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August 20, 2020

Trump cabinet officials voted in 2018 White House meeting to separate migrant children, say official

Source: NBC News

"If we don't enforce this, it is the end of our country as we know it," said Trump adviser Stephen Miller, say officials present at a White House meeting.

WASHINGTON — In early May 2018, after weeks of phone calls and private meetings, 11 of the president's most senior advisers were called to the White House Situation Room where they were asked, by a show-of-hands vote, to decide the fate of thousands of migrant parents and their children, according to two officials who were there.

Trump's senior adviser, Stephen Miller, led the meeting and, according to the two officials, he was angry at what he saw as defiance by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.

Those invited included Sessions, Nielsen, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and newly installed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, according to documents obtained by NBC News.

That plan never came to fruition, in large part because DHS officials had argued it would grind the immigration process to a halt. But after Sessions' announcement that all families entering illegally would be prosecuted, the onus had fallen on DHS to act.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-cabinet-officials-voted-2018-white-house-meeting-separate-migrant-n1237416

August 20, 2020

Two spot on tweets

August 20, 2020

Former Gov. McAuliffe files paperwork to run again, but said he hasn't made a decision

http://wset.com/news/local/former-gov-mcauliffe-files-paperwork-to-run-again-but-said-he-hasnt-made-a-decision

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe has filed paperwork to run for his old job next year but says he’s still hasn’t made a decision yet.

McAuliffe filed paperwork with the Virginia State Board of Elections on Wednesday listing himself as a Democratic candidate for governor. But his spokesman, Brennan Bilberry, said McAuliffe won’t made an official decision to run until after the November election.

August 20, 2020

Hey! Look at Bannon's "boat". The Lady May price reduced to $28,000,000

Bannon was arrested while cruising Long Island Sound near Westbrook in a $28 million mega yacht called Lady May.
https://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-bannon-arrested-connecticut-20200820-aogsf64fr5axpheyas2xhsst7u-story.html



Major price reduction on LADY MAY

The owner of LADY MAY has instructed us to reduce her asking price significantly, by EUR 4,100,000 to EUR 24,900,000.

LADY MAY is a 46.2m (151.6ft) all-aluminium yacht delivered by Feadship, De Vries of The Netherlands in 2014 with engineering and exteriors by Dubois Naval Architects and interiors by RWD. This impeccable pedigree won her a clutch of awards at the ShowBoats Design Awards 2015, including both naval architecture and exterior design for Dubois and interior design in a yacht under 500GT for RWD. Boat International was moved to ask 'Is LADY MAY the most innovative superyacht ever?'

https://www.burgessyachts.com/en/about-us/news/major-price-reduction-on-lady-may

August 20, 2020

Fox News - I went so you don't have to. DEVELOPING

Best I could do to get this IMPORTANT top story on there too.



https://www.foxnews.com/

August 20, 2020

Local affiliates staying on Kamala

CBS and ABC at least. The NBC affiliate is a pain in the ass.

August 19, 2020

Networks only carrying 1 hour of the Convention (10-11 PM Eastern)

They didn’t carry the first hour last night either. That first hour was really impressive from a production standpoint alone.

9 PM
CBS - FBI
ABC - What Would You Do?
NBC - America’s Got Talent

The networks still reach a lot of people.

August 18, 2020

Grovelbot serves on DU juries?






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August 18, 2020

"It's that time of the month again...."

Actual beginning of an email I received today about company credit card reconciliation training.


Oh and I found this related to the whole Frederick Douglass Susan B. Anthony thing.
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