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George Papadopoulos got drunk in May 2016 and told an Australian diplomat the Russians had dirt on Hillary Clinton. A former Trump aide’s drunk bragging to an Australian diplomat may have kicked off the entire Russia investigation, according to a new report in The New York Times . On Saturday, the paper reported that George Papadopoulos, who served as a foreign policy adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, told Australian diplomat Alexander Downer that Russia had political dirt on Trump’s Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, after a night of heavy drinking in May 2016. Less than a month earlier, he had been told that Russia had emails that would embarrass the former Secretary of State. That information came courtesy of Joseph Mifsud, a Maltese professor with contacts in the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who, in April 2016, told Papadopoulos he’d learned the Russians had “ dirt ” on Clinton in the form of “thousands of emails.” When leaked Democratic emails began ap...

Her father's death by NYPD chokehold made her an activist. Activist Erica Garner, a vocal activist and organizer within the Black Lives Matter movement, has died. She was 27. After suffering a heart attack last weekend, Garner had been hospitalized and placed in a medically induced coma. She went into cardiac arrest after an asthma episode, her mother, Esaw Snipes, told the New York Times . It was Garner’s second heart attack. Her official Twitter account , which has posted updates on her condition throughout the week, confirmed her death on Saturday morning. Garner was the daughter of NYPD chokehold victim Eric Garner, whose death fueled the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement. Garner emerged as a prominent activist after her father, Eric Garner, was killed during an encounter with the New York Police Department in July 2014. He was confronted by police officers on a Staten Island street corner for allegedly selling loose cigarettes. Officer Daniel Pantaleo placed Garn...

Even as president, Trump keeps up on how his Washington, DC hotel is doing. President Donald Trump’s isn’t so separate from his businesses as he would like the public to think. Throughout his campaign and through his first few months as president, Trump has said he would distance himself from his Trump Organization and hand it over to his sons in lieu of divesting entirely, which ethics experts say he should. They fear that otherwise he will use the presidency for his own personal gain or that his policies will be influenced by his business interests. As far as the president flagship hotel in Washington, DC goes, Trump is “definitely still involved,” according to an email sent by the hotel’s director of revenue management first reported by the Daily Beast . On Friday, that site published a September 12th email from Jeng Chi Hung, the director of revenue management for the Trump International Hotel in Washington. In it he wrote that he met with Trump, who asked specific questions a...

© California's Great America If there is one thing we've learned about the construction of the new single-rail Rocky Mountain Construction "Raptor" coasters, it is that they go up very fast.  With less supports necessary to hold up the thin track, the rides seem to have many more pieces put in place per day than with other ride types.  In fact, it seems that at times the parks are literally waiting for truckloads of the ride parts to arrive to get more put into place! Keeping an eye on California's Great America's webcam for RailBlazer , seen above, it's easy to note that a ton of track has gone up in the last week or so.  Much of the ride's layout is now in place, including half of the dive loop, the reverse air-time hill and the corkscrew. © Inside CGA The webcam gives nice up to the minute views of RailBlazer's progress, at least when it is light outside, but there are more photos taken just days ago available from Insid...

WWII Cemetery Omaha Beach I've been taking a few days off from blogging due to Seasonal Celebrations and consequential exhaustion from same.  Just sitting around knitting is my favourite way to decompress after all the hubbub.  But I've been thinking about a note my blogging colleague Ed(itor) sent me just a day after Christmas.... I see a lot of chatter on the Internet that suggest that war is imminent. Anyone who has been paying attention could suggest where that war will take place, against whom. It’s a valid statement that no one can conduct three wars simultaneously, but I am not one of the great experts on war, nor do I wear any stripes on my shoulder. The challenge for the rest of us is to figure out who is leading us to war, why, where they expect to fight, and, more importantly, what is the rationale (or impetus) to war. Perhaps there is a false flag yet to be accomplished. Can we think ahead of them and burst the bundle of their rationale?" T he likelihoo...

I always thought girls named "Laura" were lucky.  There's a gorgeous song named after "Laura."   Same with Roseanna, Wendy, Nancy, Georgia, Mandy, Brandy, Carol, and even Sharona.  For guys, Johnny and Bill, and Tom seemed to have cornered the market.  No one ever sang a love song to "Ken." Until now. And what a hard-driving classic it is.  This is from an early '60s Barbie album.   I'm kinda hoping Katy Perry will do a cover.  But until then, I'll have to be content with being the object of affection of a girl who hallucinates and has no genitals.   What a fitting tribute. from By Ken Levine http://ift.tt/2q0L1Mr Breaking News: Now I know what it's like to have a song written about me - News Paper