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The commentary on the 2nd video...🤣

🤣 Judge questions Giuliani over not forfeiting lawsuit after conceding false 2020 election statements A federal judge on Friday demanded an explanation from Rudy Giuliani as to why he conceded in court that he made false and defamatory statements about two Georgia election workers after the 2020 election but hasn’t forfeited their lawsuit against him. It’s the latest legal difficulty that Giuliani has faced related to his spreading of disinformation on former President Donald Trump’s behalf – and the latest instance of a federal judge considering severe sanctions for Giuliani over the Georgia defamation case. A loss in the case could have significant implications for Giuliani, especially financially. In a court filing last month, Giuliani acknowledged that he had made defamatory statements about the election workers, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, though he stopped short of conceding that his statements caused damages to the pair. Giuliani also said in the July filing that he still wanted to argue that his statements about voter fraud in Georgia were protected by free speech. Giuliani has until Tuesday afternoon to either forfeit the lawsuit, conceding he is liable and opening himself up to pay the ballot-counters’ damages, or give Judge Beryl Howell more explanation and appear before her for a hearing in mid-August. Following Giuliani’s concessions, Howell ordered him to pay more of Moss and Freeman’s legal fees after previously ordering him to pay them $90,000. https://news.yahoo.com/judge-questions-giuliani-over-not-170012193.html

Arrgg....Irvin struggling in the 2nd w/ a 4 run lead. Make that 4-2 Nats Edit: I am so over Vargas losing his bat every at bat. I saw one yesterday & now 2 in 1 AB. Ridiculous...

Gotcha...I was thinking they could get something for him in a trade vs. outright release. Granted he's been hurt a lot this year but seems to have fixed some issues at the plate.

Do yourself a favor and stay away from Elmo's website - Rapinoe is getting hammered

Why cut Robles?

I don't think I knew this. However, it did occur during my junior & senior years in HS when massive amounts of herb was being consumed...

Seriously? 🤣 'Jack Smith's words': Fox News hosts slam Pence for 'making money' from 'too honest' slogan Fox News hosts Pete Hegseth and Rachel Campos-Duffy followed former President Donald Trump's lead and attacked former Vice President Mike Pence over special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into a plot to overthrow the 2020 election. During a segment on Sunday's broadcast of Fox & Friends, Hegseth slammed Pence for using the slogan "too honest" — words that Trump allegedly used while pushing Pence to stop the counting of electoral votes. "He's delusional, and now he wants to show he's a tough guy," Hegseth said, quoting Trump. "He's making money off of it, by the way," Campos-Duffy noted. "Too honest is now his merchandise slogan." "The too honest thing comes from the indictment from Jack Smith, where they claim Donald Trump said, Oh, Mike Pence, you're too honest when he wanted him and not certify on January 6th," Hegseth explained. "I just don't see how putting the words of Jack Smith on a T-shirt is going to help you inside the Republican primary." https://www.rawstory.com/jack-smith-s-words-fox-news-hosts-falsely-mike-pence-over-too-honest-slogan/

Donald Trump’s Lawyer Is Dumber Than Donald Trump Donald Trump has had quite a run of lawyers. There’s Alina Habba, the camera-hungry counsel who decided to hold a news conference before Trump’s arraignment yesterday and ranted about Hunter Biden before admitting, one presumes accidentally: “I think that everybody was made aware that he lost the election, but that doesn’t mean that was the only advice he was given.” They’ve been a clown show almost top to bottom, but it looks like John Lauro, who’s taken the public lead this week, is topping them all. He started the week peddling the free speech argument against the indictment, which has been pulverized by many people, such that I don’t even need to go into it. But just to toss in my own quick two cents: If I say to John that Jeff is a terrible person and should die, that’s free speech; if I say to John that Jeff is terrible person and we should conspire to murder him, that’s criminal intent. Pretty simple. But Lauro really outdid himself Thursday night on Laura Ingraham’s show. Early in his segment, he said to Ingraham that before January 6, Trump had voiced his support for Mike Pence to refuse to certify the Electoral College votes and send the presidential election back to the states. Then, a little later, Lauro said: “What President Trump said is, ‘Let’s go with option D. Let’s just halt, let’s just pause the voting and allow the state legislatures to take one last look and make a determination as to whether or not the elections were handled fairly.’ That’s constitutional law. That’s not an issue of criminal activity.” Um … whut? That is exactly an admission of criminal activity! It’s an admission that Trump was urging Pence to violate the Electoral Count Act, which requires him to preside ceremonially over the counting and approve it. In fact, Lauro was describing a conversation that is recorded in the indictment! Go look. It’s in paragraph 93: “The Defendant and Co-Conspirator 2 then asked the Vice President to either unilaterally reject the legitimate electors from the seven targeted states, or send the question of which slate was legitimate to the targeted states’ legislatures.” Over on MSNBC, they were quick to pounce. “That is a Trump criminal defense lawyer quoting Donald Trump committing a crime,” said Lawrence O’Donnell. https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-lawyer-dumber-donald-141138176.html

A Sunday 2-fer... How Florida let a top insurer abandon homeowners in their time of greatest need NORTH PORT, Fla. - Every week or so, Edward Raggie walks through his front door and enters a painful, infuriating time warp. Everything looks exactly the way it did that day in December, when he and his wife, Joanne Ragge, hastily packed up their Hurricane Ian battered home after learning that dangerous mold had spread behind their white ceilings and bright blue walls. Their roof still leaks, its protective tarp peeling from the hot sun. Inside, brown insulation from the gaping hole in their ceiling pools on their swollen, lifted floors. Boxes of their family photos and belongings, stacked haphazardly, are still waiting to be moved out of the living room's dank, musty air. The couple, in their late 60s, are frozen in this "hell," Ed says, because their insurance company, United Property and Casualty, ignored their claims for months after the hurricane and then severely underpaid them, before going insolvent earlier this year. "UPC abandoned me," said Ed, a recently retired tortilla distributor who paid as much as $1,930 a year to UPC for insurance. "I never missed a payment. I expected them to do what they said in my contract: return my house to what it was the day before hurricane hit. I never even got an inkling of that from these people and now I know why: They were going to go out of business." UPC, the ninth property insurer in Florida to go insolvent since 2021, and the largest to do so in 15 years, left many of its Florida customers in a similar nightmare, facing what is predicted to be a powerful hurricane season with still unfixed, hazardous homes, drained life savings and, in some cases, no insurance to protect them. Suddenly losing their carrier while still in the thick of recovery was shocking to the Raggies, as well as other homeowners. But UPC's collapse was long in the making - and is one of the most glaring examples of how, in the age of climate change, Florida's insurance system has been failing to protect residents after they endure a major disaster. UPC hemorrhaged money over the past six years, in large part because of costly claims from a series of major hurricanes. During this time, the company began to cut insurance adjusters' damage estimates, and underpay and ignore increasingly desperate policyholders, according to a Washington Post investigation based on interviews with nearly two dozen people, including those who worked for UPC, policyholders, insurance experts and a review of hundreds of documents from regulators, adjusters, court cases financial filings and other sources. The company also underestimated how much it would have to spend to cover claims, but still paid shareholders, including top executives who owned a significant percentage of the company, millions of dollars in dividends, data showed. State officials, who said failing to reserve enough money was one of the primary reasons UPC went insolvent, struggled to respond as the situation worsened. People in the industry flagged evidence of alleged wrongdoing to regulators, but said their concerns were not seriously reviewed. And even though officials initiated monthly check-ins with UPC as its finances deteriorated, they mistakenly believed UPC could cover homeowners' claims up until just shortly before the insolvency. https://news.yahoo.com/florida-let-top-insurer-abandon-210701872.html Governor's response:

This asshole killed a man then realized it wasn't his car that was hit. Lock him up & throw away the key...Ah, yes, the Villages. Florida golfer arrested for punching 87-year-old man to death over car dispute: police A Florida suspect was recently arrested for manslaughter after allegedly beating up an man on a golf course in June. Robert Edward Moore Jr., 76, was charged with one count of aggravated manslaughter on an elderly person on July 27. The victim, 87-year-old Dean William Zook, died weeks after the confrontation due to the injuries he incurred. According to an arrest affidavit obtained by FOX 35 Orlando, the incident began at the Glenview County Club in The Villages on June 28. The victim accidentally hit a car that Moore believed was his, prompting a confrontation. "At the time, an unknown white male subject approached the scene of the minor accident and exclaimed, ‘What the hell, you hit my car!’" the affidavit read. "The victim admitted to hitting the vehicle with his vehicle and asked to exchange insurance information. The unknown subject then struck the 87-year-old victim in the jaw with a closed fist, pushing him backwards." Zook attempted to protect himself with his hands, but he was unable to. Moore left after realizing that the car did not belong to him. During an interview with deputies, Zook began to slur and became unsteady. He was transported to a local hospital, where doctors discovered that his brain was bleeding. Zook passed away on July 16 – a day before his 88th birthday. Authorities were able to arrest Moore after they discovered an article about him scoring a hole-in-one in November 2022 – he was wearing the same shorts, shoes and sunglasses as he was during the incident. https://news.yahoo.com/florida-golfer-arrested-punching-87-224742469.html

...especially Rapinoe.

He knows who has turned on him. He knows he's ****ed. He's taunting the DOJ...Gonna be a fun hearing...

Great game by Adon...

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Wasn't sure where to put this one...

The Reggae Girlz secured their spot in the last 16 after a stalemate draw saw them knock out Brazil.

^^Another article - opinion - that also acknowledges Dickinson's support for Colorado. Whitmire: Tommy Tuberville leaves Alabama lost in space Don’t blame Tommy Tuberville for losing Space Command. Blame Kay Ivey. As Alabama governor, she is supposed to be our state’s first, best champion. Don’t blame Tommy Tuberville for losing Space Command. Blame Tommy Battle. As Huntsville mayor, he is supposed to look out for the interests of his city. Don’t blame Tommy Tuberville for losing Space Command. Blame Katie Britt. Coach isn’t Alabama’s only U.S. senator. Tuberville’s manipulation of Senate rules to stonewall military promotions isn’t a novel, genius political tactic. He’s a toddler who found a pistol on the nightstand. And when the gun goes off, and somebody gets hurt, it’s not the kid that’s to blame. It’s the grownups who didn’t do anything to stop it from happening in the first place. ... “This fight is far from over,” U.S. Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Saks, tweeted. Ahem. It’s over. What’s remarkable about Biden’s decision is how long it took. He could have flipped this switch the moment Donald Trump copped to rigging the game for Alabama on the Rick & Bubba Show. Trump’s dumb comments — which were probably another lie — gave Biden cover to do for Colorado what Trump claimed to have done for Alabama. What Biden needed was a veneer of plausibility. He needed a general to say this was the right thing to do. And what Alabama needed was military brass to say, “No, Mr. President, Colorado is not the best place for this. We did a study and …” But who’s going to do that when Alabama’s senior senator is being a jerk to the very folks Alabama needed on our side? In the end, the Associated Press reported, it was General James Dickinson, the head of Space Command, who persuaded the president that Colorado was the best choice. https://www.al.com/news/2023/08/whitmire-tommy-tuberville-leaves-alabama-lost-in-space.html