momadance wrote:

traderdave wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:Yeah, I've got a family member who works in construction in Atlantic County, he's a project manager and runs some large scale pieces of major construction in NJ. His company did a #$!&@ ton of work on the Taj back in the 90's and then Trump just didn't pay. His company went out of business (he didn't own it) but he had to find a new job and wound up having to commute to New Brunswick for years and years after. Anyway, he voted for Trump because he thinks he's a good businessman. wtf goes through peoples heads.

Meaning no offense whatsoever, this story almost defies belief.

There are a ton of stories like that here. He ruined a lot of lives with the construction of the Taj. Would probably make for an interesting book.

jerseyhoya wrote:If you tilt your head and squint, these Mississippi results seem a bit interesting

Dave Wasserman @Redistrict
Projection: Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) has defeated Mike Espy (D) in the #MSSEN runoff. But she's done so w/ an underwhelming margin for an R in MS.

Monkeyboy wrote:From the state dept website:
"Secretary Pompeo’s Meeting With Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Jose Valencia and Finance Minister Richard Martinez"

This occurred yesterday, just before it came out that Manafort met with assange at the Ecuador embassy. You can't make this stuff up. The coverup continues.

https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/11/287585.htm

CalvinBall wrote:

jerseyhoya wrote:If you tilt your head and squint, these Mississippi results seem a bit interesting

Putting up a fight in an impossibly hard to win state.

The Savior wrote:Was pence the VP when the alleged Manafort meetings took place?

The Dude wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:From the state dept website:
"Secretary Pompeo’s Meeting With Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Jose Valencia and Finance Minister Richard Martinez"

This occurred yesterday, just before it came out that Manafort met with assange at the Ecuador embassy. You can't make this stuff up. The coverup continues.

https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/11/287585.htm

how is this a cover-up?

Monkeyboy wrote:

The Dude wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:From the state dept website:
"Secretary Pompeo’s Meeting With Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Jose Valencia and Finance Minister Richard Martinez"

This occurred yesterday, just before it came out that Manafort met with assange at the Ecuador embassy. You can't make this stuff up. The coverup continues.

https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/11/287585.htm

how is this a cover-up?

What do you think they are meeting about? I would strongly suspect they are meeting about keeping Assange in the embassy, safe from Mueller. Or maybe it's just Pompei trying to talk ecuador into not allowing him to be extradited. I find it impossible to believe he just happened to be meeting with him on the day that this all came out about Manafort visiting assange

The Dude wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:

The Dude wrote:

Monkeyboy wrote:From the state dept website:
"Secretary Pompeo’s Meeting With Ecuadorian Foreign Minister Jose Valencia and Finance Minister Richard Martinez"

This occurred yesterday, just before it came out that Manafort met with assange at the Ecuador embassy. You can't make this stuff up. The coverup continues.

https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2018/11/287585.htm

how is this a cover-up?

What do you think they are meeting about? I would strongly suspect they are meeting about keeping Assange in the embassy, safe from Mueller. Or maybe it's just Pompei trying to talk ecuador into not allowing him to be extradited. I find it impossible to believe he just happened to be meeting with him on the day that this all came out about Manafort visiting assange

Would they have made that out in the open, then? And couldn't they just talk on the phone? Seems unlikely.

Now, a Nation investigation has uncovered an explanation for the Pentagon’s foot-dragging: For decades, the DoD’s leaders and accountants have been perpetrating a gigantic, unconstitutional accounting fraud, deliberately cooking the books to mislead the Congress and drive the DoD’s budgets ever higher, regardless of military necessity. DoD has literally been making up numbers in its annual financial reports to Congress—representing trillions of dollars’ worth of seemingly nonexistent transactions—knowing that Congress would rely on those misleading reports when deciding how much money to give the DoD the following year, according to government records and interviews with current and former DoD officials, congressional sources, and independent experts.

The phony numbers are referred to inside the Pentagon as “plugs,” as in plugging a hole, said current and former officials. “Nippering,” a reference to a sharp-nosed tool used to snip off bits of wire or metal, is Pentagon slang for shifting money from its congressionally authorized purpose to a different purpose. Such nippering can be repeated multiple times “until the funds become virtually untraceable,” says one Pentagon-budgeting veteran who insisted on anonymity in order to keep his job as a lobbyist at the Pentagon.

The plugs can be staggering in size. In fiscal year 2015, for example, Congress appropriated $122 billion for the US Army. Yet DoD financial records for the Army’s 2015 budget included a whopping $6.5 trillion (yes, trillion) in plugs. Most of these plugs “lack[ed] supporting documentation,” in the bland phrasing of the department’s internal watchdog, the Office of Inspector General. In other words, there were no ledger entries or receipts to back up how that $6.5 trillion supposedly was spent. Indeed, more than 16,000 records that might reveal either the source or the destination of some of that $6.5 trillion had been “removed,” the inspector general’s office reported.