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| Topic | Stan Lee died. |
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| Topic | Schneider back for Devils, now wants to win |
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11/03/18 3:32:59 PM
#8 | How Devils' Cory Schneider felt in 1st NHL start since hip surgeryhttps://bit.ly/2AKpX04 -nj.com DETROIT -- One save forced Cory Schneider to his back. A hectic scramble at the crease forced him to make two mores saves from the same position.
In a tie game with less than 10 minutes to play, a sequence of three saves by Schneider, where he needed to sprawl, stretch and extend to protect the net, truly tested where he was at physically.
It ultimately didn't matter in a 4-3 Devils loss to the Detroit Red Wings on Thursday at Little Caesars Arena, but in terms of proving Schneider's ability to physically handle an NHL game, it meant everything.
"I didn't really feel any limitations physically," Schneider said. "I was able to move freely and all that stuff. We'll see how it feels tonight and tomorrow and see how it responds, but again, physically there weren't any issues."
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| Topic | Schneider back for Devils, now wants to win |
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11/02/18 2:22:43 PM
#1 | https://atnhl.com/2Djd5Rd - NHL.com DETROIT -- Sure, it felt good to be back. New Jersey Devils goalie Cory Schneider started an NHL game Thursday for the first time since having surgery on his left hip May 1. He felt fine physically. He didn't feel too rusty.
But the Devils lost to the Detroit Red Wings 4-3 at Little Caesars Arena, and he was upset with a shot that leaked through his body on the penalty kill, a goal he allowed on the power play and his rebound control.
"You don't really take away a lot of positive out of this for me," he said afterward.
After all, he didn't come back for the sake of coming back. He came back to win, and he hasn't won in the regular season since Dec. 27, when he made 31 saves in a 3-1 win against the Red Wings at Prudential Center.
"Now it's up to me, all the work I've done, all the time and effort I've put into this, to make it worth something and go out and play well and be better than I was last year," he told NHL.com Wednesday.
Schneider cautioned he wasn't a doctor. But he's a smart guy who spent three years at Boston College, and he sounded like he went to medical school the way he described his ordeal.
The top of the femur, the femoral head, rotates in your hip joint. The labrum is a thin piece of cartilage around the femoral head "almost like a tire around a wheel," he said, allowing it to move.
A goalie wears on his hip joints over time as he drops into butterfly positions and scoots across his crease, and bone spurs can develop on the femoral head and inside the hip joint.
Schneider couldn't remember a singular instance when he felt a problem. He said it wasn't debilitating and pointed out he had a strong first half last season, going 17-6-4 with a .923 save percentage in his first 28 games.
But he went 0-10-2 with a .863 save percentage in his last 12 games, while missing more than a month with a groin injury that might have been related. He went 1-2 with a .950 save percentage in four games in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, a five-game loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning in the Eastern Conference First Round.
"It got to the point if I was bringing my knees into a butterfly position -- internally rotated, they call it -- I'd get a pretty sharp pinch," he said. "And part of the problem is, that bone growth, it makes you stop. It hits the hip joint, and you can't go any further. So my range was somewhat limited."
Schneider underwent a 2 1/2- or three-hour procedure to repair his labrum and shave down the bone. He was off crutches 10 days afterward. Not that it mattered.
"Honestly, it wasn't overly painful or grueling or anything like that," he said. "But the hard part is, you can't really do anything for three months. They don't want you to run, jump, skate. You can lightly bike and do the rehab stretches and exercises. So those first three months, it's just boring. They say, 'If you think you can do something, don't do it. Do less.' "
From May 1 to July 31, Schneider worked on his upper body, core and good leg, and stayed diligent about his diet. Once he reached Aug. 1, he could go on the ice. Still, he had to take it slowly.
"It's basically learning to skate again," he said.
Week 1, circle and light turns. Week 2, a little more. And so on.
It wasn't until Week 6, mid-September, that he was able to drop into a butterfly again.
"I think we did it the right way in terms of going easy on it, so we didn't have any setbacks, no tendonitis, no things that can crop up if you go back too soon," he said.
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| Topic | Even More Fortnite Funko Collectibles Are On The Way |
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10/27/18 7:22:52 AM
#1 | https://bit.ly/2PZHsPd - GameSpot Fortnite is one of the biggest games in operation right now, and its constantly rotating cast of characters and skins gives lots of material to be immortalized by Funko. The company behind the little collectible figurines has announced a whole new spate of Funkos on the way in addition to the ones already announced.
Five-Star figures include Omega, Zoey with bandages, Moonwalker with Slurp Juice, Love Ranger, and Tomato Head. The Pint Size Heroes two-packs will bring Pathfinder with Highrise Assault Trooper, Ranger with Zoey, Funk Ops with Tomato Head, Omega with Valor, Raptor with Elite Agent, Black Knight with Red Knight, Rex with Tricera Ops, Cuddle Team Leader with Ghoul Trooper, and Moonwalker with Burnout.
New Vnyl figurines include a Cuddle Team Leader and Love Ranger two-pack, along with a Rex and Tricera Ops two-pack. The company also announced a bunch of new Pocket Pop keychains: Pocket Pop! Dark Voyager, Moonwalker, Highrise Assault Trooper, Tower Recon Specialist, Skull Trooper, Black Knight, Omega in full armor, Raptor, Brite Bomber, and Rex.
Finally, two more Pop figurines are coming: Rex and Dark Voyager. You can view the full spate of new figures below. Release dates weren't given for the new Pops and other assorted figurines.
Currently Fortnite is celebrating its new Fortnitemares event with some special loot, and more spooky skins appear to be on the way soon. --- |
| Topic | Retired US general says war with China likely in 15 years |
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10/25/18 8:35:13 AM
#1 | https://fxn.ws/2PVdZGi - Fox News WARSAW, Poland The former commander of the U.S. Army in Europe says it's likely the United States will be at war with China in 15 years.
Retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges said at a Warsaw security forum on Wednesday that European allies will have to do more to ensure their own defenses against Russia as Americans focus more on the Pacific.
Hodges said: "I think in 15 years it's not inevitable, but it is a very strong likelihood that we will be at war with China. The United States does not have the capacity to do everything it has to do in Europe and in the Pacific to deal with the Chinese threat."
Hodges, now with the Center for European Policy Analysis, was U.S. Army commander in Europe during 2014-17. --- |
| Topic | GE shares soar as much as 16% after fallen blue chip dumps Flannery as CEO |
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10/01/18 9:01:04 AM
#1 | https://goo.gl/QdJein - CNBC Struggling industrial conglomerate General Electric abruptly removed John Flannery as chairman and CEO on Monday after only a year on the job, and installed former Danaher CEO Lawrence Culp as his successor.
GE shares, which had fallen to a nine-year low last week, surged in reaction.
GE also announced a $23 billion noncash charge for its ailing power business and said it will "fall short of previously indicated guidance for free cash flow and EPS for 2018," as many on Wall Street had warned.
Flannery's removal was driven by the board's frustration with the slow pace of change under his leadership, and not driven the power business woes, sources familiar with the issue told CNBC.
Culp was named to the GE board in April.
GE shares surged as much as 16 percent to $13.10 in premarket trading Monday. Last week, the stock posted one of its worst weeks of the year, down 7 percent and hitting a nine-year low of $11.21.
Flannery was appointed August 2017, taking the helm from Jeff Immelt as the conglomerate's stock fell steadily. But GE's value had continued to erode, setting new lows as investors remain unconvinced by Flannery's turnaround plan.
Last June, GE was kicked out of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It had been the longest-serving component of the blue chip index 111 years.
Despite Flannery's efforts, GE's stagnant power business has hit new roadblocks, such as a failure of a turbine blade at the Colorado Bend power plant in Wharton County, Texas.
Its board of directors met Wednesday to discuss how widespread the turbine failure was, according to The Wall Street Journal. Flannery reportedly reassured employees that the company's engineers had found a solution to the flaw and told staff to "fight for the company," saying media reports overplayed the turbine failure.
GE's business of selling turbines to gas and coal-fired power plants had already been suffering in recent years as utilities ramped up construction of solar and wind farms. GE has also acknowledged that it misread the market, leaving it with large inventories of unsold equipment. In addition, the sales slowdown hurts the company's ability to make money by servicing the equipment.
"GE Power's current goodwill balance is approximately $23 billion and the goodwill impairment charge is likely to constitute substantially all of this balance," GE said Monday. "The impairment charge is not yet finalized and remains subject to review."
Previously, the company endeavored to shrink operational costs in the troubled power unit by about $1 billion, address operational problems and adjust the size of the business based on the needs of the market.
GE was worth nearly $600 billion in August 2000 a time when it was one of the most valuable companies in history. Its valuation slipped over the first decade of Immelt's tenure as CEO before taking a sharp hit during the 2009 financial crisis. But GE's value recovered to prerecession levels nearly as quickly, reaching as much as $300 billion by December 2015. Yet shareholder confidence began crumbling sharply in January 2017, at about $31 per share. --- |
| Topic | Dallas police fire officer who killed man in his own apartment |
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09/24/18 12:57:17 PM
#1 | https://goo.gl/QT6wUG - The Hill The Dallas police officer who fatally shot her neighbor in his own apartment was fired on Monday after an internal review of the incident.
Police Chief U. Rene Hall fired officer Amber Guyger during a disciplinary hearing, the Dallas Police Department said in a statement. Guyger, who was hired in November 2013, can appeal the decision, it added.
An internal affairs investigation found that Guyger "engaged in adverse conduct" when she fatally shot her neighbor, Botham Jean, earlier this month.
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Dallas Police Dept (@DallasPD) September 24, 2018
Guyger, who is white, returned to what she says she believed to be her apartment, but mistakenly entered her neighbors unit. Guyger said she believed Jean, who is black, to be an intruder and shot him.
He was later pronounced dead at a Dallas hospital.
Guyger was arrested and charged with manslaughter days after the incident.
A lawyer for Jeans family said at a press conference that Jean was unarmed when Guyger entered the apartment.
Jeans death has sparked calls for justice nationwide and reignited the conversation around police brutality and racial tensions.
National Rifle Association spokeswoman Dana Loesch had a one-word response to Guygers firing.
Good, she tweeted.
Good. https://t.co/kWSAynIJeT
Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) September 24, 2018
Loesch sparked controversy by saying earlier this month Botham Jean might be alive if he were a gun owner. --- |
| Topic | Florence kills 5, including infant, in North Carolina, officials say |
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09/15/18 8:05:46 AM
#1 | https://goo.gl/2qXznE - CNN (CNN)At least five people, including a mother and her infant, have died in North Carolina as Tropical Storm Florence slowly moved from the Tar Heel State into South Carolina, officials said Friday.
After coming ashore in North Carolina as a Category 1 hurricane, Florence was downgraded to a tropical storm Friday afternoon and trudged into South Carolina as night came.
Two people died in Wilmington after a tree fell on their house, the city's police department said.
"WPD can confirm the first two fatalities of Hurricane #Florence in Wilmington. A mother and infant were killed when a tree fell on their house," police tweeted Friday afternoon. "The father was transported to (New Hanover Regional Medical Center) with injuries." Click the URL above for full article. --- |
| Topic | John McCain's daughter at funeral service: 'America was always great' |
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09/01/18 1:20:00 PM
#1 | https://goo.gl/d9bSy6 - Fox News Meghan McCain and President Barack Obama took apparent swipes at President Trump on Saturday in a eulogy for John McCain -- who sparred with Trump on a number of occasions before his death last week of brain cancer.
"The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great,' McCain's daughter said, in what appeared to be a reference to Trump's presidential campaign slogan: "Make America Great Again."
The remarks were made during a funeral service at Washington National Cathedral for the Arizona Republican, who died last week of brain cancer.
Obama's jabs were more subtle but still appeared to be directed at the current occupant of the White House. He derided those in politics who traffic in "bombast and insult and phony controversies and manufactured outrage."
He also attacked "a politics that pretends to be brave and tough but in fact is born of fear."
"John called on us to be bigger than that. He called on us to be better than that, he said.
It was Meghan McCain who had the most searing swipes at the president however. Notably she said that her father's passing represented the passing of "American greatness. The real thing, not cheap rhetoric from men who will never come near the sacrifice he gave so willingly, nor the opportunistic appropriation of those who lived lives of comfort and privilege while he suffered and served."
"John as he was the first to tell you was not a perfect man. But he dedicated his life to national ideals that are as perfect as men and women have yet conceived," he said. "He was motivated by a vision of America carried ever forward, ever upward, on the strength of its principles."
The funeral service notably did not feature President Trump, who had feuded with McCain, particularly during the presidential campaign. In 2015, after McCain had said Trump's platform had "fired up the crazies," Trump had mocked McCain's imprisonment in the Vietnam War, saying: "I like people that weren't captured." Trump has also fumed about McCain's vote last year to kill off a bill to reform ObamaCare.
Both Trump's daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner were in attendance. Trump, meanwhile, went to the Trump National Golf Club in Virginia. He also tweeted about subjects including the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Russian investigation.
Cindy McCain lays a wreath at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. pic.twitter.com/KOOviKNb2p
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A six-term senator and a Vietnam veteran who was held as a prisoner of war for more than five years, McCain pushed for bipartisanship on the Hill. He ran against Bush for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000. He clinched the nomination in 2008 but was defeated in the presidential election by Obama.
Other notable speakers included former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman.
"His death seems to have reminded the American people that these values are what makes us a great nation, not the tribal partisanship and personal attack politics that have recently characterized our life, " Lieberman, who McCain considered for his vice-presidential nominee, said.
McCains pallbearers included actor Warren Beatty and Russian dissident Vladimir Kara-Murza, as well as former Vice President Joe Biden and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
Earlier Saturday, his casket traveled to the cathedral after stopping at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, where McCains wife Cindy laid a wreath. Defense Secretary James Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John Kelly accompanied her. Read rest of article in link above --- |
| Topic | Hurricane Lane threatens direct hit on Hawaii, churns toward Oahu |
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08/23/18 11:25:40 AM
#1 | https://www.reuters.com/article/us-storm-lane/hurricane-lane-threatens-direct-hit-on-hawaii-churns-toward-oahu-idUSKCN1L81I5HONOLULU (Reuters) - Hurricane Lane, threatening a direct hit as Hawaiis worst storm in a quarter century, on Thursday churned toward Oahu, the island with the largest population, as schools, government offices and business closed and residents stocked up on supplies and boarded up homes.
Packing sustained winds of up to 130 miles per hour (215 km per hour), Lane could dump as much as 20 inches of rain, triggering flash floods and landslides, the National Weather Service said.
Preparations to protect life and property should be rushed to completion, the National Weather Services Central Pacific Hurricane Center in Honolulu said in its latest advisory.
As of early Thursday, Lane was centered about 230 miles (370 km) south-southwest of Kailua-Kona, a town on the west coast of the Big Island, the NWS said. It was classified as a powerful Category 4 storm on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane strength.
The NWS said the storm weakened slightly overnight but excessive rainfall would affect the Hawaiian islands into the weekend, leading to significant and life-threatening flash flooding and landslides.
The center also warned of very large and damaging surf along exposed west- and south-facing shorelines.
A hurricane warning was in effect for Oahu, Maui County and Hawaii County. The islands of Kauai and Niihau remained on hurricane watch and could face similar conditions starting Friday morning.
Governor David Ige urged residents to take the threat seriously and prepare for the worst by setting aside a 14-day supply of water, food and medicines.
All public schools, University of Hawaii campuses and nonessential government offices on the islands of Oahu and Kauai will be closed for at least two days starting on Thursday, Ige said Wednesday. [nL2N1VD0RP]
The shelves of a downtown Honolulu Walmart were stripped of items ranging from canned tuna to dog food as well as bottled water and coolers full of ice after warnings of possible power outages.
I went to Safeway last night for regular groceries. Everyone was in a panic, said Thao Nguyen, 35, an employee at a Honolulu branch of Hawaiian shirt retailer Roberta Oaks.
Long lines of cars formed at gasoline stations in Honolulu and people pulled small boats from the water ahead of the expected storm surge. U.S. Navy ships and submarines based in Hawaii were instructed to leave port, a common practice when a hurricane approaches to avoid damage.
President Donald Trump declared a state of emergency for Hawaii and ordered federal authorities to help supplement state and local responses, the White House said on Thursday.
The most powerful hurricane on record to hit Hawaii was Category 4 Iniki, which made landfall on Kauai island on Sept. 11, 1992, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It killed six people and damaged or destroyed more than 14,000 homes. --- |
| Topic | Pope on Pennsylvania sex abuse report: We abandoned the little ones |
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08/20/18 12:09:10 PM
#1 | https://goo.gl/E2TCELRome (CNN) Pope Francis has acknowledged "with shame and repentance" the Catholic Church's failure to act over sexual abuse by clerics against minors going back decades, writing "we showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them."
In an unusually blunt letter released by the Vatican on Monday, the Pope wrote, "I acknowledge once more the suffering endured by many minors due to sexual abuse, the abuse of power and the abuse of conscience perpetrated by a significant number of clerics and consecrated persons.
"Looking back to the past, no effort to beg pardon and to seek to repair the harm done will ever be sufficient. Looking ahead to the future, no effort must be spared to create a culture able to prevent such situations from happening, but also to prevent the possibility of their being covered up and perpetuated."
His letter comes in the wake of a Pennsylvania grand jury report that detailed decades of sexual abuses by priests and cover-ups by bishops.
Gruesome accounts of abuse
The report said internal documents from six Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania -- some held in a secret archive to which only the bishop had a key -- show that more than 300 "predator priests" have been credibly accused of sexually abusing more than 1,000 child victims.
The lengthy catalog of clergy sexual abuses in the report makes for difficult reading. As the grand jurors noted, priests and other Catholic leaders targeted boys, girls and teens.
Some victims were plied with alcohol and groped or molested, the report says. Others were orally, vaginally or anally raped, according to the grand jurors.
Francis' conversations with victims over the years shaped the letter, which points out the need for urgent accountability both for those who committed the abuse and for those who covered it up -- bishops, in many cases, said Vatican spokesman Greg Burke.
"This is about Ireland, this is about the United States and this is about Chile -- but not only. Pope Francis has written to the people of God and that means everyone," Burke said in an audio statement. "It's significant that the Pope calls abuse a crime, not only a sin, and that he asks for forgiveness but he acknowledges that no effort to repair the damage done will ever be sufficient for victims and survivors."
Pope Francis's letter directly referred to the Pennsylvania report which "detailed the experiences of at least 1,000 survivors, victims of sexual abuse, the abuse of power and of conscience at the hands of priests over a period of approximately 70 years."
"Even though it can be said that most of these cases belong to the past, nonetheless as time goes on we have come to know the pain of many of the victims. We have realized that these wounds never disappear and that they require us forcefully to condemn these atrocities and join forces in uprooting this culture of death; these wounds never go away," the Pope wrote.
"The heart-wrenching pain of these victims, which cries out to heaven, was long ignored, kept quiet or silenced. But their outcry was more powerful than all the measures meant to silence it, or sought even to resolve it by decisions that increased its gravity by falling into complicity."
Looking ahead, the pontiff said the church was working on a "zero tolerance" policy on abuse and coverups. He added, "If, in the past, the response was one of omission, today we want solidarity, in the deepest and most challenging sense, to become our way of forging present and future history." [...Click URL at top of post to read rest of article...] --- |
| Topic | As Trump hurls racial invective, most Republicans stay silent |
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08/19/18 9:41:36 AM
#1 | https://goo.gl/BRQiZuThe president of the United States had just lobbed another racially charged insult this time calling his former top African American adviser a dog but Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) had no interest in talking about it.
Ive got more important things on my mind, so I really dont have a comment on that, said the Senates No. 2 Republican, chuckling at the question.
Has President Trump ever said anything on race that made Cornyn uncomfortable? I think the most important thing is to pay attention to what the president does, which I think has been good for the country, the senator demurred.
What about his constituents back home are they concerned? I know you have to ask these questions but Im not going to talk about that, Cornyn said, politely ending the brief interview in the basement of the U.S. Capitol. I just think thats an endless little wild goose chase and Im not going there.
And so it went last week among Republicans: As Trump immersed the nation in a new wave of fraught battles over race, most GOP lawmakers tried to ignore the topic altogether. The studied avoidance is a reflection of the enduring reluctance of Republicans to confront Trumps often divisive and inflammatory rhetoric, in part because the president remains deeply popular within a party dominated by older white voters.
The Washington Post reached out to all 51 Republican senators and six House Republican leaders asking them to participate in a brief interview about Trump and race. Only three senators agreed to participate: Jeff Flake of Arizona, David Perdue of Georgia and Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only black Republican in the Senate.
Flake, a frequent Trump critic who is retiring, rattled off examples when asked if there were times he felt Trump had been racially insensitive.
It started long before his campaign, the whole Barack Obama, the birtherism . . . that was abhorrent, I thought, Flake said in a phone interview. And then you know, the Mexican rapists . . . on his first official day as a campaign. And then you know, Judge Curiel, the statement that he couldnt judge because of his heritage. Failure to, you know, condemn in Charlottesville. Just the willingness to go there, all the time. Muslim ban. This kind of divide-and-conquer strategy. Its just its been one thing after another.
Six other lawmakers granted impromptu interviews when approached in the Capitol, although most declined to be specific about whether they were uncomfortable with any of Trumps statements on race. One exception was Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee, another Trump critic who is leaving Congress in January.
Its a formula that I think they think works for them, as it relates to winning, Corker said, referring to the use of divisive racial issues by Trump and his advisers. I think thats their kind of governing. I think thats how they think they stay in power, is to divide.
Several other lawmakers said they did not like some of Trumps language, especially on race, but did not consider Trump to be racist.
Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, said Trumps description of former black adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman as a dog was not appropriate, ever. But he stopped short of pointing to a time when he felt the president had crossed a racial boundary.
I just think thats the way he reacts and the way he interacts with people who attack him, Thune said. I dont condone it. But I think its probably part built into his its just going to be in his DNA. [...Click link at top of page to continue reading article...] --- |
| Topic | This Major Mueller Court Victory Means Trump is Doomed |
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08/05/18 11:57:44 AM
#1 | https://www.politicususa.com/2018/08/05/this-major-mueller-court-victory-means-trump-is-doomed.htmlThis Major Mueller Court Victory Means Trump is Doomed
Special Counsel Robert Mueller just obtained a major court ruling that destroyed any chance Donald Trump ever had of getting his case thrown out.
Many people in Trumps camp have argued that Mueller doesnt have the legal authority under the U.S. Constitution to go after the president. That argument has now gone down in flames.
Federal Chief Judge Beryl Howell just issued a long 92 page ruling spelling out Muellers legal authority in detail which essentially means that nobody else is going to be able to challenge that authority. Shes a Chief Judge, so this sets a strong legal precedent that will be followed in subsequent cases.
The specific case in question concerned the grand jury testimony of Roger Stone associate Andrew Miller, and whether he could be forced to testify.
Over the course of her 92 page analysis Howell strongly rejected an attempt by Miller to quash a subpoena to testify before the grand jury. This may hurt Stone and Trump, but more importantly it sets forth the detailed legal explanation for why the scope of the Special Counsels power falls well within the boundaries the Constitution permits.
In other words: Muellers power is valid under the U.S. Constitution, so dont try to challenge it.
Millers lawyers had argued that Mueller is a principal officer who was unconstitutionally appointed since he was not nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
Chief Judge Howell found Millers claim without merit because of the Supreme Courts decision in Morrison v. Olson, which upheld the constitutionality of provisions of a federal statute creating an independent counsel. There also are subsequent court decisions saying the same thing.
Howells ruling holds that Mueller is legally considered to be an inferior officer under the supervision of deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, and thus did not need to be nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
Mr. Muellers appointment, without presidential appointment and senatorial confirmation, did not violate the Appointments Clause, Howell wrote in her opinion.
The importance of this ruling cannot be overstated. It takes away the last vestiges of hope that Manafort, Stone, Trump or anyone else who may be charged by the special counsel had that their cases might be thrown out.
Mueller has huge amounts of evidence to support his indictments so the only real legal defense the defendants have ever had is to get their cases thrown out on the grounds that the special counsels probe was not legitimate.
Manafort tried this several times and all of his motions were rejected, which means hes very likely to be convicted.
By forcing Andrew Miller to testify before the grand jury Mueller has made his legal position rock solid, and he has weakened the legal positions of Donald Trump, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and all of their underlings.
Mueller just scored a huge legal victory during a grand jury proceeding but it has a much bigger impact. This ruling will help him ultimately take Trump down because Donald Trump and his lawyers are going to try to use the same defense strategy that Manafort and Miller did.
When its Trumps time to be charged his lawyers will certainly try to argue against Robert Muellers legal authority and try to get the case thrown out. But, after a Chief Judge solidified and clarified Muellers legal authority in a ninety-two page ruling, they have no chance of being successful.
This may have seemed like a minor ruling but in fact it is the type of ruling that could ultimately bring Donald Trump down. --- |
| Topic | Trump associate socialized with Russian agent Maria Butina during 2016 campaign |
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08/04/18 2:40:40 PM
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| Topic | Man talks with wife, great-grandkids before they die |
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07/30/18 8:40:44 AM
#2 | 'I can't blame it on nobody but me.'
Despite being disconnected by phone, Bledsoe said that at the time he still had hope his family was alive.
He said he was told that the sheriff's office picked them up and rescued them. He told the fire department he thought his wife and great-grandkids were in the house. Fire officials sent a fire crew in and reported no bodies were found.
A search then commenced for the family.
Fliers were created. The family even created a GoFundMe page because, according to that page, Bledsoe was renting the home and didn't have insurance.
The day after being told there were no bodies in the home, a relative who's a firefighter told the department they needed to search the rubble again. That's when the bodies were found.
Bledsoe's wife had wrapped the kids and herself in wet blankets as the fire drew near.
"I would've liked to have went in there and died with them," Bledsoe said.
Bledsoe said even though the family was not told to evacuate, he feels more guilty than angry.
"I can't blame it on nobody but me. I shouldn't have left my family in harm's way."
Raising great-grandchildren
Bledsoe and his wife had raised the two great-grandchildren since birth.
"I raised them, took care of them and taught them everything they know. Me and Grandma," he said, referring to his wife.
Bledsoe said his wife, Melody, "was the best wife a guy could have. They didn't make them no better."
He said when the couple first got together, she had about $24,000 in the bank. A child in their neighborhood needed surgery, but the child's family did not have the finances so Melody wrote a check to the family for the child to get the surgery.
"That's what kind of woman she was," he said.
Family friend Jason Decker told CNN affiliate KGO that 4-year-old Emily loved to play with other children in the area and "lit up the room."
Decker said 5-year-old James idolized his great-grandfather and wanted to wear suspenders just like him.
In his great-grandson's last moments speaking to him on the phone, Bledsoe said he "sounded happy because he was talking to me and he knew Grandpa was coming to help him."
As of Sunday, the Carr Fire had burned through 95,368 acres since it began on Monday and was 17% contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire. --- |
| Topic | Man talks with wife, great-grandkids before they die |
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07/30/18 8:40:40 AM
#1 | https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/national/man-talks-with-wife-greatgrandkids-before-they-dieREDDING, California (CNN) - It only took a little over 15 minutes for Ed Bledsoe to lose three lives that meant the world to him -- his wife and their two great-grandchildren.
He had left his home in in Shasta County, California, on Thursday to go to the doctor, he told CNN on Sunday. The Carr Fire had been burning for four days at that point and Bledsoe said he didn't realize the fire was coming into his neighborhood.
He also said his family was never told to evacuate.
While he was out, his 70-year-old wife, Melody Bledsoe, called and told him she could see the fire and that he needed to come get her and their great-grandchildren, 4-year-old Emily Roberts and 5-year-old James Roberts, who Ed Bledsoe called "Junior."
"I said 'I'm on my way.' So I just throwed down everything and took off," he said.
Ed Bledsoe said he wasn't able to use his usual route to get home because of traffic congestion in the fire area, so he left his car and tried to make it home on foot but that, too, was not possible.
"I took off running down there (toward his house) and I helped some guy that got burnt ... I got him and helped him out of there and when I got back down there the fire was" -- Bledsoe paused, seeming to search for a word to accurately convey the chaos -- "the fire was ... just intense.
"But I still tried to get down in there and they come and stopped me and wouldn't let me get down in there."
Bledsoe said he got back in his car and sped through an alternate route, passing "everybody in the dirt" but still could not get to his house.
At the same time, his sons also tried to get to the house, he said, and heat and flames were so intense as one son tried "it burned his hair off. It took his breath," adding that his son's house was also on fire.
In those final minutes, unable to get to his wife and their great-grandchildren, Bledsoe was able to get through on the phone.
Bledsoe broke into sobs as he described the words that passed between them.
"He just kept saying 'Grandpa, come and get me," Bledsoe said, referring to 5-year-old James. "'The fire's coming in the back door. C'mon Grandpa.' I said 'I'm right down the road.'"
His granddaughter and wife were also on the phone, he said.
"Emily says, 'I love you, Grandpa.' Grandma said 'I love you, Grandpa ...' Junior said, 'I love you ... come and get us ... come and get us ...' I said 'I'm on my way ... ' He talked until he died."
"I tried to call them back and it just went to nothing," Bledsoe said as he wept. "Poor babies and my wife ..." Continued in next post: --- |
| Topic | Deadly Northern California wildfire 'taking down everything in its path' |
GoogleNews
07/27/18 9:47:17 AM
#1 | https://abcnews.go.com/US/northern-california-wildfire-taking-path/story?id=56859441The Carr Fire in Northern California that has claimed the life of a bulldozer operator and injured at least three firefighters is "taking everything down in its path," a fire official said.
Video shows extreme conditions crews face as Carr Fire in Northern California claims life of bulldozer operator and injures three firefighters. https://t.co/iNNwaIRXqH pic.twitter.com/LSWSRLo21R
ABC News (@ABC) July 27, 2018
Scott McLean, a spokesman for the crews battling the blaze, also told the Associated Press that the explosive wildfire has destroyed dozens of homes and reached the city of Redding.
The situation is "very dynamic" and "a heck of a fight," McLean added.
Winds reaching 60 mph are creating firenadoes strong enough to overturn vehicles, authorities said.
#CarrFire [Fatality Press Statement] at Whiskeytown in Trinity/Shasta County pic.twitter.com/EjaV00duRe
CAL FIRE SHU (@CALFIRESHU) July 27, 2018
Thousands of homes have been evacuated on the western edge of Redding, which has a population of about 90,000. Tim Hinkson of the California Highway Patrol said the CHP is going door to door to assist in evacuations.
The fire was earlier estimated to have claimed nearly 30,000 acres and was about 6 percent contained, but authorities said that acreage is expected to increase "dramatically." --- |
| Topic | Google scares me. |
GoogleNews
07/26/18 3:51:11 PM
#13 | EliteLevel posted...Google, is that you? Are you afraid? --- |
| Topic | Xbox Games With Gold Free Games for August Revealed |
GoogleNews
07/26/18 11:35:24 AM
#1 | http://comicbook.com/gaming/2018/07/26/xbox-games-with-gold-august/Your Xbox Live Games With Gold lineup for the month of August has been revealed, and hot damn, this is the best month of free games we've seen on Xbox or PlayStation in a very long time. Leading the charge on Xbox One is Forza Horizon 2 and For Honor and, honestly, we can't think of two heavier-hitting headliners than those! You guys have a great month of gaming ahead of you!
The backward compatible titles are just as great, with Dead Space 3 headlining next month. Most Dead Space faithful have completed the first two games, while the third was critically less successful. It is still worth playing though. Here's the full lineup, with brief breakdowns of each game from the Xbox Wire:
Forza Horizon 2 Standard 10th Anniversary Edition (August 1 - 31)
"Drive over 200 exotic cars and explore the beautiful vistas of southern France and northern Italy like never before, in this 10th anniversary edition of Forza Horizon 2. Show off your driving skills with friends online in challenging races and events, day or night, in dynamic weather conditions. A world of beauty and freedom awaits in this ultimate celebration of speed and style."
For Honor Standard Edition (August 16 - September 15)
"Be prepared to enter the chaos of war in For Honor. Mix speed, strategy, and team-play across several multiplayer modes as you control your favorite warriors, be they bold Knights, brutal Vikings, or deadly Samurai. Master the innovative Art of Battle combat system and guide your armies to ultimate victory."
Dead Space 3 (August 1 - 15)
"Return as protagonist Isaac Clarke in the survival horror game Dead Space 3. Joined by Sgt. John Carver, travel to the ominous ice planet of Tau Volantis to uncover the secrets of the Necromorph plague. With online co-op mode, join a friend and use teamwork to end the deadly threat once and for all."
Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two (August 16 - 31)
"Grab your magic paintbrush and return to save the world of Wasteland once again in Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two. Pair up with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, interact with classic cartoon characters of the past, and defeat the Mad Doctor in this heroic two-player co-op adventure."
Enjoy, y'all. August is going to be packed! --- |
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