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November 16, 2019
America cares - everyone on flight watching the hearings
https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1195714654594580480
November 15, 2019
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/15/us/colorado-day-care-false-wall-trnd/index.html
A Colorado day care used a "false wall" to hide 26 children under the age of 3 in a basement, police said, concealing the fact it had too many children in its care.
Officers went to Play Mountain Place in Colorado Springs Wednesday after complaints about overcrowding there when they found the children along with two adults behind the false wall. The day care had a licensed capacity of six children, according to May 2019 data on the Colorado Department of Human Services website.
The department immediately suspended the day care's license while it investigates, the agency said in a statement.
Police didn't immediately find any children when they first arrived at the day care, the Colorado Springs Police Department said in a statement. They contacted owner Carla Faith, who lives on the property, and she "refused to cooperate" with the officers, police said.
But police could hear children in her home, and while investigating, they found a false wall leading to the basement.
"Officers immediately began working with DHS to release the children back to their parents," the police department said.
The state Department of Human Services received the complaint Wednesday and enlisted police help in carrying out the welfare check, the department said in a statement.
Colorado day care hid children behind a 'false wall,' police say.. 26 kids under age 3 in basement
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/15/us/colorado-day-care-false-wall-trnd/index.html
A Colorado day care used a "false wall" to hide 26 children under the age of 3 in a basement, police said, concealing the fact it had too many children in its care.
Officers went to Play Mountain Place in Colorado Springs Wednesday after complaints about overcrowding there when they found the children along with two adults behind the false wall. The day care had a licensed capacity of six children, according to May 2019 data on the Colorado Department of Human Services website.
The department immediately suspended the day care's license while it investigates, the agency said in a statement.
Police didn't immediately find any children when they first arrived at the day care, the Colorado Springs Police Department said in a statement. They contacted owner Carla Faith, who lives on the property, and she "refused to cooperate" with the officers, police said.
But police could hear children in her home, and while investigating, they found a false wall leading to the basement.
"Officers immediately began working with DHS to release the children back to their parents," the police department said.
The state Department of Human Services received the complaint Wednesday and enlisted police help in carrying out the welfare check, the department said in a statement.
November 15, 2019
when your puma wont let you sleep
November 15, 2019
TRump responds to witness tampering charge
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1195427895998586882
November 15, 2019
Press secretary claims Trump tweet ‘not witness intimidation’ because it is ‘not a trial’ — but president says it is
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham says President Donald Trump did not engage in witness intimidation Friday morning when he, in real time, posted tweets attacking his former Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovich, during her testimony before a House impeachment inquiry hearing. Trump is being accused by Democrats and Republicans alike of witness intimidation or witness tampering, with even Fox News anchors saying Trump’s tweets constitute an additional article of impeachment.
“The tweet was not witness intimidation, it was simply the President’s opinion, which he is entitled to,” Grisham said in a statement given to Fox News. “This is not a trial, it is a partisan political process – or to put it more accurately, a totally illegitimate, charade stacked against the President.”
(Grisham is wrong on all counts. Impeachment is embedded in the U.S. Constitution.)
And yet, an 18-page memo of talking points distributed Tuesday evening to House Republicans argues differently, charging Chairman Schiff “offered no due process protections for the President.”
President Donald Trump has claimed he is on “trial” and repeatedly – eight times, at least – complained he is not being afforded due process. A few examples:
Press secretary claims Trump tweet 'not witness intimidation' because it is 'not a trial'
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/press-secretary-claims-trump-tweet-not-witness-intimidation-because-it-is-not-a-trial-but-president-says-it-is/Press secretary claims Trump tweet ‘not witness intimidation’ because it is ‘not a trial’ — but president says it is
White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham says President Donald Trump did not engage in witness intimidation Friday morning when he, in real time, posted tweets attacking his former Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovich, during her testimony before a House impeachment inquiry hearing. Trump is being accused by Democrats and Republicans alike of witness intimidation or witness tampering, with even Fox News anchors saying Trump’s tweets constitute an additional article of impeachment.
“The tweet was not witness intimidation, it was simply the President’s opinion, which he is entitled to,” Grisham said in a statement given to Fox News. “This is not a trial, it is a partisan political process – or to put it more accurately, a totally illegitimate, charade stacked against the President.”
(Grisham is wrong on all counts. Impeachment is embedded in the U.S. Constitution.)
And yet, an 18-page memo of talking points distributed Tuesday evening to House Republicans argues differently, charging Chairman Schiff “offered no due process protections for the President.”
President Donald Trump has claimed he is on “trial” and repeatedly – eight times, at least – complained he is not being afforded due process. A few examples:
November 15, 2019
Phil Rubin
@MusicWriter561
Visiting with my 92 year old mother. I walked in and she had the hearing on. The first thing she said to me was “can you believe that son of a bitch threatened her? He should be thrown in jail just for that!”
"Visiting with my 92 year old mother. I walked in and she had the hearing on"
https://twitter.com/MusicWriter561/status/1195403646286077954Phil Rubin
@MusicWriter561
Visiting with my 92 year old mother. I walked in and she had the hearing on. The first thing she said to me was “can you believe that son of a bitch threatened her? He should be thrown in jail just for that!”
November 15, 2019
Nothing says Christmas like $30 Trump Pence wrapping paper and $60 ‘Keep America Great’ ornaments
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Trump is far ahead of his Democratic challengers... in kicking off the holiday shopping season, at least.
The online store supporting the president’s re-election bid has added $30 Trump Pence wrapping paper, a $40 Trump Pence wooden train set, as well as $60 “Keep America Great” hat ornaments for the holidays. The Christmas holidays, anyway — there’s nothing Hanukkah or Kwanza-themed to be found in the store.
The president’s rivals also have fundraising gift shops of their own, but the campaign sites for Democratic presidential candidates including Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg haven’t posted any holiday-themed merchandise just yet.
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Nothing says Christmas like $30 Trump Pence wrapping paper and $60 'Keep America Great' ornaments
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/nothing-says-christmas-like-30-trump-pence-wrapping-paper-and-60-keep-america-great-ornaments-2019-11-07?mod=mw_share_facebook&fbclid=IwAR26EvSZh4C_Kjfim7oAi4N0VbhHctixK3J_IWuiTshjPKaJdpQR82JxDpENothing says Christmas like $30 Trump Pence wrapping paper and $60 ‘Keep America Great’ ornaments
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Trump is far ahead of his Democratic challengers... in kicking off the holiday shopping season, at least.
The online store supporting the president’s re-election bid has added $30 Trump Pence wrapping paper, a $40 Trump Pence wooden train set, as well as $60 “Keep America Great” hat ornaments for the holidays. The Christmas holidays, anyway — there’s nothing Hanukkah or Kwanza-themed to be found in the store.
The president’s rivals also have fundraising gift shops of their own, but the campaign sites for Democratic presidential candidates including Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg haven’t posted any holiday-themed merchandise just yet.
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November 15, 2019
Viewers baffled as GOP counsel appears to push anti-Trump talking points during Yovanovich cross-examinationPublished 9 mins ago on November 15, 2019By Brad Reed
House Republican impeachment inquiry attorney Steve Castor on Friday baffled viewers with a line of questioning that appeared to be beneficial to House Democrats’ case for impeaching President Donald Trump.
Among other things, Castor referred to ambassador Bill Taylor as a man of integrity and also didn’t challenge former ambassador Marie Yovanovich’s story that she had been the subject of a smear campaign launched by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.
In fact, Castor’s line of questioning was so friendly to House Democrats, that some Twitter users joked that he was a “deep state plant” who’s secretly helping to impeach the president.
Check out some reactions below.
Republican counsel could not be doing a better job of helping Yovanovitch hit the highlights of her previous testimony.
— John Levenstein (@johnlevenstein) November 15, 2019
Castor is allowing Yovanovitch to further discuss the allegation that Giuliani was behind a smear campaign against her in Ukraine. It seems like a line of questions the Democrats would be more likely to ask.
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) November 15, 2019
Sign of how bad the GOP case is: The GOP counsel is praising Taylor, a damaging witness to Trump.
— Christina Reynolds (@creynoldsnc) November 15, 2019
I get what the deep state GOP is doing: bring in the lawyer (Steve Castor) who brilliantly ran your successful Benghazi hearings to guarantee Trump gets impeached. https://t.co/bwvq7H0I7T
— Nomiki Konst🌹 (@NomikiKonst) November 15, 2019
Is Steve Castor trying to help Democrats? How is this line of questioning helpful to Republicans?
— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) November 15, 2019
Steve Castor's attempt to discredit Ambassador Yovanovitch by validating the credibility of Ambassador Taylor seems…unwise.
— Evan McMullin (@EvanMcMullin) November 15, 2019
Castor seems to have gone over to the other side
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) November 15, 2019
Castor is the minority counsel? Are we sure?
— John Flowers (@MrJohnFlowers) November 15, 2019
Viewers baffled as GOP counsel appears to push anti-Trump talking points during Yovanovich cross-exa
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/11/viewers-baffled-as-gop-counsel-appears-to-push-anti-trump-talking-points-during-yovanovich-cross-examination/Viewers baffled as GOP counsel appears to push anti-Trump talking points during Yovanovich cross-examinationPublished 9 mins ago on November 15, 2019By Brad Reed
House Republican impeachment inquiry attorney Steve Castor on Friday baffled viewers with a line of questioning that appeared to be beneficial to House Democrats’ case for impeaching President Donald Trump.
Among other things, Castor referred to ambassador Bill Taylor as a man of integrity and also didn’t challenge former ambassador Marie Yovanovich’s story that she had been the subject of a smear campaign launched by Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani.
In fact, Castor’s line of questioning was so friendly to House Democrats, that some Twitter users joked that he was a “deep state plant” who’s secretly helping to impeach the president.
Check out some reactions below.
Republican counsel could not be doing a better job of helping Yovanovitch hit the highlights of her previous testimony.
— John Levenstein (@johnlevenstein) November 15, 2019
Castor is allowing Yovanovitch to further discuss the allegation that Giuliani was behind a smear campaign against her in Ukraine. It seems like a line of questions the Democrats would be more likely to ask.
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) November 15, 2019
Sign of how bad the GOP case is: The GOP counsel is praising Taylor, a damaging witness to Trump.
— Christina Reynolds (@creynoldsnc) November 15, 2019
I get what the deep state GOP is doing: bring in the lawyer (Steve Castor) who brilliantly ran your successful Benghazi hearings to guarantee Trump gets impeached. https://t.co/bwvq7H0I7T
— Nomiki Konst🌹 (@NomikiKonst) November 15, 2019
Is Steve Castor trying to help Democrats? How is this line of questioning helpful to Republicans?
— Emily C. Singer (@CahnEmily) November 15, 2019
Steve Castor's attempt to discredit Ambassador Yovanovitch by validating the credibility of Ambassador Taylor seems…unwise.
— Evan McMullin (@EvanMcMullin) November 15, 2019
Castor seems to have gone over to the other side
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) November 15, 2019
Castor is the minority counsel? Are we sure?
— John Flowers (@MrJohnFlowers) November 15, 2019
November 15, 2019
There’s a very odd thing going on in an Idaho public library.
Somebody keeps hiding the books he doesn’t want people to read. They’re mostly anti-Trump books like Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury,” but also an LGBTQ book and even a golf book: “Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump,” written by . . . well . . . me.
He even left a clue. “I noticed a large volume of Books attacking our President,” read a note in the library’s comments box. “I don’t want this propaganda winding up in the hands of young minds.”
This surprised me for three reasons:
1. Minds have hands?
2. There are still comments boxes?
3. A hardcore Trumper went inside a library?
The IdaHider has struck many times, but, alas, he remains at large. Where is Agatha Christie when you need her?
The director of the Coeur d’Alene library, Bette Ammon, 68, is stumped. “We don’t have security or cameras or anything like that,” Bette tells me. They tried flying a camera drone above the stacks to look for books, but that didn’t work at all, perhaps because librarians should not be anywhere within a par 5 of drones.
Where does Hidaho stash the books that offend him? Sometimes they’re turned around so you can’t see the title on the spine. Sometimes they’re moved to sections where you’d never look for them. My book, which was supposed to be in Political Commentary at 973.933, was found days later by a staffer on its side behind the novelist Stuart Woods’s section (WOOD).
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This little news story has made it all over the world and has stirred people to stand up for libraries. A woman from Germany offered to pay for replacements of all the hidden books. Another woman sent a check with the note “When I lived there, your library was my haven.”
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I think what Hidaho is doing is wrong, whether a righty is hiding “Fire and Fury” or a lefty is hiding Donald Trump Jr.’s “Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Whoa This Title Is Way Too Long.” Either way, it’s censorship.
That’s why, on Nov. 21, I’ll be coming to the Coeur d’Alene library with an armful of 10 of my books, which I’ll hide myself. (Your move, Hidaho.) I’ll secret away at least one book in the following sections:
●Narcissism (155.232)
●True Crime (364.00)
●Horror (KING), among others.
You can hide one of my books, Hidaho, but can you hide 10?
Someone hid my book at an Idaho library. So I'm bringing 10 of them to hide myself.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/someone-hid-my-book-at-an-idaho-library-so-im-bringing-10-of-them-to-hide-myself/2019/11/14/3e50fdcc-0722-11ea-8292-c46ee8cb3dce_story.htmlThere’s a very odd thing going on in an Idaho public library.
Somebody keeps hiding the books he doesn’t want people to read. They’re mostly anti-Trump books like Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury,” but also an LGBTQ book and even a golf book: “Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump,” written by . . . well . . . me.
He even left a clue. “I noticed a large volume of Books attacking our President,” read a note in the library’s comments box. “I don’t want this propaganda winding up in the hands of young minds.”
This surprised me for three reasons:
1. Minds have hands?
2. There are still comments boxes?
3. A hardcore Trumper went inside a library?
The IdaHider has struck many times, but, alas, he remains at large. Where is Agatha Christie when you need her?
The director of the Coeur d’Alene library, Bette Ammon, 68, is stumped. “We don’t have security or cameras or anything like that,” Bette tells me. They tried flying a camera drone above the stacks to look for books, but that didn’t work at all, perhaps because librarians should not be anywhere within a par 5 of drones.
Where does Hidaho stash the books that offend him? Sometimes they’re turned around so you can’t see the title on the spine. Sometimes they’re moved to sections where you’d never look for them. My book, which was supposed to be in Political Commentary at 973.933, was found days later by a staffer on its side behind the novelist Stuart Woods’s section (WOOD).
---
This little news story has made it all over the world and has stirred people to stand up for libraries. A woman from Germany offered to pay for replacements of all the hidden books. Another woman sent a check with the note “When I lived there, your library was my haven.”
---------
I think what Hidaho is doing is wrong, whether a righty is hiding “Fire and Fury” or a lefty is hiding Donald Trump Jr.’s “Triggered: How the Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Whoa This Title Is Way Too Long.” Either way, it’s censorship.
That’s why, on Nov. 21, I’ll be coming to the Coeur d’Alene library with an armful of 10 of my books, which I’ll hide myself. (Your move, Hidaho.) I’ll secret away at least one book in the following sections:
●Narcissism (155.232)
●True Crime (364.00)
●Horror (KING), among others.
You can hide one of my books, Hidaho, but can you hide 10?
November 15, 2019
(CNN)Three Indiana judges have been suspended without pay for their involvement in an intoxicated fight outside a White Castle, according to court documents.
An opinion from the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that the three judges -- Andrew Adams of the Clark Circuit Court 1, Bradley B. Jacobs of the Clark Circuit Court 2 and Sabrina R. Bell of the Crawford Circuit Court -- engaged in judicial misconduct by participating in the brawl in the restaurant's parking lot in Downtown Indianapolis.
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Adams, Bell and Jacobs arrived in Indianapolis for a statewide judicial educational event on April 30 and began to drink and socialize, the document said.
At around 3 a.m. the next morning, the judges walked together to a strip club, the document said. But the club was closed and they walked to a nearby White Castle restaurant.
While they were standing outside in the White Castle parking lot, two men drove by and shouted something at the three judges out of the window of their vehicle. Bell flipped off the men, the document said, and they pulled into the lot and the five began to argue.
The document said Bell was intoxicated at the time and has no memory of the incident or what was said to incite it.
The verbal argument then turned physical, with Jacobs bringing one of the men to the ground and Adams kicking him in the back. The fight ended when the man pulled out a gun, shooting Adams once and Jacobs twice, the document said. The men were taken to local hospitals and underwent emergency surgeries.
3 Indiana judges suspended after a night of drinking turned into a White Castle brawl
https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/15/us/indiana-judges-white-castle-brawl-trnd/index.html(CNN)Three Indiana judges have been suspended without pay for their involvement in an intoxicated fight outside a White Castle, according to court documents.
An opinion from the Indiana Supreme Court ruled that the three judges -- Andrew Adams of the Clark Circuit Court 1, Bradley B. Jacobs of the Clark Circuit Court 2 and Sabrina R. Bell of the Crawford Circuit Court -- engaged in judicial misconduct by participating in the brawl in the restaurant's parking lot in Downtown Indianapolis.
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Adams, Bell and Jacobs arrived in Indianapolis for a statewide judicial educational event on April 30 and began to drink and socialize, the document said.
At around 3 a.m. the next morning, the judges walked together to a strip club, the document said. But the club was closed and they walked to a nearby White Castle restaurant.
While they were standing outside in the White Castle parking lot, two men drove by and shouted something at the three judges out of the window of their vehicle. Bell flipped off the men, the document said, and they pulled into the lot and the five began to argue.
The document said Bell was intoxicated at the time and has no memory of the incident or what was said to incite it.
The verbal argument then turned physical, with Jacobs bringing one of the men to the ground and Adams kicking him in the back. The fight ended when the man pulled out a gun, shooting Adams once and Jacobs twice, the document said. The men were taken to local hospitals and underwent emergency surgeries.
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