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- Fri May 17, 2024 4:03 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The Rittenhouse and McMichael/Bryan trials
- Replies: 72
- Views: 29461
Re: The Rittenhouse and McMichael/Bryan trials
One year later... Marjorie Taylor Greene introduces bill to award Congressional Gold Medal to Rittenhouse The problem with self-defense arguments is that they generally favor the living over the dead. If you threaten me, and I try to defend myself, and you then feel threatened and kill me to defend ...
- Fri May 17, 2024 2:14 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Chaos in Congress
- Replies: 634
- Views: 94842
Re: Chaos in Congress
Rep. Rich McCormick, Republican of Georgia, is divorcing after reports that he was seen "caressing a colleague on the House floor." McCormick's wife responded to questions about the divorce as follows: "Ask Rich and his colleague. ... I'm sure he will not be forthcoming." The McC...
- Fri May 17, 2024 1:58 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 302
- Views: 41436
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Ah, thanks for that correction. I thought the defense argument was, in part, that Michael Cohen did this on his own (and as far as I have heard, we haven't seen a copy of the agreement signed by Donald Trump himself) out of the goodness of his heart rather than at the direction of Trump and then Tru...
- Fri May 17, 2024 1:46 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
- Replies: 345
- Views: 88268
- Fri May 17, 2024 1:14 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted for Conspiring to Overturn the 2020 Election
- Replies: 345
- Views: 88268
- Fri May 17, 2024 12:23 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2027
- Views: 310410
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
The Dow did not remain above 40,000 today and in fact closed slightly down (-0.097%) from yesterday, but the Biden campaign still seized the moment:
- Thu May 16, 2024 11:39 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 401
- Views: 65312
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
The U.S. millitary has completed construction of a pier for delivery of food and other humanitarian supplies to Gaza.
- Thu May 16, 2024 11:27 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
- Replies: 302
- Views: 41436
Re: Trump Indicted by Manhattan District Attorney
Donald Trump today, speaking outside the courtroom, appeared to acknowledge that he was a party to the non-disclosure hush money agreement with Stormy Daniels. One part of his defense has been to claim that he had no knowledge of that agreement until after the fact. In this case, if the prosecutors ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 10:17 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: US Supreme Court Discussions
- Replies: 601
- Views: 176914
Re: US Supreme Court Discussions
Speaking of Justice Thomas, he still won't say whether or not he paid back the principal of the $267,000 loan he received in 1999 to purchase his RV, i.e., whether the loan was really a gift and thus subject to income taxes that he should have paid.
- Thu May 16, 2024 9:49 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1151
- Views: 138949
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Timing! I like this effort to bring the truth about Donald Trump's presidency out of the memory hole ... "If you went back in a time machine and described Trump's COVID response and coup attempt to Republican voters in 2016, they would have accused you of being a hysteric." In May 2017, wh...
- Thu May 16, 2024 6:51 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Trump Charged With 37 counts of Espionage, Obstruction and related crimes
- Replies: 1094
- Views: 130557
Re: Trump Charged With 37 counts of Espionage, Obstruction and related crimes
Not only did Robert Hur testify today (apparently to no great effect), but House Democrats released the transcripts of Hur's October interview with President Biden. The Department of Justice had provided the transcripts of this interview to a Republican-led House Committee that asked for them. That...
- Thu May 16, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: US Supreme Court Discussions
- Replies: 601
- Views: 176914
Re: US Supreme Court Discussions
Justice Clarence Thomas, of all people, wrote today's 7-2 decision upholding the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency devised by Elizabeth Warren and created by Obama administrations that helps people avoid scams. Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented....
- Thu May 16, 2024 6:02 pm
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2027
- Views: 310410
Re: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
For the first time ever, the Dow Jones rose above 40,000 today. That Wall Street Journal article says this is "a milestone that appeared implausible little more than two years ago when the Federal Reserve began raising interest rates to cool an overheated economy. Gloom and doom forecasts aboun...
- Thu May 16, 2024 5:22 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1151
- Views: 138949
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
The link I put here: This morning, President Biden informed the Commission on Presidential Debates that he would not be participating in any events they scheduled this year, and his letter made a decent case as to why the Commission's format doesn't serve the Amercian people... is a link to a tweet ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 4:47 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Chaos in Congress
- Replies: 634
- Views: 94842
Re: Chaos in Congress
Sen. Bob Menendez, Democrat of New Jersey facing a twice-superseded indictment on corruption charges, gave a speech in the Senate today complaining about that. "Senator Menendez, Charged in Bribery Scheme, May Blame His Wife" ( New York Times ). And in the opening statements of Sen. Bob M...
- Thu May 16, 2024 4:23 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
- Replies: 1151
- Views: 138949
Re: The (no longer) much too early 2024 election thread
Mark Joseph Stern expects SCOTUS will restore the legislature's map for this year's election in accordance with the "Purcell principle" (which says maps shouldn't be changed too close to an election) but there's a good chance that next year the Court will use this case to scrap what remai...
- Thu May 16, 2024 3:47 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: War between Hamas and Israel
- Replies: 401
- Views: 65312
Re: War between Hamas and Israel
Israel's defense minister, Yoav Gallant, a member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's party, today publicly demanded that Netanyahu "make a decision and declare that Israel will not retain civilian control of Gaza, that there will be no Israeli military rule, and that an alternative to Hamas...
- Thu May 16, 2024 2:11 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: The challenges ahead (Biden's America)
- Replies: 2027
- Views: 310410
- Thu May 16, 2024 2:08 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: Chaos in Congress
- Replies: 634
- Views: 94842
Re: Chaos in Congress
A bill reauthorizing the Federal Aviation Administration was held up for a long time because Senator Ted Cruz, Republican of Texas, insisted that the bill allow for more flights from Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, despite concerns from the FAA, Dept. of Transportation, and other agencies...
- Thu May 16, 2024 2:01 am
- Forum: Lasto Beth Lammen
- Topic: World News Thread
- Replies: 785
- Views: 212923
Re: World News Thread
And not just in Tblisi... I haven't been closely following the news from Tblisi, where there have been large protests almost every night https://twitter.com/revishvilig/status/1790838593851732434 Not sure whether or not it would be cool to live in a "Black Death city," but that's a typo: R...