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an aftermarket radiator keeps the engine cool hooked up with red samco silicone hoses to slow things down theres an oversized front brakeand the rear brake has been treated to a fasst co spring kit for a smooth easily modulated feelideal for road use

those gorgeous wheels are oneoff numbers from warp 9 shod with goldentyre flat track rubber

yes this is a barely street legal racer right down to the batterypowered lights its perfect for short stints on the curvy village roads outside stockholm

marcus is a motogp fan and if you look closely youll spot a couple of hrc logos on the bike in my dreams this bike would be hrcs version of a street tracker or maybe a gift to marc marquez so he can hit the streets after he wins the superprestigio in barcelona

we reckon the pintsized phenomenon would have a ball on this machine and he probably wouldnt even miss the seat padding

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article ii section 4 of the constitution of the united states announces that the president vice president and all civil officers of the united states shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors ad policy

the attorney general of the united states is a civil officer if he has lied under oath to the senate that act demands impeachment

after news reports published last wednesday made it clear that jefferson beauregard sessions iii had deceived the senate regarding his interactions with russian officials there were immediate demands that the attorney general recuse himself from investigations into issues relating to those lies and that he resign as the nations chief lawenforcement officer sessions announced thursday afternoon that he would recuse himself from any examination of russian involvement with president trumps campaign but he gave no indication that he would consider the next necessary step of removing himself as attorney general

sessions has made his position clear

this lawless attorney general is not going to do the right thing so congress must consider the prospect of impeachment the founders anticipated such circumstance this is why they outlined an impeachment process

heres why the washington post has revealed that during the 2016 presidential campaign when sessions was a close counselor and top surrogate for donald trump he spoke twice with russias ambassador to the united states

sessions acknowledges the meetings now but when he appeared before the senate judiciary committee as trumps nominee for attorney general in january senator al franken asked how sessions might handle revelations that individuals associated with the trump campaign had communicated with the russian government

sessions replied im not aware of any of those activities i have been called a surrogate at a time or two in that campaign and i did not have communications with the russians

this was not the only denial from sessions according to the washington post

in january sen patrick leahy dvt asked sessions for answers to written questions several of the presidentelects nominees or senior advisers have russian ties have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the russian government about the 2016 election either before or after election day leahy wrote sessions responded with one word no

we now know that was not the case and unless sessions is far too absentminded to continue to serve as attorney general (a circumstance that no one seriously entertains at this point) then we have been handed evidence that this man engaged in a blatant attempt to deceive the very senate that was charged with determining whether he would take charge of the department of justice

sessions and his aides were busy making excuses wednesday night and thursday morning claiming that he spoke with the ambassador in his capacity as a senator rather than as a trump surrogateand that the russian ambassador was one of many foreign officials with whom he met as a senior member of the armed services committee

so what the issue isnt whether sessions spoke with the ambassador nor does it matter whether he did so as a senator or as a trump surrogate he was both what matters is what sessions told fellow senators when he was asked straightforward questions he volunteered i did not have communications with the russians he replied no to a direct inquiry about whether he had such communications if these were not overt lies they were at the very least legalistic attempts by sessions to deceive colleagues who were charged by the constitution with a duty to provide advice and consent regarding his nomination to serve as the nations chief lawenforcement officer

of course sessions had to recuse himself from inquires into inquiries into allegations that the russians meddled in the 2016 election as new york representative eliot engel the ranking member of the house committee on foreign affairs explained [the] revelation about thensenator sessionss contact with russias ambassador removes all doubt that he must recuse himself from any investigation of russias interference in last years election he should do so without delay the president should also appoint a special prosecutor to handle this matter whose work must complement a thorough investigation by a bipartisan commission ready to fight back sign up for take action now

even republicans who have been slow to hold the trump administration to account were calling for recusal house oversight and government reform committee chair jason chaffetz tweeted ag sessions should clarify his testimony and recuse himself

the decision by sessions to recuse himself addressed concerns about his personal involvement tainting specific investigations but it did not address the issue of sessionss lying to the senate

house democratic leader nancy pelosi proposed a more appropriate response to the revelations regarding sessions declaring that after lying under oath to congress about his own communications with the russians the attorney general must resign sessions is not fit to serve as the top law enforcement officer of our country and must resign there must be an independent bipartisan outside commission to investigate the trump political personal and financial connections to the russians

senate democratic leader chuck schumer agreed

so did senator elizabeth warren who said we need a special prosecutor totally independent of the ag we need a real bipartisan transparent congressional investigation into russia and we need attorney general jeff sessionswho should have never been confirmed in the first placeto resign we need it now

true enough but sessions is not about to resign and his record does not offer any indication that he intends to start telling the truth

the founders anticipated such circumstances which is why they wrote a constitution that outlined an impeachment process the catchall phrase high crimes and misdemeanors was intended to give guardians of the republic leeway for holding presidents vice presidents and cabinet members to account an impeached official is not charged by a prosecutor and tried in the courts nor is he or she jailed or fined if found guilty an impeached official is charged by the house of representatives tried by the senate and removed from office if convicted

the signers of the constitution did not intend that this tool would be used only by the opposition party the intent was that all members of the house and senate might rise above partisanship and ideology when it came time to defend the american experiment and while no one is naive about the level of partisanship in todays washington no one should make excuses for house members or senators who fail to rise above it

jeff sessions disrespected the basic premises of that experiment and disregarded the constitution he did so in pursuit of a position that of attorney general of the united states he obtained that position under false pretenses it is now time to relieve him of his responsibilities as the nations chief lawenforcement officer

the tool impeachment is at the ready it should be employed by all members of congress who believe that constitutionally defined oaths must be upheld

theres measuring the drapes and then theres measuring the drapes on a house you havent bought and may never own but youre so convinced you will that hey lets buy drapes

and theres hubris joe millerstyle

so confident is miller that hell win lisa murkowskis alaska senate seat in november he boasted last night to his over 4000 twitter followers that on his trip to dc this week he might do some house hunting and perhaps buy some furniture and also commission a name plaque for the door of his future senate office

the tweets were flagged by a source and sent my way check it out

the blog mudflats and slate reporter dave weigel also noticed

today theyre gone

in millers defense he is leading his race tpms polltracker has him ahead by just over two points in a three way race with murkowski and democrat scott mcadams

but its probably for the best that he took those tweets down after all everybody knows there are no big egos in the united states senate

usled coalition air strikes on a jail run by the islamic state group in eastern syria killed at least 57 people monitors said on tuesday

the ukbased syrian observatory for human rights said the air strike took place on monday at dawn hitting a building in the town of mayadin south of raqqa that was being used as a prison

the strikes hit an is jail in mayadin at dawn on monday killing 42 prisoners and 15 jihadists observatory chief rami abdel rahman told afp

many of the dead are thought to be civilians as well as captured rebel fighters from the free syrian army

if the toll is confirmed it would make it one of the deadliest single incidents since the us intervened in the syrian war in 2014

islamic state is believed to have moved most of its leaders to mayadin in syria's euphrates valley southeast of the group's besieged capital raqqa two us intelligence officials have said

among the operations moved to mayadin about 50 miles west of the iraqi border were its online propaganda operation and its limited command and control of attacks in europe and elsewhere they said

the coalition conducted strikes on known isis command and control facilities and other isis infrastructure in (mayadin) syria june 25 and 26 colonel joe scrocca coalition director of public affairs said in an email

a notorious protester convicted of wilfully promoting hatred against muslims and criminally harassing a muslim man and his family was sentenced tuesday to nine months in jail eric brazau handed out a flyer that vilified muslims and disparages their religion ontario court judge s ford clements said in february when he found brazau guilty

eric brazau was convicted of willful promotion of hatred against muslims and criminally harassing a muslim family ( carlos osorio / toronto star file photo )

the case was far from being on the borderline between rough and tumble debate and hate speech as brazau had argued clements said in a college park courtroom brazau handed out the flyer which contained many offensive references to islam and muslims in august and september 2012 while distributing it brazau sometimes yelled obscenities about islam in a tone of voice that suggested he was very angry and had little interest in debate clements said brazau had argued that he did not intend to promote hate speech instead he wanted to stimulate debate about censorship blasphemy laws and sharia law clements said

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clements disagreed he knew the material would deeply wound and anger muslims said clements the content was not humorous ironic or satirical he said mr brazau is far too intelligent to believe this to be so the flyer also contained a somewhat blurred photograph of a muslim family on a downtown toronto street

the man in the photo testified that brazau called him a terrorist on the day brazau took the photo in a second interaction a few weeks later on a sidewalk the man whose name is protected by a publication ban said that brazau approached him aggressively while photographing the family making him concerned and fearful

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clements found this to be criminal harassment during sentencing submissions crown prosecutor derek ishak described brazau as an unrepentant hatemonger who abused his right to freedom of speech in a planned deliberate manner clements said tuesday in his sentencing decision however clements said that while brazaus conduct was despicable and his beliefs repugnant the maximum sentence of six months for a summary conviction on willfully promoting hatred was unwarranted he also noted the defence submission that brazau committed his offences in public where he was easily identifiable rather than by stealth instead he gave brazau a fourmonth sentence plus two months for criminal harassment and mischief and three months for breach of probation by not keeping the peace brazau who had spent nine months in pretrial custody was sentenced to time served clements declined to ban brazau from distributing flyers since that could impede his right to freedom of expression outside the court brazau said he will appeal his sentence he says he is aware the flyer was problematic and would offend but his voice wont be silenced brazau added though he will keep in mind the hate speech laws which he says he has learned to navigate over the past few months hatred is the harvest he wanted to gather clements said in his conviction decision quoting william butler yeats i find this is true of mr brazau last month a small claims court found that brazau had been wrongfully arrested and detained while protesting near sgt ryan russells funeral procession in 2011 however the deputy judge also found his conduct reprehensible and awarded him only $1000 in damages

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you have to give president barack obama credit for one thing consistency nothing is ever his fault nothing will ever be his fault faulting fox news and the american people on the other hand now that's a different story

do you remember when obama traipsed around the country and desperately pleaded with americans to vote for hillary clinton because his agenda and his legacy were on the ballot he made a similar pitch before the shellacking his party took in the 2014 congressional elections

yet did he acknowledge after this 2014 failing that he had anything to do with it does he own up to his leading role in last month's presidential election

let's rewind the tape further to obama's reaction to his party's stunning defeat in the 2010 congressional elections which was largely about obamacare he didn't acknowledge any personal culpability for visiting that monstrosity on the american people through trickery and deceit he simply lamented that he hadn't done a good enough job getting the message out to the american people about it despite his 50 propaganda speeches trying to persuade us to ignore our lying eyes

do you see the pattern here obama's view is that the american people those in the red states anyway are a little slow paranoid and bigoted and need to be brought along carefully into the 21st century where progressivism has ushered in a new age of enlightenment his only failing has been in inadequately reeducating the bitter clingers

let me give you another example remember obama's depiction of the islamic state group as a jv team how about his claim the night before the terrorist massacres in paris that the islamic state was contained

did he ever acknowledge his errors there no again his only failing was in not having communicated sufficiently his counterterrorism strategies to the american people he said his strategy against the islamic state was working (this was before as i recall his admission that he had no policy) the problem was that saturated media coverage after the paris attacks was fueling terror fears in the united states he said we haven't on a regular basis i think described all the work that we've been doing for more than a year now to defeat the islamic state if you've been watching television for the last month all you've been seeing all you've been hearing about is these guys with masks or black flags who are potentially coming to get you and so i understand why people are concerned about it

again there's nothing to see here it's not a terrorism problem but a perception problem there's no obamacare problem it's just that the american people don't get it

even liberal new york times columnist maureen dowd acknowledged in 2012 that obama and his wife michelle are condescending and aloof the obamas do believe in american exceptionalism their own and they feel overassaulted and underappreciated she wrote the obamas haven't disappointed americans we disappointed them

even earlier in february 2010 obama pledged to listen to republicans at a health care summit but as columnist joseph curl wrote turns out he meant he'd be listening to his own voice by the end of the televised event mr obama had spoken for 119 minutes nine minutes more than the 110 minutes consumed by 17 republicans the 21 democratic lawmakers used 114 minutes giving the president and his supporters a whopping 233 minutes

and why do the rubes keep misperceiving obama's greatness fox news rush limbaugh sean hannity

in a recently published interview with rolling stone obama denied that he and his party overlooked the cohort of workingclass white voters that supposedly accounted for donald trump's victory absolutely not his fault part of it said obama is fox news in every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country but part of it is also democrats not working at a grassroots level being in there showing up making arguments

the challenge democrats have according to obama is not that they've neglected these communities from a policy perspective what is true though is that whatever policy prescriptions that we've been proposing don't reach are not heard by the folks in these communities and what they do hear is 'obama or hillary are trying to take away (your) guns' or 'they disrespect you'

i repeat this guy is remarkably incorrigibly consistent he has made no policy errors his message just isn't getting through partly because the conservative media are lying about it and partly because people are just too darned dense

i hate to keep bringing up the past but his war on the conservative media is nothing new either i wrote about it in 2010 in my book crimes against liberty he began snubbing fox reporters at news conferences for insufficiently pandering the white house blog regularly denounced fox news and other critics white house communications director anita dunn recommended a rapid response to counteract fox's blows against the administration calling fox news part of the republican party presidential adviser david axelrod said fox news channel is not really a news station

remember when obamacare's principal architect jonathan gruber openly admitted that the obama administration was able to deceive the american people about obamacare and chalked it up to the stupidity of the american voter

so go ahead and cry us a river about how the conservative media are mistreating you mr obama and misleading the public you have been trying to deceive us for eight years and the public has been onto you for at least 6 1/2 of those years now voters have handed you your biggest spanking yet and you still will not listen you can't listen it's not what you do but the american people have been listening and they do understand your policies and it's a new day in america

what is the cure for american health care that is a question that a lot of people are trying to answer and its a highly debated topic but the answer is plain and simple single payer health care is the best form of health care a nation can hope to have it is efficient provides quality and timely access to everyone and it is cost effective a single payer health care system is a system in which the government rather than private insurers pays for all health costs the system is funded typically through income taxes and is free at the point of use some countries with a single payer system include canada the uk france germany and australia france is often considered to have the best health care system in the world but a large group of people (including myself) believe the best system is the uks national health service (nhs) this is because of its central and efficient operation as well as high quality standards low wait times and staff quality

to start lets dismiss some of the common arguments against single payer health care that come from the opposite side like a single payer system having long wait lists or that it is very inefficient and expensive this couldnt be farther from the truth fact a recent public library of science study stated reported efficiency tended to be lower in the private sector than in the public sectorstudies evaluated in this systematic review do not support the claim that the private sector is more efficient accountable or medically effective than the public sector it also found that countries with a single payer system also spend less per capita and that the united states would save over 150 billion annually that doesnt even include personal and business savings which would be thousands of dollars annually would boost the economy and make the united states more globally competitive

this is just one example of the several studies on this issue all saying the same thing that single payer works and it is inherently the best system a nation could hope to have a study by the world health organization also supports this claim and in a worldwide health care ranking the united states was ranked 37 canada was 32 the uk ranked 7 and france number 1 all of the countries ahead of the united states had a form of universal coverage and all of the countries in the top 25 had a single payer system the oecd (the organization for economic cooperation and development) performed a study on wait times and found that the wait times in the united states increased by 30 in major us cities and that the us had above average wait times however the uk and france were below the average wait times and were in the top five worldwide both operating under a single payer system another organization based in the united states that has been pushing for single payer and has also conducted multiple studies is the pnhp (physicians for a national health program) an organization of thousands of doctors nurses and health specialists pnhp has been supporting and proposing legislation at the state and federal level for years gaining little ground a large reason is health insurance company money in politics and corporate arguments propped up in large part by the republican party

to be clear this isnt a conservative or liberal issue in fact in most countries its just a given there are no politics involved the pnhp explained the conservative argument for single payer health care saying that it would save money by eliminating bureaucracy boost american business by eliminating health costs and would also save individuals thousands which leads into the next point the method of payment and how it works as previously explained a single payer system is paid for through income taxes so that means youre going to see a large increase in income taxes right actually no you arent a recent study by the university of massachusetts amherst found that it would call for a 22 income tax increase on individuals earning less than $200000 annually and cost middle income earners roughly $1100 that is $3855 less than the average out of pocket premium sadly even though polls for the last 70 years have consistently shown a majority of americans support a single payer system congress is bought and paid for by health insurance companies

so its likely there wont be any action to move to this system which every major study finds is better for a whole on a national level however there has been a growing movement for a single payer system on a national level mainly rallied around the independent senator from vermont bernie sanders and even though it might not be possible in the next 4 years it seems like the inevitable future at the state level however it seems like an increasingly likely outcome within the next few years and there have been efforts in vermont california and even minnesota current minnesota governor mark dayton has been one of the few democrats to take the lead on this issue criticizing obamacare supporting a single payer system and even proposing a public option for mnsure it is an increasingly likely possibility that minnesota could adopt a single payer system and we could experience the benefits first hand however the current problem is the state legislature doesnt support any government action on health care and you can probably guess why

but with midterm elections in two years its quite possible things could change and a single payer option could be back on the table i would like to take a moment to encourage everyone conservative or liberal to put politics aside and come together on this issue no one should be denied the right to health care for any reason and it is important to support candidates who support this basic idea a local candidate and former member of the minnesota house of representatives andrew falk has been one of the few outspoken local political advocates for a single payer system and has taken the lead on this issue its important to rally around candidates like falk who turn down corporate dollars and put the interests of the people first if we all do that a single payer system could be a reality sooner than we think

the rock icon was 66

tom pettys death has been confirmed the us rock icon suffered a cardiac arrest he was 66 check out the starstudded tributes to the icon below

after suffering a cardiac arrest rumours of the rock icons passing spread yesterday now his death has been confirmed by tony dimitriades longtime manager of tom petty & the heartbreakers dimitriades confirmed pettys death on behalf of the performers family

petty formed the heartbreakers in 1976 and their selftitled debut album was released the same year it featured pettys classic song american girl pettys breakthrough came with his bands third album damn the torpedoes in 1979 tom petty and the heartbreakers last released an album in 2014 in the form of 13th lp hypnotic eye

as well as his career with the heartbreakers petty also cofounded supergroup the traveling wilburys with bob dylan george harrison jeff lynne and roy orbison

the news of pettys death comes following initial confusion and contradicting reports about pettys condition

tmz were the first outlet to report that petty was rushed to ucla santa monica hospital on sunday night (october 1) after being found unconscious not breathing and in full cardiac arrest at his home in malibu california the report added that petty had been put on life support and his condition was thought to be critical

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however the website later reported that after petty got to the hospital he had no brain activity and a decision was made to pull life support they later issued an update that described previous reports of pettys death as inaccurate adding that the musician was still clinging to life but not expected to live throughout the day

cbs news had also reported confirmation of pettys death citing a statement from the los angeles police department the lapd was later forced to release a statement saying that it had no information about the passing of singer tom petty and that initial information was inadvertently provided to some media sources cbs then retracted their original story

petty recently concluded a 40th anniversary tour with his band the heartbreakers the final date took place at the hollywood bowl in los angeles on september 22

the music world pays tribute

tributes have been pouring in following the news of pettys death bob dylan has issued a statement and you can see more tributes below

nothing left to say a post shared by taylor momsen (@taylormomsen) on oct 2 2017 at 125pm pdt