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President Trump Directed His Attorney Michael Cohen To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project

President Donald Trump directed his longtime attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, according to two federal law enforcement officials involved in an investigation of the matter.

Trump also supported a plan, set up by Cohen, to visit Russia during the presidential campaign, in order to personally meet President Vladimir Putin and jump-start the tower negotiations. “Make it happen,” the sources said Trump told Cohen.

The special counsel’s office learned about Trump’s directive for Cohen to lie to Congress through interviews with multiple witnesses from the Trump Organization and internal company emails, text messages, and a cache of other documents. Cohen then acknowledged those instructions during his interviews with that office.

If that's all true, then:

Presidential historian: First impeachment article against Nixon was ‘obstruction by directing others to lie’

Presidential historian Jon Meacham on Friday resurfaced the first article of impeachment brought against former President Nixon in a discussion following a bombshell report that President Trump directed his former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress.

“The first article of impeachment against Nixon was just this: obstruction by directing others to lie,” Meacham tweeted early Friday morning. “This is not hysteria or hyperventilating. It’s history.”

She set her phone to block all texts. That was unexpected.

I hope that's because of someone else, not because of me. But really I don't know.

Even so, she's a drop dead knockout working in a highly-visible oldest profession. I expect they get stalkers all the time.

Sometimes, they turn up dead: it's wasn't just Jack The Ripper preyed on them.

Kill Me.

In other news, really, really early this morning I finally got it together to shop at the better grocery store. While some of WinCo Foods' prices are cheaper than Grocery Outlet's not all are, however WinCo has a Jesus Big selection.

The God Emperor announced that February's Food Stamps will be coming out on January 20th, so I'm going to stockpile some non-perishables. Also I'm going to make a Metric Buttload of Guacamole then freeze it, this because Avocado is rich in Vitamin B6.

Just now I read that Opioid abuse can lead to Vitamin B12 deficiency as it degrades the lining of the stomach, which is responsible for the secretion of Intrinsic Factor that's part of the process that enables the small intestine to absorb B12.

So I have yet _another_ reason to obsess about B12. My brother-in-law bought me some 1000 ug Methylcobalamine tables - the US RDA for _normal_ people is just 2.4, but a helpful Soylentil who if I remember correctly actually _has_ B12 Deficiency - or maybe it was Pernicious Anemia - pointed out that _some_ such patients can get by with tablets and so don't need injections.

My Neurologist now thinks it's unlikely I really do have B12 Deficiency; she based that on my first test for low B12, a Methylmalonic Acid Blood Level was normal. While I'm somewhat skeptical and so request at least one of the other half-dozen or so tests, another physician pointed out to me that if I really was low in B12, the symptoms would not come and go as they do for me, rather they would persist until I was getting the injections.

It's quite likely that _most_ of my symptoms can be explained as being due to Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, but in my understanding _not_ the numbness in the soles of my feet, the palms of my hands and in both my lips.

I eagerly await the result of the Electroencephalograph Test I had just after Christmas. While I fully intended to be well-rested for it, I of course stayed up all night doing Hookers And Blow and so fell asleep during the test.

But the EEG tech actually said that my falling asleep was quite helpful.

I spent an incredible Christmas with my great, and very brave Soldiers in Iraq. So of course Obstructionist Nancy Pelosi wants to visit a War Zone too. My Soldiers, and many others, are going without pay, because the Dems shut down our government (they have NO IDEAS & NO CLASS, they only Obstruct). But Nancy wants a Vacation. She thinks this is Vacation time. She can go where she wants, but not on the Taxpayers Dime. Go Commercial, Nancy. My guys will be watching for you!!!! ✈ pic.twitter.com/TtBCvwp080

As Coast Guard paychecks went undelivered Tuesday as the result of an ongoing partial government shutdown, the service's top officer urged its members to stay the course.

In a public letter published Tuesday afternoon on his social media pages, Adm. Karl Schultz said the day's missed paycheck, to his knowledge, marked the first time in the history of the nation "that service members in a U.S. Armed Force have not been paid during a lapse in government appropriations."

The Coast Guard, the only military service to fall under the Department of Homeland Security, is also the only service with payroll affected by the shutdown, which began Dec. 22. The Coast Guard was able to issue final paychecks for the year, but will be unable to distribute further pay until a budget deal is reached or another appropriation agreement is made.

In all, some 55,000 Coast Guard active-duty, reserve and civilian members are going without pay; the number includes 42,000 active-duty service members.

Coast Guard civilians have been on furlough or working without pay since the shutdown began.

For the First Time in History, a US Military Service Is Working Without Pay

I had three dollars, enough to Get There And Back Again with four bits left over.

I was getting fixated on sex. This isn't - not for me at least - quite the same as getting horny, rather it's an inability to think about anything else.

However it was early evening. I do the best at getting tipped from late morning to mid-afternoon, but since yesterday every fucking Portland street corner has been occupied by canvassers who were raising money for a campaign whose objective is to legalize shrooms for treatment of depression, a cause I heartily support. Whenever I spoke with such a canvasser, I promised I'd shell out a generous portion of my tips, but my take is down lately.

It worked really well to print a US Letter-sized poster that read "Please Buy Me And My Lady Tickets To Spiderman And Some Popcorn $20.00" I actually raised $25 in just two twenty minute sets; two different people each gave me ten spots.

But since then I've used a sign that reads "Please Buy Me Five Hundred Business Cards $9.95 At Vistaprint" with the result that my gross revenues dropped right down into The Seventh Circle Of Hell".

Now that everybody - incorrectly - believes I've already seen Spiderman - she wasn't feeling well that night, so "Sarah" - not her real name - and I instead blew it on Caffein, seeing how she's so comfortable with being a drug addict.

So instead I'll ask for $22.00, seeing as how Portland's Living Room Theater, this because that particular theater's tickets cost eleven clams a head.

No one will believe - correctly - that I've already seen it. And I recommend it _highly_ to the lot of you. But I must advise you that if you've ever been with an addict, that movie is going to be hard to take - I burst into tears toward the end.

So now I've only got the four bits and no train fair.

The happy news is that I got blown by two different gents. They both requested I reciprocate at the same time, the first that's happened. Having only one oral pleasuring unit, I instead gave them both handjobs.

Do.
Yer.
Worst.

Folks, I'm declaring today the Birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. Otherwise known as M. L. K.. Martin is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice. Especially after he did that glorious commercial for Dodge. For the Dodge Ram. It's only a commercial. But it was a great way to get his name out there. As an actor, of course you want to be in the productions that pay a lot of money. But if you're smart, you wait for the ones that make you look fabulous. Home Alone 2, when I read the script for that one I knew immediately it would become a true Christmas classic. And as usual, I was right. Nicolas Cage, everybody's heard of Nicolas Cage. But, you hear he's in a movie. And you don't know if it's a good one. Or not so good. Face/Off, great film. Left Behind, not so great. Mike loves that one. And frankly, he lives that one. Tries to live it. But for me it's very meh. Nick's very talented. Unfortunately he doesn't know how to pick a winner. But Martin knocked it out of the park with that beautiful, and very moving, Dodge Ram ad. Which they showed during the Super Bowl. Scoring a touchdown for Dodge. And for Martin. Smart! youtu.be/gz-VWVrQKu0

Martin wasn't born today. But, he was born on this date. Same date but in a different year, much earlier. Like 90 years ago or even more. Long time ago. And unfortunately, they killed him (RIP!!). They put out the hit on him. And made some very dumb mistakes. But still got away with it. James Earl Ray paid the price for that one. He was a patsy, as everyone knows. But, they locked him up for it and he died very painfully in prison. As the real killers laughed and laughed.

And U. S. A. Today said it so beautifully, with a lot of heart. They said, "when Martin Luther King Jr. was killed, he was less popular than Donald Trump is today." Another way to say, I'm much more popular than he was. In spite of his great work for Dodge. That's so true. And I'm very proud of that.

By the way, Steve King, one of our Iowa Republicans in Congress, said one of those things that makes you go "hmm." He said, "white nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization -- how did that language become offensive? Why did I sit in classes teaching me about the merits of our history and our civilization?" It's called political correctness. We've taken it much too far. And it's tearing our Nation apart. They say United States. But Obama divided us. I'm working every day on, how can we be less politically correct? So is Steve. And M. L. K., if he was around, would be working with us on that one. With Steve who, probably, is a relative. Because they're both named King, right? Maybe they're relatives and maybe they're not. Doesn't really matter. They're both great guys!!!

Hey Guys,

I've got a bit of a problem I'm working on. It seemed like an easy problem, but I'm running into lots of issues. If anyone has any tips, I would appreciate it!

So I have lots (just over a hundred) of SQL express instances running on essentially POSes. When a transaction is made, an entry is made to a table. At the end of the day, the application also updates a couple other tables with a bulk insert.

I want to replicate all that data back home so it's all in one place to query (SQL Standard). As near real time as possible/reasonable.

My plan was to setup merged replication with the central server the publisher and the site the subscriber. That mostly worked (with some tweaking), but bulk inserts do not fire triggers, so those entries do not replicate. I could setup a separate job to update the bulk inserts to fire the triggers, but that's pretty hacky and not ideal.

Is there a better way to do what I'm trying to do? Some SSIS package that will be annoying to maintain (although I'm worried these subscriptions will be annoying too)? Log shipping?

I feel like this should be a pretty common problem, but I can't find anything. Am I going about this completely wrong?

My Medicaid got cancelled as I was too sick to prepare the Profit And Loss Statement the Washington State Health Authority wanted from me so as to prove my income eligibility.

To run out of my Happy Pills won't make me crazy for a while, but skip just one dose of either of two of them will make me quite physically ill.

The ER won't give me many doses but it will give me _some_.

I'll take the bus, as I'm not so sick - not yet anyway - that I need at ambulance.

Lawyers for Trump’s disgraced former campaign chairman, who was convicted of tax and bank fraud last year, submitted a filing in Washington, D.C., federal court responding to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s assertion that Manafort had lied to Mueller’s office and so violated his plea agreement. Manafort’s lawyers pushed back on that claim by saying that he had extensively cooperated with Mueller, meeting with the government lawyers and investigators a dozen times and twice testifying before a grand jury.

But Manafort’s team screwed up.

They tried to redact four different passages in their filing, but failed to do so properly, leaving the redacted text in plain sight. For instance, Manafort’s lawyers responded to Mueller’s allegation that Manafort lied to the government about his interactions with a man named Konstantin Kilimnik, who was Manafort’s right-hand man during his time as a powerful political consultant in Ukraine. What’s more noteworthy is that Kilimnik has alleged connections to Russian intelligence.

What the redacted text says is that Manafort allegedly misled Mueller about meeting with Kilimnik during the 2016 presidential campaign and discussing a “Ukraine peace plan” with Kilimnik “on more than one occasion.” Another improperly redacted section revealed that Mueller has alleged that Manafort “lied about sharing polling data with Mr. Kilimnik related to the 2016 presidential campaign.”

Paul Manafort’s Lawyers Appear to Accidentally Blow the Door Open on Collusion

Oops! Not a mistake I would expect out of "the best people!"

Fox News' Shep Smith and Andrew Napolitano now see proof of 'collusion' between Trump's team and Russia

"This shows that Bob Mueller can demonstrate to a court, without the testimony of Paul Manafort, that the campaign had a connection to Russian intelligence and the connection involved information going from the campaign to the Russians," Napolitano said. "The question is, was this in return for a promise of something from the Russians, and did the candidate, now the president, know about it?” That would be "a conspiracy," he added, regardless of whether the Trump campaign actually got anything of value from the Russians.