Reign Of Pain posted:

Casimir Radon posted:

She's got boobies? That's terrible.

Milo and POTUS posted:

https://twitter.com/feraljokes/status/1095799840330694656?s=19

Doc Hawkins posted:

mods changed my name posted:

ok, and how much will they make when the doors are locked?

quote:

A federal judge has found that Paul Manafort intentionally lied to investigators and a federal grand jury in the Russia probe.

U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson says in an order that there's sufficient evidence that Manafort lied in breach of his plea agreement.

The decision hurts Manafort's chance of receiving a reduced sentence next month.

Manafort was accused of lying about several matters including his discussions with a longtime associate the FBI says has ties to Russian intelligence. Mueller's prosecutors have said the discussions between Manafort and Konstantin Kilimnik about a Ukrainian peace plan go to the "heart" of the Mueller probe.

Manafort was also accused of lying about sharing polling data with Kilimnik during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Manafort remains jailed awaiting sentencing.

shame on an IGA posted:

Seriously, this transformation:



...posts in GBS for a while...

Edgar posted:

Speaking of Mormons.. As a Jack Mormon and utah resident, a law maker proposed that we allow 4.8% beer in grocery stores and gas stations instead of the 3.2%.
Of course the Church, which roughly 9 out of 10 law makers are members of, opposed the bill.

Church opposes sale of heavy beer

Milo and POTUS posted:

https://twitter.com/feraljokes/status/1095799840330694656?s=19

shame on an IGA posted:

Seriously, this transformation:



...posts in GBS for a while...

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/1095820104938471429?s=19

He's a Republican Lieutenant Colonel in the Air National Guard.

facialimpediment posted:

https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/1095820104938471429?s=19

He's a Republican Lieutenant Colonel in the Air National Guard.

Bored As gently caress posted:

Hopefully he gets dysentery.

EBB posted:

https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1095764378954141696

FrozenVent posted:

How did you guys not know about this practice?

Hexyflexy posted:

They should be if you don’t get your monies worth, which is like 90% of the time. gently caress it, make it so you can sue the uni for not doing a good enough job. They’d think twice about charging so much.

RFC2324 posted:

I know when I was homeless people loved that poo poo. it was good easy money for doing what you would be doing anyway.

Casimir Radon posted:

Could someone who knows a thing or two briefly summarize the LaRouche movement? All I know is that it's some kind of weird right wing cult that's held on for 50 years somehow

quote:

Defining what Mr. LaRouche stood for was no easy task. He began his political career on the far left and ended it on the far right. He said he admired Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan and loathed Hitler, the composer Richard Wagner and other anti-Semites, though he himself made anti-Semitic statements.

He was fascinated with physics and mathematics, particularly geometry, but called concerns about climate change “a scientific fraud.”

He condemned modern music as a tool of invidious conspiracies — he saw rock as a particularly British one — and found universal organizing principles in the music of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart.
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Mr. LaRouche denigrated a panoply of ethnic groups and organized religions. He railed against the “Eastern Establishment” and environmentalists, who he said were trying to wipe out the human race. Queen Elizabeth II of England was plotting to have him killed, he said. Jews had surreptitiously founded the Ku Klux Klan, he said. He described Native Americans as “lower beasts.”

Even so, Mr. LaRouche was able to develop alliances with farmers, the Nation of Islam, teamsters, abortion opponents and Klan adherents. Acolytes kept Mr. LaRouche’s political machine going by peddling his tracts and magazines in airports, and by persuading relatives and friends to donate large sums to help him fight his designated enemies.

He operated through a dizzying array of front groups, among them the National Democratic Policy Committee, through which he received millions of dollars in federal matching money in his recurring presidential campaigns. His forces also sponsored candidates at the state and local levels, including for school board seats.

His movement attracted national attention, especially in 1986, when two LaRouche followers, Mark Fairchild and Janice Hart, unexpectedly won the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor and secretary of state, respectively, in Illinois.

Critics of Mr. LaRouche said he had used that committee to deceive people abroad as well. In 1982, he managed to arrange a meeting with President José López Portillo of Mexico, evidently because Mexican officials thought Mr. LaRouche represented the Democratic Party.

Whatever he was, he received thousands of votes in his campaigns for president. In 1980, he outpolled Gov. Jerry Brown of California by a thousand votes in the Democratic presidential primary in Connecticut. In 1986, the candidates fielded by his National Democratic Policy Committee received 20 to 40 percent of the vote in local elections in California, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas.

FrozenVent posted:

How did you guys not know about this practice?

El Mero Mero posted:

Yeah. It's common at every level of government. In my town, landlords hired folks to pack the room at every rent control hearing last year, shutting actual renters out.

El Mero Mero posted:

Yeah. It's common at every level of government. In my town, landlords hired folks to pack the room at every rent control hearing last year, shutting actual renters out.

Milo and POTUS posted:

Jesus loving christ. We really don't have a prayer, do we.

Milo and POTUS posted:

Jesus loving christ. We really don't have a prayer, do we.