The president has long sold himself as a self-made billionaire, but a Times investigation found that he received at least $413 million in today's dollars from his father's real estate empire, much of it through tax dodges in the 1990s.

President Trump participated in dubious tax schemes during the 1990s, including instances of outright fraud, that greatly increased the fortune he received from his parents, an investigation by The New York Times has found.

Pretty sure that quote needs no attribution.

I'm sorry.  And I understand how they feel.  They, powerful white Christian men, must feel something like all the people throughout history who were at risk of being destroyed by an accusation.  Even a false one from someone with another motive.

Something like people accused of being terrorists or homosexual or communists or a freakin witch.

Mandrax [Quaaludes] seems to be still very popular, but because of the difficulty of dissolving the tablets, is usually taken orally.

 The photo implied that Dr. Ford was too ugly to be raped; and, may infer that Kavanaugh was good looking enough and could have any woman without raping them.

 The despicable ignorance on display was topped only by the unconscionable victimization of an anonymous woman (the photo was not of a young Dr. Ford).

I just can't stop watching the video of Cheeto marching up the steps of AF1 with the band playing and a big ole piece of toilet paper stuck to his shoe.

But what made me laugh this morning was when I did the search And saw how many of the top search results were from the foreign press

It's believed that one bad cop preyed on innocent residents of a housing project, rounding up dozens of people on bogus charges. So far, 42 wrongly convicted people have been exonerated.

An empty lot is now all that's left of the Ida B. Wells housing project where a group of corrupt Chicago cops preyed almost risk-free on residents for most of a decade. Sergeant Ronald Watts was their ringleader. Residents have accused him and his tactical squad of extortion, filing false police reports, planting evidence and assault.

WASHINGTON - The Senate Judiciary Committee today received a signed statement from Mr. Dennis Ketterer, the former Democratic candidate for Congress and weatherman for WJLA Channel 7 in Washington, regarding the recent allegations made by Julie Swetnick against Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh. Mr. Ketterer had a relationship with Ms. Swetnick in the 1990s.

Below are excerpts of the signed statement, which was provided to the committee under penalty of felony.

"During a conversation about our sexual preferences, things got derailed when Julie told me that she liked to have sex with more than one guy at a time. In fact sometimes with several at one time. She wanted to know if that would be ok in our relationship.

"I asked her if this was just a fantasy of hers. She responded that she first tried sex with multiple guys while in high school and still liked it from time-to-time. She brought it up because she wanted to know if I would be interested in that."
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There was wild applause when the host announced him, and a warm send-off when he left. "You've been very kind, thank you very, very much," the comedian said from the stage.

One audience member visiting from Europe said the crowd was happy to see him and laughed. But some in the audience were made uncomfortable by jokes he told about his daughter, according to HuffPost. And two women walked out on the act, the club said.

Vernon Madison has spent 33 years in solitary confinement awaiting execution for a crime he can no longer remember. A series of strokes have left the 68-year-old death-row inmate with severe cognitive impairment due to vascular dementia. He cannot see, or walk without aid, or recite the alphabet past the letter G, or process basic information. He struggles to speak and suffers incontinence. A growing portion of his brain tissue is dead. And Alabama would like to put him to death as soon as possible.

He says that during the six years they dated she used her psychology background to help teach/coach a life-long friend, who was (successfully) trying to get a job with the FBI, on how to pass the FBI lie-detector test.

Apparently Ford was asked directly during the hearings if she'd ever helped/coached anyone in how to take a LD test, and she said "no."

And, of course, she also took a lie detector test herself re: her Kavanaugh accusations...

`You robbed my wife and robbed my kids': About Woody Guthrie's `worst enemy' and slumlord Fred C. Trump

Took me a minute to figure it out.

Senate Republicans expect the FBI to deliver a report as early as Wednesday afternoon reviewing sexual misconduct allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, starting the countdown for a critical procedural vote on Friday for the high court hopeful

I don't think this is going to go down the way they think.

Senate Finance Chairman Orrin Hatch said Wednesday that he would be "happy" to look into President Donald Trump's tax returns in the wake of The New York Times report that says Trump helped "his parents dodge taxes" in the 1990s, including "instances of outright fraud."

   MITCHELL: The second is the letter that you wrote to Senator Feinstein, dated the -- July 30th of this year.

    MITCHELL: Did you write the letter yourself?

    FORD: I did.

    MITCHELL: And I -- since it's dated July 30th, did you write it on that date?

    FORD: I believe so. I -- it sounds right. I was in Rehoboth, Delaware, at the time. I could look into my calendar and try to figure that out. It seemed...

    MITCHELL: Was it written on or about that date?

    FORD: Yes, yes. I traveled, I think, the 26th of July to Rehoboth, Delaware. So that makes sense, because I wrote it from there.

Looks like McLean, Ford's life-long friend who denied Ford's ex-boyfriend's story about being coached by Ford on how to take lie detector tests, was an FBI agent for about 20 years and lives in Rehoboth, Delaware.

Sam Rockwell as W and Christian Bale as Dick

go see A STAR IS BORN

And according to Tyson, President Trump's proposed Space Force may an important step in that direction, although its mandate should be expanded to include the problems like space debris and protecting citizens from rogue asteroids.

"So it's not a crazy idea," Tyson said.

Tyson also doesn't seem to think Pluto should regain it's status as a regular planet...

"Pluto is one-fifth the mass of our Moon," Tyson replied. "It crosses the orbit of Neptune. This is just bad behavior for a planet."

Van Dyke arrived on the scene, got out of his vehicle and fired 16 shots at McDonald. He continued to shoot at McDonald for 12.5 seconds after he was already on the ground.

Van Dyke told investigators that McDonald raised the knife in a menacing manner before he fired, and that he backpedaled as the teen approached. The police video did not support the officer's account.

"None of that happened!" prosecutor Jody Gleason told jurors. "You've seen the videos. He made it up to justify his use of force."

Nikki Haley has abruptly resigned from her post as President Donald Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, reports Axios' Jonathan Swan.

But we all know Trump is a 50/50 chance of even making it to twenty as president.