Et tu, Globe?
"Trump says he supports ‘comprehensive’ FBI investigation of Kavanaugh" by Peter Baker and Michael S. Schmidt New York Times October 01, 2018
WASHINGTON — The directive came in the past 24 hours after a backlash from Democrats.
The revised White House instruction amounted to a risky bet that the FBI will not find anything new in the next four days that could change the public view of the allegations. Republicans have resisted an open-ended investigation that could head in unpredictable directions.
Senator Jeff Flake, the Arizona Republican who’s a swing vote on the nomination, expressed concern Monday that the inquiry not be limited.
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Then take him out back of the courthouse and shoot him.
You know why Flake is saying that, right?
Also see: Tropical Storm Rosa expected to drench Southwest
Isn't Flake from Arizona?
In interviews, several former senior FBI officials said that they could think of no previous instance when the White House restricted the bureau’s ability to interview potential witnesses during a background check. Chuck Rosenberg, who served as chief of staff under James Comey, the former FBI director, said background investigations were frequently reopened, but that the bureau decides how to pursue new allegations.
“The White House normally tells the FBI what issue to examine, but would not tell the FBI how to examine it, or with whom they should speak,” he said. “It’s highly unusual — in fact, as far I know, uniquely so — for the FBI to be directed to speak only to a limited number of designated people.”
What is there really left to say?
I suppose it is reassuring for the Globe and its readers. The fact that the self-serving source is completely compromised and discredited (is he in the emails anywhere) on so many levels has to be ignored.
In his comments Monday, President Trump again accepted Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s denials and portrayed the process as deeply unfair to his nominee, but he added that he would reconsider the nomination if the FBI turned up something that warranted it.
“I have a very open mind,” the president said.
I actually believe he does because it would be the exact opposite of what is described in the pre$$. Korea should be exhibit A (not bad for a nothing deal).
Trump’s comments came at the same time that Senate Republicans released a five-page report questioning the account of Blasey, the California university professor who also goes by her married name Ford. The report was written by Rachel Mitchell, the Arizona sex crimes prosecutor hired by Republicans to handle the questioning of Blasey and Kavanaugh for them at last week’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
I've given you the basic verbatim print worth delivering to you, dear readers. The rest of the "updated" version is not only all mixed up, it doesn't contain the bar fight that I heard about this morning:
Meanwhile, details of a bar fight allegedly involving Kavanaugh when he was a Yale student were revealed.
As I said yesterday, this could make or break his confirmation.
According to a police report, Kavanaugh was accused of throwing ice on another patron in September of 1985 during Kavanaugh’s junior year. The altercation resulted in Kavanaugh and four other men being questioned by New Haven police. Kavanaugh was not arrested, but the police report stated that a 21-year-old man accused him of throwing ice “for some unknown reason.”
A witness said that Chris Dudley, a Yale basketball player who was friends with Kavanaugh, then hit the man in the ear with a glass, according to the report, which was obtained by the New York Times.
FBI never came up with that?
So who blew the whistle on Dudley?
The report said that the victim, Dom Cozzolino, “was bleeding from the right ear” and was treated at a local hospital. Dudley denied the accusation, according to the report. For his part, speaking to the officers, Kavanaugh did not want “to say if he threw the ice or not,” the police report said.
He was a lawyer even then, if the quotation marks are in a very strange place there. If Kavanaugh is a mistake -- and newspapers do issue corrections, but it's the Richard Jewel theory of propaganda: get the charge out there. We all remember he was the bomber of the Atlanta Olympics, even though he wasn't and was a quintessential American hero in every way, a man doing his job. He foiled a Clinton false flag that was to follow upon the heels of OKC and it ended up being the survivalist Eric Rudolph that they pinned it on, remember? That's how the FBI treats heroes; imagine how they treat "villains" like Todashev for not wanting to sign the statement (research it). That's the kind of friends they are. Ask Fred Hampton when you get there -- it could have been any of the party or the police that didn't want to say it.
Or it is an outright fabrication and lie, but we all know the newspaper would never lie or make things or people up.
The report referred to the altercation, at a bar called Demery’s, as “an assault.”
Well, that does it then. Kavanaugh is disqualified.
He failed the breathalyzer in a particularly bad performance and the undergraduate panel has asked university officials to look into the sex assault allegations:
"Under pressure from students and alumni, Harvard Law School announced Monday that Judge Brett Kavanaugh will not return to teach his scheduled course in January....."
Couldn't even buy his way out of it (I wonder who won the football game this year) because of the students protests, and now he is going to need police protection for his daughters.
Btw, the public also has a right to know what Charlie Baker’s son did and not behind closed doors, but the Globe kept it secret!
"In the weeks after Governor Charlie Baker tapped Eversource to lead restoration efforts for a series of gas explosions in the Merrimack Valley, executives at the Fortune 500 company poured thousands of dollars into his reelection campaign, state records show. In all, a dozen Eversource officials, including its chief executive and top financial officer, plus several of their spouses donated $12,850 to Baker in the last two weeks of September, according to a campaign finance report the Republican filed with the state Monday....."
Looks like your standard pay for play that infests state government, so what is the big deal?
Globe working the political campaign again, huh?
Yeah, no more talk of boofing and how in the world did they lose track of him?
Here are the web version revisions, reedits, and rewrite:
Senate Republican leaders, however, made clear that they planned to move forward with the confirmation without waiting for the results of the investigation. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Senate would take a procedural vote Friday so it could move quickly to final confirmation once the inquiry was over.
Chastising Democrats on the Senate floor, McConnell said that he would “bet almost anything” that they would be unsatisfied with the scope of the investigation regardless of how far it went. Reading through a selected summary of Democrats’ comments about the matter, he said, “Do these actions suggest this has ever been about finding the truth?”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said that the White House counsel should make public what he has told the FBI and emphasize that it was not “the partisan Republican Senate staff that is directing this investigation.” In an interview, Schumer added, “You can do a full investigation in the seven-day requirement, and that’s what senators on both sides of the aisle expect.”
Trump said he instructed his White House counsel, Don McGahn, over the weekend to tell the FBI to carry out an open investigation, although he included the caveat that it should accommodate the desires of Senate Republicans. McGahn followed through with a call to the FBI, according to the people briefed on the matter.
What is he still doing there?
Shouldn't he be gone by now?
“I want them to do a very comprehensive investigation, whatever that means, according to the senators and the Republicans and the Republican majority,” Trump said. “I want them to do that. I want it to be comprehensive. I actually think it’s a good thing for Judge Kavanaugh.”
I don't know about that.
Asked if the FBI should question Kavanaugh, Trump said: “I think so. I think it’s fine if they do. I don’t know. That’s up to them.”
As for Julie Swetnick, the third accuser who has claimed that Kavanaugh attended parties during high school where girls were gang raped, Trump said he would not object to her being interviewed. “It wouldn’t bother me at all. Now I don’t know all three of the accusers. Certainly I imagine they’re going to interview two. The third one I don’t know much about.”
He added that he understood she had “very little credibility,” but added that “if there is any credibility, interview the third one.”
She was interviewed on MSNBC last night, and as hard as it is to imagine, they stooped lower than they did with Omarosa.
Related: Gisele gets personal in new ‘Good Morning America’ interview
She didn't tell Tom first?
Trump ordered the one-week FBI investigation Friday after insisted that the allegations be examined before he committed to voting to confirm Kavanaugh on the floor, but the White House and Senate Republicans gave the FBI a list of just four people to question: Mark Judge and P.J. Smyth, high school friends of Kavanaugh’s; Leland Keyser, a high school friend of his main accuser, Christine Blasey Ford; and Deborah Ramirez, another of the judge’s accusers. Agents may return to Judge for more questions.
Senator Chris Coons, the Delaware Democrat who worked with Flake to initiate the limited investigation, called McGahn on Sunday after reading reports about the narrow mandate. Coons said he was alarmed by what he heard and informed other senators who pushed for the inquiry in hopes that they would relay their own concern to the McConnell.
“He said some things I found very reassuring about doing it by the book and sharing promptly interview product with the Judiciary Committee,” Coons said in an interview Monday with the News Journal of Delaware. “But he also said things that I found very concerning about the scope, the number of witnesses, the process.”
Other Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, led by Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, sent a letter to McGahn and Christopher Wray, the FBI director, on Monday providing a list of two dozen witnesses they believed must be interviewed for an inquiry to be credible.
We will come to that pontificating liar and hypocrite soon enough below.
In addition to the four witnesses already interviewed by the bureau, the list includes Blasey; Swetnick; Christopher Garrett, who dated Blasey in high school and introduced her to Kavanaugh; and other high school and college friends of Kavanaugh’s identified in press reports. The senators also said the bureau ought to examine employment records from a Safeway grocery store where Blasey said Judge worked around the time of her encounter with Kavanaugh.
They are literally shopping for people to take payoffs to come forward!
“We ask that you notify us of the scope of the investigation and what the White House directed the FBI to investigate, as well as what steps the FBI will be taking,” the senators wrote. “We also ask that, upon completion of your work, you provide copies of all witness interviews, a list of all witnesses who refused to cooperate in the Bureau’s investigation, and a full report to each member of the Senate.”
And after that they will demand something else!
I think AIPAC has occupied that town for so long its inhabitants have adopted their negotiating tactics.
Coons, notably, was the only Democrat on the committee not to sign the letter.
Trump expressed indignation that Democrats were questioning Kavanaugh’s youthful drinking and suggested some of them were being hypocritical because they themselves abuse alcohol.
“I happen to know some United States senators, one who’s on the other side who’s pretty aggressive,” he said. “I’ve seen that person in some very bad situations,” which he called “somewhat compromising.”
And he is having the decency not to say it!
Beyond that, I notice the pre$$ cutting out the part where Trump claims he doesn't drink. Said that was his only good quality in what can only be taken as a self-deprecating remark from what I'm told is an out-of-control ego. He steered away from the reason why, and the media didn't ask (and thank God he is not a drunkard like Bush. Too bad the Kavanaugh standard wasn't in place for potential war-criminal presidents).
He would not identify whom he meant, but he did later single out Blumenthal, a favorite target, for misleading the public for years about his military service during the Vietnam War. “This guy lied when he was the attorney general of Connecticut,” Trump said. “He lied.”
Yeah, and that is NOW a CRIME!
I guess Blumenthal will be citing Article 1, Section 9, Clause 3, huh?
The president was referring to a 2010 article in The New York Times reporting that Blumenthal had told audiences that he had “served in Vietnam,” implying he had fought in the war, when in fact he served in the Marine Reserve in the United States at the time. Blumenthal noted that he did serve in “the Vietnam era” but said he took “full responsibility” for what he called “a few misplaced words.”
Oh, then it must have been fake news then, right, Dick (ever notice how people really are their name)?
Look at the weasel minimize his own mendaciousness, too!
And he is sitting in judgement of Kavanaugh's honesty!
In attacking the senator, the president went beyond the known facts, asserting that Blumenthal had boasted of fighting in Da Nang. “We call him ‘Da Nang Richard,'” he said. “And now he’s up there talking like he’s holier than thou.” In fact, the Times article did not report that Blumenthal had ever claimed to fight in Da Nang or any other specific battle. Trump also said incorrectly that Blumenthal dropped out of his Senate race as a result, but won anyway; he never dropped out.
You want to parse words, that's fine, but the honorable scum, I mean, senator, impLIED he was over there when he wasn't, period. Case closed.
The lack of corroboration has complicated Blasey’s story. Not only has Kavanaugh denied her accusation, the other boy she identified being in the room at the time, Judge, has said that he does not remember anything matching her description and that he never saw Kavanaugh mistreat women. Two other people Blasey recalled being elsewhere in the house then, Smyth and Keyser, also told the committee in written statements that they did not remember the party in question, although Keyser has separately told The Washington Post that she believes Blasey, a point not made in Mitchell’s report.
Yes, you have to believe the woman (well, only certain women).
Mitchell also focused on other seemingly less significant distinctions, such as the fact that Blasey was described as afraid to fly but has nonetheless flown to Washington and other destinations.
Hey, the standard of judgement is that “if a witness is shown knowingly to have testified falsely about any material matter, you have a right to distrust such witness’ other testimony and you may reject all the testimony of that witness.”
I sure hope Ms. Ford didn't lie to Congress in service of Feinstein and the rest.
Mitchell argued that Blasey was inconsistent because she testified that she told her husband she was the victim of “sexual assault” but told The Post that she had told him she was the victim of “physical abuse.”
Maybe she did imagine it all.
Mitchell did not explain why she thought “sexual assault” and “physical abuse” were inconsistent and she incorrectly implied that Blasey used the phrase “physical abuse” when in fact those words were not in quotation marks in the Post article and were therefore the reporter’s paraphrase. Moreover, The Post attributed that to her husband, not to Blasey.
Making a big deal about where the quotation marks are, are they (see my commentary above!)?
Mitchell also made much of the fact that Blasey said she could not remember whether a polygraph test that she took in August occurred on the day of her grandmother’s funeral or the day after, nor could she remember whether it was recorded. And she could not remember whether she showed notes from her therapist to a Post reporter or simply described them.
Maybe Kavanaugh should have went that route.
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Time to hit the brakes on this nomination and put it in reverse (sorry) before it blows up on him.
Was just skating along, too, but now it is losing momenta and the showdown is not worth it.
They should settle it like they used to before sending him to federal prison.
Time to go get a drink:
"Rumors of the Beacon Hill Pub’s demise have been greatly exaggerated, according to its new owners. The beloved neighborhood bar at 149 Charles St. is not shutting down, said Julius Sokol, who is part of the investment group that purchased the building over the summer. “Nothing’s changing,” Sokol said in a telephone interview. The pub will reopen as soon as the license is transferred, he said. “Hopefully this month,” he said. “We’re ready to go.” That may come as welcome news to fans who saw what appeared to be a farewell message posted to Beacon Hill Pub’s social media accounts on Sunday. “It’s been real, Boston,” the message stated. “Thanks for all the love over so many years. Get home safe!” On Monday the Beacon Hill Pub’s Facebook page also listed the pub as being “permanently closed,” leaving many observers to assume that the establishment was shuttered for good, but Sokol said the plan is to keep running all the establishments as usual, he said. “Everything is staying the same,” he said. “We’re keeping the traditions going.”
My pre$$ seems to be full of exaggerations, deceptions, distortions, and falsehoods!!
Wanna go get some pizza?
"Papa John’s International founder John Schnatter acknowledged in court Monday he has confidentiality agreements with at least two women, but didn’t say what those pacts cover. Schnatter, testifying in a case over his request for files related to his ouster as the pizza chain’s board chairman, said one agreement involves a 24-year-old female employee of a firm that worked on Papa John’s advertising. The pizza chain’s founder previously faced sexual harassment allegations. One woman, Lesli Workman, sued Schnatter and the company in 1999, alleging that he’d sexually harassed her for months, repeatedly visited her house, and kissed and groped her, according to court filings. Schnatter denied the allegations. He testified Monday he had a confidentiality agreement with Workman about which he couldn’t comment."
It would be okay to visit the house if the resident was Sanders, Cruz, Nielsen, and all the other administration officials who have been terrorized by Maxine's mobs (did she ever drop of the ma$$ media radar, huh? She must have been hurting the cause!).
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Friday's Frowns
Crown of Thorns
The Crucifixion of Brett Kavanaugh
And then all was quiet.
As I have been saying, I think Spain has got it right.
It's the only way out of the conundrum.
Time to hoist another one:
"Can Biden overcome Hill-Thomas hearings as he prepares for 2020?" October 02, 2018
PROVIDENCE — As he actively explores a 2020 presidential run, the 75-year-old former vice president Joe Biden is coming under increased scrutiny from fellow Democrats because of his role in the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings in 1991, as explosive debates over gender, sex, and the Supreme Court overshadow themes of economic fairness that Biden trumpeted across the Northeast in recent days.
This is the record he has to run on, and please tell me his "trumpeting" is an unintended pun.
Biden and his aides have issued multiple statements accusing Republicans of taking his past remarks and actions out of context to bolster their defense of Kavanaugh, but he has largely stayed on the margins of the current Supreme Court fight, and last week scrapped a trip to South Carolina and Georgia that would have overlapped with Ford and Kavanaugh’s testimony, though aides said that was not the reason for the cancellation.
So how does it feel to sit in Kavanaugh's seat, Joe?
The revival of interest in the Hill-Thomas hearings — and the mood of alarm among Democrats about the integrity of the Supreme Court — has clouded Biden’s 2020 deliberations.
Even some of Biden’s friends say he’ll have to show remorse for the Hill-Thomas hearings if he wants Democrats to accept him as a leader for the future in a party sharply defined by the concerns of liberal women.
That explains the Bo$ton Globe under the direction of Linda Pizzuti Henry.
Former Senator Barbara Boxer of California — who won her seat in the so-called “Year of the Woman” election in 1992, triggered in part by outrage over the Hill-Thomas hearings — said Biden had to address his past head-on.
What does it say about the advancement of women when we are where we are 26 years after the “Year of the Woman?”
Just setting the narrative for the fall and an alleged repeat of history, huh?
“If he handles it right, it could be a plus; if he handles it wrong, it’ll be a minus,” Boxer said. “And handling it right means stepping up to the plate.”
And stop putting his hands on other women.
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Creepy Uncle Joe is still working on his stump speech, but it goes something like this:
“They’re a small percentage of the American people, virulent people. Some of them the dregs of society, and this time they — not you — have an ally in the White House.”
No, Joe "I am a Zionist" Biden was not talking about the Israeli lobby, but he might as well have been when it comes to the settler movement's influence on this White House.
Maybe Joe should talk about leadership:
"President Trump has shaken global faith in US leadership, an international survey found, as confidence in him lags behind other major world leaders including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping. The Pew Research Center found 70 percent of people surveyed across 25 countries this year said they lacked confidence in Trump, compared with 27 percent who said they trusted the president’s handling of international affairs. The poll of 26,000 people found that opinions of Trump continued to fall among some of America’s closest allies, with only 9 percent of French citizens and 6 percent of Mexicans expressing favorable views. Still, respondents in almost every country said it would be better for the US to remain the top global power, rather than China, which is seen as a rising power. That included large majorities among China’s neighbors such as Japan (81 percent) and the Philippines (77 percent). The only places where pluralities favored Chinese leadership were Tunisia (64 percent), Argentina (35 percent), and Russia (35 percent). Confidence in Trump trailed the scores of other world leaders, including Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Emmanuel Macron, Xi, and Putin."
Hillary is at 36% favorability in the latest Gallup poll -- five points behind Trump!
What's Mueller been up to anyway?
Related:
"American Indians tend to vote for Democrats and their vote is especially important this year, as Democratic Senator Heidi Heitkamp is in a close race with Republican Kevin Cramer that could help determine control of the Senate....."
If she loses, they will cry foul so I expect North Dakota to stay blue this year (even though a fair election would flip it according to the polls). The states I see flipping a Senate seat on election night in 2018 are Florida and Nevada.
"Melania Trump forges ahead as first lady with Africa trip" Associated Press October 01, 2018
WASHINGTON — Melania Trump heads for Africa on her first big solo international trip, aiming to make child well-being the focus of a five-day, four-country tour that will take her to every corner of the vast and impoverished continent.
Departing on Monday, she opens her first-ever visit to Africa on Tuesday in Ghana in the West, followed by stops in Malawi in the South, Kenya in the East, and Egypt in the Northeast.
Her first extended turn on the world stage outside the shadow of President Trump could still be complicated by her husband, who has spoken of the continent in impolite and even vulgar terms.
That leaves Melania Trump with some fence-mending duties. ‘‘She’s got some heavy lifting to do on this trip and it’s a little bit unfair because that’s not what a first lady’s trip should be about,’’ said Judd Devermont, the Africa program director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Who are they, anyway?
Child welfare is a top issue for Mrs. Trump, the mother of a 12-year-old son. She focuses on the issue in the United States through an initiative she launched this year named ‘‘Be Best.’’
I'm sorry, folks. You have caught me at my worst.
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It does all come down to where you live:
"Detailed maps show how neighborhoods shape children for life" by Emily Badger and Quoctrung Bui New York Times October 02, 2018
SEATTLE —On Monday the Census Bureau, in collaboration with researchers at Harvard and Brown, published nationwide data that will make it possible to pinpoint — down to the census tract, a level relevant to individual families — where children of all backgrounds have the best shot at getting ahead.
Sort of like a fountain of youth, huh?
This work, years in the making, seeks to bring the abstract promise of big data to the real lives of children. Across the country, city officials and philanthropists who have dreamed of such a map are planning how to use it. They are hoping it can help crack open a problem, the persistence of neighborhood disadvantage, that has been resistant to government interventions and good intentions for years.
I hope this isn't cover for some sort of pedophilia operation!
Nationwide, the variation is striking. Children raised in poor families in some neighborhoods of Memphis, Tenn., went on to make just $16,000 a year in their adult households; children from families of similar means living in parts of the Minneapolis suburbs ended up making four times as much. The local disparities, however, are the most curious, and the most compelling to policymakers.
As an example they cite Seattle.
The researchers believe much of this variation is driven by the neighborhoods themselves, not by differences in what brings people to live in them. The more years children spend in a good neighborhood, the greater the benefits they receive. And what matters, the researchers find, is a hyperlocal setting: the environment within about half a mile of a child’s home.
“That’s exciting and inspiring and daunting in some ways that we’re actually talking about real families, about kids growing up in different neighborhoods based on this data,” said Harvard economist Raj Chetty, one of the project’s researchers, along with Nathaniel Hendren at Harvard, John N. Friedman at Brown, and Maggie R. Jones and Sonya R. Porter at the Census Bureau.
The Seattle and King County housing authorities are testing whether they can leverage their voucher programs to move families to where opportunity already exists. In Charlotte, N.C., where poverty is deeper and more widespread, community leaders are hoping to nurse opportunity where it is missing.
What this looks like is a fancy way of avoiding the greate$t divide of all, cla$$, by turning it into a regional thing. You cover enough area and it's harder to $ee.
In other communities, the researchers envision that this mapping could help identify sites for new Head Start centers, or neighborhoods for “Opportunity Zones” created by the 2017 tax law. Children from low-opportunity neighborhoods, they suggest, could merit priority for selective high schools.
Trump's law?
For any government program or community grant that targets a specific place, this data proposes a better way to pick those places — one based not on neighborhood poverty levels, but on whether we expect children will escape poverty as adults.
That metric is both more specific and more mysterious. Researchers still do not understand exactly what leads some neighborhoods to nurture children, although they point to characteristics like more employed adults and two-parent families that are common among such places. Other features like school boundary lines and poverty levels often cited as indicators of good neighborhoods explain only half of the variation here.
Watch your mouth!
“These things are now possible to think about in a different way than you thought about them before,” said Greg Russ, head of the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, which is also planning to use the data. “Is opportunity a block away? These are the kind of questions we can ask.”
I've been doing that for as long as I have been blogging, about 12 years now.
The answers are based on the adult earnings of 20.5 million children, captured in anonymous, individual-level census and tax data that links each child with his or her parents. The research offers a time-lapse view of what happened to them: who became a teenage mother, who went to prison, who wound up in the middle class, and who remained trapped in poverty for another generation.....
Except NOTHING is really anonymous, and they can't keep track of the amount of citizens wasted by police every year but they can keep track of this?
Yeah, “you could drive from your home to your banking job downtown and never see poverty, because we’re so segregated, [and] we have to admit that was intentional.”
I will give you one guess as to where is that.
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Maybe one day the kid will win the Nobel Prize:
Central figure in Nobel scandal is jailed for rape
2018 Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to 2 cancer immunotherapy researchers
Like with Obama, they gave it too soon and they should probably do away with the self-adulating, self-aggrandizing awards anyway.
"A Swansea-based company and six individuals have been indicted in connection with an illegal gambling and money laundering scheme in Southeastern Massachusetts, the attorney general’s office said Monday. Six suspects — Clifford Wilson, 56, of Dighton; Deodato Faria, 68, of Fall River; John Camara, 59, of Somerset; Antone Oliveira, 75, of Fall River; Natercia Teixeira, 44, of Fall River; and Mario Teixeira, 52, of Fall River — were also indicted on a variety of charges....."
Not one woman, thank God.
Pfizer to get a new CEO in January
It's a man replacing a man.
Facebook names a new head of Instagram
It's a man being appointed by two other men, which brings me back to Kavanaugh.
What the WH needs to do after he goes down to defeat is nominate Coney Barrett and when Ginsburg croaks nominate a black, Hispanic, or Asian man in her place.
IMF names its first female chief economist
She is Harvard professor Gita Gopinath, and they are taking her out for soup and ice cream in celebration.
And just coming over the wire:
There's a new NAFTA, and Trump got it done
Yeah, "getting to consensus hasn’t been easy, but Trump’s adversarial style that generated real pique seems to have forced the parties together and may have created the conditions for success."
Trump hails revised NAFTA deal as a trade promise kept
Must be why the Globe relegated those articles to page C1 and C5, respectfully.
Early rally over trade deal with Canada fades
It was dead on arrival.
