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When Rudy has to reign your crazy ***** in, you have officially entered the realm of being found incompetent to manage your own affairs, happy pills, involuntary confinement, and group therapy. And advertising your crazy self like this may impact what little credibility you have and job opportunities. The Dems didn't ruin her life, looks like she's made a sizable mess of it all on her own. Some more about the alleged fraud in Detroit, but what was brought and summarily struck down in court. https://reason.com/2020/11/20/judges-are-not-impressed-by-rudy-giulianis-evidence-of-widespread-nationwide-voter-fraud/

So these bat ***** crazy people were laughed out of court because their testimonies did not match any other witness accounts so now Rudy is putting on this dog and pony show in the court of public opinion at these public hearings. It is a Republican appointee asking the questions too. Rudy's first star witness introducing the credible crazy drunk lady with press-on eye lashes - Melissa Carone: The second star witness basically says that because Chinese and Indian folks all look the same that it was easy for one of them to pose as a lot of other voters....huh?

I hate what we do with our allies in that region, we do not have the best reputation for taking care of those that fight along side us. Look no further than the Kurds as well.

See my post above where I followed the bread crumbs from the redacted Court records and they lead to motions that involve the Skadden law firm - if my follow the bread-crumbs is right we are looking at Manafort as the principle.

Yes, I am well-aware of the Fitztragic moments, but he has been more consistent with the phins and the 2 years prior he had a good run with the Bucs. I just think a rookie QB with a pared down playbook will be easier to defend, and I think their defense has improved. We will see if they try to play man the whole game like they did that first game where Allen picked them apart ... I think they go with that 2-deep zone that has kept Allen under wraps more.

I will give you my patented, "go thee and sin no more" reply - for what its worth. We all get called out from time to time for posting bad info, or missing the sarcasm button. No worries. Fitz is playing at a high level and his arm is pretty rested. That, and he always brings his "A" game against us. Tua has good mobility to extend plays and drives, but I don't think he is anywhere near what we faced with Murray and the Phins offense is pretty pared down when he is behind center. I like our chances and McD has done a good job confusing rookie QBs.

Selective much? I said I was quoting another poster noob and it was obvious tongue and cheek.

I readily admit guilt regarding speculation with this news report, but where Teflon Don is concerned I expect him to act like a mob boss trading illegal "favors". Did some digging and the redacted memo here: https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/01/politics/doj-pardon-investigation-court-filing/index.html They mention a court motion for District of Columbia that appears to be this: https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/In_re_Grand_Jury_Investigation_19-15_Memorandum_Opinion_ECF_No_45.pdf This motion deals with a "target" that had violated FARA and in its fine print at the bottom of the documents it mentions the law firm in question as Skadden. Manafort was a partner of Skadden: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-01-17/skadden-law-firm-to-pay-4-6-million-to-u-s-over-ukraine-work Not sure if I connected the dots or not - but it was fun trying.

That's fair and good points. I think Miami is a bit more dangerous with Fitz back there now and I do think their defense has improved, but one should to take into account strength of schedule over the past few games.

What I have noticed is that we still get gashed like a hot knife through soft partially-melted butter (to loosely borrow from another poster who cracked me up in a game day thread) where an opposing team just marches down the field - especially noticeable when they are running no-huddle or 2 minute drills. But game-day adjustments seem to happen more quickly, and be more effective. Not only during the game, I have seen a noticeable improvement of halftime adjustments. I have been pretty critical of Leslie being slow to adapt, but I think he is figuring out what the many new pieces in his defense can do and how to best use them; He has a better handle on his situational personnel packages, and they have sat some players that just were not getting it done and the reps by the backups have shed more light on what they do well. Lastly we have gotten a bit more stingy on 3rd downs. Not that we rank where we need to be and we give up drives, but we have forced a few more punts than earlier in the year when I cannot remember other teams having to actually punt the ball - a bend don't break effort. I also think we have gotten better in the red zone. We have only moved the needle a bit statistically the first 8 games we were sitting at 61.36% opponents scoring (TD only) in the red zone, the last 3 games we have gotten that down to 58.33%. We have also slightly increased our takeaways per game, but our offense needs to not return the favor I am not that guy, but to get an idea of how Miami has improved over the season, over their first 8 games they were 60% opponents scoring in their red zone, their past 3 games they have improved to 40% - that is a significant jump. The Bills will need to take them very seriously as they do have a lot of talent on that young defense, but it was clear that they had not come together yet executing their schemes earlier in the year.

Yeah, I am not a big fan of the Lombardi clan, but it is an interesting article. He touches on it, but I think there is more to the fact that Brady for the past 3 years loses a lot of zip and accuracy on his balls as the season progresses. He makes more negative plays and leads more stalled drives. The Bucs have not leaned on their run either and are near the bottom of the league in both attempts and yards/game. I think the recent performance skid that Brady has had is indicative of the law of diminishing returns, but he has a lot of pride and I expect a bounce-back game. It wont be sustainable unless Arians does more to lean on their rush and their defense to save Brady's arm. The Bucs have a load of talent and could better use it. I do agree that he would be better served crafting game plans that allow Brady to manage the game instead of leaning on him to make splash plays.

If the evidence is solid it is hard to ignore, bury, or obfuscate like he did with the Mueller report without being found complicit in the crime itself. Particularly when they clean house and put objective career law folks back on the DOJ payroll and in leadership roles. Barr may start to distance himself from the Trump dumpster fire. He's not dumb, just an unethical POS. I also think career law guys can smell a crook a mile away and Trump sets off every radar. There are likely a lot of Jr and mid-level guys who would keep working cases even if they involve Trump. Kind of think Barr forced a kind of covert DOJ within the DOJ. Just my guess seeing how there were guys resigning under protest all through his tenure there.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/justice-department-investigating-bribery-conspiracy-scheme-presidential-pardon-documents

Crafting his own fire-and-forget missile. Isn't this the same guy that was investigating Biden too and that fizzled out? Another 6 months and Durham may uncover another edited email or something more sinister. From what I could read from the last bi-partisan Senate report regarding crossfire hurricane they exonerated the FBI from any political motivations, said their actions were within their legal purview and just had a bunch of bitching about tightening up protocols and oversight of the FISA process - which is not a hard thing to recommend. Not like they created FISA surveillance protocol just for Trump. They have surveillance on foreign people of interest - oh, like Russians with dubious cover work ingratiating themselves into a presidential campaign. If your calls to said Russians get recorded - oh well. I personally have never been a fan of the FISA secretive court and warrant process, but it has been around since 1978 when Trump was just cutting his teeth on discriminating against folks of color with his NYC properties. You read about that legal affair and you see why us former Jersey folks say, "Been there, done that" when it comes to the Trump playbook and the media reports about them and why we get so frustrated that folks line up to be taken in by the same old crap. 🤢🤢🤢 🤢🤢🤢 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮 Yet the most damaging episode in the saga of Trump’s fractured relationship with the black community came in 1973, when his family’s real-estate company, Trump Management Corporation, was sued by the Justice Department for alleged racial discrimination. At the time, Trump was the company’s president. Just last month, at Trump’s Comedy Central roast, Snoop Dogg referenced the case by joking about Trump’s potential 2012 run for the White House: “Why not? It wouldn’t be the first time he pushed a black family out of their home.” The case alleged that the Trump Management Corporation had discriminated against blacks who wished to rent apartments in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island. The government charged the corporation with quoting different rental terms and conditions to blacks and whites and lying to blacks that apartments were not available, according to reports of the lawsuit. Trump responded in characteristic fashion — holding a press conference to call the charges “absolutely ridiculous.” He told the New York Times: “We never have discriminated and we never would. There have been a number of local actions against us and we’ve won them all. We were charged with discrimination and we proved in court that we did not discriminate.” (see Trump lie his *** off in every press conference or tweet) He later took the uncommon step of suing the Justice Department for defamation, seeking $100 million in damages. His lawyer was Roy Cohn, the infamous former Joseph McCarthy aide, who was known for his hard-ball tactics. (see Barr, Durham, and Rudy Giuliani) Cohn called up the federal official in charge of the case — J. Stanley Pottinger, the head of DOJ’s Civil Rights division — to demand that the lawyer handling the lawsuit be fired. Pottinger told The Huffington Post that his reaction at the time was “I don’t think so. That’s up to me and that’s not going to happen. I called [lawyer] Donna [Goldstein] into my office and said, ‘Keep up the good work.’” The suit, which Pottinger called a “media gimmick done for local consumption,” was dismissed and the judge criticized Cohn for “wasting time and paper from what I consider to be the real issues” - discriminating against blacks in apartment rentals. (see 2020 election law suits) Two years later, Trump Management settled the case, promising not to discriminate against blacks, Puerto Ricans and other minorities. As part of the agreement, Trump was required to send its list of vacancies in its 15,000 apartments to a civil-rights group, giving them first priority in providing applicants for certain apartments, according to a contemporaneous New York Times account. Trump, who emphasized that the agreement was not an admission of guilt, later crowed that he was satisfied because it did not require them to “accept persons on welfare as tenants unless as qualified as any other tenant.” (see Trump re characterize a finding of guilt - Ukraine affair ) GOP Senate take on his guilt: Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) issued a rather evasive statement that avoided firm conclusions, though he nevertheless said, "Just because actions meet a standard of impeachment does not mean it is in the best interest of the country to remove a president from office." Trump's tweet after acquittal: I will be making a public statement tomorrow at 12:00pm from the @WhiteHouse to discuss our Country's VICTORY on the Impeachment Hoax! But the company didn’t sufficiently fulfill its promise, because three years later, the Justice Department charged Trump Management with continuing to discriminate against blacks through such tactics as telling them that apartments were not available. As part of its demands, the government asked that victims of discrimination be compensated and that Trump Management continue to report to the Justice Department on its compliance. Cohn lashed out, according to the New York Times, claiming that the court motion was “nothing more than a rehash of complaints by a couple of planted malcontents.” (see Trump conspiracy theories) But the problem persisted, prompting New York City’s human rights commission to regularly dispatch investigators to search for examples of discriminatory rental practices in Trump-owned buildings. Trump was not amused, telling the New York Times that the investigation was a “form of horrible harassment.” (witch hunt anyone)

True.

So how is this different from what Durham has been doing? NM seems it just allows him to spin his wheels ad infinitum after Biden is sworn in.

This was a very aptly named operation - "Boomerang" launched, hits nothing, and circles back to the starting line. Meanwhile the deep state of Trump administration sycophants begin to cannibalize one another: Barr finds he simply cannot manufacture voting fraud evidence to the scope needed to overturn the difference in votes for Biden and ol' Rudy tells him if you ain't lying you ain't trying: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-01/barr-no-evidence-of-fraud-that-d-change-election-outcome Shortly after Barr's statement was published, Trump tweeted out more baseless claims of voter fraud. And his attorney Rudy Giuliani and his campaign issued a scathing statement claiming that, "with all due respect to the Attorney General, there hasn’t been any semblance” of an investigation.

Another interesting item of note is how the availability of broadband is creating a digital divide in America where rural areas have far less opportunities to leverage the internet for business, employment, and services. This has the downstream effect of more people moving to already crowded urban areas. Many people surveyed listed broadband access as a major factor when relocating to a new residence. Looks like the FCC has started an initiative to try to rectify this issue, not sure if it will actually amount to better overall service and more diverse competition in the broadband space, but if rural areas did get much faster service it could help revitalize some of the more stagnant areas of our heartland. Perhaps an interesting read about the FCC's RDOF effort: https://broadbandnow.com/report/rural-digital-opportunity-fund/

Yeah - that would have been horrible if not caught till something happened during a game. We have had enough tragedies with our TE's (Kevin Everett) over the years. Hoping he makes a full recovery.

It's official. Chandler has tested positive for ManCrushItis.

I am not a fan of caps, but even in the corporate world we would hunt down equipment/apps/users who were monopolizing Internet data. A terabyte does exceed the mean average use in the US by a lot and could qualify as monopolizing resources. Someone could be hosting their own web services, or in the case of my own family we just have so many cloud-connected devices that drain bandwidth passively all day. I wonder when someone will actually sue Google or other companies for all the apps and cookies that use your bandwidth to track you for marketing and online profiling? Its like you are paying for a private road that strangers are using free of charge.

As I was saying about this Trump promoted FCC hack https://www.zdnet.com/article/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-out-net-neutrality-back-in/ How the US compares to other nations with our broadband companies infra investments, broadband speeds and cost structure... IMO we have allowed their greed to put our nation at a competitive disadvantage. https://broadbandnow.com/report/2018-fcc-international-data-insights/

That should change the outcome - not. Glendale is in Maricopa Cty, but this sounds like someone hit a few streets maybe looking at lawn signs and decided to chuck their ballots. Someone is going to have the freaking hammer of Thor brought down on them because this will get a lot of attention. This election has got a lot of folks on edge. Have a friend whose daughter and a few of her HS friends decided one night that tossing the Trump Pence signs in the neighborhood was a good prank. Her daughter is like 6'1" and plays volleyball. Easily picked out on the door cam one of the neighbors had and then posted on their community site. Of course she had to apologize to a bunch of **** MAGA folks who were not amused. I was thinking the same thing. Someone on their way out any way who hates working for Trump pulled the ultimate prank.

I am not sure the judge understands how these Dominion machines (ImageCast X in Georgia's case) work. A voter makes their electronic choices and a paper copy of their choices is printed and uniquely linked to the electronic record. The person casting their vote then verifies their paper copy reflects the choices they made electronically and they give that to a poll worker. The paper ballot totals are the audit gold standard to verify that the electronic totals match. That whole Democracy Suite of voting products from Dominion is federally certified and they used the same systems in their primaries sans all the sudden fraud drama. Per Dominion's site: Every Dominion system is certified by federal and state election authorities for use, and we make continuous improvements to our products throughout their lifecycle. So yeah, I am not sure what they would be looking for and why a judge would entertain this nonsense.

Yeah, I just posted the lawsuit that Powell just brought against GA election officials that has an injunction regarding Dominion voting machines. A judge has recently ruled for Powell and the injunction...not sure why it was not just tossed out as the relief it seeks is filled with baseless allegation and fanciful remediation. It first claims that Dominion machines and the vote tabulation is rife with fraud, then seeks relief that the electors certify Trump as the winner of their election based on....what? I expected Trump to make a complete fool of himself, continue to debase the Oval Office, and to take his place in history as this country's worst leader ever. He has exceeded my expectations.