Hey, Dude, Where's My Collusion?

Really?

Tabloid Publisher’s Deal in Hush-Money Inquiry Adds to Trump’s Danger

Yeah, yeah, and Al Capone was busted for tax evasion. More to the point, Richard Nixon was busted for (among other things) campaign finance irregularities. But for heaven's sake - the Watergate investigation started with irrefutable evidence of a break-in at DNC headquarters, which we all understand to be a crime. Not to mention that Nixon wondering whether the CIA could head off the FBI investigation looked a lot like obstruction and an abuse of Presidential power.

But Trump and Cohen? For better or worse, paying off former Playmates and playmates is not a crime. As to whether the actual mechanism violated campaign finance rules, well, first of all, that is why Trump hired lawyers. Lacking evidence that Cohen advised Trump this was illegal and Trump ordered him to go full speed ahead anyway, where is the criminal intent? And a perceived lack of criminal intent is why Hillary is not serving time for her server shenanigans.

This is a crime so subtle that charging it looks like yet another interminable NFL booth review of a sideline catch, where replay officials host a seance to determine the location of various body parts relative to ground and sideline and then enlist diviners to judge whether the receiver was juggling the ball, had firm possession, engaged in a football move, or whatever.

Even top Democrats admit that this campaign finance thing is iffy:

If the campaign finance case as laid out by prosecutors is true, [incoming House Judiciary Chair] Mr. Nadler said, Mr. Trump would be likely to meet the criteria for an impeachable offense, and he said he would instruct his committee to investigate when he takes over in January.

But he added that did not necessarily mean that the committee should vote to impeach Mr. Trump. “Is it serious enough to justify impeachment?” he asked. “That is another question.”

Democrats can use it as a tack-on to their central charge of "Orange Hair Bad".

Comments

[sbwaters]

Wow! Oneth!

[Narciso79]

The piece on general Flynn left most of the relevant info out, quelle surprise

[sbwaters]

Jane, I can carry on a cogent half hour discussion with my 97-year-old mother on world, national, and family affairs. . .

... and in the same visit other things slip entirely from her mind.

The good news is that she is acute enough to realize how much of her remembery is declining and can retain good spirits about it.

[Ralph L]

Do we know how McDougal came forward? Maybe I should rephrase that.
Was Trump involved at all in the purchase of her story by the NE?

[Jane]

Still alive OL. What did MYL say? I will say every muscle in my body aches. I must have fought back quite a bit when I was under.

[Ralph L]

The good news is that she is acute enough to realize how much of her remembery is declining

Alas, my father doesn't, and he never believes anything I tell him. Because it isn't Alzheimer's, he can still do many things for himself, but his thirsty switch is broken so it takes work to keep him hydrated.

[fdcol63 🇺🇸]

So, is Allen Weisselberg gonna testify that Cohen paid the bimbos off with campaign funds, at Trump's order?

Because that would be the only campaign finance issue that I can see would jeopardize Trump.

Other than that, can't Trump pay whatever he wants to to sluts to keep that info quiet, even during a campaign?

[peter]

I’ll be joining the JOM surgical club in a few minutes. Those of you who are inclined to say a prayer feel free. Prostate issues Yuck

[Texas Liberty Gal]

sbwaters - I love that phrase “slip from her mind”. I’m going to start using it when I can’t remember something. Sounds so much better then the over used “I forgot”

[Narciso79]

Prayers for you Peter,

I don't see how that would be, fd he wouldn't have been in charge of the campaign account.

[Texas Liberty Gal]

Prayers peter!!!!

[Rocco]

Prayers for you peter, cya soon.

[fdcol63 🇺🇸]

Good luck, peter. Prayers up!

[Captain Hate]

Best wishes, Peter.

I read at AoS that Huber won't appear before Congress today. The Jeff Sessions tradition of doing nothing continues.

[Old Lurker]

Jane, no answer yet from YL2. She is on nights at Bos Childrens' this rotation so is always exhausted.

[Old Lurker]

Good luck, Peter. Please advance the science for the rest of guys.

[James D.]

Prayers from here, Peter!

[sbwaters]

Prostate issues

Been there. Done that.

Peter, you are welcome to email me at the name I have for typepad added to [at sign]rny.com if I can be of assistance.

Assuming you elected for removal, ask your doctor about keeping a pill or two of Myrbetriq handy.

My doctor never said that the bladder could go into painful spasm in the middle of the night that brought me to my knees and scared the sh*t out of my wife.

Easily handled with an immediate oxycontin and never returned after Myrbetriq.

Peter, please write if I can help you with what to expect and about recovery.

Surgery was the correct decision for my case, six years ago. Didn’t want to do it. Glad I did it.

Best wishes for successful surgery!

[Narciso79]

U Wisconsin has gone full skydragon, you might ask what took them so long.

[henry]

The governor elect went full commie, so it's all in the local water supply

http://www.maciverinstitute.com/2018/12/will-evers-lead-from-the-far-left-his-choice-of-advisers-suggests-so/

[Jane]

Peter,

Good luck today. Apparently every man gets prostate cancer - which is very weird.

[Narciso79]

Muellers snipe hunt apparently has a shawarma flavor

[Jane]

SBW,

I don't want to have political discussions with my mother. She loves to fight and it gets ugly fast. Takes everything I've got to keep my mouth shut.

[MissMarple2]

http://www.rollcall.com/video/i_m_gonna_miss_just_about_everything_as_orrin_hatch_prepares_to_leave_washington_reflections_on_his_battles_and_his_wins

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Not sure we need to psychoanalyze Jack or his "condition".
He has a temper, gets mad, leaves, gets over it and comes back.
Not that complicated.

[Narciso79]

So the farm bill legalized hemp, orange drink has been busy.

[Old Lurker]

Jane "Apparently every man gets prostate cancer"

Our doctors say "most men older than X die with PC, but most of them do not die because of it".

[Old Lurker]

Jane again! "She loves to fight and it gets ugly fast. "

Started watching "Shetland" on Netflix last night. Opens with an old lady getting killed. As the investigation proceeds, they are interviewing all the family members in the small town where this happened.

Greatest line in a long time, when one relative says "She could pick a fight in an empty room".

[Jane]

Yup, that's what I've heard too.

[Old Lurker]

All true, Iggy, and we love him anyway.

[Narciso79]

Hes focusing on the gulf states (Sans qatar) and Israel, rather than russia.

[Extraneus]

There was a study done, I believe in Chicago in the 70's, where they sent the prostates of all autopsied men for analysis. I believe this was done over a period of around 10 years, and thousands of prostates were analyzed.

Cancer was found in something like 30% of men in their 40's, 40% of men in their 50's, etc. I forget the actual numbers, but they were surprisingly high.

Most prostate cancers are not dangerously aggressive, and something called a Gleason score is used to assess the cells taken from biopsies.

Good luck, Peter!

[Captain Hate]

So as the curtain goes down on another Failure Theater we get:

1. A bloated Farm Bill
2. No border wall
3. No Huber testimony (does he even exist?)
4. Mueller chugs on uninterruptedly

And people wonder how the GOP lost the House?

[Old Lurker]

On this "signal to noise" thing.

I know it is true and has been for a while, but sometimes there just is not much signal to be had. We come here anyway because we like each other for the most part, and since we don't have to, we are each here because we get more out of it that it costs us. But when there really is not much signal in the ether, all we have left to do is pick fights with each other.

The absence of signal, since the signal we all crave is to set our country back on a good path, is incredibly frustrating for all of us, and we each express that in our own special way.

A wise man observed that we know where each of us tethers our goat.

[Threadkiller]

Mike Gallagher is saying that the Flynn meeting in the Whitehouse was recorded. He keeps using the term "wire tapped" to describe how it was recorded.

I'm in Wait 'n" See mode on most of the Flynn revelations, but the several things I have read didn't mention a surreptitious recording.

Is this true? When does the date of Rosenstein "joking" about wearing a wire fall in relation to the Flynn meeting?

[Barbara]

Peter,

My best wishes and prayers for success today are headed your way.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The other day had a friend use an aphorism I hadn't heard before;

So and so couldn't find an anvil in a sandbox.

[Threadkiller]

Best wishes, Peter!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--All true, Iggy, and we love him anyway.--

I didn't even mean it as a criticism, OL.
People are the way they are. Big deal.
Not everyone can be as wonderful as you and I. :)

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Are we jumping to conclusions re peter?
He just said he had prostate issues not cancer. Maybe he just has benign-prostate-whatever it is or some other issue.

[Old Lurker]

:-)

[Ralph L]

"She could pick a fight in an empty room".
Posted by: Old Lurker | December 13, 2018 at 10:10 AM

Yup, that's what I've heard too.
Posted by: Jane

Ha!

[MissMarple2]

You know, if those 302's were falsified, that is a pretty serious crime.

[Captain Hate]

Maybe this is who will fight the derp state best:

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/12/13/it-is-so-on-sharyl-attkissons-announcement-should-scare-the-ever-living-crap-out-of-the-obama-administration/?utm_campaign=twitchywidget

[Old Lurker]

Where MM starts us off with a funny one:

"You know, if those 302's were falsified, that is a pretty serious crime."

[Ralph L]

Shetland needs to be binged. I watched it weekly on PBS, and you have to work so hard to understand the accents that you don't retain the plot well. It's bad enough when they stretch a detective show over 2 weeks, but 6?!

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

It's interesting to consider the gradual reversal of roles [or in Julia Roberts' case, holes] over the last few decades.

Don't trust anybody over 30, question authority and all that other 60s crap has now become trust implicitly the CIA and the FBI, trust the Special Prosecutor, above all, the Cartmenesque, do not question our authority.

Just as interesting is the difference in the change in the "right's" roles. Since the right is not an ideology there was never the blind allegiance to authority inherent in progs so the shift has been a much smaller one from its nice to see the law being enforced to why the hell can't the law be enforced?

[Extraneus]

True. I know a guy who had a prostate reduction, which gave him great relief, although I never asked what from.

[JimNorCal]

Somehow Gab never quite generated the critical mass to take out Twitter.

But on Insty and other places there is news of a new app that is making inroads: Parler.

"According to the Daily Caller, an App called “Parler News” has seen a surge in users in such a short amount of time, the majority of them looking for free speech alternatives ...
Many names have already made their way there, including TPUSA’s Candace Owens, the NRA, Paul Joseph Watson, and Laura Loomer."

[Texas Liberty Gal]

This could be big as it is Sara Carter reporting

https://saraacarter.com/clinton-whistleblowers-thursdays-public-hearing-to-reveal-explosive-information/

[MissMarple2]

Old Lurker,

I just saw on Twitter that Mueller re-issued Strzok and Page's iPhones.

The end result? Text messages were erased.

Is this obstruction? Why, I believe so.

[Texas Liberty Gal]

This has lots of good pictures

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/12/12/first-lady-melania-trump-visits-u-s-military-and-families/

[henry]

Pretty good download from the OIG on text recovery in Page and Strzok's various cell phones:

https://t.co/007YZyWr4R

[Captain Hate]

Since the right is not an ideology there was never the blind allegiance to authority inherent in progs so the shift has been a much smaller one from its nice to see the law being enforced to why the hell can't the law be enforced?

Or why can't the Constitution be adhered to.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

How The New NAFTA Trade Deal Lets Big Tech Squelch Conservative Speech
Big Tech lobbyists orchestrated the quiet insertion of a seemingly innocuous provision into the deal that will allow them to silence conservative voices.

[henry]

paydirt: "As an example, although the FBl's collection program had collected (and therefore
produced to the OIG) the text message on August 8, 20 I 6, from Page to Strzok that stated, "He's not ever going
to become president, right? Right?!", it had not collected Strzok's response that same day which stated, "No, No
he's not. We'll stop it." It was only through the enterprise.db extraction that the OIG obtained this Strzok text
message."

from the OIG report, this "enterprise.db" found in May 2018. my bolding.

[henry]

Ig, that provision is current law.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

The Stigma Against My Conservative Politics Is Worse Than The Stigma Of Being Gay

[jimmyk]

Best wishes, peter.

I can carry on a cogent half hour discussion with my 97-year-old mother on world, national, and family affairs. . .

I can too, with my almost 92-year-old mother, but I really don't want to, since her views are more like those of Jane's mom, and family affairs are dysfunctional.

Dad is turning 97 on Sunday, no real hope of great conversation there, partly because he's pretty forgetful, partly because he's hard of hearing.

[Captain Hate]

From Iggy's link:

Even though Trump signed the agreement, both houses of Congress must ratify it. If enough Republicans hold out, they can demand the White House remove Article 19.17. Doing so will not serve as a poison pill for the entire treaty. U.S. negotiators proposed and advocated Article 19.17, so Mexico and Canada will not pull out over any changes to it.

At a bare minimum, Congress should change the treaty language so it mirrors existing federal law, and note that they do not intend for the treaty to change any legal precedents already established in this area.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--Ig, that provision is current law.--

From the article;

Adam Candeub, an internet and telecommunications law professor at Michigan State and former Federal Communications Commission attorney, noted in an article for RealClearPolitics that this language was not meant to enable Facebook, Twitter, or Google to censor whatever they arbitrarily find “objectionable.” He points to several federal court cases that held “otherwise objectionable” must be interpreted as being similar to the obscenity, violence, and harassment, which doesn’t allow viewpoint discrimination.

However, the agreement changes the law to let tech companies remove whatever they find “harmful or objectionable.” According to Candeub, these changes will “likely lead courts to interpret it to mean whatever the platforms object to — which has thus far included the word ‘illegal alien,’ pro-life advertisements, videos defending ‘Israel’s Legal Founding,’ and President Trump’s own immigration advertisements.”

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Funny, in the article my quote occurs immediately before CH's. Read from the bottom up. :)

[henry]

this language was not meant to enable

it isn't enforced that way now.

[jimmyk]

The Stigma Against My Conservative Politics Is Worse Than The Stigma Of Being Gay

I recently filled out a survey sent by the major professional organization I belong to, the purpose of which seemed to be to sniff out feelings of discrimination on the part of women and LGBTQs. My answers were that the only real discrimination I'd ever witnessed or experienced or even heard about was against conservatives. Of course that wasn't in the set of multiple choice answers.

[Buckeye]

Prayers Peter. Hope all goes well.

[MissMarple2]

zerohedge
zerohedge
@zerohedge
SCALISE SAYS HOUSE WILL PUT FORWARD BILL GIVING TRUMP $5B

[rse]

Looks to me like that change will align the powers the EU has given to the media platforms in the name of 'media literacy' to supposedly combat Fake News and Hate Speech.

I have commented before the definition of Fake News defers to the source, not the veracity of the information. So if WaPo or NYT or broadcast networks dispense provable inaccurate narratives it is NOT Fake News. If I wrote documented posts as a blogger that are accurate in every detail that can still be characterized as Fake News because it is not an approved source.

I even asked the head of cnn and an NYT reporter if my interpretations of the definitions of Fake News were correct and they agreed it is about the source.

[clarice]

Good luck, Peter.
My 99 y.o. mother is in and out of it on a regular basis, too.

Posted on the prior thread:
Full text, WSJ editorial:
The Flynn Entrapment
A court filing shows the ugly tactics employed by James Comey’s FBI.
By The Editorial Board
Dec. 12, 2018 6:55 p.m. ET
Of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s many targets, the most tragic may be former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn. The former three-star general pleaded guilty last year to a single count of lying to the FBI about conversations he had with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. Now we learn from Mr. Flynn’s court filing to the sentencing judge that senior bureau officials acted in a way to set him up for the fall.
Not a rich man after decades in uniform, Mr. Flynn pleaded guilty to avoid bankruptcy and spare his son from becoming a legal target. Mr. Flynn’s filing doesn’t take issue with the description of his offense. But the “additional facts” the Flynn defense team flags for the court raise doubts about FBI conduct.
The Flynn filing describes government documents concerning the Jan. 24, 2017 meeting with two FBI agents when Mr. Flynn supposedly lied. It turns out the meeting was set up by then Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, who personally called Mr. Flynn that day on other business—to discuss an FBI training session. By Mr. McCabe’s account, on that call he told Mr. Flynn he “felt that we needed to have two of our agents sit down” with him to talk about his Russia communications.
Mr. McCabe then urged Mr. Flynn to meet without a lawyer present. “I explained that I thought the quickest way to get this done was to have a conversation between [Mr. Flynn] and the agents only. I further stated that if LTG Flynn wished to include anyone else in the meeting, like the White House Counsel for instance, that I would need to involve the Department of Justice. [Mr. Flynn] stated that this would not be necessary and agreed to meet with the agents without any additional participants,” wrote Mr. McCabe in a memo viewed by the Flynn defense team.
According to the FBI summary of the interview—known as a 302—Mr. McCabe and FBI officials “decided the agents would not warn Flynn that it was a crime to lie during an FBI interview because they wanted Flynn to be relaxed and they were concerned that giving the warnings might adversely affect the rapport.”
We also know from then FBI Director James Comey that this was his idea. This is “something I probably wouldn’t have done or wouldn’t have gotten away with in a more organized administration,” Mr. Comey boasted on MSNBC this weekend. “In the George W. Bush Administration or the Obama Administration, if the FBI wanted to send agents into the White House itself to interview a senior official, you would work through the White House counsel, there would be discussions and approvals and who would be there. And I thought, it’s early enough let’s just send a couple guys over.”
If the goal was to set a legal trap, it worked. The two agents showed up at the White House within hours of Mr. McCabe’s call, and they reported in the 302 that General Flynn had been “relaxed and jocular” and “clearly saw the FBI agents as allies.” One of the agents was Peter Strzok, who is famous for his anti-Trump texts to his FBI paramour.
The FBI agents had seen transcripts of Mr. Flynn’s conversations with the Russian ambassador that were “unmasked” by Obama Administration officials. The 302 says that rather than flag this and ask Mr. Flynn for an explanation, the FBI agents decided before the meeting that if “Flynn said he did not remember something they knew he said, they would use the exact words Flynn used, . . . to try to refresh his recollection. If Flynn still would not confirm what he said, . . . they would not confront him or talk him through it.”
Keep in mind the FBI’s counterintelligence probe into Russia and the Trump campaign was still secret. Mr. Flynn had done nothing wrong in conversing with the Russian ambassador—it was part of his job—and he had no reason to believe he was in legal jeopardy. He initially claimed he misremembered what was discussed, which is more believable than that a highly decorated officer would lie to FBI officers he agreed to see without counsel.
Mr. Flynn’s lawyers are requesting probation and community service, though the facts suggest the judge should question the entire plea deal. Messrs. McCabe and Strzok have both been fired for misconduct, and their behavior reeks of entrapment.
If he does nothing else, President Trump has an obligation to former aides like Michael Flynn and to the public to declassify and disclose the FBI documents related to the FBI’s Russia probe.

[Extraneus]

Jeff Carlson in the Epoch Times:

Government Can’t Prove Wolfe Leaked Classified Carter Page FISA

The original Wolfe indictment noted the specific timing of one of Wolfe’s interactions with reporter Watkins:

“On or about March 17, 2017, Wolfe exchanged 82 text messages with Watkins, and that evening engaged in a 28-minute phone call with her.”

The first Page FISA is 83 pages in length, and contains one final signatory page. This led to speculation that Wolfe had leaked the original Page FISA application to Watkins, from whom it made its way to additional media.

Two problems exist with this theory. First, as pointed out by an internet detective, the indictment uses the word “exchanged” not “sent,” implying back and forth messages as opposed to a single series of 82 texts sent from Wolfe.

The second issue relates to the subsequent article written by Watkins, which focused on the identity of Page, but contained no disclosure of the underlying FISA.

[rse]

This is what a Marxist politician sounds like when they have a brain, unlike the idiot from NY.

"Stacey Abrams may have lost the Georgia gubernatorial race this year – but she doesn't think her political career is over.

“Yes, I’m going to run again,” Abrams said when asked during Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Next Gen summit Tuesday, adding: “Stay tuned!”

She said she hasn’t yet decided what office she’ll seek next because she wants to avoid making “decisions out of anger.” She also said the next job should have a “mission” that aligns with her skillset.

“I care about policy,” Abrams said. “I’m driven by a commitment to justice, to ending poverty, to addressing social needs and using public policy as a tool to improve the lives around us.”

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
10m
They gave General Flynn a great deal because they were embarrassed by the way he was treated - the FBI said he didn’t lie and they overrode the FBI. They want to scare everybody into making up stories that are not true by catching them in the smallest of misstatements. Sad!......

WITCH HUNT!

[Marlene]

Good Morning. All the best,Peter.

So,yesterday I saw another road rage incident in a parking lot. I was rolling my grocery cart to the car and someone was backing out without looking. The old folks here don't know how to turn their necks. :) The driver almost backed into another car and the guy in the other car (window was rolled down) dropped the F-bomb. I gave him my mean mother look. I reached the car and started loading in the groceries. The guy drove by me and I heard him say,"sorry ma'am."

[henry]

rse, EU hate law grafted in? maybe. I don't see it as much different than current law (as applied by the courts).

[MissMarple2]

Matt Couch
@RealMattCouch
·
10h
What do you think of Newt Gingrich for Chief of Staff? That's the rumor right now..

[MissMarple2]

Jeff Flake is giving his final speech from the Senate floor.

[henry]

Newt runs for cameras, too likely to leak. Not a good fit.

[MissMarple2]

My thought, too, henry.

[pagar]

My thoughts on Newt as chief of staff mirror those of Henry.

[Jane]

2 Canadians are now being detained by China.

[lyle]

Best of luck, Peter.

[pagar]

The La Prensa Panama article still thinks the Pact on Migration is voluntary and they can just ignore what they don't like, if anyone can read it/translate it.

https://impresa.prensa.com/panorama/cumplira-objetivos-pacto-migratorio_0_5189481090.html

[henry]

CNBC @CNBC
1m

Alleged Russian agent Maria Butina pleads guilty to conspiring to influence U.S. politics through the NRA.

[Extraneus]

10 YEARS AGO TODAY – Al Gore Predicted North Pole Would Be COMPLETELY ICE FREE in Five Years

This year it snowed in South Africa. It was a blizzard.

(Click to open pic.)

[MissMarple2]

https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/12/13/tick-tock-kimberley-strassel-tweets-new-info-about-judge-in-flynns-case-that-could-spell-trouble-for-fbi-brit-hume-assist/

[Extraneus]

Columbia Student in Viral Video Refuses to Cower Before Liberal Mob — Joins Twitter to Fight Back

Defended the concept of being a white man. Predictability ensued.

[MissMarple2]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1052912882868838401.html

This is a thread my national security guy that I follow wrote back in October about Hillary and her server. It's well worth reading to know what evidence there is, what laws she broke, and to discover that there are no statutes of limitations on her felonies.

[jimmyk]

rse @11:19, the brainless ones are less dangerous. O-C is a joke. AbrMs is dangerous.

[jimmyk]

I don’t expect the Duranty Times to devote much space to the two Israelis just murdered by Pali freedom lovers, or that baby delivered prematurely when the mother was shot that just died.

[Old Lurker]

Jane, YL2 says you will be fine. Probably fully accounts for the problems you reported before. Almost always benign, your surgical approach was by the book, your recovery will be uncomfortable but manageable.

If you have any questions, I am happy to introduce the two of you electronically. She wishes she had done the procedure but that is a few years down the road in her training. I told her she can do your next one...

:-)

[Old Lurker]

Ext, the only changes for Gore in those ten years is that he got really fat, he got single, and he got really rich.

[Captain Hate]

How did I miss this birthday present?

https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/181574/sebastian-gorka-to-replace-michael-medved-in-salem

[Jane]

Thanks OL, and also for the offer of communication. I'm not really worried, just thought the entire experience was weird because I had no signs of it until the brain scan. Tell YL2 thanks and I'll book her for the next one.

[MissMarple2]

Now THERE is a radio program I will look up on the internet!

Thanks for the alert, Captain Hate!

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[Extraneus]

Reformed Muslim Suspended on Facebook For Criticizing Jihad

The original post, a video called “Jihad Bells,” was something Tawhidi posted every year. He captioned the video with, “I share this song every December because Jihadists and Islamic Extremists don’t like it.” Facebook called the post a violation of “our standards on hate speech.”

In his tweet, Tawhidi wrote, “To whom it may concern, Facebook has suspended me for 30 days for posting a video ridiculing Jihadists. Yes, that’s right. Facebook is protecting Jihadists from hate speech.”

He then tweeted a tongue-in-cheek statement, “I’m a Muslim Imam and Facebook is being racist towards Muslims by banning me. They’re targeting me personally and being Islamophobic. This is against basic human rights and all values of diversity and inclusion. They’ve offended me and Islam. (I love doing this to them.)”

When asked, Facebook had no response.

Twitter warned Tawhidi that his tweets were violating Pakistani blasphemy laws. Twitter’s legal team informed the Australian imam that a tweet calling for an investigation of extremism in mosques was a “possible violation of Pakistani law.” Tawhidi then tweeted, “Pakistan has no authority over what I say. Get out of here.”

Twitter also informed a few other outspoken critics of Islam that they were violating Pakistani law, including a Canadian editor, Anthony Furey.

[Jane]

Btw OL, tell YL2 that my doctor's kids can her the "snot doctor", so she has something to look forward to.

[MissMarple2]

Charles V Payne
Charles V Payne
@cvpayne
Imagine if President Obama had a week like this...
Massive drop in unemployment rates for HS dropouts and HS grads
Gets Prison Reform To a Vote
Signs Bill for urban and rural Opportunity Zones
Makes room for marijuana growing in farm bill
This was Trump's past week...cool, right!

============================
Not to mention skunking Nancy and Chuck in that epic televised meeting!

[peter]

Feeling good; surgeon said all went well.

[Another Bob]

CH, mentioned the Huber cancellation yesterday.

Today’s news - IG says Strzok’s and Page’s phones have been wiped. And the backups are gone.

Dirty. All dirty.

Thanks Jeff.

[Rocco]

My youngest had a couple of ablations for tachycardia when he was 12 at Childres in Boston. He was playing hockey at the time and complaining about his heart racing. I told him everyones heart races when they skate so stop doggin it and hustle! Then his mother the RN pulled over on the way home after a game and took his pulse, it was sky high. I feel bad about scolding him to hustle now! But what a great hospital. I was nervous until I saw a young girl going in for open heart.