What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Ed Anger]

Looks like there is a tax break to purchase aircraft.

I always wanted a gulfstream.

[11B4V]

But of course

In past radio appearances, Johnson had said the black community was responsible for turning major US cities into "slums" and argued that Islam's only contribution to society was "oil and dead bodies."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/16/politics/kfile-jamie-johnson-resigns/index.html

[garbon]

Ugh the hypocrisy of Trump tweeting about Franken.

[Eddie Teach]

Now Franken too? I haven't even heard any details about the Takei story yet.

[garbon]

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/360709-woman-who-accused-franken-says-she-accepts-his-apology

Woman who accused Franken says she accepts his apology

The woman who accused Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) of sexual misconduct said Thursday she accepts his apology.

"The apology, sure I accept it, yes. People make mistakes and of course he knew he made a mistake," Leeann Tweeden said. "So yes I do accept that apology. There's no reason why I shouldn't accept his apology."

She said it's up to Congress to decide if it wants to have an ethics investigation into Franken's behavior, adding that she isn't calling for Franken to step down, unless more women come forward.

"People make mistakes. I'm not calling for him to step down. That's not my place to say that," Tweeden said.

She said she wasn't "looking for anything" when she shared her story.

[garbon]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/16/trump-sons-us-lifts-import-ban-african-elephant-trophies

Trump sons' hunting in focus as US lifts import ban on African elephant trophies

The Trump administration's decision to loosen restrictions around the import of elephant trophies from Zimbabwe and Zambia has turned attention back to the president's family's own connection to the controversial sport.

Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump are prolific big-game hunters and during the 2016 campaign, images re-emerged of the pair on a 2011 hunting trip posing with animals they had killed on safari, including an elephant, a buffalo and a leopard.

The images of Trump's sons smiling with dead animals sparked a wave of criticism, with actress Mia Farrow writing on Twitter: "What went so wrong with Trump sons that they could kill this beautiful creature."

But Trump Jr told Forbes in 2012 that outrage over the images of him and his brother was misplaced. Forbes columnist Frank Miniter said Trump Jr had told him: "Elephants are overpopulated in the area the Trumps hunted and so need to be hunted to prevent them from further destroying their habitat."

Conservationists say elephants numbers are in sharp decline because of human encroachment and poaching, and that trophy hunts fuel the demand for wild animal products.

Trump himself has never expressed interest in big-game hunting. "My sons love hunting. They're hunters and they've become good at it," Trump told TMZ in 2012. "I am not a believer in hunting and I'm surprised they like it."

In 2014, the Obama administration's US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) banned the import of elephant trophies from Zimbabwe on the basis that the country had failed to show it was taking elephant management seriously.


After reversing that ban this week, an FWS spokesman told the Guardian: "Legal, well-regulated sport hunting as part of a sound management programme can benefit the conservation of certain species by providing incentives to local communities to conserve the species and by putting much-needed revenue back into conservation."

The decision was applauded by Safari Club International, a hunting rights group, and the National Rifle Association.

We need to help Zimbabwe in their time of crisis by killing all their surplus elephants.

[Admiral Yi]

You need glasses.

Did you play the clip or stop at the still?

[Eddie Teach]

I played the clip. She's definitely less attractive than the Spanish chick you scorned.

[Admiral Yi]

She's playing in a different age division.

[Iormlund]

I'm going to go with Yi here.

[Grey Fox]

She's playing in a different age division.

I get your infatuating with weirdly name journalist but Ines is top 10 politician in the world.

[The Minsky Moment]

In 2015 then Justice Moore issued a dissent in an appeal of a rape case.  He held that notwithstanding rape shield laws, the defendant should have been able to introduce evidence of the victim's sexual history:

Pittman argues in his petition to this Court that he should have been permitted to offer in his defense evidence indicating that the parents of the complaining witness suspected her of sexual activity and that the complaining witness had herpes. I believe this evidence could be relevant to the complaining witness's alleged motive in accusing Pittman 

The victim was 12.

[garbon]

WTF?

[derspiess]

She's playing in a different age division.

I get your infatuating with weirdly name journalist but Ines is top 10 politician in the world.

Only knock against her is that my mother in law also has that name

[DGuller]

In 2015 then Justice Moore issued a dissent in an appeal of a rape case.  He held that notwithstanding rape shield laws, the defendant should have been able to introduce evidence of the victim's sexual history:

Pittman argues in his petition to this Court that he should have been permitted to offer in his defense evidence indicating that the parents of the complaining witness suspected her of sexual activity and that the complaining witness had herpes. I believe this evidence could be relevant to the complaining witness's alleged motive in accusing Pittman 

The victim was 12.

I think Moore was better placed to know than most that even 12-year old girls can have sexual history.