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Criminal law, Politics May 23, 2018 May 23, 2018
Cohen Business Associate Flips and Agrees To Cooperate With Prosecutors [Updated]
Multiple defendant cases often resemble a lethal form of musical chairs as targets grab deals — leaving the loser still standing to face a full array of charges and cooperating witnesses. Trump former counsel Michael D. Cohen must be feeling like the music is about to stop after his close business associate Evgeny A. Freidman decided to take a deal from prosecutors. Freidman may be the only figure who could compete with Cohen on the higher Richter scale of sleaze. Update: Cohen denies that Freidman was ever this "partner" but does not address prior associations.
Called the the Taxi King, Freidman is a remarkably disreputable individual. It is always interesting how such characters tend to find each other. Friedman was disbarred earlier this month and spent time in prison after an earlier arrest in Illinois (shown in the mugshot above).
Freidman came from a Jewish family in Leningrad and immigrated to the United States as political refugees in 1976. He graduated from Skidmore College in 1992 and received his J.D. degree from Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.
Freidman was an incredible success given his origins and eventually acquired 900 cabs by 2015. His company is worth $120 million in 2009.
Cohen's taxi medallion business is one of the areas of greatest scrutiny for federal prosecutors. The medallion business is known as one of the most corrupt in New York and has been the subject of repeated crackdowns. Not surprisingly, Cohen was drawn to it. Given their histories, I would be astonished if business deals involving both of these men did not ultimately involve a myriad of criminal allegations. Some of these charges can be brought in the state system, as was Freidman's plea. This means that Trump cannot entirely protect Cohen from jail time — a consideration that could push him to consider a deal himself with federal prosecutors.
Friedman was accused of failing to pay $5 million in taxes and was facing up to 25 years for criminal tax fraud and grand larceny. His deal allowed him to plead guilty to a single count of evading only $50,000 worth of taxes in exchange for his cooperation. He will also face five years of probation.
Cohen got into the taxi business through marriage. His father-in-law, Fima Shusterman, is a Ukrainian former taxi driver who acquired medallions. When Cohen married his daughter Laura, he helped Cohen buy medallions. Notably, Cohen's father-in-law reportedly loaned $20 million to the wife of a Chicago cab mogul who was also named in the warrant the FBI used to raid Cohen's office. Shusterman gave the money to Yasya Shtayner, whose family owns Chicago Medallion Management Corp.
None of this is good for Cohen and it could prove equally bad for Trump. As Cohen's business dealings are scrutinized, there is a rising chance of both state and federal charges. With his former business partner dodging 25 years, he had to promise something valuable. If not, there will be significant questions raised by prosecutors would give a sweetheart deal to a truly sleazy convicted felon.
With Cohen's shady efforts to sell access to Trump, his seedy business associations speaks loudly about his character and ethics. In the same vein, Trump's association with Cohen will long taint his own legacy.
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Anon, since you seem to have an interest in what other presidents have done I thought this article by Victor David Hanson might satisfy your interest. It is long, but with all the hanky panky that occurred in the Obama administration, it is hard to keep it short.
How Democracies End: A Bureaucratic Whimper By Victor Davis Hanson
One strange trait of the die hard NeverTrump Republicans and progressives is their charge that Donald Trump poses an existential threat to democracy. Trump, as is his wont, says a lot of outrageous and weird things. But it is hard in his 16 months of rule to find any proof that Trump has subverted the rule of law.
Most of the furor is over what we are told what Trump might do, or what Trump has said, or which unsavory character in Europe likes Trump. These could be legitimate worries if they were followed by Trump's anti-democratic concrete subversions. But so far, we have not seen them. And there has certainly been nothing yet in this administration comparable to the Obama-era efforts to curb civil liberties.
While we understand those on the left refuse to believe that a constitutional "legal scholar" like Obama would even think of allowing the executive branch to go rogue, it is indeed strange that in almost every NeverTrump attack on Trump's conduct, there is almost no recognition or indeed worry that we have been living through one of the great challenges to constitutional government in our history.
Does anyone remember that the Obama Administration allowed Lois Lerner ("Not a smidgen of corruption") more or less to weaponize the IRS to help the Obama 2012 reelection effort? Does anyone remember Eric Holder's surveillance of the Associated Press journalists and Fox News's James Rosen? Why have conservative constitutionalists focused on what Trump has said rather than the strange treatment accorded to investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson by U.S. intelligence and investigatory agencies? Do we even remember the Benghazi pseudo-video narrative and the strange jailing of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula?
Is there even curiosity about why and how the departing Obama Administration suddenly and vastly expanded the number of agencies that could have access to classified surveillance in its aftermath? Do we remember the more than 20 times Obama warned before reelection that he was not a "king" and, as a constitutional scholar, could not by fiat offer blanket amnesties? Do the authorities in California realize that they are resorting to the extralegal states-rights arguments that South Carolina on the eve of the Civil War and Alabama in the early 1960s used to nullify federal laws?
But stranger still is what we already know of the 2016 election, and the lack of outrage from constitutionalists, who daily warn us of what Trump might do—when we already know what the U.S. government has done in violation of civil rights, constitutional principles, and likely federal laws. So far there is no information that Stephen Bannon ordered taps on reporters, or that Nigel Farage was hired by Trump to find Russian dirt on Hillary Clinton, or that Stephen Miller requested the unmasking of surveilled names associated with the Clinton campaign and then leaked them to the press.
But we do know that U.S. officials, including the head of the FBI and chief deputies in the Justice Department, misled a FISA court to obtain intelligence surveillance on U.S. citizens, by providing information that they knew at the time, but did not disclose to the court, was by their own private admission unverified, compiled by a foreign national whom they had used and fired as an unreliable informant, paid for by the Clinton campaign, and served as the basis for news accounts that were used in circular fashion to verify to the court the dossier's contents.
We do know that members of the Obama intelligence and national security teams—Susan Rice and Samantha Power among others—requested the names of American citizens surveilled (likely obtained through improperly obtained FISA warrants) to be unmasked. Then someone illegally leaked their names to the press to damage the Trump campaign and his presidential transition.
We do know that FBI Director James Comey, in succession, has admitted that he in singular fashion took notes of a confidential one-on-one meeting with the president, briefed him on the existence of a campaign dossier on him, did not disclose that it was purchased by the Clinton campaign, assured him that he was not the subject of a FBI investigation at a time either he or his subordinates were leaking the opposite to the media, and then, after being fired, leaked those memos (at least one of which was classified) to the media to ensure the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the president, who turned out to be a friend of Comey's, Robert Mueller. Comey by his own admission has also stated that he calibrated the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton to the likelihood of her election to the presidency. FBI directors in a lawful society are not supposed to do such things.
We do know that the FBI placed some sort of an informant in the camp of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign in association with gathering information about data used by a foreign national and a paid operative of the Clinton campaign, Christopher Steele, in his effort to collude with Russians against the campaign efforts of Donald Trump.
We do know that the deputy director of the FBI is currently under investigation for lying to federal investigators, on at least four occasions, about his own conduct in investigating candidate Hillary Clinton—at a time not long after Clinton-related political action committees gave several hundred thousand dollars to the political campaign of his wife.
We do know now that both James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, and John Brennan, head of the CIA, knowingly gave false testimony under oath to Congress. Clapper has previously lied about the surveillance of American citizens; he has lied about his knowledge of the Steele dossier, and likely also lied about leaking its contents. Brennan had lied under oath to Congress about the U.S. drone assassination program, lied about CIA surveillance of computers used by U.S. Senate staff, lied about leaking the existence and promulgation of the Steele dossier, and lied yet again to Congress that the dossier was not used to prompt a CIA investigation into so-called collusion.
Again, the government's two highest intelligence officials did not tell the full truth about their knowledge of the Steele dossier or their own roles in promulgating its contents. In a constitutional republic both such reprehensible officials who betrayed the public trust would be subject to criminal investigations for knowingly lying under oath to Congress and undermining the sinews of constitutional government.
We do know that senior Justice Department official Bruce Ohr met with the architects of the Steele dossier and that at the time his wife was working on the Clinton-purchased Fusion/GPS Steele dossier, information not disclosed as required by the law on a federal form.
Mueller's special investigatory team, the House and Senate Intelligence Committees, and the media have not yet found any credible evidence of Trump-Russian collusion. Indeed, it is more likely that the indictments and confessions of some Trump campaign officials and Michael Flynn, on counts having nothing to do with collusion, either will be dropped, retracted, or will not lead to convictions, given much of the information used against them was obtained by misleading a FISA court judge and through improper conduct at the highest level of the FBI.
There is a reason why over a half-dozen top FBI officials either have been fired, reassigned, resigned, or retired. We have not yet seen the inspector general's full report, but its publication may lead to more departures from both the FBI and the Justice Department, if not to criminal prosecutions.
If the present constitutional crisis really involves high federal officials and former federal officials who were colluding with foreign governments, then we have ample evidence that 1) Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation received large sums of money from Russian-related interests in association with ongoing requests to buy into companies that might control North American uranium stocks; that 2) John Kerry has met clandestinely with members and former members of the Iranian government to craft joint strategies to save the so-called Iran Deal, from which the president of the United States just withdrew; and that 3) Hillary Clinton's campaign hired a foreign national to use sources from other foreign nationals to help subvert the campaign of her 2016 opponent.
We are all worried, on occasion, by nationalist and anti-democratic movements abroad in former democratic countries. We all sometimes wish Donald Trump would ignore personal spats and curb his tweeting and thus let his considerable accomplishments speak for themselves.
But that said, the current and chief threats to Western constitutional government are not originating from loud right-wing populists in Eastern Europe, or from Trump wailing like Ajax about the rigged deep state.
Rather, the threat to our civil liberties is coming from supposedly sanctimonious and allegedly judicious career FBI, Justice Department, and intelligence agency officials, progressive and self-described idealistic former members of the Obama national security team, and anti-Trump fervent campaign operatives, all of whom felt that they could break the law—including but not limited to illegally monitoring American citizens, and seeking to warp federal courts and even the presidential election because such unsavory and anti-constitutional means were felt necessary and justified to prevent and then subvert the presidency of Donald J. Trump.
It is willful blindness for progressives and NeverTrump Republicans to overlook what has happened only to damn what has not happened. The dangers in America are not from transparent right-wing authoritarians (who are easily spotted in their clumsiness), but from mellifluous self-styled constitutionalists, whose facades and professions of legality mask their rank efforts to use any anti-constitutional means necessary to achieve their supposedly noble egalitarian ends.
This is the way democracies end—not with a loud boisterous bang, but with insidious and self-righteous whimpers.
Nutchacha is insufferable says:
Thank you Allan! Combine that article with the one from Andrew McCarthy and we have an absolutely thorough analysis of this entire saga.
There's a reason the anti-Trump crowd won't respond to your post.
The Real Origination Story of the Trump-Russia Investigation.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/05/trump-russia-investigation-obama-administration-origins/
The mindless anti-Trump crowd cannot respond and cannot accept anything that deviates from what they are told to believe or not to believe. Eventually, this will change and in twenty years we will be hearing many of them like they did with Reagan, say they voted for Trump.
My favorite three writers on this subject are Hanson, McCarthy, and Strassel. All are honest brokers.
Mark M. says:
Victor lost any credibility when he intentionally misled the reader on the feds' basis for the FISA warrant. Public record materials, although I don't expect the gullible rubes, dupes and Klan-lite wannabbees to care.
Paul C Schulte says:
Marky Mark Mark – Dude!!! You. Have. No. Respectability! How do you expect to lose the respect of others? There is nobody below you on the respectability scale. You are Ground Zero.
Late4Dinner says:
Mark M. is right. And Hanson is at it again in the article that Allanonsense posted upstream. There is no connection between Stefan Halper and the Trump-Russia dossier that Steele compiled. There were no allegations about George Papadopoulos in the Trump-Russia dossier. So Halper was not a source for Steele. The first allegation about Carter Page in the Trump-Russia dossier was made on July 19th, 2016. Halper met with Page and July 11th and 12th of 2016–at least seven days before Steele's first report about Page. Clearly Halper was not using the dossier to gather intelligence on Page. That is, Steele was not a source for Halper, either. Ergo, Hanson is once again reporting as fact that which is known to be false. And that means that Allanonsense is wrong and Mark M. is right.
L4D is enabling David Benson Marky Mark Mark has only been right once on this blog and that was when he respected the death of the Gunny.
Here's the relevant quote from the Victor David Hanson article upstream:
It is not known that the FBI was running Halper as an informant against Page and Papadopoulos. It is far likelier that Halper is a CIA asset. Hanson is wrong by overstatement. It is known that the Trump campaign, the Trump transition team and the Trump administration never hired Halper. Hanson is just-plain flat-out wrong about that claim. Hanson's claim that Halper was working with Steele is inconsistent with the fact that Steele reported nothing about Papadopoulos in the Trump-Russia dossier and that Halper met with Page at least a week before Steele's first report about Page in the Trump-Russia dossier. So Halper was not a source for Steele and Steele was not a source for Halper.
Mark M. has Hanson pegged as lacking credibility due to intentionally misleading his readers.
We have been hearing this nonsense from Diane forever. Take note that so many of the things she says become disproven with time yet one doesn't hear her saying she was wrong. She twists every statement and every meaning so it meets her desired ideology. A true follower of Stalin.
When talking about housing, in the past Diane said. "Safety regulations in housing are not the same for high-price and low-price housing." It seems Diane believes that all over the country the inspectors look at the price of a house before saying whether or not the safety features required by law need to be built in.
I guess in those poorer homes in the southeast coastal areas can be built with cardboard. At least that is the way Diane sees it.
In another long-winded twisted argument that made little sense Diane disputed this definition of terrorism. "the use of violence and intimidation in pursuit of political aims." She was upset because if a nonleftist group was hateful but didn't indulge in violence that definition wouldn't suffice to call the group a terrorist organization.
L4D is enabling David Benson – Marky Mark Mark works with criminals all day, how could he be wrong. /sarc off
Mark's elevator doesn't go to the top.
Mark, you are a simpleton indeed. I don't know what you think Hanson said or whether Hanson was right or wrong in that instance but only a fool would discount everything that Hanson has said and you are such a fool.
David B. Benson says:
What was this thread about, again?
Ralph Adamo says:
In honor of the Anal Queen and her Presstitute Shyster, Mr. Turley is considering renaming the wbsite with this new byline:
Posteriore atque ima corporis regina locuta est.
"Latin is a dead language,
Dead as dead could be.
First it killed the Romans
And now its killing me."
Sit tibi in pace.
Peter Hill says:
REPUBLICANS WANT TO 'SECRETLY' EXPOSE THE FBI
DEMOCRATS EXCLUDED FROM REVIEWING EVIDENCE
Take Mr. Trump's wild conspiracy theorizing seriously for a moment. Imagine that the Obama administration in 2016 used the FBI to infiltrate a GOP presidential campaign with the intent to undermine it. If secret Justice Department documents actually suggested such a plot, why would Mr. Trump want to prevent Democrats from seeing them, forcing them to admit that they have been wrong to question his claims? As it stands, Democrats can fairly point to the closed meeting itself as evidence that congressional investigative powers are being misused to build a self-serving GOP tale about FBI perfidy.
It should go without saying — but apparently does not — that the conspiracy theory is absurd. If the FBI's goal had been to undermine Mr. Trump's campaign, why would the Justice Department have sat on the information it had about that campaign's ties to Russia, even as then-FBI Director James B. Comey publicly lambasted Hillary Clinton for poor judgment on her private email server? Presumably the plotters would have wanted to prevent Mr. Trump's election rather than merely undermine him after he was elevated to the Oval Office.
The president's assertions seem to get more baldly implausible by the day. On Wednesday, Mr. Trump tweeted that the "Criminal Deep State" is "caught in a major SPY scandal the likes of which this country may never have seen before!"
The most natural inference from such rhetoric is that it is intended to hide guilt on the part of the president or his senior staff. But some combination of incompetence and malevolence is also a possible explanation. The only way to know is to allow Mr. Mueller to complete his investigation.
Edited from: "If Republicans Went To Uncover FBI Misconduct, They Sure Aren't Acting Like It"
Editorial, this evening's WASHINGTON POST
We'll likely because Democrats are the perps and no one wants to show evidence to the perps.
All roads lead to Obama.
Starting to look like he underwrote Page's "insurance policy."
"You know why he relies on Twitter instead of news conferences? Because he can't think on his feet when asked a question"
Natacha, commenting on just one of your many erroneous statements. Trump is answering questions all the time, virtually everytime he goes somewhere. You don't know what you are talking about.
Trump is stacking the courts with real judges while the left hyperventilate and confatbulate on their grievances. With any luck they will die of a stroke, a heart attack or a 16 year old blaque thug running them over out of reparations 🖕🏾
Jay S says:
I take it that a "real judge" is one who holds far-right opinions, in all matters…..
A real judge is deferential to democratic choice except when there is a clear warrant to be something other than that.
Ah, code speak for "State's Rights" I gather, or "Mob Rule" or some other such anti-constitutional hogwash. Thanks for playing. Dismissed.
this is to "why, iffen we vote that them folks cain't vote, what's wrong wit dat?" nutty sufferer
Larry, in a year and a half Trump as removed the Obama legacy and did that without much help from either the Democrats or Republicans.
Obama's legacy has become:
http://i0.wp.com/www.bookwormroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Gender-bathrooms.jpg?
And most of Trump's statements are vague, false or over-simplistic.
Trump quote: "President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing. And yet, what do we have to show for it? Our roads and bridges are falling apart, our airports are in Third World condition, and forty-three million Americans are on food stamps."
Freidman may be the only figure who could compete with Cohen on the higher Richter scale of sleaze.
Er…um… 45 (Trump) is a 10 on the "Richter scale of sleaze". He is shaking our democracy, wreaking unbelievably destructive erosion upon our democratic norms. Look at his attacks on our Justice Department and the intelligence community. Or, his attack on NFL players expressing their first amendment rights. Or any one of his twitter attacks. He's pretty sleazy. Kleptocrats, tyrants, and autocrats are pretty sleazy. 45 looks like one. Just sayin'….
He is shaking our democracy, wreaking unbelievably destructive erosion upon our democratic norms.
I'm not opposed to our democracy been shaken. The political class would like nothing more than to have the electorate go running for their safe spaces. We're built to be shaken.
Now regarding destructive erosion upon our democratic norms, what norms would those be and how have they been destructively eroded?
If this is anything more than a rhetorical question, you're either not paying attention or merely trolling anon.
this is to "how do you know the sky is blue?" olly
you are either lonely as frick or miserable as frick.
This is to "why wont my pepper get hard" mark
See if this helps
https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/1492457.main_image.jpg
Perhaps in your world those are the only options. In mine, and as I've previously explained, I will normally ask for clarity. Anon clearly has some specific democratic norms being eroded. Instead of me assuming Anon's understanding of those norms, it would be fair to understand what Anon's operation definition is.
this is to "I can read minds, why can't you? Mark M.
i don't come here to do your homework for you; rather, I'm here for my own amusement and to ridicule the gullible rubes and dupes by using … wait for it… Ridicule. If you truly are so sheltered as to miss or ignore the daily assault the day glo bozo undertakes against America, then you're a sellout; allowing for the oscenity in the White House either because you truly imagine Roe vulnerable, or, you don't think there's anything wrong with the government putting "those" "uppity" people back in their place, just like the good ole days. Either way you're not a patriot; but rather an insult to those who gave all to preserve our great experiment. You, and your ilk, make me puke.
this is to "get back under your rock" olly
i don't come here to do your homework for you; rather, I'm here for my own amusement and to ridicule the gullible rubes and dupes by using … wait for it… Ridicule.
That's great, because unless you're a sockpuppet for anon, my question was not directed to you. So nope, you and Benson are off the hook. The truly amusing part is what you think passes as clever ridicule is actually your tell that you have a 0% chance of offering an intelligent response. It's a tell because you have done the hard work before and provided some legitimately thoughtful responses.
In this case, my question to anon is a laydown. Anon claims certain democratic norms are being unbelievably destroyed. You obviously have no idea so you resort to your tell. Benson's tell when he has nothing of value to offer is one word/one sentence responses. For some reason y'all just desire …remove all doubt.
Anyway, thanks for playing. And as far as you puking…you're welcome. 🙂
this is to "I don't have the stomach for this" Marky Mark Mark
Truth be told, such a facetiously-unknowing response doesn't deserve an intellectual response. I'll wager you're very aware of what's happening, yet hope our institutions can "weather" such assaults because you prefer the transitive and short-term political benefits which have accompanied those assaults. Either way, still a sellout to those who gave all to preserve our great experiment. You enablers are playing with fire, and like those who've dallied with monsters before, believing they can get off the train when things finally get too shaky, it will be too late when you finally catch on.
to olly
Olly,
Destructive erosion of democratic norms? Let's start with the rule of law.
And, while we're on the subject of how abnormal 45 and his WH is:
1. How many presidents had former personal lawyers associated with tax evading (to the tune of $5 million) brokers of NYC taxi medallions – a.k.a. the Taxi King?
2. How many presidents hired (for free) campaign managers with reputations "for repackaging controversial foreign leaders such as: Viktor Yanukovych, Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos, Angolan guerrilla leader Jonas Savimbi, and Zairian strongman Mobutu Sese Seko"?
3. How many presidents thought the United States Justice Department was their personal defense legal team?
4. How many presidents have decried free speech or referred to freedom of the press as the "crooked media"?
5. How many presidents have called into the Fox and Friends news show in deranged rants about how bragging about how many lawyers they have?
6. How many presidents have condemned NFL players for expressing their rights to free speech?
7. How many presidents have made proclamations that they deserve a Nobel Peace Prize?
8. How many presidents since President Gerald Ford refused to make public their tax returns?
9. How many presidents had declared bankruptcy at least 4 times?
10. How many presidents had their fathers bailout one of their Atlantic City gambling casinos with $3.35 million dollars of casino chips? And then had "New Jersey's Casino Control Commission investigate the chip purchases the following year and determined it was an illegal loan that broke the state's rules about casinos receiving cash from approved financial sources"?
45 is unhinged. That's putting it very nicely.
anon – how many Presidents shared a mistress with their father and their brothers?
How many owned 525 businesses of which only four went bankrupt?
How many had a father who made his first fortune by bootlegging liquor from Canada?
How many paid the Mafia to change votes in Chicago?
How many completely sealed their records?
How many had the only person who actually saw their long form birth certificate die this week?
How many had a wife who had more women than he did?
How many weaponized the DOJ, FBI, IRS?
Need I go on?
And then, of course, there's this:
One of the norms most clearly at risk is that which serves to safeguard the independence of federal law enforcement. "I have the absolute right to do what I want with the Justice Department, Donald Trump told the New York Times."
Bob Bauer, "The Survival of Norms: The Department of Justice and the President's 'Absolute Rights'", Lawfare blog, January 1, 2018
https://www.lawfareblog.com/survival-norms-department-justice-and-presidents-absolute-rights
Just so we are clear, Paul:
"I have the absolute right to what I want with the Justice Department", said no US president. Ever. (Except -Donald J. Trump).
anon – at this point, it appears the DoJ, FBI, and CIA all need a time out.
Paul, says who? Trump? Will he make a demand to make it so? Someone needs to read him one of Hans Christian Andersen's folktales, maybe it will help him sleep better.
Let's start with the rule of law.
That Anon is a great place to start….When are you going to start? You listed 10 questions reflecting what you see as President Trump's character but nothing identifying a rule of law issue. What has President Trump done to violate his oath of office?
That is a good answer and question Olly. I don't think his response recognizes the Constitution and I don't think he has any good answers.
Anon also has to answer to the fact that his listed complaints are common to many Presidents and he simply forgets about that fact.
Take "crooked news. The press jointly called the President all sorts of names when he said his campaign was being surveilled. It was, as we are learning today, even if Anon cannot accept the facts that are being brought forward. Then we have Hillary who believes that Fox News is crooked along with many other progressives that include people on this list and probably includes Anon as well.
Allan:
as we are learning today…
I see. You, too, think 45 has absolute power to do whatever he wants to do with the US Department of Justice.
And, what exactly did we learn from yesterday's intelligence briefing about said surveillances of presidential campaigns? Not a whit.
Why? Generally, as pointed out in the government's response to a motion for public access to certain sealed court records that "a right of public access risks jeopardizing open investigations".
https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000163-8fa0-d71a-ad7f-cff7cc490000
45 knows the arranged White House meeting of congressional members to be debriefed, was all bluster (as was his proposed meeting with North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un) to appeal to his political base (a.k.a. stupid people).
45 would just love "total transparency" – unless, of course, it would involve pulling the curtain on his own tax returns or those of his family and business and business dealings.
Anon, what we have learned so far from the releases of the FBI is that the FBI has been self-serving and not protecting vital interests, rather protecting its leaders from being discovered doing things they know were inappropriate. The FBI was created by Congress with the ability of Congress to provide Congressional oversight. Congress also funds the FBI. The FBI is not a legislative group and is supposed to live under the law (not above it) and under the ultimate control of Congress, the DOJ and eventually the President as spelled out by law and prior Supreme Court decisions.
"45 has absolute power to do whatever he wants to do with the US Department of Justice.". Contrary to what you say, no US President has absolute power, though the President has substantial power and has the power to fire officials in the executive branch almost at will though he needs to follow certain procedures and laws. 45 has demonstrated tremendous restraint and we note that because Sessions along with Rosenstein still exist in their positions at the DOJ. He had the right to fire Comey and at one time or another, both sides of the political aisle agreed that Comey needed to be fired.
You learned nothing. Others have learned a great deal.
"a right of public access risks jeopardizing open investigations"
We are always at risk of jeopardizing open operations, but take note how the classified material was leaked to the press and then opened to Congress and the President.
Trump's business dealings have been open to the public for over 50 years. In fact, he has been audited and assessed by many different government agencies over the years and to date, nothing of great significance has been found. His tax returns do not have to be released by law though partisans would like to use those tax returns in a partisan manner. There were many things about Obama that perhaps should have been released since they were never looked at by any official government agency. They were never released, nor did they have to be released according to our laws. When we voted, a lot more negative information was spun in the direction of Trump and made available to the public by the MSM. When the vote was taken all these negatives were out there for anyone to see and Trump was elected President. You don't like him so suddenly you take the path of disclosure something I don't object to except in the partisan way you make these requests.
"(as was his proposed meeting with North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un) to appeal to his political base (a.k.a. stupid people)."
I note how you think those that think differently than you, are "stupid people". Based on what I have seen if we rate intelligence you don't rank that high in the pack and some of those likely ranking the highest will be on the opposing political aisle. That made your talk about "stupid people" pretty stupid.
I see. Then, you do agree with 45's assertion that he has an absolute right to do whatever he wants to do with the United States Department of Justice.
It begs the following question: How many presidents have called their own nominated USAGs "disgraceful"? In order to undermine their USAGs' authority with said presidents' 30 percent political voter base?
Like I said, 45 is unhinged.
Then, you do agree with 45's assertion that he has an absolute right to do whatever he wants to do with the United States Department of Justice.
No, not even close. President's assert all sorts of things, especially during campaigns. They'll even assert Where Congress won't act, I will, as a sitting President…even during a SOTU address. They'll even get a standing ovation from members of congress for telling them they are irrelevant. Those are assertions and while I find them appalling, I'm concerned with actions.
What has President Trump done to violate his oath of office?
While it is too early to be specific, some in law enforcement suspect he may have obstructed justice.
And, then there's this from his past as a casino owner:
"New Jersey's Casino Control Commission investigate the chip purchases the following year and determined it was an illegal loan that broke the state's rules about casinos receiving cash from approved financial sources."
And this regarding his casino (during and after his ownership)+:
"Trump Taj Mahal, a casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey, admitted to several willful BSA violations, including violations of AML program requirements, reporting obligations, and recordkeeping requirements. Trump Taj Mahal has a long history of prior, repeated BSA violations cited by examiners dating back to 2003. Additionally, in 1998, FinCEN assessed a $477,700 civil money penalty against Trump Taj Mahal for currency transaction reporting violations.
"Trump Taj Mahal received many warnings about its deficiencies," said FinCEN Director Jennifer Shasky Calvery. "Like all casinos in this country, Trump Taj Mahal has a duty to help protect our financial system from being exploited by criminals, terrorists, and other bad actors. Far from meeting these expectations, poor compliance practices, over many years, left the casino and our financial system unacceptably exposed."
https://www.fincen.gov/news/news-releases/fincen-fines-trump-taj-mahal-casino-resort-10-million-significant-and-long
What a dealmaker he is…btw…Carl Icahn sold Trump Taj Mahal to Hard Rock International for something like four cents on the dollar.
He's been sued by many contractors he stiffed.
I'll concede his actions appall me. And, I suspect he would violate his oath of office in a New York minute, out of wanton disregard for the rule of law (dare I say abuse of it), and his oath to uphold the Constitution.
I also fear we now live in a kleptocracy, under his unstable leadership. Really sleazy.
What you're delineating is failure to follow bureaucratic record-keeping requirements, which is unprofessional but not criminal. His casino business in Atlantic City was chronically troubled and he eventually sold the assets. He has many other businesses which have proven profitable.
While it is too early to be specific…I suspect he would violate his oath of office in a New York minute, out of wanton disregard for the rule of law (dare I say abuse of it), and his oath to uphold the Constitution.
I suspect everyone holding a political office will violate their oath…EVERYONE. The Framers knew it and history has proven the Framers right. So it is never too early to be specific. THAT'S OUR JOB!
If you want to cite democratic norms, that's a norm that has been destroyed. Our culture, whether we like it or not, will elect people that reflect their values, their character, and their view of what their government should do. We will have many factions wanting this and that, but we will not survive a majority that is fine weaponizing the government against the minority. Rule of Law and Separation of Powers must be what we all strive for.
So, after 16 months in office, what has President Trump done that is unconstitutional?
By the way, roughly 691,000 New York Minutes have passed since President Trump was inaugurated.
How many Presidents have told the FBI to investigate the opposition candidate? Excluding Obama, we know of one and guess what party he was from? Democrat. LBJ had the FBI getting information on the Goldwater campaign.
Olly:
Just so we are clear, Olly:
YNOT says:
Turlry, also, writes," it is always interesting how such characters tend to find each other." Yet does not apply the same discerning eye to tRump's association with Cohen and so many more.
Independent Bob says:
Some of the blue states want to have their electoral votes go to whichever candidate captures the majority of the votes in the general election. Wouldn't it be a hoot if Trump won the next election and just carried the general election by a fraction of a percentage point. Then these dopes would have to hand over their electoral college votes to Trump and make it look like he had some huge landslide victory. They just can't accept the simple fact that he won.
the only person who can end this is David Benson.
I don't believe that is technically correct. Nothing is preventing you from ending it, you just won't. You both sound like these two cantankerous old guys.
https://youtu.be/14njUwJUg1I
OLLY – my honor as a samurai prevents me from ending it. 😉 If David wishes to commit seppuku and film it, that would satisfy my honor.
You don't begin to comprehend the samurai code of honor.
For a starter, what house of Zen did the samurai belong? Why were there two?
David Benson – still owes me a citation from the OED. David, you should be climbing that hill and getting my citation rather than asking questions. No answers for you until I get mine.
The duel between Paul and David end up something like the following, with Paul on screen left and David on screen right:
LOL! That's perfect. 🙂
So, has Obergruppenfuhrer Mueller found "Russian collusion" yet?
BTW, as "unfettered power," the Rosenstein appointment and Mueller investigation are unconstitutional.
"The appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller violated the Appointments Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
Given the power that Mueller is exercising and the fact that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein is not supervising his work directly, it is inaccurate to classify him as an "inferior officer" in the Department of Justice. He qualifies as a "principal officer," a class of federal official like a United States attorney that the Supreme Court has ruled must be appointed by the president and confirmed with consent of the U.S. Senate.
Because Mueller was not appointed by Trump and was not confirmed by the Senate, Levin argues, his appointment is not constitutional. Therefore, every action he has taken under the scope of his investigation with powers granted to him by the DOJ is illegitimate, since his very powers are illegitimate.
"Is there any question in your mind that Robert Mueller is not the most powerful prosecutor in the United States today?" Levin asked. "Is there any question in your mind that he's not more powerful than any of the Untied States attorneys?"
– Mark Levin
On "Fake News" like this of Cohen/Friedman, it's long past time to impose "Antitrust" laws on the "Press" industry. The Main Stream Media (MSM) enjoy a prodigious and insidious monopoly that shuts out conservative, AKA, constitutional, AKA originalist, AKA American perspectives, transforming the MSM into "untouchable" purveyors of propaganda conducting socialist/communist indoctrination.
"Once upon a time, way back in the 1800s, there were several giant businesses known as "trusts." They controlled whole sections of the economy, like railroads, oil, steel, and sugar. Two of the most famous trusts were U.S. Steel and Standard Oil; they were monopolies that controlled the supply of their product—as well as the price. With one company controlling an entire industry, there was no competition, and smaller businesses and people had no choices about from whom to buy. Prices went through the roof, and quality didn't have to be a priority. This caused hardship and threatened the new American prosperity."
– FTC
Please post more of this type of materials.
this is to "constitution schmonstitution" georgie
i love your posts simply because it pushes the left closer and closer to the Canadian border, so keep at it
Awesome! And I love your posts because they make me even more grateful for my education, where I learned grammar, punctuation and sentence structure. Thanks for playing.
this is to "I have a 'hannity was here' tattoo across my lower back" larry
wildbill99 says:
LOL. Thanks.
Crazy George wants to shut down the press.
At the same time, he considers himself a Constitutionalist.
That's why he's Crazy George.
Nan says:
you are one hateful, divisive, toxic person
Thanks for your insight. Reddit is down the hall.
this is to "I got a MAGA hat for only $29.99!" nannie
Darren, Nan just nominated Mark M. and wildbill99 for banned-for-life status due to their incessant violations of the "Civility Rule" in the form of incessant, inutile and vicious ad hominem attacks.
I second the nomination as there is nothing redemptive in their "toxic" comments.
Are Darren and Nan the other voices living in your head?
So can we get rid of the unconstitutional antitrust laws and regulations and return America to free enterprise? Please, can we abolish wholly unconstitutional central planning, redistribution or wealth and social engineering in all their forms? You are correct. The press is totally free per the Constitution as is every single private property free enterprise business, competition and the forces of supply and demand shaping products and prices. A man's ("Affirmative Action Privilege" also being unconstitutional) business is none of the government's concern or authority.
Which Supreme Court decision declared anti trust laws unconstitutional? I must have missed that one…
What you missed is the fact that the corrupted and ideological Supreme Court did not and has no authority to write or modify the Constitution, including the rights to private property, every conceivable natural and God-given freedom per the Constitution and 9th amendment and free enterprise and commerce. The sole constitutional function of the SCOTUS is to assure that actions comport with the Constitution. The Constitution does not provide for governmental dictatorship. ownership, possession or disposition of private property which James Madison defined as "that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual." That's pretty clear even for communists. The SCOTUS does not seem to have noticed that the Constitution limits government, not the freedom of individuals. The SCOTUS didn't declare Lincoln's suspension of Habeas Corpus unconstitutional or individual welfare or "Affirmative Action Privilege" unconstitutional buy they are, immutably. Fun fact: the entire welfare state is unconstitutional and it has not be "declared" thus by the treasonously subjective and ideological Supreme Court.
To wit,
"…courts…whose duty if must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void."
"[A] limited Constitution … can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing … To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid."
– Alexander Hamilton
Central planning, redistribution of wealth and social engineering were featured by Marx in his Communist Manifesto, 59 years after adoption of the Constitution, because they had been irrefutably and deliberately omitted and excluded by the American Founders in their Constitution.
In other words no court has ever found the anti trust laws unconstitutional. Only George finds them unconstitutional. I've got bad news for you, nobody gives a rat's ass what the court of George thinks is unconstitutional except perhaps for yourself and the voices.
Understanding the limitations of the "commerce clause," is Obamacare constitutional? Was Lincoln's suspension of Habeas Corpus constitutional? Understanding that secession is not restricted in the Constitution and thereby constitutional, was Lincoln's war of Northern aggression on foreign soil against a sovereign foreign nation constitutional? Is redistribution of wealth constitutional when the Constitution limits the power of Congress to tax solely for "…general Welfare…" excluding and, thereby, omitting individual welfare? Is "Affirmative Action Privilege" constitutional in the face of the constitutional right to private property? Words have meaning.
A Confederate sympathizer, longing for the good old days of human chattel slavery!
Crazy George, outing himself again.
Sorry, Rip Van Winkle, that train left the station about 90 years ago. So sorry for your loss.
this is to "get those kids off of my lawn" georgie
George Smith says:
Does this mean that the investigation into Bill Clinton's administration by Ken Starr was unconstitutional? Starr was appointed by a special three-judge division of the D.C. Circuit to continue the Whitewater investigation according to Wikipedia. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives impeached Clinton, based mainly on the results of the Starr investigation. As a practical matter, how would the Congress go about impeaching president without an investigation first? Doesn't the constitutional right of the Congress to impeach and remove the president grant the Congress by logical necessity the right to conduct an independent investigation?
Clinton, Trump, Ken Starr, Robert Mueller, no one trusts the government, the news media or any institution anymore
along comes a modern day St Francis of Assisi to cajole and give hope for those seeking Truth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOmY8i-uBcY
When humans fail us, there is always another way
http://www.focusfeatures.com/pope-francis-a-man-of-his-word
Yeah, because the occupant of the Chair of Peter's Airline Magisterium is so inspiring. When's he going to reply to the dubia, sister?
No one? Haha. Change the channel. Pro tip: Pravda Faux News doesn't care about you; only that you keep buying commemorative "silver" coins, or whatever other claptrap they're hustling to the oldsters this month.
this is to "hannity is my truth whisperer" gloria
It may mean that Rosenstein should have just kept the seat warm rather than take executive action without authority. But Rosenstein had a mission to acquire an "insurance policy" after the framing and erroneous recusal of Sessions.
With regard to Starr's Clinton investigation, apparently no one was compelled by the law to make that argument or Clinton's team was grossly incompetent.


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Two huge pharaoh statues unveiled in Egypt
Tourists and journalists stand next to a newly displayed statue of pharaoh Amenhotep III and his wife Tiye (Down) in Egypt's temple city of Luxor on March 23, 2014. (AFP Photo) © AFP
Archaeologists have revealed two massive statues of Pharaoh Amenhotep III in the famous Egyptian city of Luxor, at their original sites in the funerary temple of the king, on the west bank of the Nile.
The two colossal statues will add to an existing pair of monoliths in the temple, which is already world famous for the 3,400-year-old Memmon colossi – twin statues of Amenhotep III who ruled during the political and cultural zenith of ancient Egyptian civilization, AFP reports.
Pharaoh Amenhotep ruled over an empire that extended from the Euphrates, where modern day Iraq is located, to Sudan, and managed to maintain Egypt's position through diplomacy. Amenhotep became king at the age of 12 and died in 1354 BC.
The new statues have been extensively restored, as they have experienced severe damage over the centuries, according to Hourig Sourouzian, the German-Armenia archaeologist who is leading the project to conserve the entire Amenhotep III temple.
"The world until now knew two Memmon colossi, but from today it will know four colossi of Amenhotep III," Sourouzian said.
"The statues had lain in pieces for centuries in the fields, damaged by destructive forces of nature like earthquakes, and later by irrigation water, salt encroachment and vandalism," she added.
One of the new statues is of the pharaoh seated; it weighs 250 tons and is 11.5 meters tall and 3.6 meters wide. It is now missing its double crown, which would have made it 13.5 meters high and 450 tons in weight.
The seated Amenhotep III is wearing a royal pleated kilt and a zigzag decorated belt. Beside his right leg rests the figure of his wife in a wig and a long fitting dress. However, the statue of queen mother Mutemwya, which should be by his left leg, is missing, the archaeologists said. The throne that the pharaoh is sitting on is decorated with scenes showing the unification of Lower and Upper Egypt.
The second statue, of Amenhotep standing, has been positioned at the north gate of the temple.
The archaeologists are also exhibiting several other ancient pieces of smaller, fragmented statues of the pharaoh and his relatives, including an extremely rare alabaster head of Amenhotep III. Next to the head is a statue of Princess Iset, his daughter.
Sourouzian said that her team is trying to conserve all these monuments and the temple itself, which had been left to the mercy of the elements and suffered at the hands of man.
"Every ruin, every monument has its right to be treated decently. The idea is to stop the dismantling of monuments and keep them at their sites," she said.
She added that the work to preserve the Amenhotep temple is being funded entirely though private and international donations and that the only way to make sure they can complete their work is through steady international funding.
Luxor is a city of 500,000 on the banks of the Nile in southern Egypt, and is now an open air museum of pharaonic tombs and temples. With the exception of the colossi, very little today remains of Amenhotep's temple because of its location on the Nile floodplain; successive floods have eaten away at the foundations.
3,000-year-old pyramid of Pharaoh's adviser discovered in Luxor
Biggest museum theft in Egyptian history: Over 1,000 artifacts stolen
Older than oldest of 7 Wonders: 4,600 yo step pyramid uncovered in Egypt

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CGA-BC Board of Governors announces it will resume unification discussions with British Columbia CA and CMA bodies.
On February 26, 2013, the Certified General Accountants Association of British Columbia (CGA-BC) issued an announcement to its members stating that the CGA-BC Board of Governors has chosen to re-enter discussions with the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia (ICABC) and CMA British Columbia (CMABC) to support the unification of the accounting profession currently taking place across Canada. Given the progression of CPA both provincially and nationally, the CGA-BC Board said it recognizes that it is in the best interest of its members, students and the public to re-enter the unification discussions within BC.
The CA and CMA bodies in British Columbia issued a joint communication update to their members and welcomed the return of CGA-BC to the unification discussions. ICABC and CMABC will continue to move forward with their unification process and will bring CGA-BC up-to-date on the status of the merger as they consider their next steps in rejoining talks.


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PUNO'T DULO
KENDALL COLINDON
"Puno't Dulo" is a product of Kendall's realizations of today's harsh reality. At the same time, the artwork also shows the artist's dream. "Puno" in this sense refers to the beginning, but Kendall used this to mean, "tree," which symbolizes the environment. "Dulo" would refer to the end or the future, and can be correlated with our generation's concept of modernization. Tree, the Earth's first phase, symbolizes the beginning of life while modernization in the face of urbanization, a problematic societal issue that roots in people's misconception of what progress looks like, is perhaps the expected final phase or future.
Kendall Colindon (b.1995) is an artist based in Las Piñas City. He's a Fine Arts graduate from the Technological University of the Philippines and is currently a member of a collective group named Room111. Kendall focuses on social realism and uses his creativity as a call for radical awareness to push progressive actions. Since art nowadays is more than just its aesthetic value, his main piece "Pinagpala" was created to tell the reality of this society where environmental degradation becomes a norm in the quest for industrial development. According to him, his generation's point of view about advancement is debatable. He believes that sincere economic growth doesn't mean compromising our natural habitat.
Aside from its dark connotation, the artist wants to give something more. The subject of his artworks was usually inspired by the beauty of sceneries, Kendall captures photographs of his surroundings and puts them together to create another piece. At this point, he portrays his works from a different angle and captures where his dreams for the future would lie. His works display hope. "Puno't Dulo," the main concept of his first solo exhibit, reveals his thoughts about real progress. He believes that environmentalism and modernization are inseparable and will only work efficiently if people, especially those in the government, will realize that those healthy surroundings will actually pave the way toward a fruitful transformation.
Kendall is a mentee of Linangan Art Residency in 2021, where he explores his latest works on the combination of colored figures and monochrome background which he finds striking and moving. This is where his influence starts and sparks meaningful discussions.
-Rhiza Uson
2C-05 Shops At Serendra
Bonifacio Global, Taguig City
info@artveritegallery.com
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Суббота, 11 Февраль 2012
All kick-offs 1500 GMT unless stated
Man Utd v Liverpool (1245 GMT)
Liverpool are on a good run and have seen off both Manchester teams in the cup competitions in recent weeks. Now they need to decide how to go about this game in terms of trying to attack Manchester United.
United do concede goals, and there is a bit of a weakness at the back - as we saw at the weekend in their 3-3 draw with Chelsea - but Liverpool are never going to be gung ho about taking advantage of it.
I wouldn't be surprised if Kenny Dalglish starts with Luis Suarez as his lone striker up front, with the likes of Craig Bellamy supporting him, and Liverpool's approach will probably be to sit back with five across the middle when they haven't got the ball and then break forward when they do have it.
With the likes of Suarez and Bellamy in their team, that can work for them.
United have to be very careful. They are probably going to have more of the ball but they have to watch they don't get caught on the counter-attack.
Prediction: 1-1
Blackburn v QPR
This is a return to familiar ground for QPR boss Mark Hughes, who did well at Blackburn during his time in charge there.
Chris Samba was left out of Rovers' 7-1 defeat by Arsenal, despite again saying he was available. I think Blackburn boss Steve Kean has made his point now, after Samba had said he wanted to leave. I'd definitely be playing him this weekend, especially with Bobby Zamora up front for QPR.
The focus for Blackburn has to be on winning games, especially after that drubbing at the Emirates Stadium. They are without Gael Givet after his red card against the Gunners, which is another reason why Samba has to play here. If he does, I think Blackburn will get a big performance out of him, and I think they will get a win.
QPR looked in decent shape against Wolves last weekend until Djibril Cisse's needless red card, and his absence because of his moment of madness is another reason why I am going for a Rovers win here.
Cisse provides them with a cutting edge because of his pace, and his ability to run in behind defenders. If he was playing, it might be a completely different story at Ewood Park because he really does give you the ability to stretch defences. Zamora is a good striker, who holds the ball up really well, but he doesn't run in behind people.
Bolton v Wigan
Bolton went to the DW Stadium in October and got a 3-1 win that lifted them off the bottom of the table, and I have the feeling they will get a similar result at the Reebok Stadium too.
Wanderers still have quite a few problems, of which scoring goals is their biggest. They didn't really show any fight in last week's defeat by Norwich which I thought was really strange for a team in their position.
I said before they drew with Everton on Saturday that Wigan have to win more than 50% of their games to stay up, and that is not realistically going to happen. I think they will cause Bolton a few problems but, ultimately, Wanderers have got a bit more about them than the Latics.
From Bolton's point of view, they can leave Wigan down among the dead men with a win, and start to look up the table. They need to try close the gap on the teams like West Brom and Fulham who are hovering just above the relegation dogfight.
Everton v Chelsea
Everton have had a good run and had a very good start to 2012 in general. David Moyes used his initiative and invention in the transfer market in January and they look much stronger than they did a couple of months or so ago.
Chelsea were good in parts during their 3-3 draw with Manchester United on Sunday, but awful in others. To be 3-0 up and not be able to protect that lead was a very strange display, even against a United side renowned for their fightbacks.
I think this game will be a lot tighter, but I cannot see Andres Villa-Boas and his side leaving Goodison Park with a win.
We know the Blues are a work in progress at the moment but unfortunately, as far as their owner Roman Abramovich is concerned, I think the progress is a little bit slow.
Chelsea are back in Champions League action later this month in the last 16 against a dangerous Napoli side, who play a 3-4-3 formation that suits the pace in their side really well.
If they go out of Europe, there will be more pressure on Villas-Boas but I think, in terms of his future at Stamford Bridge, making sure they qualify for the Champions League next year is his priority at the moment.
Fulham v Stoke
Fulham didn't really turn up at the Etihad Stadium last Saturday evening and Manchester City saw them off far too easily in the snow. As we know, however, the Cottagers are a different proposition at home.
Stoke are not particularly great on the road but I do worry about where Fulham's goals are going to come from and I think the Potters might just nick the points here. I don't think it will be a game for the purists, either.
Sunderland v Arsenal
Like Harry Redknapp at Tottenham, managing men is something that Martin O'Neill is very good at. His fabulous run as Sunderland boss continued last week with wins at Stoke and then Middlesbrough in the FA Cup, and what a fantastic run it is.
Players that wouldn't have been close to featuring under Steve Bruce are now suddenly playing for the Black Cats, who are looking as if they are Europe-bound.
But I think they might run into a brick wall in the shape of Arsenal. I really like the Gunners' forward players and the emergence of Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain has energised them all of a sudden.
I don't often get excited by young players but I think this boy is going to be a real star.
Oxlade-Chamberlain can play anywhere across the front three and he's got an extremely mature football brain for such a young guy, because he understands how to come in from wide areas to join attacks, and he can definitely score goals too. A lot of that will have come from his dad, former England international Mark Chamberlain, down the years and it is all very impressive.
Arsenal resume their Champions League campaign against AC Milan on Wednesday, which is another tricky tie but you would not want to play them when they are on their game - the front three of Oxlade-Chamberlain, Theo Walcott and of course Robin van Persie can tear you up and beat you up because of their pace.
It's at the back that they have their problems but, thoughout their team, they are more than capable of keeping hold of the ball, which is the best form of defending I've ever known.
Swansea v Norwich
These are two promoted teams who are doing very nicely indeed in their first season in the top flight.
Swansea got a great win at West Brom last week and Norwich were too strong for Bolton, so they both come into this game full of confidence. Both of them are also able to bounce back from a defeat as well, which is probably why they are both in the top half of the table - they don't dwell on any setbacks.
They are both extremely well-coached, and both extremely well-managed and, by the looks of things, they are going to be in the Premier League for a while. I think they will both pick up a point on Saturday too.
Tottenham v Newcastle
Tottenham boss Harry Redknapp will be in a bubbly mood. He walked free from court this week after being found not guilty of tax evasion and he is being talked about as the next England manager after Fabio Capello's resignation.
Will speculation about losing Redknapp put Tottenham off their stride? No. They have got some outstanding players, who will just keep going between now and the rest of the season. They would have done that anyway, but they might even put extra effort in now in order to try to persuade their manager to stay.
As I've said, I dont see a reason why Redknapp couldn't do both jobs, though. Being England manager is not a full-time occupation as far as I'm concerned.
This should be a cracking game because, with their front line, Newcastle are a test for any team. Demba Ba is back and Papiss Demba Cisse marked his Premier League debut with that wonder goal against Aston Villa.
The Magpies are still missing a few players of course, and it will be interesting to see how many chances they manage to fashion here.
But it is obvious there is belief and spirit in their squad and they are extremely well coached. I look at teams when they don't have the ball and when they are under pressure to see how they are set up, and Newcastle's organisation is exceptional.
Wolves v West Brom
This is an interesting one - Wolves had a good result last week at long last when they beat QPR, while West Brom seem to pick up the majority of their points on the road.
Wolves had to wait a long time to return to winning ways in the Premier League and maybe the ball will start to run for them a little bit now. They have had some bad news that Emmanuel Frimpong is out for so long with a knee ligament injury but I think having Kevin Doyle back scoring goals is very important for their survival.
The thing with Wolves boss Mick Mcarthy last week was that he gambled. When he made his substitution to bring Doyle on at half-time against QPR, it was an attacking change and it gave them more of a cutting edge. Maybe he will be thinking about doing that more often now.
It is going to be Wolves' home form that keeps them up and this is definitely a home game they would look at as a must-win.
Aston Villa v Man City
I was quite impressed with Villa in their 2-1 defeat by Newcastle last weekend - I thought they should have got something from the game.
Robbie Keane is proving pretty elusive to pick up in that deeper forward role they use him in, behind Darren Bent.
Keane is enjoying his football and I wouldn't be surprised if he is ruing his decision to go back to Los Angeles Galaxy at the end of the month because he has convinced himself and everybody else over the last few weeks that he is good enough to play in the Premier League for another 18 months, especially in that position.
Bent has started scoring again too, but I just fancy Manchester City here. They should be too strong for Villa in every department and, with Yaya and Kolo Toure both back soon from the Africa Cup of Nations, we might just see them kick on now after a difficult few weeks.
Speaking of players returning, I'm still convinced there is a part to play for Carlos Tevez for City between now and the end of the season. He has been registered as a player again, so it's a possibility.
Mark Lawrenson was talking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
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Four months into 2012, Andrea and I finally lined for the same race this morning. Earlier this week, sort of on a whim, we decided to head down to Utah County for the Thanksgiving Point Half Marathon. Since we've both had big races recently (Boston for me and SLC for Andrea) the plan was to run it at marathon pace. We both did just that - Andrea ran 1:24:15 (winning the race!) and I ran 1:10:58 (for 4th place).
I'm really glad we ran this race, because it was a super-fun morning and one of the coolest courses we have ever run on - it was a mix of road racing, cross country, and a very advanced level of Mario Kart! :-) The race took us through the gardens, tunnels, over bridges, all over the golf course, etc. It was a unique event and we would definitely recommend checking this one out next year! The post race festivities are right in the complex and there is a ton of fun stuff to do for families and kids. Despite being a "complex" route, the course was very well marked and the race organization was fantastic. They had a big stage for the awards ceremony, which was especially cool for all the younger guys and gals who ran in the kids race - they all were very excited to get called up to the stage!
Thanksgiving Point is a really neat place in general - check them out on their facebook page.
The course map from my Garmin. It wound all over the place!
The golf course part of the route was all rolling hills and sharp turns. It was like a XC style race!
Congrats! Tulips are my favorite this is beautiful.


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olive garden sports…
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After the game, there are many reasons for me to stop, put on my favorite sports team jersey, and join friends for a leisurely game of volleyball. The rest of the time, I still enjoy the team I'm on. This summer, I've been working with my kids and their friends on a large planter in the front yard that they are using as a baseball field.
My son and his friends are playing baseball on the planter. I'm the one who is actually playing the game with them and watching them play at first. I just think that it is a blast to watch someone else's sport.
Ive actually been watching so many video games I haven't watched the first time I've seen them play volleyball at a volleyball field. It has to be one of those games where you have to watch it for only a minute. Ive been a student of basketball and volleyball at school but have never seen those games. Ive never seen the video games on my computer and Ive never been in the video games.
The olive garden sports arena is one of the first sports arenas to be created and has a history that goes back almost to the dawn of sports. It's actually two different sports arenas, one with traditional American sports like football and basketball, and one that has a mix of other sports like volleyball, golf, and tennis. But I digress. It's basically a football / basketball-style court that has a volleyball court in the middle.
The olive garden sports arena is divided into two sections. The first is the traditional part where people can go watch the local teams (and other teams on other teams) play. The second is the part where people can watch the games they have to play. It's a smaller arena than the traditional one, but the game room has a big scoreboard and a smaller screen.
I'm not sure how many people have actually made the switch to the arena, but the fact that the two are so similar and so well-used by many people in the community is a sign that the game is great. The fact that the fans are usually the same age and the players are so well-trained and good-looking should go a long way in getting people to try it out.
You may also want to consider a few other things, like a new map that is just too big for this area. Maps where you can't see the entire map are very similar to the ones that are shown in the trailer. The two old maps that people have used in the past with the same purpose are more attractive and have a great effect on the user experience. The other thing that might be a good solution is to have the player start a new game.
Speaking of user interfaces, the game's interface looks like a small, dark room, but we never actually saw it. The screen is covered in a dark, muted green shade that makes it seem like it's in a cave. The interface is so minimal, in fact, that you feel like you're right in that cave. Which is a nice effect when you're running around a battlefield.
The interface is quite minimalist. The graphics are simple and the interface is very responsive. It looks like a scene at the beginning of a movie and the game gets bigger as it goes on.
The interface seems to be designed for a very specific purpose, and that's to make the player feel like theyre inside a small, dark room. The fact that its so minimal is a nice touch; it makes it feel like the game is very intimate.
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I Say: lifes boring...without a forester!
That's it. I'm moving to NZ. Bye!
hehe... yeah I've done it once, I'll do it again..
Not too keen on the red recaro and he doesnt have the original seat.. but the rest I could live with... Convincing mum she needs to sell her new car and I'll buy this for her !!
Honestly, I want to move to NZ...purely for the range & prices of cars. Call me a traitor, whatever, I can't hear you in my SG STi FORESTER THAT I BOUGHT FOR $12k MOTHERCLUCKER.
White would be amazing. I did the currency conversion on the WRC Blue one. Cheap!
Ive tried to conivince my better half to go and live there for 15 months or so and we could them bring back a couple of cars but no go. I could take all of my leave and long service on half pay and do it without working but she wont be in it.
Id be bringing back an STi Foz and a BMW most likely an M3 or 5. Even cheaper in the UK where a number of great STi Fozs have been up for sale this year and the BMW/Porsches are dirt cheap.
Hmmmm... Evo 9 Wagon, my other dream car !!
How'd you manage to bring it over?
in all seriousness, how much would be involved to bring this over?


Today marked an anniversary for a staple at the Disneyland Resort: Disney California Adventure. This second gate has seen many changes in its 15 year life thus far. And it has grown into a great park for guests of all ages.
15 years ago, guests lined up to be the first into the park on its official opening day. Before then, a preview was given to Annual Passholders, and even hotel guests. I was one of those who got to go to both previews when they were offered. It was a momentous time at the Disneyland Resort. For much of my life all that I knew was Disneyland and the parking lot in front of it. Now there was a brand new world of opportunity to explore! Soarin' amazed me. California Screamin' wowed me. I loved the colorful sights. I ran around the Animation Building. California Adventure was just as it sounded.
The park has only gotten better for me. Yes, it needed some more character and the overhaul it received has done it. In my eyes, it made a good park great. I love walking down Buena Vista Street with period music playing. I love the visual of the Red Car as it goes past Carthay Circle. I love stopping and listening to Five and Dime.
But, back when this was Sunshine Plaza I would often sit and enjoy ice cream at the California Zephyr while watching the fountain at the Sun Icon. I can remember the music loop that showcased several California focused songs. I loved seeing the monorail pass over the Golden Gate Bridge. Am I saying all this is better than Buena Vista Street? No, but I can say I have fond memories of both, and love BVS even more.
Cars Land is an addition that has had my jaw drop at times. The amount of detail and fun in this area of the park makes it a remarkable addition. But, it wasn't the first major expansion of the park when it opened. Shortly after the opening year, A Bug's Land was the first "land" to open. Featuring some family friendly attractions, it replaced the more exhibit focused Bountiful Farm area of DCA.
These are not the only things to be added to the adolescent park. Twilight Zone Tower of Terror and Toy Story Midway Mania were both instant hits when they opened. These attractions showcase some of the finest the Imagineers have to offer, and have put unique experiences to those who ride. I would dare say these two have helped shape the park into what it is now.
As more is brought in, some attractions are only in our memories. Gone is the Maliboomer, Superstar Limo, Who Wants to Be A Millionaire Play It, and Golden Dreams. They had their place when they were in the park, but progress brings better things. And there is still more to come. Luigi's Flying Tires has left, but a new Luigi hosted attraction will soon be in its place. Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular had a grand finish, but Frozen is coming. DCA keeps expanding like its older sibling across the way.
Today is a big day in the history of the park, and there were a few surprises to mark the occasion. Buttons were offered to guests entering both Disneyland and Disney California Adventure. Many cast members wore special buttons to show their time in the park. Carthay Circle had a banner on its marquee to indicate the anniversary. Hyperion Theater's marquee did the same with its lettering. It may seem small, but for a park that has had a tremendous growth spurt it is a nice quiet birthday.
California Adventure continues to tell not just the tale of anyone that has been in the land, but also for Walt Disney himself. The makeover shows it's not just about how Walt touched California, but also how California touched Walt. The park captures the wonder of Walt and the places that make California wonderful.
So, happy anniversary, Disney California Adventure! And may there be more than 15 years of adventure for you!


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