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"This order is hilarious": Trump-appointed judge sends back his DOJ suit because it makes no sense Former President Trump and his legal team have filed a motion asking a federal judge to pause the FBI's review of alleged classified documents taken from his Mar-a-Lago resort so a neutral special master can be appointed to inspect them. The motion was included in a federal lawsuit filed by Trump targeting the FBI's justification for the Aug. 8 raid. According to reports, Trump had more than 300 classified documents at his Palm Beach resort that he allegedly took from the White House at the end of his tenure. But in a new development this Tuesday, the judge overseeing the case gave Trump and his legal team until Friday to give more specifics as to why they think their motion should be granted. "Judge Aileen Cannon seems skeptical about Trump's lawsuit over the search of Mar-a-Lago, including what exactly he is trying to do and why he filed a separate case instead of just asking Judge Bruce Reinhart to address his grievances in the existing matter," explained New York Times reporter Charlie Savage. "The judge assigned to Trump's civil complaint is basically telling them they need to do better," tweeted Reuters reporter and legal expert Sarah Lynch. As CBS News' Steven Portnoy pointed out, the judge wants Trump's legal team to provide "the asserted basis for the exercise of this Court's jurisdiction," "the precise relief sought, including any request for injunctive relief," and the "the effect, if any, of the proceeding before" Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart. "This order is hilarious," added David French of The Dispatch. "Any decent litigator would read it and shudder--basically the judge is saying to Trump's team, 'Do your job.'" "Translation: Trump's motion is a mess and the judge needs them to spell out exactly what they're asking for and why they think they're entitled to that relief," tweeted Renato Mariotti, a former federal prosecutor. https://www.salon.com/2022/08/24/this-order-is-hilarious-appointed-sends-back-his-doj-suit-because-it-makes-no-sense_partner/

Tucker Carlson’s Hateful Conspiracy: Chemicals in Milk Turn Kids Trans Conspiracy theorists have become an essential and accepted component of the MAGA party/religion for some time now. As much damage as it’s done to our body politic, it gets even more dangerous when it is directed with hatred at specific marginalized groups of people, as Tucker Carlson did in claiming that chemicals in milk “turn kids trans.” The loving and respectful response is, “So? What’s the problem?” If chemicals in milk are unhealthy, then we should evaluate the benefit versus harm but not consider “turning kids trans” as an inherently bad outcome akin to cancer or skin lesions. Caution is warranted only because trans teens are the demographic segment most likely – by far – to commit suicide. It is not the resulting “trans” identity that is the problem. It is how society, like Tucker Carlson, who implies this is terrible, that is a real problem. https://www.politicususa.com/2022/08/23/tucker-carlson-milk-trans.html

There seems to be no bottom to which Faux News will stoop to in lies:

That, as Mr. Spock would say, it the logical next step.

Russia announced the "adoption" of 1,000 children deported from Mariupol More than 1,000 Ukrainian children, illegally removed from occupied Mariupol, were given up for "adoption" in the Krasnodar region of Russia alone.

Plans to resurrect the Tasmanian tiger in the works, extinct since the 1930's, advancements in technology have made it possible and feasible.

YESYESYESYESYESYESYES!!!!!

Particularly with the Duke MIA and a set of turnstiles on the O-line. Gonna be verrry interestink to watch for the rest of the season.

Sunken Nazi WWII Warships Resurface In Danube River As Drought Worsens More than 20 German warships that sank in the Danube River during World War II have resurfaced as record heatwaves in Europe reduced the essential waterway to one of its lowest levels in modern history, Reuters reported. The warships were previously known to authorities but remained largely underwater for decades. They are now exposed near Prahovo, Serbia, in the Danube, which is Europe’s second-largest river and spans from southwestern Germany to eastern Romania, according to CBS News. Formerly crewed by the Nazis’ Black Sea fleet, the German vessels were scuttled by Soviet ships while retreating in 1944. Some of the vessels still have visible turrets and command bridges with ruptured masts and damaged hulls, while most are largely covered by sand banks. Most urgently, many of them still hold ammunition and explosives, which pose a danger to shipping industries and fishermen. The resurfacing of the warships serves as a glaring reminder of rising temperatures around the globe. Water levels of the Danube River near Budapest, for instance, recently plummeted 5 feet in three weeks, according to the Associated Press. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ww2-warships-resurface-in-danube-river_n_63049d00e4b052615d748f09

2 Men Guilty Of Conspiring To Kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The jury also found Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. guilty of conspiring to obtain a weapon of mass destruction. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A jury on Tuesday convicted two men of conspiring to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020, in a plot prosecutors described as a rallying cry for a U.S. civil war by anti-government extremists. The jury also found Adam Fox and Barry Croft Jr. guilty of conspiring to obtain a weapon of mass destruction, namely a bomb to blow up a bridge and stymie police if the kidnapping could be pulled off at Whitmer’s vacation home. Croft, 46, a trucker from Bear, Delaware, was also convicted of another explosives charge. It was the second trial for the pair after a jury in April couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict. Two other men were acquitted and two more pleaded guilty and testified for prosecutors. The result was a victory for the government following the shocking mixed outcome last spring. “You can’t just strap on an AR-15 and body armor and go ****** the governor,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Nils Kessler told jurors. “But that wasn’t the defendants’ ultimate goal, they wanted to set off a second American civil war, a second American Revolution, something that they call the boogaloo. And they wanted to do it for a long time before they settled on Gov. Whitmer.”

That same section of the Bible sanctions death for anyone who wears two different fabrics (ie: wool plus cotton) at the same time, as well as death for anyone who plants two different crops in the same field, allows fathers to sell their daughters and own slaves. But these "Christians" do not want to talk about this. And men cannot sleep in the same bed as women who are having their periods or touch any woman who is not one of their wives (and polygamy is OK but not polyandry).

Fajardo is only the first problem that has to be dealt with, not the only one and not the biggest. The circus will be staying in Regina for the rest of the season.

So..... if he's coming back, its not Cancel Couture?

I suspect this was the result of an indictable offence and would have leaked out anyways, so they decided to get ahead of it.

'Self-inflicted wound': Experts stunned After Trump’s late-night release of incredibly incriminating NARA document Former President Donald Trump reportedly released a new document very late Monday night that legal experts believe is incredibly damning. Far-right writer John Solomon, who is one of Donald Trump’s official representatives for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), released a May 10 letter on his JustTheNews.com website. Solomon released a letter from NARA to Trump’s lawyers. “As you are no doubt aware, NARA had ongoing communications with the former President’s representatives throughout 2021 about what appeared to be missing Presidential records, which resulted in the transfer of 15 boxes of records to NARA in January 2022,” the letter read. “In its initial review of materials within those boxes, NARA identified items marked as classified national security information, up to the level of Top Secret and including Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Access Program materials. NARA informed the Department of Justice about that discovery, which prompted the Department to ask the President to request that NARA provide the FBI with access to the boxes at issue so that the FBI and others in the Intelligence Community could examine them.” “Yikes,” tweeted Tufts Prof. Daniel Drezner. Washington Post reporter Olivier Knox said, “this is incredible.” Attorney Bradley Moss wondered, “Does [John Solomon] realize how bad that letter is for Trump? Trump not only had classified records at Mar-a-Lago, not only had TS/SCI classified records, he had Special Access Program classified information, Those are our most sensitive secrets. They were sitting in a damn basement.” Former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti said, “The letter also confirms that Trump was on notice that the documents he possessed were federal government property and that he needed to return them to the government’s possession. Very uphill battle for Trump’s team. https://www.alternet.org/2022/08/nara-trump/

McPizza had the same appeal as bird droppings on cardboard- probably as tasty. Could Tim's pizza possibly be worse?

The GOP, federally and state are mounting a vigorous, and mostly successful campaign to ban any and all books that describe American slavery and the civil war in negative terms.

A buck eighty-eight will get you a coffee at McDonalds and not much more- not very therapeutic.

Fear of death and/or dismemberment can be a great motivator.

I see myself as a wit, and my wife thinks I'm half right.

Could he be in a snit over his demotion to the second-best receiver? It was surprising to hear that Oulette (does that mean "small owl?" is an import. However, the Argo O-line is mediocre when at their best, so the ground game suffers for that. I do like Oulette's attitude, though. He ought to do well in the CFL- sort of like Milanovich-Litre with better hands.

Because of our porous O-line and lack of a deep threat, most of the passing plays must, by necessity, be hot routes in the 5-15 yard range, and that is where Ellingson makes a big contribution, so yeah. he better get well soon. On that note, anyone have any insight as to when our regular and very good center will be back?

Couldn't get two more different QBs in playing style as well as strengths. Pipkin has all the tools but appears to be highly resistant to coaching.