October 5, 2018

Bette Midler has been apologizing all day for this tweet

https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1048096462175854592

https://twitter.com/BetteMidler/status/1048051044427677696

October 5, 2018

next time national anthem is played, every woman and girl should take a knee

https://twitter.com/DeepInTheHills/status/1048050865209315328

October 5, 2018

'My tone was sharp and I said a few things I should not have said': Kavanaugh admits regret over his

'My tone was sharp and I said a few things I should not have said': Kavanaugh admits regret over his 'emotional' tone at Senate hearing in last ditch op-ed plea on eve of SCOTUS vote

Kavanaugh insists he's 'independent and impartial' in Wall Street Journal op-ed

Judge writes that he 'might have been too emotional at times' on Thursday

Kavanaugh gave impassioned defense at Senate Judiciary Committee hearing

He denied allegations by Christine Blasey Ford, who says she was assaulted

North Dakota Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp said Thursday that she will cast a 'no' vote on Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination
Party leaders clashed over new FBI background probe results of Brett Kavanaugh released to senators Thursday

Senators got their first peek at the new information Thursday under conditions that were highly restrictive

Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley blasted reporters for seeking to interview only anti-Kavanaugh activists holding sit-ins in his office
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6242135/Supreme-Court-nominee-Brett-Kavanaugh-insists-impartial-independent.html

October 5, 2018

Scott Walker says he didn't hear Donald Trump mocking accuser of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanau

ov. Scott Walker said Wednesday he wasn't familiar with President Donald Trump mocking a woman who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault.

Walker told reporters after a groundbreaking ceremony at a Milwaukee-based sausage company that he is focused on state matters and didn't hear Trump's comments at a Tuesday rally in Mississippi.

"I didn’t hear them. For me, I’m focused on the state right now," Walker said after an event at Klement's Sausage Company. "I said earlier last week that I thought the issues that were raised should be treated seriously by the United States Senate. I still believe that going forward."

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https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/10/03/scott-walker-didnt-hear-donald-trump-mocking-kavanaugh-accuser/1509405002/

October 5, 2018

Trump is a financial vampire

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-johnston-trump-cons-and-cheats-20181004-story.html

October 4, 2018

Trump's Scottish Golf Course Lost $4.5 Million Last Year

New Filing: Trump’s Scottish Golf Course Lost $4.5 Million Last Year
The president’s prized Turnberry resort is still in the red.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/new-filing-trumps-scottish-golf-course-lost-4-5-million-last-year/

October 4, 2018

L.A. County deputies stopped thousands of innocent Latinos on the 5 Freeway in search of drugs

L.A. County deputies stopped thousands of innocent Latinos on the 5 Freeway in hopes of their next drug bust

The Times analyzed data from every traffic stop recorded by the team from 2012 through the end of last year — more than 9,000 stops in all — and reviewed records from hundreds of court cases. Among its findings:

Latino drivers accounted for 69% of the deputies’ stops. Officers from the California Highway Patrol, mainly policing traffic violations on the same section of freeway, pulled over nearly 378,000 motorists during the same period; 40% of them were Latino.

Two-thirds of Latinos who were pulled over by the Sheriff’s Department team had their vehicles searched, while cars belonging to all other drivers were searched less than half the time.

Three-quarters of the team’s searches came after deputies asked motorists for consent rather than having evidence of criminal behavior. Several legal scholars said such a high rate of requests for consent is concerning because people typically feel pressured to allow a search or are unaware they can refuse.

Though Latinos were much more likely to be searched, deputies found drugs or other illegal items in their vehicles at a rate that was not significantly higher than that of black or white drivers.

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The shift had been uneventful. Leitelt had stopped several vehicles, but he quickly cut the drivers loose after exchanging a few words and seeing nothing suspicious.

He had spent an extra few minutes with a Latina motorist he stopped for an expired registration. When Leitelt learned she was traveling to Fresno to visit a friend, he asked where she would be staying. When she said she hadn’t yet made a reservation, he would say afterward, he was suspicious.

He asked whether he could squeeze a large stuffed toy dog sitting in the passenger seat. She agreed, and Leitelt then asked whether he could look in the trunk. Inside was a small suitcase, and Leitelt decided she was telling the truth. He thanked the woman and let her go.

Later, Leitelt explained that he carefully studies a motorist’s reaction when he asks for permission to search their car. “I’m looking for a defeated expression,” he said.

Leitelt, a deputy for 18 years, joined the highway team at its start. He and the team’s three other deputies — all white men — typically work alone in marked SUVs. Their terrain spans the roughly 40 miles of freeway from the border with Kern County to just south of Santa Clarita.

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-sheriff-latino-drug-stops-grapevine-20181004-htmlstory.html

October 4, 2018

This week it was revealed that the POTUS is a national and international tax cheat on an epic level

Not even a major story

October 4, 2018

Drunk birds cause havoc in Minnesota town

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a drunk cedar waxwing

Birds have been flying under the influence in Minnesota – smashing into windows and cars after getting sloshed on fermented berries, according to reports.

Police have racked up half a dozen calls about the tipsy birds causing a ruckus in Gilbert, a city about an hour north of Duluth, Fox 9 reported Wednesday.

“We’ve sort of nicknamed it ‘berry benders’ now that these birds are on a berry bender,” Gilbert Police Chief Ty Techer told the network. “The young birds’ livers can’t process it as well. They seem to be loopier, for lack of a better term.”

An early frost has caused berries to ferment, Techer explained. The weird phenomenon has happened before but it’s more prevalent this year because the birds haven’t yet migrated south, he said.

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A drunk cedar waxwing too unsteady to fly.Birdchick.com

https://nypost.com/2018/10/04/drunk-birds-cause-havoc-in-minnesota-town/

“There is no need to call law enforcement about these birds as they should sober up within a short period of time,” Techer advised residents in a statement, according to the Washington Post.

Cedar waxwings and American robins gobble fruit such as crabapples, whose sugar turns to alcohol as moisture is lost, according to park ranger Sharon Stiteler.

“Drunk birds are totally a thing. I’ve had to give sober rides to cedar wax wings from uptown,” she joked

October 4, 2018

GOP pouring money, lots from tax cuts, into election now, that's why blue wave is weakening

Heard on radio today. The October money is pouring in. Voters seeing ads that are outright lies... anything it takes. That's why Dems that were ahead were falling behind. Money is coming from Koch brothers, super pacs and now corporations are contributing money from the tax cuts.

lots of money is being poured into the Kavanaugh issue, getting repubs riled up.