Are they real, or are they Memorex?
(She says they are her original factory equipment.
The House committee had already received hundreds of pages of documents within hours of the ruling.
“The ruling denying Trump’s request to take up the case effectively deferred to a decision last month against him by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, which had concluded that Trump’s claims for executive privilege over the documents ‘would have failed even if he were the incumbent’ president, the Supreme Court noted.”
Trump’s claim was meaningless, anyway. Executive privilege only involves the President’s ability to shield certain matters from Congress or, in some cases, the judiciary and general public. So if the Supreme Court had sided with him, he could conceivably have kept the documents from Congress. But here’s the rub. He could not shield the documents from the executive branch. That’s not a thing. If the courts had ruled that Trump could shield documents from Congress, Biden could have ordered his subordinates to place everything online immediately (probably with some redactions), in which case the House committee would have had access to all of it anyway. Trump undoubtedly realized all of that, and that everything would eventually come out, but I assume his strategy was to stall for time on any evidence not in his control, while destroying any evidence in his control before it can be subpoenaed. (That’s almost always his strategy, and has been since long before he became a politician.)
From my mailbox: “She’s 19 and she’s got insane pokies and braless action in the beginning of this trailer.”
And I think you know which one it is …
Tully
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Cunningham
New pics for 01/21
(if you don’t see thumbnails here, this link should work):
Lola Creton in “combustion spontanée”:
Camille Rutherford in “Tifs”:
French version, with commentary about current French cinema/TV
Charlie’s archives – thousands of collages, open to the public
Click through for the booty shots
Both images are Catrin. She plays a double role.
This is a twisty thriller which may have the most obvious “twist” in the history of film. I was able to figure it out from the nude scene, which occurs about five minutes into the movie.
You think American justice is slow? It took Italy 19 years to decide the loud toilet case, and then their supreme court dispensed this Solomonic wisdom:
“Italy’s highest court has added the sound of a toilet flushing at night to a list of human rights violations that includes enslavement, torture and forced starvation.”
“The feces sculpture was in St. Petersburg’s Field of Mars, where graves of those who died in the 1917 Russian Revolution are buried.”
If you ever wanted to count her freckles, here’s your chance
Good choice of titles. Her manager advised her to change the name from its original title, “Chuck.”
She went full Aniston. You never go full Aniston.
Wait.
I meant you always go full Aniston.
She looks great. I had no idea she was so fit. At 46, her tummy is as flat as a board.
The COVID update for Wednesday is here.
Wednesday was the sixth consecutive day in which the case numbers have been lower than the corresponding day of the previous week. Hospitalizations are up 11# for the week, and the 7-day average of fatalities is up 8%.
France continues to be hammered by the virus. 436,000 cases were reported on Wednesday, very close to the record 464,000 from the previous day.
“Paris Hilton’s ‘Cooking With Paris’ Canceled By Netflix After One Season”
Public reaction generally centered around, “Paris Hilton had a cooking show?”
“I am absolutely thrilled that Daniel Radcliffe will be portraying me in the film. I have no doubt whatsoever that this is the role future generations will remember him for.”
Pretty interesting story behind it.
Her personal back story is pretty inspiring. Her parents are Haitian refugees who worked low-level jobs (taxi driver and maid), but she made it all the way through law school and had been working as the CEO of Trinity Health. I’m not enthused about her for several reasons, but you would expect that she would be a strong candidate in a predominately Black congressional district, and you’d be right. She was essentially guaranteed a victory against any Republican. She probably would have won at least 60-40 if she had run against Jesus.
Now the Republicans couldn’t risk having one of their rising stars get slaughtered in an election, so they had to throw in a sacrificial lamb. This is the same theory that caused the 6th man on our high school golf team to play against John Calabria and Terry Diehl, two future PGA touring pros who went to two of our rival schools. Obviously our very best guy, who might shoot a 79 on his best day, was going to get killed by Calabria or Diehl, who played consistently under par on the courses we played. (If I remember right, Diehl first broke par on the Genesee Valley Course when he was 12! I remember thinking it must be a misprint.) So we just moved each of our 1-5 guys down one slot, and threw our weakest guy in against the two aces.
Who was the sacrificial lamb in the election? Quite a troll. An ex-con with quite a rap sheet, and a former drug addict who proudly displays his love of the Confederate “stars and bars.” His preferences include a preference for secession along the Mason-Dixon line.
Because black voters love that shit!
Well, you can’t accuse him of pandering!
At the time he filed his candidacy, he didn’t even have a driver’s license, because it had been suspended for a careless driving citation. Moreover, his ex-wife had filed a police report against him on Nov. 6, 2020, in which she alleged she feared for her safety. According to the report, she was told by a friend of hers that Mariner was “losing it” and wanted to take it out on his wife. “I’m just gonna tie her up, kidnap her and take her to the mountains to get her straight.”
A real boy scout. He probably even knew the correct knots to tie her up.
Oh, yeah, one more thing. He may not even have been legally eligible to run. Article VI, Section 4, of the Florida Constitution states that, “No person convicted of a felony … shall be qualified to vote or hold office.” It would be up to the courts to settle that. It’s not clear whether that provision has been overridden by an amendment. It’s not even clear whether that provision in the Florida constitution could legally apply to a federal office, since the U.S. Constitution specifically defines the requirements for the House, and it’s not clear whether the states can add additional requirements. This is a complicated matter, and not so obvious as I implied at first.
Be that as it may, you can probably guess how the election came out. The woman whose parents worked their asses off to escape poverty, enabling her to get a law degree and become a CEO, won overwhelmingly, about 4-to-1. The Confederate Flag guy got 19%. It is probably not completely coincidental that the white population of that district is (wait for it) … 19%.
So far, no surprises. That would be the end of the story in a rational world. But we don’t live in such a world any longer. All reality is backwards. The troll refused to concede the election and filed lawsuits alleging ballot issues in two areas. As if it mattered. The guy didn’t even get 20% of the vote!
His explanation makes no sense to me.
“Now they called the race — I did not win, so they say, but that does not mean that they lost either.”
OK.
His general state of confusion is further addled by what appears to be virtual illiteracy, based on his Facebook posts, which are often so baffling that one can’t tell what he’s trying to say.
“I’m 100% certain that when Dr. Martin Luther King gave this speech (the- ‘I have a dream…’ speech), he wasn’t talking about blaming disparities in the black community on ‘white privelage’. Today, the two most important issue to defeat are fatherless homes, especially in the black community, and stopping the left from using the black community as political pawns … I’ll be called a Nazi, and you’ll be called an Uncle Tom if you don’t look like me, but say what I.”
I couldn’t find any mention of his educational level in any of his biographical material. I’m guessing that a Ph.D. from the Yale classics department is probably not in the cards.
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“Gee, I’m kind of a dumb, illiterate white guy with multiple felony convictions who may not be eligible to hold the office I’m running for. I openly worship the Confederacy in a predominately Black district. I just can’t believe I lost! It must be fraud!”
She’s a regular on Cobra Kai. I don’t watch the show, and I’m not familiar with her, but those in the know seem to feel the report is legit. Genuine or not, there isn’t much to see, as leaks go. It’s about what you would see at the beach.