Trump lawyers send cease and desist order to Steve Bannon to keep him from making disparaging remarks that are already in a book by Michael Wolff. Seems a little late to me.

No, no, no, no. no. no!

Courtesy of ABC News: 

The letter comes after excerpts from a forthcoming book by journalist Michael Wolff were made public Wednesday, causing a stir. 

Trump attorney Charles J. Harder of the firm Harder Mirell & Abrams LLP, said in a statement, "This law firm represents President Donald J. Trump and Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. On behalf of our clients, legal notice was issued today to Stephen K. Bannon, that his actions of communicating with author Michael Wolff regarding an upcoming book give rise to numerous legal claims including defamation by libel and slander, and breach of his written confidentiality and non-disparagement agreement with our clients. Legal action is imminent." 

In the letter to Bannon, Harder, writes, "You [Bannon] have breached the Agreement by, among other things, communicating with author Michael Wolff about Mr. Trump, his family members, and the Company, disclosing Confidential Information to Mr. Wolff, and making disparaging statements and in some cases outright defamatory statements to Mr. Wolff about Mr. Trump, his family members, and the Company, knowing that they would be included in Mr. Wolff’s book and publicity surrounding the marketing and sale of his book."

You know a confidentiality agreement may work for keeping things quiet during a campaign, but when Bannon worked in the White House he was then employed by the American people, not Donald J. Trump.  So he was no longer bound by an NDA he may have signed in years past.

And if he sent a letter like this to Bannon, did he also send one to his daughter?

Courtesy of the New York Post:

Daughter Ivanka Trump often makes fun of her dad’s comb-over to friends and delights in explaining how the crazy coiffure comes together, according to “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.” 

“She often described the mechanics behind it to friends: an absolutely clean pate — a contained island after scalp-reduction ­surgery — surrounded by a furry circle of hair around the sides and front, from which all ends are drawn up to meet in the center and then swept back and secured by a stiffening spray,” journalist Michael Wolff writes in the book, out Jan. 9. 

“The color, she would point out to comical effect, was from a product called Just for Men — the longer it was left on, the darker it got. Impatience resulted in Trump’s orange-blond hair color.”

Oh that's going to leave a mark.

Apparently at least one of Trump's attorneys realized that you cannot stop a book by attacking its sources.

NEW this am: Trump attorneys send cease-and-desist letter this morning to Wolff and book publisher @HenryHolt demanding they stop publication and issue an apology to @realDonaldTrump for defamatory statements made thus far.

— Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) January 4, 2018

Okay let's all hold our breath waiting for this to happen.

And if Trump's attorneys want to pursue this line of attack they may want to keep this in mind:

Michael Wolff has tapes to back up quotes in his incendiary book — dozens of hours of them. 

Among the sources he taped, I'm told, are Bannon and former White House deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh. 

I imagine that Wolff and his publishers are desperate for Trump to try and sue them, as that will ensure that this book is a bestseller. 

No the time to stop this book was while Michael Wolff was wandering the White House gathering the information, not after huge chunks have already been leaked to the media.

I can hardly wait to buy my copy.

Well what do you know, Donald Trump is finally right about something.

Trump supporters will continue to say that Trump is not who Mueller, and his team of FBI agents, are ultimately targeting, but at this point you would have to be blind, deaf, and dumb not to realize that he is absolutely the target.

This seems like an appropriate time to remember this quote.

Remember this Hillary Clinton quote? "I’m the last thing standing between you and the apocalypse." pic.twitter.com/3ZrkjwqaRz

— Sarah Lerner (@SarahLerner) August 8, 2017

Just imagine how much better our situation would be right now if people had really listened to what Hillary Clinton was trying to say.

Oh and that was by no means the only warning.

Donald Trump's "cavalier attitude about nuclear weapons is so deeply troubling.” #DebateNight https://t.co/z66rUZz31J

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 27, 2016

We had the opportunity to elect perhaps the most qualified candidate in the history of this country, and she gave us every reason to do so, and still we could not help but shoot ourselves in the foot. 

Perhaps the most fitting Carl Sagan quote for these times.

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” 

 Yes. it's legit.

This just showed up on Dakota Meyer's Facebook page today.

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Gee, I wonder what that could be referring to?

And I wonder if it could have anything in common with his "inspirational" quote from Bristol's Facebook page?

I am not even sure what kind of person that describes but I know I would not want to be married to them.

Okay so who had September as the month that the Dakota/Bristol marriage would burst into a fireball of resentment and acrimony?

Though to be fair perhaps Dakota can go back in time and talk to the Monday Dakota and follow his own advice: 

“Take the time here to work together, and you can leave with a better marriage.”

And Bristol can take the advice from that woman that Dakota seemed so impressed by and start having sex with her husband every day even if she finds him physically repulsive.

She can just imagine that it is somebody who she really finds sexually attractive.

 Yeah, like any of us would not immediately know who that would be.

My new favorite response to this stupid question.

I have literally never understood this question.

I put it right alongside "Well if there is no God, how would we know right from wrong?"

Makes my fucking head hurt.

From my daughter's Facebook page.

Yep, I done good.

My new mantra.

"Atheism is not a religion, it's a personal relationship with reality."

I wish I could take credit for writing it but I can't.

Personally I really hate it when people call Atheism a "religion," as it shows not only a profound misunderstanding of Atheism but also of religion.

Hillary Clinton takes on Donald Trump on his home turf, Twitter, and destroys him there as well.

What else ya got?

So after Hillary went after Trump in her speech on Thursday, Trump decided to counter attack her on his favorite media platform.

In Crooked Hillary's telepromter speech yesterday, she made up things that I said or believe but have no basis in fact. Not honest!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 3, 2016

However Hillary was prepared for this and responded with:

You literally said all those things. https://t.co/6VX5AfR7gL https://t.co/U8LfWdPU7x

— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 3, 2016

That tweet links to her website where each charge she made in her speech is itemized and then backed up with the actual Trump quote in which he said it.

So essentially Hillary has shellacked Donald Trump yet again, only this time on his most familiar playing field.

If she keeps this up, with a little help from Elizabeth Warren, I think Donald Trump will be happy to lose this election just so the mean ladies will stop giving him a case of the sads.

Not your typical religious leader.

The time has come for us to consider seriously how to change our way of life not through prayer or religious teaching, but through education

— Dalai Lama (@DalaiLama) April 18, 2016

Gee I can't even begin to imagine who this was directed at. Any ideas?

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A photo posted by Bristol Palin (@bsmp2) on Mar 26, 2016 at 7:32am PDT

Remember folks in Palin-world if you kiss their ass and do what they say you get the honor of basking in their heavenly glory.

But if you stand up for yourself, or refuse to promote the Palin mythology, well then you're just a dick. 

So while Bristol Palin is facing criticism over how she treats her baby daddies, Sarah Palin reminds us that she is just an idiot.

So while we have all been distracted by the world discovering, apparently for the first time, that Bristol Palin is a truly terrible person who forced the father of her son to spend a small fortune for the right to share custody of his son, Sarah Palin has been working hard smashing her lips on Donald Trump's orange rump.

In her most recent Facebook post Palin compared him to.....wait this can't be right......Mahatma Gandhi?

Well this of course inspired her few remaining followers to ether scratch their heads in bewilderment or to simply attack her for supporting Trump.

Connor Baxter Comparing a peace figure to someone who wants to build a wall? 

Rich Martin She didn't just compare DT to Gandhi?!?! A new low in ridiculousness, even for her. 

David Chesler Sara, I knew Gandi and Trump is no Gandi! 

Terry Busch Disgusting Sarah. I defended you when you were being attacked, but now I am ashamed. 

Andrew Boyd Because Gandhi would vote for trump? This should be on a Bernie Sanders poster.

I can hardly wait to see the SarahPAC numbers in the next financial report.

However more humorous than Sarah Palin comparing Donald Trump to Mahatma Gandhi and then being mocked for it, is that the quote she used is not even a Gandhi quote.

Courtesy of the Christian Science Monitor:  

We don't know where this quote came from, but it is strikingly similar to something that the trade unionist Nicholas Klein gave in a 1918 address to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in Baltimore: 

"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you. And that, is what is going to happen to the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America."

Leave it to Sarah Palin to take a stupid idea, and make it even dumber. 

This.

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For the next time somebody asks you.

It's really such a simple sign of respect, and yet there are those who feel that by using it they are surrendering to an attack on their religion.

And by the way, it's not easy being so enlightened sometimes.

Dropping a little truth this Saturday morning.

Just something to keep in mind.

Charlie Hebdo responds to #Prayforparis

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What was it Jon Stewart once said?

Oh yeah, that's right.

I could not agree more.

I agree totally.

Yet another reason why I fight so hard to defend the liberal label.