by Bob Walsh
The People's Republic of San Francisco has just created a new civil service job with ten spots available. The job is to walk around the city with a bucket and a long-handled grabber to pick up the thousands and thousands of used syringes laying around the city.
Now they need to do something about the piles of human shit on sidewalks around the city. It is so bad there is actually an app for it so you can avoid the areas. Some people have avoided them so effectively that they have recently had at least two major conventions reschedule to other cities to avoid the filth, crime and institutionalized stupidity.
Thursday, July 26, 2018
RELEASE OF TAPE BY COHEN’S LAWYER IS STAB IN TRUMP’S BACK
Exclusive: CNN obtains secret Trump-Cohen tape
By Chris Cuomo, Kara Scannell and Eli Watkins
CNN
July 25, 2018
Presidential candidate Donald Trump is heard on tape discussing with his attorney Michael Cohen how they would buy the rights to a Playboy model's story about an alleged affair Trump had with her years earlier, according to the audio recording of the conversation aired exclusively on CNN's "Cuomo Prime Time."
The recording offers the public a glimpse at the confidential discussions between Trump and Cohen, and it confirms the man who now occupies the Oval Office had contemporaneous knowledge of a proposal to buy the rights to the story of Karen McDougal, a woman who has alleged she had an extramarital affair with Trump about a decade ago.
Cohen told Trump about his plans to set up a company and finance the purchase of the rights from American Media, which publishes the National Enquirer. The recording captures what appears to be a routine business conversation of several matters on their agenda. The audio is muddled and the meaning of Trump's use of the word "cash" is disputed by the two sides.
"I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David," Cohen said in the recording, likely a reference to American Media head David Pecker.
When financing comes up again later in the conversation, Trump interrupts Cohen asking, "What financing?" according to the recording. When Cohen tells Trump, "We'll have to pay," Trump is heard saying "pay with cash" but the audio is muddled and it's unclear whether he suggests paying with cash or not paying. Cohen says, "no, no" but it is not clear what is said next.
No payment was ever made from Trump, Rudy Giuliani, the President's attorney, has said. Giuliani has previously acknowledged that the recorded discussion related to the buying the story rights.
"There's no indication of any crime being committed on this tape," Giuliani said on Fox News Channel Tuesday night.
Trump blasted Cohen over the disclosure Wednesday morning.
"What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before? Why was the tape so abruptly terminated (cut) while I was presumably saying positive things? I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped - can this be so? Too bad!" Trump tweeted.
The recording, which was provided to CNN by Cohen's attorney Lanny Davis, was made in September 2016. It's the latest breakdown in the decade-long relationship between Trump and Cohen, who once said he would take a bullet for the President. Cohen in recent weeks has made clear he is open to cooperating with US prosecutors.
"What is this about? This is about honesty versus false disparagement of Michael Cohen. Why is Giuliani out falsely disparaging Michael Cohen -- because they fear him," Davis said on "Cuomo Prime Time."
"What do they fear, Chris? Why am I representing him? They fear that he has the truth about Donald Trump. He will someday speak the truth about Donald Trump. The truth is that when Donald Trump said 'cash,' which Rudy Giuliani knows that only drug dealers and mobsters talk about cash, it was, you heard Michael Cohen ... say what? 'No, no, no, no.'"
Davis later added: "Ladies and gentlemen, if you voted for Donald Trump, listen to the tape and ask yourself: Is Donald Trump lying when he said he didn't use the word 'cash' and accuses Michael Cohen of using the word 'cash'? Cohen has been disparaged. Cohen has been insulted and called all sorts of things by people around Donald Trump."
Giuliani and Alan Futerfas, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, refuted that the tape shows Trump was offering a cash payment.
"There's no way the President is going to be setting up a corporation and then using cash, unless you're a complete idiot," Giuliani said on Fox News Tuesday night.
"This was leaked on us with a very, very scurrilous description of what was on the tape," he added.
Cash, in the conversation, was in reference to how a deal would be financed, Futerfas said.
"Whoever is telling Davis that cash in that conversation refers to green currency is lying to him," Futerfas told CNN. "There's no transaction done in green currency. It doesn't happen. The whole deal never happened. If it was going to happen, it would be a payment to a large company that would obviously be accompanied by an agreement of sale. Those documents would be prepared by lawyers on both sides."
"The word cash came up in the context of the distinction between financing, which is referenced, and no financing, which means a full payment, a total one-time payment. That's the context in which the word cash is used," he said. "Anyone who knows anything about the company or how the President does business knows there is no green cash. Everything is documented. Every penny is documented."
On the tape Cohen also says, "I've spoken with (Trump Organization chief financial officer) Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding."
Futerfas declined to answer whether the payment would have been from the company or from Trump's personal finances. He said Weisselberg wore two hats working for Trump and his company. "I don't even know what Michael Cohen would have said to Allen Weisselberg because all Allen does is bookkeeping and process requests for transactions that are given to him," Futerfas said.
Court filings said federal prosecutors have obtained 12 audio recordings from the FBI raids on Cohen earlier this year. CNN previously reported that Trump's lawyers waived attorney-client privilege on the President's behalf regarding the recording involving him personally.
The audio recording of Trump and Cohen relates to whether Trump should buy the rights of the story from American Media, which paid McDougal $150,000 in August 2016 for her story about an alleged 10 month affair with Trump. The story was never published by AMI.
An attorney for AMI declined to comment Tuesday night.
A spokesman for the US attorney's office in Manhattan, which is investigating Cohen, declined to comment.
In addition to discussing the McDougal payment, Trump and Cohen are overheard running through a list of potential legal issues, including contesting a New York Times request to unseal divorce records from Trump's first wife Ivana as well as more mundane matters such as polling numbers and Trump surrogate Pastor Mark Burns.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis all but called Trump a mobster on Wednesday during an interview on ABC’s Good Morning America. He insisted that it was Trump who suggested the payoff be made in cash and added that “We know that Trump used the word 'cash' and people who use cash, [as] Rudy Giuliani knows when he's U.S. attorney, are either drug dealers or mobsters.”
By Chris Cuomo, Kara Scannell and Eli Watkins
CNN
July 25, 2018
Presidential candidate Donald Trump is heard on tape discussing with his attorney Michael Cohen how they would buy the rights to a Playboy model's story about an alleged affair Trump had with her years earlier, according to the audio recording of the conversation aired exclusively on CNN's "Cuomo Prime Time."
The recording offers the public a glimpse at the confidential discussions between Trump and Cohen, and it confirms the man who now occupies the Oval Office had contemporaneous knowledge of a proposal to buy the rights to the story of Karen McDougal, a woman who has alleged she had an extramarital affair with Trump about a decade ago.
Cohen told Trump about his plans to set up a company and finance the purchase of the rights from American Media, which publishes the National Enquirer. The recording captures what appears to be a routine business conversation of several matters on their agenda. The audio is muddled and the meaning of Trump's use of the word "cash" is disputed by the two sides.
"I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend David," Cohen said in the recording, likely a reference to American Media head David Pecker.
When financing comes up again later in the conversation, Trump interrupts Cohen asking, "What financing?" according to the recording. When Cohen tells Trump, "We'll have to pay," Trump is heard saying "pay with cash" but the audio is muddled and it's unclear whether he suggests paying with cash or not paying. Cohen says, "no, no" but it is not clear what is said next.
No payment was ever made from Trump, Rudy Giuliani, the President's attorney, has said. Giuliani has previously acknowledged that the recorded discussion related to the buying the story rights.
"There's no indication of any crime being committed on this tape," Giuliani said on Fox News Channel Tuesday night.
Trump blasted Cohen over the disclosure Wednesday morning.
"What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before? Why was the tape so abruptly terminated (cut) while I was presumably saying positive things? I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped - can this be so? Too bad!" Trump tweeted.
The recording, which was provided to CNN by Cohen's attorney Lanny Davis, was made in September 2016. It's the latest breakdown in the decade-long relationship between Trump and Cohen, who once said he would take a bullet for the President. Cohen in recent weeks has made clear he is open to cooperating with US prosecutors.
"What is this about? This is about honesty versus false disparagement of Michael Cohen. Why is Giuliani out falsely disparaging Michael Cohen -- because they fear him," Davis said on "Cuomo Prime Time."
"What do they fear, Chris? Why am I representing him? They fear that he has the truth about Donald Trump. He will someday speak the truth about Donald Trump. The truth is that when Donald Trump said 'cash,' which Rudy Giuliani knows that only drug dealers and mobsters talk about cash, it was, you heard Michael Cohen ... say what? 'No, no, no, no.'"
Davis later added: "Ladies and gentlemen, if you voted for Donald Trump, listen to the tape and ask yourself: Is Donald Trump lying when he said he didn't use the word 'cash' and accuses Michael Cohen of using the word 'cash'? Cohen has been disparaged. Cohen has been insulted and called all sorts of things by people around Donald Trump."
Giuliani and Alan Futerfas, a lawyer for the Trump Organization, refuted that the tape shows Trump was offering a cash payment.
"There's no way the President is going to be setting up a corporation and then using cash, unless you're a complete idiot," Giuliani said on Fox News Tuesday night.
"This was leaked on us with a very, very scurrilous description of what was on the tape," he added.
Cash, in the conversation, was in reference to how a deal would be financed, Futerfas said.
"Whoever is telling Davis that cash in that conversation refers to green currency is lying to him," Futerfas told CNN. "There's no transaction done in green currency. It doesn't happen. The whole deal never happened. If it was going to happen, it would be a payment to a large company that would obviously be accompanied by an agreement of sale. Those documents would be prepared by lawyers on both sides."
"The word cash came up in the context of the distinction between financing, which is referenced, and no financing, which means a full payment, a total one-time payment. That's the context in which the word cash is used," he said. "Anyone who knows anything about the company or how the President does business knows there is no green cash. Everything is documented. Every penny is documented."
On the tape Cohen also says, "I've spoken with (Trump Organization chief financial officer) Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with funding."
Futerfas declined to answer whether the payment would have been from the company or from Trump's personal finances. He said Weisselberg wore two hats working for Trump and his company. "I don't even know what Michael Cohen would have said to Allen Weisselberg because all Allen does is bookkeeping and process requests for transactions that are given to him," Futerfas said.
Court filings said federal prosecutors have obtained 12 audio recordings from the FBI raids on Cohen earlier this year. CNN previously reported that Trump's lawyers waived attorney-client privilege on the President's behalf regarding the recording involving him personally.
The audio recording of Trump and Cohen relates to whether Trump should buy the rights of the story from American Media, which paid McDougal $150,000 in August 2016 for her story about an alleged 10 month affair with Trump. The story was never published by AMI.
An attorney for AMI declined to comment Tuesday night.
A spokesman for the US attorney's office in Manhattan, which is investigating Cohen, declined to comment.
In addition to discussing the McDougal payment, Trump and Cohen are overheard running through a list of potential legal issues, including contesting a New York Times request to unseal divorce records from Trump's first wife Ivana as well as more mundane matters such as polling numbers and Trump surrogate Pastor Mark Burns.
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cohen’s attorney Lanny Davis all but called Trump a mobster on Wednesday during an interview on ABC’s Good Morning America. He insisted that it was Trump who suggested the payoff be made in cash and added that “We know that Trump used the word 'cash' and people who use cash, [as] Rudy Giuliani knows when he's U.S. attorney, are either drug dealers or mobsters.”
Wednesday, July 25, 2018
AMERICA’S DAD RECOMMENDED FOR NEW HONOR
Pennsylvania state advisory board recommends that Bill Cosby should be classified as a 'sexually violent predator'
By Emily Crane
Daily Mail
July 24, 2018
A Pennsylvania state advisory board has recommended that Bill Cosby be deemed a 'sexually violent predator', which would require the convicted comedian to undergo counseling and register as a sex offender for life.
The Montgomery County District Attorney's office that prosecuted Cosby requested a hearing on Tuesday so a judge can make the final decision on whether the 81-year-old comedian should be considered sexually violent.
The 81-year-old comedian, who was convicted April 26 of aggravated indecent assault, was accused of drugging and assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his home near Philadelphia in 2004.
The weekslong retrial included testimony from five other women who were among the dozens to accuse Cosby of similar sexual misconduct.
The former TV star, once known as 'America's Dad' for his portrayal of kindly Dr Cliff Huxtable on 'The Cosby Show', is now under house arrest with a GPS ankle monitor awaiting sentencing.
He is only allowed to leave to visit doctors or lawyers ahead of his September 24 hearing. Cosby faces up to 10 years in prison but his representatives have said he plans to appeal.
The report by the Sexual Offenders Assessment Board, which examined 14 different criteria, is not public.
Copies are given to the prosecutor, defense attorney and court before the hearing and the board's assessor will likely testify about how she made the recommendation.
State law already requires Cosby to register as a sex offender because of the nature of the charge of which he was convicted.
The sexually violent predator classification would require increased treatment in prison and increased notification of neighbors upon release.
A person deemed a predator is subject to lifetime, at least monthly, mandatory sex offender counseling with a treatment provider approved by the state board.
Under Pennsylvania law, a sexually violent predator is a person who has 'a mental abnormality or personality disorder the makes the person likely to engage in predatory sexually violent offenses.'
Following news of the board's recommendation, Cosby's victim Andrea Constand tweeted: 'I am very thankful right now'.
Asked about the assessment board hearing, Cosby's spokesman Andrew Wyatt said: 'We will see them in court'.
It comes after police were called to Cosby's home earlier this month for a noise complaint while he was celebrating his 81st birthday.
By Emily Crane
Daily Mail
July 24, 2018
A Pennsylvania state advisory board has recommended that Bill Cosby be deemed a 'sexually violent predator', which would require the convicted comedian to undergo counseling and register as a sex offender for life.
The Montgomery County District Attorney's office that prosecuted Cosby requested a hearing on Tuesday so a judge can make the final decision on whether the 81-year-old comedian should be considered sexually violent.
The 81-year-old comedian, who was convicted April 26 of aggravated indecent assault, was accused of drugging and assaulting former Temple University employee Andrea Constand at his home near Philadelphia in 2004.
The weekslong retrial included testimony from five other women who were among the dozens to accuse Cosby of similar sexual misconduct.
The former TV star, once known as 'America's Dad' for his portrayal of kindly Dr Cliff Huxtable on 'The Cosby Show', is now under house arrest with a GPS ankle monitor awaiting sentencing.
He is only allowed to leave to visit doctors or lawyers ahead of his September 24 hearing. Cosby faces up to 10 years in prison but his representatives have said he plans to appeal.
The report by the Sexual Offenders Assessment Board, which examined 14 different criteria, is not public.
Copies are given to the prosecutor, defense attorney and court before the hearing and the board's assessor will likely testify about how she made the recommendation.
State law already requires Cosby to register as a sex offender because of the nature of the charge of which he was convicted.
The sexually violent predator classification would require increased treatment in prison and increased notification of neighbors upon release.
A person deemed a predator is subject to lifetime, at least monthly, mandatory sex offender counseling with a treatment provider approved by the state board.
Under Pennsylvania law, a sexually violent predator is a person who has 'a mental abnormality or personality disorder the makes the person likely to engage in predatory sexually violent offenses.'
Following news of the board's recommendation, Cosby's victim Andrea Constand tweeted: 'I am very thankful right now'.
Asked about the assessment board hearing, Cosby's spokesman Andrew Wyatt said: 'We will see them in court'.
It comes after police were called to Cosby's home earlier this month for a noise complaint while he was celebrating his 81st birthday.
THE ULTIMATE SELFIE
by Bob Walsh
Sarah Schmid, 36, is from Germany, and is currently living in France. She currently has six children. For reasons passing understanding she decided to give birth to rugrat #6 in her backyard at home, completely unassisted, with her other five children looking on. The whole messy thing was live-streamed on YouTube.
All you selfie dilettantes out there are gonna have to go some to beat that.
Sarah Schmid, 36, is from Germany, and is currently living in France. She currently has six children. For reasons passing understanding she decided to give birth to rugrat #6 in her backyard at home, completely unassisted, with her other five children looking on. The whole messy thing was live-streamed on YouTube.
All you selfie dilettantes out there are gonna have to go some to beat that.
NO, NOTHING WRONG HERE
by Bob Walsh
Willie Wilson is a black man living in Chicago. He is a Democrat, and is running for Mayor. That should come as no surprise, I don't believe Republicans are legally permitted to run for office in Chicago.
He happened to be in church this weekend and just happened to give out about $300,000 in cash money to the parishoners, to help them pay their bills, because he is a nice guy. He said it has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with him running for Mayor. He said it with a straight face.
The Chicago elections board has said there it is all perfectly legal. Of course it is, he is a Democrat.
Willie Wilson is a black man living in Chicago. He is a Democrat, and is running for Mayor. That should come as no surprise, I don't believe Republicans are legally permitted to run for office in Chicago.
He happened to be in church this weekend and just happened to give out about $300,000 in cash money to the parishoners, to help them pay their bills, because he is a nice guy. He said it has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with him running for Mayor. He said it with a straight face.
The Chicago elections board has said there it is all perfectly legal. Of course it is, he is a Democrat.
NEWS FLASH...NINTH CIRCUIT REMOVES COLLECTIVE HEAD FROM COLLECTIVE ASS
by Bob Walsh
Acting on Tuesday a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recognized that the Second Amendment DOES in fact protect an individual right to bear arms in public in the case of Young vs. Hawaii.
Among other things the ruling, which had extensive historical research, stated "Just as the Second Amendment does not protect a right to bear arms only in connection with a militia, it surely does not protect a right to bear arms only as a security guard." Further the ruling stated, "But, for better or worse, the Second Amendment does protect a right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense." The ruling notes that no concealed carry license had EVER been granted by the county in which Young resides, seeming to indicated that no one within the county has ever had good cause to be issued a concealed carry license.
This puts the case somewhat at odds with a ruling by the entire Ninth Circuit two years ago in Peruta vs. San Diego County. In that case SCOTUS refused to hear the case, leaving the anti-2A ruling intact. It seems this is likely to set things up for a new referral to SCOTUS which, in light of the Heller decision and recent changes in the court, is likely to be good for fans of the Constitution.
Acting on Tuesday a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recognized that the Second Amendment DOES in fact protect an individual right to bear arms in public in the case of Young vs. Hawaii.
Among other things the ruling, which had extensive historical research, stated "Just as the Second Amendment does not protect a right to bear arms only in connection with a militia, it surely does not protect a right to bear arms only as a security guard." Further the ruling stated, "But, for better or worse, the Second Amendment does protect a right to carry a firearm in public for self-defense." The ruling notes that no concealed carry license had EVER been granted by the county in which Young resides, seeming to indicated that no one within the county has ever had good cause to be issued a concealed carry license.
This puts the case somewhat at odds with a ruling by the entire Ninth Circuit two years ago in Peruta vs. San Diego County. In that case SCOTUS refused to hear the case, leaving the anti-2A ruling intact. It seems this is likely to set things up for a new referral to SCOTUS which, in light of the Heller decision and recent changes in the court, is likely to be good for fans of the Constitution.
ADIOS AMIGOS, HASTA LA VISTA
Inmates escape Mexican prison, walk out the front gate dressed as guards By Danielle Haynes
By Danielle Haynes
UPI
July 23, 2018
July 23 -- Two inmates at a prison in Mexico's Sinaloa state walked out of the front gate of the facility while dressed as prison guards, state officials said Monday.
Two guards at Culiacan Prison aided the escapees by driving a getaway car Sunday, police said.
El Universal identified the two men as Julian Grimaldi Paredes and Carlos Jesus Salomon Higuera.
Federal officials said Grimaldi Paredes was involved in the Sinaloa Cartel and participated in an ambush of an army convoy in 2016.
Police said Salomon Higuera took part in an ambush of state police in 2012 in which seven officers died.
Fermin Hernandez Montealegre, secretary of public security in Sinaloa, said the two men were being held in a new part of the prison and had to bypass several security measures before escaping.
Sinaloa Gov. Quirino Ordaz Coppel ordered an investigation into the escape and called on anyone who assisted the prisoners to come forward.
"That is and will be the main objective, to recapture them," he said, describing the two men has highly dangerous.
By Danielle Haynes
UPI
July 23, 2018
July 23 -- Two inmates at a prison in Mexico's Sinaloa state walked out of the front gate of the facility while dressed as prison guards, state officials said Monday.
Two guards at Culiacan Prison aided the escapees by driving a getaway car Sunday, police said.
El Universal identified the two men as Julian Grimaldi Paredes and Carlos Jesus Salomon Higuera.
Federal officials said Grimaldi Paredes was involved in the Sinaloa Cartel and participated in an ambush of an army convoy in 2016.
Police said Salomon Higuera took part in an ambush of state police in 2012 in which seven officers died.
Fermin Hernandez Montealegre, secretary of public security in Sinaloa, said the two men were being held in a new part of the prison and had to bypass several security measures before escaping.
Sinaloa Gov. Quirino Ordaz Coppel ordered an investigation into the escape and called on anyone who assisted the prisoners to come forward.
"That is and will be the main objective, to recapture them," he said, describing the two men has highly dangerous.
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