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For years, I've avoided entertainment awards shows for various reasons. Sometimes it's the politics in the business, sometimes a case of who you blow or who you know and not the actual talent you have. Always, and I mean always, there are disappointments and hurt feelings, especially from the losers.

What was it... less than 2 weeks ago, there was another show and while accepting an award for Dr. Dre, Jay-Z (Beyoncé's husband) decides to use his time in the spotlight to slam the Grammy's because she didn't receive an award for album of the year.

In her career, Beyoncé has raked up 32 Grammy's and holds the record. The two of them combined have 56 wins.

I read some reader reviews and that his action didn't sit well with her fans. Simply put... Beyoncé's last album wasn't considered good enough for an award.

Jay-Z, that's embarrassing... stop your crying!

Rudy Giuliani, former Trump lawyer, former New York mayor, former human being has filed chapter 11 in bankruptcy court and alleges the Republican National Committee owes him $2 million in legal fees for being Trump's attorney on or around the 2020 election.

During the hours-long questioning, Rudy stated: “I got paid expenses, but I never got a salary.”

As usual, I scan the article to see what's important and go to the reader comments to see some of the opinions. Here are a few:

Anthony
This is key, Rudy Giuliani was the person telling Trump to 'just say he won' on Tuesday night. The professionals know that votes are being counted in the days following Election Day. Why you ask? Mail-in ballots, oversea ballots, early voting ballots, etc. Some States count the early votes and tally them into The Day vote, some States wait until after The Day. America has pristine elections. Some recounts found extra votes for Joe Biden. There were no 5,000 dead people voting anywhere. I'm an honest architect. I only work with honest clients and honest contractors. To lie when designing and building a project would be a travesty, wrong on every level. Trump lied and he continues to lie. Rudy helped, quite a lot.

Brian
the best part is that Rudy thought he would actually be paid for this! thats Trumps signature move, to not pay the people who he owes money to

SomeOne
Most recounts found extra Biden votes, not the same for Trump.

David
Also relevant is the actions of Trump's Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, who took automatic sorting machines out of post offices to slow down the movement of mail-in ballots -- the very votes which Trump feared would go against him.

The Hateful 8
“The American people are waking up to the abhorrent weaponization of our justice system for partisan political gain, and the fact that we are here today is just another example of this great injustice.”

Actually, no. Serious crimes were committed by Trump/GOP/Rudy for which these folks need to be held responsible. It's called justice. There's nothing political about being held responsible for breaking laws.

Facts only, Please
Financial fraud is a felony. How difficult is that for you to understand? Trump was under investigation and being subpoenaed long before he decided to run again... so who exactly is weaponizing the justice system?

Elon musketeer
Why stop there? Why don’t you accuse the govt of deliberately not helping trump to be the next president? You can’t have your cake and eat it too. What Trump and his cohorts did is distort history by encouraging an insurrection. This is treason punishable by death. If it was you and I in the same spot? We’d be fish food.

Tomahawk
Rudy should have known from prior experiences people have had with Trump, get it in writing. On top of that, you have this "weaponization of justice" comment again. It's not persecution, it's prosecution. A jury of his peers found him guilty in the civil case against him. He lost, and was ordered to pay $148 million, not by the justice system, but by his peers. And please, the FBI has been led by a Republican throughout its existence.

Don
So here is a lawyer who claims he worked for nothing and there is no signed agreement or contract to perform or not perform. o*al agreements Rudy?

Steven
Ted Goodman, an advisor for Giulani, wrote in a statement that the former New York mayor has "earned everything he has in life through honest hard work". This speaks volumes, because he's both financially and morally bankrupt.


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Trump appealed to the District Court of Washington DC to dismiss Jack Smith's criminal suit against him.

The appeal was based upon three arguments previously rejected by the trial judge Tanya Chutkan:

1. The proposed DC criminal trial constitutes double jeopardy because Trump wasn't successfully impeached for his involvement in the January 6th riot/insurrection;

2. The president has immunity for acts performed within the outer perimeter of the scope of his/her office;&

3. The president has aboslute immunity for any criminal act, or from any civil liabilty during his/her period of office.

(I think there may have been something about absolute presidential immunity forevermore, but that's so bonkers I can't get my head round the mere suggestion.)

The appellate court consisting of a panel of three judges (Republican appointee Judge Henderson and Democrat appointees Judges Pan and Childs) affirmed Judge Chutkan's ruling per curium (all three agreed) that there is no legal, or constitutional basis for dismissing the case on those grounds and that Trump's right to defense is the same as any other US citizen.

The District Court also ruled that Trump has until the 12th February to request a stay of the order pending appeal to the Supreme Court. If they don't hear from him by then, the trial is back on.

The 6 Year Old Little Palestinian girl who is trapped in a car that the Israelis shot up and killed her entire family
The Authorities talked with her for hours to keep her spirits up
In her dire situation....She is wounded and stuck in a car with her dead relatives all around her
It is freezing outside and she is terrified of the Dark
The Red Crescent sent 2 EMT men to find her with the Coordinance from the phone she is using to get to where she is
And now? the people of the Red Crescent have now lost contact with those 2 would be rescuers
It certainly looks as though they might have been killed by the Israeli Army because the Israelis shoot first and if you are still alive? They will then ask Questions
Something has to be done to try and stop the Brutal killing of the Children
May little Hind Amada be protected by God

It is my belief that this world would be better off
If the Children of the World were in charge The grownups really suck at the job

Where have we seen this BS before? Accusations of being a 'Russian agent'

An 81 year old black American left-wing political activist of many decades is facing up to 15 years in prison - in effect for voicing opinions that offended The Biden Regime in regards to the conflict in Ukraine. Scandalous! No one is safe from this tyrannical, hate-filled regime!



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I often wonder if Florida governor Ron DeSantis is the antichrist as he's back to doing things that boxed him into issues that were unpopular with Florida voters.

The son of Immigrants, he rages against immigrants and once misappropriated funds to bus some illegals across Texas state line and drop them off at Martha's Vineyard with no approval or jurisdiction to do so.
He's anti-Disney, anti-gay, anti-woke, anti-books and now it's reported he's reaching out to send the Florida National Guard to guard the Mexico border.


C'mon Ron... pay attention to Florida, the state where you were elected to serve.

Big news topic this month are the dollars pouring out of supporters wallets and into the hands of Donald Trump. I read that while the money was intended as campaign donations, the bigger portion is being used to pay his legal fees. Reported yesterday, that number has exceeded $50 million and expected to go higher.

Alina Habba wasn't good representing him for the E.Jean Carroll case, the jury awarded
Carroll $83 million and Trump is seeking a new legal team to represent him for the appeal.

Hotelier Robert Bigelow stated that a few weeks ago, gave Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump $1 million for his legal fees.









As a kid, we used to enjoy caramel-coated popcorn that came in a box, sold under the name of Cracker Jack. The lure was a prize inside. It didn't take long to figure out the prize was at the bottom of the box, so all you have to do was turn it upside-down, open the package and get your prize. Usually it was some worthless plastic (fits all) ring that got tossed aside, leaving you with a box of popcorn.





My thought here is when will Republicans come to the realization that all that sugar is on puffed up corn with a useless prize. Like Herpes, is this the gift that keeps on giving?

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