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Welcome but did you see the previous post about donuts? Best to ingratiate yourself right off. Donuts. Bring donuts.

No problem- its good for any occasion.

Ex-staffer describes Trump fantasizing about sex with Ivanka Former President Donald Trump made sexual comments about his daughter Ivanka that were so lewd he was rebuked by his Chief of Staff, former Trump official Miles Taylor writes in a new book. The comments are used by Taylor to highlight almost daily instances of sexism in the Trump White House that were so bad one senior female official told the writer, “This is not a healthy workplace for women.” "Aides said he talked about Ivanka Trump's breasts, her backside, and what it might be like to have sex with her, remarks that once led (former Chief of Staff) John Kelly to remind the president that Ivanka was his daughter," Taylor writes. "Afterward, Kelly retold that story to me in visible disgust. Trump, he said, was 'a very, very evil man.'" The details contained in the upcoming new book, “Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump,” were outlined in an exclusive interview with Newsweek Wednesday. Taylor, a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security who admitted to anonymously writing a 2018 op-ed in the New York Times titled “"I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration,” said, "There still are quite a few female leaders from the Trump administration who have held their tongues about the unequal treatment they faced in the administration at best, and the absolute naked sexism they experienced with the hands of Donald Trump at worst." He said “undisguised sexism” was aimed at everybody from lowly staff members to cabinet secretaries. https://www.alternet.org/ivanka-trump-2661980261/

I cannot prove the 7 million dollar payout, but one of my patients was a priest who left orders after being severely beaten in Honduras and he knew firsthand of nuns who were raped, tortured and even killed by the death squads. These priests and nuns in Central America appealed to Rome for help when the threats began followed by attacks and killings, but were completely ignored. He said that he heard from others in the church hierarchy about the payment.

I suggest that the religions were only a cover story. The wars were all about power and wealth and Muslims killed each other, as did Christians and Jews. The desire to better oneself at the expense seems to be a core distinction among humans. Other animals do it, too but not with the same enthusiasm. Ironically, when I worked with the dying, damned few boasted about their accumulations. A few did but very few. Most were regretful about the time they wasted chasing the wrong rabbit. If yo are pursuing the wrong stuff, you can never get enough.

Buzzkill.

I guess they finally let him out.

INDICTED FELON TRUMP GREETED WITH HANDSHAKES FROM LAW ENFORCEMENT IN MASSACHUSETTS Trump arrived in Massachusetts and was greeted by a group of law enforcement officers who wanted to shake his hand. It is illegal in almost every jurisdiction for law enforcement officers to engage in partisan political activity while they are in uniform. The hypocrisy of those who are paid to protect and serve who showed up to glad hand a man who is accused of more than 70 federal and local felonies should not be lost on anyone. One of the reasons why Donald Trump continued and possibly continues to break laws is the kind of treatment that he got in the video above. No community should want their law enforcement officers hanging out with Donald Trump. Trump keeps breaking the law, because far too many people have given him special treatment. It is difficult to believe the statement that everyone is equal in the eyes of the law when a man who confessed on tape to stealing classified government secrets is greeted like a hero. It is wrong, and the reason why so many Americans won’t believe that Trump will be held accountable until they see it with their own eyes. (Birds of a feather)

Few dictators in the last few hundred years has died in their beds at a ripe old age. Most have reaped what they sowed.

Putin's paranoia may well cause his downfall.

FBI And DHS Ignored 'Massive Amount' Of Intelligence Before Jan. 6, Senate Says WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security downplayed or ignored “a massive amount of intelligence information” ahead of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S Capitol, according to the chairman of a Senate panel that on Tuesday released a new report on the intelligence failures ahead of the insurrection. The report details how the agencies failed to recognize and warn of the potential for violence as some of then-President Donald Trump’s supporters openly planned the siege in messages and forums online. Among the multitude of intelligence that was overlooked was a December 2020 tip to the FBI that members of the far-right extremist group Proud Boys planned to be in Washington, D.C., for the certification of Joe Biden’s victory and their “plan is to literally kill people,” the report said. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee said the agencies were also aware of many social media posts that foreshadowed violence, some calling on Trump’s supporters to “come armed” and storm the Capitol, kill lawmakers or “burn the place to the ground.” Michigan Sen. Gary Peters, the Democratic chairman of the Homeland panel, said the breakdown was “largely a failure of imagination to see threats that the Capitol could be breached as credible,” echoing the findings of the Sept. 11 commission about intelligence failures ahead of the 2001 terrorist attacks. The report by the panel’s majority staff says the intelligence community has not entirely recalibrated to focus on the threats of domestic, rather than international, terrorism. And government intelligence leaders failed to sound the alarm “in part because they could not conceive that the U.S. Capitol Building would be overrun by rioters.” Still, Peters said, the reasons for dismissing what he called a “massive” amount of intelligence “defies an easy explanation.” While several other reports have examined the intelligence failures around Jan. 6 ― including a bipartisan 2021 Senate report, the House Jan. 6 committee last year and several separate internal assessments by the Capitol Police and other government agencies — the latest investigation is the first congressional report to focus solely on the actions of the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis. In the wake of the attack, Peters said the committee interviewed officials at both agencies and found what was “pretty constant finger pointing” at each other. “Everybody should be accountable because everybody failed,” Peters said.

There are a LOT of people who will disagree with your take that the Bombers were "close". It was obvious from the kickoff that the Blue were not at their best and deteriorated over the rest of the game.

I have no big problem with losing the game per se. Watching the Bomber offensive line get beaten or every. damned. play. and seeing the defensive backfield perform an impromptu version of a Keystone Kops fire drill is concerning. Montreal isn't the best team in the league, but they are showing signs of life. If the Bombers just squeak by them or (horrors) lose, there will be some tough questions that need to be answered.

Hmmm...Prukop throws a brain-dead, unscripted interception that costs the Bombers the Grey Cup, bails on them to play in a chickenshit league and is welcomed back???? Okay.....

If Jesus is your buddy, you ought to be able to shake off any and every illness and injury. If you cannot, its obviously God's will to kill you and who are you to resist or grumble,

Accord to news today, overt fascism is on the rise in the US. https://www.alternet.org/fascism-2661908329/

Most of his troops are still in Russia or occupied Ukraine. He is far more vulnerable in Belarus where his best friend was blown to hell a few weeks ago.

I am at a loss as to why Prigozhin backed off and why he could think that Putin would not kill him. Putin's history is absolute proof that he has no compunction whatever about killing off any real, potential or suspected opposition.

I was at one time. In the rural Manitoba small four room school I attended, books were rare but one was a Latin primer, so I read it and memorized some parts. I was surprised how many English words have Latin roots. Yes, some of the Catholic priests and nuns do wonderful work and they should be honored for that. but it also has its very dark parts, like the orphanages all over the world where children (including babies) were abused and neglected to death. There was the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland and the Vatican's betrayal of Liberation Theology where it was allowed that priests and nuns in Central America to be killed by death squads funded by the United Food Company in exchange for several million dollars given to the Church.

You are correct about Henry the 8th except for one detail. His secession from the Catholic church was not about wanting newer playmates but about producing a male heir to the throne. Did you know that the "fish on Friday" thingie is a part of that? Luther did not want a schism but several local Prussian lords wanted out of the Holy Roman Empire and saw Luther as a means to an end. So they promoted him to be the head of the parade, even though he wasn't happy at first. He did grow fond of the prestige and power, though.

All the GOP and her in particular have is fear and smear.

Prigozhin Just Got Double-Crossed by Duplicitous Putin -Press service of Concord/Handout via Reuters On Saturday night, with his heavily armed mercenaries closing in on Moscow, Yevgeny Prigozhin abruptly announced that he was shutting down his insurrection after a negotiated settlement that would allow him to walk away peacefully. Just two days later, the Russian authorities leaked word that the agreement was already toast. After one of the most extraordinary days in modern Russian history, which saw Prigozhin seize the military’s southern command HQ in Rostov-on-Don before a column of his fighters sped toward Moscow virtually unopposed, it was announced that the former Putin confidant would be granted an amnesty and allowed to head into exile in Belarus. Prigozhin—who forged his notorious reputation by running the world’s most bloodthirsty mercenary army—laughably said the deal was struck to ensure that no “blood will be shed” even though his men had already shot down several Russian helicopters and a military plane, according to reports from Russian military bloggers and the Ukrainian air force spokesman, killing up to 39 Russians. No details of the deal struck in talks with Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko were announced by media-savvy Prigozhin himself over the weekend. It was reported in the Russian press that the agreement would see his men spared in order to rejoin the fight in Ukraine under contract to the Ministry of Defense and that the Wagner boss would be granted amnesty for his treasonous mutiny and allowed to drive off into the sunset. On Monday, a new audio recording of Prigozhin was released by his press service saying that Lukashenko had brokered a deal to keep his Wagner Group in business. He claimed Wagner had been due to get shut down next Saturday. Lukashenko offered to find a way for the legal operation of Wagner to continue, Prigozhin said. He made no reference to the supposed deal to keep himself or his comrades out of prison. Why Did Putin Let Prigozhin Walk Away? A few hours earlier, signs first emerged that the deal may not have been struck in good faith. The Russian state news agency RIA Novosti reported that the criminal case against Prigozhin had not—in fact—been dropped. The official state news agency, TASS, soon confirmed that the investigation into the mutiny that humiliated President Vladimir Putin was ongoing. A Prosecutor General’s Office source was quoted as saying: “The criminal case against Prigozhin did not stop. The investigation continues.” (Translation: Prigozhin is a dead man walking)