Women wearing white robes, and providing the impression that is the only thing they are wearing, is a pictorial theme I find quite exciting.
Three examples from their Instagram stories:
"Killer Katrin" -- Ekaterina Novikova
Lindsay Pelas
Nicole Ross / Nika Kolosova (can't translate the question, sorry!)
Just passing this on -- with an excerpt.
The Supreme Court isn’t well. The only hope for a cure is more justices."But make no mistake: In voting to submit the report to the president neither of us cast a vote of confidence in the Supreme Court itself. Sadly, we no longer have that confidence, given three things: first, the dubious legitimacy of the way some justices were appointed; second, what Justice Sonia Sotomayor rightly called the “stench” of politics hovering over this court’s deliberations about the most contentious issues; and third, the anti-democratic, anti-egalitarian direction of this court’s decisions about matters such as voting rights, gerrymandering and the corrupting effects of dark money."
The Otto Aviation Celera 500L is a very unusual looking plane. It's been marketed as a business and "utility" plane, whatever that means.
For one thing, the single prop (that bothers me) is at the rear of the plane. For two, it has an ovoid fuselage, which is supposed to aid laminar flow and give it high fuel efficiency.
It's not real big -- seats six.
The prototype is already flying and being tested; the goal is to have the Celera 500L sold and flying in 2025.
Otto Celera 500L completes early testing
The new news is -- Nunes is out (of Congress).
While there's a lot of poor and bad news coming down the pike, this is a piece of goodness.
He's taking the helm of Donald Trump's purported social media engine, which may or may not be a scam (more on that later, if interest permits).
Meanwhile, let's just say goodbye to Nunes and hope that the door smacks him on the ass on his way out.
Rep. Devin Nunes to leave Congress to become Trump media company CEO
"Phil Arballo, a Democratic business executive who unsuccessfully challenged Nunes in 2020 and is running for the seat in 2022, responded to the news of Nunes’s retirement with a two-word statement: “Good riddance.”
There are a few more forceful (and profane) two-word sendoffs, but I'll let that one suffice.
I went back through my blog and apparently I didn't post this pic. Now, Julianne and Brooks Laich split, marriage-wise; Brooks is now living up north with a Nordic cross-fit champ, while Julianne is Kinrgizing, judging DWTS when Derek is down (briefly) with a Covid breakthrough, and has been linked (at least by the Daily Mail) with a male model. And she's got some wine biz going with bestie Nina Dobrev, too.
But in the past (I think this year) she posted this fine angle shot from some summery downtime. Can't fault the photographer's POV.
I just read (more than one place) that Trump insurrectin advisor, lawyer John Eastman, is going to take the Fifth Amendment to avoid testifying in front of the House committee on the January 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol building.
Eastman is the guy that concocted the whole plan to try and convince VP Pence that he could stymie the certification of the election by questioning/throwing out electors from certain states, thereby putting the process into Congressional overtime where the unbalanced Republicanness of the Congress could vote to put Donald Trump into a second term.
Eastman is cooked as a lawyer, and probably a professor. His only career move now would likely be appearances on Newsmax. His bio says he's a former professor and dean at Chapman University School of Law. Unless they're offering classes in Constitutional overthrow, I doubt he's teaching much these days.
So ... compel him to testify. Offer him full immunity. Because if he testifies, he can nail everyone that was in the room reading his revolutional ideas TO THE FRIGGIN' WALL.
All you need is one songbird. Then the rest of the obstinants will just be seen for what they are -- criminals.
Obviously this is a well-known legal play. Eastman is a small-scale target. Use him to get the goods on the real crooks, the Meadowses, Clarks, Bannons, and of course, the Big Guy.
It would work. Don't wait, Congress.
"Finally, even if Clark [same applies for Eastman] does have a valid Fifth Amendment privilege, federal law allows the committee to seek a judicial ruling immunizing him for his testimony. That would overcome the Fifth Amendment privilege and force Clark to answer the committee’s questions without fear of self-incrimination."
"As attorneys, Clark and Eastman reportedly tried to use their law licenses to help Trump’s effort to attack and overturn the 2020 election and deprive voters of a most sacred civil right. Now they seek shelter behind the critically important civil liberty guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment. That may be their prerogative, however ironic. But it does not shield their testimony and their documents from scrutiny. Congress has the tools to drive accountability forward. It should use them."
"Escape to Escanaba" has to be a Chamber of Commerce slogan somewhere in this Upper Peninsula coastal town/city. (It's hard to know where to draw the line between town and city sometimes, especially because a small population enclave might be the largest populated area in the vicinity. So Escanaba is one of the main population centers in the UP; let's keep it at that.
