Ho, ho. I needed a good laugh today and Jeanine Pinot Noir delivers:
In an extraordinary motion filed Friday evening, the U.S. attorney in Washington, Jeanine Pirro, said she was seeking to dismiss a felony charge against David Hearn, a former Olympic canoeist who was accused of pulling up a piece of the [Lincoln Memorial Reflecting] Pool’s lining two feet square.
In doing so, Ms. Pirro — a longtime ally of President Trump’s — directly contradicted the president’s repeated claim that the Reflecting Pool’s peeling liner was caused by people slashing its coating with knives. Instead, she said, “the damage was the result of a botched installation and not vandalism.”
Earlier this month, Ms. Pirro herself had echoed the president’s claims, calling a news conference to announce Mr. Hearn’s indictment on July 2. She said that she had “tremendous evidence” that Mr. Hearn had committed a felony, and noted that he faced up to 10 years in prison.
Except, uh, not so much.
But on Friday, Ms. Pirro said that her prosecutors had been misled by the Interior Department, which had awarded a no-bid contract to a first-time government contractor to repair the iconic landmark.
Ms. Pirro said that the pool’s new blue coating had actually started to peel within two days of the project’s completion, and that the Interior Department kept that fact from prosecutors, telling them that “nearly all of the damage” was done by vandals.
Later, Ms. Pirro said, prosecutors visited the pool themselves and saw that could not be true. The lining was peeling in many places, some far from the edge where Mr. Hearn had stood. After that, she said, prosecutors had demanded more information from the Interior Department, which made clear that the pool’s problems had developed during the renovation itself.
Do tell. Polygraphs for everyone!
I guess Jeanine skipped the “Investigate Before Charging” seminar at Albany Law School. Bad case of brew flu, p’raps?
In any case, The Great Builder was not amused. Writing on “Truth” Social, he screeched:
“I disagree 100% with Jeanine Pirro. I don’t know what she was thinking? To me, it was a pure case of VANDALISM. There may have been some contractor difficulty, but the major damage was caused by VANDALS!”
Couldn’t agree more. Charge the senile old saboteur who peed in the pool!
And a word to the wise, fatso: Get yourself a real ambulance-chaser if you want this kind of shit to stick to someone other than you. This boozy bag of hot air couldn’t deliver a case of beer to a frat house if one of the brothers was driving. She’d probably drink it all before they got there.
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I should be ashamed. I thought that picture was a blow-up doll until I read the copy. But…which one has more integrity and common sense? I’ll leave it to POG to figure.
She does look like one of those inflatable sweethearts hanging all lonely on the wall at the friendly neighborhood smut merchant. But then nearly everyone in this “administration” seems to have been manufactured rather than born, or at least “enhanced.”
Hmm…the comments I try and post mostly just “poof” gone. Maybe that is because they arent’ worth much….trying again
I see two comments from you, Herb y’old commenter. Looks like you’re on board to me. …
Hmm…the posting glitch seems to happen on Safari but not Firefox. Another one of The Digital World mysteries.
In the Analog World, if you are still favoring old school music players or curious, check out the Skylabs YouTube site. You might be shocked to find out how much some old receiver or tape deck is worth these days. I deep-sixed an impossibly complex “Oinkyo” sound system in the living room hooked to the Sony TV. One false move on the remote and you were likely screwed until you did a reset. Hauled out an old NAD integrated amp and a set of elder Bowers/Wilkins speakers and never looked back. Course with the compression they use on streamed soundtracks, it makes a lot of video sound like mush anyway.
The one “modern” music piece I’ll vouch for has been my 5 year old Bluesound speaker which is shockingly accurate and fills the kitchen and then some when doing duty there. You can even plug (remember cables?) an old iPod or IPad into it and not flux around with Bluetooth or WiFi. Which both work with the speaker if that’s your preference.
What are all you followers on this blog using?
Onkyo TX8220 stereo receiver with Bluetooth connected to JBL Stage 260 tower speakers. The receiver gets audio from the TV via fiber optic TOSLINK cable. We have a Sony CD/DVD/Blu-ray UHD player and Apple TV box connected to the TV by high speed HDMI cables. Listen to music from either CD player or iPad using Bluetooth. For portable sound, like at a jam session or traveling, we use two JBL Charge Five speakers connected in stereo mode with audio coming from iPod Touch or iPads using Bluetooth.
In the car I use USB cable for direct connect to car audio system. Whew.
I’m ashamed to admit I listen to music much, much less than I once did. And the tech I use to listen is old, old, old. Like me, only mostly functional.
I have a seventh-generation iPod Nano with Bose wired earbuds for camping trips. Bose Companion 2 Series 3 bookshelf speakers running off the headphone port on the M4 MacBook Pro. A little JBL Clip 2 speaker that I can Bluetooth the iPhone to in the kitchen if I need some cooking tunes. A decent pair of Edifier speakers in the dining room which likewise, but for some reason we hardly ever use ’em. Probably because we usually eat dinner in front of the TV.
The living room is a preposterous clusterfuck of ancient gear. The Toshiba 42XV545U TV dates to (drum roll, please) 2009. We stream to that dinosaur using an Apple TV HD and/or a 2010 Mac Mini. The centerpiece of the musical portion of our multimedia experience is a majorly old Sony “home theater” setup — four satellite speakers, a center speaker, and a subwoofer. That combo’s tuner blew up some years back and we replaced it with a Yamaha RX-V373, which will rock an iPod via USB. There’s a Sony Blu-ray player plugged into it too.
One of these days I’d like to shitcan the surround sound for a decent soundbar, but I haven’t pulled the trigger on that upgrade yet.
Well, we just watched this one. If you want a laugh or two, give it a try.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0218182/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_2_nm_1_in_0_q_an%20everlasting%20piece
Must’ve been Irish Night at the Movies. We watched “Four Letters of Love,” which was not great, despite having Niall Williams involved (he also wrote the book, which was a ton better).
The elders — Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter, and Gabriel Byrne — did the heavy lifting in the flick. Ann Skelly was the best of the youngsters and I wonder whether she might be a native Irish speaker.
In point of fact, I will read anything by Niall Williams, even unto his grocery list. To date I’ve read “Four Letters,” “This Is Happiness,” Time of the Child,” and “History of the Rain.” Never in my wildest dreams would I consider making a film of any of them. The writing is just too damn’ lovely and enthralling. Sometimes making your own mental imagery is preferable.
I had an NAD setup back in the late 80’s with a set of B&W speakers. The receiver lasted maybe 10 years then gave out. I moved on to an Onkyo receiver that is still hanging on. I still have the speakers and they sound fine although they don’t get much use anymore. Just not into having music playing all the time like back in the day. I’ll probably end up buying a Sonos thingy in the near future.
Here’s what a musical Philistine I am. I was slouched in the Subie this morning, having just delivered Herself to an errand, and while waiting I played “Street Life” by The Crusaders on my iPhone through an old Plantronics earpiece I found in the center console. I can’t believe it still worked.
It appears to me the only real vandals re the Reflection Pool are the White House Admin, the DOI, and the actual contractor! And since it’s been taxpayer $$$$$$ used, we’re the victims ……. yet again!
JD, when it comes to taxpayers, it’s always hunting season and no bag limit. Especially with this crowd. Swear to Dog, I can feel their manicured li’l piggies dipping into my wallet pocket as we speak.
She’s toast. When will these boot lickers understand that loyalty is a one way street with this asshole?
Reading Heather Cox Richardson this morning on the Hearn indictment withdrawal, the timing of the withdrawal happened after Hearn’s attorneys started asking to see the proceedings of the grand jury that brought in the indictment. We’ve seen before that The Orange One’s DOJ and their C-level lawyers play fast and loose with the grand jury process, so the timing of the withdrawal means they (meaning Judge Jeannine) won’t have to be embarrassed by all that coming out. Once again, we have an example of everyone connected with this administration looking out for Number One.
Oho. Herself is a huge fan of HCR. She’s Top of the Pops around here.
But would you really give Hair Füror’s ambulance-chasers a C? I can’t believe any of them graduated, much less passed the bar.
Kegsbreath, of course, never passed a bar in his life. He dashed in, cranked out a couple-three of those spastic, wrong-handed, leg-kicking pullups he favors, then skipped out on his tab while the bartender was doubled over with laughter.
Well, my thinking of levels is driven by my experience with the medical-industrial complex. A-level is top level people in a big market. They’re good, no, very good, at their job. B-level means they may be pretty good, but are not top level, and are in a secondary market where they don’t get paid as much. B-level people are on the make for a better job and will move to A-level given the opportunity. C-level? Well, they did graduate with the relevant degree, but that’s about all you can say. They’re in a tertiary market and are unlikely to move up or out. The C-level people are where you see the Dunning-Krueger Effect at work, and in general see confidence that outstrips their abilities. Misdiagnoses, wrong treatment, shit follow-through, etc.
Living as I do in a market for medical services that is mostly C-level, I have a lot of experience with the less-than-competent.
So as a national political example, Mike Pompeo was either last or damn near last in his class at West Point. He had the education, but lacked the rest. C-Level. Our current Secretary of Defense served in the military, as a REMF I think, so he sorta kinda has qualifications, but OMG the Dunning Krueger is strong in that one. Most of King Tinyfingers’ courtiers have some sort of education, so they’re at least C-level (they have the degree), but you wouldn’t trust them to wash your clothes at the laundromat.
Aha, gotcha. D’ye think we need more letters from the alphabet to describe this level we’re dealing with? Are there any letters past Z? ’Cause I think we’re there.