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https://chicago.suntimes.com/chicago-politics/ives-ad-targets-transgender-community-immigrants-and-women-who-get-abortions/
@ Chicago Sun Times
Good morning. This article includes a video of an ad by Jeannie Ives who is running in the Republican Primary against Gov Bruce Rauner. Rauner was named the worst Republican Governor in the country by National
Review. He is. The ad is all true , but it caused hair on fire. What do you think?
@ RIX:
The only way Обамаград can be saved is if President Trump sends in the Naitonal Guard to quell the gangsta violence infesting that city…and to protect the GOOD PEOPLE who still live there!
Oh, he can also ARREST Rahm of The Nine Fingers, as well as his Chief of PIGS!
morning y’all
first true day off in a while
no archery today
oops, need moar coffee
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/breaking-fox-analyst-rod-rosenstein-threatened-chairman-nunez-house-intel-members-meeting-3-weeks-ago-video/
Deplorable Macker wrote:
Hey Macker , how are you feeling? Chicago is still a great city in spite of these scurulious Democrats like
Rahm. But it is sinking, the Gold Coast Area now has violent crime including shootings.
That area is the economic engine but it is not being defended as part of a racial agenda.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/breaking-second-source-comes-forward-claims-rosenstein-threatened-nunes-house-intel-didnt-stop-investigation/
@ Gateway Pundit
Rosenstein threatened Nunes and Intel Committee. Who oversees who? Get read of this swamp rat.
@ rain of lead:
@ RIX:
and isn’t it odd that this morning in an appearance about immigration, Jeff Sessions went out of his way to praise Rosenstein. (on twitter, don’t have a link, will post if I find one)
eaglesoars wrote:
It’s very telling. Trump has got a house cleaning issue. Best to get after it now, he needs to “ drain the swamp.”
@ RIX:
Meeting with oncologist next Friday at 08:00 Eastern Time…I’ll find out then whether I have to go into the hospital, inpatient, each and every time I have Chemo, or if the delivery method can change.
We now know that I WILL experience chest pains because of the last two sessions. Sucks, but there it is.
RIX wrote:
I’m not sure. I think somehow this thing about Flynn – which is a total setup – Sessions being very quiet and Rosenstein are part of a piece. I want to see the OIG report. I’m in a state of “hmmmmmmmmmm…” right now.
eaglesoars wrote:
The Media is hysterical trying to cover for the swamp. At the gym this morning I had on CNN.
Fredricka Whitfield had on some Republican Congessman trying to make his case. She had a meltdown
saying that the memo was “cherry picked.They all got that talking point , but she went further asserting that
the public has no right to know anything,She would not let the guy talk, but wait!
It was followed by a Dem Congessman and she damn near sat on his lap and licked him.
https://twitchy.com/dougp-3137/2018/02/03/noted-document-examiner-dan-rather-weighs-in-on-veracity-of-fisa-memo/
@ Twitchy
Are ready for dis? Are you ready for dis? Womp, womp here it is!
Dan Rather weighs in on the memo, bring all that cred. Courage.
David Axelrod
✔
@davidaxelrod
It “totally” did not. Not even close. The broader question is, why is this man so panicked? And to what lengths will he go to sully or derail a probe he obviously finds threatening?
This is an actual tweet by David Axelrod, not a parody account. WTF?
Deplorable Macker wrote:
Good luck, and stay strong. Prayers
@ Deplorable Macker:
Pardon my intrusion but I in the last year has 9 chemo sessions and a full bone marrow transplant. I am cured- thank you God. You will be too.
@ brookly red:
Well, fer cryin’ out loud, why on earth didn’t you let us know? A few more prayers might have helped a little, ya know?
lobo91 wrote:
Dan Bongino already outted him. Phil Mudd. Says he’s known him for a long time to be a deep-police state kind of guy, just surprising that he’d be so open about it now
I’ve not been online a lot today but I have seen a trend – “Trump has no idea what he’s in for” kind of thing, no POTUS wins against the IC, etc. etc. etc. A lot of veiled threats, stuff like that. There’s a piece in the NYT from an FBI guy on why he’s resigning. Nothing tells the reader he was Comey’s special assistant. Adam Goldman is his name, I think. My guess is he’s going to hire out as a talking head to lay down flanking fire.
I knew I remembered a Hollyweird type singing the praises of Communism years ago. If the claims against Trump were true, shouldn’t they be on board?
https://www.redstate.com/diary/tankertodd/2008/10/24/jane-fonda-quoted-in-1970-lauding-communism/
@ right_wing2:
Modern-day Russia isn’t a Communist state
eaglesoars wrote:
His name is Josh Campbell. Josh Campbell is friends with Edward Price. Edward Price was CIA. Edward Price pulled the same stunt Josh Campbell pulled.
I didn’t think I’d ever leave the CIA. But because of Trump, I quit.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/i-didnt-think-id-ever-leave-the-cia-but-because-of-trump-i-quit/2017/02/20/fd7aac3e-f456-11e6-b9c9-e83fce42fb61_story.html?utm_term=.b4c792d6a302
You will see this at the top of the article:
Clarification: This column should have included a disclosure of donations made by author Edward Price in support of 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton. In August, Price gave a total of $5,000 to the Clinton campaign and the Democratic Party.
sorry, forgot to post my source
https://twitter.com/The_War_Economy/status/959753672619065344
In case anyone is in need of some entertainment this evening: A complete Samantha Fish show, recorded last Friday in Des Moines. It’s entirely songs from Chills and Fever and Belle of the West, with the exception of a cover of Heartbreaker by the Rolling Stones. First time I’ve seen a set that didn’t include any older material.
This is going to be hilarious
Trudeau warns US that Canada ‘will not be pushed around’ on NAFTA negotiations
http://thehill.com/policy/international/372147-trudeau-warns-us-that-canada-will-not-be-pushed-around-on-nafta
@ eaglesoars:
Next up: Canada Pays for the Wall
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
@ eaglesoars:
Remember, the first country South of the US Border is…CANADA! To wit: Windsor, Ontario! 😎
@ Deplorable Macker:
By the time Trump is finished w/ Justina, it will be Windsor Michigan
@ Deplorable Macker:
Also, the NW Angle, of MN.
eaglesoars wrote:
Yep, The Hill commenters are apparently not in agreement with Trump. Color me surprised. Despite the fact the US economy is climbing.
@ AZfederalist:
Oh come on. Trump’s destroying the economy. He only cares about making himself rich. We need more of Obama’s high taxes and massive regulations.
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@ eaglesoars:
Trudeau needs to be given an atomic wedgie and his themed socks stuffed down his throat. :/
The guy is a walking talking apologizing political disaster.
@ eaglesoars:
thank you God was there the whole time, I am just recovering now… but I want to bare witness = I am healed
@ PaladinPhil:
Hiya! How’s the Squire doing?
Hubby’s docs just sent him to the ER. Dammit. I’m betting the place is swimming in flu, but he’s got an obvious URI and needs meds. He’s had both flu and pneumonia vacs, so I’m not worried about those…I hope
@ eaglesoars:
The Squire is being an annoying toddler. :p
He’s healthy and growing, god is he growing. Someone saw him a couple weeks ago and called him a giant. He was bigger then her four year old son apparently.
https://townhall.com/notebook/stevesheldon/2018/02/04/the-nfl-still-doesnt-get-it-n2440891
@ Town Hall
Speaking of the NFL this is a good article. Goodell and a bunch of semi literate thugs have screwed the pooch.
I grew up playing and loving football. the Super Bowl is an American tribal ritual, and they had to go and sully it.
@ PaladinPhil:
From the last pic I recall, he’s a good looking little kid, too!
RIX wrote:
Because it’s an American tribal ritual.
About a third of the people I follow on twitter are farmers or have something to do with ag. There’s a ‘place’ for young farmers in the UK and their sites are being attacked by ‘vegans’ by hacking their home pages banner pics with horrific photos of animal slaughter. Pretty tough for a 12 yr old girl to handle. The cultural ‘current’ that’s taken hold of destruction in the most vulgar manner is something I’d like to see addressed in the public sphere. Even the adult farmers are really weighed down by this emotionally. Despair is a weapon and people need to recognize when it’s being used against them and how to fight it.
But in better news, dogsledding, my dog Talese is racing today (not a long race, but he didn’t get to do the 400 mile Beargrease last week), and the Yukon Quest, a 1000-miler, started yesterday.
http://yukonquest.com/news/five-four-three-two-one%E2%80%A6
eaglesoars wrote:
Apostle Island Sled Dog Race
#aisdr
but if you love dogs and stuff you can use #mushertwitter and ‘meet’ a lot of fascinating people (and their unreal dogs)
@ eaglesoars:
Is Talese actually your dog,or is that just a manner of speaking?
@ RIX:
I help sponsor him $$$. Mushing isn’t an inexpensive sport. Much like if you support North Shore Animal League (a no-kill shelter in NY), you have ‘your’ animal. Except in this case, I got to choose my dog. Talese is a solid, steady, sweet guy, no drama, utterly dependable. He’ll probably never be a star – that would be Hari, who is completely blind but is one of the few dogs who can follow a trail over a lake in a whiteout – but he’s the dog Hari depends on for emotional support when Hari doesn’t trust the ground. Talese is his bud.
@ eaglesoars:
That sounds like a really good thing to do.
This won’t let me cut-paste but put this in your ammo box. Trey Gowdy interview this morning where he states w/o equivocation that the FISA warrants would not have been granted w/o the dossier. Also note the he, Goodlatte and Ratcliffe are the only 3 people who have seen the underlying documents.
https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/960162767650086914
Also see the linked Byron York column
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-answering-3-key-questions-about-the-house-memo/article/2648048?platform=hootsuite
So those are some of the objections and questions raised about the House memo. Though repeated loudly and often, they don’t have much merit, and the memo’s key assertion — that the unverified, oppo-research dossier played an essential role in securing a warrant to wiretap Carter Page — appears sound.
eaglesoars wrote:
And yet, Gowdy professes that Rob Rosenstein who signed off on one of the 4 FISA warrants for the surveillance of Carter Page, a US Citizen not accused of a crime is a good guy.
My patience with Gowdy has expired just as it has with AG Sessions who likewise makes the same claim.
There is no rational or logical way that Rosenstein was unaware that the so called evidence used to obtain that FISA warrant was fraudulent. Rosenstein was part and parcel of the attempted 18 US Code Chapter 115 Sections 2384 & 2385 Coup against President Trump.
Why are Gowdy and Sessions attempting to protect Rosenstein?
Hubby has the flu. damn
doriangrey wrote:
I dunno. It’s one of the reasons I’m not drawing any conclusions about anything yet (except Comey, who sucks). I see too many ideas, all with merit, that are totally divergent. So I wait.
https://twitchy.com/samj-3930/2018/02/04/let-the-hyperventilating-begin-sean-spicer-parody-has-heyday-tormenting-lefties-with-russia-and-jay-z/
@ Twitchy
Ok, this is too good not to share. Check out the comment by Jonah Goldberg. He could wtite another manifesto.
eaglesoars wrote:
I can conceive of only one acceptable explanation for the actions of Gowdy and Sessions, and that being that Rosenstein, in an effort to avoid prison for his role has turned states evidence against everyone else involved in this attempted coup. And I do not consider the likelihood of that as being very probable.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/breaking-second-source-comes-forward-claims-rosenstein-threatened-nunes-house-intel-didnt-stop-investigation/
@ Gateway Pundit
Speaking of Rosenstein , what a guy!
@ doriangrey:
@ RIX:
I hear ya! Your position is quite sensible. I just can’t reconcile it w/Gowdy’s and Session’s declared faith in these guys. Maybe they’re wrong or maybe there’s a lot more we don’t see yet. There is no way to know at this point, so…..
Did you know that when presenting an application for surveillance to the FISA courts, you must abide by what is known as The Woods Procedure?
Me neither. But Sharyl Attkisson does.
Woods Procedures were named for Michael Woods, the FBI official who drafted the rules as head of the Office of General Counsel’s National Security Law Unit. They were instituted in April 2001 to “ensure accuracy with regard to … the facts supporting probable cause” after recurring instances, presumably inadvertent, in which the FBI had presented inaccurate information to the FISA court.
Prior to Woods Procedures, “[i]ncorrect information was repeated in subsequent and related FISA packages,” the FBI told Congress in August 2003. “By signing and swearing to the declaration, the headquarters agent is attesting to knowledge of what is contained in the declaration.”
http://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/372233-nunes-memo-raises-question-did-fbi-violate-woods-procedures
eaglesoars wrote:
Imo Rosenstein is a deep state guy, that is what I am seeing. Dorian my have it that Rosenstein.
But he doubts it and do I. So basically I’m confused.
@ RIX:
That Rosenstein has copped a plea deal.
oh wow. This is a pic of Niagara Falls at night. It’s unreal
https://twitter.com/planetepics/status/960241789633548289
I guess everybody’s watching the Superbowl, but when that’s done – from Sharyl Attkisson
Carter Page reportedly assisted the FBI with the prosecution and conviction of a Russian spy a few years back. I suppose Page could have done all that with the FBI and then become a Russian spy himself. Maybe that’s what they were looking for in the wiretaps.
https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/959939141394935809
@ eaglesoars:
eaglesoars wrote:
Nope, couldn’t care less about the Super Bowl. Also interesting is that the surveillance warrant was Title I not Title VII meaning it allowed the most intrusive investigation and allowed surveillance of Trump. This was taking the weaponization of the intelligence agencies to the limit.
I was just explaining the Amazon commercial, and I started with “Alexa lost her voice…” and my Echo HEARD ME, and said, “Only temporarily. I always find it in the end.” IS THIS THE FUTURE?
https://twitter.com/KateAurthur/status/960342848997593089
AZfederalist wrote:
I just stumbled across that distinction yesterday. I didn’t even know there were ‘titles’. I wonder what the other 5 are.
Here is Byron York on Carter Page background w/Russia/FBI. bookmark it
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-as-memo-fight-rages-critics-ask-all-this-over-carter-page/article/2647777?platform=hootsuite
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There were reasons for the FBI to notice Page. Described as an “energy executive,” he lived for a time in Russia, was always trying to drum up business, often in Russia, and his name popped up in a case against three Russians who in 2013 were posing as businessmen and trying to recruit Americans to become Russian agents. The Russians apparently wanted to enlist Page, who in the end was not accused of any wrongdoing and has denied any contacts with the Russians beyond ordinary business communications. For their part, the Russians came to view Page as something less than a prize; one of them was captured on a wiretap calling him an “idiot.”
So Page was no Russian agent, nor did he ever appear to be in danger of becoming a Russian agent. Nevertheless, the case put Page on the FBI’s Russia radar screen.
I can’t believe I’m tweeting with a dairy farmer in Ireland who wants updates on the game.
heh. Somebody is retweeting everybody’s Jan 13 tweets that the Eagles should have signed Kaepernick. Stephen Miller, I think.
Bro, Eagles will be one and done with Nick Foles as our starter in the playoffs. If the Eagles dont sign Kaepernick, they deserve to lose putting politics before winning
Dec 31
https://twitter.com/Ziplock_Freshhh/status/947535509907050497
AZfederalist wrote:
here’s someone posting on the meaning of Title I – too tired to read it myself
https://twitter.com/Pardos901/status/959826294954479616
Ah crap. I had not heard this.
Illegal without license accused in DUI death of Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson, passenger
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/feb/4/alex-gonsales-accused-dui-death-colts-edwin-jackso/
I will always remember the first time The Patriots LOST The Super Bowl…and it was a Super BLOW! As in Out. By DA BEARS!
Let the RIOTS in Philly commence!
@ Deplorable Macker:
Hi Macker! Nothing personal, but I’m going to put Hubby to bed and then turn in myself. I get the family room sofa tonite. sleep tite
@ RIX:
From the tube:
Cynthia Johnson
8 hours ago (edited)
“Also nobody is discussing why it is a crime for Donald Trump jr. to even talk to a Russian about opposition research but the FBI can use dodgy opposition research to gain a FISA warrant. That’s a whopper of a double standard. What the fuck?”
brookly red wrote:
Wow. Praise God. Good to see you posting again.
good afternoon. Next up: State Dept Corruption vis a vis Steele. Here is the article
Dossier author Steele wrote another anti-Trump memo; was fed info by Clinton-connected contact, Obama State Department
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/dossier-author-steele-wrote-another-anti-trump-memo-was-fed-info-by-clinton-connected-contact-obama-state-department/article/2648099
Here is the Grassley memo demanding answers from the FBI. A lot is redacted but scroll down to (U) and you’ll see that apparently Steele received TWO ‘contributions’ from State.
https://www.scribd.com/document/370786900/Unclassified-CEG-LG-Memo-to-DOJ-FBI-Steele-Referral
eaglesoars wrote:
huh. So Friday Grassley sent a letter to the FBI to declassify the doc I linked to above. He gives the FBI until tomorrow to comply.
https://www.grassley.senate.gov/sites/default/files/constituents/2018-02-02%20CEG%20to%20FBI%20DOJ%20%28Declassification%20of%20Steele%20Criminal%20Referral%29.pdf