this is so not funny any more.  Muller please please please do your fu@king job and extract this cancer from our republic.

it is not onion.

Trump just called Warren Pocahontas for no apparent reason other than to gratuitously slime her because they and her are "related" in a ceremony honoring world war 2 code talkers.

followed its said by an awkward silence.

I'd love to know who's bankrolling that punk.

key witness in the special counsel probe ate dinner with President Donald Trump over the weekend at Mar-A-Lago.

James Woolsey, the former CIA director and board member at Mike Flynn's lobbying firm, took part in a "lengthy conversation" Saturday with the president, reported Business Insider.

The conversation was revealed by a tipster to Politico Playbook.

Woolsey, who was the guest of Newsmax chairman Chris Ruddy, spoke with Trump at the main dinner table, where the president and first lady Melania Trump dined with Marvel Entertainment Chairman Ike Perlmutter and his wife Laurie.

Astronauts find living organisms clinging to the International Space Station, and aren't sure how they got there

During a spacewalk intended to clean the International Space Station, Russian astronauts took samples from the exterior of the station for a routine analysis. The results of the experiment were quite surprising. Astronauts expected to find nothing more than contaminants created by the engines of incoming and outgoing spacecraft, but instead found that living organisms were clinging to outside of the ISS. The astronauts identified the organisms as sea plankton that likely originated from Earth, but the team couldn't find a concrete explanation as to how these organisms made it all the way up to the space station -- or how they managed to survive.

Ted Cruz is still a smarmy, smug asshat.

so funny!!

i don't believe donald trump will run for a second term. i don't believe he will risk defeat. i believe he will announce `mission accomplished' and retire to collect monies from speaking engagements and the trump library.

The lengths that some conservatives will go to defend Alabama's GOP Senate candidate and accused child molester Roy Moore reached an absurd new level Monday morning when Joel Pollak, a senior editor at Breitbart News who once angled for a gig as Donald Trump's speechwriter, used the lyrics of the pop song "You're Sixteen" to justify Moore's alleged behavior.

"In 1973, Ringo Starr hit the charts with a song: `You're 16, you're beautiful, and you're mine,'" Pollak told CNN's Chris Cuomo, acknowledging that it was a remake of an earlier song. "He was thirty-something at the time, singing about a 16-year-old. You want to take away Ringo Starr's achievement."

She quotes an OLC opinion issued a decade ago dealing with the entirely different situation posed by the president's power "to name as acting attorney general an individual who would not have become acting under the Attorney General Order implementing the agency succession statute." She also quotes from a 9th Circuit decision that says that "neither the FVRA nor the NLRA is the exclusive means of appointing an acting general counsel of the NLRB" -- an observation that is irrelevant because the National Labor Relations Board is structured in an altogether different way from the CFPB -- before getting to her real point: that she needn't "resolve the meaning" of the statutory language because a provision in an earlier version of the bill that was never signed into law somehow supports the administration's view. In fact, the legislative history does the exact opposite. McLeod recognizes, as she must, that the House-passed version of the law creating the CFPB would have made the FVRA available to the president in circumstances like this -- but -- that Congress deliberately replaced that version with one not giving the president a power to circumvent Dodd-Frank. Then, having produced the very evidence that negates her own argument, she says the statute's history is "unpersuasive."

McLeod's argument comes across like something cooked up to support a preordained result -- namely, that there must be some rationale for installing Mulvaney at CFPB for the time being without going through a Senate confirmation hearing for him, or for anyone else

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Food the record
This is the SOP I have been describing to.....others.
Pick a subject about which there will be near unanimous agreement on the site and take the opposite view.  Blah blah blah.
Then when enough dust is kicked is up suddenly is about being "attacked"  whine whine whine.

A Baltimore Police officer was killed with his own gun, the day before he was set to testify against other officers.  No suspects have been identified.  Word is that the BPD is looking in Montana for a suspect, because they know he isn't there.

More surreal because he pivots, in a single breath, from dismissing the Korea launch, which Mattis grimly explains went higher that any before - translation, it could reach Chicago, to trash talking Chuck and Nancy.

Charlize is a really good actress....and fun to watch.

Love the movie.  More to come.

He is a te-totaller.  Doesn't smoke drink or whatever.

On the contrary, I think a few "drugs" might save the republic.

 Laurer et al., need to try public office: Trump is presently king in this department, but looks like Roy Moore will be coming to Washington, bringing his niche (allegedly) of pedophilia.  The ex-judge is now giving lectures on morality, which seems to be turning the tide for him with Republicans, especially bringing home the Evangelical Christians.

In statements to the Minnesota Star Tribune, Keillor said that he "put [his] hand on a woman's bare back" and alleged that he had been groped by dozens of female fans.

[...]

Keillor told The Associated Press that MPR cut ties with him over "a story that I think is more interesting and more complicated than the version MPR heard."

The radio personality later told the Star Tribune that he was not, in general, physically demonstrative, and that the incident that led to his firing involved touching a woman's bare skin. "I meant to pat her back after she told me about her unhappiness and her shirt was open and my hand went up it about six inches," he said. "She recoiled. I apologized."

"If I had a dollar for every woman who asked to take a selfie with me and who slipped an arm around me and let it drift down below the beltline, I'd have at least a hundred dollars. So this is poetic irony of a high order," Keillor later said.

My guess is that the evidence was quite compelling. Lauer has a contract, and I would be surprised if that contract did not include provisions for when and for what reasons Lauer could be fired.

Several women told Variety they complained to executives at the network about Lauer's behavior, which fell on deaf ears given the lucrative advertising surrounding "Today." NBC declined to comment. For most of Lauer's tenure at "Today," the morning news show was No. 1 in the ratings, and executives were eager to keep him happy.

You think NBC's corporate brass isn't seeking to cover their own corporate derrieres here? Just because they say this is the first time they heard about Lauer, that doesn't thus make it so. Further, the network management knew that both Variety and the New York Times were about to blow the whistle on Lauer, because their reporters called them to request comment before going to publication.

So, here's what I think. Between the meeting that the complainant and her attorney had on Monday night with the network's legal affairs department and those two pending news stories, NBC executives likely made a calculated decision to first fire Lauer for cause and then self-disclose their reasons thereof, in order to get ahead of the Variety story by at least few hours -- which they did.

NBC management's interest here is less about truth, than it is about spinning the story in an effort to protect its lucrative "Today Show" franchise, which per the Wall Street Journal is estimated to be worth at least $500 million in annual revenues. The New York Times is now reporting that two more complaints to NBC about Lauer have since surfaced.

I therefore stand by what I wrote, even though you deleted it, and will further offer my opinion that subsequent disclosures over the coming days about Matt Lauer's time at NBC will likely reaffirm what I said.

While the now-former host's behavior may well have been news to the tender virgin ears of that network's head honchos inhabiting the penthouse suites at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, I'll offer better than even odds that the same probably can't be said for "The Today Show" producers and management on the floors below.

I keep expecting to wake up one morning and find out that Trump has essentially been disappeared - whether via the 25th Amendment, or by being physically removed and stashed in a psychiatric facility, or both.

Whatever the heck is going on with him, he is cranking up to dangerously manic levels, and he's more out of touch with reality than ever.  Does he not remember admitting to saying the things on the Access Hollywood tape?  Has no one showed him his admission?  Or does he want to claim that the man making that admission wasn't really him?