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Jack,

You can tell the eagles the 2nd choice was:

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This particular one was photographed somewhere in New Hampshire...

04/20/19 11:28 AM

#8193

There's a certain regularity to the eagles' lives, and mine. Today, on the way to the gym. Me, not the eagle.

04/20/19 02:28 PM

#8194

Robert Hall

Halfway through the Mueller report. Incredible how dysfunctional things were (are) in Trump's White House. Here's hoping no real national emergency arises while he is still in office.

04/20/19 02:38 PM

#8195

Robert, Trump's time in office IS a national emergency, far greater than desperate refugee families at our borders. If not through impeachment then through elections, he must be removed. Our democracy is directly threatened by a Chief Executive with no regard for truth, or respect for justice. The Mueller report documents that disregard and disrespect, even though it may not indict.

04/20/19 02:45 PM

#8196

Glen, am steadfast in my Cup faith since Tampa Bay & Pittsburgh are eliminated but it’s getting tougher & tougher with the last two losses & (more importantly) Oshie’s injury. It looked like his left wrist (or forearm?) but I haven’t been able to get a full report. Have you? If so, please share either secretly or on forum. But either way, a win tonight is imperative! GO CAPS!!!!!!

04/20/19 06:40 PM

#8197

Nori,

I've been checking too, and the only thing we know is that Oshie is out. It will be up to the guys coming off the bench to be tall on their skates, lightning with their sticks, and brutal on Foegele...

Foegele's new jersey number is:

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04/20/19 08:47 PM

#8198

Jay Shackford

Great start. Go Caps!!!

04/21/19 07:15 AM

#8199

Woohooo!

Break another bone, Oshie! 😬

04/21/19 08:09 AM

#8200

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/20/books/review-mueller-report.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

“Book review” of the Mueller report, which will be in your bookstore this week for those who don’t want to read on-line, but want the facts unvarnished by Barr or Sanders.

From the review: “The new Ian McEwan novel, Machines Like Me,will be out soon in America. It contains a line that echoed for me across the time I spent with the Mueller report: ‘I’d never thought that vomiting could be a moral act.’”

04/21/19 08:46 AM

#8201

Tall on their skates, quick with their sticks, and the Caps’ net was invisible!

Image result for washington capitals vs hurricanes

My original intent was to down a shot of vodka for each Cap’s goal...But fortunately opted for lemonade instead.

04/21/19 08:16 PM

#8202

When the light sucks, try a silhouette!

04/23/19 10:24 AM

#8203

Holtby is not a bad goalie, but allowing the Hurricanes that many shots on him may be bad hockey...

This was not a power play; where are the rest of the white jerseys?

04/23/19 03:08 PM

#8204

Biorhythmically, not a good night for the boys. Painful, actually. Soon, unlike congressional hearings & investigations, Holtby will rest & fat lady will sing.

04/23/19 03:28 PM

#8205

Thank god for the brave men like militia leader and Trump supporter Larry Hopkins protecting us from Trump's emergency at the border.

Here's one of those immigrants, armed of course, right down there at the (Iraqi) border.

Another picture of the same immigrant.

We're lucky to have the likes of him, a REAL American, protecting us from the likes of her, a goddam Mexican!

04/23/19 04:45 PM

#8206

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/us/politics/the-mueller-report-excerpts.html

It’s a tragedy that an investigation into an attack on our democratic system could be so lengthy and detailed that some might find it boring. I’m not sure the fault is with the investigation.

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Glen, thought you’d like this shot of the eagle trying out for a job as hood ornament.

I believe I heard an eaglet doing its high-pitched cry from the bottom of the nest today!

04/23/19 05:10 PM

#8207

Joan Ruggles (Young)

Still have a few dozen pages left to read of the Mueller Report. There's SO much to digest there. Overall it is well written and easy to read with the exception of one or two cases of legalese ex: scienter.

Mueller reached an astonishing conclusion about the willingness of the DT campaign to accept stolen “things of value” in the form of dirt on Hillary. This was deemed not a crime because they were unaware that it was a crime. “the government would be unlikely to be able to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the June 9 meeting participants had general knowledge that their conduct was unlawful.” P. 188. Here’s where “scienter” comes in
scienter -a legal term meaning a mental state in which one has knowledge that one’s actions are illegal. So Don Jr. was too stupid to realize that trafficking info from a foreign adversary was illegal so he gets off scot-free.

As Rudy Giuliani preached on three different shows this weekend, taking stolen, hacked dirt from a hostile foreign adversary is now okey do-key. That’s what it’s come to.

There are three astonishing paragraphs discussing what constitutes a lie. Vol l P. 191 192 That’s what it's come to thanks to our president who has lied nearly 10,000 times since being elected.

Time and again news reports and reporters are sited in the footnotes. They got it right. Not “fake news”. Nevertheless, DT routinely goes crazy over press reports from the “fake news”. One of the reasons for trying to fire Sessions was he disliked the negative press Sessions was getting.

10 individuals refused to carry out orders from DT which they considered illegal. The notion that the people around him protected him from obstructing justice is wrong. The act of ordering them to obstruct is a crime in itself even if they refused to comply. I kept wondering instead of ordering others to fire Sessions and Mueller why didn’t DT do it himself. It’s become clear that he has learned in his many years of avoiding prosecution, that it’s always best to have a degree of separation. That way he can blame it on others and plead ignorance.
This came up again when DT was confronted with info about the emails leading up to the June 6 Trump Tower meeting with Don Jr. and the Russians. DT said several times that he didn’t want to hear about it that he didn’t need to hear about it. Nevertheless, he drafted a letter which was used to describe the meeting. Again he was looking for plausible deniability.

Phrases like “I’ve got your back” and “stay strong” re: Cohen and “He has got to go” re: Mueller were used often by DT to imply without spelling it out, that he would offer a pardon in the first case and that Mueller needed to be fired (without saying the word “fired”) in the second case. Again plausible deniability. And again all these messages of encouragement were delivered to Cohen by people other than DT. Most of Cohen’s discussions were with DT’s personal lawyer. Client/lawyer confidentiality prevents DT's lawyer from confirming what was said.

After reading this report documenting the vast amount of Russian interference in our election in order to harm our democracy and our elections, it’s impossible not to conclude that but for the Russians help and the additional help of Comey’s actions a month before the election, we have ourselves an illegitimate president. It's clear that DT fears NOTHING more than the idea that he might be found to be illegitimate.

Having said that I'm not in favor of impeachment. If the process were begun today it would likely conclude just before the 2020 election and Congress would be better off spending that time passing meaningful legislation. However, that doesn't preclude thorough investigations of the matters in the Mueller report and many others. Go Nancy! Go Adam Schiff! Go Jerry Nadler!

This is a pretty good analysis of the report if you don't want to read all 448 pages.

04/23/19 06:02 PM

#8208

Not just hood ornaments Jack,

Eagles also look petty good on tetradrachms too...

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Hmm it also looks very similar to the US 1932 era quarter...

04/23/19 06:48 PM

#8209

Thanks for the lengthy synthesis, Joan! I've read a lot of it, but not as straight through--picking areas focused on by the (GASP) press! Who seem to be honest and accurate in their description of the Mueller report, just as the report shows them to have been all along. The fakery has not come from the media, but from the White House.

I started listening to Woodward's Fear: Trump in the White House at the gym the other day. When it came out last September it was faulted by some because most of its material was on deep background, with source names and positions not revealed. But the Mueller report backs Woodward's descriptions and conclusions very completely, with references to witnesses, testimony, notes, emails, etc. Clearly there is an overlap in sources!

And I agree with you on the impeachment issue. While I understand that there is a more than credible case for numerous instances of obstruction as high crimes/misdemeanors, and its certainly within the purview of the house to oversee and check the Executive, there is little chance that Republicans in the Senate wlll find the moral backbones that their predecessors in the Nixon era had. As you say, let the investigations continue, see what they produce, but don't focus on impeachment unless something arises that even Republicans might find over the line. But when they accept Giuliani's claim that advancing a presidential campaign by eagerly receiving stolen docs from a hostile power is acceptable, it's hard to imagine what the GOP might find shameful.

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Glen, does the Latin on that tetradrachma translate as "No Collusion, No Obstruction!"? Emperor is kinda jowly looking, like our own man who would be king.

04/23/19 07:39 PM

#8210

Jerry Morgan

Please please. Don't anyone tell me that robbing a bank is a crime. I intend on using that excuse.

04/24/19 09:51 AM

#8211

Sorry Jack,

I took French from Señorita Hyatt. It was a split-lunch-break class, and the first part of the class was in Spanish, the 2^nd half was in French. The one Latin phrase I know is “sine qua non” and that is only as it applies to specific classical Northern French meat dishes.

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04/24/19 11:41 PM

#8212

GREAT season for the Caps. No complaints.

04/25/19 08:26 AM

#8213

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/440590-sessions-its-time-to-accept-the-results-of-the-mueller-report-and

I agree with A.G. Sessions completely. Let's accept the evidence of explicit lying, destruction of evidence, and other attempts to obfuscate the connections between Russian eforts to get Trump elected, and Trump campaigners' attempts to take advantage of those efforts. Let's move on to even more thorough investigation that may confirm or refute evidence of obstruction in the legal snd/or impeachable contexts.

04/25/19 09:36 AM

#8214

Yes Nori,

It was a very good season, but I just can't help thinking: "What if Trotz had of been the coach?"

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Seems like yesterday...

04/25/19 11:09 AM

#8215