June 13, 2018

How Michael Cohen Denied Access to Whitehouse Became The Gatekeeper: NY Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/09/us/politics/michael-cohen-shell-company.html

By Mike McIntire, Kenneth P. Vogel, Katie Thomas and Cecilia Kang
May 9, 2018
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An article that appeared over a month ago, but worth re-reading (or reading for the first time) given the upcoming arrest that has been plastered all over the news.
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After paying off a pornographic film actress and doing other tasks to help his boss win the presidency, Michael D. Cohen was surprised to find that the doors to the White House were mostly closed to him.

Mr. Cohen did not land a hoped-for job in President Trump’s administration — he imagined himself as chief of staff — and in January last year he left the Trump Organization, where he had long served as the in-house fixer without a clear portfolio. But he managed to turn what looked like an exile into a lucrative opportunity.

Armed with the self-appointed title of “personal attorney” to the president, Mr. Cohen, who had served as a personal-injury lawyer and owned a taxi business, became seen as the man who could help others gain access to the seat of power that had been denied to him. Major corporations including AT&T, Novartis and the law firm Squire Patton Boggs collectively paid him over $2 million for advice about navigating the suddenly foreign terrain of Mr. Trump’s Washington.

Most of the arrangements remained a secret until Tuesday, when details first appeared in an account released by Michael Avenatti, the lawyer for Stephanie Clifford, the actress who was paid $130,000 to keep quiet about her alleged affair with Mr. Trump and is now suing to be released from the agreement. The New York Times confirmed many of Mr. Avenatti’s disclosures through a review of financial records.

(rest of article at link above)

June 12, 2018

Armed Man Takes Hostages in Paris

Source: CNN

At least two people were reportedly been taken hostage in Paris on Tuesday, CNN affiliate BFMTV reported. The Paris Police Prefecture confirmed to CNN that there was "a police intervention" underway at Rue des Petites Ecuries in the 10th arrondissement of the French capital. Law enforcement officials cordoned off the area.

Police officers of the BRI intervention squad prepare a shield near the scene in central Paris.

Authorities said that officers from a specialist unit had arrived on site in response to an "unstable person" who was holding two people.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/12/europe/paris-incident-intl/index.html

June 12, 2018

"I do trust him, yeah," said Trump. Neville Chamberlain said the same thing about Hitler..

Chamberlain waived an piece of paper.........."Peace in our time"...I think he said...????

June 12, 2018

Trump Defends Kim's Brutal Regime: 'He's Doing What He's Seen Done'

Source: TPM

After enduring a full 25 hours without sleep, President Donald Trump continued to defend North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and his well-documented history of human rights violations on Tuesday, telling VOA’s Greta Van Susteren that Kim’s just “doing what he’s seen done.”

“He’s a rough guy. He has to be a rough guy or he has been a rough person,” Trump told Van Susteren. “But we got along very well. He’s smart, loves his people, he loves his country.”

“But he’s starved them,” Van Susteren asserted, “He’s been brutal to them. He still loves his people?”

“Look, he’s doing what he’s seen done, if you look at it,” he said. “But, I really have to go by today and by yesterday and by a couple of weeks ago because that’s really when this whole thing started.”

During a press conference with reporters following the White House’s release of a joint-agreement between Kim and Trump committing to denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, Trump told reporters that he trusted Kim and said he was “talented” for running the country at such a young age.



Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-defends-kim-regime

June 11, 2018

Very short joke about HELL !!!!!.....yes it is clean.......

A young lady came home from a date rather sad. She told her mother,
"He proposed to me an hour ago."

"Then why are you so sad?" her mother asked.

"Because he also told me he was an atheist. Mom, he doesn't even believe there is a hell..
Her mother replied, "Marry him anyway. Between the two of us, we'll show him how wrong he is.

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June 11, 2018

A Joke about Driving Too Slow

Sitting on the side of the highway waiting to catch speeding drivers, a state
police officer sees a car puttering along at 22 mph in a 50 mph zone.. He thinks to himself, "This
driver is just as dangerous as a speeder!" So he turns on his lights and pulls
the driver over.

Approaching the car, he notices that there are five little old ladies-two in the front seat and three in the back-wide eyed and white as ghosts. The driver, obviously confused, says to him, "Officer, I don't understand. I was doing exactly the speed limit! What seems to be the problem?" "Ma'am," the officer replies, "You weren't speeding, but you should know that driving slower than the speed limit can also be a danger to other
drivers"

"Slower than the speed limit? No sir! I was doing the speed limit exactly twenty-two miles an hour!" the old woman says quite proudly. The state police officer, trying to contain a chuckle, explains to her that "22" was the route number, NOT .. the speed limit.

A bit embarrassed, the woman grinned sheepishly and thanked the officer for pointing out her error. "But before I let you go, ma'am, I have to ask...is everyone in this car OK? These women seem awfully shaken, and they haven't muttered a single peep this whole time," the officer says with concern.

"Oh, they'll be all right in a minute, Officer...... We just got off Route 119

June 11, 2018

A local housing inspector is having trouble figuring out out to check out a particular apartment

building ....Here are the problems he faced...

On the 1st Floor the temperature inside that floor was 140 degrees...Much too hot...

On the 2nd Floor 6 ferocious hungry dogs were waiting to maul him, then eat him up.. (rumors were that the dogs had not eaten in weeks...

On the 3rd Floor Sand was piled to the top of the ceiling in all the rooms and spaces...

On the 4th Floor There was a terrible witch that would turn the inspector into a tiny ant, then the witch would swat the inspector with her broom and that would be the end of him....

SO HOW DID HE GET INTO THE APARTMENT??????????????

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KEEP ON SCROLLING DOWN.....THE ANSWER IS THERE, ..............

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ARE YOU READY? how did the inspector get into the apartment..............................................

He ate a ................Hot Dog Sand Witch..........Hotdog Sandwitch (yes, worth waiting for) The first time I heard that one was in 1954....yes it is old..... what else is new????????????? Now it is a clean joke, and I heard it told by a fellow student in 3rd grade.....I even remember who told it...so there..

Stuart G................ oh, it really wasn't that bad.... was it?

June 11, 2018

Joan Baez.."Nasty Man"... April 2017

June 11, 2018

"Impeachable" a new song by Paul Stookey, of .. Peter, Paul and Mary...April 2017

June 10, 2018

CANADA...I found links to some maps and pictures of CANADA.....

Wait...don't we share a border with ...CANADA?.... I think that I have been there?...I think Canada shares a border with Wisconsin, North Dakota, Michigan, New York, Montana,
take a look..lots of maps of CANADA, and lots of pictures... beautiful country, population approx. 36,000,000
.........enjoy................

MAPS OF CANADA.............

https://www.google.com/search?q=map+of+canada+2018&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS494US495&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=qjNY6XexQwDHaM%253A%252CXh2nA4kzv2zOQM%252C_&usg=__eQK0d-a7PaxmLuzki3SBSZttut8%3D&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjD3IPm_snbAhUBrFMKHQ0wA1wQ9QEIKTAA#imgrc=qjNY6XexQwDHaM:

PICTURES OF CANADA

https://www.google.com/search?q=pictures+of+canada&rlz=1T4GGNI_enUS494US495&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwja0dHGjsrbAhVM0FMKHfRyDmAQsAQIJg&biw=1280&bih=566