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Oh, look, we've got an easily offended Sooner fan @ftf82 here handing out negs to a 100% factual statement. Do you want to get fatwa'd?
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This story isn't new, but this woman's story is now validated. Previously, she had said she tipped off the FBI in 1996, which was led by Derschowitz's friend Louis Freeh, but they failed to follow up and investigate. The Epstein files include a 1996 child porn complaint that the F.B.I. ignored https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/epstein-fbi-complaint-1996-maria-farmer.html?smid=url-share A woman who once worked for Jeffrey Epstein filed a complaint to the F.B.I. about his interest in “child pornography” in 1996, about a decade before investigators began scrutinizing his predatory behavior. The woman, Maria Farmer, has for years said that she had called federal investigators in the summer of 1996, but the F.B.I. had never publicly acknowledged her original report, even to Ms. Farmer. Some people following the Epstein case had accused her of inventing the story. After the release of thousands of Epstein files on Friday, The New York Times contacted Ms. Farmer about a report stamped with the date of Sept. 3, 1996. She broke down in tears. “I’ve waited 30 years,” she said. “I can’t believe it. They can’t call me a liar anymore.” Ms. Farmer said she was grateful to be “vindicated” but heartbroken that the F.B.I. did not take steps to stop Mr. Epstein until years after her report. “They should be ashamed,” Ms. Farmer said, adding: “They harmed all of these little girls. That part devastates me.” The F.B.I. did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The newly released report leaves Ms. Farmer’s name redacted, describing her only as a professional artist. She had been hired by Mr. Epstein to acquire art on his behalf. The complaint says that she had taken photos of her younger sisters — ages 16 and 12 — for her personal art work, and Ms. Farmer clarified in an interview that the photos included nude images. “Epstein stole the photos and negatives,” the handwritten F.B.I. report says. The report also says that Mr. Epstein had asked Ms. Farmer to take pictures of young girls at swimming pools and threatened to “burn her house down” if she told anyone about the photos. Ms. Farmer said she did not hear from the F.B.I. until a decade later, when a fuller investigation ensued, ending in a 2008 plea deal for Mr. Epstein in Florida. She said she had lived in fear after trying to report Mr. Epstein. Ms. Farmer said that while the complaint captured part of her concerns, it did not capture all of them. She said she urged investigators to take a larger look at Mr. Epstein’s orbit, citing his relationship with powerful people such as Bill Clinton and Donald J. Trump. She said much of her concern was about Mr. Epstein’s companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, but the document does not include Ms. Maxwell’s name or the names of other powerful people. Ms. Farmer said she saw Mr. Trump in 1995 at Mr. Epstein’s offices in Manhattan. She was in running shorts and said Mr. Trump came into the office and began hovering over her, staring at her bare legs. Then Mr. Epstein entered the room, and she recalled him saying to Mr. Trump: “No, no. She’s not here for you.” After the two men left the room, Ms. Farmer said, she could hear Mr. Trump commenting that he thought she was 16 years old. The White House has denied her account. Ms. Farmer eventually broke from Mr. Epstein after what she described as a sexual assault at the hands of Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell. It was then that she discovered that the nude photographs of her sisters were missing. Ms. Farmer later spoke to her sister, Annie, who had her own problems with Mr. Epstein. Annie Farmer later testified at Ms. Maxwell’s trial about she had been invited to Mr. Epstein’s ranch in New Mexico when she was 16. There, he climbed into bed with her one morning to “cuddle.” Ms. Maxwell, she said, had at one point given her a massage, rubbing her bare chest.
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The regime is using the Clintons as a distraction. Bill Clinton features prominently in the newly released files https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/bill-clinton-epstein-photos.html?smid=url-share The first tranche of documents released by the Justice Department from its investigations into Jeffrey Epstein appeared to focus significantly on material connected to former President Bill Clinton, at a moment when Republicans have fought to shift public attention away from Mr. Epstein’s friendship with President Trump. The dozens of photos released on Friday include one of Mr. Clinton in a hot tub and another showing Mr. Clinton swimming in a pool with Ghislaine Maxwell, who conspired with Mr. Epstein to operate his sex trafficking operation , along with a second woman. Another shows a woman seated closely with Mr. Clinton on what appears to be an airplane. There is also what appears to be a candid shot of Mr. Clinton speaking with Mr. Epstein and pictures of him with the musician Mick Jagger. The images and documents have been released without context or background information. It is unclear which photographs might have been taken by Mr. Epstein and which might have been sent to or acquired by him, or where many of them were taken. Justice Department officials have not said how they selected the particular tranche of documents that were released on Friday. Mr. Clinton is one of the few people whose faces were not redacted, along with Mr. Epstein himself and Ms. Maxwell. In posts on X after the release, a White House spokeswoman repeatedly pointed out photos of Mr. Clinton and argued that the news media did not want to focus on the images. In recent weeks, Mr. Trump has worked to deflect public scrutiny of his own close friendship with Mr. Epstein, a convicted sex offender, ordering his appointees in to begin an investigation into Mr. Clinton and other prominent Democrats who were associated with him. Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are also seeking to force Mr. Clinton and his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, to give in-person depositions in their own investigation. On social media, Mr. Trump has claimed without evidence that Mr. Clinton and other Democrats spent “spent large portions of their life with Epstein, and on his ‘Island.’” But Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, has contradicted those assertions. In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Ms. Wiles said that Mr. Trump was not telling the truth in accusing Mr. Clinton of visiting the private island. Ms. Maxwell, in her interview this summer with Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, also undercut Mr. Trump’s efforts to blame Mr. Clinton. In the wide-ranging interview, Ms. Maxwell said Mr. Clinton was her friend, not Mr. Epstein’s. Angel Urena, a spokesman for Mr. Clinton, accused Mr. Trump’s White House of using the release to shield themselves from real scrutiny. “They can release as many grainy 20-plus-year-old photos as they want, but this isn’t about Bill Clinton,” he said, adding that even Ms. Wiles said Mr. Trump “was wrong about Bill Clinton.” Mr. Urena went on to say that there were two kinds of people highlighted in the documents: “The first group knew nothing and cut Epstein off before his crimes came to light. The second group continued relationships with him after. We’re in the first. No amount of stalling by people in the second group will change that.” None of Mr. Epstein’s victims have made any public allegations of wrongdoing against Mr. Clinton. Mr. Clinton’s ties to Mr. Epstein are relatively well known. The former president took four international trips with Mr. Epstein on the financier’s private jet in 2002 and 2003, including a humanitarian trip to Africa that brought Mr. Epstein his first significant publicity. Roughly 80 photos in one document are marked “Clinton, Africa, London,” and appear to include shots taken during the humanitarian trip, when Mr. Clinton’s entourage included the actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker. Mr. Clinton also flew on Mr. Epstein’s private plane in February 2002, from Miami to Westchester County, N.Y., and in March 2002, from New York City to London, according to flight manifests released by the Justice Department on Friday. But Mr. Clinton has said he did not visit Little St. James, the island that Mr. Epstein owned and where many of his abuses are alleged to have occurred. Mr. Clinton visited Mr. Epstein’s New York apartment once around 2002, according to his representatives, but he has said he never visited Mr. Epstein’s palatial residence in Palm Beach, Fla. or the financier’s ranch in New Mexico. In 1993, after Mr. Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd president, Mr. Epstein visited the White House in February, the first of many trips to the Clinton White House. He also became a donor, giving $10,000 to help refurbish the White House. By 1995, Mr. Clinton and Mr. Epstein were friendly enough for Mr. Clinton to write a get-well note to Mr. Epstein’s mother who was sick. “Hang in there,” Mr. Clinton scrawled on a yellow Post-it, which was reviewed by The New York Times. Mr. Epstein saved the note.
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The only other game I've seen from them was the one against Auburn. They looked like total ass and had to cheat (in typical Sooner fashion) to win.
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No kidding. I mostly had the game on in the background, but my ears perked up when the announcers were all just like (paraphrasing), "He's just a young and naive kid. Probably shouldn't have been hanging out with that guy." My jaw dropped at how nonchalant the excuses were, including the coach's after the game.
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Just watched that again earlier this week for the first time since the 1980s, after Reiner's passing. I was 22 when that Belgium story occurred, so just add 10 years to that quote. But it would also apply to when I was 12. In fact, my best friend at that time was of Flemish heritage, and we had the same kind of adventures with the same types of bullies and older brothers messing with us in the neighborhood. We never found a dead human body, though. You need to watch your wife, because this story sounds eerily similar to the one you told about meeting that lady in New England not too long ago.
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csb: My dear friend from Liège would take offense at either of those proposals. However, she did have a really cool Luxembourgish buddy. The aforementioned Belgian chick, a French gal, that Luxembourg guy, this Texan, and a whole bunch of their classmates all got drunk at an end-of-the-school-year party in a barn somewhere south of Namur in the Ardennes. Then the four of us hit the road to buy weed in Amsterdam. None of the other three spoke English well, so they wanted me to serve as their translator, knowing all those herring-eaters would speak perfect English. They did, and it was a real good time. Now I’m old, and that makes me sad. ~Fin~
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Did you miss the post from yesterday where a board member stated the vote was not on the agenda and that she was muted on the Zoom call, so her opposition wasn't recorded?
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I mean, I guess what one could argue as the difference is that she’s now, or rather was, a government employee and is, therefore, accountable to the citizens she worked for. But, yeah, when you bring Elon into it, who became a very powerful quasi-public employee, causing untold damage to the country while retaining ownership of his own widely-viewed and influential toxic cesspool of a social media site filled with antisemites, to whom he provided a platform, I can see the hypocrisy. One other irony is that the poster who seems to have a real problem with antisemites on the Left has no problem frequenting a website (and therefore financially supporting through his viewership and "clicks") that actively promotes Far Right antisemites. Oh, and you're right to point out the Puka shit that everyone's blowing off because he's just a young meathead who plays a sport that we're all addicted to. By the way, this woman was 18 when she made those tweets; old enough to know better but young and dumb enough to do it anyway. That said, it's unfortunate that she's part of a generation that came of age at the dawn of social media, so every stupid teenage thought they expressed online is digitally preserved for all to see until the collapse of human civilization.
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One of my more conspiratorial friends sent me a YouTube clip last night in which the vlogger said that a giant AI data center to help rulle over the country was being built beneath the actual ballroom, based on the donor list, which includes Ellison and a bunch of the other techlords, along with the names of the contractors and the new architect and the types of projects they’ve done, as well as many of the infrastructure upgrades (water/power) currently being done in DC. I told her I didn't fully buy the notion, but I could see them using the ballroom as an opportunity to build some kind of bunker, or whatever, under it.
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I'm not familiar with that essay. Do you mind posting it? Obviously, I don't want to derail this thread, so if you do start another thread about it, I'd be happy to read it there.
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Just depends on what kind of organization you work with. There's more to it than the job application stuff, but that's what most can relate with. Most of my career has been in publicly facing roles that involve significant community input, including economic development, downtown revitalization, historic preservation, and other planning-related projects. So, on that kind of stuff, you want to get as many perspectives as possible. Say, for example, you're working on a downtown revitalization plan, and the group you're working with is folks from the community, but they're all white people who live in the nice neighborhoods on the edge of town. They love their little downtown, but they don't actually shop there much, except for that nice restaurant on the corner or that cute little boutique a couple of doors down. Sometimes, what they're really just interested in is preserving the buildings: a community pride thing. Then you start running some numbers or look around and see that the neighborhoods are populated by Black or Hispanic (potential customers who can conveniently shop downtown), but they've never been invited to the downtown revitalization table to provide their input. Well, from a market demand standpoint, it's kind of idiotic not to include them, but somehow it never dawned on the white folks to get their ideas. Getting them involved is essentially DEI. The same could be said for internal operations. Maybe there's a committee or something, planning I-don't-know-what within your very large organization, but everyone at the table is from a single demographic group. Well, that's kind of dumb. You should want a diversity of perspectives. I don't claim to be an expert on all this, but really, that's the kind of thing that might go beyond just casting a wider net for talent recruitment, like, say, holding a job fair at a Historically Black College or University or a Hispanic-Serving Institution, for example.
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Man, I wish I could give this more than one +rep. Empathy might just be one of the evolutionary superpowers that helped us survive as a species when we were all just little tribes of wanderers, having to look out for one another. If only people could just keep extending that empathy a little farther out, we might actually get somewhere.
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We're easily distracted by other shit like music, movies, sports, etc., but I won't criticize. It's possible the veil wouldn't have been lifted for me either had I not been fortunate enough to see my own country from afar over an extended period, through the lens of another people, as an exchange student when I was a teenager. Maybe I was already prepped a little bit, because my dad was a history teacher. As a result, my favorite subjects were almost always the social sciences and stuff like that: geography, history, social studies, etc., which may have been reinforced by the fact that I was adopted and always curious about my ancestral roots.
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I agree 100% with all that, but here's the thing. Many of the Mediocre Mikes of America are absolutely confused about what it is. They think DEI is the same thing as affirmative action. Just a couple of weeks ago, I had to explain to...wait for it...my buddy Mike that DEI is essentially an outreach thing, not a quota thing or even a hiring-preference thing. It just means casting a wider net to capture potential candidates from groups that aren’t traditionally considered for interviews in job applications. He's just fed a constant stream of bullshit from Fox and all the weirdo podcasts he listens to while driving his truck around the oil patch. His response was "Well, I guess that's alright." He's not a bad dude, just poorly informed. The same goes for the whole CRT thing. They don’t realize it basically means to recognize "institutionalized racism" exists, a term that olds like us have always known. I'm not sure what he thought it meant, because he couldn't define it. And, again, I said as much to him, and he was all like, "Oh." I'm pretty sure that's why all the conservative commentators use these vague, jargony academic initialisms rather than what the shit actually means. And I understand, because I fucking hate it when people start using alphabet-soup speak as if I would know what the hell shit like EMBM means. Sure, it's a great shortcut if you know what it means, but most people don't, so it's an automatic turnoff to the uninitiated.
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Walloon or Flemish?
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Buddy of mine just posted this to a group text. Watch the ref. VID_20251218_225639.mp4
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
bolverk replied to Horn Dog's topic in Cloak Room
It was a different time, place, and political environment, but I'm reminded of the mid-1990s when the GOP governor of California (Wilson?) went all-in on the immigrant hate stuff with help from the state assembly, of course, which really pissed off the state's Latino community. Someone can certainly correct me, but if I recall correctly, California Hispanics at the time had been much more willing to give Republicans a shot at the ballot box before all of that. I want to say that I read some voting analysis a while back that once California Latinos turned their back on the GOP after all that anti-immigrant stuff and never looked back, that was the moment California began its shift to the solidly blue state we think of today.
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