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https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/09/politics/judiciary-committee-impeachment-hearing/index.html The House Intelligence Committee's Democratic counsel Daniel Goldman walked through the committee's investigation during his presentation, laying out the Democratic case that Trump directed the effort for Ukraine to investigate his political rival while withholding US security aid and a White House meeting. Goldman said that senior officials were all "in the loop" about the effort, as US Ambassador Gordon Sondland testified, and he argued Trump's "determination to solicit of foreign interference in our election continues today." "It did not end with Russia's support for Trump in 2016, which President Trump invited by asking for his opponent to be hacked by Russia," he said. "And it did not end when his Ukrainian scheme was exposed in September of this year." Republican counsel Steve Castor laid out his own pattern — one that he says shows the Democrats were working to impeach the President since the day he took office. Castor pointed out all of the Democratic investigations into the President across the House committees, from the testimony of Michael Cohen to the lawsuit to obtain the President's tax returns, to argue the impeachment inquiry has been long in the making. "The record in the Democrats' impeachment inquiry does not show that President Trump abused the power of his office or obstructed Congress," Castor said. "To impeach a president who 63 million people voted for over eight lines in a call transcript is baloney." Castor argued that Democrats provided "no direct evidence that President Trump withheld a meeting or security assistance in order to pressure President Zelensky to investigate former VP (Joe) Biden," pointing to testimony from special envoy Kurt Volker to argue witnesses did not testify to a quid pro quo. "Witnesses who testified in the inquiry have denied having awareness of criminal activity or even an impeachable offense," he said. "On the key question of the president's state of mind, there is no clear evidence that President Trump acted with malicious intent." In other words - There is no "There" there.......

What does this story have to do with the President? This company is going out of business not because of a poor economy, but because the principles broke the law and got caught.......

What it would look like of dogs took selfies.....

Worth it.

I GUESS "SLOTS AND TABS" WOULD BE THE NEW NORMAL.....

Those new animated laser lights have appealed to me the past few years. That may be it for me this year. Stick it in the ground, aim it and plug it in.

Same thing in South Bend/St. Joe County and Elkhart County. Haven't researched traffic stats, but not a lot of love for the new round-abouts......

Yep - Gonna be my house this year. 2 trips in November, a vacation and then Thanksgiving. Heading out of town tomorrow to NC. Light number one has not even been pulled out of the basement yet......

Something that existed in this particular circumstance.......Actual provable EVIDENCE of more than "attempted"....

DIp, doge dive......Yesterday was a joke...... Jim Jordan scandal? Lol wut......

IYHO. Not IMHO...... IMHO - The Taliban, ISIS, if allowed to grow would have been over here on our shores.........

https://www.newsweek.com/police-officer-operation-el-chapo-son-shot-150-daylight-assassination-sinaloa-culiacan-1470568 POLICE OFFICER INVOLVED IN OPERATION AGAINST EL CHAPO'S SON SHOT AT MORE THAN 150 TIMES IN DAYLIGHT ASSASSINATIONApolice officer in Mexico who was involved in an operation supporting the arrests of the sons of notorious drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was killed Wednesday by hail of more than 150 bullets. The 30-year-old officer, named by police only as Eduardo N., was killed Wednesday by gunmen in Culiacan, Sinaloa. Eduardo was a high-level officer in Sinaloa's State Preventive Police. Mexican newspaper Excelsior shared CCTV footage of the killing, showing the officer parking his white car in a lot outside a shopping center. As he pulls into the lot, a red car carrying his killers appears behind, drawing up alongside the officer. Armed men leap out, firing rapidly and from close range. Within 30 seconds the attackers had fired 155 shots, leapt back into their vehicle and were gone. The murder may have been linked to the October 17 arrest of Ovidio Guzman Lopez—a son of El Chapo who in July was sentenced to life in prison by a U.S. court. The arrest sparked major clashes between security forces and cartel gunmen in Culiacan, which brought the city to a standstill. Security forces eventually released Guzman in an effort to quell the fighting. Eduardo was not involved in Guzman's arrest, though was called in to assist the subsequent security operation. Sinaloa's Secretary of Public Security Cristobal Castaneda Camarillo said Eduardo was not scheduled to be working on the day of the arrest, but reported to duty given the grave situation. They got him......