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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was KICKED OUT of the Red Hen Restaurant in Lexington, Virginia for being Trump's Press Secretary, but this week she dined with The Queen of England In Buckingham Palace.

So thankful for this generation - Nuff Said......

Wait - SF thought Dr. Martin Luther King, JR. was dead......

It works wonders on anything green growing in the yard that SF wants to kill......

FWIW - SF had to google TRD........Thinking maybe it was an odd reference to rear excrement, found it to be Toyota Racing Development..... Just in case - TDS = Trump Derangement Syndrome.

And SF is not saying we are there yet. But for years (SF grew up in the late 70's and early 80's) I felt we were gradually getting beyond the segregation that comes with identity classifications and actually was becoming colorblind in so many ways.

You may see Justice Thomas' comments as fear mongering, SF doesn't. Agree to disagree.

This was just yesterday.......SF thought Uncle Joe learned his lesson?

Notes in Red..... The comments of Justice Thomas I don't think are "fear-mongering" but simply addressing a topic that he thinks will eventually become the elephant in the room. Eugenic Manipulation based solely on sex, race or disability.....

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/courts/clarence-thomas-abortion-has-potential-to-become-a-tool-of-eugenic-manipulation?fbclid=IwAR2sU-GQaLHHTYSbfPYvniHYNi2pp5OyP-exMLcNN6w_fvYkBjAce30MkUM Justice Clarence Thomas said Tuesday the Supreme Court will not be able to duck the issue of abortion forever and raised concerns about the potential for abortion to “become a tool of eugenic manipulation.” Thomas’ warning came in a concurring opinion in which he agreed with a decision by the Supreme Court not to review a provision of an Indiana law that bans abortion on the basis of race, sex, or disability. In an unsigned opinion, the high court upheld another provision of the law that mandates the burial or cremation of fetal remains after an abortion. The measures at the center of the dispute were signed in 2016 by then-Gov. Mike Pence. Thomas wrote that “further percolation may assist” the court’s review of the abortion restrictions but argued the Indiana law and others like it “promote a state’s compelling interest in preventing abortion from becoming a tool of modern-day eugenics.” “Although the court declines to wade into these issues today, we cannot avoid them forever,” Thomas wrote in his 20-page concurring opinion. “Having created the constitutional right to an abortion, this court is dutybound to address its scope.” The conservative justice focused specifically on Indiana’s prohibition of abortion based on sex, race, or disability and charted the history of the eugenics movement in the United States. The dispute before the court, he warned, “highlights the fact that abortion is an act rife with the potential for eugenic manipulation.” “Enshrining a constitutional right to an abortion based solely on the race, sex, or disability of an unborn child, as Planned Parenthood advocates, would constitutionalize the views of the 20th-century eugenics movement,” Thomas wrote. Thomas highlighted comments from Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger and its former President Alan Guttmacher and cited a “growing body of evidence” that suggests “eugenic goals are already being realized through abortion.” In Iceland, for example, Thomas wrote the abortion rate for children diagnosed with Down syndrome in utero is nearing 100%. He also noted that the nationwide abortion rate among black women in the U.S. is roughly 3.5 times that for white women. “Some believe that the United States is already experiencing the eugenic effects of abortion,” Thomas said. The Indiana case, which was discussed by the justices at more than a dozen of their private conferences, has been closely watched, as it could have provided an early test of abortion rights before the court’s new 5-4 conservative majority. Several states have passed laws barring abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, while others have enacted measures designed to restrict the procedure. Such laws are designed to challenge Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that established a woman’s right to an abortion. But Thomas warned the court’s past cases reaffirming the right to an abortion, namely the 1992 decision Planned Parenthood v. Casey, “did not decide whether the Constitution requires states to allow eugenic abortions.” While the court’s opinion in the Indiana case was unsigned, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor said they would have denied review of both provisions of the law at issue. Thomas and Ginsburg sparred in the footnotes of their respective opinions. Ginsburg’s dissent, Thomas said, “makes little sense,” while Thomas’ criticism “displays more heat than light,” Ginsburg wrote. Eugenic Manipulation.......He's Right.......

SF remembers seeing something about people not being judged by the color of their skin.....Why are we still putting people in separate classes and parading that around? SF tries to be colorblind and accepts all people for who they are......

https://blackchristiannews.com/2019/05/biographer-david-garrow-claims-fbi-has-tapes-alleging-martin-luther-king-jr-watched-and-laughed-as-pastor-raped-church-member-and-had-over-40-adulterous-affairs/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7071713/FBI-tapes-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-40-affairs-laughed-friend-raped-parishioner.html Secret FBI tapes that accuse Martin Luther King Jr of having extramarital affairs with '40 to 45 women' and even claim he 'looked on and laughed' as a pastor friend raped a parishioner exist, an author has claimed. The civil rights hero was also heard allegedly joking he was the founder of the 'International Association for the Advancement of P***y-Eaters' on an agency recording that was obtained by bugging his room, according to the sensational claims made by biographer David Garrow - a Pulitzer prize-winning author and biographer of MLK. Writing in British magazine Standpoint, Garrow says that the shocking files could lead to a 'painful historical reckoning' for the man who is celebrated across the world for his campaign against racial injustice. Along with many US civil rights figures, King was subject to an FBI campaign of surveillance ordered by Director J Edgar Hoover in an effort to undermine his power amid fears he could have links to the Communist Party. The FBI surveillance tapes detailing his indiscretions are being held in a vault at the U.S. National Archives and are not due for release until 2027. But David Garrow, a biographer of King who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1987 book Bearing the Cross about the Baptist minister, has unearthed the FBI summaries of the various incidents. In an article to be published in Standpoint, Garrow tells how the FBI planted transmitters in two lamps in hotel rooms booked by King in January 1964, according to The Sunday Times. FBI director J Edgar Hoover ordered the surveillance of King in an effort to undermine his power amid fears he could have links to the Communist Party. The intelligence service carried out surveillance on a number of civil rights figures and suspected communists and they had an interest in smearing their reputation. The recording from the Willard Hotel near the White House shows how King was accompanied his friend Logan Kearse, the pastor of Baltimore's Cornerstone Baptist church who died in 1991, along with several female parishioners of his church. In King's hotel room, the files claim they then 'discussed which women among the parishioners would be suitable for natural and unnatural sex acts'. The FBI document says: 'When one of the women protested that she did not approve, the Baptist minister immediately and forcefully raped her' as King watched. He is alleged to have 'looked on, laugh and offered advice' during the encounter. FBI agents were in the room next door but did not intervene. The following day, King and a dozen others allegedly participated in a 'sex orgy' engaging in 'acts of degeneracy and depravity'. When one woman showed reluctance, King was allegedly heard saying that performing the act 'would help your soul'. Senior FBI officials later sent King a copy of the incriminating tape and called him an 'evil abnormal beast' and his sexual exploits would be 'on record for all time'. The letter also suggested he should commit suicide before his wrongs were revealed to the world. King's philandering has long been suspected, however Garrow, who spent several months digging through the archive material, said he had no idea of the scale or the ugliness of it and his apparent indifference to rape until he saw the files. He said: 'It poses so fundamental a challenge to his historical stature as to require the most complete and extensive historical review possible.' So in today's "MeToo" environment, when do we start tearing down the statues of one of greatest civil rights icons?

A lot of people just had their excuses made valid......

SF is confused......So is the red MAGA hat a symbol of hate speech or not? It appears to this Trump-Hating lady, the Red MAGA hat (in it's current state) is not hateful enough that she had to re-design them into something more recognizable......And call it "art" But she made sure to use "knock-off" hats so as not to put any money into the Trump campaign....... Kretz told KTVU that she buys only knock-off MAGA hats that are the same texture and color so she is not directly funding Trump’s campaign. “I wanted to make sure I wasn’t putting any money in [Trump’s] pocket,” Kretz said.

I assume - No. https://townhall.com/columnists/victordavishanson/2019/05/23/federal-rats-are-fleeing-the-sinking-collusion-ship-n2546735?utm_content=buffer27079&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer&fbclid=IwAR3QzSs9bHEks8BQVVyO2lG_Y1_sAPeuF6PfTEhYXrBvbEN2ct0jTEbaGj0 The end of the Mueller melodrama has marked the beginning of real fear in Washington. Comey, the former FBI director, has hit the lecture and television circuit with his now-tired moralistic shtick that he alone had a "soul" while others allowed theirs to be eaten away by Trump. Translated, that means Comey is terrified that former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, whom Comey attacked as a Trump enabler, knows that Comey himself may have broken the law -- and may direct prosecutors on how to prove it. Comey is also in a tiff with his former deputy, Andrew McCabe. Both know that the FBI under Comey illegally leaked classified information to the media. But Comey says McCabe went rogue and did it. Of course, McCabe's attorney shot back that Comey had authorized it. Comey also claims the Steele dossier was not the chief evidence for a FISA warrant. McCabe insists that it was. It's possible that one might work with prosecutors against the other to finagle a lesser charge. Former CIA Director John Brennan has on two occasions lied under oath to Congress and gotten away with it. He may not get away with lying again if it's determined that he distorted the truth about his efforts to spread the Steele dossier smears. A former CIA official claims that Comey put the unverified Steele dossier into an intelligence community report on alleged Russian interference. Comey has contended that Brennan was the one who did. It's possible that both did. Doing so would have been unethical if not illegal, given that neither official told President Obama (if he didn't already know) that the silly Steele dossier was a product of Hillary Clinton's amateurish efforts to subvert the 2016 Trump campaign. In sum, the old leaky vessel of collusion is sinking. The rats are scampering from their once safe refuge -- biting and piling on each other in vain efforts to avoid drowning.

Sorry Fox, SF was distracted by Barry's Trump flailing........

(ISFHO) Never gonna happen also, your alleged numbers are allegedly a little off....... https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/policy/criminal-justice/why-hasnt-new-york-charged-donald-trump-with-tax-fraud.html According to my source, he (and his sister - btw) "should" (according to the New York Times) owe over $500 million after getting their inheritance from Papa Trump......excepting a small legal item called the "Statute of Limitations" The statute of limitations for criminal tax fraud and evasion tends to depend on the specific charge, but in New York state, the statute of limitations only goes up to five years. For federal offenses, the statute of limitations is three to six years. Even if Vance and James wanted to pursue criminal charges, they’d be out of luck. “The problem with charging Trump is that none of the information is current,” said Danshera Cords, a tax law professor at Albany Law School. “There's a statute of limitations on how far back they can go in charging criminal tax fraud. And so all of the information that The New York Times has found that it's made public is outside of the criminal statute of limitations, which precludes the state of New York or the city of New York from charging criminal tax fraud.” "it would be wise not to pursue civil penalties for Trump’s alleged tax fraud in the 1990s. “Because of the challenges that it would present, I think it's unlikely that they will. And I think that that's a reasonable decision given the amount of time that's elapsed and the difficulty of proof, even with the amazing investigative work that the Times has done,”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2019/04/16/unpacking-the-alleged-assange-manning-password-hacking-conspiracy/#1834d19e6ee8 The U.S. government has disclosed more of its case against WikiLeaks cofounder Julian Assange. It hinges on a claim he and Chelsea Manning worked together to crack a password for a computer storing sensitive government files. An affidavit unsealed Monday outlining the case against Assange said he conspired with Manning when they discussed working together to crack a password “related to two computers with access to classified national security information.” More specifically, the password belonged to a user called FTP (not to be confused with an FTP server) on two Windows computers that Manning could access from a base in Iraq, the government said. The FTP account wasn’t associated with any specific individual, and the government alleged that if Manning had used it to pilfer files and hand them over to Wikileaks, she could have foiled investigators looking into who was behind the leaks. “Although there is no evidence that the password to the FTP user was obtained, had Manning done so, she would have been able to take steps to procure classified information under a username that did not belong to her,” the affidavit read. “Such measures would have frustrated attempts to identify the source of the disclosures to WikiLeaks.” The alleged conspiracy to crack the password took place in March 2010, two months after Maning had walked out of the Iraq base with classified war reports from Iraq and Afghanistan. She was later convicted and served seven years in jail for downloading tens of thousands U.S. military documents and diplomatic cables. Assange’s lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, couldn’t be reached for comment at the time of publication. She told Sky News yesterday that the indictment against her client showed “the kinds of communications journalists have with sources all the time.” Following Assange’s arrest, however, various journalists have said on Twitter that any incitement to hack organizations or steal documents was far from normal and risked breaking the law. SF doesn't consider this an absolute attack on the 1st amendment - the Government case appears to be accusing Assange of conspiracy with Manning since it appears he/she (Manning) couldn't get the files Assange wanted without help......First - if he asked for specific files he wanted to further his "story" that's one thing, but second - If he helped him/her hack into the system, that certainly wouldn't be protected under the 1st amendment....... BTW - SF is NOT a member of the press......but (IMHO) a member of the press commenting on Muda's opening post I would ask to consider this post as well......

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/wells-fargo-td-bank-turn-over-trump-financial-records-to-house-financial-services-committee https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7064797/Trumps-financial-records-Wells-Fargo-TD-Bank-turned-House-Democrats.html US District Judge Amit Mehta found that Congress was 'not engaged in a fishing expedition' for the President's financial records when it subpoenaed Mazars and said that documents obtained might assist Congress in passing laws and performing other core functions. Any bets on how fast these records get leaked to the public?

FIFY......

Perhaps she doesn't realize there have been tornadoes in DC before........ https://ijr.com/aoc-weather-vs-climate-blaming-casual-tornadoes-climate-crisis/ https://nypost.com/2019/05/24/ocasio-cortez-shares-panicked-reaction-to-dc-tornado-warning-on-instagram/ “The climate crisis is real y’all,” Ocasio-Cortez said, adding that “we’re at casual tornadoes in growing regions of the country.”

Happy Memorial Day weekend everybody!! Just got the pool ready.....