Hawking' death was a great loss but lets not forget there are a lot of other great minds that sometimes get lost in the mix.

As an aside there is no s at the end of his surname.

The American Conservative

Beware the Coming of Bolton

Sources said Trump fired Tillerson partly because Tillerson opposed Trump's oft-stated desire to scuttle the Iran nuclear deal--Trump even mentioned their disagreement when speaking to the press. And three sources told me that the next official likely to go is National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, who, like Tillerson, had advocated for remaining in the deal.

Last Tuesday, Trump met with ultra-hawkish former U.N. ambassador John Bolton in the Oval Office to discuss a potential job offer. Bolton has for years argued that the United States should pre-emptively attack Tehran. In 2015, he wrote a New York Times op-ed headlined, "To Stop Iran's Bomb, Bomb Iran," and last month, he wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed outlining the legal case for a pre-emptive strike against North Korea.

According to a person who spoke with Bolton after the meeting, Bolton recalled that Trump said he wanted him to join the administration: "We need you in here, John." Bolton responded that there were only two jobs he'd consider: secretary of state and national security adviser. Trump said, "O.K, I'll call you really soon."

If Bolton replAces McMaster it will be very clear that, as I heard today, Trump is putting together a war cabinet.

"The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has subpoenaed the Trump Organization to turn over documents, including some related to Russia, according to two people briefed on the matter. The order is the first known time that the special counsel demanded documents directly related to President Trump's businesses, bringing the investigation closer to the president.

We don't yet know who murdered Marielle and her driver, Anderson Pedro Gomes, though early indications are that the police might have been involved. Investigators reportedly determined that the bullet casings found at the crime scene had been purchased by the Federal Police in 2006. Bullets from the same lot were used in a series of brutal attacks that killed at least 17 and wounded seven in São Paulo on one night in 2015. Two police officers and one municipal guard were convicted for the massacre

I'll file this one under articles I won't be sending to my sister.

"Black boys raised in America, even in the wealthiest families and living in some of the most well-to-do neighborhoods, still earn less in adulthood than white boys with similar backgrounds, according to a sweeping new study that traced the lives of millions of children.

if THEGATEWAYPUNDIT is against it

I thought I was going to enjoy Counterpart after seeing first episode but I lost interest by the third one.

I finally got around to watching the Stephen King movie It.  Kind of a mixed bag but worth seeing if like horror or small towns where just about everyone is crazy, homicidal or some kind of a bully.

In his rally Saturday night, Trump heaped praise on Saccone.
"He's a very competent person," Trump said. "He's a very hard worker. He knows things that many people don't know. He understands North Korea maybe better than anybody."
"This is a very extraordinary guy. We need him," he added.

The 5th Circuit ruled that ICE detainers are sufficient to hold persons in a jail even if they've been granted bail or their charges have been dropped.

SB4 makes it a misdemeanor for police, sheriffs, and deputies to ignore ICE detainers and allows police to ask about immigration status during a lawful detention, such as traffic stops.

The one part of SB 4 that is still on hold is a provision that punishes local officials from "adopting, enforcing or endorsing" policies that specifically prohibit or limit enforcement of immigration laws. The judges kept that injunction in place, but said it only applies to the word "endorse." The bill, as passed and signed, would have made elected and appointed officials subject to a fine, jail time and possible removal from office for violating all or parts of the legislation

Wednesday's incident took place along the 4300 block of Wesley Lane, police said. A woman, who was not identified by North Port police, was exiting her driveway when Ludwick attempted to kidnap her. The woman fought back, police said, and in the ensuing struggle Ludwick suffered a stab wound.

Donald Trump Jr.'s wife, Vanessa, filed for divorce Thursday in Manhattan Supreme Court, according to a Page Six report.

Vanessa Trump reportedly filed for an uncontested proceeding where "she's not expecting a legal battle over custody of the couple's five children or their assets."

The couple married in November 2005, but the New York Post first reported Wednesday that they had been "living separate lives" despite not being legally separated.

Trump Jr.'s social media habits had reportedly caused a rift in their marriage, the Post reported Wednesday.

The interesting thing is the documents they want are related to Stormy and the other centerfold

But it is in the lawsuit about the dossier

Ch!ld s€x dolls.

Congressman: CSDs Are Coming--And We're Not Ready

To wit, Donovan has proposed the Curbing Realistic Exploitative Electronic Pe----hilic Robots (CREEPER) Act to ban their import and make possession of them illegal. Donovan spent an entire career locking up pe---iles and he says that, "Every case has stayed with me--there is no situation where a child was hurt or victimized that doesn't leave your thoughts." And now, as then, he adds: "I will do everything possible to stop crimes against children."

There is a case currently happening in Canada.  They are already banned in the UK.

Canadian court to determine whether etc etc etc

Experts have disagreed whether the item, shipped in a cardboard box from abroad, constitutes p----raphy.

Dr James Cantor, a clinical psychologist, told CBC that child po---aphy is evidence itself of a crime being committed, which is not the case with a doll.

"There is no actual person. It is a piece of latex. So, if there is no victim where is there, exactly, a harm being committed?"

I have nothing to add here.  No opinion.  I just think it's a fascinating look into the future where we will be dealing with actual AI.

you may remember the Speilberg movie by that name about a child robot.  What you may not know is that was originally going to be Kubrics next movie and his version dealt openly with the subject.  The Speilberg version of course only in the most oblique way by having his best friend be an adult s€x worker.

He said she was physically threatened and they can prove it.

President Donald Trump's personal lawyer, John Dowd, told The Daily Beast on Saturday morning that he hopes Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will shut down the Mueller probe.

Reached for comment by email about the firing of former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, sent The Daily Beast the text of Trump's most recent tweet on the subject, which applauded the firing. Then he wrote that Rosenstein should follow Sessions' lead

"I pray that Acting Attorney General Rosenstein will follow the brilliant and courageous example of the FBI Office of Professional Responsibility and Attorney General Jeff Sessions and bring an end to alleged Russia Collusion investigation manufactured by McCabe's boss James Comey based upon a fraudulent and corrupt Dossier," Dowd then wrote.

He told The Daily Beast he was speaking on behalf of the president, in his capacity as the president's attorney.

Dowd also emailed the text below, which is an annotated version of a line from a well-known 20th century play:

"What's that smell in this room[Bureau}? Didn't you notice it, Brick [Jim]? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room[Bureau}?... There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity[corruption]... You can smell it. It smells like death." Tennessee Williams -- `Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'

The party of law and order.

What might have been seen elsewhere as an expression of frustration at a colleague was viewed by the authorities as a subversive attempt to disrupt the tightly scripted theatre of the parliamentary assembly and China's rigid political structure.

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With the title WHY ARE YOU STILL ENABLING FACEBOOK?

It's been a couple of hours and not a single like

I just started this.  It's pretty great.

It wasn't until 2014 that we were talking with a film archivist up in Portland who asked us what we were going to do for our next documentary project. Mac and I had a couple of ideas, but nothing we were totally in love with. And he said, "Well, we have this collection of over 300 hours of never-before-seen archival footage about the most bizarre story that ever happened in Oregon."

He quickly told us about this guru who built this $100 million utopian city, and then they took over the small town of Antelope politically, and then they bussed in thousands of homeless people to take over Wasco County, which then led to this mass poisoning of 750 people. I remember Mac and I looking at each other and saying, "There's no way he has this story right, because we would have definitely heard about it." [Laughs] How could something like this have happened in America and you're not taught about it? We all seem to know about Waco and Jonestown, so how has this slipped under the radar for so long? The first thing we started doing was transferring and digitizing all these old archival tapes. And sure enough, everything this archivist had told us showed up in the footage.

You may have seen the headlines splashed across the interwebs about Mueller convicted ped0phile witness.   Lots of news about this just in the last few days that include sealed court information.
Happening at the same time is Donalds man crush on his new "attorney" Joseph DeGenova.

The case against Nader seems to have been tossed because of investigator misconduct.