I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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In the words of Divine -- f**k no. She got exactly what she was asking for and treated to what happens when you are taking a stupid stand. Note: Never push/take a stand on something for which you are not entirely sure of the outcome. You may end up with more egg on your face than you ever wanted.
Divine -- I am also quite taken with what can be done with some boxes. Hooray -- there is a really good place to put them.
Michael Moore can be a bit too hip with some of his predictions, but I really like what he had to say about Donella Frazier. She very much did do the world at large and black people an enormous service. Also, it is something of note that sooo many people are being wantonly killed. It is a horror and although I know they find their justifications I still find it sooo hard to understand anyone who could do this to another human being -- of any color. I do hope people won't forget that our fellow earth travelers have spent sooo much time on the un-equal side of life and I'd like to think we can do some meaningful growing and even if it feels horribly slow, start a strong ascent into accepting all people as human and deserving.
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Feds Search Rudy Giuliani's Manhattan Apartment, Seize Electronic Devices
The former New York City mayor has been under investigation for several years over his business dealings in Ukraine. MICHAEL R. SISAK, MICHAEL BALSAMO and ERIC TUCKERNEW YORK (AP) — Federal investigators executed search warrants Wednesday morning at the Manhattan home and office of Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump's attorney, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press.
The former New York City mayor has been under investigation for several years over his business dealings in Ukraine. Details of the searches were not immediately available, but it comes as the Justice Department continues its investigation into the former New York City mayor and staunch Trump ally.
Investigators executed warrants at Giuliani's home on Madison Avenue and his office on Park Avenue and seized electronic devices, a person familiar with the investigation told the AP.
The officials could not discuss the investigation publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. News of the search was first reported by The New York Times.
The federal probe into Giuliani's overseas and business dealings stalled last year because of a dispute over investigative tactics as Trump unsuccessfully sought reelection, and amid Giuliani's prominent role in subsequently disputing the results of the contest on Trump's behalf.
The full scope of the investigation is unclear, but it at least partly involves the Ukraine dealings, law enforcement officials have told the AP.
Giuliani was central to the then-president's efforts to dig up dirt against Democratic rival Joe Biden and to press Ukraine for an investigation into Biden and his son, Hunter — who himself now faces a criminal tax probe by the Justice Department. Giuliani also sought to undermine former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch, who was pushed out on Trump's orders, and met several times with a Ukrainian lawmaker who released edited recordings of Biden in an effort to smear him before the election.
A message left for Giuliani's lawyer wasn't immediately returned. Giuliani had previously called the investigation is "pure political persecution."
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan had pushed last year for a search warrant for records, including some of Giuliani's communications, but officials in the Trump-era Justice Department would not sign off on the request, according to multiple people familiar with the investigation who insisted on anonymity to speak about an ongoing investigation.
Officials in the deputy attorney general's office raised concerns about both the scope of the request, which they thought would contain communications that could be covered by legal privilege between Giuliani and Trump, and the method of obtaining the records, three of the people said. The people could not discuss the investigation publicly and spoke to AP on condition of anonymity.
The issue was widely expected to be revisited by the Justice Department once Attorney General Merrick Garland assumed office. Garland was confirmed last month and Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco was confirmed to her position and sworn in last week. The Justice Department requires that applications for search warrants served on lawyers be approved by senior department officials.
Although the warrants do not mean that charges are near or even expected, it nonetheless represents a significant escalation in the investigation and means that law enforcement officials have persuaded a judge that there's probable cause to believe a search of Giuliani's property will turn up evidence of a crime.
A Justice Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan and the FBI's New York office declined to comment Wednesday.
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No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven. -Orson F. Whitney
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Finally, and at last, someone is working on the Giuliani probes. I admit that my sensation is that he is guilty of things not totally in evidemce and it is time to un-cover those things which were tossed aside when Bill Barr and Trump were at the helm and eager to cancel any meaningful look at how the Trump WH and DOJ and other goverrnment agencies were behaving or not as the case may have been.
I also think if we are going to restore the rule of law, and as much of our norms as we can and a highly functioning government along with allies and the world trusting us, we are going to have to make it mandatory to go back through the 4 yrs. and slightly before of Trump and nullify much of what Trump did and repair as much as we can. People, us as well as the rest of the world need to see heavy accountability ( not retribution ) for what was done no matter who may go to jail over it. I know for myself -- it will be hard to have comfort until I see that lawbreakers are rooted out and dealt with in the best way possible. Along with that hopefully will come as much transparency as possible. If we don't make it an offence one will pay for -- it will hang around a whole lot longer andI think that is easy to see with some of the Reps. behaviors now. They are still not interesterd in working for constituents - only for themselves and their greed and need for power and control.
Those things are not always bad, but it is a matter of using it for the higest good for the largest amt. of people. The Reps. forgot that a long time ago so here we are. Hoping tonight goes well.
EDA: see below.
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And Tucker Carlson is looked at as super loony at the moment.
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Kind of have thought something like this maybe needs to happen anyway. If there was a little less in it for them, maybe we'd have more Congresspeople who ran to actually help us have a better world and better American government. It has been proposed that there should be term limits and often I think of that -- but if that were the case we wouldn't have Biden right now -- then again, maybe we wouldn't haqve needed him or someone like him so desperately. Sigh !!
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Ah, it works for me:
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I'm watching President Biden's Presidential Address to Congress and wow! This is the most comfortable in his role as President as I’ve seen him so far, and he's making excellent points about health care, about how trickle down economics never worked, raising the minimum wage and so much more!
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I'm watching too. I sure hope that every normal, sane American will appreciate a caring president who WANTS both sides to work together and solve problems..... Ted Cruz looks like he's falling asleep.
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The Scott rebuttal ( they didn't quite call it that this time ) was horrendous. Several big lies and one would almost think input came from the former guy. I was really annoyed as it seemed there was reference to Christianity -- as though Scott had 'help' with his insight the rest of us might not have. Phooey on that.
OTOH - all the things that make President Biden so acceptable were in his speech. He wants good and positive things for all, not just some. He knowes that you have to build from the bottom if you want something solid -- so raising children out of poverty, making sure there are good schools that start early ( not just day-care for yrs. ) and making sure there are jobs. When you work/invest in others, they will invest in you. We are being brought together to excel and not left to every poor p0erson for themselves while the rich get richer. Some people didn't care for that one but it was mainly those who have NOT paid their 'real' fair share and now see they will have too if Biden has anything to say about it.
I was clapping as much as anyone.
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Some of the language is a bit un-refined, but the idea is perfect:
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The spiritual life is, at root, a matter of seeing. It is all of life seen from a certain perspective. It is waking, sleeping, dreaming, eating, drinking, working, loving, relaxing, recreating, walking, sitting, standing, and breathing. . . . spirit suffuses everything; and so the spiritual life is simply life, wherever and whatever, seen from the vantage point of spirit. -John Shea
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No change from last night in the morning news. Pres. Biden totally hit it out of the park while Reps. sat and did nothing. They have been doing that for way too long where most taxpayers are concerned. If they don't wake up soon they are going to find a missing party.
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So tired of the diatribe that Biden is not pursuing bipartisanship when it is the Repugnicans who are the issue. They choose to oppose what he proposes even if it is to the benefit of their constituents. We need infrastructure changes because our roads and bridges in comparison to those in the EU are deplorable. We need to provide lead free and clean water so children do not suffer brain damage.
The rich need to start paying their fair share and employees need to earn a living wage to overturn the hypocrisy of what their CEO's are earning being outlandish.
I thought Biden's speech was outstanding and offered hope after years of despair. Go, Joe!
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Spookie, that pretty much sums it up!!!!!
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Here’s what Heather Cox Richardson says about the raid on Guiliani’s residence:
Experts say such a search against a lawyer, and against a president's former lawyer, to boot, is extraordinary. To get a warrant, investigators had to convince a judge that they believed it would turn up evidence of a crime that they knew had been committed. Political appointees in Trump's Department of Justice had blocked such a warrant in the past, but Attorney General Merrick Garland lifted the block.
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Karma, thy name is Garland!
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Ruth
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Such a great quote today: Remem is one of my favorites.
Life rushes us along and few people are strong enough to stop on their own. Most often, something unforeseen stops us and it is only then we have the time to take a seat at life's kitchen table. To know our own story and tell it. To listen to other people's stories. To remember that the real world is made up of just such stories. Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life's events "behind us" and get on with our living.
After we stop we see that certain of life's issues will be with us for as long as we live. We will pass through them again and again, each time with a new story, each time with a greater understanding, until they become indistinguishable from our blessings and our wisdom. It's the way life teaches us how to live. -Rachel Naomi Remen
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Ruth, all too true. I have been reading as to how the Reps. have no platform. They had hoped to label Biden as a Socialist while tossing in having the election stolen from Trump. After Jan 6th. I think most of that became just un-real to people. It seemed up to then a glove couldn't get laid on Trump but there are bridges too far and Jan 6. was all that and more.
The worst thing for Reps. is Biden is so well known and he is known for his genuine qualities of empathy with others and a desire for better -- not for some but for all. So, most people are on board with Biden and the other side can't dirty him. That plus the fact that they are standing for nothing and their in-ability to understand that people have seen this and do not agree with them at all. They look foolish and a lot less then sane. I guess if they just keep it up hopefully they won't be able to do us too much damage. I will worry for '22 and '24 because it is in my nature but if Reps. keep going as they are those dates will be here before they realize standing for nothing but suppressive obstruction isn't very workable and may backfire big.
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