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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Stormy Daniels reveals she will be in next issue of Playboy
[NYPOST] Adult film star Stormy Daniels on Tuesday revealed that she will be featured in the next issue of Playboy.
Playboy's still around?
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, announced the news on social media, saying the revelation was something she was "beyond excited and honored to share."

"I am in the new issue of Playboy (Winter 2019 Freedom of Expression) that hits newsstands this week. This is such a dream come true for me," Daniels wrote.

She also expressed her appreciation to all those "who made this shoot possible."

A photo that accompanied her Instagram post showed Daniels dressed in a black jacket and stockings as she leaned against a wall. The Playboy bunny logo appeared in the bottom left corner of the frame.
Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I'm afraid even Photoshop won't make that fun to see.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/19/2018 7:09 Comments || Top||

#2  Braille edition only
Posted by: Frank G || 12/19/2018 7:23 Comments || Top||

#3  She does urgently need some money to pay Trump .
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/19/2018 8:09 Comments || Top||

#4  ...so, if we buy that issue of Playboy will it be considered an in-kind campaign contribution for Trump 2020?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/19/2018 8:25 Comments || Top||

#5  ^ only if you don't buy it "for the articles."
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/19/2018 9:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Reason #543 not to pick one up this month.
Posted by: DarthVader || 12/19/2018 9:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Playboy is still being published?
Posted by: AlanC || 12/19/2018 9:30 Comments || Top||

#8  A skilled photographer can do a lot with carefully arranged dim lighting and a little vaseline. For the lens, you pervs! You smear it on the lens.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/19/2018 9:33 Comments || Top||

#9  Centerfold is 3' long foldout just to capture that giant forehead and the drooping breasts
Posted by: Frank G || 12/19/2018 9:53 Comments || Top||

#10  Honestly! Why?
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 12/19/2018 10:44 Comments || Top||

#11  10 - to keep up with Trump?


Posted by: 3dc || 12/19/2018 11:12 Comments || Top||

#12  Stormy says, "Me too! Me too! I want to be in Playboy"
Posted by: warthogswife || 12/19/2018 11:13 Comments || Top||

#13  Playboy as I recall is run by a woman. Many changes await the neutered male.
Posted by: Dale || 12/19/2018 11:14 Comments || Top||

#14  Of course this is out there too Stormy..
Posted by: 3dc || 12/19/2018 11:24 Comments || Top||

#15  And somebody can fight for her man:
Posted by: 3dc || 12/19/2018 11:55 Comments || Top||

#16  When you can go to the internet and see videos of her for free what is the draw of paying for the print edition?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/19/2018 12:24 Comments || Top||

#17  what is the draw of paying for the print edition?

The articles? Stop laughing. Once upon a time, back when the Internet was only a gleam in DARPA's eye, the mag featured some seriously good writers, fiction and non. No idea what's in there nowadays. Yeah, the boobs were nice too.
Posted by: SteveS || 12/19/2018 13:13 Comments || Top||

#18  Kind of like the character Kilgore Trout publishing his science fiction stories in a pr0n magazine to get exposure.
/channeling Kurt Vonnegut in Breakfast of Champions novel
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 12/19/2018 14:37 Comments || Top||

#19  SteveS, I agree, then. But now? They tried to rebrand the print magazine as a lifestyle magazine when they should have just ended it as a relic of a bygone age.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/19/2018 15:32 Comments || Top||

#20  Is that Melania in #11 and #14? Wowsers!
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 12/19/2018 15:35 Comments || Top||

#21  Motorboating might require a periscope and snorkel.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/19/2018 15:43 Comments || Top||

#22  @#14: Yes. I don’t think she’s that good looking. I guess that whole Slavic look isn’t my thing.
Posted by: Speamble Elmeack5265 || 12/19/2018 21:57 Comments || Top||

#23  Stormy has bills, $300,000 in court costs.
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/19/2018 23:39 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Reporter Who Met with Christopher Steele Now Doubts The Infamous Dossier
[Daily Caller] The investigative reporter who broke the first story based on allegations from Christopher Steele offered a surprising assessment of the former British spy’s infamous dossier, which alleges a vast conspiracy of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government.

“Would you agree that a lot of what’s in the Steele dossier has been somewhat vindicated?” Mediaite columnist John Ziegler asked Michael Isikoff, a co-author of the book “Russian Roulette: The Inside Story on Putin’s War on America and the Election of Donald Trump.”

“No,” Isikoff responded in an interview released Saturday.

“You would not?” asked Ziegler.

“No,” Isikoff repeated.

Isikoff’s views about the dossier are significant because of his central role in advancing the narrative that the Russian government conspired with Trump associates.

Isikoff is the journalist who wrote the Sept. 23, 2016 article at Yahoo! News laying out Steele’s allegations that Trump campaign adviser Carter Page met secretly in Moscow with two Kremlin insiders. Isikoff’s co-author, David Corn, is the only other reporter to have written about Steele’s claims prior to the 2016 election.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/19/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Are you sure?

Are you positive?

Nothing like leading the witness.
Posted by: Bobby || 12/19/2018 15:05 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Arizona governor names Martha McSally to McCain Senate seat
[FOX61] Arizona’s governor has named Rep. Martha McSally to replace U.S. Sen. Jon Kyl in the U.S. Senate seat that belonged to Sen. John Maverick McCain
... the Senator-for-Life from Arizona, former presidential candidate and even more former foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. As an ordinary citizen he greased the infamous hookers peeing on the Obamabed in Moscow dossier in an attempt to smear President Trump...
Republican Gov. Doug Ducey announced Tuesday that McSally will take over after Kyl’s resignation becomes effective Dec. 31. McSally lost the Senate race to Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema.

"With her experience and long record of service, Martha is uniquely qualified to step up and fight for Arizona," Ducey said in a statement. "I thank her for taking on this significant responsibility and look forward to working with her and Senator-Elect Sinema to get positive things done."

McSally will serve until the 2020 election, when voters will elect someone to serve the final two years of McCain’s term.

Kyl was appointed after McCain’s death from brain cancer in August. He previously served in the Senate for Arizona and had said he would only commit to serving until the end of 2018.

The appointment puts Arizona back in the political spotlight just a month after Democrats won their first statewide race in a decade. Democrats hope that the state swings again in 2020 and are expected to target it both in the presidential race and the contest for McCain’s seat.

Posted by: Fred || 12/19/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Arizona governor taps Martha McSally to fill Senate seat once held by McCain
Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has appointed fellow Republican Rep. Martha McSally to the Senate, he announced Tuesday, picking a favorite of GOP leaders to fill the seat John McCain held for decades.

McSally, who lost a close race for Arizona’s other Senate seat this year, will succeed Sen. Jon Kyl (R). Kyl will step down at the end of the year following a brief time in McCain’s seat after McCain’s death in August.

"With her experience and long record of service, Martha is uniquely qualified to step up and fight for Arizona’s interests in the U.S. Senate. I thank her for taking on this significant responsibility," Ducey said in a statement.

McSally is expected to run for the seat in a 2020 special election, setting the stage for a potential marquee contest in a battleground state. The seat will also be on the ballot in 2022.

"I am humbled and grateful to have this opportunity to serve and be a voice for all Arizonans," McSally said in a statement issued by Ducey’s office. She said she looked forward to working with Sen.-elect Kyrsten Sinema, the Democrat who defeated her in November.

McSally will become the 25th woman serving in the Senate at the start of the 116th Congress, a record high.

Ducey’s decision comes after weeks of tense relations with McSally and her political strategists. Last week, Ducey and his close confidants were frustrated with McSally ‐ to the point that the governor’s interest in appointing her had diminished, according to two people familiar with this thinking.

But McSally remained a finalist, and in recent days, she has tried to improve her standing with Ducey and the other Republicans she clashed with during her campaign.

On Friday, McSally apologized to McCain’s widow, Cindy McCain, for her lack of praise for the senator on a defense bill named in his honor, according to two people familiar with the conversation, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private discussion. Ducey encouraged the meeting.

McSally, a onetime Trump critic, reinvented herself as a staunch supporter of the president during her Senate campaign. She largely avoided mentioning John McCain, who had traded public criticism with the president.

Her posture bothered McCain’s friends and family. Cindy McCain emphasized the importance of respecting the legacy of the seat during her meeting with McSally, according to the people familiar with their conversation.

In a tweet on Tuesday, Cindy McCain wrote, "My husband’s greatest legacy was placing service to AZ & USA ahead of his own self-interest. I respect @dougducey’s decision to appoint @RepMcSally to fill the remainder of his term. Arizonans will be pulling for her, hoping that she will follow his example of selfless leadership."
Posted by: Beavis || 12/19/2018 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...I have a bad feeling about this. I ain't crazy about Sinema, but McSally has a big mouth and an even bigger opinion of herself.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/19/2018 3:58 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes McSally appears to enjoy tooting her own horn. Perhaps she fears someone might use it as a funnel.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/19/2018 5:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Appears their Senate representation will be as divided as their state is. BTW, those who advocate the repeal of the 17th Amendment, this is what you get. The position will be filled to represent the party in power, not necessarily the ballot stuffers.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/19/2018 6:28 Comments || Top||

#4  She couldn't win on her own, but gets an appointment from a Ruling Class hack.

I'm sure shill, er she'll do a great job representing the Chamber of Commerce.
Posted by: charger || 12/19/2018 9:42 Comments || Top||

#5  So the state of Arizona had two top competitors for the senate. One won. Why would it be wrong to fill the vacant seat with the other top competitor?? Any other appointment would just be a political favor...
Posted by: 49 Pan || 12/19/2018 10:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Yeas, all the "jungle primary" stuff in California and the "ranked voting" in Maine. Making it easier than ever for your vote to be fractionalized.
Posted by: M. Murcek || 12/19/2018 11:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Arizona governor taps Martha McSally

Phrasing!
Posted by: SteveS || 12/19/2018 12:16 Comments || Top||

#8  So will she get lifetime Senate benefits for finishing out the term?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 12/19/2018 12:23 Comments || Top||

#9  "Why would it be wrong to fill the vacant seat with the other top competitor??"

In general that would be fine with me. In this particular case, she lost because she was a terrible candidate and a RINO. The GOPe wants her in the seat, but no one else. That is both a lost opportunity and a future potential disaster when AZ votes again.
Posted by: Iblis || 12/19/2018 12:52 Comments || Top||

#10  Iblis put it better than I could.
Posted by: charger || 12/19/2018 15:50 Comments || Top||



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  Jihadist Migrant Plotted to Bomb Vatican, Italian Churches at Christmas
Tue 2018-12-18
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  U.S. airstrikes kill 62 al-Shabaab terrorists in Somalia
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  IDF uncovers third attack tunnel dug from Lebanon into Israel
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