Tag: Confirmation

Daily Check-In 05/04/2018

  • May the 4th be with you.

 

THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION

 

COHEN

The school accepts almost anyone who can pay the $51,000 annual tuition bill—more than 85 percent of its applicants were admitted last year. Fewer than half of its graduates manage to pass a bar exam on their first try; among all law school graduates in the country, about 75 percent pass on their first attempt. The 46-year-old school has had to go to court over the past year to fight for its accreditation from the American Bar Association, which found that the school was out of compliance on basic admission standards for a time. Last year, the National Advisory Council for Law School Transparency gave Cooley a ranking no school wants: It was No. 1 on the group’s list of “the 10 least selective law schools in the country.

I’ve described before how bad Cooley Law School is.  I’ve been seriously tempted to take the LSAT, just to see if I could score higher than their admissions guidelines, and I’m not a lawyer or legal scholar.

Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, gained access to as much as $774,000 through two financial transactions during the 2016 presidential campaign as he sought to fix problems for his boss, public records show.

Those transactions could factor into a broad investigation of Mr. Cohen’s business affairs being conducted by Manhattan federal prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who are examining whether Mr. Cohen violated any laws in his efforts to raise cash and conceal negative information about Mr. Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. Those include transactions tied to his credit line and his ownership of real estate and taxi medallions, the people said.

Cohen’s slush fund was three quarters of a million dollars during the campaign?  That’s like, 5 or 6 Stormy’s at a time.

 

STORMYGATE

 

RUDY

I’ll cover the broke part down in the Rumor Mill section, along with a crazy hypothesis I have about his behavior, that doesn’t include dementia, or being mobbed up to his nuts.

 

THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE:  THE JOURNALISTS STRIKE BACK

Welcome to the weirdest timeline.  It’s taken a year and a half for the White House Press Corp to call out their lies, and Tom Arnold is now an investigative journalist.

Reality just jumped the shark.

 

DOCTOR, DOCTOR

Dr. Jen Peña, who like Jackson is a military physician detailed to the White House, was among those who detailed claims of professional misconduct against Jackson to senators considering his nomination, according to a person familiar with the events.

If this is what I think it is, it is a clear violation of the military whistleblower protection act.

 

WHITE HOUSE CHAOS

The government of Qatar bought a $6.5m apartment in one of Donald Trump’s New York towers soon after the dismissal of a lawsuit that tried to stop the president benefiting from such deals.

Qatar’s mission to the United Nations signed a deal for the condominium at Trump World Tower on 17 January, according to city records. The purchase means that the Middle Eastern state now owns four units in the building, for which it paid $16.5m.

 

COLD WAR 2.0

 

#NEVERAGAIN

 

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

YAVIN IV — The Rebel High Command announced Thursday it had indicted several Rebel officers for fraud and bribery, including the legendary Adm. Gial Ackbar.

Ackbar, along with several other senior members of the Rebel Alliance, are suspected of an elaborate scandal involving the notorious intergalactic gangster, “Fat Jabba.”

According to investigators, Rebel Calamari cruisers, Corellian Corvettes, and Nebulon-B frigates would frequently dock at spaceports owned by Fat Jabba, who would charge the Rebel Alliance double the normal rate for space fuel. In exchange, Ackbar was treated to lavish seafood dinners, tickets to see the Max Rebo band, and was frequently seen with a pair of Twi’lek prostitutes.

Authorities arrested Ackbar and other Rebel officers in a massive sting operation, eventually catching Ackbar mid-coitus with an underage Ewok while staying in a luxurious Coruscant hotel. Still, lawyers for Ackbar have alleged that Rebel authorities themselves are guilty of entrapment.

“It’s a trap!” Ackbar said in a written statement.

Rebel Alliance officials were tight-lipped over any punishment Ackbar may receive for siphoning off billions of New Republic credits to a disreputable criminal, but sources indicate Rebel leader Mon Mothma is considering demoting Ackbar to lieutenant colonel and retiring him with full benefits.

It’s such a shame what happened to the Admiral, but going into business with the Hutt Crime Family is just beyond the pale.  And don’t even get me started on the allegations about the underage Ewok, or the apologists saying “that’s their culture.”  That’s just wrong.

 

GOP:  THE PARTY OF LINCOLN IS DEAD

 

BLUE WAVE

 

SAY GOODBYE TO THE ECONOMY

 

RUMOR MILL:  TRUMP BROKE AS A JOKE

Here’s a question…

Why did it take several months for Donald Trump, a supposed billionaire, four months to pay back Michael Cohen $130,000?

Assuming if what Rudy said on Wednesday was correct (Daily Check-In 05/02/2018) which is a big if, why did it take a billionaire four months to pay off $130,000?  A billionaire paying off that amount of money would be like a regular working Joe taking four months to pay off a meal at Wendy’s.

So why is that?  I can come up with two reasons, and neither of them are good for Trump.

The first is they split the payments up to cover their tracks for reporting purposes.  This makes the most sense if he’s trying to hide the payment.  Problem with this thought is Trump doesn’t give a fuck about consequences or getting caught doing something wrong.  Plus, this plan involves forethought, and nothing that he’s done at any point implies planning or forethought.  Everything with him is reaction.

The second reason that it took four months for Trump to pay back Cohen is because he didn’t have the cash to pay him.  Why?  He’s broke.

There are three basic definitions of a billionaire.  First is someone who makes a billion dollars or more a year. The second is someone whose net worth is more than a billion dollars.  The third is someone who owns more than a billion dollars in assets, regardless of debts.

Trump’s not a billionaire, not by the first two definitions.  His revenue stream is far less than a billion dollars per year, and he’s mortgaged out the ass.  By recent accounts, he’s nearly $300 million in the hole.  Almost all of his properties are upside down.  His cash flow is completely dependent on his money laundering, but even that has dried up a bit as he’s under scrutiny.  He can’t pull $130,000 out of his at a moment’s notice.  It took a couple months to scrape the cash together.

Don’t get me wrong, he’s not rolling pennies for gas broke, or ramen noodles every night for dinner broke, but he’s not buying a fleet of Ferraris with the spare money in his pockets.

 

That’s it for today.  Hopefully I’ll get something written this weekend, but I’m making no promises.  Maybe a pledge to do what I can, but no promises.

 

Thank you, and have a good one.

 

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

Daily Check-In 05/03/2018

Thursday, May 3rd.

 

COHEN:  TO WIRETAP OR NOT TO WIRETAP

I was going to go into this nice, long description of how a wiretap works, but then NBC corrected the story that it wasn’t a wiretap, but a pen register.  Now, I’ve got to explain both, and the difference.

A pen register is when law enforcement sees who calls the target, and who the target calls.  They can’t monitor what the call was about, but can see how long the call lasted, and how often they called.

A wiretap goes a step above the pen register and actively monitors the calls for content.  There are several restrictions on a wiretap.  For example, if the call is privileged communication, or after 30 seconds it the call isn’t about anything criminal, then law enforcement has to hang up.  If the call goes on for a long time, they can check back in to see if the conversation has turned back to illegal stuff.  There’s a scene from Casino where they went through the details.  I tried to find it, but after a half hour of searching and not finding the clip, I give up.

I’m not surprised by this, to be honest.  The Feds were monitoring Cohen’s emails and phone lines for weeks, if not months before they raided his shit.  While checking the phone records, they saw who was calling, and when.  But there are two big takeaways from today.

First, a pen register is used when the Feds suspect that a crime is ongoing.  If there was a past crime, they would just look at the phone records on file.

Second, at least one of the calls they recorded came from the White House.

 

THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION:  MUELLER ORDERS 70 BLANK SUBPOENAS, SIDE OF COLE SLAW TO GO

70 blank subpoenas for July.

STORMYGATE/RUDY CROSSOVER CLUSTERFUCK

 

DOCTOR, DOCTOR

 

COLD WAR 2.0

 

HAPPY NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER

 

WHITE HOUSE CHAOS

 

#NEVERAGAIN

 

CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA AND FACEBOOK

 

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

 

SAY GOODBYE TO THE ECONOMY

 

RUMOR MILL

Here’s an interesting hypothesis:  What if Michael Cohen outranks Donald Trump in the mob?  Is that even possible?

I don’t necessarily buy it right now, but it’s 2018.  This is the year that a porn star’s attorney is bitchslapping the combined legal expertise of the White House.

 

 

 

 

 

 

That’s it for today.  Today is very light on my information.  Today was a very busy day, and I didn’t spend nearly as much time as I have on the entry recently.  Tomorrow should be back to normal.

 

Thank you, and have a good one.

 

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

 

 

 

 

Daily Check-In 05/02/2018

Wednesday May 2nd.

 

THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION

Robert Mueller wants to question President Donald Trump about a change to the 2016 Republican Party platform’s language about Ukraine and Russia, rekindling a subject that House Republicans dismissed as a nonstarter.

After news broke Monday night of an effort by conservative House Republicans to draft impeachment papers against Rosenstein, just in case they’re needed, he issued a striking rebuke for a top Justice Department official. He first noted that “nobody has the courage to put their name on” the impeachment document and poked at its authors for leaking word of their efforts.

Then came this: “I think they should understand by now that the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted,” Rosenstein said. “We’re going to do what’s required by the rule of law, and any kind of threats that anybody makes are not going to affect the way we do our job.”

“Extorted.” The guy who is in charge of the scope of the Russia investigation just accused House Republicans of attempted extortion.

Cobb, who served as the White House point person in dealing with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, is stepping down, according to senior administration officials.

He is expected to be replaced by Williams & Connolly partner Emmet T. Flood, a Republican defense lawyer who helped President Bill Clinton during impeachment proceedings and was interviewed by President Trump earlier this year.

“For several weeks, Ty Cobb has been discussing his retirement and last week he let Chief of Staff Kelly know he would retire at the end of this month,” White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement.

 

COHEN

Long before he was a personal attorney to President Donald Trump, Michael Cohen was a personal injury lawyer for clients who reportedly staged car accidents to collect hefty sums from insurance companies and worked for other clients involved in medical insurance schemes.

Cohen, whose office and residence were raided by the FBI as part of an unrelated investigation, has come under fire for his work for Trump over the last decade. But prior to his gaining Trump’s attention, Cohen represented clients who would rent cars and trucks, along with insurance, and careen the vehicles into friends’ cars for a huge payout, according to a Rolling Stone investigation published Tuesday.

For instance, in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn in 1999, the car Tara Pizzingrillo was sitting in was struck by a rental car driven by Brian McFarland. Three years later, Cohen represented Pizzingrillo and filed a complaint seeking $1 million from the rental company’s parent company, ELRAC Inc.

But as that case continued, both McFarland and Pizzingrillo were indicted in a similar scheme involving U-Haul trucks and slamming into other vehicles. Passengers in the struck vehicles would then claim personal injury and seek a payout.

Holy shit, Michael Cohen is a real-life version of Saul Goodman.  The only thing missing from his story is a chemistry teacher making meth out of an RV.

 

STORMYGATE

This story came out at 10PM EST.  Right as I should be finishing up, but this is such a WTAF, that it needs a few paragraphs.

Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City, former U.S. Attorney in SDNY, went on Fox News and shat the bed.

While he was there to talk about the Russian Investigation, and after calling FBI agents “Stormtroopers,” (Nazi, not Imperial), and after attacking James Comey pretty damn hard, Sean Hannity asked Rudy to stay on and answer some questions about Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels.  Rudy said “sure”, and done fucked up.

How bad did he fuck up?  Let me count the ways…

  • Rudy said that Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for paying Stormy Daniels.
  • Rudy said that Trump paid him back over months.
  • Rudy said that Trump paid Cohen through a law firm.
  • Rudy said that Trump used his own money.
  • Rudy said that Trump can use as much of his own money to pay his campaign as he wants.
  • Rudy said that James Comey was fired because he wouldn’t say that Trump wasn’t a target.

If Rudy had dropped his trousers, shit on the floor, grabbed the shit, smeared it on the wall, and painted a scene of a lynching from 1930’s Alabama while singing some Kanye, then started masturbating furiously over his own painting, he still wouldn’t have fucked up as bad as he did in that interview.

Trump has said repeatedly that he knew nothing about the payment to Stormy Daniels.  Rudy said that was a lie.

Cohen said he wasn’t reimbursed for the payment.  Rudy said he was, and that the money was “shuffled” from Trump to Cohen through a law firm.  The legal term for that is Money Laundering.

Rudy said the payment was made over months.  If it was structured in a way to avoid tax reporting or campaign finance reporting, that’s a felony.

If Trump used his own money, and reimbursed Cohen for this payment, and the payment is an in-kind campaign contribution, and it wasn’t reported, that’s a felony.

If Trump is using campaign as a slush fund, and dumping cash into it willy nilly, he’s got even more legal troubles.

If Trump fired Comey for not clearing him in an investigation, that’s Obstruction of Justice.

Rudy done fucked up.

 

DOCTOR, DOCTOR

What ought to worry Trump is not the shattering of his image as the “healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency”; what should concern him is that Bornstein is suddenly saying unhelpful things in the press — and that could embolden others who feel burned by Trump to do the same.

…

Cohen and Bornstein have similar reasons to feel betrayed by Trump. The Washington Post reported last month that Cohen was, at one point, a leading candidate to become White House counsel and felt wounded by his ultimate rejection.

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Bornstein reportedly hoped to accompany Trump to the White House, too, but was similarly left behind. He told NBC that early last year, after he disclosed the president’s use of a drug that can be used to treat hair loss and an enlarged prostate, he received an angry phone call from Trump’s longtime assistant. “So you wanted to be the White House doctor? Forget it, you’re out,” she allegedly said.

I didn’t write about this yesterday when this broke yesterday, but here’s the short version…

Dr. Bornstein, the hippy dippy looking doctor that served Trump for 35 years had his office illegally raided by Keith Schiller and a couple others.  They took Trump’s medical records, illegally.

During an interview with NBC News, Bornstein also revealed that Trump dictated the “extremely healthy” letter that sounded like it was written by a six year old with a brain tumor.  That explains a lot…

Trump’s showing that he has no loyalty to his supporters.  Once this sinks in to them, it’s on like Donkey Kong.  Nothing is more dangerous than a wronged fanatic.

 

COLD WAR 2.0

As soon as Ukraine dropped their investigations into Paul Manafort, the Trump Administration changed their minds on selling anti-tank missiles to them.

I wonder, does extorting a foreign nation into dropping an investigation count as Obstruction of Justice?

That’s right baby, the United Kingdom passed the Magnitsky Act, and he’s going to work on getting our cousins down under to join the train.

More good news for Bill, he gets to file another affidavit against the Cypriot Attorney General (or lead attorney) to keep him from cooperating from Russia’s attempts to prosecute Browder.

 

#NEVERAGAIN

 

CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA AND FACEBOOK

Beware of Emerdata

  • The power players behind Cambridge Analytica have set up a new company and the daughters of Donald Trump-supporting billionaire Robert Mercer have just joined as directors
  • Rebekah and Jennifer Mercer joined Emerdata on March 16, but it is shrouded in mystery.
  • Alexander Nix, the suspended CEO of Cambridge Analytica, is also a director, as well as other executives from parent firm SCL Group.
  • Emerdata also lists Johnson Chun Shun Ko, a Chinese executive from Frontier Services Group, the military firm chaired by prominent Trump supporter Erik Prince.
  • It isn’t clear what Emerdata does, though the company is listed under “data processing, hosting, and related activities.” It shares an address in Canary Wharf with Cambridge Analytica’s parent, SCL Group.

 

 

THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE

 

WHITE HOUSE CHAOS

 

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

“Marco Polo” producer Alexandra Canosa, who hit Weinstein with a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit in December, filed paperwork Monday detailing his alleged sexual impropriety. Weinstein was an executive producer of the Netflix series.

Canosa charges that Weinstein sexually assaulted her on Aug. 12, 2010, in the Tribeca Grand hotel, and that his “misconduct” continued until September 2017 — about one month before bombshell reports detailed numerous allegations against him.

During this period, “Harvey Weinstein constantly threatened Plaintiff and made it clear that if she did not succumb to his demands for sexual contact or if she exposed his unwanted conduct there would be retaliation, including humiliation, the loss of her job and loss of any ability to work in the entertainment business,” she alleges in court papers.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump has again asked a U.S. court to dismiss a suit accusing him of flouting constitutional safeguards against corruption by refusing to separate himself from his business empire while in office, claiming “absolute immunity.”

Absolute immunity?  Are you fucking kidding me?  What’s he going to claim next, that the Frog King of Rigel 6 has bestowed upon him Super Immunity?

Check out Lincoln’s Bible in the Rumor Mill for more ties between Hobby Lobby, Mark Burnett, and ISIS.  Yes, ISIS.

 

GOP:  THE PARTY OF LINCOLN IS DEAD

Vice President Mike Pence is literally praising a convicted felon as a shining example of the “Rule of Law.”  In this case, “Rule of Law” means being a racist prick.  So, by that definition…

The Speaker of the House of Representatives just admitted to using his office to cover up and run interference for President Trump.  Let that sink in.

BLUE WAVE

 

SAY GOODBYE TO THE ECONOMY

Yep, gas prices are rising.  Right after I traded in a Fiat for a Minivan.

PUFF, PUFF, PASS

 

RUMOR MILL

Lincoln’s Bible has done a lot of research into Mark Burnett, Executive Producer for many reality shows, including The Apprentice.  LB’s been on this for a long time, and when tapes from The Apprentice drop, I wouldn’t be surprised if LB’s on the front line of that battle.

 

That’s it for today.  Shit’s getting crazy, yo.  At this point, it looks like Trump thinks he can fight his way out of the investigation.  He’s abandoned all pretense of listening to advice, and will try anything to protect himself.

Rudy’s fuck up throws a wrench in things. What he said will play to the Fox News crowd, but everyone else, including the Federal prosecutors trying the Cohen case, will take this information and run with it.

It feels like something big is coming this week, especially now that we’re getting tons of leaks from and about the Trump legal team.

Hopefully, it’s not too crazy.  I’ve got a ton of things to do.  That being said, get ready for history.

 

Thank you, and have a good one.

 

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Daily Check-In 05/01/2018

Tuesday, May 1st.  May Day.

THE RUSSIAN INVESTIGATION

This is an interesting development.

In a tense meeting in early March with the special counsel, President Trump’s lawyers insisted he had no obligation to talk with federal investigators probing Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential campaign.

But special counsel Robert S. Mueller III responded that he had another option if Trump declined: He could issue a subpoena for the president to appear before a grand jury, according to four people familiar with the encounter.

Mueller’s warning — the first time he is known to have mentioned a possible subpoena to Trump’s legal team — spurred a sharp retort from John Dowd, then the president’s lead lawyer.

“This isn’t some game,” Dowd said, according to two people with knowledge of his comments. “You are screwing with the work of the president of the United States.”

Trump’s team threatened to not talk to Robert Mueller’s team, and Mueller responded with a threat to subpoena his ass.

We’ve known this was a possibility, even a likelihood, since the rumors of interviews started, but it’s all been hypothetical, not much basis in reality.  Now, it hasn’t only entered the realm of reality, but hangs in the air like Damocles’s Sword.

Bobby Three Sticks wouldn’t make this threat lightly.  He wouldn’t threaten a subpoena without sign-off from DAG Rosenstein, a team looking at privileged information and where it falls, investigators review every possible angle and the legal team has gone through all of their evidence with a fine-toothed comb.

Dropping this bomb is like threatening divorce.  It’s not done lightly, and once it’s used, everything changes.

By the way, we’ve got a good idea where the questions came from…

After investigators laid out 16 specific subjects they wanted to review with the president and added a few topics within each one, Sekulow broke the queries down into 49 separate questions, according to people familiar with the process.

Jay Sekulow’s notes.  That explains the following stories:

The leaked questions had some grammatical errors that those close to Mueller claim he wouldn’t make.  So Jay took the subjects, wrote a few questions out of those, then what?

What happened March 5?  Daily Check-In 03/05/2018 Sam Nunberg went nuts.  Daily Check-In 03/06/2018. George Nader flipped, Mueller was looking into Cohen’s activities, and Stormy sued Trump.  The legal teams meet, and two weeks later Jon Dowd nopes the fuck out of Team Trump.  Probably because he saw his actions in the list.  (Dangling a pardon for Flynn Daily Check-In 03/28/2018)

Here’s some more articles about those questions.

“There have been people who have been making threats privately & publicly against me for quite some time & I think they should understand by now the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted.”

COHEN

Michael Cohen, already under pressure from a federal criminal investigation into his business and financial dealings, has been hit this month with more than $185,000 in new state warrants for unpaid taxes on his taxicab companies.

Added to his previous tab, that brings the total to $282,000 owed to New York state by 16 taxi medallion-holding companies owned by Cohen or members of his family, including Mad Dog Cab Corp., Smoochie Cab Corp., Golden Child Cab Corp. and N.Y. Futon Taxi Corp. A lawyer for Cohen declined to comment.

DOCTOR, DOCTOR

In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump’s longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump’s New York doctor without notice and took all the president’s medical records.

The incident, which Dr. Harold Bornstein described as a “raid,” took place two days after Bornstein told a newspaper that he had prescribed a hair growth medicine for the president for years.

In an exclusive interview in his Park Avenue office, Bornstein told NBC News that he felt “raped, frightened and sad” when Keith Schiller and another “large man” came to his office to collect the president’s records on the morning of Feb. 3, 2017. At the time, Schiller, who had long worked as Trump’s bodyguard, was serving as director of Oval Office operations at the White House.

“They must have been here for 25 or 30 minutes. It created a lot of chaos,” Bornstein said, who described the incident as frightening.

A framed 8×10 photo of Bornstein and Trump that had been hanging on the wall in the waiting room now lies flat under a stack of papers on the top shelf of Bornstein’s bookshelf. Bornstein said the men asked him to take it off the wall.

Bornstein said he was not given a form authorizing the release of the records and signed by the president known as a HIPAA release — which is a violation of patient privacy law. A person familiar with the matter said there was a letter to Bornstein from then-White House doctor Ronny Jackson, but didn’t know if there was a release form attached.

“He dictated that whole letter. I didn’t write that letter,” Bornstein told CNN on Tuesday. “I just made it up as I went along.”
The admission is an about face from his answer more than two years when the letter was released and answers one of the lingering questions about the last presidential election. The letter thrust the eccentric Bornstein, with his shoulder-length hair and round eyeglasses, into public view.

Here’s a video, even better hearing his passion.

COLD WAR 2.0

Remember this, then think back to Brexit and the fallout from that.  Part of the backlash to Brexit was a reinvigoration of the Scottish independence movement.  Which, guess who pushed the propaganda for that?  Ding ding ding!  If you guessed Russia, give yourself two points.

#NEVERAGAIN

WHITE HOUSE CHAOS

GOP:  THE PARTY OF LINCOLN IN DEAD

BLUE WAVE

THE PROPAGANDA MACHINE

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

The Bible he ate wasn’t cooked, marinated, or even slathered in ketchup.  He just ate it straight up.

Eating that much pulp and fiber could really mess up his digestive system long term.  If he doesn’t change his diet, he’ll never make it to be an old man.

Oh, shit… Nevermind.

Did Roy Moore not pay attention  to a fucking thing that happened to Bill Cosby?  Suing his accusers led to discovery, which led to even more shady ass shit.

The number of reported sexual assaults is up 15%, but they’re claiming this as a victory on two fronts.  First, more people are coming forward to report sexual assaults, and less assaults are happening.

SAY GOODBYE TO THE ECONOMY

RUMOR MILL: WHO OWNS WHAT?

Here’s a good roundup of what happened throughout the day.  They’re doing a similar thing to what I’m doing, but look better and have a staff.  Not exactly rumors, but I don’t have a section for them yet.

That’s it for today.  For the last couple days I’ve been listening to “Thug Notes” on audiobook.  It’s a pretty good book.  It describes literary classics in gangsta terms.  Which leads me to another issue.

I have a tendency to write like what I’m reading or listening to.  Whether it’s music or a book, I mimic what I’m exposed to.  So, if my writing gets a little crass, or I start talking like I’m a straight up gangsta, or start flexing, that’s why.

Thank you, and have a good one.

“Without Journalists, it’s just propaganda.”

– Katy Tur