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kpete's JournalPossum breaks into liquor store, gets skunky drunk
Michelle Pettis, a wildlife health technician at the Refuge, said the juvenile female opossum was brought in by a Fort Walton Beach Police Department officer Nov. 24. He said the opossum was found by a Cash’s Liquor Store employee at the AJ’s on the Bayou location who discovered the opossum next to a broken and empty bottle of alcohol the morning after Thanksgiving.
OKALOOSA ISLAND — An opossum that snuck into a liquor store and apparently helped itself to a few drinks the day after Thanksgiving was brought in to the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge for treatment before it was released Thursday.
Michelle Pettis, a wildlife health technician at the refuge, said the juvenile female opossum was brought in by a Fort Walton Beach police officer Nov. 24. He said a Cash’s Liquor Store employee at the AJ’s on the Bayou location discovered the opossum next to a broken and empty bottle of alcohol the morning after Thanksgiving.
“A worker there found the opossum up on a shelf next to a cracked open bottle of liquor with nothing in it,” Pettis said. “Assuming the opossum drank it all, he brought her to us, and we looked over her and she definitely wasn’t fully acting normal.”
Pettis said the opossum appeared disoriented, was excessively salivating and appeared to be pale.
The staff quickly pumped the marsupial full of fluids and cared for her as she sobered up.
“We loaded her up with fluids to help flush out any alcohol toxins,” Pettis said. “She was good a couple of days later and was released Thursday night.”
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Eric Holder: "You'll find integrity & honesty at FBI headquarters & NOT at 1600 Penn Ave right now"
HOLDER:
Nope. Not letting this go. The FBI’s reputation is not in “tatters”. It’s composed of the same dedicated men and women who have always worked there and who do a great, apolitical job. You’ll find integrity and honesty at FBI headquarters and not at 1600 Penn Ave right now
https://twitter.com/EricHolder/status/937365222033100800
Plea agreement clause shows Flynn consented to participate in covert law enforcement activities"
The least-noticed sentence in Michael Flynn’s plea agreement with special counsel Robert Mueller may also be the most important one.
Section eight of the deal reached by Donald Trump’s former national security adviser in the inquiry into Russian meddling in the US election is entitled “cooperation”. It specifies that as well as answering questions and submitting to government-administered polygraph tests, Flynn’s cooperation “may include … participating in covert law enforcement activities”.
Long-time students of federal law enforcement practices agreed, speaking anonymously, that “covert law enforcement activities” likely refers to the possibility of wearing a concealed wire or recording telephone conversations with other potential suspects. It is not known whether Flynn has worn a wire at any time.
“If the other subjects of investigation have had any conversations with Flynn during the last few months, that phrase must have all of them shaking in their boots,” said John Flannery, a former federal prosecutor in the southern district of New York
The Rest
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/03/michael-flynn-plea-agreement-mueller-russia
With permission from Art Buchwalds estate, the Kansas City Star publishes his Watergate-era column
Oh yeah? Well, what about Chappaquiddick?BY ART BUCHWALD
Republished courtesy of the estate of Art Buchwald
DECEMBER 01, 2017 07:22 PM
UPDATED DECEMBER 02, 2017 10:52 AM
WASHINGTON
These are difficult times for people who are defending the Nixon administration. No matter where they go they are attacked by pseudo-liberals, McGovern lovers, heterosexual constitutionalists and paranoid John Dean believers.
As a public service, I am printing instant responses for loyal Nixonites when they are attacked at a party. Please cut it out and carry it in your pocket.
1. Everyone does it.
2. What about Chappaquiddick?
3. A President can’t keep track of everything his staff does.
4. The press is blowing the whole thing up.
5. Whatever Nixon did was for national security.
6. The Democrats are sore because they lost the election.
7. Are you going to believe a rat like John Dean or the president of the United States?
8. Wait till all the facts come out.
9. What about Chappaquiddick?
10. If you impeach Nixon, you get Agnew.
11. The only thing wrong with Watergate is they got caught.
12. What about Daniel Ellsberg stealing the Pentagon Papers?
13. It happens in Europe all the time.
14. People would be against Nixon no matter what he did.
15. I’d rather have a crook in the White House than a fool.
16. LBJ used to read FBI reports every night.
17. What’s the big deal about finding out what your opposition is up to?
18. The president was too busy running the country to know what was going on.
19. What about Chappaquiddick?
20. People that live in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.
21. McGovern would have lost anyway.
22. Maybe the Committee for the Re-Election of the President when a little too far, but they were just a bunch of eager kids.
23. I’m not for breaking the law, but sometimes you have to do it to save the country.
24. Nixon made a mistake. He’s only human.
25. Do you realize what Watergate is doing to the dollar abroad?
26. What about Harry Truman and the deep freeze scandal?
27. Franklin D. Roosevelt did a lot of worse things.
28. I’m sick and tired of hearing about Watergate and so is everyone else.
29. This thing should be tried in the courts and not on TV.
30. When Nixon gives his explanation of what happened there are going to be a lot of people in this country with egg on their faces.
31. My country right or wrong.
32. What about Chappaquiddick?
33. I think the people who make all this fuss about Watergate should be shot.
34. If the Democrats had the money they would have done the same thing.
35. I never did trust Haldeman and Ehrlichman.
36. If you say one more word about Watergate I’ll punch you in the nose.
A. If the person is bigger than you: “If you say one more word about Watergate I’m leaving this house.”
B. If it’s your own house and the person is bigger than you: “What about Chappaquiddick?”
http://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/syndicated-columnists/article187662578.html
How can you expect us to help poor kids get health ins when we just gave ALL your money to the rich?
@SenOrrinHatch on CHIP: “I have a rough time wanting to spend billions and billions and trillions of dollars to help people who won’t help themselves – won’t lift a finger – and expect the federal government to do everything.”
Congress was supposed to extend the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) by Oct. 1. As regular readers know, that was the day current funding for the program, which has traditionally enjoyed bipartisan support, expired. That was exactly two months ago. As things stand, there is no solution and Republicans don’t appear to be working on one.
Last night, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), an ardent CHIP proponent, urged Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), who helped write the original CHIP legislation before moving sharply to the right, to restore funding for the program before families get hurt. Daily Kos flagged this striking clip from the Senate floor.
For those who can’t watch clips online, this was the case from the Utah Republican:
“Let me tell you something: we’re going to do CHIP. There’s no question about it in my mind. It’s got to be done the right way. But we, the reason CHIP’s having trouble is because we don’t have money anymore.”
Hatch went on to condemn the idea of “more and more spending.” After praising the “terrific job” CHIP has done for families who need help, he immediately added, “I have a rough time wanting to spend billions and billions and trillions of dollars to help people who won’t help themselves – won’t lift a finger – and expect the federal government to do everything.”
The context for the exchange between Hatch and Brown was quite extraordinary: this happened on the Senate floor during a debate over the Republican tax plan.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/during-tax-debate-republican-questions-funding-childrens-health
https://twitter.com/JennyWilsonUT/status/937022809615695872
John Dowd Contradicts Himself When TRYING To Defend Trump Tweet
John Dowd seems to contradict himself in the explanation he gave to @axios about the Trump tweet.
First he says he drafted the tweet, in which Trump says he fired Flynn because he lied to the FBI.
Then he says that Trump didn’t know at the time that Flynn had lied to the FBI.
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/937343971847753729
Hillary Clinton could be a mass murderer, and that doesn't mean you shouldn't be impeached/indicted
Hillary Clinton could be a mass murderer, and that doesn't mean you shouldn't be impeached and indicted for your own crimes. Stop using Hillary as an excuse as to why you should be allow to commit crime! It doesn't work that way.You do realize that this has no barring on your own investigation, right?
TRUMP:
Report: “ANTI-TRUMP FBI AGENT LED CLINTON EMAIL PROBE” Now it all starts to make sense!https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/937314665176207360
https://twitter.com/EdKrassen/status/937315184028323842
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