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My aunt used to make salt cod (baccala) two different ways as part of the 7 fishes for x-mas eve. The first way was in tomato sauce with potatoes and celery. The second was as a salad with vinegar peppers, celery, and olives. I haven't had it in years though and since my mother didn't make it I don't know the recipes.
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This will surprise no one.
The FBI is Trumpland': anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaks, sources say
QuoteDeep antipathy to Hillary Clinton exists within the FBI, multiple bureau sources have told the Guardian, spurring a rapid series of leaks damaging to her campaign just days before the election.
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Cheetos is such a great businessman; he's added another bankruptcy...totally winning!
A Trump Tower Goes Bust in Canada
QuoteThis Trump-branded and Trump-managed jewel is also, as a business venture, a bust.
On Tuesday, a Canadian bankruptcy judge placed the glass-and-granite building into receivership, just four years after Trump and his children cut the ribbon at its grand opening. Once it’s auctioned off, whether or not Trump is the leader of the free world by then, his name may well vanish from its marquee.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/11/trump-tower-goes-bust-canada-214412#ixzz4OyR5Mptb
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370 economists just accused Donald Trump of misleading the public with his economic plan
QuoteRather than focusing on ideological differences, the letter, published Tuesday in the Wall Street Journal, calls out Trump for his repeated attempts to mislead the public.
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This is what really pisses me off about the media and their coverage of this election.
Trump’s history of corruption is mind-boggling. So why is Clinton supposedly the corrupt one?
QuoteThe big difference is that there are an enormous number of reporters who get assigned to write stories about those issues regarding Clinton. The story of something like the Clinton Foundation gets stretched out over months and months with repeated tellings, always with the insistence that questions are being raised and the implication that shady things are going on, even if there isn’t any evidence at a particular moment to support that idea.
When it comes to Trump, on the other hand, we’ve seen a very different pattern. Here’s what happens: A story about some kind of corrupt dealing emerges, usually from the dogged efforts of one or a few journalists; it gets discussed for a couple of days; and then it disappears. Someone might mention it now and again, but the news organizations don’t assign a squad of reporters to look into every aspect of it, so no new facts are brought to light and no new stories get written.
The end result of this process is that because of all that repeated examination of Clinton’s affairs, people become convinced that she must be corrupt to the core. It’s not that there isn’t plenty of negative coverage of Trump, because of course there is, but it’s focused mostly on the crazy things he says on any given day.
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This is what really pisses me off about the media and their coverage of this election.
Trump’s history of corruption is mind-boggling. So why is Clinton supposedly the corrupt one?
QuoteThe big difference is that there are an enormous number of reporters who get assigned to write stories about those issues regarding Clinton. The story of something like the Clinton Foundation gets stretched out over months and months with repeated tellings, always with the insistence that questions are being raised and the implication that shady things are going on, even if there isn’t any evidence at a particular moment to support that idea.
When it comes to Trump, on the other hand, we’ve seen a very different pattern. Here’s what happens: A story about some kind of corrupt dealing emerges, usually from the dogged efforts of one or a few journalists; it gets discussed for a couple of days; and then it disappears. Someone might mention it now and again, but the news organizations don’t assign a squad of reporters to look into every aspect of it, so no new facts are brought to light and no new stories get written.
The end result of this process is that because of all that repeated examination of Clinton’s affairs, people become convinced that she must be corrupt to the core. It’s not that there isn’t plenty of negative coverage of Trump, because of course there is, but it’s focused mostly on the crazy things he says on any given day.
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Also nerve soothing.
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Posted the link in the Orange Cheeto's thread, Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?
Now the Clinton campaign has picked up on it so posting it here too.
It's time for Trump to answer serious questions about his ties to Russia.
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More food for thought:
Was a Trump Server Communicating With Russia?
QuoteThis spring, a group of computer scientists set out to determine whether hackers were interfering with the Trump campaign. They found something they weren’t expecting.
ETA: And now this from Mother Jones: A Veteran Spy Has Given the FBI Information Alleging a Russian Operation to Cultivate Donald Trump
QuoteAnd a former senior intelligence officer for a Western country who specialized in Russian counterintelligence tells Mother Jones that in recent months he provided the bureau with memos, based on his recent interactions with Russian sources, contending the Russian government has for years tried to co-opt and assist Trump—and that the FBI requested more information from him.
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Makes you think, doesn't it?
FBI's Comey opposed naming Russians, citing election timing: Source
QuoteFBI Director James Comey argued privately that it was too close to Election Day for the United States government to name Russia as meddling in the U.S. election and ultimately ensured that the FBI's name was not on the document that the U.S. government put out, a former FBI official tells CNBC.
The official said some government insiders are perplexed as to why Comey would have election timing concerns with the Russian disclosure but not with the Huma Abedin email discovery disclosure he made Friday.
Tell me again how he's an upstanding non-partisan guy.
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Trump stokes skepticism of Colorado voting system
QuoteTrump kicked off his rally here on Sunday by encouraging his supporters to "make sure" their ballots are properly counted, saying that he is a "skeptical person" when it comes to the state's largely vote-by-mail process. He then encouraged his supporters to get a "new ballot" in person at a local polling location.
"They'll give you a ballot, a new ballot. They'll void your old ballot, they will give you a new ballot. And you can go out and make sure it gets in," Trump said.
The election is rigged! SO go vote multiple times for ME! Also EMAIL!!!!
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Comey's disclosure shocks former prosecutors
Quote"It is not the function of the FBI director to be making public pronouncements about an investigation, never mind about an investigation based on evidence that he acknowledges may not be significant," Akerman added. "The job of the FBI is simply to investigate and to provide the results of its investigation to the prosecutorial arm of the U.S. Department of Justice. His job is not to give a running commentary about any investigation or his opinion about any investigation. This is particularly egregious since Secretary Clinton has no way to respond to what amounts to nebulous and speculative innuendo.”
QuoteDemocrats are also pushing for the FBI to take a closer look as they do those probes into the connections between Russia, the release by WikiLeaks of Podesta's stolen emails and several operatives who have worked for and around the Trump's campaign.
Several current and former DOJ, FBI and intelligence community sources earlier this month told POLITICO they have little doubt that federal law enforcement was looking into all of those questions. And on Twitter, Miller wrote that while the FBI “is undoubtedly investigating” those links, it was doing the right thing by staying mum on the matter.
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“They shouldn’t be commenting on investigations! But that should apply to all. Instead, Clinton consistently treated differently/worse,” the former Obama DOJ spokesman added.
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This is the first year there's been early voting in MA. I voted this morning. No lines but there was a steady stream of people.
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Jon Favreau Verified account @jonfavs
After a DEFCON 1 freakout, we now know the emails in question were: 1) Not from Hillary 2) Not from her sever 3) Not from her investigation
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10 minutes ago, Padma said:
Meanwhile, is ANYONE in government investigating the likely ties between Trump (Manafort still there, too, in the background) and Russian intelligence agents hacking private U.S. citizens' email to undermine our democracy? Anyone? Anyone?
Nope. That was blocked by the GOP controlled congress.
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This is such BS!
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NFL Thread
in Sports
QuoteIn a Seton Hall Sports Poll released Thursday, 56 percent of those surveyed said they think fans are watching less because of the stand some athletes are taking by not standing during the national anthem.
I want to know how the question was posed and who was asked. What I get from the article is people think fans are watching less due to the protest not that they themselves are watching less.
And as Mojo says, it's bullshit since they rarely even televise the anthem.
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On 10/23/2016 at 11:43 AM, AimingforYoko said:
Yeah, it must suck to live in a swing state every four years.
Or live next to a swing state. I'm in MA and since the Boston stations also serve southern NH, we're bombarded with ads and not just presidential ones. For the last 6+ months, the NH senate ads for Ayotte and Hassan have been non-stop and recently there's been an uptick in NH gubernatorial ads. I've even seen ads for an NH house race. The only strictly MA ads I've seen are for ballot questions.
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NFL Thread
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14 minutes ago, Crs97 said:And yet the Browns will continue to provide the comforting consistency you need in this topsy-turkey season.
Right! Two exceptions!
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NFL Thread
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You know, with a couple of exceptions (okay, maybe only one exception - the Pats), it feels like this football season is taking place in Bizzarro world. Expectations are being upended. Good teams play like crap. Bad teams are good. Pretty soon up will be down.
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14 minutes ago, PatsyandEddie said:
Didn't Roger Stone recently say that he had a "back door" to Wikileaks? Too many of these folks have Russian ties which makes me immediately suspicious.
Trump Ally Roger Stone Admits ‘Back-Channel’ Tie To WikiLeaks
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9 hours ago, DeLurker said:
When I was a kid Mom would occasionally make liver and onions for her and my Dad. They smelled so good cooking, but texture-wise I could not deal. I don't even remember if the taste was any good since the texture scarred my memory.
Same here. Mom would make chicken livers and onions. It smelled sooo good. But I could never get past the texture.
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Donald John Trump: 2016 President-Elect
in Current Events & Politics
This is disgusting and must be fully investigated. The FBI should not be colluding with a candidate to get that candidate elected.
Meet Donald Trump’s Top FBI Fanboy Trump supporters with strong ties to the agency kept talking about surprises and leaks to come—and come they did.