[AL] Lawyers for Gov. Robert Bentley spent much of the day negotiating with prosecutors, and sources said the governor will step down this afternoon. Bentley's accused of having had an extramarital affair. He's an R.
The governor was scheduled to meet with his staff before any announcement is made.
Prosecutors with the Alabama Attorney General's office filed documents in Montgomery County Circuit Court, but the clerk would not immediately release them.
It is believed Bentley will plead guilty to lesser charges and resign to avoid stiffer penalties.
Lt. Gov. Kay Ivey is likely to be sworn in as governor tonight.
Bentley has been under fire for the better part of the year but pressure over the last several days has mounted to untenable heights.
The Alabama Ethics Commission last week found reason to believe he committed four crimes, all of them felonies.
If he agrees to a deal it is thought he will have to plead to at least a misdemeanor.
Leaders of his party, along with the Senate Majority Leader and the Speaker of the House, have demanded he resign.
Yasamie August, the governor's spokeswoman, said:
"The Governor is not personally involved in any negotiations."
It is possible that Bentley, who has changed his mind often during his term, could change his mind.
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He has resigned.
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This is the guy who said he couldn't vote for Trump because of something Trump said in private years ago.
Alabama should be hailed as the only state to have the moral authority to force out the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Speaker of the House, and the Governor in a year, each for abusing the authority of his office.
America is a better place when corrupt politicians get the boot. Look at your state politicians, and I bet all y'all wish you lived in a state as ethical as Alabama.
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America is a better place when corrupt politicians get the boot. Look at your state politicians, and I bet all y'all wish you lived in a state as ethical as Alabama. Posted by rammer
Removal from office and a prison sentence are pretty much mandatory in Illinois.
Senate Jester Minority Head Clown Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) is trying to divert attention from Dem failures warning that President Trump needs to release his personal tax returns if he hopes to achieve comprehensive tax reform in the coming months.
"It's going to make tax reform much harder" if Trump doesn't release his returns, Schumer told reporters Tuesday. Anytime the president proposes something on tax reform, "the average American is going to say, 'Oh, he's not doing that because it's good for me, he's doing it because it's good for him.' So for his own good, he ought to make them public. And the big mystery is why he hasn't." Because it's good for him?
"I think he just has an obligation to come clean. When you clean up the swamp, it's not keeping things secret and applies to yourself," Schumer added. Like 0bean came clean on the courses he took and GPA he got at the college he went to, right?
Trump paid $38 million in federal income tax in 2005 on more than $150 million, for an effective rate of 25 percent, and reported a $105 million write-down, according to a copy of his federal tax return revealed last month.
The revelation provides the most recent glimpse at Trump's income. Last fall, the New York Times reported that Trump reported a massive $916 million loss in 1995, which enabled him to avoid paying income taxes for decades. Remind me which year that tax return was filed in, would you please?
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump's tax returns were a frequent subject of conversation, and opponents in both parties called on him to release them. Ultimately, Trump was the first presidential candidate in decades to win without making his tax returns public. Oh my. Perhaps the Donks could buy a clue here?
There is no legal obligation for a president to release his tax returns, and like any other citizen, they can opt to keep them private. But presidents dating back to the 1970s have released at least partial tax information in a show of transparency for voters.
Schumer said that part of the reason Democrats are eager to see Trump's returns is to determine whether Trump or his family's business empire have any conflicts of interest with the federal government or foreign powers.
"When China just released those 38 approvals for him a month ago, a natural question to ask is are they doing that because they're trying to win policy points related to American workers and the American people? No one knows the answer," he said. Except for HC Schumer, of course.
Schumer made his comments in a conference call with reporters held officially to criticize Trump's refusal so far to declare China a currency manipulator. The White House is days away from deciding whether to follow through on Trump's campaign pledge to declare China as such -- a move that could lead to new U.S. tariffs if China doesn't change its practices.
In a tweet Tuesday morning, Trump said he told Chinese President Xi Jinping "that a trade deal with the U.S. will be far better for them if they solve the North Korean problem!"
I explained to the President of China that a trade deal with the U.S. will be far better for them if they solve the North Korean problem!
-- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 11, 2017
Asked to respond, Schumer agreed that China's currency manipulation and the current troubles in North Korea are linked "but in the opposite way of the president."
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These guys never let go of a meme. Two that come to mind are (1) The Russians rigged the election, and (2) Trump didn't release his tax returns. What's that definition of insanity again? What idjuts.
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A professor who specializes in religious studies at University of Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party,, Los Angeles says President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... and Vice President Mike Pence represent "troubling trends in American Christianity."
Professor Carla Pestana of UCLA published "Arrogant Christians In The White House" over the weekend for The Huffington Post, which warns of a future America shaped by the "fundamentalist Christian" views of Mr. Pence and Mr. Trump’s "self-indulgence."
"Pence adheres to biblical literalism. Put simply, this view asserts that the Bible is a transparent document, one that prescribes specific behavioral guidelines," Ms. Pestana wrote Saturday. "Its arrogance lies in the hubris of those who believe that only their chosen answers are correct. Its potential to harm others comes when adherents gain political power and force their mandates on nonbelievers. One of the many dangers emanating out of the Trump White House is the power of Pence to impose not his religion but the behaviors his religion dictates onto the rest of us."
The professor, who currently teaches History of Religion in U.S., then analyzed Mr. Trump’s faith as something akin to the "prosperity theology" adopted by some Christians.
"Trump’s religion, although very different, is similarly alarming," she wrote. "Unsurprisingly Trump accepts a religious viewpoint that tells him he is uniquely awesome. Whatever he has -- however he acquired it -- God wants him to enjoy to the fullest. Although traditional Christian social practice mandates that believers exercise humility, charity and other virtues that put others before self, Trump’s faith rejects all curbs on self-indulgence and self-aggrandizement."
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One of the many dangers emanating out of the Trump White House is the power of Pence to impose not his religion but the behaviors his religion dictates onto the rest of us.” And yet Pence strengthened the POTUS ticket and he was elected governor of Indiana in 2013. Must be the arrogance of the Cornbelt and Rustbelt or the arrogance of the last guy in office who paved the way.
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Nothing about the Socialist tenets of - Coveting thy neighbors wealth, bearing false witness, or stealing from one's neighbor (using politicians to do it for you is still stealing)? And you want to lecture others about Christianity?
John 10:10 - "I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly." Christ
Put simply, this view asserts that the Bible is a transparent document, one that prescribes specific behavioral guidelines,
Behavioral guidelines also known as law and order.
currently teaches History of Religion in U.S
Yep, and Obama taught Constitutional Law, too. Just because you teach it, doesn't mean you adhere to it, and worse, spend your life trying to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs?
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Yep, and Obama taught Constitutional Law, too.
"The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart.
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"
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What does Pestañas mean in Spanish?
Pestana Name Meaning. Portuguese and Spanish (Pestaña): from Portuguese pestana, Spanish pestaña 'eyelash', also in the Middle Ages 'eyebrow', hence a nickname for someone who had long eyelashes or bushy eyebrows.
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As a California taxpayer I can tell you that stories are extremely disturbing. Our state government spends money on birdbrains like this who couldn't get a job anywhere else and then they have to raise our gas tax so they can fix the pot holes in the freeway.
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This ding-dong escaped la campana
As handmaid to Queen Arianna.
The beetle-browed beadle
Embroiders. Her needle?
A mushy Havana banana.
[CNN] This was an eventful week for two government institutions, the Supreme Court and Senate. More than a year after Justice Antonin Scalia's death, the high court will on Monday finally return to a full complement of nine justices. But the confirmation of the newest justice, Neil Gorsuch, happened only after the Senate decided, on a party-line vote, to exercise the "nuclear option" and remove filibusters for Supreme Court nominations.
These developments sound like a really big deal, but they were easily predictable given our toxic political climate and won't actually change the operation of either institution. But here are five takeaways for our post-nuclear-option world.
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You may be right, but I think they will rue the day. Trump is really likely to get two more appointments. And he could nominate anyone now. Like Glenn Reynolds, or Paul L. Caron, or Hillsdale College Associate Dean of Men, Jeffery “Chief” Rogers, or Ann Coulter. There is nothing they can do.
[FOXNEWS] Rice’s comments about the 2013 agreement to purge the Assad regime’s chemical weapons quickly were called into question, along with the claims of other Obama officials.
The Washington Post noted, "the B.O. regime had a tendency to oversell what was accomplished, perhaps because Obama received so much criticism for not following through on an attack if Syria crossed what Obama had called ’a red line.’"
"The reality is that there were continued chemical-weapons attacks by Syria -- and that U.S. and international officials had good evidence that Syria had not been completely forthcoming in its declaration and possibly retained sarin and VX nerve agent," the Post wrote.
Citing Rice’s exact words, the fact-check column ruled: "She did not explain that Syria’s declaration was believed to be incomplete and thus was not fully verified -- and that the Syrian government still attacked citizens with chemical weapons not covered by the 2013 agreement. That tipped her wordsmithing toward a Four."
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There ought to be a super special award for people who repeatedly bend the truth and try to spoon feed the hogwash thru the MSM to the public; 5 Pinocchios?
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Its sad when you see a bunch of media whores regretting being whores when caught whoring.
In a normal world all of them would be fired; thus dissuading whorishness. But in modern media whoring is fine as long as the customer is worthy and super liberal.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[AL] Lawyers for Gov. Robert Bentley spent much of the day negotiating with prosecutors, and sources said the governor will step down this afternoon.
Senate 
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A professor who specializes in religious studies at University of 
[CNN] This was an eventful week for two government institutions, the Supreme Court and Senate. More than a year after Justice Antonin Scalia's death, the high court will on Monday finally return to a full complement of nine justices. But the confirmation of the newest justice, Neil Gorsuch, happened only after the Senate decided, on a party-line vote, to exercise the "nuclear option" and remove filibusters for Supreme Court nominations.
