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  1. 18 hours ago, Firemans4Horn said:

    Leigh Hutchison, the owner/chef at Via Triozzi, was on the Chopped: Tuscan episode tonight. 

    Ha, I haven't watched Chopped in forever but had it on last night and that was the episode. Wish I'd paid closer attention.

  2. 7 minutes ago, BeardIP said:

    So it's not dishonesty and stealing you are against, it's the audience that is being stolen from and lied to that matters. Mighty ethical of you, C-Man.

    Either you grift them all or you grift nobody. Like the EEOC said; Equal Employment Grifting Opportunity Commission.

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  3. 22 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    Sounds like his darn wife was at it again!

     

     

    Apparently, Mike Johnson has the same flag outside his office.

     

  4. 1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

    Funny but not funny, the bolded is 100% a conversation I've had with friends over the years.  If I could rid myself of my pesky conscience and some semblance of a moral compass, I have had opportunity after opportunity over the years to make money by utterly fucking someone/many someones over.  I could be rich, if I was only a sociopath.

    Little did I know, "sociopath who happily rips off other people" would be the most admired trait in America these days.  I could be both rich AND admired.  I'm such an idiot.

    I'd have no qualms about grifting the shit out of MAGA. I would sit back and laugh my ass off the entire time I was doing it. Just need an idea and a little initiative.

  5. 19 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    That Florida case is very possibly never going to trial, even if Trump loses in November.

     

    12 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

    Nothing about the classified documents case has been on the up and up.  Cannon will never hear that case if she has anything to say about it.

    Seems that way.

    https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/politics/trump-documents-case-judge-cannon-hearing/index.html

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    A hearing in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case devolved into shouting Wednesday as attorneys battled over an alleged threat made last year to a defense attorney.

    The morning proceeding in Fort Pierce, Florida, had been scheduled for Walt Nauta, one of former President Donald Trump’s co-defendants, to present arguments that special counsel Jack Smith’s team had selectively and vindictively brought charges against him. The presiding judge, Aileen Cannon, did not issue a ruling from the bench.

    But the hearing quickly diverted into a longstanding disagreement over an August 2022 meeting between prosecutor Jay Bratt and Nauta’s defense attorney, Stanley Woodward. Woodward has claimed in court proceedings and filings that Bratt attempted to pressure him into convincing Nauta to cooperate against Trump by threatening to affect a potential judgeship nomination.

    Nauta claims that he was criminally charged in the case as retaliation for declining to cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigation into the former president’s retention of classified documents at his estate.

    This photo from the US Department of Justice allegedly shows Walt Nauta moving boxes inside former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida. 

    From US Department of Justice

    “I had been recommended for a judgeship, that’s beyond dispute,” Woodward said Wednesday. “There was a folder about defense counsel on the table” during that meeting, he said, claiming Bratt referenced that judgeship recommendation.

    “I think the implication was that I was to travel and convince Mr. Nauta to cooperate with the investigation, and if I didn’t that, there would be consequences,” Woodward said.

    Prosecutor David Harbach then rose and accused Woodward of engaging in “procedural gamesmanship” by making a “garbage argument” about the meeting.

    “Mr. Woodward’s story of what happened at that meeting is a fantasy,” Harbach shouted, banging his hand on the lectern in front of him. “It did not happen.”

    The heated proceedings Wednesday come as the Manhattan hush money case against Trump nears its conclusion and a new phase of pretrial activity gets underway in the federal classified documents prosecution in Florida.

    The hearing was the first before Cannon since she indefinitely delayed the start of the trial, which had been scheduled to begin as early as this week. It has been more than a month since the judge last held a public, in-person hearing in the case – though she has held at least one sealed proceeding since then.

    Trump is charged with taking classified national defense documents from the White House after he left office and of resisting the government’s attempts to retrieve the materials. Trump, Nauta and Mar-a-Lago property manager Carlos De Oliveira have all pleaded not guilty.

    During Wednesday’s hearing, Harbach slammed Woodward, saying he chose not to report the alleged incident until months later and has repeatedly changed his recollection of the conversation.

    “This is a lawyer whose allegations amount basically to him being extorted,” Harbach said of Woodward, waving his arms.

    Woodward sat behind the prosecutor with his hands clasped and his head down.

    The judge quickly scolded Harbach, telling the attorney to “calm down.” Cannon questioned why there was no evidence gathered of what happened in the 2022 conversation, saying, “Why do those comments [about Woodward] have to be made?”

    RELATED ARTICLEFederal judge found ‘strong evidence’ of crimes before Trump was charged in classified documents case

    “That is not true, and I didn’t say that,” Harbach shouted back. The prosecutor said that that there was no recording of the conversation between Bratt and Woodward, but that Smith’s team has preserved any record they have of the meeting.

    Woodward shot back up to the lectern, saying that “I’m here” and offering to testify under oath to what he remembered of the meeting.

    Nauta’s request to dismiss the case was the first of two issues before Cannon on Wednesday. An afternoon hearing will center on co-defendants’ argument the indictment suffers technical flaws requiring its dismissal.

    Trump had obtained permission from the judge to skip Wednesday’s proceedings.

    When postponing the trial, Cannon pointed to the mountain of unresolved pretrial issues for not putting a new date on the calendar. Wednesday kicks off a stretch of hearings scheduled through late July that will get the case through some – but not all – of the pretrial issues.

    Cannon’s slow pace in the case has attracted criticisms from outside legal experts, who have accused the Trump-appointed judge of playing into delay tactics by the GOP’s presumptive White House nominee. Unless Cannon picks up her momentum considerably, it appears unlikely the charges will go before a jury before the 2024 election. If Trump wins the White House, it is expected he will make the charges against him go away.

    Newly unsealed filings give more details about the investigation

    Until recent days, several major motions from Trump attacking the prosecution were not even publicly docketed. The proceedings have become mired in disputes over what should be redacted in public filings.

    On Tuesday, hundreds of pages of previously sealed court filings were posted publicly as part of efforts by the former president to have the charges against him thrown out. Those filings included a previously sealed March 2023 ruling by a federal judge in Washington, DC, finding there was “sufficient” evidence that Trump committed crimes, allowing investigators to obtain information from his former lawyer that would normally be protected by attorney-client privilege.

    Trump is seeking to throw out that evidence, as well as the evidence obtained in the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago in August 2022, from which investigators obtained many of the documents underlying several of the charges against Trump.

    Those motions are not scheduled for argument on Wednesday, and Cannon has not yet set a hearing on them.

    In her order Sunday allowing for the filings to be made public, Cannon took a shot at prosecutors – one of several swipes she’s made at Smith’s office. She expressed “concern” the special counsel’s office had sought redactions of information in the newly unsealed filings after previously giving its OK for that information to be published in full in earlier court filings.

    “The Court is disappointed in these developments. The sealing and redaction rules should be applied consistently and fairly upon a sufficient factual and legal showing,” Cannon wrote. “And parties should not make requests that undermine any prior representations or positions except upon full disclosure to the Court and appropriate briefing.”

     

  6. 9 hours ago, Steel Shank said:

    Wait, so some coach said this ? One dude? So let's write a story? "He's scary"?

     

    He should also write a story about me laying pipe.

    There is actually an Athletic story that Graham cherry-picks the quotes from for his "article." In the same article, the Athletic's primary NFL Draft guy says he expects Ewers to go #14 in the 1st round.

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  7. 17 minutes ago, Born to Run said:
    24 minutes ago, C-Man said:

    Watching Kimmel tonight and he said if you click on the QR code on the back for Call 2 Action, there’s nothing there and nothing online about this supposed charity that is getting portion of proceeds of Rudy Coffee sales for veterans and first responders. Wouldn’t that constitute fraud?

    Ha ha ha we checking the Trump universe for fraud now; that's a high hit rate full of targets that are already going to jail or can't pay legal fees or fines they already can't pay. I didn't learn shit in 1 year of law at Texas but I did learn not to sue broke fucks on day 1.

    Fuck suing him. We’re past that. I want him to go to prison. And then die.

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  8. Watching Kimmel tonight and he said if you click on the QR code on the back for Call 2 Action, there’s nothing there and nothing online about this supposed charity that is getting portion of proceeds of Rudy Coffee sales for veterans and first responders. Wouldn’t that constitute fraud?
  9. Trump has been wearing his gold lady watch since the 80’s.

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    Also, the actor playing Trump in the movie above also played Tommy Lee in that biopic series from a couple years ago. So he goes from playing a guy with a gigantic, talking cock to another with a reputed weird, short mushroom micro-peen.

    That’s what I call range.

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  10. 28 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

    So the guy charged with leaking false accusations about voter fraud pissy-fits is literally leaking piss on a court zoom call?  And they couldn't find him for a few days, but now he's so ubiquitous...you can hear his bladder?

    Four Seasons.  Four Streams.  Amirite people?  

    You know he's got piss all over the front of his pants and shoes and probably his hands too.

  11. On 5/18/2024 at 8:15 AM, LTtxfan said:

    Is Graham Harmon or Gig Em Gazette a real thing or some AI/ChatGPT generated "fan site"? I can't find a pic of Harmon online anywhere. Here's another gem article from him:

    https://gigemgazette.com/posts/anonymous-coaches-survey-weigman-will-be-elite-ewers-slammed-as-overhyped?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3J9Qr0T7HmBeJyXYsrXysOzRg-uLiNQMfhkFE1bAIX9khbMC0ZJz3SweU_aem_AXb0D-ePvrx12MxekEC9O9TABQOYoGUVU4SCBnB7l-qoJbr4xmncDa7mOrZnshoHyBdylILpzwhXW5IawuiX0o98

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    Texas A&M football: Anonymous coaches survey from The Athletic says Weigman "will be elite"; Longhorns' Quinn Ewers called "overhyped"

    It's getting close to the summer time, and as Texas A&M football fans well know, that means it's talking season. One of the staples of this time of year, no matter the sport, is the anonymous industry survey of coaches. Outlets will often consult their coaching sources for quotes on everything ranging from rule changes, to other coaches, to players in the sport.

    It is this latter category that is the subject of this article. The Athletic conducted a survey of college football coaches to ask them about the upcoming class of quarterbacks, given the hugely talented crop we just saw hit the NFL in last month's draft.

    The results were illuminating. Carson Beck drew rave reviews; Shedeur Sanders was given his fair share of respect; opinions were shared on Jaxson Dart, Cam Ward, and others. It's definitely worth the read if you have a subscription—the article is paywalled.

    The most striking thing to me, however, was the contrast in evaluation between Texas A&M football's Conner Weigman and Texas's Quinn Ewers. There is no shortage of hype for the latter after the year the Longhorns just had—after all, his name continues to be mentioned as a leader in preseason Heisman discussions—but Weigman remains a bit underexposed after having only started eight total games over the past two years.

    Nevertheless, the Aggie signal caller was the object of high praise; a Power 4 DC who faced Weigman called him "very gifted and very tough." That same coach went on to say Conner was "the most complete quarterback I've seen in awhile... he will be elite." He closed with the quip, "He's scary."

    I'm not telling Aggie fans anything they don't know here, but seeing an opposing coach lavish praise on #15 like this is nice. What was not so nice, though, was the way opposing coaches spoke about Quinn Ewers, the golden child down in Austin (one of them, at least).

    Ewers was skewered as "inconsistent," "overhyped," and "average athletically." An opposing DB coach remarked that "you just see a bunch of stuff where you wonder what he's doing out there." Another coach acknowledged how good of a job Steve Sarkisian does "setting things up for him," but remarked that, even with that inherent advantage, there are points where he still "seems to be a little timid."

    Ewers has returned to Austin for his fourth year of college football after his draft prospects failed to rise highly enough—it's hard to imagine him having been higher than a late day 2 pick at most this last year. Given these evaluations, it seems like he has a long way to go before he even comes close to the first-round projections that his recruitment drew.

    This will be an extremely interesting storyline to follow this year. I doubt you will find many Texas fans who are lower on Ewers than they are on Weigman, but that perception seems to be out of step with the evaluation of coaches around the country. Can Ewers turn that around? Given all we've seen from him for two years now, I wouldn't bet on it.

     

     

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  12. I wish CNN would stop running Dotard's post-trial day diatribes live and in full. It's the same stream-of-consciousness, diarrhea of the mouth garbage every single afternoon. Don't give him the air time to spew gutter trash lies.

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  13. Link from Newsweek: https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-launches-show-russian-state-tv-russia-24-1903045

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    The CEO of the Tucker Carlson Network has rejected claims in Russian state media that the former Fox News anchor had made a deal for his shows to appear on Russian television.

    The claims appear to have originated with the program Tucker, which is broadcast on Russia 24 but comprises old episodes of Carlson's shows taken from X, formerly Twitter, and YouTube, complete with a Russian voiceover. The first episode and other clips from previous months are now available online, Russian state newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported.

    On the website Smotrim.ru, where programs shown on Russian state channels can be viewed, is an episode introduced by Carlson dated May 18 and dubbed into Russian. The website also hosts other clips from previous months of interviews that Carlson had conducted.

    Independent news outlet Astra confirmed that the program features Russian-language dubbing of Carlson's American shows and is not original content for Russian viewers. In September 2023, Russia 24 aired a trailer for a show featuring Carlson without clarifying when it would be broadcast, the BBC reported. Carlson told The Financial Times that he knew nothing about it.

    Neil Patel, CEO of the Tucker Carlson Network, denied claims in Rossiyskaya Gazeta and Astra that the airing of the episodes was part of a "joint project." "The Tucker Carlson Network has not done any deals with state media in any country. Whoever is currently pretending to be the old Newsweek brand would know that if they had checked with us before printing like news companies are supposed to do," he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

    Dean Thompson, head of programming and production operations at the Tucker Carlson Network, later told Newsweek in a statement: "The story of a Russian show is totally false. Any use of our content by that channel is without legal permission."

    Newsweek has also contacted VGTRK and Smotrim.ru for comment and will update this article if a response is received.

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    Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Carlson used a March 2022 episode of his primetime show on Fox News to fuel a conspiracy theory pushed by Russia about the supposed development of U.S. bioweapons in Ukraine.

    When at Fox News, Carlson was praised on Russian state television for his positions on the war in Ukraine which were interpreted as sympathetic to Russian President Vladimir Putin. After he was fired by Fox News, one Kremlin mouthpiece described Carlson as a "voice of reason" who was "welcome in Russia."

    Carlson was the highest-rated cable TV host before he left Fox News in April 2023. He launched a new show on Twitter called Tucker on Twitter, which later changed to Tucker on X with the social media network's rebranding.

    In February this year, Carlson made a high-profile visit to Russia, where his interview with Putin at the Kremlin was criticized by many observers for allowing the Russian president to push his narrative on the war he started in Ukraine.

    During the two-hour interview, Putin spoke extensively about Russian history and Kremlin talking points and was rarely challenged. Putin later appeared to criticize Carlson's interview approach, telling state television channel Russia-1 that he thought he would "behave aggressively and ask so-called sharp questions."

     

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  14. 3 hours ago, ztejas said:

    Anyone wanna hit an away game?

    Edmonton is kind of a shit-hole. Went through there a few times when I was assigned the Canada road trip (Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver) in the early '00s. Edmonton was pretty much a dump but that arena is a fun place to catch a hockey game. The pressbox hangs out over the stands so you're looking right down on the ice. I remember the PA guy being pretty awesome too. Calgary was better than Edmonton and world-class Vancouver was miles ahead of both those places.

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  15. 1 hour ago, Aqua Buddha said:

    I guess put this here?  Remember the woman on the flight out of DFW who saw invisible aliens or something and got thrown off the plane?  Well, she's a MAGA/patriot/warrior grifting influencer now because of course she is:

     

    tiffany-gomas-american-airlines-flight.j

    Is that a cock-socket on her iPhong?

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