The state of West Virginia has as its slogan ‘Wild, Wonderful, West Virginia’. Tomorrow will see a primary race for the US senate where the ‘wild’ part is clearly on display. The Republicans will choose a candidate to run against the Democratic incumbent Joe Manchin. One of the people vying is Don Blankenship, the CEO of a coal mine that collapsed in 2010 killing 29 workers. He was convicted for negligence and served a year in prison and was released last May. He now wears that as a badge of honor. No, really. He says that he was framed by (of course) Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
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It is fun to see so many well-known actors do a cameo on Saturday Night Live. But ultimately it is the quality of the writing the matters because otherwise it just becomes a game of ‘identify the star’. On the writing scale, this was middling.
Rudy Giuliani happened to be mayor of New York when the attacks of 9/11 happened and that put him at the center of events and he has since milked his fame to the last drop, speaking of that event whenever he gets the chance. I was never impressed with him, seeing him as someone who was not very smart, a loudmouth who just blusters and attacks the weaker elements of society. So it baffled me that Donald Trump would hire him as his personal lawyer at a critical time.
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She says that it does not mean that you cannot call White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders a liar because she is. And that was even before yesterday’s revelation about her lies on behalf of Donald Trump about the payments made to Stephanie Clifford.
