The White House has announced that Trump is setting up an ad hoc panel of “scientists” to argue against scientific consensus on climate change.  Of course, actual scientists know that science doesn’t work that way – first you study and test hypotheses before you come to a conclusion…not the other way around.  Apparently, the panel is deemed “ad hoc” in order to skirt transparency regulations about advisory panels.  It figures.

Well, Adam Schiff ain’t playing around.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Adam Schiff said Sunday that they were also willing to subpoena the report if Attorney General Bill Barr doesn’t sufficiently disclose its contents.

And if that don’t work, Cookie, our new manicurist, is gonna doll herself up and march her bodacious butt and tender pink hair right into the halls of congress and break into an interpretive dance of Republican Coverup. You’re gonna have to have the children avert their eyes.  Priests and lustful Baptist preachers have to go get in a hole somewhere.

Thanks to Epp for the heads up.

Rhode Island Republican congressional candidate H. Russell Taub set up two fake Super PACs and then siphoned off more than $1 million in political donations for personal use to pay for vacations, strip club visits and escort services.  But, to his credit, he did give a little more than half a million to political candidates, but he even did that illegally.

Along the way he got to meet some GOP VIPs who match his greed and chicanery.

Ted Cruz and Mike Pence both benefitted from his crooked dealings and Chris Christi will pose with anybody.

Russell Taub set up two fake super PACs – Keeping America in Republican Control and Keeping Ohio in Republican Control – and raised $1.6 million, primarily from one married couple in Ohio. Prosecutors say he made more than $215,000 in donations directly to the campaigns of federal candidates, illegal for Super PACs under federal law.  And look at just a few who got the money (this will open in an Excel file.)

And here’s Taub, perhaps in a preview with his future roommate, Mike Flynn.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

Okay, so remember how Roger Stone told the judge that he was “having trouble putting the food on the table and making rent,” so that pretty much entitles him to make threats and yack off his mouth?

That whine was, of course, after he told pre-trial services that his consulting income was $47,000 a month.  Yeah, I dunno if I could survive on that either.

You know, I think the judge should have told him that she knew of a place where she could get him into that’s free rent and board.  Voila! Problem solved!

His 3,850 square foot rent house in Florida has a Zillow’s rent estimate of $11,116 a month. He also rents an Upper East Side apartment in New York City.

Ya wanna know why Roger Stone doesn’t own any houses?

Here’s why:

The Coral Way address [his Florida home] is the latest in a string of high-end, waterfront home rentals for the Stones in Broward and Miami-Dade. A good reason for that is likely the $1.48 million in outstanding federal tax liens against the couple on any property they might own.

Yeah, a million and half dollars. The guy owes the United States $1.5 million.

It seems to me that Stone going to jail would solve everybody’s problems.

Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.

If you do nothing else in the next hour, watch the 10 minute of Tucker Carlson getting spanked by a Rutger Bregman, a Dutch historian.

It will make you hoot.  It never aired for obvious reasons.

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.

Well, Judge Amy Berman Jackson is a much nicer and more adult person than I am.  Roger Stone is a free man.

She did put him under a full gag order.  He’s been fully gagging me for some time now, but I guess he’ll be doing gagging selfies.

She didn’t believe a word that came out of his mouth.

But Jackson didn’t buy Stone’s apology. She said it looks like the explanation came from his lawyers.

“So thank you, but the apology rings quite hollow,” she said, adding: “There’s nothing ambiguous about crosshairs.”

He claimed that a volunteer posted the picture of the judge in the crosshairs, but he didn’t know which volunteer because he had “a lot” of volunteers.  Yeah, five. He had previously said he had five volunteers.