#96)
    by jbindc on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 11:18:46 AM EST
    George Soros' quiet overhaul of the U.S. justice system

    While America's political kingmakers inject their millions into high-profile presidential and congressional contests, Democratic mega-donor George Soros has directed his wealth into an under-the-radar 2016 campaign to advance one of the progressive movement's core goals -- reshaping the American justice system.

    The billionaire financier has channeled more than $3 million into seven local district-attorney campaigns in six states over the past year -- a sum that exceeds the total spent on the 2016 presidential campaign by all but a handful of rival super-donors.

    His money has supported African-American and Hispanic candidates for these powerful local roles, all of whom ran on platforms sharing major goals of Soros', like reducing racial disparities in sentencing and directing some drug offenders to diversion programs instead of to trial. It is by far the most tangible action in a progressive push to find, prepare and finance criminal justice reform-oriented candidates for jobs that have been held by longtime incumbents and serve as pipelines to the federal courts -- and it has inspired fury among opponents angry about the outside influence in local elections.



    J. Edgar Hoover - the man and the secrets (none / 0) (#1)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 08:47:47 AM EST
    I'm reading this right now and, ooooo boy.   I don't read a lot of non fiction but this really does not read like non fiction.   Much of it reads like pulp fiction, some is just totally f'king unbelievable.

    If interested yu can read the book here at Google books

    Or you can read about it here in this LATimes review

    Let me assure you that Curt Gentry is no Kitty Kelley. His goal, which he achieves, is not to sift through a life hunting only for what titillates, but to write a rounded biography, cradle to grave. It just so happens that Hoover's cradle and grave were in Washington, D.C. He was a home-town boy, and there wasn't much to say about him before he went to the Justice Department--unless you want to talk about his success as a high school cadet captain, or his speed as a delivery boy, or the boil that disfigured his nose--and there wasn't anything to say about his life after he left the Justice Department, because he died there. The FBI was his life. What he did there, Gentry writes, was done partly as a super patriot, but also simply in defense of his hometown, to protect it from the evil world outside as he envisioned it.

    It is a strange and truly frightening read.  Reassuring in a way in this time of insane politics to know our country has survived insane megalomaniacs before.  And "insane" is an overused word.  Hoover was insane.  And the really scary part is that everyone knew it AT THE TIME.

    I got hooked on reading this in a funny way.  I was surfing the interwebs and I came across the strange story of Bert Horgson.  It is the strangest and most frightening abuse of power I have ever heard of.   It doesn't sound possible.  Really.  Just not possible in anything but the fevered imagination of a fiction writer.   But by all accounts it's true.   That story, which as the LATimes blurb says, is not at all the focus of the book but more of an aside that just gets a few paragraphs, is what hooked me into reading the rest.    And as unbelievable as it is it pales compared to the really evil and dangerous stuff this man - who to this day has name on the FBI building in DC - did.  Here is Burts story in a nutshell-

    The diary purports that from at least the mid-1930s onward, Hoover would require selected agents to take on special undercover assignments, often lasting for years, as women or drag queens in high heels and skirts. Sources speculate that Hoover, unable to dress openly as a woman, forced some of his underlings to take up his habit so he'd feel more normal. He reportedly enjoyed training these agents himself, selecting their outfits, applying makeup and fixing hairdos. Most men hated these assignments and many were threatened with firing or even jail time for their cooperation.

    The diary recounts at least one case in the 1950s in which Hoover had the mother of an agent jailed on trumped-up charges to keep him on duty as a red-headed, high-heeled gun moll. Perhaps the weirdest case is that of 24-year-old Bert Horgson, a six-foot Swede who left his family and girlfriend in Minnesota in 1935 to fight Nazi spies with the FBI. Once Hoover caught sight of him, however, the slim, blue-eyed Horgson was instead given a different assignment -- and spent the remainder of his career in dresses and high-heeled pumps as Hoover's "special agent."

    The diary recounts how Hoover kept Horgson from quitting by alternating promises of reassignment with intimidation of both Horgson and his family. Hoover even went so far as to have Horgson's legal identity changed from male to female -- making it illegal for him to dress as a man for most of the 30s, 40s and 50s -- and had agents make sure he complied. Even Hoover's death in 1972 brought Horgson no reprieve. In a final bizarre ploy from beyond the grave, Hoover left orders that the 60-year-old FBI man was to be confined to a special high-security nursing home as a national security risk.

    Horgson found himself forced to remain "Bettina Horgson" until his death 29 years later. Horgson died in 2001 at the age of 89 in a government nursing home in Washington, D.C. One government source says, "this is one of the strangest, and most flagrant abuses of power I've ever heard of."



    I should say (5.00 / 1) (#3)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 09:10:31 AM EST
    Those Burt paragraphs are not taken from The Man The Secrets - from which I can't cut and paste - but from an excerpt from another book on Hoover.

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    Interesting .. What is the name of (none / 0) (#11)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 12:36:03 PM EST
    the other book?

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    The legacy of J. Edgar Hoover, like that ... (5.00 / 1) (#20)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 02:48:18 PM EST
    ... of his equally closeted and vicious contemporaries Roy Cohn and Joe McCarthy, proves that there are no homophobes quite like gay homophobes.

    Director Clint Eastwood, screenwriter Dustin Lance Black and actor Lornardo DiCaprio dealt with the conjoining issues of Hoover's homosexuality and his homophobia matter-of-factly without sensationalizing them in the 2011 biopic "J. Edgar," which rather deftly underscored his increasingly erratic and abusive behavior, as well as his personal relationship with FBI Dep. Director Clyde Tolson, whom Hoover named as his heir in his will.

    J. Edgar Hoover was a terribly twisted piece of work, and good riddance 44 years after the fact. I agree that his name ought to rightly be stricken from the FBI Building in Washington, D.C., given what we now know about his 48-year tenure as that agency's director.

    In 1974, the Schaumberg, IL school district named a brand-new elementary school after the then-recently deceased FBI director. That honor was  subsequently rescinded by the district 20 years later, as full realization of his abuses compelled many people to reassess the man himself and his tortured history.

    If Schaumberg, IL could do it, so should Congress.

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    That's funny (none / 0) (#23)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 03:28:37 PM EST
    I was just reading about the school.  The squaking and flapping of the trolls is very funny.  As is the tabloid link.  I had not seen that.  That story has of course circulated widely over the years.  The Man The Secrets doesn't exactly go there but very close.  A lot of it, a LOT, is about Hoovers "private" documents and files like the "alleged" diary that were destroyed, supposed to be destroyed or spirited away before they could be destroyed.

    The book opens on the day of his death with his life long personal secretary (who's name escapes me right now) flying into action destroying and moving documents to the house of his companion Tolson among other places.   There was even a congressional inquiry but not until two years (I think) after his death and the author says it was a total farce.

    That particular wording I quoted I believe probably cam from a much more sensational book about Hoover called something like "Official and Confidential, the secret life of J Edgar Hoover". But there have actually been several.

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    Also for the record (none / 0) (#24)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 04:09:50 PM EST
    Cohn and McCarthy were not just contemporaries they were protégés employees and partners in "crime"

    The Rosenberg trial brought the 24-year-old Cohn to the attention of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director J. Edgar Hoover, who recommended him to Joseph McCarthy.

    If you want to have some fun Google "Cohn Hoover fluffy black dress"

    And on that subject, we all know Trump was sued (twice) by the justice department for discriminating against AAs in housing.   But only since I started reading this book did I learn Roy Cohn was his attorney.

    The government alleged that Trump's corporation quoted different rental terms and conditions to blacks and made false "no vacancy" statements to blacks for apartments they managed in Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island.[19]
    Representing Trump, Cohn filed a countersuit against the government for $100 million, asserting that the charges were irresponsible and baseless.[18][20] The countersuit was unsuccessful.

    That's was 1975.  It seems three years later he represented him again for violating that settlement.

    Oh
    And how about Cohn Reagan and (Trump ally) ROGER STONE?

    Cohn aided Roger Stone in Ronald Reagan's presidential campaign in 1979-80. Cohn helped Stone arrange for John B. Anderson to get the nomination of the Liberal Party of New York, a move that would help split the opposition to Reagan in the state. Stone said Cohn gave him a suitcase that Stone avoided opening and, as instructed by Cohn, dropped it off at the office of a lawyer influential in Liberal Party circles. Reagan carried the state with 46 percent of the vote. Speaking after the statute of limitations for bribery had expired, Stone later said, "I paid his law firm. Legal fees. I don't know what he did for the money, but whatever it was, the Liberal party reached its right conclusion out of a matter of principle."[25]

    Small freakin world.

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    I just found out that Roger Stone (none / 0) (#39)
    by jondee on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 06:37:49 AM EST
    wrote a book in which he claims that LBJ micromanaged the Kennedy assassination.

    I wonder if there's anything in there about Ted Cruz's father..

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    I don't believe LBJ (5.00 / 1) (#44)
    by Chuck0 on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 07:19:10 AM EST
    had anything to do with JFK's assassination. But I do truly believe that J Edgar Hoover had everything to do with it.

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    The Warren Commission (none / 0) (#47)
    by jondee on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 07:41:04 AM EST
    claimed that it was a complete coincidence that there was a CIA guy next in line behind Oswald when he applied for a visa on his way to the Cuban Embassy in Mexico City..

    And then they accepted at face value the story that all the surveillance cameras outside the embassy malfunctioned on the day Oswald visited there.

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    You should consider reading (if you haven't) (none / 0) (#52)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 08:59:56 AM EST
    "Official and Confidential"

    You coukd start here at Google books

    After reading reviews yesterday I decided to drop the first book and start reading the "sensational" one.  

    this Christopher Hitchens review had a lot to do with that decision.

    You have to register to read the whole review but it's free.

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    Can't you just hear Hoover talking (5.00 / 1) (#62)
    by jondee on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 11:51:31 AM EST
    in his sleep?

    "flowers? for me? why I do declare, Rhett Butler!"

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    Two books related to JFK (none / 0) (#67)
    by BackFromOhio on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 01:38:41 PM EST
    assassination that I found significant:
    () 1983 book written by a physicist who was a doctoral student at Berkeley at the time and joined an interdisciplinary seminar led by, I think (it's been a long time since I read this) one of the attorneys to the Warren Commission. Book is titled "Best Evidence." Author, as a physicist, wrote a paper on the head snap and then followed the evidence over the course of many years. Following scientific method, as he followed and uncovered new evidence, continually revised his hypotheses.
    (2) second book is called "Brothers"; written primarily about Bobby Kennedy & his quest to learn what happened. It is a masterful presentation of the Kennedy era, international relations and the intelligence framework that is background to the JFK administration, and a portray of the 1960s that I recommend as an introduction to the period for those who did not live through it, and even those who did.


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    Anthony Summers's book is very good.. (none / 0) (#82)
    by jondee on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 07:13:45 PM EST
    he leans quite heavily on the Cuban ex-pat connection and their longterm (right up to Watergate) working relationship with the intelligence community and, in the early sixties, with the John Birch wing of the Joint Chiefs.

    There were people in the Pentagon back then who were so unhinged about the Cuban revolution that they had serious, documented discussions about the feasibility of orchestrating terrorist attacks inside the U.S to get the citizenry behind a full-scale invasion of Cuba.

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    Same is covered (none / 0) (#87)
    by BackFromOhio on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 09:19:50 PM EST
    in the Brothers book. Reminds me of movie, JFK.

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    There will be in the next edition. (none / 0) (#43)
    by ruffian on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 07:13:04 AM EST
    Wow (none / 0) (#4)
    by Ga6thDem on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 10:16:21 AM EST
    that is scary for sure.

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    Hoover is an embarrassment (none / 0) (#5)
    by Chuck0 on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 10:26:13 AM EST
    to the history of this country and the legacy of the FBI. I have written my own Senator numerous times demanding that his name be removed from the FBI building in DC. That is an insult to the American people.

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    Truly (none / 0) (#7)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 11:25:31 AM EST
    But you know we all hear that.  I of course have heard it for my whole life basically, still, I really had no idea.  And I believe most people do not.

    About the building, there is a lot about the building in that book.  About the reaction to how it looks, about how it, because of Hoovers repeated redesigns - widely viewed as a way to keep his job "until it was done", about how because of those redesigns and the crony mafia contracts to build it remains the most expensive building ever built by the federal government.  At least in DC.

    There is a lot about the building.  After reading it you almost (but not quite) understand why it really should be called the J. Edgar Hoover Building.

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    Steve Avery's Lawyer requests more (none / 0) (#8)
    by McBain on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 11:45:40 AM EST
    evidence testing. Kathleen Zeller is Avery's new lawyer. She's had a lot of success getting innocent people out of prison, including Ryan Ferguson in 2013. Avery's legal team during the filming of "Making a Murderer" are no longer representing him.

    "Mr. Avery is requesting, and is willing to pay for, the most comprehensive, thorough, and advanced forensic testing ever requested by a criminal defendant in the State of Wisconsin,"

    Zellner also wants to use newly developed radiocarbon tests to determine whether the samples of Avery's blood found in Halbach's car came from a fresh wound or from a sample taken years earlier. (A key theory of Avery supporters is that the blood in Halbach's car was planted using a sample taken when Avery was wrongly imprisoned for a 1985 rape.

    I've never been convinced of Avery's guilt.  Too much shady behavior from the Manitowoc County police. Hopefully, there will be a new trial.  


    prison or not? (none / 0) (#9)
    by thomas rogan on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 11:45:57 AM EST
    From NY Times
    A man suspected of stabbing two nuns to death in their rural Mississippi home confessed to the killings on Saturday, according to the police.
    Rodney Earl Sanders, 46, was arrested on Friday and charged with two counts of capital murder in connection with the deaths of Sister Margaret M. Held and Sister Paula J. Merrill, 68, whose bodies were discovered on Thursday at their shared home in Durant, a town of 3,000 people that had gone years without a murder.
    "Sanders was developed as a person of interest early on in the investigation," Lt. Colonel Jimmy Jordan, the director of the state's Bureau of Investigation, said in a statement.
    Mr. Sanders has a history with the police. In 1986 he served six years in prison for an armed robbery in Mississippi, and last year he was convicted of a felony D.U.I. He had been on probation since September, Grace Simmons Fisher, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi Department of Corrections, said.

    So much for probation of repeat felons with a history of at least one violent crime...

    i agree with warehousing (1.00 / 1) (#10)
    by linea on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 12:26:04 PM EST
    but im not sure this was predictable from the information i have.  he commited an armed robbery and was in prison from 1986 to 1992 and then 13 years later was placed on probation for a DWI. you feel the judge in the DWI case was too lenient given his previous conviction twenty years ago?

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    In MS a "felony DUI" is the third (5.00 / 1) (#22)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 03:02:14 PM EST
    one that an individual gets.

    Given the number of people killed in accidents where alcohol is involved getting three DUI's demonstrates that the driver has a serious problem. Taking their license just adds the charge of driving without one..so locking them up long enough for them to get the point seems logical.

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    In Mississippi, driving under the influence (5.00 / 1) (#34)
    by oculus on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 09:17:27 PM EST
    resulting in the death of another is a felony.

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    Having a history with the police is all it (none / 0) (#27)
    by ruffian on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 07:00:10 PM EST
    sometimes takes to be a person of interest early in the investigation. I'd l,e to know what other evidence there is besides the confession, and what the circumstances were of the confession.

    I don't take anything the police say for granted.

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    Captain Howdy please (none / 0) (#26)
    by Jeralyn on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 05:35:30 PM EST
    take the night off. You have already blog-clogged this thread mostly with insults to other commenters. I've cleaned the thread.

    thought some of you would enjoy this text (none / 0) (#30)
    by mogal on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 08:11:22 PM EST
        Woe to him who builds his house by unrighteousness,
          and his upper rooms by injustice;
          who makes his neighbors work for nothing,
          and does not give them their wages;
    14      who says, "I will build myself a spacious house
          with large upper rooms,"
          and who cuts out windows for it,
          paneling it with cedar,
          and painting it with vermilion.
    15      Are you a king
          because you compete in cedar?


    Text is from Jeremiah 22. (none / 0) (#31)
    by mogal on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 08:14:23 PM EST
    Jeremiah, you're fired (5.00 / 1) (#40)
    by jondee on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 06:43:51 AM EST
    Perfect (none / 0) (#48)
    by mogal on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 07:41:54 AM EST
    Colin Kaepernick refuses to stand during (none / 0) (#32)
    by McBain on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 08:36:22 PM EST
    National Anthem. Things  haven't gone well for the 49ers lately and this isn't helping.  I don't agree with his decision, I think he's basing his opinion of African Americans being obressed on bad information, but I do agree with this statement from teammate Torrey Smith...
    "Oftentimes people want athletes to take a stand," Smith said. "But when they do, it's like, `Hey, y'all, shut up. Sit down.'

    Michael Jordan and other athletes get criticized for not speaking out on certain issues. I don't think that's fair.  I prefer to athletes and other celebrities to focus on their craft.  As for Kaepernick, he's in danger of losing his job with the 49ers because of poor performance on the field, with his protest/statement added to the mix it's almost as if he's trying to get released.  

    His right (none / 0) (#38)
    by TrevorBolder on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 05:49:17 AM EST
    "Oftentimes people want athletes to take a stand," Smith said. "But when they do, it's like, `Hey, y'all, shut up. Sit down.'

    To do so, but maybe could have changed his protest  to not insult everyone standing in the stadium.
     A fine line to walk to bring notice to an issue, and not offend the fans of the sport.

    His $12 million salary becomes guaranteed this Thursday

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    I support him 100%. (none / 0) (#46)
    by Chuck0 on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 07:34:19 AM EST
    I stopped standing and reciting the pledge of allegiance in the 9th grade. I still refuse to say it. As I'm an atheist, you would think it was because of the line, 'one nation, under god', which I object to, but in the 9th grade it was the finish that torqued me off 'with liberty and justice for all'. Liberty and justice for all? It's a cruel joke on the citizenry.

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    Could be this is a clever ploy to keep (none / 0) (#49)
    by jimakaPPJ on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 08:03:07 AM EST
    his job. If the 49ers cut him loose now they'll be accused of discriminating.

    But it is his right to be given ever possible goodie that the country can give and then protest that the country is bad.

    It is the fans' right to not pay to see him play.

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    Maybe the 49ers should offer Tebow (none / 0) (#50)
    by jondee on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 08:17:41 AM EST
    a job, if he can keep his stigmata problem under control.

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    Tebow is busy perfecting his (5.00 / 1) (#55)
    by oculus on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 10:58:10 AM EST
    baseball skills.  

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    Heading to Venezuela. Guess he'll (none / 0) (#112)
    by oculus on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 07:08:13 PM EST
    be a catcher.

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    Descriminating... (none / 0) (#51)
    by jondee on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 08:28:08 AM EST
    because all black players who get drafted are automatically given a permanent job in the NFL..

    Hell, ah heard on the radio they even git free food stamps.

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    At least Tebow (none / 0) (#53)
    by jimakaPPJ on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 09:50:45 AM EST
    got his team into the playoff's.

    And I see that you indulge in a TrumpUnderstanding which is the willful "misunderstanding" of what is said.

    Obviously the discrimination is the claim that he will make that he is being fired because of what he said.

    Of course first the NFL must decide just how much heat they want to take.

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    But wait... (5.00 / 1) (#57)
    by Repack Rider on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 11:19:09 AM EST
    At least Tebow got his team into the playoff's
    .

    In his second season, Kaepernick came within an uncalled penalty (Crabtree mugged in the end zone as time ran out) of winning a SB.  So what's your point?

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    Another aspect of TrumpUnderstanding (none / 0) (#61)
    by jondee on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 11:44:42 AM EST
    (an oxymoron if there ever was one): having an atrocious memory.

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    Colin Kaepernick QBed the 49ers ... (none / 0) (#86)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 08:59:43 PM EST
    ... to three straight NFC Championship Games (2011-12, 2012-13, and 2013-14 seasons), and to the Super Bowl once. Tim Tebow's NFL career doesn't even come close in actual accomplishment.

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    Ah, but Tebow did it while (none / 0) (#89)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 07:55:13 AM EST
    suffering from stigmata....

    At least according to jondee.

    And even the team's injury report didn't mention it.

    The things I do learn,

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    Just to clear (none / 0) (#98)
    by jondee on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 11:28:30 AM EST
    in case you haven't looked it up yet, the stigmata isn't a kind of astigmatism.

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    "Just to clear" (none / 0) (#100)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 11:47:36 AM EST
    Clear what? The blood dripping from Tebow's wounds?

    Tebow thanked God for his success.

    Kaepernick insults the country.

    You pick'em.

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    God doesn't give a sh*t (none / 0) (#102)
    by jondee on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 12:47:11 PM EST
    about people's "success", anymore than he punishes children by giving them cancer.

    And you've been insulting and attempting to diminsh in the eyes of the world the country's President for 8 years. So maybe you should just stuff a sock in it and go join Colin and the other dead weight malcontents on the bench.

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    From politics to religion (none / 0) (#104)
    by jimakaPPJ on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 01:49:22 PM EST
    and back again.

    Whatever.

    But it was you folks who raised the roof when Tebow prayed.

    Now we have a man who has had all the benefits of a middle class raising, tons of support enabled by what the country can provide..

    And he won't show respect for the country's flag while complaining about the evil police while wearing a Castro tee shirt... One of the world's greatest torturer and torture enabler.

    I can't figure out if he is just ignorant of the facts or just dumb. Perhaps both.

    And just in case you don't know it, the flag belongs to the country. Not your beloved disaster of a president.

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    He can pray all he wants (none / 0) (#106)
    by jondee on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 02:08:52 PM EST
    he's not the only player who does it, just the least successful.

    Maybe should think about what Einstein said: flags are just a symbol of the fact that we haven't evolved beyond tribalism.

    But go ahead and try to make CK a wedge issue.

    You might as well, nothing else is working for you. Including all your profound TrumpUnderstanding.

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    LOL! I hadn't thought of it that way, but ... (none / 0) (#66)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 01:30:21 PM EST
    ... that's entirely logical and possible, given that Colin Kaepernick's once-promising NFL career is presently on the skids. That said, I can't imagine that what he's doing here is going to further endear him to 49er fans, and it wouldn't surprise me if the team's management cuts him loose anyway, if they can't trade him.

    I saw Kaepernick play in Honolulu back in October 2010 when he was QB at the University of Nevada. He had the worst day of his collegiate career, throwing four interceptions and fumbling three times in a 27-21 upset loss to Hawaii. It was Nevada's only defeat that season, as the Wolf Pack finished 13-1 and ranked No. 10 in the country, while the Rainbow Warriors' victory eventually allowed Hawaii to tie both Nevada and Boise State for the 2010 WAC title.

    Aloha.

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    The incompetence and corruptness (none / 0) (#36)
    by McBain on Sun Aug 28, 2016 at 10:09:40 PM EST
    equal reasonable doubt for me. I also had a problem with the blood evidence or lack thereof.    

    the comment you are replying to was (none / 0) (#83)
    by Jeralyn on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 07:49:37 PM EST
    deleted for stating the writer's opinion of guilt as fact.

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    I tend to agree there is evidence against him (none / 0) (#42)
    by ruffian on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 07:12:03 AM EST
    But the misconduct was so egregious and I do not think it happened like the prosecution said it did. Or did they even ever settle on theory of the case as to how and where she was killed? Even with what I have read since I have doubts. Could have been one of the other people that live on that property.

    I was glad to see Dassey's conviction get thrown out last week or the week before. That was the worst of it to me.

    Anthony Weiner back to his old tricks. (none / 0) (#69)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 02:39:59 PM EST
    Channeling Seinfeld, "Who are these people?"

    Carlos Danger: International Man of Mystery (none / 0) (#73)
    by jondee on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 03:38:08 PM EST
    Weiner rears his ugly head once again! (5.00 / 1) (#77)
    by desertswine on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 04:51:35 PM EST
    RIP, Gene Wilder (1933-2016). (none / 0) (#71)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 03:30:37 PM EST
    The longtime comic actor, who received an Oscar nomination for his role as the introverted accountant Leo Bloom in Mel Brooks' 1968 film "The Producers" and subsequently starred in two other Brooks classics, "Blazing Saddles" and "Young Frankenstein," died today at his home in Stamford, CT of Alzheimer's disease-related complications. He will be missed, but his neurotic on-screen persona will remain with us forever.

    Silver Streak, maybe my favorite, hard to say (5.00 / 2) (#75)
    by ruffian on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 03:47:35 PM EST
    with so many to choose from.

    I would never have guessed he was 83 - so close to my parent's age.

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    Silver Streak was also my favorite (none / 0) (#76)
    by CoralGables on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 04:42:07 PM EST
    What a wonderful comedic actor he was, (none / 0) (#78)
    by desertswine on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 04:53:06 PM EST
    so many classics.

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    In Silverstreak (none / 0) (#90)
    by fishcamp on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 07:59:46 AM EST
    they actually got off and on the train three times before it crashed into the station.  Hilarious movie that gets better every time I see it.

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    I about died the first time (none / 0) (#99)
    by jondee on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 11:32:57 AM EST
    I saw that scene in which Richard Pryor is teaching Gene to "act like a brother".

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    Aside from the Mel Brooks comedies, ... (none / 0) (#84)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 07:50:26 PM EST
    ... my favorite Gene Wilder movie is "The Woman in Red." Those scenes in which Gilda Radner first believes herself to be the intended object of Wilder's affections (she's not), and then reacts with unmitigated fury of a woman scorned after she thinks he stood her up (he didn't), are hilarious.

    And of course, to many others, Wilder will always be the mysterious title character of the 1971 musical-fantasy "Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory." I never saw it as a kid, but did later on as an adult with my daughters when they were younger, and found myself amazed at how good both the film and Wilder actually were. In sharp contrast, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," Tim Burton's rather creepy 2005 remake with Johnny Depp cast as Willie Wonka, absolutely pales in comparison.

    While I really like (most of) his comedies, I think that Willie Wonka may prove to be Gene Wilder's most beloved and enduring character.

    Aloha.

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    I worked in (none / 0) (#85)
    by TrevorBolder on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 08:53:23 PM EST
    A movie theater while attending college.

    Saw many films, over and over and over. We had The Sting for over 8 weeks.

    Blazing Saddles was a Mel Brooks classic,

    And Gene Wilder, the Cisco Kid  " Well, I shoot with this hand" always cracked me up

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    Hello Gilda (none / 0) (#72)
    by CaptHowdy on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 03:35:40 PM EST
    Yup, sigh (none / 0) (#74)
    by ruffian on Mon Aug 29, 2016 at 03:46:03 PM EST
    Both would make me laugh before they even 'did' anything. No one like them.

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    Say aloha to Madeleine and Lester. (none / 0) (#88)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 07:26:36 AM EST
    We are now officially under a hurricane watch, as both of them move in our general direction.

    State Civil Defense has now issued ... (none / 0) (#110)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 06:57:26 PM EST
    ... a hurricane warning for the Big Island, as Madeline approaches as a Category 3 storm. NWS / NOAA is now offering a 78% probability that we're going to be hit. Heavy rains are expected tomorrow, with the winds arriving on Thursday.

    And trailing immediately in Madeline's wake is Lester, also a Category 3. Things could get interesting. We'll batten down the hatches at home this afternoon.

    Aloha.

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    Good luck. I hope this one (none / 0) (#115)
    by caseyOR on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 07:42:23 PM EST
    passes you by, Donald.

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    I hope so, too. (none / 0) (#116)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 07:54:27 PM EST
    We can live with the heavy rains; they're not uncommon, especially here in Hilo where we receive an average of 130 inches annually, making us the wettest city in the U.S. In fact, we just had monsoon-like rains two weeks ago, where it poured at a rate of 2" per hour. It's the prospect of 100+ mph winds that concern me. Hopefully, Madeline will alter trajectory and pass south of our island and inflict only a glancing blow.

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    Instructive for next time (none / 0) (#95)
    by jbindc on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 11:05:21 AM EST
    Bernie Sanders asked donors to give, and his most loyal donors dug deep each time--giving more than some could afford, or the law allowed.

    The excessive donations clearly highlight just how devoted some of Sanders' fans were to his presidential bid. But they also point to flaws in how the Sanders campaign managed and communicated with his most passionate supporters. Many of his donors were simply unaware of the federal limits, or if they were aware, they assumed the Sanders campaign would prevent them from contributing too much. It didn't. The Sanders website made it incredibly easy to send money online with just a few clicks, but it made little effort to track how much its supporters were giving or inform them of the cap. (This lack of oversight also led to one donor being able to buy more than $10,000 worth of Sanders merchandise and selling it online, as I reported last week.)

    SNIP

    As I wrote in May, the fact that Sanders had so many excess donations is in part due to a compliance system that was designed with more professional, big-money campaigns in mind. Experienced fund-raisers and donors "max out" by writing one or two large checks for $2,700 for the primary and general elections, and those big donations are easy for campaigns to track and report. But when the average donation is just $27 and the campaigns try to hit up their supporters again and again, the process for reporting it all becomes much more complicated.

    The FEC requires that campaigns send refunds for any donation in excess of the legal limit within 60 days, and according to its federal filings, the Sanders campaign has issued more than $5 million in refunds. But several of the largest "over donors" to Sanders said they never received checks the campaign reported that it sent to them late in the spring, in some cases for several thousand dollars. "Are you kidding me? I barely even received a thank you from the campaign," said Annamarie Weaver of Chicago when I informed her that, according to records on the FEC website, the Sanders campaign had issued her a refund of $3,617 on May 1 and another one for $500 on May 31. "That's complete bull$hit."




    Annamarie Weaver (5.00 / 1) (#97)
    by CoralGables on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 11:22:52 AM EST
    should keep an eye out for a thank you note for the bay window in the new Sanders' house. It should be signed by Jane

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    Dancing With the Stars announces... (none / 0) (#103)
    by desertswine on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 01:45:36 PM EST
    I can hardly wait. (none / 0) (#111)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 06:59:17 PM EST
    Did they invite Carly Fiorina and Hope Solo, too?

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    One week from tomorrow (none / 0) (#107)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 02:42:13 PM EST
    Sept 8th, BBC is going to do a marathon of the first 2 (of 3) seasons of the original Star Trek to celebrate the 50th (that's fiftieth 8-P) anniversary.
    It premiered Sept 8th 1966.  I'm sure season 3 won't be far behind.

    My DVR is set.

    Oops (none / 0) (#108)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 02:43:07 PM EST
    One week from the day after tomorrow.

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    Alan Grayson (none / 0) (#113)
    by CoralGables on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 07:30:58 PM EST
    is  getting thoroughly thrashed in his US Senate (FL) primary this evening. Hopefully this spells the end of his political career.

    In addition (5.00 / 1) (#114)
    by CoralGables on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 07:35:13 PM EST
    Debbie Wasserman Schultz will easily win her primary today for Congress.

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    Marco (none / 0) (#117)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 08:14:23 PM EST
    Is going to lose the general election.

    You heard it here first.

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    Consider (none / 0) (#118)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 08:23:16 PM EST
    The Trump campaign has 1 office in FL.  They have no ground game.  Like, at all.  I believe by Election Day republicans are going to be very demoralized.  Every where.  Not just in FL.  Hillarys campaign is going to have an epic GOTV operation.   I would expect especially in FL since it's such an important.

    And

    Rubio has the worst voting and attendance record in the senate.   Just today he refused to say he would serve a full term if elected.  There is hours of video of him talking about how much he hates the senate.

    I believe he will lose.

    I also think McCain could lose.  But not as much as Rubio.


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    Unfortunately Howdy (5.00 / 1) (#121)
    by fishcamp on Wed Aug 31, 2016 at 09:04:54 AM EST
    both McCain and Rubio got reelected.  Angela Corey did not.  

    BTW if you come to fishcamp, you must fish.  I have the perfect spot for you across the canal by the crocs.  Don't worry I have a long handled net to keep your fingers away from those baby croc teeth.  

    Several airlines are trying to become the first to fly to Cuba today.  It looks like jet Blue will win, since it's plane is being towed into taxi position in Ft. Lauderdale..  1st commercial flight in over fifty years.  I'm wondering when, where, and how the 12 point government visa type form, to visit Cuba, is filled out and signed.

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    McCain and Rubio (none / 0) (#122)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Aug 31, 2016 at 09:31:59 AM EST
    Won their primaries.  The election is in November.

    Surely you don't imagine that after 60 odd years of threats and cajoling by various realitives and even a few friends that at 65 I could be compelled to fish.

    You would not be the first to try.   I have watched people fish a few times.   That would be preteen years I think.

    I love boats.  I love the water.  No fishing.  Friends don't force friends to fish.

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    Yes, the primaries...I mistyped... (none / 0) (#124)
    by fishcamp on Wed Aug 31, 2016 at 10:02:31 AM EST
    OK, you don't have to fish, you can drive the boat instead, but that comes with netting and gaffing responsibilities.  Which also include killing with my custom fish club, cleaning, cooking, and the dishes.  Maybe we should just go down the canal to the boat drink joint that has delicious fish sandwiches.  Try to arrive between hurricanes.

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    I'll do the dishes! (5.00 / 3) (#126)
    by ruffian on Wed Aug 31, 2016 at 10:51:16 AM EST
    I know, such an unfeminist task to volunteer for.

    I vote for the boat drink joint though.

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    I can totally club (none / 0) (#125)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Aug 31, 2016 at 10:24:06 AM EST
    Trump Modeling Agency (none / 0) (#119)
    by CaptHowdy on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 08:31:00 PM EST
    This doesn't seem like good news.  Long piece in MOTHER JONES

    Republican nominee Donald Trump has placed immigration at the core of his presidential campaign. He has claimed that undocumented immigrants are "taking our jobs" and "taking our money," pledged to deport them en masse, and vowed to build a wall on the Mexican border. At one point he demanded a ban on Muslims entering the country. Speaking to supporters in Iowa on Saturday, Trump said he would crack down on visitors to the United States who overstay their visas and declared that when any American citizen "loses their job to an illegal immigrant, the rights of that American citizen have been violated." And he is scheduled to give a major address on immigration in Arizona on Wednesday night.

    But the mogul's New York modeling agency, Trump Model Management, has profited from using foreign models who came to the United States on tourist visas that did not permit them to work here, according to three former Trump models, all noncitizens, who shared their stories with Mother Jones. Financial and immigration records included in a recent lawsuit filed by a fourth former Trump model show that she, too, worked for Trump's agency in the United States without a proper visa.

    MOTHER JONES

    This is not a sideline thing.   He makes millions from this and owns, I believe, 85%

    well... (none / 0) (#130)
    by linea on Wed Aug 31, 2016 at 07:34:11 PM EST
    i assume the point of your post is to point out what you consider to be hypocracy on trump's part. not any actual problem with the illegality of working on a tourist visa or any actual opposition to chech women (et aliae) "taking jobs" from chubby american teenagers. maybe we can place modeling in the "jobs americans dont want to do" category?

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    "Consider to be" hypocrisy? (none / 0) (#131)
    by Yman on Wed Aug 31, 2016 at 07:41:48 PM EST
    Nope.

    Actual, real hypocrisy.

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    Heh (none / 0) (#132)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Aug 31, 2016 at 07:44:23 PM EST
    I was still laughing about chubby American teenagers.

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    Yep (none / 0) (#133)
    by Yman on Wed Aug 31, 2016 at 07:46:01 PM EST
    Guess all those American teenagers are just too fat to model.

    Oy.

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    Angela Corey won't be re-elected (none / 0) (#120)
    by McBain on Tue Aug 30, 2016 at 09:54:29 PM EST
    Her track record was awful.  
    She bypassed the grand jury and brought murder changes against George Zimmerman without evidence to do so.
    She over-charged Marissa Alexander for firing a warning shot at her husband. Alexander got 20 years.
    She charged 12-year-old Cristian Fernandez as an adult for murder.

    Corey liked to throw the book at people. Her press conference for the Zimmerman charges was a sad day for justice.  I'm glad someone is taking her place.


    Jeff Ashton also loses a re-election bid (5.00 / 1) (#129)
    by McBain on Wed Aug 31, 2016 at 11:38:32 AM EST
    In Florida. Ashton was the prosecutor in the Casey Anthony case.  When  he lost that trial he blamed the jury, even though she was grossly overcharged.  

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    10 Cloverfield Lane (none / 0) (#123)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Aug 31, 2016 at 09:49:16 AM EST
    I just got around to seeing this on PPV.   Surprised it took so long since I love the first Cloverfield movie.  IMO it's pretty much the only "found footage" movie except Blair Witch that's worth the time.  Maybe the first PActivity, anyway.  
    This one is good.  SO good.
    John Goodman is great as the crazy old survivalist.   It's probably not what you expect.  The first hour and 20 minutes takes place in a claustrophobic bunker.  The part that doesn't, the ending was controversial when it came out.

    I loved all of it.  And I don't want to say to much because this is really one where you do not want to know what's coming.  I'd love to chat about the ending but that's not possible without major spoilers.  If you have problems with the ending read this and the other review it links to but not before seeing it.

    ROTTEN TOMATOES

    I enjoyed the film (none / 0) (#127)
    by McBain on Wed Aug 31, 2016 at 11:20:56 AM EST
    but didn't need all the details at the end. I also liked the first Cloverfield.  

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    There is chatter (none / 0) (#128)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Aug 31, 2016 at 11:36:44 AM EST
    About continuing the franchise.  The ending screamed for a sequel.  For the unfamiliar, this is not really a sequel to Cloverfield.  It just "shares the same universe".   The director has said continuing with a sequel that would be as ALIENS was to ALIEN could happen.   That's was also a claustrophobic thriller followed by a big budget alien movie.

    I think the woman's performance is comparable to Sigorney Weaver in ALIEN.   I read that for the final scenes of 10 Cloverfield she had the flu and a 102-103 degree fever.  It really helps make it believable.  She totally looks like it.

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