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The Criders have finally found a team they can feel better than. A very low bar, though.

It could be worse. I met a gal who agreed to rendezvous with me at the gym. She didn't show up and at that moment, I knew we wouldn't work out.

Its called "making a distraction"- sort of like turning up the volume on the TV so you can fart without being detected.

Okay, okay, since you begged....it s will be renamed to "The Twain Station". Sorry you asked?

Nope.

The National Archives has evidence that Trump ripped up classified documents and information. The Washington Post reported, “The records recovered by the FBI included documents that detailed top-secret U.S. operations and information about a foreign government’s nuclear-defense readiness, The Washington Post has reported. Some of the documents retrieved by the Archives had also been torn up, which Trump had a habit of doing.” Destroyed documents that were recovered by the FBI that probably have Trump’s DNA on them are powerful pieces of evidence that Donald Trump mishandled classified information. Ripping up classified materials would be a textbook definition of mishandling classified information. Trump has a habit of ripping up papers and documents after he reads them. Trump’s habit of tearing up documents was so problematic because it violates the Presidential Records Act that staffers had a designated room where they taped documents back together that Trump destroyed. The DOJ is investigating Trump for mishandling government documents. It doesn’t matter if the information was classified or not. Ripping up documents that belong to the US government is a crime.

Nothing at all to do with her music.

I REALLY, REALLY liked the original although Keanu was totally miscast as Constantine. Constantine was written as a blonde. cockney bloke and a bit of a jerk.

Well, they ARE going to rename the McPhillips casino in her honour.

These named professions are not the only ones to receive death threats- so have parole officers, lawyers, social workers, mental health professionals to name but a few. In my previous work, I did as well- some were from people I was not related or married to.

Smells like Donald Trump is in there somewhere.

What is being played out here is nothing less than the fate of democracy in America. As dire as that may sound, I do not think it an overstatement.

It bears repeating that there is nothing about a tolerant, just democracy that guarantees its continued existence. All intolerance/prejudice in every form needs to be challenged by as many of us as are able, despite our discomfort with confrontations. What diminishes one of us, diminishes all of us.

New analysis predicts the beginning of the end for Vladimir Putin A new analysis is explaining how this time period may suggest the end is near for Russian President Vladmir Putin. According to Newsweek's William M. Arkin, the authoritarian president may be running out of options as he fights to maintain his grasp on the country. To support his arguments, Arkin included assessments from army and intelligence officials familiar with all of the events transpiring in Russia. "Putin's options for the future are bleak, particularly as he increasingly feels the heat of domestic opposition," the first intelligence official said. Per Arkin, the official also noted "the impact of 60,000-plus Russian casualties and as well as the bite of sanctions and the controls on travel as challenges to Putin." Another official also weighed in with what they are witnessing. "We're seeing more and more blaming of Western weapons," says the second official, "as if it is an excuse for why Russia is losing. It's ironic, given that Putin-and-company normally argues that it can defeat NATO. Now it's, 'we couldn't have won because of Western intervention' that is seeking to deflect responsibility from Moscow." So, how is Putin maintaining? Former World Champion chess player Garry Kasparov recently weighed in with an assessment of Putin's leadership and how he may be holding his position. itches an 'obvious solution' to crippling Vladimir Putin's financial stronghold. Speaking to the Kyiv Post, Kasparov said, "Putin has never dealt with situations like this one." He also noted that Putin has "been lucky that he has always been able to escape. "Continuing the war is the only way for Putin to stay in power," Kasparov said in the interview. " He wants to create extra chaos in the free world hoping that a new window will open for him. It's really just a protracted agony. It is cynical and stupid, but Putin is willing to put thousands of civilians into graves in the months to come before the whole of Ukraine is liberated, if that will allow him to maintain power." An army officer also shared his prediction of what's to come as he also pondered the limited long-term options Putin has. "I'm not so sure I agree with the 'long war' predictions," the Army officer said as he suggested that Putin is running out of options for a viable conversion. "Everyone's talking about Putin's hold over Europe with his control of gas, that this is his ace in the hole. But if the heat intensifies back home, Putin may have to shift his attention to a winter disaster of his own making."

Yup. All they need do now is designate Donald Trump as their spiritual leader along with Ms. Didulo as a co-regent.

That's what she was paid to do. We can only hope she is impeached as she would be next in line to be appointed to the supreme court by the next GOP administration. In her political views, she is somewhere to the right of Atilla the hun.

She came close to living in 3 different centuries. Amazing.

Brendan Fraser’s Big Hollywood Comeback Comes With Harsh Lessons After his commercial peak, he slowly disappeared from our screens, seemingly just another A-Lister whose best years were behind him. He put on weight. His hair thinned. He stopped looking like what Hollywood desired of its leading men and derision followed. Eventually, it seemed that the only place Fraser regularly popped up was in tacky “Where is He Now?” clickbait pieces. When he returned to the spotlight in 2018, thanks to some critically acclaimed TV roles in The Affair, Condor, and Trust, many of us were thrilled. We didn’t realize how much we’d missed him until he was gone. A heart-wrenching profile in GQ then revealed the truth behind his disappearance. Fraser revealed that he had struggled with various injuries after feeling pressure for many years to do all of his own stunt work. He talked candidly about the death of his mother, his financial struggles following his divorce, and feeling as though he’d been left to the curb by Hollywood. Most shockingly, he alleged having been sexually assaulted by Philip Berk, then the President of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. While Berk tried to dismiss the incident, wherein he allegedly grabbed Fraser’s genitals at the Golden Globes, as a “total fabrication”, Fraser believes it led to him being blacklisted by the film world. It’s a moment he says messed with his sense of “who I was and what I was doing.” He even admitted that he was "frightened" about speaking out so many years later. Fraser’s honesty kicked open a door that allowed us to see into a seldom-discussed aspect of fame. What happens when it ends? How does that impact the celebrity in question? And how does the industry itself remain so lacking in empathy towards those it discards? Such exposés often don’t see the light of day until the person in question is dead, as was the case with Marilyn Monroe, Dorothy Stratten, and Amy Winehouse. They’re seen as cautionary tales, enshrined in amber and devoid of the individual’s own perspective. Fraser got to speak out, and he’s been able to make his way back into acting with a level of support that is too frequently denied from fans and colleagues alike.

Trump offered Jordan's king control of the West Bank — and more bonkers claims in bombshell new book Reporters offer behind-the-scenes look at a tumultuous Trump presidency — and his wife's criticism Former President Donald Trump offered Jordan's King Abdullah II control of the West Bank, touting it as a "great deal" even though the United States has no claim on the territory, according to a forthcoming book "The Divider: Trump in the White House 2017-2021." The new book by New York Times chief White House correspondent Peter Baker and New Yorker staff writer Susan Glasser details behind-the-scenes accounts featuring Trump administration insiders, who share their experiences working for the 45th president. The occupied West Bank, which is at the heart of the Israel-Palestine conflict, was never Trump's to give away. The piece of land sits between Israel and Jordan and was formerly governed as part of Jordan. But Israel seized the West Bank in 1967 and since then, it has been occupied by Israeli forces. Their settlements are considered illegal under international law by much of the world. Upon hearing Trump's offer, Abdullah II thought he was "having a heart attack," he reportedly told an American friend, the authors wrote in an excerpt published by The Washington Post. "I couldn't breathe. I was bent doubled-over." Trump made the offer just one month after his administration broke with decades of US policy by moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The US government has long pushed for a two-state solution and expressed opposition to settlements despite its close ties with Israel. However, Trump repeatedly caused controversies and placed himself in the middle of the decades-long conflict. In 2019, he also announced that the US would no longer view settlements as illegal under international law. The book offers a look inside the criticism Trump received from his wife, first lady Melania Trump, for his handling of the pandemic. In a phone call with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Melania Trump sought help convincing her husband to take the coronavirus more seriously, according to an excerpt published by CNN. "'You're blowing this," she recalled telling her husband, according to the book. "'This is serious. It's going to be really bad, and you need to take it more seriously than you're taking it.' He had just dismissed her. 'You worry too much,' she remembered him saying. 'Forget it.'" https://www.salon.com/2022/09/15/offered-jordans-king-control-of-the-west--and-more-bonkers-claims-in-bombshell-new-book/

Matthew McConaughey Movie 'Dallas Sting' Scrapped Amid 'Disturbing Allegations' The film was just weeks from production when producers reportedly learned of "misconduct" behind the true story that inspired it. A sports movie starring Matthew McConaughey has been canceled after producers learned of “disturbing allegations” about the true story behind the film, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Production company Skydance scrapped the 1984-set “Dallas Sting,” which was to feature the Oscar-winning actor as the coach of a Dallas-based teenage girls soccer team that shocked international competition at a tournament in China. Kari Skogland (“The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”) was set to direct. Production was to begin next month in New Orleans, IndieWire reported. But the concerning new information prompted Skydance and producers to scuttle the project, sources told The Hollywood Reporter on Wednesday. Deadline used “misconduct” in its headline about “Dallas Sting” and cited “an impropriety that Skydance and the producers were made aware of” in its article, but didn’t elaborate. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dallas-sting-mathew-mcconaughey_n_63231206e4b082746be73411

My son and I saw the original one waaay back in the theatre and went to see the sequel when it came out. Both of us hated it, not just for the plot line that wandered around but mostly because of the painfully loud sound track hammering away in almost every scene. I had a headache afterwards.