Tuesday, January 12, 2016
By Hina Shamsi
Imam Hamid Hassan Raza, the lead plaintiff in Raza v. City of New York.
A settlement in our challenge to NYPD (click here) surveillance of New York Muslims was announced today, heralding new safeguards to protect against bias-based and unjustified investigations of Muslim and other minority communities.
The settlement was announced in Raza v. City of New York, a lawsuit on behalf of three New York Muslims, two mosques, and a Muslim non-profit organization, who alleged they were swept up in the NYPD’s dragnet surveillance of Muslims. The ACLU, the New York Civil Liberties Union, and the CLEAR project at CUNY School of Law filed the suit in 2013. The law firm of Morrison & Foerster LLP joined the litigation team soon after. The lawsuit charged that the NYPD mapped Muslim communities and their institutions, sent officers and informants into mosques to monitor innocent religious leaders and congregants, and used other invasive means to spy on Muslims....
Now FOX says it's "The Hobbs Act." That has to be at least as bogus as "The Mann Act."
9-131.010 - Introduction (click here)
This chapter focuses on the Hobbs Act (18 U.S.C. § 1951) which prohibits actual or attempted robbery or extortion affecting interstate or foreign commerce. Section 1951 also proscribes conspiracy to commit robbery or extortion without reference to the conspiracy statute at 18 U.S.C. § 371. Although the Hobbs Act was enacted as a statute to combat racketeering in labor-management disputes, the statute is frequently used in connection with cases involving public corruption, commercial disputes, and corruption directed at members of labor unions.
The Criminal Resource Manual contains a discussion of Hobbs Act case law and form indictments:
What to try again?
What to try again?
Florida's second strike.
January 12, 2016
The NYTimes Editorial Board
In 2014, the justices struck down the state’s rigid, unscientific rule that skirted the court’s clear 2002 ban on executing intellectually disabled people.
On Tuesday, in an 8-to-1 decision written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court rejected a Florida law that required a trial judge, and not the jury, to decide whether to impose the death penalty....
On Tuesday, in an 8-to-1 decision written by Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court rejected a Florida law that required a trial judge, and not the jury, to decide whether to impose the death penalty....
The political right wing are the only cites reporting a PUBLIC connection to Secretary Clinton.
LEAKS.
NATIONAL SECURITY.
Believe in half truths?
Allow me.
I suppose the House Committee would do far better under the Wisconsin US Rep. Paul What's His Name? Oh, yeah, Ryan.
October 23, 2015
Much of Thursday’s House committee hearing, (click here) which probed the events leading up to an attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya, focused on Hillary Clinton’s relationship with Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime friend and “fixer” of the Clintons. Several GOP committee members pointed out how she prioritized Blumenthal’s correspondence over that from Libyan ambassador Christopher Stevens, who didn’t even have Clinton’s email address....
Need some money?
NATIONAL SECURITY.
Believe in half truths?
Allow me.
I suppose the House Committee would do far better under the Wisconsin US Rep. Paul What's His Name? Oh, yeah, Ryan.
October 23, 2015
Much of Thursday’s House committee hearing, (click here) which probed the events leading up to an attack on a U.S. consulate in Libya, focused on Hillary Clinton’s relationship with Sidney Blumenthal, a longtime friend and “fixer” of the Clintons. Several GOP committee members pointed out how she prioritized Blumenthal’s correspondence over that from Libyan ambassador Christopher Stevens, who didn’t even have Clinton’s email address....
For Hillary Clinton, (click here) the new year isn’t off to such a great start.
With polls showing her lead over Bernie Sanders either narrowing or gone (and in New Hampshire, she’s behind), her campaign is justifiably nervous. Even liberal pundits are now admitting the Democrat race isn’t the coronation many expected it to be.
Then of course, there’s the re-emergence of focus on her husband’s chequered past with women — and her own role in it — which not only distracts but significantly weakens her position as a champion of women....
It is all drummed up. This is good practice for Hillary to handle deceptions as a President.
By Catherine Herridge, Pamela Browne
It is all drummed up. This is good practice for Hillary to handle deceptions as a President.
By Catherine Herridge, Pamela Browne
FoxNews.com
EXCLUSIVE: The FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s (click here) use of private email as secretary of state has expanded to look at whether the possible “intersection” of Clinton Foundation work and State Department business may have violated public corruption laws, three intelligence sources not authorized to speak on the record told Fox News.
This new investigative track is in addition to the focus on classified material found on Clinton’s personal server.
"The agents are investigating the possible intersection of Clinton Foundation donations, the dispensation of State Department contracts and whether regular processes were followed," one source said.
Clinton, speaking to the Des Moines Register, on Monday pushed back on the details of a second investigative track. According to reporter Jennifer Jacobs, Clinton said Monday she has heard nothing from the FBI....
The civil wars, the ethnic wars and the religious wars being seen today in the USA media has been going on for some time now. Some are historic.
The only way to stop them are cease fire, peace agreements and peace treaties.
We don't belong in Iraq.
We never did.
The Russia campaign is creating more refugees. NATO really has to stand ready in Europe.
January 12, 2016
“The immediate thing to be done is to lift sieges everywhere,” the humanitarian coordinator for Syria, Yacoub El Hillo, told reporters by phone from Damascus, the Syrian capital, where he is based.
The only way to stop them are cease fire, peace agreements and peace treaties.
We don't belong in Iraq.
We never did.
The Russia campaign is creating more refugees. NATO really has to stand ready in Europe.
January 12, 2016
“The immediate thing to be done is to lift sieges everywhere,” the humanitarian coordinator for Syria, Yacoub El Hillo, told reporters by phone from Damascus, the Syrian capital, where he is based.
Mr. Hillo’s comments came a day after he joined a carefully negotiated aid convoy into the besieged town of Madaya. He said he saw severely malnourished people there, especially children, and others who had gone hungry for a long time. He said some people he met there resembled “skeletons that are now barely moving.”...
There is an impressive air base there.
The USA is already in Turkey, Iraq and Afghanistan while the Arab Coalition is in Syria.
How is the border holding up?
Bomb Attacks in Turkey since 1982. (click here)
August 7, 1982: A bomb at Ankara’s Esenboğa Airport followed by a gun battle leaves 11 dead and 63 injured. The attack is claimed by the Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA).
September 6, 1986: A twin suicide bombing claimed by Islamic Jihad kills 22 people at the Neve Shalom synagogue in Istanbul.
December 25, 1991: Explosives and firebombs are hurled at Istanbul department store “Çetinkaya” by militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), killing 17 people and injuring 23 others....
Guns are assets and should be claimed on TANF, SNAP, Workfare applications.
Additionally, FREE GUNS can be easily obtained from violent groups in the USA and abroad.
Police should report to the social services organizaations any taking of guns, drugs or cash.
Free guns are an income to the Income Tax federal and state.
There are laws on the books that prevent such shipments of certain goods into a region of the world. Shipments from individuals in the USA should be investigated bu ATF through online listing and follow up.
Huffington Post Article (click here)
Why are 60 percent of USA families single women?
Nov. 17, 2013
By Michael Kimmel
Who are the white supremacists? (click here) There has been no formal survey, for obvious reasons, but there are several noticeable patterns. Geographically, they come from America’s heartland—small towns, rural cities, swelling suburban sprawl outside larger Sunbelt cities. These aren’t the prosperous towns, but the single-story working-class exurbs that stretch for what feels like forever in the corridor between Long Beach and San Diego (not the San Fernando Valley), or along the southern tier of Pennsylvania, or spread all through the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, across the vast high plains of eastern Washington and Oregon, through Idaho and Montana. There are plenty in the declining cities of the Rust Belt, in Dearborn and Flint, Buffalo and Milwaukee, in the bars that remain in the shadows of the hulking deserted factories that once were America’s manufacturing centers. And that doesn’t even touch the former states of the Confederacy, where flying the Confederate flag is a culturally approved symbol of “southern pride”—in the same way that wearing a swastika would be a symbol of German “heritage” (except it’s illegal in Germany to wear a swastika).
Additionally, FREE GUNS can be easily obtained from violent groups in the USA and abroad.
Police should report to the social services organizaations any taking of guns, drugs or cash.
Free guns are an income to the Income Tax federal and state.
There are laws on the books that prevent such shipments of certain goods into a region of the world. Shipments from individuals in the USA should be investigated bu ATF through online listing and follow up.
Huffington Post Article (click here)
Why are 60 percent of USA families single women?
By Michael Kimmel
Who are the white supremacists? (click here) There has been no formal survey, for obvious reasons, but there are several noticeable patterns. Geographically, they come from America’s heartland—small towns, rural cities, swelling suburban sprawl outside larger Sunbelt cities. These aren’t the prosperous towns, but the single-story working-class exurbs that stretch for what feels like forever in the corridor between Long Beach and San Diego (not the San Fernando Valley), or along the southern tier of Pennsylvania, or spread all through the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, across the vast high plains of eastern Washington and Oregon, through Idaho and Montana. There are plenty in the declining cities of the Rust Belt, in Dearborn and Flint, Buffalo and Milwaukee, in the bars that remain in the shadows of the hulking deserted factories that once were America’s manufacturing centers. And that doesn’t even touch the former states of the Confederacy, where flying the Confederate flag is a culturally approved symbol of “southern pride”—in the same way that wearing a swastika would be a symbol of German “heritage” (except it’s illegal in Germany to wear a swastika).
THE ARMS TRADE TREATY (Click here)
Under the landmark Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) countries regulate the international trade in conventional weapons - from small arms to battle tanks, combat aircraft and warships - and work to prevent the diversion of arms and ammunition...
Nothing like post Christmas sales.
Small Arms Survey 2013 (click here)
Illicit small arms and light weapons in Mexico (click here)
Small Arms Survey 2013 (click here)
Illicit small arms and light weapons in Mexico (click here)
Where are the priorities of gun owners/
U.S. Department Of Justice (click here) - http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/guns.htm
The Mission of the DOJ is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. These data are critical to Federal, State, and local policymakers in combating crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded.
But if wannbee gun owners hurry they can get free guns with a discounted national membership. No, it isn't the NRA.
I am not going to place the link on this sight, but, it is for real.
5:32 PM, FOX just went into overdrive blaming gangs as the largest numbers of gun ownership in the country. What does that say about the consumer of the gun dealers?
This membership is advertised on our website for $9,900 but I am allowing you to purchase as many as you want for only $250 EACH.
How many people in the USA have good driving records?
What is the likely a jet will fall out of the sky? More often than I have an accident with my car.
What is the likely a jet will fall out of the sky? More often than I have an accident with my car.
Pedestrian safety in the USA (click here)
In 2012, 4,743 pedestrians were killed in traffic crashes in the United States, and another 76,000 pedestrians were injured. This averages to one crash-related pedestrian death every 2 hours, and a pedestrian injury every 7 minutes. Pedestrians are 1.5 times more likely than passenger vehicle occupants to be killed in a car crash on each trip.
Another kid dead from gun violence in the USA. What's the chance of that?
Jan. 12, 2016
By Christine Hauser
A photograph of Manal Abdelaziz taken at the store where he accidentally shot himself in Lumberton,N.C.
The 3-year-old (click here) was sitting on a stool behind the counter near the cash register while his father, the owner of a small convenience store in North Carolina, chatted with a customer on Sunday.
Suddenly a shot rang out, and the owner, Manal Abdelaziz, 56, turned and saw his son, Manal, lying on the floor.
Manal, who was nicknamed Cash, had found a 9-millimeter handgun that was kept in the store for protection, and fatally shot himself.
“All we heard is something happening, and I look: Oh my God, my son is on the floor,” Mr. Abdelaziz told a local television station, WMBF. They called 911. “Help comes, but it was late,” the store owner said. “It happened quick.”...
You know what really gets me angry? The way Republicans trivialize American deaths due to gun violence even when it is one of their own.
Another kid dead from gun violence in the USA. What's the chance of that?
By Christine Hauser
A photograph of Manal Abdelaziz taken at the store where he accidentally shot himself in Lumberton,N.C.
The 3-year-old (click here) was sitting on a stool behind the counter near the cash register while his father, the owner of a small convenience store in North Carolina, chatted with a customer on Sunday.
Suddenly a shot rang out, and the owner, Manal Abdelaziz, 56, turned and saw his son, Manal, lying on the floor.
Manal, who was nicknamed Cash, had found a 9-millimeter handgun that was kept in the store for protection, and fatally shot himself.
“All we heard is something happening, and I look: Oh my God, my son is on the floor,” Mr. Abdelaziz told a local television station, WMBF. They called 911. “Help comes, but it was late,” the store owner said. “It happened quick.”...
You know what really gets me angry? The way Republicans trivialize American deaths due to gun violence even when it is one of their own.
It is so good to see Iraq is back to normal. At least the normal post "W".
There is a new death squad in town. Oh, I forgot, the death squad simply came home. They must have gotten tired of them in Syria.
January 11, 2016BAGHDAD — The Islamic State group (click here) claimed responsibility for the Baghdad mall attack that killed 18 people on Monday. Gunmen stormed into the Jawhara Mall after setting off a car bomb and launching a suicide attack at its entrance.
Iraqi officials say the attack which lasted over an hour, killed at least 18 people and wounded 50 in the city's mainly Shiite east.
The IS statement, posted online shortly after the attack, sad a car bomb and four IS fighters carried out the attack, targeting an area where many Shiite Muslims are known to gather and warned of "worse" to come. Iraqi officials say the attack was carried out by seven men, one of whom died when he detonated his explosive vest at the start of the attack. The conflicting accounts could not immediately be reconciled....
Monday, January 11, 2016
This response is no different than the BP response in the Gulf of Mexico.
The LEAKS are upsetting to the CEO because of the loss of PRODUCT, not because of human beings and/or wildlife and/or American property values are effected.
What is really disgusting is that the USA government at any level does NOTHING to end the leak. NOTHING.
Do you know how the Saudis solve these problems? They drill a parallel HOLE and then place a nuclear charge in the HOLE, fill the HOLE and set off the charge. Why? Because they don't want the pollution, the health effects or the damage done to property. The Saudis always figure they can drill another well. But, then all Saudi Arabia has to do is have a proclamation of the King, not a corrupted Congress, to end the LEAK.
January 11, 2016
Updated by David Roberts
...The Santa Susana Mountains (click here) north of Los Angeles contain compressed layers of sedimentary rock that arch upward, like upside-down bowls. They once held enormous oil deposits, but those were mostly tapped out by the early 1970s, when SoCal Gas bought portions of the oil fields to use as natural gas storage.
The Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility, just a mile away from the affluent northern LA community of Porter Ranch, is enormous. It's the second largest in the western US, with some 86 billion cubic feet of capacity, larger than any human-made structure could match. The facility is an important tool used by the utility to respond to fluctuating power and heat demand....
What is really disgusting is that the USA government at any level does NOTHING to end the leak. NOTHING.
Do you know how the Saudis solve these problems? They drill a parallel HOLE and then place a nuclear charge in the HOLE, fill the HOLE and set off the charge. Why? Because they don't want the pollution, the health effects or the damage done to property. The Saudis always figure they can drill another well. But, then all Saudi Arabia has to do is have a proclamation of the King, not a corrupted Congress, to end the LEAK.
January 11, 2016Updated by David Roberts
...The Santa Susana Mountains (click here) north of Los Angeles contain compressed layers of sedimentary rock that arch upward, like upside-down bowls. They once held enormous oil deposits, but those were mostly tapped out by the early 1970s, when SoCal Gas bought portions of the oil fields to use as natural gas storage.
The Aliso Canyon natural gas storage facility, just a mile away from the affluent northern LA community of Porter Ranch, is enormous. It's the second largest in the western US, with some 86 billion cubic feet of capacity, larger than any human-made structure could match. The facility is an important tool used by the utility to respond to fluctuating power and heat demand....
Perhaps the majority of Americans haven't heard, the Republican Party has a strong following by white supremists, especially in the south.
June 22, 2015
by Eric Lichtblau
The leader of a white supremacist (click here) group that apparently influenced Dylann Roof, the suspect in the killing of nine African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church last week, has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Republican campaigns, including those of 2016 presidential contenders such as Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum and Rand Paul, records show.
by Eric Lichtblau
The leader of a white supremacist (click here) group that apparently influenced Dylann Roof, the suspect in the killing of nine African-Americans in a Charleston, S.C., church last week, has donated tens of thousands of dollars to Republican campaigns, including those of 2016 presidential contenders such as Ted Cruz, Rick Santorum and Rand Paul, records show.
Mr. Cruz, a Texas senator, said Sunday night that he would be returning about $8,500 in donations that he had received from the Texas donor, Earl Holt III, who lists himself as president of the Council of Conservative Citizens.
“We just learned this evening that Mr. Holt had contributed to the campaign,” a spokesman for the Cruz campaign said in an email to The New York Times. “We will be immediately refunding all those donations.”...
This is nothing any of the Republicans seem to be ashamed of. This is what is following them into the government at any level. While this is news, it is not new. One might ask why they are still a Republican.
I also think Senator Cruz needs to rethink his viability as a candidate. I don't believe there is a problem simply because his mother was in Canada at the time of his birth. But. There are some interesting members of the Republican Party, the least of which is Senator McCain as well as some very qualified academics questioning the viability to his campaign into a candidate.
Senator Cruz knows the issue and he knows what to do. The last thing he needs is to state it is racism. There are qualified people raising doubts. He should rethink his approach to a sensitive issue.
I don't state this because of Donald Trump. There is doubt among the party. Every voter should have confidence their primary vote matters. This is about the citizens going to the polls. They should feel confident. It is a matter of appreciating their decision and respecting their point of view. Providing reassurance to voters is a matter of respect for them. It is not a defeat.
I wish him luck.
This is nothing any of the Republicans seem to be ashamed of. This is what is following them into the government at any level. While this is news, it is not new. One might ask why they are still a Republican.
I also think Senator Cruz needs to rethink his viability as a candidate. I don't believe there is a problem simply because his mother was in Canada at the time of his birth. But. There are some interesting members of the Republican Party, the least of which is Senator McCain as well as some very qualified academics questioning the viability to his campaign into a candidate.
Senator Cruz knows the issue and he knows what to do. The last thing he needs is to state it is racism. There are qualified people raising doubts. He should rethink his approach to a sensitive issue.
I don't state this because of Donald Trump. There is doubt among the party. Every voter should have confidence their primary vote matters. This is about the citizens going to the polls. They should feel confident. It is a matter of appreciating their decision and respecting their point of view. Providing reassurance to voters is a matter of respect for them. It is not a defeat.
I wish him luck.
David Bowie leaves behind a family.
New York (AFP) - David Bowie's supermodel wife Iman, (click here) who was married to the legendary musician for 23 years, posted a series of poignant Facebook messages in the days leading up to his death.
"The struggle is real, but so is God," she wrote on her public Twitter and Facebook accounts Sunday, the day that her husband died surrounded by his family after a private 18-month battle with cancer.
In the hours after news broke Monday of his death, the post collected more than 2,000 messages of condolence to the 60-year-old Somali-American model and the couple's teenage daughter, Alexandria.
Iman has not commented publicly since her husband's death was announced.
"Sometimes you will never know the true value of a moment until it becomes a memory," she wrote Saturday....
As soon as Governor Snyder finished speaking the Emergency Alert System came on the television. I don't believe in coincidence..
Somebody lit a fire under the Governor.
The people of Flint are getting help. I hope they feel important and I hope they are now feeling safe.
Water is vital to anyone. The youngest citizens of this country are every bit important as any adult with money in their pocket for political donations.
This seems under control at the moment so long as the citizens in need are getting the message. I am sure Flint and the county have social workers and charities that have contact with the people. It is important they understand there is help now.
The medical information is confidential. That doesn't mean people can't share what is going on if they find that important, but, I would recommend it until a legal authority has looked at everything. Once that is done they can provide insight and counseling to the individuals.
This one really breaks my heart. There was just no reason for any of this to occur. This is something every American understands from decades ago. Paint removal for leaded paint. This is not new. And water is so vital to everyone.
Flint is a great city of great people. The country of the middle class has sincere gratitude to the people that built Flint. They showed us we are important and here we are decades later and feeling invisible to not just business, but, government itself.
The people of Flint are getting help. I hope they feel important and I hope they are now feeling safe.
Water is vital to anyone. The youngest citizens of this country are every bit important as any adult with money in their pocket for political donations.
This seems under control at the moment so long as the citizens in need are getting the message. I am sure Flint and the county have social workers and charities that have contact with the people. It is important they understand there is help now.
The medical information is confidential. That doesn't mean people can't share what is going on if they find that important, but, I would recommend it until a legal authority has looked at everything. Once that is done they can provide insight and counseling to the individuals.
This one really breaks my heart. There was just no reason for any of this to occur. This is something every American understands from decades ago. Paint removal for leaded paint. This is not new. And water is so vital to everyone.
Flint is a great city of great people. The country of the middle class has sincere gratitude to the people that built Flint. They showed us we are important and here we are decades later and feeling invisible to not just business, but, government itself.
There are a lot of good people in Flint and the Mayor has a degree of authority in seeing to it people are receiving water and filters.
It was shocking to realize this even happened and it has an ongoing problem for more than a year. That was so devastating to hear. The Mayor and Council has to have their power returned to them as elected officials.
This is an ongoing issue. It doesn't stop here. The Mayor and Council have to remain vigilant and encourage every health care professional caring for the people of Flint to be all that more vigilant. Please don't let them fall between the cracks. Living on low income stresses time available to care for oneself. That has to be over. Besides realizing a good wage, the people of Flint have to put their health on a higher priority and that goes for aspect of their health. The people should feel empowered and respected. The future is important again and we all have to remain vigilant.
There is no future that is not possible for the people of Flint. Every dream is important and everything possible needs to be done to help them realize that.
There is no future that is not possible for the people of Flint. Every dream is important and everything possible needs to be done to help them realize that.
There are several ways to bring down a drug kingpin.
Sean Penn's integrity is untarnished. There was no one better to trust with such an assignment. I am not questioning his purpose or thinking about the interview. The Mexican government failed twice to successfully incarcerate Guzman.
Not only that but within the recent past, drug cartel kingpins were in the same article in Forbes and elsewhere listing successfully wealthy people. There is every reason to believe someone needed to link with Guzman, hence, his cartel and network to bring about a clear understanding to the future and American kids.
Sean Penn has practically taken up residence in Haiti after the earthquake. He has lived his life there completely selfless. I think Anderson Cooper from CNN has interviewed Sean on several occasions in Haiti. If Sean Penn was involved with Guzman it was because he could, not because he should. Penn now has a reputation among people in Latin America. He is a trustworthy person in several geographical regions. I am fairly confident, considering the problem with drugs in the USA, Sean Penn was finding a way to bring about a conversation to create change within the cartel network.
Look, Sean Penn is outside the loop. He works in places and in ways no one else can. I worry about the people in Haiti, but, Sean Penn is that link for society to address that concern. Sean is a celebrity and vast numbers of people recognize him.
If nothing was going to work with Guzman, at least Sean was willing to start a new path to understanding and conversation. The USA government needs to look to Sean Penn for insight and to Rolling Stone as a forum that works for their readers.
Not only that but within the recent past, drug cartel kingpins were in the same article in Forbes and elsewhere listing successfully wealthy people. There is every reason to believe someone needed to link with Guzman, hence, his cartel and network to bring about a clear understanding to the future and American kids.
Sean Penn has practically taken up residence in Haiti after the earthquake. He has lived his life there completely selfless. I think Anderson Cooper from CNN has interviewed Sean on several occasions in Haiti. If Sean Penn was involved with Guzman it was because he could, not because he should. Penn now has a reputation among people in Latin America. He is a trustworthy person in several geographical regions. I am fairly confident, considering the problem with drugs in the USA, Sean Penn was finding a way to bring about a conversation to create change within the cartel network.
Look, Sean Penn is outside the loop. He works in places and in ways no one else can. I worry about the people in Haiti, but, Sean Penn is that link for society to address that concern. Sean is a celebrity and vast numbers of people recognize him.
If nothing was going to work with Guzman, at least Sean was willing to start a new path to understanding and conversation. The USA government needs to look to Sean Penn for insight and to Rolling Stone as a forum that works for their readers.
January 11, 2016
By Yanan Wang
A man reads an article about drug lord Joaquin Guzman, aka "El Chapo," showing a picture of him, right, and American actor Sean Penn on the Rollling Stone website on January 10, 2016.
Sean Penn's “El Chapo” (click here) article is either the best or worst thing that has happened to Rolling Stone magazine since its infamous, now-discredited piece about an alleged University of Virginia fraternity gang rape.
Saturday — one day after Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was recaptured by authorities — seemed as good a time as any to unveil one of the year’s biggest journalistic scoops: a sprawling account of how the actor and director known for starring in such films as “Dead Man Walking” and “Milk” scored a rare interview with the notorious Mexican drug lord.
Upon the story’s release, there were two questions on everyone’s minds. First, how did Penn succeed where seasoned journalists before him had failed for decades?...
This is a very sad surprise. While he was making his way into a new genre, he had what I can remember a private life.
His new sound was effortless for him. It wasn't messy needing some kind of professional hand. Bowie was unique. I don't recall anyone able to mimic his style.
January 11, 2016
It is obvious enough (click here) that David Bowie brought the techniques of the theatre to pop music. But he did something more profound than that: he brought the idea that lies behind theatre, not just into music, but into contemporary culture as a whole.
That idea is simply stated: character isn’t something you have, it is something you invent. The actor is a protean figure, a shapeshifter. And the better the actor, the more scary this figure becomes.
The great actors disturb something that is central to our existence - the idea of the self. By putting on and taking off selves, they make us question whether the self really exists at all. Bowie was disturbing because he took this idea to its most extreme conclusions....
For his outrageous theater, he was sane and safe. He was so 'out there' it placed him on a shelf by himself and that exclusion allowed young hearts and minds plenty of room to entertain his sound.
If there is a parallel universe in 2016, it would be Gaga.
David Bowie was much to young to leave us all behind. I am so sorry to hear he lost his life to cancer. Wow. It sort of falls into the same feeling when I heard about Jim Henson. Somehow it is just not fair.
If there is a parallel universe in 2016, it would be Gaga.David Bowie was much to young to leave us all behind. I am so sorry to hear he lost his life to cancer. Wow. It sort of falls into the same feeling when I heard about Jim Henson. Somehow it is just not fair.
Hillary Clinton has been an incredible advocate for women and girls.
Hillary Clinton never committed adultery. She never let the American people down when she was First Lady. She has every right to defend herself as a woman, a mother and a wife. She has not victimized women involved in an affair with her spouse. She defended herself.
Monica Lewinsky stated to Barbara Walters she initiated the interest in Bill when she flipped her dress up in the White House during her working day. Basically, she showed her ass in a thong.
What?
After the Lewinsky interview Barbara Walters was on a talk show and she was asked how she felt about the flirtatious Monica. Barbara Walters in referring to the thong stated, "Where it as a hat."
May 17, 2013
Barbara Walters (click here) revisited her famous interview with Monica Lewinsky, telling Dave Letterman on Thursday night that she still keeps in touch with Lewinsky.
The ABC newswoman dropped by "The Late Show," where she and Letterman talked about some of her biggest interviews. Walters lamented that the world hasn't allowed Lewinsky to move on. When asked if she has spoken to her recently, Walters said "in touch with her" from time to time.
"I think she has an OK life," she said. "I think it’s still difficult for her. Since this is my last year in television, I would love to be able to talk to Monica again."...
I think Barbara Walters makes an interesting point in that we all should be concerned with the women that have gone to Washington, DC as young women, had affairs and their life took a very different trajectory then the ladies had hoped.
Hillary Clinton has no responsibility with women that entered into consensual affairs with her spouse. Ms. Flowers carried on with a love affair for twelve years. That is not rape. Twelve years of rape? Really? What I remember is that Jennifer benefited financial in advancing her career during those years. That is not new. Women have used their sexuality to advance in their work, jobs or career.
What was her name? She claimed sexual harassment. We looked at all that and Hillary Clinton had a minor role in that examination of the facts. Hillary Clinton did not commit sexual harassment. I don't get it. And no one needs to state her name. If I forgot her name that is a good thing. She needs to get on with her life.
If a major newspaper is seeking leverage over a great woman because they can somehow benefit form that, even politically, they haven't got a case. I said it before, assigning a woman blame for an affair when she is a victim of her spouse, is misogyny. Hillary Clinton was as much a victim as the women in the affairs. She suffered as well.
Monica Lewinsky stated to Barbara Walters she initiated the interest in Bill when she flipped her dress up in the White House during her working day. Basically, she showed her ass in a thong.
What?
After the Lewinsky interview Barbara Walters was on a talk show and she was asked how she felt about the flirtatious Monica. Barbara Walters in referring to the thong stated, "Where it as a hat."
May 17, 2013
Barbara Walters (click here) revisited her famous interview with Monica Lewinsky, telling Dave Letterman on Thursday night that she still keeps in touch with Lewinsky.
The ABC newswoman dropped by "The Late Show," where she and Letterman talked about some of her biggest interviews. Walters lamented that the world hasn't allowed Lewinsky to move on. When asked if she has spoken to her recently, Walters said "in touch with her" from time to time.
"I think she has an OK life," she said. "I think it’s still difficult for her. Since this is my last year in television, I would love to be able to talk to Monica again."...
I think Barbara Walters makes an interesting point in that we all should be concerned with the women that have gone to Washington, DC as young women, had affairs and their life took a very different trajectory then the ladies had hoped.
Hillary Clinton has no responsibility with women that entered into consensual affairs with her spouse. Ms. Flowers carried on with a love affair for twelve years. That is not rape. Twelve years of rape? Really? What I remember is that Jennifer benefited financial in advancing her career during those years. That is not new. Women have used their sexuality to advance in their work, jobs or career.
What was her name? She claimed sexual harassment. We looked at all that and Hillary Clinton had a minor role in that examination of the facts. Hillary Clinton did not commit sexual harassment. I don't get it. And no one needs to state her name. If I forgot her name that is a good thing. She needs to get on with her life.
If a major newspaper is seeking leverage over a great woman because they can somehow benefit form that, even politically, they haven't got a case. I said it before, assigning a woman blame for an affair when she is a victim of her spouse, is misogyny. Hillary Clinton was as much a victim as the women in the affairs. She suffered as well.
I don't know how a newspaper defines victimization, but, women in marriages find themselves wounded by their spouse's affair and need as much support as any other woman in the triangle. The attacks on Hillary Clinton are simply a continued victimization. It is not appropriate. She was a mother to Chelsea in her relationship with Bill. There is a lot here that pressures women when facing their spouses wandering. Hillary was a victim of adultery. That is not easy.
This is still early in the morning and I need my coffee.
When divorces result from affairs, the judge doesn't ask how the other woman is doing. Get out of my life with this.
Maureen Dowd can write a book called, "All the President's Women," but, it better be comprehensive. I heard George Washington slept around a lot.
Hillary Clinton is a great women and carries a lot on her conscience all the time. She carries in her capacity generations of women hoping she is the first woman in the White House's Oval Office. There are reasons for that. Hillary Clinton is allowed to be ambitious.
She and the other woman involved with Bill really should not have to answer past this for issues settled decades ago. Women's status have changed in those decades and Hillary Clinton has a part in that change. There isn't going to be much that is going to taint her character.
Jennifer Flowers has had a very big struggle to recuperate from her use by American politics. If the New York Times wants to run Hillary Clinton off as they did Elliot Spitzer, they aren't going to have an easy path. There is no there, there.
Monica Lewinsky was young at the age of 19. I do believe her when she states she fell in love. She has taken on the world, but, the world somehow never forgave her. This is a little bit of rough handling, but, at least Monica is alive.
I think the American press needs a good seminar on women and relationships, including women caught in the meat grinder called adultery. For some reason when a former wife does well in her divorce she is a witch. There is a lot that still hangs in the air that has to be worked through from the time of Women's Suffrage. I mean that completely.
This is still early in the morning and I need my coffee.
When divorces result from affairs, the judge doesn't ask how the other woman is doing. Get out of my life with this.
Maureen Dowd can write a book called, "All the President's Women," but, it better be comprehensive. I heard George Washington slept around a lot.
Hillary Clinton is a great women and carries a lot on her conscience all the time. She carries in her capacity generations of women hoping she is the first woman in the White House's Oval Office. There are reasons for that. Hillary Clinton is allowed to be ambitious.
She and the other woman involved with Bill really should not have to answer past this for issues settled decades ago. Women's status have changed in those decades and Hillary Clinton has a part in that change. There isn't going to be much that is going to taint her character.
Jennifer Flowers has had a very big struggle to recuperate from her use by American politics. If the New York Times wants to run Hillary Clinton off as they did Elliot Spitzer, they aren't going to have an easy path. There is no there, there.
Monica Lewinsky was young at the age of 19. I do believe her when she states she fell in love. She has taken on the world, but, the world somehow never forgave her. This is a little bit of rough handling, but, at least Monica is alive.
I think the American press needs a good seminar on women and relationships, including women caught in the meat grinder called adultery. For some reason when a former wife does well in her divorce she is a witch. There is a lot that still hangs in the air that has to be worked through from the time of Women's Suffrage. I mean that completely.
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