"White House insists hackers didn't sway election, even as recount begins"

“We stand behind our election results, which accurately reflect the will of the American people."

Of course, the denial of hacking is not the denial of fraud, but why do you think that the administration released this statement?

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/white-house-hackers-election-recount-231849

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/us/politics/hacking-russia-election-fears-barack-obama-donald-trump.html?_r=0

Does anyone know Ivanka's opinion of Bannon and his opinion of her?

Ivanka is Jewish, as are her husband and children. I'm having a hard time understanding the willingness of the Trump family to tacitly accept support from the neo-Nazi wing of the alt right.

And because they are who they are, I'm also bewildered by the alt-right's acceptance of a Jewish family's influence and possible residence in the White House.

Can anyone enlighten me?

TCM is doing a day of Fred and Ginger.

It's a perfect distraction from our own coming depression era.

The (Wo)man in the Arena

Adapted from from an excerpt of Theodore Roosevelt's "Citizenship in a Republic" delivered at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong woman stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the woman who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends herself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if she fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that her place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

One of "the shows" had a story about a Trump supporter who isn't voting

because the system is rigged.

Kellyanne is babbling nonsense on Chris Matthews.

She's accusing Democrats of having "viciously attacked" James Comey.

No dear, questioning the judgment of an agency head for having broken with best practices (thus damaging a candidate nine days before an election) is not a vicious attack. It's a reasonable critique.

AP is reporting the Melania Trump worked in the US without a visa.

Voters are being asked to wear white on Tuesday in honor the of the suffragist movement.

CNN is reporting that the FBI just released files from a 2001 Bill Clinton investigation.

They were part of a FOIA request.

Is Rudy involved in The FBI NY field office leaks to the WSJ and the NYT?

Given the recent leaks, it's pretty clear that Comey has lost control of a cadre of right-leaning rogue agents in the NYC office involved in the Weiner investigation. This office is operating fairly independently from the oversight of the Washington bureau, and it was the NY office that unsuccessfully pressed for an investigation of the Clinton Foundation and then leaked the spin that they were stonewalled by the Justice Department to like-minded reporters.

Why did the NY office wait so long to inform Comey about the existence of emails on Weiner's laptop?

Were the agents violating the law by exceeding the scope of the search warrant when they "discovered" them?

Are they sitting on anything else?

And what is Rudy Giuliani's role in this whole debacle? Who exactly is the FBI NY office working for?

Please remind anyone you know who is undecided, not voting, or going third party that a Trump presidency would guarantee that we would all be subjected to life under Attorney General Giuliani and a rogue, politically driven FBI.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/10/31/1588467/-Smelling-A-Rat-What-Did-Trump-Campaign-Giuliani-Know-When-Did-They-Know-It