August 29, 2014

Closing arguments in the McDonnells trial

Prosecutors are outlining all of Bob's lies today.

The WAPO's live blog is the best way to follow it:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/liveblog-live/liveblog/updates-day-25-of-the-mcdonnell-corruption-trial/

Scroll down and read the headlines if you don't have time to read it all.

August 28, 2014

"Bob McDonnell’s plea for sympathy at trial is riddled by rationalizations, contradictions"

From WAPO's By Robert McCartney

RICHMOND — Poor Bob McDonnell. He’s so aggrieved, so misunderstood. His wife yelled at him so much that he was too scared to ask her to give back $50,000 she received from a businessman, even though he was “extremely upset” with her. (What a shrew.)

His sons weren’t much better. They accepted expensive golf clubs and bags from the same businessman and wouldn’t return them, even though their father told them that the unsolicited presents were “a little much.” (Stubborn brats.)

Now the mean Justice Department thinks he did something wrong by taking so much largesse from the man who unmistakably hoped to get official favors in return.

SNIP

Finally, at the end of his initial round of testimony Friday, McDonnell said dramatically that he didn’t blame his wife for what happened. It seemed calculated to score points as a man who took responsibility for his actions.
But the former governor spent all Thursday morning detailing how the whole thing was almost entirely his wife’s doing, because she acted behind his back and alienated his affections with her fury.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/bob-mcdonnells-plea-for-sympathy-at-trial-is-riddled-by-rationalizations-contradictions/2014/08/23/194c77e0-2afa-11e4-86ca-6f03cbd15c1a_story.html

August 26, 2014

The trial is going badly for Bob "It's my wife's fault" McDonnell today.

From the WAPO live blog. It is very long, so it you don't have time to read it, just scroll down and look at the headlines.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/liveblog-live/liveblog/updates-day-22-of-the-mcdonnell-corruption-trial/?wpisrc=nl_buzz&wpmm=1

Here's sample of headlines from today:

One gift scrapped, another left on

McDonnell's testimony on stock differs from daughter's

'If u need cash, let me know'

'Tell me who to make the check out to'

Prosecutor pokes holes in McDonnell's explanations

Using Hannity interview against governor

Driving the Ferrari wasn't a 'favor,' it was 'simply helping'

x 100

x-posted from the VA group.

August 26, 2014

The trial is going badly for Bob "It's my wife's fault" McDonnell today.

From the WAPO live blog. It is very long, so it you don't have time to read it, just scroll down and look at the headlines.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/liveblog-live/liveblog/updates-day-22-of-the-mcdonnell-corruption-trial/?wpisrc=nl_buzz&wpmm=1

Here's sample of headlines from today:

One gift scrapped, another left on

McDonnell's testimony on stock differs from daughter's

'If u need cash, let me know'

'Tell me who to make the check out to'

Prosecutor pokes holes in McDonnell's explanations

Using Hannity interview against governor

Driving the Ferrari wasn't a 'favor,' it was 'simply helping'

x 100

August 26, 2014

Prosecutor pokes holes in McDonnell's explanations

From WAPO's liveblog

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/liveblog-live/liveblog/updates-day-22-of-the-mcdonnell-corruption-trial/?wpisrc=nl_buzz&wpmm=1

But, as Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Dry pointed out, McDonnell also omitted another loan on that same personal financial statement. This one was from Paul Davis and was also made out to MoBo. However in this instance, McDonnell did sign a document that made him personally liable for the loan.

Dry was pointing to an inconsistency: If McDonnell actually reasoned out at the time that he didn’t have to disclose Williams’s loan because he held no personal liability for it, wouldn’t he have come to the same conclusion about the Davis loan?

Isn’t it true, Dry insisted, that the reason why there is no requirement to disclose Williams’ loan is because there was no personal guarantee. Is that “an after-the-fact legal justification that you’ve come up with here?”

August 26, 2014

Hitchhiking Robot Sets Out on Epic Journey Across Canada

From NBC news: "A hitchhiking robot has set out on a 3,870 mile journey that will see it travel across Canada relying solely on the kindness of human strangers.

HitchBOT, which began its epic voyage outside Halifax on Sunday, is undertaking the journey as part of a social experiment to see if it can arrive in one piece at an art gallery in Victoria, British Columbia."

http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/hitchhiking-robot-sets-out-epic-journey-across-canada-n166371

He finished his journey:

http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/hitchhiking-robot-reaches-journey-canada-article-1.1913240

August 26, 2014

Norman Rockwell does Ferguson

From artist Anthony Freda



at http://anthonyfredaart.tumblr.com/
If you like his work, give his site a kick.

August 26, 2014

Hilarious Letter to Editor on the McDonnell trial:

"Former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell’s defense strategy follows the oldest in written history, which, reduced to its simplest form, is: The woman gave me the apple."

Barbara DeLouise, Bethesda

Kudo, Ms. DeLouise.

August 26, 2014

Hilarious Letter to Editor on the McDonnell trial:

"Former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell’s defense strategy follows the oldest in written history, which, reduced to its simplest form, is: The woman gave me the apple."

Barbara DeLouise, Bethesda

Kudos, Ms. DeLouise.

August 18, 2014

"Dear Moron"

From Darrin Bell's Candorville