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Where's the fun in that?

They may suspect he might be related to Sleepy joe.

Justice Department leans in on Trump's special master request for document The United States Department of Justice on Thursday filed a response to Southern District of Florida Judge Aileen Cannon's Monday ruling that granted former President Donald Trump's request for a special master to determine whether the trove of classified documents that were seized during the Federal Bureau of Investigation's search warrant execution at Trump's unsecured Mar-a-Lago estate on August 8th are covered by executive privilege, which Trump has claimed in his lawsuit against the FBI. Cannon, whom Trump appointed, additionally required the Justice Department to pause its probe into how and why Trump had a foreign country's above-top-secret nuclear capabilities hoarded in his beach house. The Justice Department asked Cannon "to stay the part of her order that halted the investigation and would require showing classified docs to special master, and says will appeal if she doesn't do that," New York Times national security and legal reporter Charlie Savage tweeted along with a copy of the motion. DOJ is "willing to let a master be appointed and see the unclassified docs," Savage explained. The Justice Department in its answer unambiguously emphasized the stakes surrounding what is contained within the materials that were in Trump's possession. "The government and the public would suffer irreparable harm absent a stay. This Court correctly recognized the government's vital interest in conducting a national security risk assessment of the possible unauthorized disclosure of the classified records and any harm that may have resulted," it wrote. "But the review and assessment on their own are not sufficient to address and fully mitigate any national security risks presented. The Intelligence Community's review and assessment cannot be readily segregated from the Department of Justice's ('DOJ') and Federal Bureau of Investigation's ('FBI') activities in connection with the ongoing criminal investigation, and uncertainty regarding the bounds of the Court's order and its implications for the activities of the FBI has caused the Intelligence Community, in consultation with DOJ, to pause temporarily this critically important work. Moreover," DOJ continued, "the government and the public are irreparably injured when a criminal investigation of matters involving risks to national security is enjoined." The Justice Department stated that Trump "has not shown that he had standing to seek relief, or that this Court properly exercised its equitable jurisdiction, with regard to the classified records. The classified records are government property over which the Executive Branch has control and in which Plaintiff has no cognizable property interest." It noted that "accordingly, even if (as the Court stated) Plaintiff has made 'a colorable showing of a right to possess at least some of the seized property' sufficient to establish his standing to request that a special master review records that might potentially belong to him, D.E. 64 at 13, he categorically cannot make that showing with respect to documents marked as classified." The Justice Department stressed that "the seized classified records at issue here — each of which the subpoena plainly encompassed — are central" to its "ongoing criminal investigation" into Trump. It also told Cannon that the declassification power "falls upon the incumbent President, not on any former President, because it is the incumbent President who bears the responsibility to protect and defend the national security of the United States." The Justice Department's final argument was that "Trump himself declined to assert any claim of executive privilege over the classified records at the point when it would have been appropriate to do so." https://www.salon.com/2022/09/08/justice-department-leans-in-on-special-master-request-for-documents_partner/

Obviously a perfect Trump acolyte. His mother must be so proud of him

And Bannon with all his bluster and bullpoop meekly surrendered to New York police today.

I will continue to wear a mask when indoors in public places. We all choose for ourselves.

Quien sabe?

Hmmmm......maybe if I ever miss the taste of MSG.....

'They will have to kill me first': Steve Bannon reacts to being indicted in New York over border wall scam Steve Bannon had harsh words on Tuesday evening after The Washington Post reported he was making arrangements to surrender himself to Manhattan D.A. Alvin Bragg. "Stephen K. Bannon is expected to surrender to state prosecutors on Thursday to face a new criminal indictment, people familiar with the matter said, weeks after he was convicted of contempt of Congress and nearly two years after he received a federal pardon from President Donald Trump in a federal fraud case," the newspaper reported. "The precise details of the state case could not be confirmed Tuesday evening. But people familiar with the situation, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sealed indictment, suggested the prosecution will likely mirror aspects of the federal case in which Bannon was pardoned." Bannon allegedly profited by $1 million in the "We Build the Wall" scheme after Mexico refused to pay for Trump's border wall. "Just days after being swatted three different times by deranged thugs from New York City inspired to be the Biden administration to assassinate me by police, the Soros-backed DA has now decided to pursue phony charges against me 60 days before the midterm election because WarRoom is the major source of the MAGA grassroots movement,' Bannon argued. "The SDNY did the exact same thing in August 2020 to try to take me out of the election. It didn't work then, it certainly won't work now. This is nothing more than a partisan political weaponization of the criminal justice system," Bannon argued. He predicted the charges would be good news for his podcast. "They are coming after all of us, not only President Trump and myself. I am never going to stop fighting," Bannon vowed. "In fact, I have not yet begun to fight. They will have to kill me first."

Canada fugitive 'dies of self-inflicted wounds'- SOURCE,REUTERS The suspect in a stabbing that left 10 dead and 18 others injured has died of self-inflicted wounds as he was captured by police, report local media. Police said earlier that Myles Sanderson, 32, was taken into custody in the province of Saskatchewan on Wednesday afternoon. Footage from the scene showed a white SUV run off the road and surrounded by police cruisers near Rosthern town. Ten victims remain in hospital, three of them in a critical condition. News of his capture came soon after an alert was sent to Canadian mobile phone users warning people near the town of Wakaw to "seek immediate shelter/shelter in place" because a man armed with a knife had been seen driving in the area. Rosthern is 44km (27 miles) west of Wakaw. An unnamed official told the Associated Press that during a car chase, officers knocked Sanderson's vehicle off the road. The source did not tell the news agency when or how the fugitive's injuries were inflicted, or when he died.

For self-protection and the protection of vulnerable people that you share your life with, for two things.

You may not have meant it as such, but your post reads that you imply that somehow the rest of Canada is responsible for the downturn the Alberta economy. The damage has been self-inflicted by generations of administrations that assumed that the gravy train would go on forever and spent like drunken sailors.

In an MSNBC segment today, the host reported that Trump appointed that particular judge well after he lost the election and she was appointed into the jurisdiction where Mar-A-Lago is situated and thus has jurisdiction over any actions there. That included civil and criminal court cases. Moreover, there are a total of some 13,000 documents that have been ordered by this judge which need to be reviewed page by page by the "special master" who, according to the judge's ruling must be experienced in relevant jurisprudence AND have ultra high-level security clearance AND must be approved by both Trump's lawyers and the DOJ. The bottom line: this is going to take months if not years and will probably delay criminal indictments against Trump long enough for him to theoretically run for and be re-elected to the White house, thereby protecting him from prosecution so long that his actions will be staledated and forgotten. Oh, and by the way, she also ruled that the DOJ cannot use the documents and the way they were stored as evidence in any prosecution or even investigation until ALL her requirements are satisfied.

No no no. We need more police, body armour for sitters and more Jesus.

Hassel looks to have everything we need except CFL experience and I am thinking that if he is smart enough, he ought to pick that up quickly.

Trump is living proof that arrogant, amoral stupidity can be successful- something that too many Americans aspire to.

Sources Say Canada Stabbing Spree Suspect Made Final ‘Goodbye’ Trip After Rampage Multiple sources close to the ongoing manhunt for Myles Sanderson, the second suspect in the stabbing rampage that killed 11 people in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan on Sunday, say he made a final trip to the city of Regina with the intention of seeing friends and family members there in the hours after the horrific attacks. According to one of the sources source involved in the investigation into the horrific slayings in James Smith Cree Nation and the nearby town of Weldon, Saskatchewan, Myles Sanderson made a three-hour trip across the wide-open Canadian prairie—in broad daylight, on one of the busiest highway travel days of the year—“to see [those Regina connections] for the last time.” The sources told The Daily Beast that they suspect Myles has since died by suicide. “If Myles Sanderson was alive and being harbored somewhere by someone, we’d know about it by now,” one of the sources told The Daily Beast. His sighting in Regina was reported three days ago, at around 11:45 a.m. Sunday, or approximately six hours after the first 911 calls began pouring into local law enforcement dispatchers near James Smith Cree Nation.

Report: Dr. Oz Paid Actors To Dress In Prison Jumpsuits And Campaign For Him Former TV doctor-turned-Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz is reportedly paying actors to try and get voters to like him. Oz, the Republican opponent of Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, has hired people to “play the role of a felon” and hold up signs to mock his Democratic rival, Newsweek reported. Colin Matthews wrote in an Instagram post last week that the Oz campaign hired him to support Fetterman as a convicted felon and he couldn’t “believe how many idiots thought I was legit out of jail.” The move appears to be part of a stunt for the Oz campaign. Brittany Yanick, the campaign’s communications director, even shared a tweet about an “Inmates for Fetterman” initiative from reporter Justin Sweitzer last week. Oz has called his opponent “soft on crime” during the campaign but, as Factcheck.org noted, the claim stretches the facts. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dr-oz-reportedly-paid-actors-campaign_n_63181182e4b0eac9f4d16472

Judge: Employers Don't Have To Cover HIV Meds If They Oppose 'Homosexual Behavior' A federal judge in Texas ruled Friday that requiring employers to provide coverage for PrEP medications ― which prevent the transmission of HIV ― violates the religious rights of employers under federal law. U.S. District Judge Reed O’Connor said that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act provides a religious exemption from purchasing health insurance that complies with the Department of Health and Human Services’ preventive care mandate under the Affordable Care Act, which requires PrEP coverage. O’Connor said the government must provide this religious exemption to eight defendants ― six individuals and two businesses ― who claim that being required to provide such insurance coverage violates their “sincerely held” Christian and “non-religious” beliefs rejecting “homosexual behavior, intravenous drug use, and sexual activity outside of marriage between one man and one woman.” By requiring them to provide insurance that covers PrEP, as well as the HPV vaccine and sex education, the government “would make [them] complicit in those behaviors,” O’Connor concluded. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/judge-employers-hiv-drugs-religious-rights_n_6318c376e4b0ed021dedcc8c ( This really angers me. I had a friend who was not gay but a hemophiliac and contracted HIV through factor 8 transfusions, eventually dying of it far too soon. I also have a grandson with it. How can humans be this monstrous?)

But its a good way to deflect attention from the dumpster fire that is the 2022 Saskatchewan Roughrider team.

Over at Riderfans, the majority of posters are outraged at Marino being cut, blaming it on pressure from the TSN panel and social media. The lucid ones are ok with the move and even calling for Duke to follow Marino out the door, accompanied shortly thereafter by Dickenson and Maas. I don't know if the admittedly small sample represents the majority of Rider fans, though.

Hundreds of Law Enforcement, Military Part of Jan. 6-Linked Oath Keepers: Report. Over 3,300 signed up for the far-right extremist group in Texas while New York State had the most law enforcement join, a new report says. The names of hundreds of U.S. law enforcement officers, elected officials and military members appear on the leaked membership rolls of a far-right extremist group that’s accused of playing a key role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to a report released Wednesday. The Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism pored over more than 38,000 names on leaked Oath Keepers membership lists and identified more than 370 people it believes currently work in law enforcement agencies — including as police chiefs and sheriffs — and more than 100 people who are currently members of the military. It also identified more than 80 people who were running for or served in public office as of early August. The membership information was compiled into a database published by the transparency collective Distributed Denial of Secrets. The data raises fresh concerns about the presence of extremists in law enforcement and the military who are tasked with enforcing laws and protecting the U.S. It’s especially problematic for public servants to be associated with extremists at a time when lies about the 2020 election are fueling threats of violence against lawmakers and institutions. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/oath-keepers-law-enforcement-military-roll_n_631859a3e4b027aa405614d5

And odiferous, too.