May 4, 2017

A dutch web article on dipshit donnie

It's a long video on vimeo from Zembla. And I haven't listened to the whole thing. Can't confirm the article. There are some interview segments from Malcom Nance.


https://zembla.vara.nl/dossier/uitzending/the-dubious-friends-of-donald-trump-the-russians

Pretty sure this is the same video.

May 4, 2017

It sounds like the Prince Philip maybe stepping down from public life

This as of now is just conjecture. Not confirmed.

The Duke of Edinburgh, who is 95, will no longer carry out public engagements from the autumn of this year, Buckingham Palace has announced.

The Palace said in a statement it was the Duke's decision taken with the support of the Queen.

It said: "His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh has decided that he will no longer carry out public engagements from the autumn of this year. In taking this decision, The Duke has the full support of The Queen.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/04/buckingham-palace-summons-entire-royal-household-emergency-meeting/

May 3, 2017

Trump transition staffers head to K Street despite lobbying ban

Source: Politico

Donald Trump promised last year to “drain the swamp” of Washington, starting with barring people who worked on his presidential transition from lobbying for six months afterward.

But three months after Trump moved into the White House, at least nine people who worked on his transition have registered as lobbyists, highlighting holes in the president’s pledge to keep people from cashing in on government service.

Many are registered to lobby the same agencies or on the same issues they worked on during the transition, a POLITICO review of lobbying disclosures found. A former "sherpa" who helped to guide Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos through the Senate confirmation process is now registered to lobby her department. The former head of the transition's tax policy team has returned to his old company to lobby Congress on tax reform. One ex-member of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative team is now registered as part of a team lobbying on behalf of a major steelmaker.

Because of the way the transition’s six-month lobbying ban was worded, the former staffers may not be violating it. Regardless, their trips from lobbying to government service and back run counter to Trump's campaign promise to close Washington’s revolving door.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/03/trump-lobbying-ban-transition-237850

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Edited to remove "no comment"

Just thinking about this. Are some of them the same people they escorted out of the WH because they couldn't get clearence?

May 2, 2017

A side note on joemika show today

It was a fast blurb but joe said since dipshit had been used to dealing with other business people he really didn't know how to handle people who were ideologues. That is the killer argument against the "we want a business man" idea. Which was one of the things joe the morning joke said he liked about dipshit in the first place. That he was a business man and knew how to get things done.

But you also have to add to that he had always been surrounded by toadies. Or other business people who really didn't care about anything other then if they could make a profit.

The just to add to why dipshit should have never been elected. Is how he actually "worked". He had others research, do the actual work and handle the details. He just signed on the line. That also seems to be the only thing he likes doing now.

May 1, 2017

Anybody else see what dipshit donnie did after he walked away from the reporter?

Sorry I don't have a link. Just saw it on hardball. Most of the videos show him as he was walking away, but stop there. Hardball had a video when he walked away he sat down on at the "Resolute" desk shuffling papers with his ego bruised and pouting. I guess his Jarvanka will have to set up another campaign rally to pick him up. Or give him a new voter map so he can color in the lines.

May 1, 2017

Dipshit donnie's FEC filings are up dated

Last week you couldn't get anything other then the raw 450 megs of pdf files in one download. Now they are broken up in sections.

http://www.fec.gov/fecviewer/CandidateCommitteeDetail.do?tabIndex=1&candidateCommitteeId=P80001571

I wonder what the AKA WHITE HOUSE travel and lodging disbursements are? (Edit: Maybe he illegally used WH staff or resources for campaign use and having to pay back?)

And I didn't know he had a time travel machine for paying Special Occasions Rental $222 in 11/01/2017. I wonder how many bogus or dark money listings are on this one. The Inaugural Committee had a bunch.

Giles-Parscale for DIGITAL CONSULTING/ONLINE ADVERTISING seems to be a big winner.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/23/trump-campaign-biggest-fund-recipient-giles-parscale

And of course TRUMP TOWER COMMERCIAL LLC is up there high on the list.

May 1, 2017

How black is black

Here's a pretty neat article on a spray paint called vantablack. They have a form of vantablack which is made of grown nanotubes. But they have developed a spray on paint version. It blocks 99.8 of the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared light shown on it. One of the stranger pictures is of 2 facial masks. It doesn't look like they could be the same object with one just having the paint on it.

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-object-has-been-sprayed-with-the-world-s-blackest-pigment-and-it-s-freaking-us-out

May 1, 2017

Ustream live video from the ISS

A live video stream from the International Space Station. Brought to you from NASA.

https://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ESRS/HDEV/