Michael

I only know Rotterdam from that song. I thought it was a made up place like Timbuktu or Albuquerque from Bugs Bunny.

What makes you think Aidan's from America? I'm going to guess South Sudan.

Scotland

What is he saying? I haven’t been following it.

Speaking of which https://www.msnbc.com/katy-tur/watch/ag-barr-reopens-probe-into-michael-flynn-guilty-plea-78779461988

That max figure that papers mention is really misleading. The same metric gave Stone 50 years. It’ll probably be around 3 or 4.

And now you know where we are coming from.

True, the rich and powerful, whatever their party, always get away with crap that would get us lesser folk in serious trouble.

Too early to say. Give it a couple of days after the inevitable Trump tweet. Apparently he ain't happy.

Justice Dept. won’t charge Andrew McCabe, the former FBI official who authorized the investigation of President Trump I wonder if Trump Barr will step...

That's what this is, which is why it says "All General Trump Conversations Here". ;)

Everyone knows only the rich get away with not paying taxes.

I used it as a reference. I followed it up by summarizing the key points: 1. Giuliani is a liar, as he claimed it was the State Department, not Trump,...

You're not going to deflect that easy. I don't care what CNN says. I care about what Trump says to Geraldo in that interview. You can listen to the au...

I'm not saying that he admitted to sending Giuliani to Ukraine to find damaging information about his political opponents. I'm saying that he admitted...

Jesus Christ he rambles. Asked about Giuliani and spends forever talking about what Bloomberg did as Mayor.

He admitted to sending Giuliani to Ukraine to conduct his investigation, whereas previously both he and Giuliani denied it. Whether or not that partic...

Student loan debt isn't real debt.

Given the last election they don't need the support of the young to win.

Trump contradicts past denials, admits sending Giuliani to Ukraine So we've established that: 1. Giuliani is a liar, as he claimed it was the State De...

Because it says that it includes countries that don't have socialist economies/governments and excludes countries that do.

From that link: It's not particularly a reliable measure. What do you understand socialism to be? Is it just things like higher taxes on businesses, s...

I think the Syrian refugee crisis was a big factor, at least in Europe.

Not if I had no reason to believe that their opinion influenced their verdict. If they were the lone hold-out in the face of what the other jurors (in...

Again, juries are selected at random and both sides have the opportunity to ask a juror to be dismissed. I don’t know what more you expect. Should eve...

If they were a Trump supporting Republican would it have been rigged in Stone’s favour? And “rigged” is the wrong word unless the prosecution intentio...

Yeah, it's what I did when there for 6 months a few years ago, but they seem to have changed the rules now: The limit doesn't apply if arriving by air...

Presumably the missing qualification here is "the typical sentences imposed in obstruction cases that do not include the eight-level enhancement for t...

I'd work as a freelance web developer, but there isn't a visa that allows for anything like that.

I'm not in Thailand. I want to be but there isn't a visa that would let me stay long term.

That's what I want to do but I can't find the right kind of visa for Thailand. :sad:

They explain their sentencing suggestion as per the official guidelines here (pages 16-18). They determined an offence level of 29, which for someone ...

Yes, the President complains that one of his previous associates is being treated too harshly after being found guilty of witness tampering, obstructi...

This is real corruption.

Joe Walsh: Challenging Trump for the GOP nomination taught me my party is a cult

It's not even that. Collins, Alexander, and Rubio (and probably others) all accept that he did it and that it's wrong. But for Collins and Alexander i...

They are. Having witnesses would have been the right thing. Removing Trump from office would have been the right thing. Informing the public of Trump'...

You can praise people for doing the right thing even if they've also done wrong things. Just because they're "the opposition" in most cases doesn't me...

People ask journalists about current affairs, including what politicians and the government are doing. That's their job; to report the news. It isn't ...

There's a lot of things to cover. Finding the raw data for each claim could take a long time – if indeed it's something that can be found with Google ...

This makes no sense. If someone claims to have done something I might not want to just take them at their word – and I can't just clairvoyantly assess...

According to one of their lawyers, they're a publisher.

Are there any real world examples of small governments?

If one's principles are contrary to Trump's behaviour and policies then being principled and being anti-Trump aren't mutually exclusive. I'd like to t...

Which is bullshit. The best you can argue is that Trump shouldn't be convicted because he acted on bad legal advice.

The evidence was presented in the Senate. We even had Dershowitz, Rubio, and Alexander accept that he's guilty. They just tried to rationalize a reaso...

It's not a charade or a false investigation. Trump illegally withheld aid to compel a foreign country to investigate a political rival to help his ree...

Goodbye EU. I miss you already. https://www.euronews.com/2020/01/30/brexit-remainers-hoping-ode-to-joy-will-smash-uk-top-40-on-exit-day Brexit: EU's o...

Rubio: Impeachable actions don't necessarily mean a president should be removed https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/480912-rubio-impeachable-actions-d...