Don.Jr. says nothing came of it.

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A new poll from Talk Business finds that Governor Hutchinson has a substantial lead over Jan Morgan, the hog-riding, Muslim-banning, gun-toting, airbrushing, RINO-busting gadfly from Hot Springs

The most interesting finding in the poll, however, is a substantial shift in the views of GOP voters on Medicaid expansion. A substantial plurality of likely voters in the Republican primary now support the program, continuing a trend toward increasing support for the policy among GOP voters that has been shown in previous Talk Business polls. That's a doozy of a finding, a major turnaround from four years ago when the program was first enacted (and led to wave of primary challenges, with mixed results, on that very issue).

The Talk Business poll found that 41.5 percent of likely Republican primary voters in the state support "Arkansas Works," the Medicaid expansion program that uses Medicaid dollars made available by the Affordable Care Act to purchase private health insurance for low-income Arkansans (this is the same program once known as the "private option" until Hutchinson re-branded it, concluding that the old name had become "politically toxic"). That's compared to 25.5 percent who oppose it and 33 percent who don't know.

Jeralyn: "Has anyone noticed the change in Google News? They took away the personalization feature and made it worthless. Google's presumption that it knows what we want to read better than we do is both arrogant and insulting. I've un-bookmarked it."

They know everything about everyone. And they know you'll be back. We'll all be back, because Google knows we just can't help ourselves. Resistance is futile.

The latest such drama to plumb the depths of post-everything paranoia is HBO's adaptation of Ray Bradbury's 1953 sci-fi classic "Fahrenheit 451." The film, which premieres Saturday, is set in a future America shaped by many of the same events that underpin Margaret Atwood's 1985 novel for which the "Handmaid's Tale" series is based. Following a second civil war, Americans have been stripped of most of their rights. Books, films, paintings and other forms of individualist human expression are forbidden and Canada (once again) is the final destination on the road to freedom.

Its very good.  The updated internet/fake news version almost cuts to close to the bone

A lot has changed since 2013, when the editors of The Onion got an angry email from Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen.

Back then, Cohen was an executive vice president at the Trump Organization, and his client was just a TV mogul, still years away from announcing his first serious presidential bid.

Cohen was fuming over a satirical article published under Trump's name with the headline, "When You're Feeling Low, Just Remember I'll Be Dead In About 15 Or 20 Years." On Trump's behalf, Cohen demanded that The Onion immediately remove the article and apologize.

"This commentary goes way beyond defamation and, if not immediately removed, I will take all actions necessary to ensure your actions do not go without consequence," Cohen wrote, according to a copy of the email provided to POLITICO. "Guide yourself accordingly."

Five years later, Trump is in the White House, Cohen is under federal investigation and the article is still on The Onion's website, which many West Wing staffers begrudgingly admit to occasionally reading.

One poor guy down in Puna had his leg badly shattered when he was struck by spatter from a lava fountain near his house outside Pahoa. This is why you evacuate when told to do so by civil defense officials. Those "spatters" of molten rock may look small on video, but they can be as big as a refrigerator and weigh as much, too. And by refusing to leave, he put first responders at risk when they had to enter the exclusion zone to rescue him. He's both stupid for having refused to comply with civil defense directives, and lucky that he wasn't killed.

We've gone down to Pahoa on a couple of occasions to watch the activity, along with countless numbers of others. It's especially spectacular at night. But officials and law enforcement personnel ensure that viewers are kept a very respectful distance from the lava fountaining and sulfur dioxide gas.

I assume we know about Twitter meltdown yesterday.

I will not quote but he "demands" an investigation of the investigators.  Rosensteins response seemed more like a short time pasifcer than anything else.

Manafort is likely to flip soon when his pointless play to get the charges dropped are laughed out of the VA court as they were recently in the DC court.

On Saturday the company announced that "any customer is welcome to use Starbucks spaces, including our restrooms, cafes and patios, regardless of whether they make a purchase."

It added that employees should follow established procedures for "addressing disruptive behaviors," and call 911 in the case of "immediate danger or threat" to employees or customers.

I can see this working in some neighborhoods but maybe not where there's a large homeless population.

I must mail my dead phone back immediately or I will be charged $800. If they find any damage to the dead phone I will be billed $372, any damage, cracked screen, charging port bent, any damage. It isn't even paid for yet and I'm not getting a new phone as a replacement.

When my face was sad my kind Verizon person patted me and said that everyone must stop needing the it phones between Apple and Samsung. That is leading to terrible customer service for all of us.  He said many of us insist on phones that do things we don't need and most don't use and we need to be giving competitors like LG a look too.

When I told him that online other Samsung Note8 owners seemed to have the same issue that my phone did, I allowed the battery to completely drain and now it won't charge, he nodded. You can't remove the Note8 battery and place one in it with charge though, I knew I couldn't remove the battery but I told myself it would be okay, they have this all figured out now. It wasn't okay though. They don't have it all figured out. And the kind Verizon employee solemnly nodded and muttered, "their batteries are catching on fire too."

A significant business partner of Michael D. Cohen, President Trump's personal lawyer, has quietly agreed to cooperate with the government as a potential witness, a development that could be used as leverage to pressure Mr. Cohen to work with the special counsel examining Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Under the agreement, the partner, Evgeny A. Freidman, a Russian immigrant who is known as the Taxi King, will avoid jail time, and will assist government prosecutors in state or federal investigations, according to a person briefed on the matter.

Course that has not stopped the commenting.

If the Bible Is Correct, This White House Sinkhole Means End Times

In 'Facts And Fears,' Ex-Spy Boss Clapper Comes In From The Cold, Badly Chilled

"He's personally concluded Russians not only influenced but DECIDED the outcome of the 2016 election.  80 thousand votes in three states.

NEWSHOUR tonight.

Holy Shiite

"A Haitian-American nurse who sued Brigham and Women's Hospital for discrimination and retaliation was awarded more than $28 million by a jury Wednesday -- an amount several attorneys said is the largest verdict of this type in Massachusetts."

"A Suffolk Superior Court jury deliberated for more than three days. It said that Toussaint did not prove race discrimination but agreed that the Brigham and manager Mary Ann Kenyon were guilty of retaliation. Most of the award -- $25 million -- was for punitive damages."

"Toussaint and her Haitian-American colleague Nirva Berthold filed a joint lawsuit against the hospital, but Toussaint's claims were the first to go to trial. She became involved in the case because she defended Berthold, who had nursed cancer patients at the Brigham for nine years."

Berthold is the one suing for racial discrimination, Touissant was suing for retaliation.

Boston has a massive hospital presence - and the Brigham is one of the more prominent and prestigious ones in the area.

Moses claims his adoptive mother Mia Farrow raised her children by "coaching, influencing, and rehearsing." He said his father never assaulted his sister Dylan Farrow and suggests the story was likely planted in Dylan's head, reports CBS News' Bianna Goldryga...
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In 1992, 7-year-old Dylan claimed she was sexually assaulted by Allen in the attic of her mother's Connecticut home - an allegation she has maintained for nearly 30 years. But Wednesday Moses said he was with Dylan and his father the day of the alleged assault, and "it never happened."

"An Alaska man has pleaded guilty in exchange for a life prison sentence in the Florida airport shooting that killed five people and wounded six. Esteban Santiago pleaded guilty in Miami federal court Wednesday to 11 charges stemming from the January 2017 attack.

The 28-year-old Santiago, of Anchorage, Alaska, admitted he opened fire with a handgun in a baggage area at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, is expected to surrender to investigators on Friday after a monthslong inquiry into allegations that he sexually assaulted numerous women.

Mr. Weinstein is to be charged by the Manhattan district attorney's office, according to two law enforcement officials.

It will be interesting to see what the exact charges are who will be allowed to testify.

How would you like to be Robert Mueller?   He's just the one person with the ability, possibly, to save democracy.  And possibly the world.  

Just another day on the job.

Giuliani said he was concerned that the president would become a target or that the interview would be a perjury trap, because the "truth is relative."