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  1. 14 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

    Agree to disagree, can we #moveon?

    It is spectacular that Hannity didn't disclose this earlier. When will these guys learn that just owning this shit would work out so much better?

    For contrast between Hannity and actual journalism, please see the randomly selected (seriously, it's just the first one my google search found) disclosure that the Texas Tribune has displayed prominently at the end of ANY article that discusses an entity that is a paid sponsor of the Tribune:

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    Disclosure: The Texas Association of Counties was a corporate sponsor of The Texas Tribune from 2011-13A complete list of Tribune donors and sponsors can be viewed here.

    Transparency.

    If your news source doesn't have it, then it's not a news source.

    Like that matters at all to the audience of mouthbreathers who gobble down whatever shit Hannity feeds them.

  2. Just now, Buzzrock said:

     

    You're not wrong, but I hate this reverse-whataboutism. Who gives a shit what they would be doing? Plenty to focus on regarding what IS happening.

    FYI: this was always a favorite Hannity tactic.

    It's not so much the "whataboutism."

    What's really fascinating is the projection.  Almost everything Trump and the Trumpkins rant and rail about....is something they've done or are doing.

    At this point, I'm terrified that they'll start ranting that Hillary sold nuclear weapons to Iran....because that would mean that Trump sold nukes to Iran.  Seriously, if they accuse someone of something....they did that something.  It has become uncomfortably uncanny.

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  3. 5 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    President Trump on Monday put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley that the Kremlin had swiftly denounced as “international economic raiding.”

    Preparations to punish Russia anew for its support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government over an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria caused consternation at the White House. Haley had said on CBS News’s “Face the Nation” that sanctions on Russian companies behind the equipment related to Assad’s alleged chemical weapons attack would be announced Monday by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

    But Trump conferred with his national security advisers later Sunday and told them he was upset the sanctions were being officially rolled out because he was not yet comfortable executing them, according to several people familiar with the plan.

    Administration officials said the economic sanctions were under serious consideration, along with other measures that could be taken against Russia, but said Trump had not given final authorization to implement them. Administration officials said Monday it was unlikely Trump would approve any additional sanctions without another triggering event by Russia, describing the strategy as being in a holding pattern.

    Sometime after Haley’s comments on CBS, the Trump administration notified the Russian Embassy in Washington that the sanctions were not in fact coming, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said Monday.

    The Trump team decided to publicly characterize Haley’s announcement as a misstatement. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Monday: “We are considering additional sanctions on Russia and a decision will be made in the near future.”

    Privately, another White House official said Haley got ahead of herself and made “an error that needs to be mopped up.”

    But other administration officials expressed skepticism that Haley had merely misspoken. They said Haley is one of the most disciplined and cautious members of the Cabinet, especially when it comes to her public appearances. She regularly checks in with Trump personally to go over her planned statements before she sits for television interviews.

    Haley issued no clarifying statement on Sunday after news organizations, including The Washington Post, reported prominently that the new sanctions would be announced Monday based on her comments to CBS. 

    Asked Monday morning why it had taken 24 hours for the administration to walk back Haley’s comments, one White House official said only that there had been confusion internally about what the plan was.

     

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    The sanctions were developed in recent weeks as part of a ready menu of potential military and economic measures for Trump to enact to strike back at Assad’s government and his Russian patrons, according to a senior administration official.

    In early March, following a relatively small-scale chemical weapons attack in Syria, Trump was upset there was not a ready set of options, so then-national security adviser H.R. McMaster prepared a series of measures that were not enacted.

    But the late-March poisoning of a former Russian double agent on British soil led the Trump administration to trigger the first round of the economic sanctions on that menu and to expel 60 diplomats in coordination with the European allies.

    The reported chemical attack by Assad in Douma in early April set off a debate in the White House about whether the United States should trigger another round of economic sanctions to punish Russia. The president seemed to refer to those measures Friday night in a speech announcing strikes against the Assad regime. He promised to respond with “all instruments of our national power: military, economic and diplomatic.”

    But it was unclear to officials whether Trump wanted to hit Russia with the next set of options on the sanctions menu or wait for another attack, according to the senior administration official.

    Some officials said the misunderstanding could have been the result of Haley’s tendency to speak directly with the president, sometimes outside of the normal policy process. “She’ll usually talk to the president without the rest of the White House and get her remarks cleared directly,” said the senior administration official. “Often we don’t know about them.”

    Early in the Trump administration, there were conflicts between Haley’s team and the president on Russia. Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Haley delivered a speech at the United Nations that recommitted the White House to the Obama administration’s policy on sanctions related to Russian aggression in Ukraine. The speech was cleared by David Cattler, then a senior official on the National Security Council, but the remarks frustrated Trump, who demanded to know who had approved them. 

    “Lots of people got yelled at — some by the president,” said a U.S. official at the United Nations. Cattler, in turn, was pushed out of his job a couple of weeks later in a reorganization of the NSC by McMaster.

    White House officials said Trump has been impressed with Haley lately, particularly her remarks about Syria over the past week, and stressed Monday that the president holds her in high regard.

    In the absence of a permanent secretary of state, Haley has been the face of American diplomacy, playing an especially prominent role over the past week as the Trump administration responded to the attack in Syria.

    Haley said Sunday on CBS: “You will see that Russian sanctions will be coming down. Secretary Mnuchin will be announcing those on Monday, if he hasn’t already. And they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to Assad and chemical weapons used. And so I think everyone is going to feel it at this point. I think everyone knows that we sent a strong message, and our hope is that they listen to it.”

    The Russians were listening. After Haley’s comments, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow that the sanctions were a U.S. ploy to oust Russia from international markets and constituted “undisguised attempts of unfair competition.”

    “The sanction campaign against Russia is truly assuming the nature of an obsessive idea,” Peskov said, according to the Interfax news agency. “We still do not see these sanctions as lawful. We see them as going against international law.”

    Peskov added: “Certainly, this cannot have any relation to and cannot be motivated by considerations of the situation in Syria or any other country. . . . I would call this international economic raiding rather than something else.”

    But there was a subtle shift in Moscow toward a less confrontational tone, even as officials continued to slam U.S. sanctions as veiled attempts at gaining economic advantage.

    Russian lawmakers were crowing Friday that they were going to make the United States pay for already imposed sanctions, potentially by blocking American imports or U.S.-Russian aerospace cooperation, or allowing Russians to violate U.S. intellectual property rights. Russia, one top lawmaker promised, was going to “hit the Americans in the gut.” 

    But on Monday, senior lawmakers in the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, decided to hold off until May 15 before considering any counter-sanctions against the United States. Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said the Duma needed to meet with experts and the business community first.

    Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also urged calm. 

    “Let’s first wait until these sanctions are implemented,” Ryabkov said in reference to possible new U.S. sanctions, Interfax reported. “We have to see what will be announced, at what scale, and who or what will become the targets of these sanctions.”

    Duh.

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  4. Oh, and if we hadn't already cemented it in place, "Stupid Watergate" really is perfect for this band of clowns.  This is absolutely hysterical.  A blindfolded man in a dildo factory couldn't trip over dicks at the rate these guys have achieved.

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  5. 1 minute ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    Love Dirty's for the two reasons you hate them.  I love greasy fried burgers done right, at Dirty's does (at least the last times I've been there) and I hate how every "good' burger you get these days is 1/2 pound and takes up a whole plate.   

    As an aside, that's the main reason, in Dallas, I visit OSK at a 3-1 ratio to Maple & Motor.  I love M&M's burgers but it's just too much food. 

     

     

     

    Ahh, the "thin burger" vs. "thick burger" debate.

    Once you realize that they're two totally separate things, life brings clarity.

    Mike's Pub.  Dirty's.  Dan's or Fran's.  Many bowling alleys.  THOSE are quality thin burgers.  They have little relationship to thick burgers, such as Hopdoddy, Casino El Camino, etc.

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  6. 7 minutes ago, Orange^White said:

    Not in Austin, but in the region.

    I have never understood the hype for Blue Bonnet Cafe in Marble Falls. The pies are passable but the entrees are nothing but frozen sysco shit and powdered gravy.

    Pies are good.

    Rolls are really good.

    The rest is meh.

  7. Just now, Pig Bellmont said:

    Translation: see my post above. If preliminary injunction is granted in part, it would almost certainly be to assign the review to a Special Master

    So she hasn't denied it...but she hasn't granted it.  Sounds like she's trying to figure out how to grant it in part, or how to grant it with some specific restrictions.

  8. Just now, Buzzrock said:

    Question for you as an attorney: does it bother you at all that Cohen is being compelled to disclose his client list? Do you think that implies that there is evidence of serious crimes by Hannity in concert with Cohen?

    Being required to disclose the client list has nothing to do with whether or not any of those clients is suspected of criminal wrongdoing.  It's based on a couple of things:

    1 - if you assert the privilege as to communications with some persons, then you need to show that those persons are indeed clients.

    2 - the identity of a client is generally not privileged information.

    So, if someone subpoenas Brisket's files, I can assert the privilege as to my atty-client communications.  I would say to to the court "I represent ABC enterprises, Bob's plumbing, Ed's taco joint, and the government of the State of New Hampshire."  Then, the court will know that communications with such folks MAY be privileged.

    The fact that it's being required here is because a court found probable cause for the subpoena to issue in the first place, and that bar is HIGH when it's an attorney's office being subpoenaed (as has already been discussed).  It makes me nervous when that happens, but it's also appropriate that the bar is high.

  9. 1 minute ago, hayden_horn said:

    i don't think that the trump people are getting bad advice, exactly. it's just that they are all ignoring it

    I'll be honest....my palate isn't discriminating enough to distinguish between these different flavors of stupid.  They're both so overpowering that all you can taste is "STUPID!"

  10. 1 hour ago, 936horn said:

    Exactly. The times I have been I always try something new...."how can you fuck up a burger/chicken sandwich/fajita/whatever" I say to myself, and every time it's absolute garbage. The best things I have eaten there have been barely passable and then you realize the burger cost you $18 and was on par with an overcooked double with cheese at McD.

    Once you understand that you're paying a 50% surcharge for a nice seat to watch a pretty sunset, it's more acceptable.  It's an event, not a dining occasion.  I kinda say the same thing about Salt Lick (except their food is better) -- it's not the world's best cue, but it's passable and a really cool experience, especially for out of town folks.

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  11. Just now, Pig Bellmont said:

    Hannity arguably waived *any* privilege claim by Hannity/Cohen by virtue of a subject matter waiver and telling everyone on air about the subject of their alleged attorney/client relationship. 

    And this.  The privilege can be waived by publicly discussing the subject matter of the advice.  Hannity may have done so or is doing so right now.  I gotta say, the collective quality of all of the legal advice the Trumpkins have gotten seems to be on par with that of a first year Aggy Law School grad recovering from a traumatic brain injury.

  12. Can you imagine the Trumpkin heads exploding if Hillary's lawyer had records subpoenaed, and it turned out that the "lawyer" only had two other clients -- John Podesta and, say, Don Lemon at CNN?

    We'd see murder boards about "media conspiracies and coverups" on Hannity for YEARS.

    Look, I hate this president.  I think he's awful for the country, for the world, and for humanity.  But, thank God, at least now it's getting laugh-out-loud fucking funny.  Seriously, the Keystone Kops are pointing and laughing at these clowns.

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  13. One time, driving up to OU weekend, all of the, umm, beverages and junk food I had consumed hit me.  Hard. I told our driver we needed to make a pitstop, pronto.  We pull over at a Jack In the Box near Hillsboro, I think.  My buddy says "dude, you're about to go in there and pollute the place -- let me piss before you do."  Being chivalrous and kind, I let him do so.  I go in to have my eruption....and he's pissed....EVERYWHERE.  All over the toilet seat.  All over all the toilet paper.  I was wiping the toilet seat clean with the few fragments of dry paper left.  Then, I had to wipe my ass with a mix of dry and piss paper.

    I come outside, and my buddies are laughing their asses off.

    I gotta say, tip of the hat to them.  That was a pro-level dick move.

    Would Starbucks let you get away with that?  If not, advantage, Jack in the Box.

  14. Number one offender for me is the fucking Oasis. That place has truly terrible terrible food, but it's ALWAYS packed. People love that place and I cannot figure it out. Sure it has a nice view on a good day but the food is overpriced garbage. Even if they gave it away it would still be ass.
    Trudy's has a couple OK options on the menu, but we always went for the Mexican martinis anyway. I'll toss one out that I believe may not be around anymore - Mellow Mushroom. That place sucked ass but for whatever reason everyone loved it. I guess because it was convenient to west campus maybe.
     
    Agree with several others including El Arroyo and County Line.

    Went to the oasis for the first time in years a coupla weeks ago. Same great view...same mediocre grub. Burgers were fine, nachos were...awful. How do you fuck those up?

    It’s worth a visit, but not for food.
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