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September 10, 2017

Hundreds of abandoned vehicles line highway coming out of Key West.

Reed Timmer just did a report, showing hundreds of cars, trucks, some with boats behind them, lining both sides of the highway leading towards/from Key West.
I can't figure out why so many people would simultaneously leave them there.

Anyone?


https://www.accuweather.com/en/videos/reed-timmer-drives-by-large-pile-of-abandoned-vehicles-outside-key-west/rhbtbtyze6wvxd21grervlaoe68whnt9

September 8, 2017

Eric Bollig is out at Fox News, alleged he sent sex pic to female colleagues

Eric Bollig is out at Fox News over allegations he sent lewd, unsolicited pics
to at least two female colleagues at Fox Business and another at Fox News.

Fox News decided to "part ways amicably" with the the co-host of Fox News Specialists after suspending him in August pending the results of an investigation.

"We thank Eric for his ten years of service to our loyal viewers and wish him the best of luck," the network said in a statement Friday.

The show was also canceled, the network added.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiarosenbaum/fox-news-eric-bolling?bftwnews&utm_term=.ogEoBJ8deG#.kx2E8exRBK


September 8, 2017

Newsweek and Bloomberg just printed Reich Wing talking points

Bloomberg:


https://twitter.com/daveanthony/status/906230356143071232


Newsweek

Don’t Blame Hurricanes Irma and Harvey on Climate Change
An opinion piece which first ran on the CATO Institute web site, written by an economist
http://www.newsweek.com/dont-blame-hurricanes-irma-and-harvey-climate-change-661870

Both were published late this week.

September 8, 2017

Kamala Harris is asking us to spread the word about Dreamer paperwork deadline in Oct.

Her Tweet:

Are you a Dreamer whose renewal is set to expire before 3/5/18? You MUST renew before October 5.
Spread the word.

and she gives link to Gov. page:
https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/consideration-deferred-action-childhood-arrivals-process/renew-your-daca

Pls. share for morning folks ehre.

Her Tweet:
https://twitter.com/KamalaHarris/status/905964440130113536

September 8, 2017

Irma shifted again...now we will be in the cone in ala.

Hopefully the inland journey will wring a lot of rain out of it, and it will be a low wind tropical storm, and that cone will narrow.

September 8, 2017

Wife of Trump Organization Ethics Lawyer Arrested After Alleged Tryst With Inmate



The wife of a lawyer tasked with monitoring ethics in President Donald Trump’s business trust was arrested Tuesday afternoon after “suspicious” activity with a Virginia inmate in the backseat of a car outside a jail.

Teresa Jo Burchfield, 53, was outside Virginia’s Fauquier County Adult Detention Center when deputies charged her with a crime of her own. Burchfield and an unnamed 23-year-old inmate were spotted in the backseat of a car, along with a bag of pills and other contraband items that Burchfield had allegedly given the inmate. Burchfield’s husband, Bobby Burchfield, is an ethics advisor to the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, an entity intended to keep Trump’s business and political ties separate.

“The defendant was caught in the backseat of her vehicle with an inmate," according to a criminal complaint obtained by the Fauquier Times. "When the inmate exited the vehicle, he handed me a bag of brown pills (capsules), that he claims to be workout pills."

The inmate, who told police he and Burchfield had been having sex, also had other contraband items on his person, including cigarettes and vitamin supplements, according to the complaint. The inmate told investigators that he and Burchfield had been meeting for a month.

Burchfield’s husband is a member of the Republican National Lawyers Association.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/wife-of-trump-organization-ethics-lawyer-arrested-after-alleged-tryst-with-inmate

check out her pick at the link.....
September 8, 2017

Did you hear Don Jr. complaining about all the hard work on the campaign?

"it was an exhausting, all-encompassing, life-changing experience,” he said.
“Every single day I fielded dozens, if not hundreds, of emails and phone calls.”

Jesus christ on a pogo stick......poor poor baby.
wonder how much he paid himself.

And what the hell he was doing in his supposed job as Trump Organization biz person, if not fielding emails and phone calls daily???

I would normally list all the things REAL workers do every day, esp. the poor guys who have to work 2-3 jobs to feed their family.
Or point out how glad any number of now unemployed people who would love to have the chance to answer phones and emails all day.

but I won't.

Instead, I will just hope that, like turkeys, he will keep his nose in the air during a heavy rain, with similar results.

September 8, 2017

Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Was Revealed

T

hree Equifax Inc. senior executives sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in the days after the company discovered a security breach that may have compromised information on about 143 million U.S. consumers.

The credit-reporting service said late Thursday in a statement that it discovered the intrusion on July 29. Regulatory filings show that three days later, Chief Financial Officer John Gamble sold shares worth $946,374 and Joseph Loughran, president of U.S. information solutions, exercised options to dispose of stock worth $584,099. Rodolfo Ploder, president of workforce solutions, sold $250,458 of stock on Aug. 2. None of the filings lists the transactions as being part of 10b5-1 pre-scheduled trading plans.

Equifax said in the statement that intruders accessed names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and driver’s-license numbers, as well as credit-card numbers for about 209,000 consumers. The incident ranks among the largest cybersecurity breaches in history.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-07/three-equifax-executives-sold-stock-before-revealing-cyber-hack?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social
essentially of the story is in the excerpt.

the level of acceptable graft and thieving in biz today is incredible.
September 7, 2017

Yup....gas prices suddenly went way up.

Mr. dixie reports today almost 30 cents higher



September 7, 2017

I have a question about DACA......

I just read this:
Mr. Trump has called on Congress to pass legislation before then that would keep the program alive.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/us/politics/trump-pelosi-daca.html?smid=tw-share

Ok...so....
President Obama signed DACA law.
Did it have an expiration date?

If not, what happened seems to be Trump decided to end it, effective 6 months from now, then gave the grenade to a Republican Congress to defuse.

anyone know what is behind this game?

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Long time political activist, working to tint my lil "Mayberry" more blue. Collector of strays of various species and minds.
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