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Archive for February, 2019
I’m Fixing To Make Your Day
Okay, there’s this woman in West Virginia who got fired from her county job in 2016 for making a racist comment about Michelle Obama.
Pamela Taylor, who is 57 years old, called Michelle Obama “an ape in heels” on her Facebook page.
The Facebook post also cost a local mayor her job when she responded, “Just made my day, Pam.”
As we have learned, racism makes everybody’s day in both the Virginias.
It was in all the newspapers and even the teevee. The teevee even mentions a fistfight, and that she had been removed from her job before. I kinda think she’s the Sarah Palin of the east.
I want you to savor what I’m fixing to tell you so here’s the teevee report. Please enjoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=Mba-KnRYBfA
So that bring us to today, Valentines Day.
Pamela Taylor, 57, admitted she took more than $18,000 in flood relief benefits. She falsely registered for FEMA benefits after the June 2016 floods that killed more than 20 West Virginians and destroyed numerous homes along the Elk River and elsewhere.
Taylor claimed that her primary residence had been damaged in the flood and that she was staying in a rental property. In fact, her primary residence was undamaged and she was still staying there, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Mike Stuart’s office.
You can give some people a bar of soap and a Brillo pad, but they just won’t clean up.
In her plea agreement, Taylor agreed to pay restitution of $18,149.04. She faces up to 30 years in prison and a fine of up to $500,000 when she is sentenced on May 30 by U.S. District Judge Irene C. Berger.
Yes, Judge Berger is African American. She was appointed by Barack Obama. I hope she also wears heels.
Thanks to Kary for the heads up.
Keeping Count
- Michael Flynn
- Michael Cohen
- George Papadopoulos
- Paul Manafort
HEADS UP: These are just the ones who have been adjudicated specifically about the Russians.
That right there is a list of Trump aids and campaign surrogates who have lied about contacts with Russians.
Anybody wanna guess #5? Roger Stone, Don Jr.? Brett Kavanaugh (no, wait, that’s the who lied about beer list)
I dunno about you, but this is looking kinda suspicious. You know, like (1) they are all lying about the same damn thing, (2) they all must have felt pretty confident in getting a presidential pardon, and (3) they are all members of the white males crime syndicate mixed up with Russians.
And then just to add a little fun to the mix, Andrew McCabe, former FBI director, “took copious notes.”
Former FBI assistant director Greg Brower told MSNBC on Thursday that he worked “closely” with former acting FBI Director Andre McCabe, saying the author of the latest inside look at President Donald Trump’s administration took “copious notes” about everything he did, and that he fully expected more bombshell revelations to come.
You know for a dead certain guaranteed fact that somebody went in there with a wire. You know it happened. Thelma’s already warming up her hearing aid for that.
Beto!
For about a week now, I have had reason to believe that Beto O’Rourke is not running for president, but he’s interested in running for Senate against John Cornyn. He really, really wants to be a senator.
Politico picked up on it today. There’s all kinda of political chess going on, with Texas Democrats feeling relief that we no longer have to beg candidates to run, but the new feeling of being tangled in primary fights kind of scares us.
Julián Castro lost a lot of goodwill when he decided to sit 2018 out. His presence in a statewide race might have carried the weight to have thrown the senate race to Beto and lifted other statewide candidates and judicial candidates. There’s still some heavy resentment about that.
MJ Hagar, a female war hero and excellent candidate, came awfully close to beating a well financed incumbent Republican congressman in 2018. She is also thinking about running against Cornyn. If not, she ought to take on the congressman again.
And there’s even talk of Wendy Davis running. She has been conspicuously absent since losing the Governor race four years ago. Conspicuously.
I’m sure there will be lots of squirreling around through the summer so I haven’t even polished up the crystal ball yet. Texas is getting to be fun. Finally.
Oh Whoopie, Manafort
Manafort is going to jail for the rest of his life. That was one tough federal judge.
More tomorrow.
Another One Bites the Dust
Staying three or four feet ahead of the sheriff and his posse, another Trump appointee is packing up and leaving town.
Brock Long, who investigators determined misused government vehicles during 400-mile commutes to his home in North Carolina, is stepping down as the head of FEMA, the agency chief revealed.
The unauthorized trips cost the taxpayers $151,000. He has also been politely asked refund the cost of a family vacation to Hawaii. Funding the lavish lifestyles of Trump’s friends is eating its way through the my wallet.
This is the dude who was FEMA chief during the Puerto Rico hurricane. I guess the paper towels were his idea.
Get this: before he left he sent an email to staff thanking them for this “incredible journey.” He ignored thanking them for every damn thing he could steal.
Thanks to SGray for the heads up.