thephan wrote:I want to hear about the joke. Lets get that dirty joke out there. Just the idea of him telling a dirty joke is amusing.

"We all circled around him and Barbara for a photo, and I was right next to him," Grolnick said. "He reached his right hand around to my behind, and as we smiled for the photo he asked the group, 'Do you want to know who my favorite magician is?'"

"As I felt his hand dig into my flesh, he said, 'David Cop-a-Feel!'"

Phred wrote:It's $45!

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/trump-selling-orange-america-great-pumpkin-hats-article-1.3583632

Hundreds of pages of legislation — including a 470-page gambling bill first unveiled Wednesday evening — moved through the Legislature as top lawmakers bowed to concessions they had resisted since mid-summer.
The Senate voted 31-19 to approve its just-unveiled, far-reaching gambling expansion plan after months of talks as part of a wider budget agreement. Efforts to win its quick passage in the House ran late into Wednesday night, and debate was to continue Thursday morning.

Under it, Pennsylvania, already the nation's No. 2 commercial casino state, could see casino-style gambling in truck stops, airports, online portals and 10 brand new casino locations around the state, each with hundreds of slot machines and possibly table games.
It also would make Pennsylvania the first state to allow both casino and lottery games online, in a quest for money from new and younger players. Bars would be frozen out of the package, despite the House's long insistence that a gambling expansion should favor those businesses, rather than casino operators.

Earlier Wednesday, the Senate approved a House plan that revolves around borrowing $1.5 billion — with interest, payback likely would cost more than $2 billion over 20 years — and a grab bag of tax increases that is projected to yield as much as $140 million a year. For months, the Senate and Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf had sought a larger tax package and a lower borrowing limit, but ultimately found unyielding opposition from House Republicans.

Pennsylvania has had spending authority since the fiscal year began July 1 under a nearly $32 billion budget bill that lawmakers overwhelmingly approved. However, it had a gaping, $2.2 billion hole in it, largely from state government's biggest cash shortfall since the recession, and the ugly fight over how to fill it has pitted Wolf and the Republican-controlled Senate against the Republican-controlled House.
With perhaps a dozen budget-related bills passing the House and Senate this week, Wolf would not give his blessing to the package Wednesday. His office would only say that he would evaluate the bills.
"These bills contain many policy changes and deserve a full vetting," Wolf's office said.

With lawmakers itching to depart the Capitol until November, a debate over imposing a tax on Marcellus Shale natural gas production will wait indefinitely, amid opposition by Republican leaders there.

John F. Kelly offered his opinion. If it were up to him, he said, the number [of refugees allowed] would be between zero and one.

Mr. Kelly gave an extended critique of Mexico, calling it a third-world country in danger of collapsing the way Venezuela has and arguing that the United States needed to guard itself against that, according to people informed about the conversation.

But, he said, it was authentic: “As somebody who worked with this guy, a lot of what he got up to say is a reflection of who John Kelly is.”

Kenyan police say one man shot by police during violent protests against the repeat presidential election has died at a hospital.

The shooting occurred in the city of Kisumu, an opposition stronghold. Three other people were admitted to a hospital with gunshot wounds.

An Associated Press journalist in Kisumu saw ambulances transporting several people from the protests.

Kenya’s top police official says most of the country has been peaceful during Thursday’s repeat presidential election, although turnout is lower than in the Aug. 8 vote that the Supreme Court nullified over irregularities.

Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has voted in his hometown of Gatundu, saying that 90 percent of the country is calm and that he will work to unify the country if he is re-elected.

Kenyatta on Thursday said outside a polling station that Kenya must remove ethnic loyalties from its politics in order to succeed.

“What we have is a problem of tribalism, and tribalism is an issue that we must continue to deal with and fight with as we continue to develop our country,” Kenyatta said. “We cannot achieve our goals if we continue to embark on tribalistic politics.”

Many observers say Kenya’s ethnic-based politics overshadow the promise of its democracy. Kenyatta is from the Kikuyu group, while opposition leader Raila Odinga, who is boycotting Thursday’s election, is a Luo.

Another report by CNN, citing two unnamed sources, said Nix wrote to several people including Trump mega-donor Rebekah Mercer, explaining that he had emailed Assange seeking access to the Clinton emails to turn them into a searchable database for the campaign or a pro-Trump political action committee.

Mercer and her father Robert, a hedge fund billionaire, are major investors in Cambridge Analytica. Steve Bannon was a vice-president of the company – he reportedly had holdings valued at between $1m and $5m – before joining the Trump campaign and becoming the White House chief strategist, a post he left in August.

Cambridge Analytica’s website claims it holds up to 5,000 data points on more than 230 million American voters. It promises to help clients “gain the advantage over your opponents by adding our blend of big data analytics and behavioral psychology to your campaign arsenal.” It is believed to analyse social media, such as Facebook likes, to build a “psychographic” picture of target voters.

pacino wrote:

thephan wrote:I want to hear about the joke. Lets get that dirty joke out there. Just the idea of him telling a dirty joke is amusing.

"We all circled around him and Barbara for a photo, and I was right next to him," Grolnick said. "He reached his right hand around to my behind, and as we smiled for the photo he asked the group, 'Do you want to know who my favorite magician is?'"

"As I felt his hand dig into my flesh, he said, 'David Cop-a-Feel!'"

i'm sure he started this at 90 years old

and Bill didn't have sex with Monica

Monkeyboy wrote:That explains all the hillary stuff the last week. They just threw sand in the air to help cover this

Werthless wrote:

pacino wrote:

thephan wrote:I want to hear about the joke. Lets get that dirty joke out there. Just the idea of him telling a dirty joke is amusing.

"We all circled around him and Barbara for a photo, and I was right next to him," Grolnick said. "He reached his right hand around to my behind, and as we smiled for the photo he asked the group, 'Do you want to know who my favorite magician is?'"

"As I felt his hand dig into my flesh, he said, 'David Cop-a-Feel!'"

i'm sure he started this at 90 years old

and Bill didn't have sex with Monica

Maybe, maybe not. I'm not sure if you have known any male family members/friends/neighbors that aged and had problems with dementia/alzheimers, but other behavioral changes typically accompany the well-known symptoms of memory loss. It's very sad, and trying for those people who knew the man before those changes occurred. In particular, impulse control can degrade, along with the previous held restraints and perceptions of right/wrong behavior. Any public outing with strangers/acquaintances is a stressful outing that includes the potential for inappropriate touching. This is also part of why dementia patients are so difficult to manage in senior assisted living arrangements; it's not just the memory loss, but the lack of impulse control.

I'm not sure if that's happened with Bush, but I can certainly empathize with his family and handlers if this is what they are going through. If this is true, I believe strongly that these end of life changes should not affect a President's legacy, unless it's used constructively to open a dialogue about mental health and old age.

pacino wrote:Outlier poll in the VA Governor race, from Hampton University:

Gillespie 41 Northam 33 Dont know 27

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:Another journalist being accused of sexual harassment
Mark Halperin, currently a commentator on MSNBC, is being accused from his days at ABC