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Sean Hannity linked to shell companies that spent $90M on property: report ... Secretary Ben Carson’s department recently increased Hannity’s original $17.9 million mortgage for purchases in Georgia by an additional $5 million, records obtained by the Guardian show. Hannity did not disclose his cooperation with HUD when he had Carson on his show last June, the Guardian noted.... Hannity also never disclosed that he was also a client of President Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, during any of his segments complaining about the FBI investigation into Cohen. ... The shell companies are registered to the offices of Henssler Financial, a wealth management firm. Hannity has had one of the firm’s principals, Bill Lako, appear on his radio show. Hannity did disclose that he was Henssler’s client and joked that the company took him on as a “charity case.”... The host, however, has criticized former President Obama in the past for the rate of US foreclosures, saying in 2016 there were “millions more Americans suffering under this president.” Several of Hannity’s properties were bought at a discount after their previous owners defaulted on their mortgages in 2013, the Guardian reported." http://thehill.com/homenews/media/384366-sean-hannity-linked-to-shell-companies-that-have-spent-90m-on-property-report

Trolling for the NRA much. Or just a stooge for Breitbart? "That’s almost as catchy as “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.” The problem is: The 2 million figure — often inflated to 2.5 million in N.R.A. literature — is bogus. Defensive gun use is actually quite rare. A new paper from the Violence Policy Center states that “for the five-year period 2007 through 2011, the total number of self-protective behaviors involving a firearm by victims of attempted or completed violent crimes or property crimes totaled only 338,700.” That comes to an annual average of 67,740 — not nothing, but nowhere near the N.R.A.’s 2 million or 2.5 million. Readers can judge for themselves whether the V.P.C. or the N.R.A. is likely to have better numbers. The V.P.C. used data from the National Crime Victimization Survey, conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The N.R.A.’s estimate is the result of a telephone survey conducted by a Florida State University criminologist. The V.P.C. also found that in 2010 “there were only 230 justifiable homicides involving a private citizen using a firearm” reported to the F.B.I.’s Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Compare that with the number of criminal gun homicides in the same year: 8,275. (That’s not counting gun suicides or unintentional shootings.) Or compare it with the number of Americans killed by guns since Newtown: 3,458. https://takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/defensive-gun-use/ "That's in a nation in which there are some 300 million firearms, nearly one for every person (though only a little over a third of Americans own guns — and there's an interesting take on that here, and on the ramifications of gun ownership on murder rates here, and while you're reading links, this is of interest, too). This is also a nation in which, in 2012, there were 1.2 million violent crimes, defined as murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault. Or, put another way, 1.2 million scenarios in which there was potential for someone to kill in self-defense. Oh, and match those 259 justifiable homicides with the theft of about 232,000 guns each year, about 172,000 of them during burglaries. That's a ratio of one justifiable homicide for every 896 guns put in the hands of criminals. Those 259 justifiable homicides also pale compared with, in the same year, 8,342 criminal homicides using guns, 20,666 suicides with guns, and 548 fatal unintentional shootings, according to the FBI's Supplemental Homicide Report. The ratio for 2012, per the Violence Policy Center, was one justifiable killing for every 32 murders, suicides or accidental deaths (the ratio increases to 38-1 over the five-year period ending in 2012). That's a heavy price to pay. The center also dives into the thorny thicket of how often the presence of a gun stops a crime — either violent or against property, such as a burglary — from happening. The gun lobby trots out an annual figure of 2.5 million such instances. But an analysis of five years' worth of stats collected by the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization Survey puts the number much, much lower — about 67,740 times a year. It's also useful, as the Violence Policy Center does, to dig into the relationships among the attackers and those who kill in self-defense. Over the five-year span ending in 2012, more than half — 56% — of the justifiable homicides involved strangers, and in 11% of the cases, the relationship was not reported. The rest were acquaintances (18.7%) such as neighbors and coworkers, and then a mishmash of relatives and personal relationships." http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-guns-self-defense-charleston-20150619-story.html So Breitbart has taken the invented number from the NRA of 2.5 million. Used a barefaced lie as the foundation of a story. _________________________________________________ CDC Now Has Authority To Research Gun Violence. What's Next? March 25, 20188:36 AM ET "For almost 20 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been avoiding gun violence research. But new language in the spending bill signed by President Trump on Friday could change that. Dr. Mark Rosenberg once oversaw gun violence research at the CDC." https://www.npr.org/2018/03/25/596805354/cdc-now-has-authority-to-research-gun-violence-whats-next _____________________________________________________

A foolish one. Part of a bigger problem - that we demand more morality from movie actors than we demand from our leaders. Trump considering pardon for boxing legend after call from Sylvester Stallone http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/384285-trump-considering-pardon-for-boxer-jack-johnson-after-call-from

Health Canada investigating use of unlicensed homeopathic remedy made from rabid dog saliva http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/health-canada-investigating-use-of-unlicensed-homeopathic-remedy-made-from-rabid-dog-saliva-1.4628761 Internal emails show EPA working to limit agency's use of science http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/384039-internal-emails-show-epa-working-to-limit-agencys-use-of-science The whole world is going rabidly insane.

Ben Shapiro (1984–) is one of the youngest and (along with Bill Still) most visible conservatives outside mainstream media. He is a pseudo-intellectual, if we have to pick a movement conservative who doesn't moonlight as a "comedian" like Steven Crowder, or an exhibitionist like Milo. He has also written several books, including a "Post-Obama thriller" called True Allegiance. Shapiro identifies as Jewish. Ben earned his spurs as a writer for Townhall and WND, but is better-known for his close association with Andrew Breitbart—even becoming an editor (and then Editor-At-Large) for Breitbart.com. He acrimoniously resigned after Breitbart.com refused to defend one of their own reporters after she accused Corey Lewandowski (then Trump's campaign manager) of forcefully manhandling her. Since then, Shapiro has been a frequent (and pointed) critic of Steve Bannon and the alt-right movement.[2] He is perhaps best known, however, for his outspoken, direct, pseudo-intellectual, and almost entirely inaccurate criticisms of "left-wing" concepts such as white privilege and toxic masculinity. He hosts his own podcast, the Ben Shapiro Show, which can be viewed on the YouTube channel of his website the Daily Wire https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ben_Shapiro VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-daily-wire/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Above is all you need to know about this nutjob.

Points 1 and 2 in that piece have at least some basis in fact. Points 3 to 6 are simple rehashed conservative talk show host opinions. Ben Shapiro is as nutty as they come. point #1 is a barefaced lie. These are examples of his other "penmanship" "This week, the FBI raided the office, hotel room and home of President Trump's personal attorney and self-described "fixer," Michael Cohen. According to various media reports, the Department of Justice signed off on a warrant for the search; presumably, the law enforcement agency is searching for evidence regarding Cohen's $130,000 payment to pornography actress Stormy Daniels, who allegedly had a one-night stand with Trump in 2006. Cohen has openly stated that he paid Daniels to shut up about her peccadillo with Trump — and he has said that Trump had no knowledge of the payment." https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/ben-shapiro/ben-shapiro-death-doj-and-fbi Ben Shapiro is a lawyer so if anyone knows that a judge is not going to sign off on search warrants of a lawyers offices and home on that basis alone. He does. He plays the race card with the best: Ben Shapiro: If You Don't Agree With Me, You're a Racist Who Likes Death Threats https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/ben-shapiro/ben-shapiro-if-you-dont-agree-me-youre-racist-who-likes-death-threats Below is a transcript of Ben Shapiro’s comments from his after show on Thursday: “Okay, time for a couple of things that I hate. “So, speaking of the Parkland survivors, Time Magazine, again, in their 100 Most Important [Influential] People, they have now put the Parkland survivors, but not all of them. “Obviously, my friend, Kyle Kashuv, the 16-year-old student over at Parkland, he is not included in the Time 100 of Important People. It’s only the ones that you have already seen: Cameron Kasky and Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg. Those ones are all in there. “And who wrote the profile of them? Who else but Barack Obama? No, I’m not kidding. “You wonder about media bias? Having the former president of the United States write a glowing profile of a bunch of 17-year-olds because he agrees with their agenda, that might be a little bit of media bias. “And I remember that, a couple of years ago, I think it was Malala Yousafzai whose profile is written by Hillary Clinton. [Malala Yousafzai actually wrote a profile of Hillary Clinton for Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in 2014.] “Okay, Time Magazine is doing that to promote Democratic policies and Democratic politicians. https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-morris/ben-shapiro-jokes-obamas-glowing-profile-parkland-students-time-100-might-be VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-daily-wire/ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Above is all you need to know about this nutjob.

Here's a thread you started in 2013 with a link to Alex Jones's Infowars site. When someone said they didn't read anything from Infowars you said "Your loss". Here is a thread from 2014 you started with an Infowars link, where someone tells you that Infowars is a conspiracy theory site led by Alex Jones. Here's one from 2015 where you post another Infowars link and several people respond to you, and you to them, with Alex Jones' name. And here is another thread from exactly a year ago where you start pretending not to know who Alex Jones is, despite having swallowed his nonsense hook, line and sinker on numerous occasions. Why the lies, Rush? Why all of the stupid, obvious, easily proven lies? That's so Deep State of you to bring facts to the table. Thats prima facie that Marc has not only bought, read, but internalized the entirety of the representations in ALL of trump's books on fact management.

Here's a thread you started in 2013 with a link to Alex Jones's Infowars site. When someone said they didn't read anything from Infowars you said "Your loss". Here is a thread from 2014 you started with an Infowars link, where someone tells you that Infowars is a conspiracy theory site led by Alex Jones. Here's one from 2015 where you post another Infowars link and several people respond to you, and you to them, with Alex Jones' name. And here is another thread from exactly a year ago where you start pretending not to know who Alex Jones is, despite having swallowed his nonsense hook, line and sinker on numerous occasions. Why the lies, Rush? Why all of the stupid, obvious, easily proven lies? Marc's sayings are not reasoned opinions as much as they are regurgitations from a belief system. Until FOX and the whole right wing media enterprise gave them ostensible experts to quote and follow it was usually easy to defeat their claims and gain their silence for a while. Now they have mail order medical degrees in cutting and pasting and are as expert as their experts, so there! Like Ron and Jaybird he can not give a millimeter or the whole thing starts falling apart. Those who subscribe to Marc's way of thinking (who are, apparently, an astonishing 63 million in number), in the same way as the devoutly religious, can not by reason or fact be persuaded otherwise. Without realizing it they simply follow Stephen Jay Gould's, quite wrong I think, theory that our domains of thinking and theirs are non-overlapping magisteria. In the end, their delusions and their tribes are all they have. And, like the devoutly religious, they believe the end times are nigh and the evidence, in the form of Obama/Satan's and Clinton/Benghazi's and yada, yada, yada is everywhere if only we would open our dumb progressive science gay loving liberal eye's and just look. Hence my belief that there is absolutely zero to be gained by engaging them in conversation. It will never, ever go anywhere but to back the where it began. Apt insight. Its unfortunate that the damage that trump is doing to the republican party. Will undoubtedly lead to a swing of the pendulum as much if not further, in the opposite direction. Hopefully a leader will come forward that internalizes truth and a national interest to protect everyone.

ETA: NPR did an article: "Overall, the documents confirm much of what has become a familiar narrative about the president and the onetime top G-Man". Translation: Flynn is not loyal given he is assisting Mueller. He should have waited for a pardon like the other remaining trump loyalists. Right Marc? BTW are you going to help Alex Jones out in his legal defense?

Dick’s Sporting Goods Destroying All Guns Pulled From Shelves http://wnep.com/2018/04/18/dicks-sporting-goods-destroying-all-guns-pulled-from-shelves/

Trump lawyer drops libel suits against Fusion GPS, BuzzFeed "The document, compiled by former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele, made unverified claims that Cohen had suspicious ties to Russian figures. Fusion GPS was the firm behind the dossier, and BuzzFeed published the document shortly before Trump’s inauguration last year. http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/383888-trump-lawyer-drops-libel-suits-against-fusion-gps-buzzfeed Michael Cohen’s Own Attorney Isn’t Swearing to His Story Regarding Steele Dossier "Even Michael Cohen‘s own attorney isn’t swearing to his client’s claims regarding the accuracy of the Steele dossier as it relates to Michael Cohen." https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/michael-cohens-own-attorney-isnt-swearing-to-his-story-regarding-steele-dossier/ So Cohen and his new legal council has accepted that the representations within the Steele Dossier are in fact true. They will not defend civil nor criminal actions against him on those issues and representations.

Trump’s former attorney warned him not to trust Cohen: report "One of President Trump's former attorneys said he urged the president not to trust Michael Cohen to fully protect him, and warned that Cohen would eventually cooperate with federal prosecutors. The attorney, Jay Goldberg, told the Wall Street Journal that he spoke to Trump on the phone last Friday. In that call, he reportedly told Trump that on a scale of 1 to 100, where 100 represents full protection of the president, Cohen "isn't even a 1." "Michael will never stand up [for you]," Goldberg said he told Trump.... he warned Trump that Cohen could agree to cooperate with prosecutors if enough pressure is exerted on him. Cohen has built a reputation as one of Trump's most loyal confidants. Earlier this month, he tweeted that he would "always protect our @POTUS." [/url]he warned Trump that Cohen could agree to cooperate with prosecutors if enough pressure is exerted on him. Cohen has built a reputation as one of Trump's most loyal confidants. Earlier this month, he tweeted that he would "always protect our @POTUS."[url] Which resulted in trump's Friday tweetfest: Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump DOJ just issued the McCabe report - which is a total disaster. He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey - McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes! Apr. 13, 2018, 3:36 p.m. Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump ....untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst “botch jobs” of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey! Apr. 13, 2018, 8:17 a.m. Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and..... Apr. 13, 2018, 8:01 a.m.

Amazing what can happen when you choose a qualified lawyer to give you good advise. You cut your losses and head for the exit.

Clearly trump's fixer is more than just a member of the Bar. He deserves his own thread. Ex-Bush ethics lawyer: There's no such thing as 'fixer-client' privilege http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/383712-ex-bush-ethics-lawyer-theres-no-such-thing-as-fixer-client Fox News's Napolitano hits Hannity over Cohen: 'He can't have it both ways' http://thehill.com/homenews/media/383674-fox-news-napolitano-criticizes-hannity-over-cohen-he-cant-have-it-both-ways and the best is last: Cohen's father-in-law loaned $20M to cab mogul who was in FBI warrant: report http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/383713-trump-lawyers-father-in-law-gave-20-million-in-loans-to-chicago-cab-mogul

Yet this generates little coverage due to the background noise of the trump administration. I mean all the other corruption, legal actions, FBI investigations and distractions from trump.

Do you think there is a reason why the x-training 9-10k hour C-172's with the nice G1000 panels sell so cheap?

"There’s an unsettling of the spirit moving across the land — the culmination of years of religious Christian corruption. Good people everywhere are sensing it deep within. What for many has been a growing source of suspicion is now becoming a certainty. A time of emerging clarity is upon us as the curtains are drawn open and the true wizard is revealed. Yet, there will be no clicking of the heels to save us now. For the American dream is being diabolically hijacked into the conservative evangelical scheme — God help us all. In my estimation, there is truly no greater evil being wielded upon the earth. The false gospel of evangelical Christianity has long been eroding our society, creating spiritual junkies, and asserting a white, male, heterosexual imperialism and privilege into every segment of our living. Its prescriptions for sin management only serve to further increase it, leaving good people spiritually strung out, hypocritical, self-righteous, and addicted to the poison, not the cure. With an insistence upon believing that God is angry, vengeful, and condemning of a sin-ladened humanity, followers spiritually justify a self-deputization to police society as they live out their perceived calling to convert the world to their privileged ideology — lest we all burn in hell. No matter the nobility of some with their good intentions and heart, the true aspirations, pursuits, and passions of much of conservative evangelical Christianity are not true freedom and equality for all, but religious power and control for them. In their minds and hearts, the ushering in of the Kingdom of God is, in reality, the ushering in of a white, male, heterosexual, conservative evangelical dominance in all places and things." https://www.redletterchristians.org/conservative-evangelical-christianity-the-death-of-america/ Red-Letter Christians constitute a non-denominational movement within Christianity. Proponents of the movement believe that Christianity, and especially evangelicalism, has been exploited by both right-wing and left-wing political movements and become too partisan and politicized. As a response they endeavor to create an evangelical movement that focuses on the teachings of Jesus Christ, particularly in regard to social issues. The two most prominent figures associated with the movement are Jim Wallis and Tony Campolo.[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-Letter_Christian

Perhaps God will just slide California into the Pacific in order to save America?

From the article: Yet Hannity then said he “might have handed” Cohen $10 and said, “I want attorney-client privilege on this.” It’s not clear whether that would meet the legal standard to establish an attorney-client privilege. That made me think of a Hollywood scene. But I discovered an author on Wapo thought of it before I did: https://www.google.com/search?ei=5PzVWtr1K5GzjwSuloSAAw&q=site%3Awashingtonpost.com+Sean+Hannity%E2%80%99s+idea+of+%E2%80%98attorney-client+privilege%E2%80%99+was+right+out+of+%E2%80%98Breaking+Bad%E2%80%99&oq=site%3Awashingtonpost.com+Sean+Hannity%E2%80%99s+idea+of+%E2%80%98attorney-client+privilege%E2%80%99+was+right+out+of+%E2%80%98Breaking+Bad%E2%80%99&gs_l=psy-ab.3...13791.19856.0.20651.25.25.0.0.0.0.104.1321.22j1.23.0....0...1c.1j2.64.psy-ab..2.5.427...0j0i67k1j0i131k1j0i131i67k1j0i131i46i67k1j46i131i67k1j0i10k1.0.51L2r-3M9VM Here is the scene: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15nfmd The line comes at 2:50. You're quite the movie junkie arn't you?

Oh, okay, what's the big deal? I suppose you've never heard the expression "Conflict of interest". Fox should fire him for violating journalistic ethics (yes, I realize that's funny when applied to Fox "News"). Yes, funny, Sean Hannity’s Ethical Mess https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/04/sean-hannity-is-client-no-3/558167/

Jesus cared for the poor, the sick, the elderly, the children, the outsider.... That is exactly what today's GOP and its leader do NOT do. As did Mother Teresa, but I digress. Perhaps Ron is right! trumps support sits at 38% today. After two "blockbuster books" on his presidency with many more to come. After FBI raids and multiple admissions of criminal offense of his associates. With convictions of others to come. Americans still support trump and Ron is not the only one. Just as there are supporters of Putin, Assad, Rodrigo Duterte, et al. "A Fascist, observes Madeleine Albright, “is someone who claims to speak for a whole nation or group, is utterly unconcerned with the rights of others, and is willing to use violence and whatever other means are necessary to achieve the goals he or she might have." Above from a new book, #3, on trump....: https://www.amazon.com/Fascism-Warning-Madeleine-Albright/dp/0062836838 https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/02/politics/donald-trump-lawsuit-incite-violence-kentucky-rally/index.html

Thats precisely why: "The White House has walked back a plan to impose new sanctions on Russia over its support for the Bashar al-Assad regime following the recent chemical weapons attack in Syria. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley had announced over the weekend that the penalties would be unveiled today. According to the Washington Post, there had been internal confusion in the White House over the plan, and after Haley spoke, Trump “conferred with his national security advisers … and told them he was upset the sanctions were being officially rolled out because he was not yet comfortable executing them.” https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/04/lets-get-this-straight-trump-wont-sanction-russia-is-totally-fine-risking-a-war-with-them.html

It took an entire afternoon for Cohen to spit out Sean's name. Yet according to Sean there was never a billable second of legal council. Yeah right. Alternatively....mmm....ring..ring....ring..ring Hellow " Sean its your bud DT. Listen my lawyer Cohen is in deep doo doo. We need the name of another person for Cohen to name as a client. Sean "well big D if push comes to shove just use mine."

WTF it has happened again!!!!! Juan Williams: The stench from Trump's swamp is growing http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/383285-juan-williams-the-stench-from-trumps-swamp-is-growing Juan Williams Fox News Political Analyst, co-host, "The Five" Juan Williams currently serves as a co-host of FOX News Channel’s (FNC) The Five (weekdays 5-6PM/ET) and also appears as a political analyst on FOX News Sunday with Chris Wallace and Special Report with Bret Baier. Williams joined the network as a contributor in 1997 http://www.foxnews.com/person/w/juan-williams.html

Says who? A lawyer I was listening to on the radio. He said Tr could make a case for it if there was no direct evidence linking it to the campaign but that he would need to demonstrate a history of paying women for their silence that was unchanged going into the election. Well if they are all NDA's how could "history" be established?