The congressman then suggests that she get an abortion when she confides to him that she thinks that she's pregnant. It's a false alarm, but she saves the incriminating text messages.

The congressman then quickly blames his staff when his lover subsequently calls him out on one of his hypocritical anti-abortion public statements. Meanwhile, the married lover's cuckolded husband files for divorce and names the congressman as the third party when his wife tries to seek alimony.

Petty was simply genius.

The U.S. Africa Command has hundreds of soldiers deployed across the region, including at an air facility in Agadez, and offers training and support to Niger�s army in aspects such as intelligence gathering and surveillance.

is the weeping over?  i have been ragging about it all season and this week was the ultimate weeper.

is it over?  I ask peeking through my fingers?  can we have my favorite show back now?

i gotta say tho.  maybe i have developed a tolerance for weepy.  last night wasn't THAT bad all things considered.

she went out with style and class.  on her own terms.  thats a lot IMO.

Associates of President Trump and his company have turned over documents to federal investigators that reveal two previously unreported contacts from Russia during the 2016 campaign, according to people familiar with the matter.

In one case, Trump's personal attorney and a business associate exchanged emails weeks before the Republican National Convention about the lawyer possibly traveling to an economic conference in Russia that would be attended by top Russian financial and government leaders, including President Vladi­mir Putin, according to people familiar with the correspondence.

In the other case, the same Trump attorney, Michael Cohen, received a proposal in late 2015 for a Moscow residential project from a company founded by a billionaire who once served in the upper house of the Russian parliament, these people said. The previously unreported inquiry marks the second proposal for a Trump-branded Moscow project that was delivered to the company during the presidential campaign and has since come to light.

another cocaine story worth following is the FX series SNOWFALL.  about the dumping of crack on LA in the 80s to fund the Contras.

it has the right all upset.  which is good enough for me.  the creator John Riddley needs no introduction.

Fortunately, HBO just happened to be filming an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm at Dodger Stadium that day and Juan was filmed in some of the takes of Larry David walking around and sitting in the stadium.

Even with this proof, the prosecutor refused to drop charges because she felt Catalan still had time to commit the crime.  It took a little more detective work to finally persuade the judge to dismiss the case.

Lots of strange and bad behavior in this case.  Catalan received a civil settlement because of the unethical tactics the police used while  interrogating him.  The judge was on the fence with her decision to dismiss so she played the interrogation video to her children and asked if he sounded like a murderer. Is that what judges are supposed to do?

Speaker Paul Ryan last week urged the White House to reconsider ousting Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, his longtime friend who had come under fire for often using a taxpayer-funded private jet for travel, according to two people with knowledge of the call.

John Kelly, the White House chief of staff, called the Wisconsin Republican minutes before the departure was announced Friday afternoon. It was a heads-up call, one White House official said.

Ryan urged Kelly to reconsider and touted the Georgia Republican's experience in Congress and work in the administration, one of the people familiar with the call said.

Price has long had the speaker's ear on policy matters and was part of Ryan's old "Jedi Council," a group of fiscal conservative rabble-rousers who used to powwow when Republicans were in the minority.

But Kelly made clear that Price was out, and the call quickly ended, one of the people said.

May I suggest a movie that has all these things.

One of my all time favorite "so bad it's good" movies seems to be playing all month on CINEMAX.

A SOUND OF THUNDER

There has never been a better example of film making gone horribly wrong, of how a group of otherwise pretty talented people Catherine MacCormack, Edward Burns, Ben Kingsley (wearing the most hilarious hair until youknowwho), really good effects for the time, 2005, and a lot of money can all come together to pinch a loaf for the ages.

Oct 03 2017
Washington--Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) today released the following statement on the need to close the automatic weapon loophole:

"The sale and manufacture of automatic weapons have been illegal since 1986. Automatic weapons produced before 1986 are highly regulated and tracked by the ATF.

"Despite this, individuals are able to purchase bump fire stocks for less than $200 and easily convert a semi-automatic weapon into a firearm that can shoot between 400 and 800 rounds per minute and inflict absolute carnage. The Las Vegas shooter appears to have modified at least one of his weapons in this way.

"A ban on bump fire stocks was included in my 2013 assault weapons bill, and I'm looking at how best to proceed with legislation to finally close this loophole. This is the least we should do in the wake of the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history. It should be our highest priority."

An NBC report indicated that, last summer, at the time of Trump's educational story told to the Boy Scouts at their Jamboree about his friend who had orgies on his yacht, Tillerson declared aloud that Trump was an effing moron.

Rex is reported to have wanted to quit but was talked off the ledge by Pence (who gave him a pep talk) and Mattis and Kelly (who begged him to stay).

While praising Trump, Rex did not flat out deny that he called Trump a moron (maybe it was imbecile?). only saying on that score that "I'm not going to deal with petty stuff like that."

  Yes, no need to deal with a petty matter such as his Secretary of State expresses his view on the President in moronic terms. After all, Trump is a genius---says no one who knows him or works with him.

"The harsh truth is that all this killing in the country is not normal, that it is mostly people with guns who kill people, that the 2nd Amendment rights of gun owners will not be taken away by stricter gun control laws, and that the states with the most gun laws (including Hawaii) are the states with the fewest gun-related deaths."
- "Editorial: Congress Must `Get Off Its A$$' And Move To Stop Gun Violence," Honolulu Civil Beat (October 3, 2017)

... as a direct result of mass shootings in our country.

Wonders

What happened is, in many ways, a miracle.

Good times

wonderful to be in Las Vegas yesterday and meet with people, from police to doctors to the victims themselves, who I will never forget

tRumps American Carnage Tour, fall of 2017.

So kid's grab your (legally or un-
legally) modified assault weapons, the survivors will thank from their hospital bed.

Zealots pray for your God to visit his wrath upon your city and you to can join in the fun at your local shelter.