David Crosby Will Reportedly Pay $3 Million to Jogger He Injured in Car Accident

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/david-crosby-jogger-car-accident/

David Crosby has agreed to a hefty settlement with the jogger he hit with his car in March 2015.

Cal Coast News reports that Crosby will pay out $3 million as a result of the accident — $2,950,000 to Jose Luquin, who was struck with Crosby’s Tesla, and $50,000 to Luquin’s son, who was with him when he was hit. According to the paper, the two men heard Crosby’s car approach while jogging, and the elder Luquin dropped back to leave more room for the vehicle to pass, but after he was struck, he landed in front of his son with “a broken leg, a broken arm, a broken shoulder, broken ribs and a damaged kidney.”

The Luquins subsequently filed suit against Crosby, alleging that he was intoxicated when he hit Jose. Although an officer at the scene “determined alcohol was not a factor and there was no further investigation into alcohol or drug use,” according to California Highway Patrol spokesman J. Ortega, attorney James McKiernan — whose previous celebrity trials include cases involving Mel Gibson, Paris Hilton and Michael Jackson — insisted they were “informed and believed” Crosby lied to the police.

“As a direct and proximate result of defendant’s compromised and debilitated physical and mental condition due to ingesting alcohol and/or prescription drugs and/or non-prescription drugs and/or other intoxicants and or hallucinogens,” reads a court filing from McKiernan, “the defendant maliciously and oppressively operated his motor vehicle in a fashion that caused injury to the plaintiffs.”

Wait a second...Trump paid himself $400,000 to RENT HIS OWN HOUSE for a press conference?

Donald Trump’s Campaign Paid Trump Companies More Than $1 Million In May
The campaign funded Trump’s use of his jets and his Florida mansion, Mar-A-Lago.
06/21/2016 01:15 am ET | Updated 8 hours ago

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-campaign-payments_us_5768a69ee4b0853f8bf1fe2d



Trump hosted a press conference on March 15 at his Mar-A-Lago mansion. His campaign later paid the house and club more than $400,000 in rental and catering fees.

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign paid more than $1 million last month to companies controlled by the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, according to reports the Trump campaign filed late Monday with the Federal Election Commission.

The figure represents payments for facilities rental, catering, monthly rents and utilities at more than a half-dozen Trump-owned companies and properties. It includes nearly $350,000 that the Trump campaign paid a Trump-owned company, TAG Air, for the use of Trump’s private jets and helicopters.

The most striking expenditure in the new filings was $423,372, paid by the Trump campaign for rentals and catering at Trump’s 126-room Palm Beach, Florida, mansion, Mar-A-Lago, which Trump operates as a private club.

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Other Trump-owned recipients of campaign funds include Trump Restaurants, which raked in $125,080 in rent and utilities; Trump Tower Commercial, which charged $72,800 in rent and utilities in the building that houses Trump’s campaign headquarters; the Trump National Golf Club, in Jupiter, Florida, which collected $35,845 for facilities rental and catering; and the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, which billed the campaign for $29,715, for facilities rentals and catering.

WaPo: Trump hits poll numbers lower than any candidate in the last THREE General Elections.

"There’s no way to look at Trump’s national polling that avoids the grim reality that he is at a lower ebb than any general election candidate has hit in the last three elections," the National Review's Dan McLaughlin wrote last week.

Not only are Trump's poll numbers slipping, they are at a low that no one, Republican or Democrat, has seen in the past three election cycles. Looking at the window of time between 200 and 100 days before each of those elections, you can see that Trump has consistently polled worse than George W. Bush in 2004, John McCain in 2008 and Mitt Romney in 2012. He caught up briefly after clinching the GOP nomination — and then sank again.



The margin by which he trails Hillary Clinton now mirrors McCain's deficit to Barack Obama in 2008. McCain rebounded after the Republican convention — but it's important to remember that we're comparing Trump to the worst Republican performance in a general election since 1996.



There's every reason to think that those numbers will get worse. Trump essentially has no campaign at this point; there's no sign that he has started staffing up significantly. We looked this month at how his staffing compared with the two final Democratic candidates. His campaign was never a traditional, national effort.

Call it a COUP...call it a JUNTA...Trump says Jeb! plans to "oust" him in July.

February 23, 2016: Trump rails on Cruz for firing communications director like a "scapegoat dog"

Courtesy of a re-Tweet today by David Corn.

Cruz's campaign manager "acting to save Republican Party from disaster," says Cruz is not involved

Trump campaign "facing an emergency goal of $100,000"

Trump: I'm gonna win so much people are gonna get sick of it. Sick of it, I tells ya.

Question for DUers who understand music theory

I learned how to read music at an early age, but never learned a lot of theory. In the Oasis song below, the Noel Gallagher is playing bass, and he's pulling all kinds of things out of the Paul McCartney trick bag.

My question is this...at the 1:18 mark, and throughout the song (every time after "Roll it over my soul, and leave me here" is sung), Gallagher hits a bass note that is noticeably lower than the note being sung, and for a second almost sounds like he hits the wrong note, like it's off a half octave or something, but...just as when McCartney did the same thing...it works perfectly. As someone with a sketchy music theory background, I'd call it "counterpoint," but I'd like to know what it's actually called. Thanks!

All Trump needs is his Don Imus "N.H.H." moment to cement his fate, and it's coming.

I used to leave the TV on all night...went to sleep with it in the background, and since my "body clock" has gone off around 3 AM for most of my adult life, I'd wake up to MSNBC and ease into the news. In 2007, waking up to MSNBC meant waking up to their feed of "Imus In The Morning." Imus hated Howard Stern, Stern had TV at his disposal, MSNBC wanted to capitalize on that. Imus was seldom if ever "funny," and his "sidekick" Bernard McGuirk was much like Fox News' current "funny man" Greg Gutfeld...smug, arrogant, self-satisfied, irritating, secure in his "position."

I very clearly remember the morning of April 4, 2007. The show had Martina McBride as a guest. I'm a fan of her music. Yeah, I know she's as Republican as Republicans get, as well as being a close friend of Hannity, but I love her voice. She was also scheduled to perform a song from her new "covers" album, Charlie Walker's amazing "Pick Me Up On Your Way Down." So rather than just let the show drone on in the background as I normally did, I got up, made coffee, and got ready to watch her perform.

At some point, it happened. Imus and McGuirk were discussing the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team, and that mumbled little snickering produced the three words that killed Imus' career on the spot..."N.H.H." Most of you know what that abbreviation stands for. If you don't, you can Google it...I'm not reposting it here. Suffice it to say that the outrage was fast and furious. Imus ultimately lost both the radio and TV gig. He made a number of failed attempts to "atone," including apologizing to Reverend Al, who had nothing to do with the situation, but I'm assuming he felt that if he got three Our Fathers and Three Hail Marys from the Rev that the women on the team, and society at large, would forgive him. He also had a "sit down" face-to-face meeting with the team and apologized again. You could see the hurt still on these women's faces. The apology was accepted, but it was "forgive but not forget," because racist, misogynistic, hate-filled comments like the one made by Imus can't be forgotten.

He came back at some point on a different radio station and got the TV feed back on Fox Business Channel, way down at the bottom of the standard cable "packages." In 2016, I have no idea id he's still on anywhere. I assume he is, but maybe not, and he's just never discussed, in praise or criticism, anywhere. I'd be willing to bet that I'm the first person who's brought up his name on DU since 2007.

He'd simply gotten away with it for too long. He thought he was invincible...kind of like Trump saying that he could shoot someone on the street and get away with it. He was always a mean, bitter, hurtful guy who never seemed to cross the line because of the wide path he'd "enjoyed" for so many years.

Then he crossed it. All of this ridiculous, "I can't believe he gets away with it" garbage has come out about Trump, but his followers...and the RNC...turn their heads the other way.

Then something happened.

The "Mexican Judge" comments, rapidly followed up by his Orlando "victory lap" comments, started to seriously anger the community at large. It was no longer the Donald snickering like an 8th grader about some showgirl's breasts. These comments showed a level of cluelessness, a complete inability to censor himself and obscure even the smallest portion of the very, very small man who inhabited his body, and people reacted.

So far, none of this has added up to his "N.H.H. Moment." Yesterday, he pretty much told the entire leadership of what's left of the Republican party to get bent ("Be quiet. Please be quiet. Just be quiet.&quot And that staunch bastion of All Things Republican, Paul Ryan, called him on it, and immediately back pedaled with "We know we are going to agree to disagree." So Trump got another "pass."

But I think...and I could be wrong, I know...that Trump's "N.H.H." moment is coming. I think a few ill-advised words are going to roll off his lips and he will no longer need to test the limits of what he can get away with. Whether those words will drive away his followers remains to be seen, but the RNC will cut him loose at the convention, no matter how much legalese and red tape it takes, and Trump will then go on to make good on his threat to run as a third party candidate, or he'll start pitching a new reality show.

He really is Don Imus...it's just that his luck hasn't run out yet.