Whitaker can't remember details regarding a 501(c)3 as recent as 16 months ago. Whitaker was executive director and states he did file SEC complaints. He doesn't recall filing complaints against Republicans, but, all complaints are published online.
October of 2017 - Title VII - Anti-transgender discrimination. Memos do not extend that right to transgender Americans. Whitaker was DOJ Chief of Staff from October 4, 2017 - becoming Acting AG. Former Sessions changed the directive of the DOJ.
Whitaker does not state CLEARLY that transgender Americans are protected by Title VII. That is amazing. An American is not an American when they are transgender according to the Trump DOJ.
Friday, February 08, 2019
Rep. Madeline Dean
December 19, 2018 advice was given to Whitaker to recuse himself from overseeing the Special Council investigation. Whitaker states the answer to the question is not simply yes or no and it was his decision to make. There is written documents regarding the ADVICE Whitaker received and he states there is no written documents.
Rep. Greg Stanton
Mr. Whitaker commits to cooperating with the Inspector General regarding investigations about him.
During the shutdown, there exists a memo about eliminating ancillary travel to balance the use of agents working and their assets. During that time Whitaker traveled to Capitol Hill and does not consider it ancillary to speak to the Heritage Foundation with his security detail. He doesn't consider that ancillary.
Rep. Stanton would like the work of "The Religous Liberty Task Force" to be forwarded to Congress.
...The task force (click here) will be spearheaded by Associate Attorney General Jesse Panuccio and Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy Beth Williams. The Advocate reports that in 2010, Panuccio, as an attorney, defended supporters of Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage in California for nearly five years. More specific details of the task force’s structure and organization have not yet been announced....
During the shutdown, there exists a memo about eliminating ancillary travel to balance the use of agents working and their assets. During that time Whitaker traveled to Capitol Hill and does not consider it ancillary to speak to the Heritage Foundation with his security detail. He doesn't consider that ancillary.
Rep. Stanton would like the work of "The Religous Liberty Task Force" to be forwarded to Congress.
...The task force (click here) will be spearheaded by Associate Attorney General Jesse Panuccio and Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy Beth Williams. The Advocate reports that in 2010, Panuccio, as an attorney, defended supporters of Proposition 8, a 2008 ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage in California for nearly five years. More specific details of the task force’s structure and organization have not yet been announced....
Rep. Joe Neguse is concerned in the development of cannabis as a method to provide Americans relief from medical conditions. Whitaker states there are some foreign treaties they are working with regarding cannabis.
November 7th was the day Whitaker learned of the resignation of Former AG Sessions.
Whitaker states as he has through the entire hearing that he will not comment on any conversation with the president.
"The Vacancy Act" dictates the DOJ follow a specific succession. The Representative asked Whitaker if he knew of that law. "The Succession Statue" is his defense in accepting his placement into the Acting AG position.
The Succession Statue? I can't find any Succession Statue with the DOJ. There is a Succession Act which states the progression of the replacement of the president should the president no longer be able to serve.
Once again, any USA department is not allowed to draw up their own rules when legislation exists.
November 7th was the day Whitaker learned of the resignation of Former AG Sessions.
Whitaker states as he has through the entire hearing that he will not comment on any conversation with the president.
"The Vacancy Act" dictates the DOJ follow a specific succession. The Representative asked Whitaker if he knew of that law. "The Succession Statue" is his defense in accepting his placement into the Acting AG position.
The Succession Statue? I can't find any Succession Statue with the DOJ. There is a Succession Act which states the progression of the replacement of the president should the president no longer be able to serve.
Once again, any USA department is not allowed to draw up their own rules when legislation exists.
Rep. Sylvia Garcia is concerned about the Whitaker involvement in developing the "Zero Tolerance Policy." She is concerned about the number of children involved and their continued separation from parents. Astounding to me, Whitaker states the DOJ is not involved with the children but only the parents.
Rep. Val Demings observation of the turnover at the FBI correlates with asset deployment to counter domestic terrorists.
She wanted to know if Whitaker was behind the people at the FBI since there has been so many purged from the agency. She felt Whitaker was not standing with the FBI as he should.
Rep. Lou Correa asked if White Supremacists were a threat within the USA and Whitaker stated yet. Rep. Lou Correa believes there are far too few convictions in hate crimes in relation to the number of crimes that exist. There was a 20 percent increase in hate crimes in 2017 and there were only 30 convictions. The Representative believes there is not enough assets assigned to domestic terrorism.
US Rep. Pramila Jayapal wanted to know if the Acting AG knew about the leaked information.
January 18, 2019
Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley (click here) on Friday asked the FBI to open a perjury investigation into Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen following the leak of a 2017 internal draft document that explored separating families as a way to curb illegal immigration at the border.
The memo challenges the assertion by Nielsen last June on Twitter and in media briefings saying "we do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period."
The Dec. 16, 2017, document, provided by Merkley's office, which said it received it from a whistleblower, appears to be an internal memo on legal options to address families who were arriving at the border. Among the options listed: the "prosecution of family units" and "separate family units."...
Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley (click here) on Friday asked the FBI to open a perjury investigation into Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen following the leak of a 2017 internal draft document that explored separating families as a way to curb illegal immigration at the border.
The memo challenges the assertion by Nielsen last June on Twitter and in media briefings saying "we do not have a policy of separating families at the border. Period."
The Dec. 16, 2017, document, provided by Merkley's office, which said it received it from a whistleblower, appears to be an internal memo on legal options to address families who were arriving at the border. Among the options listed: the "prosecution of family units" and "separate family units."...
Whitaker continues to speak in contempt of the USA Constitution. He was asked by Rep. Ted Lieu if the US Constitution prohibited the president or vice president from being indicted. Rep. Ted Lieu submitted a copy of the US Constitution as proof to that fact. Whitaker could not answer the question.
February 7, 2019
Press Release
Washington - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), (click here) Senator Ed Markey (D-MA), House Armed Services Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA), Congressman John Garamendi (D-CA), Congressman Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA) and Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) announced the reintroduction of the bicameral Hold the LYNE (Low-Yield Nuclear Explosive)Act. The legislation would prohibit the research, development, production and deployment of a low-yield nuclear warheads for submarine-launched ballistic missiles. So-called low-yield nuclear weapons have the potential to lower the threshold for using nuclear weapons and increase the risk of entering the U.S. into nuclear war. This bill has 22 original co-sponsors in the House.
Upon introduction, the Members said:
“Developing a new ‘low-yield’ nuclear warhead is a fiscal boondoggle and a political mistake. There is no military requirement for this weapon, and its potential use risks a grave miscalculation. Its development is yet another example of how the Trump administration is abdicating American leadership in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons around the world. A nuclear weapon is a nuclear weapon, and the Trump administration’s attempt to market a new one is ill-advised and dangerous. We simply cannot lower the threshold for using a nuclear weapon. No one wins a nuclear war.”...
“Developing a new ‘low-yield’ nuclear warhead is a fiscal boondoggle and a political mistake. There is no military requirement for this weapon, and its potential use risks a grave miscalculation. Its development is yet another example of how the Trump administration is abdicating American leadership in stopping the spread of nuclear weapons around the world. A nuclear weapon is a nuclear weapon, and the Trump administration’s attempt to market a new one is ill-advised and dangerous. We simply cannot lower the threshold for using a nuclear weapon. No one wins a nuclear war.”...
Republican Representative Lesko asked an Acting Attorney General if he is upholding the Third Trimester Abortion law.
Partial - Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003
18 US Code 1531. Partial-birth abortions prohibited (click here)
It would be interesting to know if there are many convictions under that law. The only such conviction I am aware of was a Philadelphia doctor in violation of many laws in 2013. So, other than political reasons I don't know why she would ask about such a law.
It is noteworthy that the Robert's Court now has a radical judge that continues to make a name for himself in Republican Circles, namely Kavanaugh. The Court's decision today involved the radical nature of Kavanaugh. (click here) I just to see widespread abuse of the 2003 law that should change anything with abortion rights for women.
The problem with the radical point of view of Republicans regarding abortion rights for women is that it is theocratic and not democratic.
15 May 2013
A Philadelphia doctor (click here) was sentenced Wednesday to a third life term for killing an aborted baby that he described as so big it could "walk to the bus."
Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted this week of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies born alive at his rogue clinic, then stabbed with scissors. He was given two life sentences Tuesday in a deal with prosecutors that spared him a potential death sentence, and the third sentence was handed down Wednesday.
The sentences offer no chance at parole, meaning Gosnell, 72, will spend the rest of his life in prison.
The case has made Gosnell a flashpoint in the nation's bitter debate over legalized abortion....
18 US Code 1531. Partial-birth abortions prohibited (click here)
It would be interesting to know if there are many convictions under that law. The only such conviction I am aware of was a Philadelphia doctor in violation of many laws in 2013. So, other than political reasons I don't know why she would ask about such a law.
It is noteworthy that the Robert's Court now has a radical judge that continues to make a name for himself in Republican Circles, namely Kavanaugh. The Court's decision today involved the radical nature of Kavanaugh. (click here) I just to see widespread abuse of the 2003 law that should change anything with abortion rights for women.
The problem with the radical point of view of Republicans regarding abortion rights for women is that it is theocratic and not democratic.
15 May 2013
A Philadelphia doctor (click here) was sentenced Wednesday to a third life term for killing an aborted baby that he described as so big it could "walk to the bus."
Dr Kermit Gosnell was convicted this week of first-degree murder in the deaths of three babies born alive at his rogue clinic, then stabbed with scissors. He was given two life sentences Tuesday in a deal with prosecutors that spared him a potential death sentence, and the third sentence was handed down Wednesday.
The sentences offer no chance at parole, meaning Gosnell, 72, will spend the rest of his life in prison.
The case has made Gosnell a flashpoint in the nation's bitter debate over legalized abortion....
February 8, 2019
By Mark Osborne
Authorities seize record-setting 1.7 tons of meth (click here) worth $1.29 billion of Los Angeles port originally appeared on abcnews.go.com.
A joint drug bust between Australian and U.S. authorities in mid-January resulted in a record 1.7 tons of methamphetamine being seized at Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport.
Customs and Border Protection announced the seizure of the three containers on Thursday, which were intended to be shipped to Australia before being searched on Jan. 11. The containers were filled with speakers "artfully" stuffed with the drugs.
In addition to the 3,810 pounds of meth, the shipment also contained 55.9 pounds of cocaine and 11.5 pounds of heroin. Australian officials said the total street value of the haul was $1.29 billion....
By Mark Osborne
Authorities seize record-setting 1.7 tons of meth (click here) worth $1.29 billion of Los Angeles port originally appeared on abcnews.go.com.
A joint drug bust between Australian and U.S. authorities in mid-January resulted in a record 1.7 tons of methamphetamine being seized at Los Angeles/Long Beach seaport.
Customs and Border Protection announced the seizure of the three containers on Thursday, which were intended to be shipped to Australia before being searched on Jan. 11. The containers were filled with speakers "artfully" stuffed with the drugs.
In addition to the 3,810 pounds of meth, the shipment also contained 55.9 pounds of cocaine and 11.5 pounds of heroin. Australian officials said the total street value of the haul was $1.29 billion....
Contrary to Rep. McClintock the Steele Dossier has been primarily validated by the Special Council's investigation.
This is all old news. The Dossier is an important document compiled by an ally and friend to the USA. Christopher Steele has no reason what so ever to lie about facts in his concern for his own country and that of an ally in the USA. This is not a game for Mr. Steele. He understands the brevity of such documents all too well.
The only METHOD for the Republicans to follow to maintain their political standing is to attack the integrity of those involved.
January 7, 2019
...The controversial 35 pages of intelligence memos compiled by retired British spy Christopher Steele paint a picture of widespread conspiracy of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. To Democrats and President Donald Trump's critics, the documents tell a story that could amount to treason....
...Steele's memos (click here) lay out specific meetings that haven't been corroborated. But his claim that there was regular contact between Trump's campaign and Russians has held up over time. When he wrote his memos in 2016, hardly any of these contacts were publicly known. They have since been revealed in Mueller's court filings, countless news reports and testimony on Capitol Hill...
The only METHOD for the Republicans to follow to maintain their political standing is to attack the integrity of those involved.
January 7, 2019
...The controversial 35 pages of intelligence memos compiled by retired British spy Christopher Steele paint a picture of widespread conspiracy of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russian government. To Democrats and President Donald Trump's critics, the documents tell a story that could amount to treason....
...Steele's memos (click here) lay out specific meetings that haven't been corroborated. But his claim that there was regular contact between Trump's campaign and Russians has held up over time. When he wrote his memos in 2016, hardly any of these contacts were publicly known. They have since been revealed in Mueller's court filings, countless news reports and testimony on Capitol Hill...
There are numerous findings by the Special Council to wrong doing affiliated with the Trump Campaign by it's members. The Trump Tower meeting involved members of the Trump Campaign and Russians.
Project Safe Neighborhood has been long established and the reference to it during the US House oversight hearing is a political commercial.
Project Safe Neighborhoods was established in 2001 through support from President George W. Bush. The program expands upon strategies used in Boston's Operation Ceasefire, and in Richmond, Virginia's Project Exile.
Project Safe Neighborhood (click here)
It is a fascinating program to witness that brings in all levels of law enforcement to rehearse and enforce safe neighborhood presence of police authority. In coastal communities of ocean and the Great Lakes, the Coast Guard is even involved.
Project Safe Neighborhood (click here)
It is a fascinating program to witness that brings in all levels of law enforcement to rehearse and enforce safe neighborhood presence of police authority. In coastal communities of ocean and the Great Lakes, the Coast Guard is even involved.
The Acting US Attorney General knows how to tell time. The jerk should not be in the DOJ. But, I think the American people know Whitaker never belonged in a responsible position in the DOJ. I think Whitaker's license needs to be reviewed.
Whitaker has no intention of answering Congressional questions. He is obstructing justice. Review his license. I'll go so far as to say he has no intention of honoring the USA Constitution and the power of Congress.
I might add, the Ranking Member, I think his name is Collins; doesn't take up the defense of the US Constitution in calling Whitaker on the carpet for the disrespect of the Chairman. He did not tell Whitaker his answers should be concise and correct.
..."Mr. Whitaker, (click here) like everyone else at the Department of Justice, you are entitled to your political opinions. This Committee should not be in the business of vilifying government personnel for their private views, particularly when the Department takes steps to mitigate even the appearance of a conflict of interest in an ongoing investigation.
"But when career officials at the Department recommended that you take steps to mitigate your apparent conflicts of interest, Mr. Whitaker—when they told you that your public criticism of the Special Counsel was bad for the Department and bad for the administration of justice—you ignored them.
"You decided that your private interest in overseeing this particular investigation—and perhaps others from which you should have been recused—was more important than the integrity of the Department.
"The question that this Committee must now ask is: why?...
The Chairman of the US Congressional Judiciary Committee has a responsibility in oversight. In order to carry out that oversight, he has to be confident the leaders of that department of government are competent and acting in the best interest of the people. If Chairman Nadler is unable to achieve respect for the USA Constitution through honest, respectful and truthful answers to his questions then the government is compromised.
Today, Whitaker attempted to take control of the hearing by insulting Chairman Nadler as to his questions and the time of which he asked them. Whitaker is insulting the US Constitution. In that, he is not competent to be in the leadership of the DOJ as the Congress carries out it's responsibility to the people of this country.
The testimony to a Congressional Committee is not a place for grandstanding with attempts to discredit Congressional Members by refusing to participate wholeheartedly in a hearing. How many hearings do Congressional Committees have to have to realize the Trump White House disregards the Rule of Law and stomps all over the US Constitution. Today's behavior by Whitaker is a prime example of the peril the US Constitution faces with this administration.
The facts are plain. In more than one instance with today's behavior by the Acting Attorney General be one, the Trump White House is proving they violated the oath of office they took to preserve, protect and defend the USA Constitution. A short time ago Senator Menendez brought forward the facts of another violation of the Rule of Law by the Trump White House.
...The U.S. brought the sanctions under a 1991 law (click here) known as the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act, or CBW Act. Moscow has denied any involvement in the poisoning, which Skripal and his daughter survived.
Under the law, a second tranche of sanctions is automatically triggered unless Russia meets a number of strict criteria, including showing it is no longer using chemical or biological weapons and allowing for independent inspections.
The State Department alerted Congress in November that Moscow had not complied with the requirements to avoid a second round of sanctions. However, the U.S. has not formally announced new sanctions on Moscow in the more than two months that have passed....
Not only does Trump stand in violation of USA law, he then circumvented the legislature and allowed a Russian oligarch to be relieved from sanctions through manipulations of the US Treasury that were placed due to Russia's continued violence against the people of Ukraine. The sanctions resulted because Russia not only committed violence but, completely disregarded an international treaty that GUARANTEED Ukraine it's own autonomy without interference. Ukraine trusted in the treaty and it is proving to be a mistake to do so with the people of Ukraine now entrenched in a civil war, propagated by weapons from Russia.
The disrepect for law, be it international or otherwise, is characteristic not only of Russia, but, evidently that of the Trump White House as well.
When does the US Congress, including the US Senate, end this charade of an Executive Branch and invoke the truth and the power of the US Constitution?
Whitaker has no intention of answering Congressional questions. He is obstructing justice. Review his license. I'll go so far as to say he has no intention of honoring the USA Constitution and the power of Congress.
I might add, the Ranking Member, I think his name is Collins; doesn't take up the defense of the US Constitution in calling Whitaker on the carpet for the disrespect of the Chairman. He did not tell Whitaker his answers should be concise and correct.
..."Mr. Whitaker, (click here) like everyone else at the Department of Justice, you are entitled to your political opinions. This Committee should not be in the business of vilifying government personnel for their private views, particularly when the Department takes steps to mitigate even the appearance of a conflict of interest in an ongoing investigation.
"But when career officials at the Department recommended that you take steps to mitigate your apparent conflicts of interest, Mr. Whitaker—when they told you that your public criticism of the Special Counsel was bad for the Department and bad for the administration of justice—you ignored them.
"You decided that your private interest in overseeing this particular investigation—and perhaps others from which you should have been recused—was more important than the integrity of the Department.
"The question that this Committee must now ask is: why?...
The Chairman of the US Congressional Judiciary Committee has a responsibility in oversight. In order to carry out that oversight, he has to be confident the leaders of that department of government are competent and acting in the best interest of the people. If Chairman Nadler is unable to achieve respect for the USA Constitution through honest, respectful and truthful answers to his questions then the government is compromised.
Today, Whitaker attempted to take control of the hearing by insulting Chairman Nadler as to his questions and the time of which he asked them. Whitaker is insulting the US Constitution. In that, he is not competent to be in the leadership of the DOJ as the Congress carries out it's responsibility to the people of this country.
The testimony to a Congressional Committee is not a place for grandstanding with attempts to discredit Congressional Members by refusing to participate wholeheartedly in a hearing. How many hearings do Congressional Committees have to have to realize the Trump White House disregards the Rule of Law and stomps all over the US Constitution. Today's behavior by Whitaker is a prime example of the peril the US Constitution faces with this administration.
The facts are plain. In more than one instance with today's behavior by the Acting Attorney General be one, the Trump White House is proving they violated the oath of office they took to preserve, protect and defend the USA Constitution. A short time ago Senator Menendez brought forward the facts of another violation of the Rule of Law by the Trump White House.
...The U.S. brought the sanctions under a 1991 law (click here) known as the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act, or CBW Act. Moscow has denied any involvement in the poisoning, which Skripal and his daughter survived.
Under the law, a second tranche of sanctions is automatically triggered unless Russia meets a number of strict criteria, including showing it is no longer using chemical or biological weapons and allowing for independent inspections.
The State Department alerted Congress in November that Moscow had not complied with the requirements to avoid a second round of sanctions. However, the U.S. has not formally announced new sanctions on Moscow in the more than two months that have passed....
Not only does Trump stand in violation of USA law, he then circumvented the legislature and allowed a Russian oligarch to be relieved from sanctions through manipulations of the US Treasury that were placed due to Russia's continued violence against the people of Ukraine. The sanctions resulted because Russia not only committed violence but, completely disregarded an international treaty that GUARANTEED Ukraine it's own autonomy without interference. Ukraine trusted in the treaty and it is proving to be a mistake to do so with the people of Ukraine now entrenched in a civil war, propagated by weapons from Russia.
The disrepect for law, be it international or otherwise, is characteristic not only of Russia, but, evidently that of the Trump White House as well.
When does the US Congress, including the US Senate, end this charade of an Executive Branch and invoke the truth and the power of the US Constitution?
Thursday, February 07, 2019
So sorry to hear this news.
February 7, 2019Washington - John Dingell, (click here) a gruff Michigan Democrat who entered the U.S. House of Representatives in 1955 to finish his late father’s term and became a legislative heavyweight and longest-serving member of Congress, died on Thursday. He was 92.
“Today the great State of Michigan said farewell to one of our greatest leaders. John Dingell will forever be remembered as ‘The Dean’ of Congress not simply for the length of his service, but for his unparalleled record of legislative accomplishments,” Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer wrote in a post on Twitter.
He saw a great deal of change in his years in service to the country. He saw the first African American President and the first woman Speaker of the House. He saw the first walk on the moon.But, the time he spent in the US House of Representative span decades beginning when Dwight Eisenhower was president. They were incredible times.
He never lost interest in the country. He loved it and the people loved him.
Sincerest sympathies to his family, friends and colleagues. He was genuine. He is difficult to forget. He was moral and loved people. He reached for the higher purpose. He made the USA great.
December 4, 2018
By John D. Dingell
...These are not just the grumblings of an angry old man (click here) lamenting the loss of “the good old days.” In December 1958, almost exactly three years after I entered the House of Representatives, the first American National Election Study, initiated by the University of Michigan, found that 73 percent of Americans trusted the federal government “to do the right thing almost always or most of the time.” As of December 2017, the same study, now conducted by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center, found that this number had plummeted to just 18 percent....
I want to know if this is an isolated case within the USA media.
Go get them, Jeff Bezos. This is hero stuff. No gossip pictures are going to overshadow the heroics taking place. This is definitely putting pressure on the owner of the "Washington Post" to provide propaganda to the American public.
I find it hard to believe this is an isolated incident. Others just may be waiting in the shadows and will come forward, too.
February 7, 2019
By Dylan Byers
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (click here) accused the National Enquirer’s parent company, American Media Inc., of “extortion and blackmail” on Thursday for threatening to publish scandalous photos of him and his mistress if he didn’t drop an investigation into how the tabloid obtained text messages exposing his extra-marital affair.
According to the emails that Bezos published, which have not been independently reviewed by NBC News, showed that AMI threatened to publish texts from Bezos and his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, that included photos of a sexual nature. In exchange for withholding the photos, AMI demanded that Bezos stop the Washington Post, which he owns, from reporting about political motivations behind the National Enquirer's initial reports about his relationship with Sanchez.
"If in my position I can’t stand up to this kind of extortion, how many people can?" Bezos wrote on the blogging website Medium of one letter in which an AMI representative detailed embarrassing photos and texts that the tabloid planned to publish revealing his relationship with Sanchez.
David Pecker, CEO of AMI, which owns National Enquirer, and President Donald Trump are known to be friends, and Pecker has been accused of buying controversial stories about Trump to keep them private....
I find it hard to believe this is an isolated incident. Others just may be waiting in the shadows and will come forward, too.
February 7, 2019
By Dylan Byers
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (click here) accused the National Enquirer’s parent company, American Media Inc., of “extortion and blackmail” on Thursday for threatening to publish scandalous photos of him and his mistress if he didn’t drop an investigation into how the tabloid obtained text messages exposing his extra-marital affair.
According to the emails that Bezos published, which have not been independently reviewed by NBC News, showed that AMI threatened to publish texts from Bezos and his girlfriend, Lauren Sanchez, that included photos of a sexual nature. In exchange for withholding the photos, AMI demanded that Bezos stop the Washington Post, which he owns, from reporting about political motivations behind the National Enquirer's initial reports about his relationship with Sanchez.
"If in my position I can’t stand up to this kind of extortion, how many people can?" Bezos wrote on the blogging website Medium of one letter in which an AMI representative detailed embarrassing photos and texts that the tabloid planned to publish revealing his relationship with Sanchez.
David Pecker, CEO of AMI, which owns National Enquirer, and President Donald Trump are known to be friends, and Pecker has been accused of buying controversial stories about Trump to keep them private....
By Alexandra Petra
“Good fences make good neighbors.” (click here)
— Mike Pence, defending the need for a wall on the United States’ border with Mexico
This old saying appears in the poem “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost. However, in the poem, it was ironic. I have taken the liberty of updating the poem so Mike Pence can quote it without embarrassment:Something there is that wants to build a wall,...
I visited the exact place most folks speak of about when referring to the Robert Frost fence. It isn't all that. The most interesting part of the fence is it's intended use for the Frost family. Frost said of his farm with a fence.
"I might say the core of all my writing was probably the five free years I had there on the farm down the road a mile or two from Derry Village toward Lawrence. The only thing we had was time and seclusion. I couldn't have figured on it in advance. I hadn't that kind of foresight. But it turned out right as a doctor's prescription."
--Thompson, Lawrence, ed. Selected Letters of Robert Frost. New York, Holt, 1964.
Robert Frost was an interesting man. He taught at Pinkerton Academy (click here) in Derry, New Hampshire. He had six children; Elliot (1896–1900, died of cholera); daughter Lesley Frost Ballantine (1899–1983); son Carol (1902–1940, committed suicide); daughter Irma (1903–1967); daughter Marjorie (1905–1934, died as a result of puerperal fever after childbirth); and daughter Elinor Bettina (died just three days after her birth in 1907). Only Lesley and Irma outlived their father.
He loved his children and his employment was about a mile or so walk from his home. The farm house is a large house and it accommodated all the people it comfortably sheltered from any New Hampshire winter.
But, the children of Robert Frost didn't know the limits of fences. The fence at the farm house is only for the front yard where the children would play while young.
The children were each assigned a constellation in the night sky over their home to study, read about and write about. In addition, they never had a bed to sleep in they could say was only their bed. The children were allowed to sleep anywhere they wanted within the bedrooms assigned to the children. The exception, of course, was that of any infant at the time that was assigned the crib.
The most interesting aspect of the house was the backyard which sprawled for quite a distance and was bordered by forest. There were no walls to speak of in that yard. Just a stone border fence about a foot and a half high. Robert Frost did not believe in keeping people out with a fence. Not at all. He believed in keeping people inside the fence, especially when their view of the world and a street were unsafe.
I am sorry to say Vice President Pence's analogy is grossly wrong. Perhaps he really should do a study of a subject to understand the depth of authorship, before he wrongly uses it for his own purpose.
Absent form the "State of the Union" speech the evening of February 6th.
By Marc Orfanos
Tel Orfanos, right, with his father, Marc, center, and his brother Ty at the 2016 Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles.
Marc Orfanos is a resident of Thousand Oaks, Calif., and member of the Everytown Survivor Network.
Imagine (click here) being called into a room after waiting 10 excruciating hours to learn if your child is alive or dead. You find yourself face to face with a somber police officer. The words “I am sorry, your son did not make it” are barely comprehensible as the room swirls around you. You gasp for air as you feel your heart being ripped out of your chest. Your life, along with the lives of your family, friends and community, is changed in that instant. This is the reality of gun violence in America. This was our reality three months ago today.
Telemachus “Tel” Orfanos was my oldest son. There was nothing I wouldn’t do for him, and there is nothing in this world more important to me than my children. He lived his life to help others, and that is he how he died. He was only 27 years old.
Tel survived the deadliest mass shooting in modern American history on Oct. 1, 2017, in Las Vegas. He honorably served our country in the Navy, but never felt the looming presence of death more than at the Route 91 Harvest festival, where 58 people were killed and more than 850 wounded. When he came home, we hugged and cried — we felt so lucky for him to be alive.
None of us ever expected Tel would be at the scene of a second mass shooting just one year later. On Nov. 7, 2018, Tel was at the Borderline Bar & Grill in our hometown of Thousand Oaks, Calif., when someone opened fire. Tel rushed a group of friends out of the bar before returning to try to help more. He was shot multiple times and killed along with 11 others. I will never again be able to hug him, cry with him or be thankful he came home.
Mass shootings have become so routine and commonplace that my son was present at two....
While the State of the Union went on people in the USA were dying at the hand of violence. "Mass Shootings in 2019" (click here) Citizens die everyday in the USA now since the NRA and Russia has had it's way with our elections. Everyday there are mass shooting in the USA and they are not committed by the Undocumented. That fact went completely unrecognized in the State of the Union speech. Trump is not a president for all the people, just the one that improve his image in the way he wants it portrayed.
February 6, 2019
New York — Police say (click here) gunfire inside a Brooklyn building has left one person dead and three others hospitalized.
Detective Adam Navarro reports the shooting happened shortly before 10:30 p.m. Wednesday at a party in the lobby of an apartment building at 1778 Fulton Street.
A 20-year-old man was shot in the head and chest and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Another 20-year-old man was shot in the torso. A 55-year-old woman was shot in abdomen, and a 22-year-old woman was grazed by a bullet; both are expected to survive.
Navarro says it’s unclear how many of the victims were actual targets of the male gunman.
Police have so far made no arrests.
Occurred February 6, but, reported on February 7th.
Cleveland -- Cleveland police (click here) are investigating a shooting that left one person dead and several others injured.
Police were called to Roehl Avenue and West 33rd Street around 10 p.m. Wednesday night.
When they arrived, they found a large crime scene.
According to Cleveland EMS, one man was found dead at the scene. His identity was not released.
Three other men were taken to MetroHealth Medical Center, EMS told Fox 8.
A 33-year-old and 18-year-old were listed in critical condition. A 32-year-old was listed in serious condition.
Cleveland police have not released any information on the shooting or possible suspects.
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