Buffalo_Gal

You sound like my husband. He got grilled salmon tonight, and liked it. ?

I'm pretty sure this falls under the auspice of "too little, too late". California state bar moves to suspend Avenatti's law license, saying he poses 'substantial threat of harm to clients or the public'

So, so wrong (didn't stop me from laughing though).

Tell that to the kids that died.

Ex-school deputy Scot Peterson arrested on charges of neglect of duty in Parkland massacre Scot Peterson, the school security officer branded a coward for his inaction during the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, has been arrested for neglect of duty, Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony announced Tuesday. Peterson, 56, had been nationally heckled and vilified for failing to confront the former student who gunned down and killed 17 students and staff at the Parkland school on Feb. 14, 2018. </snip>

Ok, because no one was being an ass, I'll get it out of the way: 1-800-grubhub ? And now to take notes on all your fine recipes.

Speaking of bursting someone's balloon... the comments on this tweet are oh so wrong, and very, very funny:

Now, now, we shouldn't condone the destruction of other people's property. But what is that I hear about living by the rules-for-leftists? You ain't gonna like the new rules. At least she didn't set fire to it. And the person who owns it should be happy! Now there is more room in the back of their van for transport.

Not that it matters since it is in the UK, but this is interesting...

Powell Signals Openness to Cut If Needed Over Trade Tensions Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell signaled an openness to cut interest rates if necessary, pledging to keep a close watch on fallout from a deepening set of disputes between the U.S. and its largest trading partners. </snip>

The reporting for the #resist crowd these days is enormous compared to the actual #resist crowd size.

Meh... conservative tree house is a place to start with an idea, and then go find the source(s) - if not provided there - on your own. Any place (even the NYT or WaPo) can be a legit source once in a while, well, any place except CNN. Since it is so difficult to trust any "news agencies" these days, the source documents are the key.

Yup, of course, merely a coincidence. ? Now let's see if the guy lies, or is at least semi-honest.

I think that 90% figure is kinda low myself.

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So, was the next OIG report scheduled to come out June 10th? Any squirrel in a storm!

He did end up in a meeting with her.

I am pretty sure they will appeal (from Reuters, Yahoo picked it up): A U.S. federal judge on Monday rejected a lawsuit by Democrats in the House of Representatives that sought to block President Donald Trump's plan to divert funds to help build a border wall. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden of the District of Columbia ruled that the House lacked legal standing to sue Trump for using money to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border that was appropriated by Congress for other purposes. </snip> Fox News Story: Judge tosses House Dems' lawsuit over Trump's use of emergency military funds for border wall Washington, D.C., district court Judge Trevor McFadden threw out House Democrats' lawsuit seeking an injunction against President Trump's emergency border wall funding reallocation, saying that the matter is fundamentally a political dispute and that the politicians lack standing to make a legal case. </snip>

Awwwwww My popcorn's gonna go stale. The US president had been scheduled for a private sit down with Mrs May but this has now been taken off the agenda.

Optics.

Between Boris being the PM front-runner, those pesky EU elections, and Trump talking US/UK trade deal (he's mentioned this once before that I recall), I wonder if the EU will soften at all on Brexit?

Facebook buys up everything and anything that might be considered competition. On the one hand, they are a private company, and should be able to since they have the money to do so. There are people who develop strictly to be purchased by Facebook (and other big tech/social/search). Kinda hard to tell these companies/people they should not do that. On the other hand, Facebook is the social behemoth that ate... everything. Heck when G+ couldn't complete (lots of reasons for that, but they still couldn't dent Facebook), who can? That does stifle speech and creativity in this day and age. As for Google... there are search engine alternatives in yahoo & bing (which actually have worked with Google on some projects - so separate, unequal, and yet still in the mud together) , Pinterest, duckduckgo, etc. So while Google is definitely the biggest search player (by far), it is that Google controls so many of the ads we all see online that may be of greater concern. They are responsible for delivering over 80% of all ad content online (last figure I saw was 85% - could be up or down from that). That is a LOT of monetary control via affiliates, as well as another avenue of speech control when those ads are not accepted (we won't even get into how they know what ad to target to what user). Edited to add: there are a lot of sites that Google will not allow ads on which could be the argument for free speech. If it is legal, and google had such a stranglehold on ads (revenue streams), why isn't it discrimination to not allow accept those sites to host ads? And Google buys up stuff left and right too (why Google was allowed to by Youtube when they were one of the top 3 "search engines", I will never know). They are not saints in any way. Should these giants be broken up? While I do not have a strong opinion either way, my weak opinion says: probably. And it will be painful in the beginning if they are. But long term, it may be for the best for speech, creativity, competition, and the future of the internet.

? Part of tomorrow's schedule: Trump will join May for breakfast at St James’s Palace in London. The Duke of York as well as other prominent U.S. and U.K. business leaders will be expected to attend. Trump and May will hold bilateral talks at 10 Downing St. later in the day, before hosting a joint press conference.