An FBI intelligence report was issued the same date as the presidential debate, which I am certain Trump would have heard about at his intelligence briefing if he wasn’t talking all the damn time the whole damn day.
The report warned of an imminent “violent extremist threat” posed by a far-right militia that includes white supremacists. The threat is from the Boogaloos. The report is centered on the Dallas area.
For example, this summer, one Boogaloo, Steven Carrillo, is alleged to have killed two law enforcement officers in Northern California. True to the group’s desire to hasten the next civil war, Carrilllo is alleged to have killed the law enforcement officers at an otherwise peaceful demonstration with a silenced machine gun, in hopes of provoking retaliation from the police against the demonstrators.
File under “The Irony Causes Whiplash”, former CEO of now bankrupt Murray Energy Company, has filed for federal black lung benefits. You’ll remember Bob Murray, the guy who presided over the Crandall Mine disaster that killed 9 in 2007, and then denied responsibility for it. He’s also the litigious Trumpist who threatens to sue anyone who tells the truth publicly about him. He unsuccessfully sued John Oliver for slander after Oliver truthfully reported on Murray’s lies, earning Oliver’s spectacular “Eat Shit, Bob” response last year. For those who haven’t seen it, here it is in all of its profanity laced glory.
Murray, who is a life long climate change and science denier, lied for years that unprotected coal mining didn’t cause black lung when it’s an irrefutable fact that it does. So here we have Ol’ Eat Shit, Bob himself, filing for federal black lung benefits for a disease he claims doesn’t exist.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in Rome this week, but Pope Francis refused to meet with him, reportedly because the Vatican thought a meeting would be used to help President Donald Trump’s re-election effort.
The Pope isn’t speaking to Mike Pompeo. Well, neither am I.
A couple of weeks ago, 29 year old Nicholas J. Ellingford, was playing Roy Rogers in the checkout line of his local supermarket. He was trying to show off his
Nick has a Glock 9mm and tried to “show it off to a buddy,” according to the Lincoln City Police Department.
The cool part comes next.
Ellingford mistakenly pulled the trigger as he stuffed the piece back into his pants, police said. A bullet tore through the gunslinger’s groin and exited his thigh, just barely missing the man’s femoral artery.
You know, when Nick shows off, he really knows how to do it.
He was airlifted to Portland and is expected to make a full recovery. Well, maybe not “full,” you know.
The police said he did not have a concealed handgun license and could face criminal charges for his reckless behavior.
John Cornyn has often gotten into trouble for taking questionable political contributions and by questionable, I mean from crooks.
Now I don’t know if that’s because everybody in the Republican Party is a crook or that crooks are just naturally attracted to John Cornyn.
Back in April of last year, a man named Harry Sargeant gave Cornyn $5,600, the legal limit. The limit was legal but Mr. Sergeant isn’t. He owns a company named Sargeant Marine.
Sargeant Marine and its affiliates, through its employees and agents, concealed bribe payments to Brazilian government officials by creating fake consulting contracts and fake invoices by using cash payments and by wiring millions of dollars from the United States to offshore bank accounts held in the name of shell companies of bribe middlemen. As a result of the Brazilian bribery scheme, Sargeant Marine and its affiliated companies earned profits of approximately $26.5 million.
They plead guilty last week and agreed to a $16.6 million dollar fine. That means they only came out $10 million ahead, which certainly makes bribery a little bit unattractive.
Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.
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