What goes through my my mind when I read the news with my morning coffee. …Or for the Simon's Rockers in the group, this is my response journal.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has issued subpoenas to a former lawyer for Paul Manafort and to Manafort’s current spokesman, an aggressive tactic that suggests an effort to add pressure on the former Trump campaign chairman.
Special counsel subpoenas Manafort’s former attorney and spokesman – CNNPolitics
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Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced Tuesday that he is freezing the implementation of President Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military, saying that he will first establish a panel of experts to provide advice and recommendations on how to carry out Trump’s directive.
Transgender ban frozen as Mattis moves forward with new review of options
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Lt. Greg Abbott of the Cobb County Police Department reportedly asked the driver to grab her cellphone, but she replies that she’s afraid to move her hands because she has “just seen way too many videos of cops…”
Abbott responds, “But, you’re not black. Remember, we only shoot black people. We only kill black people, right? All the videos you’ve seen, have you seen the black people get killed?”
…Suri Chadha Jimenez, a representative of the driver, said she believes the officer’s response was sarcastic because the woman “gave him some lip,” but nonetheless said, “It makes you cringe when you hear it. It’s unacceptable.”
Officer at DUI stop tells nervous driver ‘we only kill black people’ | New York Post
Whoa!
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The cooperation is the latest sign that the investigation into Trump’s former campaign chairman is intensifying.
Mueller teams up with New York attorney general in Manafort probe – POLITICO
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Japanese Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso sparked outrage Tuesday after suggesting that the Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, who persecuted millions and sought the extermination of the Jewish people, had the “right motives.”
“Hitler, who killed millions of people, is no good even if his motive was right,” Aso said, as quoted by the Japanese Kyodo news agency.
‘Hitler Had Right Motives’ Comment Lands Japan’s Deputy Prime Minister in Trouble
doh!
In the mid-1990s, 1,000 truckloads of orange peels and orange pulp were purposefully unloaded onto a barren pasture in a Costa Rican national park. Today, that area is covered in lush, vine-laden forest.
Orange is the new green: How orange peels revived a Costa Rican forest
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Michael Cohen’s email to Putin spokesman came during the U.S. presidential campaign.
Top Trump Organization executive asked Putin aide for help on business deal – The Washington Post
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Emails show that Felix Sater promised to get Vladimir Putin’s support for a Trump Tower in Moscow. “Our boy can become president,” he wrote.
Trump Associate Boasted That Moscow Business Deal ‘Will Get Donald Elected’ – NYTimes.com
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Gorka says many in WH don’t support ‘Make America Great Again’ | TheHill
…and this little piggy cried weh, weh, weh, all the way home.
“I requested a meeting with him and I was turned down,” Bolton told Politico.
In a piece published Monday in the National Review, Bolton expanded on his inability to see the president.
…Bolton had previously been eyed for some administration positions, including secretary of State and national security adviser.
In his op-ed, he wrote that former chief strategist Stephen Bannon had asked him to “draw up” a “game plan” for the Iran nuclear agreement for Trump, but he has not been able to present it to the president.
Bolton says ‘staff changes’ have prevented him from seeing Trump | TheHill
Heh
Investigators are reportedly looking into whether Trump made a “knowingly false statement” when he crafted his son’s response to the explosive story.
Mueller may be looking at Trump’s response to Trump Jr.’s Russia meeting – Business Insider
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But on Sunday, in response to requests that the church, which can hold more than 16,000, be opened for evacuees, Lakewood Church posted on Facebook that it is “inaccessible due to severe flooding” and subsequently directed displaced residents to nearby Houston shelters.
…The Facebook post courted criticism on social media, where photos appeared to suggest that the massive building, which was once home to the NBA’s Houston Rockets, had not been damaged by the torrential rains afflicting the area.
Dear Middle America,
Stop being so fucking stupid. If your Church’s leader preaches a gospel of money, don’t expect him to open the doors to save you unless there is a monetary profit in it for him. (Duh!)
Sincerely,
The Peanut Gallery
Trump was backstage watching the crowd fill the floor of the Phoenix Convention Center, but he was angry when he saw how much empty space there was, one person familiar with his frame of mind told Bloomberg. Trump has always harped about staging and the size of his crowds, famously inflating the number of people who attended his inauguration, and even though more people streamed in the closer it got to Trump’s speech, he decided that Gigicos, the man who organized the event, was never going to manage anther one of his rallies…
Reportedly mad over size of Phoenix rally crowd, Trump dumps longtime event organizer
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catchy little tune
Throwback Monday…
Mmmmhmmmm
“When I was 13 my congressman told me I couldn’t fly in combat… I said they just hadn’t met me yet… I knew I could do it but most of them told me I couldn’t…. I’m Amy McGrath and I love our country. I spent twenty years as a U.S. Marine, flew 89 combat missions, bombing Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, I was the first female marine to fly in an F-18 in combat… Some are telling me a Democrat can’t win this battle. …We’ll see about that.” – Amy McGrath
Dayum grrrrrrl….
Oohrah!
Oy… the humanity!
Republicans on Capitol Hill lament President Trump’s aggressive behavior toward them, but some people in the president’s orbit are urging him to up the ante even further.
The Memo: Trump allies say he needs a GOP scalp | TheHill
Stupid is as stupid does….
President Donald Trump’s decision — announced late Friday night — to pardon controversial former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio was the Platonic ideal of Trumpism.
Pardoning Sheriff Joe is the absolute epitome of Trumpism – CNNPolitics
No shit, Sherlock?
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