Boehner's bombshell weed reversal a big boost for marijuana

The pot industry panicked when U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions ended the government's hands-off policy on weed. Today, it can breathe a bit easier as former Republican House Speaker John Boehner joins the advisory board of U.S. cannabis producer Acreage Holdings.

"It is difficult to overstate the impact of this monumental event for the U.S. cannabis sector," Vahan Ajamian, analyst at Beacon Securities Ltd., wrote in a note Wednesday.

  Pompeo did not disclose at the time of his CIA confirmation that he owned a company that did business with a company owned by the Chinese government; and, said he was not involved in any financial transactions with a foreign government. Well, I suppose you can't remember everything, or even anything.

 After all, commenting on the Supreme Court striking down segregation in public schools is a slippery slope.  The next thing you know, a Senator might ask her about the wisdom of passing the thirteenth amendment. There is just no end to it.

Trump lawyer Michael Cohen arranged for a $1.6 million hush payout to a former Playboy model on behalf of Elliott Broidy, a top donor to the Republican Party who had impregnated her last year.

A source told Axios that what the former FBI director had to say during that interview is "going to shock the president and his team" and "certainly add more meat to the charges swirling around Trump."

The source added that the interview included information that's never been divulged before and left people in the room "stunned."

Comey apparently answered every question.

This is my favorite part.  Retroactive executive privilege

The first step, these people say, would be for Trump to fire Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the work of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III and in recent days signed off on a search warrant of Trump's longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.

Bannon is also recommending the White House cease its cooperation with Mueller, reversing the policy of Trump's legal team to provide information to the special counsel's team and to allow staff members to sit for interviews.

And he is telling associates inside and outside the administration that the president should create a new legal battleground to protect himself from the investigation by asserting executive privilege -- and arguing that Mueller's interviews with White House officials over the past year should now be null and void.

Trump's allies worry that federal investigators may have seized recordings made by his attorney
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President Trump's personal attorney Michael D. Cohen sometimes taped conversations with associates, according to three people familiar with his practice, and allies of the president are worried that the recordings were seized by federal investigators in a raid of Cohen's office and residences

This is expected to accelerate the release of the Mueller report that NBC has him in at least 4 areas of obstruction.

The report was already expected between May and July.  So it could be real soon.

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But some things happen and they, and several other families, wind up stranded on an uncharted, unsettled planet that -- as in the original -- threatens in various ways to kill them.

The women's parts have been strengthened. In the original, June Lockhart's Maureen, though nominally a biochemist and not without maternal spine, actually served milk and cookies. Now Maureen (Molly Parker), a scientific polymath, is the effective head of the family, to which John (Toby Stephens), a former Navy SEAL often away, is trying to return, even as his wife is filing for divorce. Older daughter Judy (Taylor Russell), little more than a blond mannequin in the original, is a medical doctor (and also the product of Maureen's first marriage, and biracial). Penny (Mina Sundwall) is still the dreamy middle child, but also a sulky teenager ready to rebel. ("Oh my God, I hate this planet.") She and her sister don't get along.

In addition to the felony case, the governor is subject to impeachment from office.   However, Greitens has found support among his base of evangelical Christians.

According to the National Weather Service, an estimated 16 inches of rain fell in a 3-1/2-hour period between 6:00 and 9:30 p.m. last night, as a giant storm cell stalled over the eastern end of Oahu and opened up on us. The rain came down in sheets and looking out the front window from the inside of the house, the water was cascading off the roofs like a waterfall.

Our old townhouse survived intact, but the surrounding grounds and driveways are covered in thick mud and broken tree limbs and branches from the storm's accompanying winds. The complex itself lost at least seven big trees that were felled, including an 80-ft. eucalyptus that toppled across the sidewalk in front of the house. Other trees look like they suffered a lot of damage.

The rest of east Honolulu wasn't so lucky. There is lots of damage from Diamond Head to Haunama Bay. Kalanianaole Hwy, the main road to Waikiki and downtown, was only fully reopened this afternoon after crews spent 10 hours clearing all the mud and debris. Hundreds of homes were flooded. (One neighborhood in Aina Haina along Papai Street was inundated by an overflowing Wailupe Stream.) But thankfully, nobody was seriously hurt or killed.

We spent the entire day clearing the mud from the patio, driveway and carport, and helping neighbors do the same. As for all the downed trees, they'll need professionals to remove them over the next week or so.

I hope I don't see anything like that again for a while. Things actually got pretty hairy about 8:00 p.m. because it kept raining harder and harder, and by that point we knew that the highway was closed and we were trapped in the valley for the duration. We were just hoping that the water raging down nearby Kuliouou Stream wouldn't top its banks. It didn't, but it came close.

So far in between the Southern Reach trilogy, I'm waiting to may 1st for the final book, I have done 2 Lovecraft books and I just started Moby Dick.  Which oddly I never read.  Needless to say it's worth the time :)

Sgt. Hartmann's brutalizing and belittling beatdown of the new recruits at Parris Island in the film's amazing opening scene was almost entirely ad-libbed by Ermey, who drew from his own personal experience as a former Marine DI himself. Director Kubrick didn't tell his actors beforehand what they were about to endure in that scene, and the intended effect was such that the actors admitted afterward that they really were terrified.

Ermey's powerhouse performance as Sgt. Hartmann also struck such a nerve with movie audiences that USMC recruiters soon found themselves having to assure nervous parents of prospective new recruits that the Corps had indeed changed in the two decades after Vietnam, and that drill instructors were no longer allowed to act in such an abusive manner toward their rookie charges.