The shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh -- in which the death toll now stands at 11 -- is believed to be the deadliest attack on the Jewish community in the history of the US, the Anti-Defamation League said.
Trump at Incitement Rally today, Indiana: Trump jokes that he considered canceling speech, not b/c of the mass shooting in Pittsburgh, but b/c his hair got wet while talking w/reporters about the shooting. "I said, 'maybe I should cancel this arrangement b/c I have a bad hair day.'"
Before authorities apprehended suspect Cesar Sayoc in connection to the series of mail bombs, the case prompted all sorts of speculation and conspiracy theories...."It is a high probability that the whole thing is set up as a false flag to gain sympathy for the Democrats," said talk radio host Michael Savage, "and to get our minds off the hordes of illegal aliens approaching our southern border." "Republicans just don't do this kind of thing," Rush Limbaugh said on his program...
Cesar Sayoc, the Donald Trump-loving Floridian who was taken into custody in relation to pipe bombs mailed to prominent Democrats, was foreclosed on in 2009 by a bank whose principal owner and chair is now Trump’s Treasury secretary, Steven Mnuchin. The documents used to enact the foreclosure were signed by a prominent robo-signer and seemingly backdated. Nonetheless, the evidence was good enough for the famously inattentive Florida foreclosure courts to wave the case through.
..As of 2016, Sayoc was a registered Republican. Multiple photos on his Facebook page shows Sayoc wearing a red Make American Great Again baseball cap.
Sayoc appeared to stop posting on Facebook in October 2016, after multiple video posts from a Trump rally.
Prior to that, his Facebook feed is a mishmash of pro-Trump news stories, racist memes and fake news about Democrats. Popular targets include Islam — which one meme calls “a barbaric evil cult” — and Hillary Clinton.
Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Republican Justice Clarence Thomas, spread some graphic photos of “brutalized” Mexican police. The alarmist post said members of the caravan from Honduras had done it. But the photos are not associated with the caravan. The bloodied officer in the top photo was injured in a clash with Mexican students in 2012.
Two explosive devices were found in mail sent to the offices of former President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a law enforcement official said Wednesday. The devices were similar to one found on Monday at the home of the billionaire philanthropist George Soros, the official said.
Yoda: “Fear is the path to the dark side…fear leads to anger…anger leads to hate…hate leads to suffering.”
The wife of the white nationalist Richard Spencer has accused him of emotional and physical abuse, including choking her, dragging her by her hair and attempting to punch her while she was pregnant, according to divorce filings in the Flathead county district court in Montana. She claimed he called her “genetically defective” and a “parasite”, and that he verbally abused her in front of their young daughter. “I’m famous and you are not! I’m important and you are not!”
President Trump has settled on a strategy of fear — laced with falsehoods and racially-tinged rhetoric — to help lift his party to victory in the coming midterms, part of a broader effort to energize Republican voters with two weeks left until the Nov. 6 elections. Trump’s messaging — on display in his regular campaign rallies, tweets and press statements — largely avoids much talk of his achievements and instead offers an apocalyptic vision of the country...
"I think we really need to discontinue our arms sales to Saudi Arabia and have a long and serious discussion about whether or not they want to be an ally or they want to be an enemy," Unfortunately, when Rand Paul gets "serious" about anythng, it means it will never happen.
Uberhawk John Bolton has apparently convinced Trump to terminate the 1987 Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Agreement because Russia has deployed some missiles, ON RUSSIAN TERRITORY, near adjacent countries formerly in the Soviet Union. Obama ignored these deployments as he did not want another arms race with Russia.
... Trump “Here we go again with you know you’re guilty until proven innocent,” he tells AP, “I don’t like that. We just went through that with Justice Kavanaugh and he was innocent all the way as far as I’m concerned. So we have to find out what happened.”
...How a conference known as the Davos in the Desert turned into a crucible for these executives and others demonstrates the curious change the world has seen under a businessman president: America’s moral compass being steered by the C-suite, rather than the Oval Office. ...Over the past two years, executives have found themselves in the uncomfortable position of having to speak out on matters of right and wrong. After Charlottesville, they rebuked the president’s weak response to white supremacy.
Turki Aldakhil, general manager of the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news channel, warned that if the US imposed sanctions on Riyadh "it will stab its own economy to death," cause oil prices to reach as high as $200 a barrel, lead Riyadh to permit a Russian military base in the city of Tabuk..."There are simple procedures, that are part of over 30 others, that Riyadh will implement directly, without flinching an eye if sanctions are imposed," he said. "If US sanctions are imposed on Saudi Arabia, we will be facing an economic disaster that would rock the entire world," he added.
Oh, wait, that was North Korea before Trump "fell in love" with murdering despot Kim jong Un. Trump has threatened Saudi Prince Salman with "severe punishment" over the apparent Saudi murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Could that mean the Saudi Royal clan will lose their Diamond w/Swords Special Despot Level Privileges at their Trump properties for one month or two?
Higher interest rates and/or inflation/mother of all recessions Daggers!
The fiscal 2018 deficit would have been $826 billion had outlays not been affected by shifts in the timing of certain payments, the CBO said. The government’s fiscal year runs from Oct. 1 to the end of September. The 2018 deficit was equal to an estimated 3.9 percent of gross domestic product, up from 3.5 percent the prior year.
Proposed changes to North American auto trade rules expected in the new NAFTA pact are unlikely to significantly increase U.S. manufacturing jobs or boost wages in Mexico, an analyst at the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Mich. said.
"The big upshot is there's nothing in this agreement that looks like lots of jobs are coming to the U.S.,” Kristin Dziczek, vice president of industry, labor and economics at the auto industry think tank, said in an interview on Wednesday about the details of new U.S.-Mexico trade agreement. “On the margin, there may be some tweaks — companies moving content [production] to the higher wage region, which is the U.S. or Canada basically. There's nothing in this agreement that raises wages in Mexico," Dziczek said. link
The vote was scheduled for 1:30pm but was delayed while Sen. Jeff Flake, a retiring Republican from Arizona, negotiated with other senators in the hallway outside the committee room.
In the end, he cast his deciding vote with the Republicans but he strongly suggested that he would not approve a motion to take up the vote on the Senate floor unless the FBI is given “no more than” a week to look into the allegations of sexual assault made on Thursday before the Judiciary Committee by Dr. Ford.
So you’re saying,” Ms. MacCallum interrupted, “that through all these years that are in question, you were a virgin?”
His face frozen — and his confirmation on the line — Judge Kavanaugh had little choice but to respond. “That’s correct,” he said......A handsome, intelligent, and Ivy-bound captain of the high school team who is the “treasurer” of the Keg City Club, attends alcohol-fueled beach parties at every opportunity, and brags about his group sexual conquests in his yearbook is not the profile of a 30-year-old virgin.
Activists in Maine opposed to the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court are trying to put pressure on Susan Collins, the state’s Republican senator. If Collins votes for Kavanaugh, they say, they will donate substantial sums to her opponent in the next election.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's faith in Donald Trump remains "unchanged" and he wants to denuclearise the Korean peninsula during the US president's first term, South officials say.
