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[Dave (in MA)]

it sounded like a tongue-tie and not necessarily intentional

Imagine if it had been a Fox News reporter.

[henry]

LA Times also reports 9 on the helicopter.

https://apple.news/AZ_pywWLMR2iPL_7yfNdrNg

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President:

Kevin McCarthy
@GOPLeader
·
4h
From the beginning, Democrats' impeachment sham has been marred by selective leaks to the media, a completely predetermined process, and even made-up evidence when the facts didn't fit their narrative.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President:

Kevin McCarthy
@GOPLeader
·
9h
This whole impeachment sham has been a taxpayer-funded campaign stunt for the Democrats.

They took Americans’ hard-earned dollars and funneled them into years worth of baseless investigations meant to discredit and disparage the President.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President:

Donald J. Trump Retweeted
Sen. Marsha Blackburn
@MarshaBlackburn
·
Jan 25
We have a duty to protect the Constitution for America’s next generation. Hearing again how @realDonaldTrump
’s 2016 campaign was spied on by the FBI is a stark reminder that our liberties are at risk.

[Jane]

Yeah well Kevin, we want our money back.

So sad about Kobe - despite the allegations reports are that he was a great guy and a great Dad. Just had his 4th daughter in June. 3 left.

[MissMarple2]

Retweeted by the President:

Geraldo Rivera
@GeraldoRivera
·
7h
Gloom settling on Democrats as they realize they’ve taken their best kill shot & missed. Dems in despair. Republicans United. @realDonaldTrump survives & #Impeachment all over but the shouting.

[D]

Sorry to hear about Kobe and especially his daughter.
Kobe had to cram a lot of living into 41 years .
He went directly to the NBA from high school.
Bernie up 6 points in latest Iowa poll and also up in NH and also good in Nevada.
Biden is living on borrowed time.
Giuliani on tv last night said he is riddled with corruption and the facts are coming out on his podcasts and the Justice program.

[lyle]

Rats. I can think of SO MANY other deserving people that needed to die off in an aviation accident.

Some of them are prominent CA progtards...

[Narciso]

Nine people, thats a pretty heavy compliment assuming two crew.

[D]

Des Moines Register endorses Elizabeth Warren.
That is the kiss of death for her.
She will lose for sure.
Bill Clinton begged them to endorse Hillary in 2008 and she lost to Obama.

[Narciso]

Well he probably didnt realize where he was

https://mobile.twitter.com/chrisdonato04/status/1221168891960995840

[Narciso]

This far back:

https://mobile.twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1221141364647264256

[henry]

Narciso, LA Times reported 1 pilot, 8 passengers.

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

maryrose:
"Bernie up 6 points in latest Iowa poll and also up in NH and also good in Nevada.
Biden is living on borrowed time."

Yeah, I'm just some guy but that's the sense I'm getting too. Biden is too old, too slow and there's real corruption at every turn.
This might well be Bernie's turn.

[MissMarple2]

People in Sicily, Italy love President Trump & call him Captain America!

Is that Schifty Schiff @POTUS is holding in his right hand?pic.twitter.com/QPGKTw6hzw

— 🇺🇸 Pismo 🇺🇸 (@Pismo_B) January 26, 2020

Video at link.

[MissMarple2]

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
·
9m
Kobe Bryant, despite being one of the truly great basketball players of all time, was just getting started in life. He loved his family so much, and had such strong passion for the future. The loss of his beautiful daughter, Gianna, makes this moment even more devastating....

.....Melania and I send our warmest condolences to Vanessa and the wonderful Bryant family. May God be with you all!

[Another Bob]

Sikorsky S-76. Pretty good-sized ‘helo.

[MissMarple2]

Mike
@Doranimated
·
2h
Three of five Katyusha rockets reportedly hit the embassy dining room and caused a fire on the scene. So far, no deaths have been reported, but there do seem to be injuries. This is the first time that rocket fire hit the embassy directly. This crosses a Trump red line.
====================================
Now, I do not know if that "red line" was actually ever stated. We will have to wait and see.

[Another Bob]

Single pilot BTW.

[rich]

>>>This might well be Bernie's turn.

Posted by: Jim,SunnyvaleCA,USA | January 26, 2020 at 06:51 PM<<<

go '72!

[lurkersusie]

Bolton being Bolton......

Trump Tied Ukraine Aid to Inquiries He Sought, Bolton Book Says

WASHINGTON — President Trump told his national security adviser in August that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the Bidens, according to an unpublished manuscript by the former adviser, John R. Bolton.

The president’s statement as described by Mr. Bolton could undercut a key element of his impeachment defense: that the holdup in aid was separate from Mr. Trump’s requests that Ukraine announce investigations into his perceived enemies, including former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son Hunter Biden, who had worked for a Ukrainian energy firm while his father was in office.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/26/us/politics/trump-bolton-book-ukraine.html?partner=msn

[Another Bob]

What sort of gateway Rich? (Not that I’ll have much to offer.)

[Melinda]

UTX, whose avionics?

[henry]

@breaking911

Real Estate Developer Sentenced For Illegal Campaign Donations To Eric Swalwell breaking911.com/real-estate-de…

https://twitter.com/breaking911/status/1221586111270662146?s=21

==============

Guy got 15 months.

[henry]

James Tong. fwiw

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/california-real-estate-developer-sentenced-15-months-making-conduit-contributions-two-us

[MissMarple2]

https://www.dailynews.com/2020/01/26/helicopter-crashes-near-calabasas/

"Also on board the helicopter was Orange Coast College head baseball coach John Altobelli. His wife Keri and daughter Alyssa also were among the crash victims, Altobelli’s brother Tony, Orange Coast College’s sports information director, told CNN.

The identities of four other victims will not be announced until their families have been officially notified, said Sheriff Alex Villanueva, at an afternoon news conference."

[Narciso]

Winning the future:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/listen-from-auschwitz-to-annexation-politics-trumps-peace-for-bibi-and-gantz-1.8445992?utm_source=Push_Notification&utm_medium=web_push&utm_campaign=General

[Narciso]

Im guessint the times mischaracterized boltons manuscript

[MissMarple2]

Jonathan Swan
@jonathanvswan

Sarah Tinsley, an adviser to Bolton, told me: "The ambassador's manuscript was transmitted to the White House for pre-publication review by the NSC. The ambassador has not passed the draft manuscript to anyone else. Period." Story TK
================================
Swan is a reporter for Axios.

So, we have a leaker in NSC OR the NYT is making crap up again. And if there is a leaker, Bolton may have been setting a trap.

[Another Bob]

Interesting dashboard Johns Hopkins people put together...

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

[Narciso]

Another harkonnen with gom jabbar.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

Already linked?
Sultan Knish;
A Tale of Two Englands

Call it a tale of two girls. And a tale of two Englands.
One is an actress who grew up to marry a prince, lavished with luxuries, amassing a fortune, before her tantrums and antics drove her to depart her newfound royal family for a Canadian billionaire’s manor.

The other was put into foster care when she was only 8, by the age of 13 she was being raped by a Muslim sex grooming gang, and by 15, Victoria Agoglia was already dead of a heroin overdose injected by the 50-year-old Muslim pedophile who had been abusing her...
...Muslim sex grooming gangs, like drugs or prostitution, are too widespread to be enforced out of existence because, like college students and pot, the culture doesn’t accept that they are wrong.

The police did nothing because these were not isolated crimes by criminals, but clashes of morals and values between two communities, one of which does not believe that child rape is wrong because its sacred texts tell it that Mohammed married Aisha and consummated his marriage when she was 9.

There are nearly 2 million child marriages in Pakistan. The notion that a woman’s consent to sexual relations matters is an utterly foreign concept in a culture where unaccompanied women are fair game.

The child rapists did not believe that their actions were wrong under Islamic law. And they weren’t.

The Manchester City Council and the GMP just accepted this reality as they have accepted it so often. They buried the minutes, shut down the investigation, and walked away from the screams of the girls.

They did it for multiculturalism, integration, and community relations. They did it for social justice.

We know that no real action was taken because the girls were troubled. They didn’t matter. And their bodies and lives could be sacrificed for the greater good.

The real tragedy is not that the rapists didn’t understand it was wrong. It’s that the UK no longer does.

As the media moans over Meghan Markle, sob stories rolling in of the injustice of tabloid headlines and the prejudice of the Brits, it is worth remembering those nameless girls who were sacrificed to progress.

[Narciso]

If you wanted a taken or deathwish treatment of the material:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32543201-light-touch

[Another Bob]

That trench you were talking about needs to be a little longer and deeper Ig.

Some Brit progs, pols and police need to line it.

[Jane]

Lurker Susie, re: Bolton’s book - he can say that, and it may be true, but clearly Trump had a change of mind because it didn’t happen.

[lurkersusie]

Jane,

I agree with you.

[Narciso]

There is all parts of this story that doesnt make bolton visited zelenzky with his concerns over selling equipmemt to china, thats on the record.

[lurkersusie]

Nice car!

Page Six
@PageSix
Hunter Biden snapped grabbing lunch with pregnant wife at Waldorf Astoria https://trib.al/qTkRJrK

[Narciso]

Yes the kataeb hezbollah is pushing back, they will reap the whirlwind.

[rich]

Posted by: Another Bob | January 26, 2020 at 07:12 PM

to the internet ... you know all the stuff that goes into a data center. that stuff.

[henry]

rich, blame firewall ports?

[Melinda]

rich-

Check the intertubes for modem specific malware, might be in the firmware.

[Narciso]

Lpt 1, 2, 3,?

[Melinda]

lurkersusie-

I'm going to have to go with "NYSlimes manufactures a narrative to get in front of the Bolton recollections."

[Melinda]

Jennifer Franco
@jennfranconews
#BREAKING: House Judiciary CMTE chairman Jerry Nadler confirms his wife is battling pancreatic cancer, and will be skipping out on some of this week’s Senate impeachment trial proceedings.

https://twitter.com/jennfranconews/status/1221533702284435456

[Breaking was then, 4 hrs old now....]

[Another Bob]

Sorry rich, I just plug that shiz in and it works, and have people to call when it doesn’t.

Told you.

[rich]

>>>rich, blame firewall ports?

Posted by: henry | January 26, 2020 at 08:15 PM<<<

checked those and the lan ports! i was leaning to a sw problem (its 2 devices and maybe one didn't get the right configuration) but now i'm leaning towards a hardware problem where the timing signals are syncing between the 2 units.

can't figure this one out though. not a single alarm indication.

[rich]

i'm one of the people who gets called. really wanted to get this done. overpromised that i'd get it done over the weekend.

[Narciso]

They have enough chaff for the chunguska asteroid

[Jane]

Sweitzer is on levin talking about his book - the Bidens now.

[Jane]

This is rude, but I wonder what Nadler’ sounds wife looks like.

[Melinda]

Small video clip on very cool old physics question:

Histra1111
@1111truth777
Any explanation?

https://twitter.com/1111truth777/status/1221184703480369152

{Read the thread for the 1917 full explanation.}

[Another Bob]

Here you go Jane...

https://www.earnthenecklace.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Joyce-Miller-Wiki-Age-Education-Career-and-Facts-About-Rep.-Jerry-Nadler’s-Wife.jpg

[henry]

Rich, yikes. No fun. In my life that sort of thing has been a port/ software connector ID that gets repeated kind of deal... not in the documentation, but trips up a lazy stack design just the same.

[Narciso]

Universitu admonistrator at nyu.

[Melinda]

Bolton's atty on the leak seems conveniently incomplete, almost red carpet like:

Jonathan Swan
@jonathanvswan
BREAKING: Statement from Bolton's lawyer Chuck Cooper. Story TK.

https://twitter.com/jonathanvswan/status/1221605438627684358

[Link includes screenshot.]

[MissMarple2]

Ben Jacobs
@Bencjacobs

· 1h
Pete Buttigieg starts off his Fox News town hall being asked about Kobe Bryant and talking about people being inspired by what Kobe did "on the field and off the field"
=========================================
"On the field and off the field." Of such slip-ups are election losses made.

[Melinda]

Heheheheh! It's always about the money. I really hope this part merges with the other ones I'm watching....

Jack Posobiec🇺🇸
@JackPosobiec
Deep state is sending the message to Trump that if he cuts foreign aid they come after him

Cassandra Fairbanks 🕊 @CassandraRules
End all foreign aid anyways twitter.com/jackposobiec/s…

twitter.com/CassandraRules/status/122160856

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1221609381369974786

[henry]

Melinda, Bolton’s attorney fucked up, he trusted the swamp.

[Captain Hate]

Here's another Low IQ dunce on Bolton

http://patterico.com/2020/01/26/breaking-from-nyt-boltons-book-says-trump-explicitly-tied-ukraine-aid-to-biden-investigation-announcement/

[Narciso]

Cooper is the swamp, well certainly a small amphibian

[rich]

Posted by: henry | January 26, 2020 at 08:40 PM

i'll have to steal that to make myself look smart when everyone comes in tomorrow to puzzle over it.

after everyone complains of course that it isn't done.

(i have a sneaking suspicion that sw knows what the issue is but don't want to admit to it...)

[rich]

bolten has dropped quite a bit with these leaks.

if y'all got shock and awe loaded up, fire for effect. stop this pussyfootin' around.

[MissMarple2]

Melinda,

I want someone to look at publishing houses and book advances, too.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

--That trench you were talking about needs to be a little longer and deeper Ig.

Some Brit progs, pols and police need to line it.--

Agreed, ABob.
I get a knot in my stomach every time I read about those girls being sacrificed to PC and no one paying for it.

[MissMarple2]

Pete Buttigieg backs position of Democrat Party to exclude pro-life voters. There's no room in their big tent for anyone who doesn't believe in taxpayer-funded abortion up to the moment of birth. Pete is not a moderate - he's radical!
pic.twitter.com/uSzAZIUeiD

— Red Nation Rising (@RedNationRising) January 27, 2020

Video at the link.

[Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki]

So Mayor Pete, I'm confused. Are you on Baby Jesus's side or Herod's in that slaughter of the innocents thing?

[Narciso]

His dissertation was om puritanisn in the quiet american, his specialty is category error.

[Narciso]

Game set match

https://mobile.twitter.com/rising_serpent

[Narciso]

Peek who went down the gang plank is the most likely suspect.

[Narciso]

The code key

https://mobile.twitter.com/Shem_Infinite/status/1221607907462189056

[Dave (in MA)]

An older photo

[Neo]

The Grammy show looks like they took a page from the impeachment managers. A snooze-fest.

[lurkersusie]

All about the $$$$$$

Shem Horne on Twitter: "The New York Times also makes a point in saying that Bolton is worried that people will think he's just trying to sell books. Uh, yeah, lol. Funny that they are trying to cover for him. https://t.co/NOgxW4QW8I" / Twitter

[Dave (in MA)]

"basketball field" how Obamaesque. If he said "Lebron Bryant", it would be Kerryesque.

[Narciso]

Dissapointing but sadly not surprising.

[Captain Hate]

The loon and his toadies are still in the gleeful anticipation mode. Monroe is the only one that anticipates the iceberg.

[Captain Hate]

Shocking that Mayor Petey isn't well versed on basic basketball lingo.

[Narciso]

Ive seen chronologies back to october

https://mobile.twitter.com/HelenBranswell/status/1221596280868278273

[clarice]

Sundance on Deripaska-Steele-Senator warren and Mueller:https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1221561650530193411

[President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA]

This will bring a BIG smile to your face!
About a minute or 90 secs I think.

https://southpawcontent.net/project/jeb-election-night-8326

[Narciso]

It really is a fascinating system

https://mobile.twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1221623433571852288

[rich]

i ought to fire up some kjom and go to my dark place ...

[Narciso]

Warner, although i wouldnt be surprised if red squaw was somehow involved.

[Captain Hate]

So it isn't just sbw that helpfully corrects AP?

[Narciso]

Not usually but when they dial to eleventy, this is packed in mothballs.

[Narciso]

They need to keep this stuff on ghost drives like in the first iron mam.

[Narciso]

A change of pace:

https://pawszilla.com/anthropology-and-history/archaelogy/archaeologists-unearthed-incredible-artifact-site-jesus-fed-5000/?utm_source=Taboola&utm_medium=CPC&utm_content=pushnami-splashpage_1132179&utm_campaign=75497_Paws-Zilla_Jesusartifact-Paws_US_MOBILE_RG&utm_term=3665434&l=a

[clarice]

Yes, just noticed my error--Senator Warner, not Warren.

[Melinda]

I’m waiting for this at the Grammy’s. It’s coming. The lifetime achievement award to John Prine (actually it’s Pruyn, but that’s inside baseball).

https://youtu.be/1T5NuI6Ai-o

[MissMarple2]

What's it like getting a phone call from the @POTUS?

Here is @CouyGriffinC4T moments after the first time he spoke with President @Trump.#WeThePeople @RideWithC4T
TOGETHER WE WIN!🇺🇸
pic.twitter.com/EuBAJEFVaf

— SayIt⭐️⭐️⭐️OutLoud (@realTT2020) January 26, 2020

Video at the link.

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Today's events are breaking my heart. I can't say that I knew Kobe but we used to sit together at church. He and the family always sat in the back and I was the rear corner guy (usher), so me and my family sat in the next to last row and he and his sat in the back row. Part of the job was to ensure a safe exit.

I remember him going to Mass when he was in the midst of his crisis, alone. I remember hearing that Vanessa got a massive ring out of it and smiling when they came back to church as a family. I remember his beautiful daughters.

He and I had something in common which he got a kick out of. I got myself kicked out of my prep school. I was a rebel. I ended up having a goof year at Lower Merion because I had basically completed all of the state prescribed courses by the end of my Junior year. Aced German and Latin.

So I ran XC and played lacrosse and smoked cigs and goofed off. Not an exemplar. But he laughed when we talked the few times we did.

We were all very proud to have him and the family as parishioners. They moved just before he retired, but even this evening as I was leaving Mass, cars were filing into the parking lot for a prayer service.

The news has devastated a lot of people around us.

[Narciso]

Has some event happened re professional basketball before of course there is lynyrd skynyrd and buddy holly, in music, bobby maduro is baseball?

[matt - deplore me if you must]

Narciso, I cried when Roberto Clemente died. I'm sorry, I'm a sap for do gooders.

[Narciso]

I was grasping at straws but yes, he was only 38.

[Manuel Transmission]

Wonderful story, Matt.

Mel, Prine is one of my faves. Saw him a time or two over the years. Jesus, the missing years, always gets me smiling.

[Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma]

BREAKING: First Chinese official, Wang Xianliang, former director of Wuhan Citizens' Commission, died of new coronavirus infection

[Narciso]

Yikes, they were seriously behind the ball here,

[Another Bob]

Matt, Narc, call me cold hearted, but I just can’t work up the kind of emotion that some have over Kobe. I do have the ordinary human sense of regret that a man died before he should have, especially leaving unraised children. But seeing sports “journalists” reduced to tears over this seems over the top.

I felt the same about a family friend who was distraught for weeks when Elvis died. I couldn’t relate to that at all.