Agreed. That last month of pregnancy was really uncomfortable for my wife. Maybe Trump will force health insurance companies to require that a baby be delivered by the end of the 8th month.
</sarcasm>
TDub wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2019 4:38 am
Technically pregnancy is 10 months anyway right?
Is pregnancy 9 months or 10 months?
Your 40 weeks of pregnancy are counted as nine months. But wait…there are four weeks in a month, which would make 40 weeks 10 months. Right? Not exactly. Four weeks is 28 days, but months (with the exception of February, of course) have 30 or 31 days, making each month about 4.3 weeks long.
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
William Webster, a former federal judge and the former director of both the FBI and the CIA, said in a New York Times op-ed that President Trump and Attorney General William Barr's attacks on the FBI are "troubling in the extreme."
"Calling FBI professionals 'scum,' as the president did, is a slur against people who risk their lives to keep us safe. Mr. Barr’s charges of bias within the FBI, made without providing any evidence and in direct dispute of the findings of the nonpartisan inspector general, risk inflicting enduring damage on this critically important institution."
Driving the news: On Sunday, former FBI director James Comey argued that the FBI was "vindicated" by the Justice Department inspector general's finding that the Russia investigation was justified and not politically motivated. However, he also admitted he was "wrong" about serious failures the watchdog found in the FBI's surveillance process.
Trump, who has consistently attacked FBI leadership and promoted the conspiracy theory that the Russia investigation was an attempted "coup," questioned the inspector general's credibility on Sunday and suggested that Comey could go to jail.
Barr has also disputed the inspector general's conclusions about the origins of the Russia investigation, calling it "completely baseless" and asserting that his hand-picked prosecutor John Durham will have the final word.
Other highlights from Webster's op-ed:
"I am deeply disturbed by the assertion of President Trump that our 'current director' — as he refers to the man he selected for the job of running the FBI — cannot fix what the president calls a broken agency."
"The president’s thinly veiled suggestion that the director, Christopher Wray, like his banished predecessor, James Comey, could be on the chopping block, disturbs me greatly. The independence of both the F.B.I. and its director is critical and should be fiercely protected by each branch of government."
The country can ill afford to have a chief law enforcement officer dispute the Justice Department’s own independent inspector general’s report and claim that an F.B.I. investigation was based on “a completely bogus narrative.” In fact, the report conclusively found that the evidence to initiate the Russia investigation was unassailable."
"This difficult moment demands the restoration of the proper place of the Department of Justice and the F.B.I. as bulwarks of law and order in America. This is not about politics. This is about the rule of law. Republicans and Democrats alike should defend it above all else."
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Geezer wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 6:34 pm
"Calling FBI professionals 'scum,' as the president did, is a slur against people who risk their lives to keep us safe...
Geezer wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 6:34 pm
"Calling FBI professionals 'scum,' as the president did, is a slur against people who risk their lives to keep us safe...
* Edited
Nevermind. I have changed my thought/s on the subject.
William Sullivan was scum. I'll leave it at that.
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POTUS proving yet again he's a POS.
Was all warm and fuzzy while he and Melania were tweeting yesterday.
Then he just couldn't help himself and started attacking people - on Christmas.
Sure would have been nice if he could go an entire Christmas day showing dignity and class instead of getting off on being an asshole.
Geezer wrote: ↑Mon Dec 16, 2019 6:34 pm
"Calling FBI professionals 'scum,' as the president did, is a slur against people who risk their lives to keep us safe...
* Edited
Nevermind. I have changed my thought/s on the subject.
William Sullivan was scum. I'll leave it at that.
It never ceases to amaze me that the same people who rail on our current POTUS for his character flaws conveniently forget that MLK was a serial philanderer who also plagiarized sections of his doctoral dissertation. I guess the search for the perfect human being continues.
“There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.” - Mark Twain