Hope...

Influence...

Trump calls the Washington press corps “the enemy of the people” , “fake news,” and they hate him right back, calling him dangerous and stupid. By doing so, they call his voters stupid, and worse, all 63 million of them.

Trump and journalism are now locked in a battle of excess and outrage. Most in the media have given up trying to be fair.    

What is bothersome isn’t that reporters and many pundits don’t understand Trump,  but the real concern are his voters, our countrymen and women. That’s half of our nation. The more the attacks on Trump, the more support he gets.

Trump’s voters know what put him in the White House. It wasn’t merely that Hillary Clinton was a lousy candidate. It was that Trump voters detested the crowd that backed her, loathed them; and those in turn were viewed as something to be stepped on, to be ridiculed for heresy.

What is the role of Money in this equation?

Trainer...

An Instagram model and self-described “sex trainer” from Belarus has been arrested at a Moscow airport on prostitution charges after she was deported from Thailand.

Anastasia Vashukevich, was drawn into the Trump-Russia saga in 2018 after Instagram videos surfaced of her aboard a yacht with Oleg Deripaska, a Kremlin-connected with  ties to Paul Manafort.

After Vashukevich was arrested in Thailand last year on work permit violations, she claimed to have recordings relating to Russia and the 2016 election, and promised to hand information over to the FBI if the agency would guarantee her safety.

No evidence ever emerged to support her claims, but the case has attracted significant media attention, mostly because of its salacious details and the high-profile characters involved. 

Not to mention we always listen when a high valued porn star wants to tell us something. They usually have something we may learn from.
Just a thought.

Nanny...

Molly Martens,  met Jason Corbett when she flew to Ireland to work as a nanny for his children. 

She secretly gone to a divorce lawyer  weeks after marriage,  regarding her  custody to Mr Corbett’s two children. 

Mr. Corbett steadfastly refused to allow Molly to adopt his children.

The insurance policy payable on Ms. Martens’s husband’s death changed so that Molly was the sole beneficiary.

Ms. Martens repeatedly complained to neighbors about how Mr. Corbett treated her – despite the fact that, in the 10 months before his death, she spent $90,000  on clothing, meals, holidays and trinkets for herself.

She had also hinted to neighbors she was the victim of domestic abuse – but the book reveals.

Molly Corbett, 35, and her father, former FBI agent were convicted of second-degree murder in Davidson Superior Court in August 2017. They were each sentenced to a minimum of 20 years in prison.

A settlement has been reached in a wrongful-death lawsuit alleging that Molly Corbett and both of her parents were responsible for the brutal beating death of her husband.

Baby sat the kids, Married the guy, wanted to adopt his kids.. and his money, a love story!

Pay Check...

Restriction...

President Donald Trump moved  to further limit travel by Congress members during the partial government shutdown by barring them from using government planes without prior written approval.

The new policy, announced in a memo to department heads, was put in place one day after Trump canceled a military plane for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who was planning to lead a congressional delegation to Afghanistan this weekend.

"Under no circumstances during a government shutdown will any government owned, rented, leased or chartered aircraft support any Congressional delegation, without the express written approval of the White House Chief of Staff," wrote Russell Vought, acting director of the Office of Management and Budget. 

"Nor will any funds appropriated to the Executive Branch be used for any Congressional delegation travel expenses, without his express written approval,” Vought’s memo said.

Oh no.. No Fun in the Sun in Egypt.

Criticism...

Iran kept up its criticism of the FBI's apparent arrest of an American anchorwoman from Iran's state-run English-language TV channel.  

The hard-line Vatan-e Emrooz paper criticized the detention of Press TV's Marzieh Hashemi as "Saudi-style behavior with a critical journalist."

Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif told Press TV that "we have a right to continue to look after her interests" as Hashemi, born Melanie Franklin in New Orleans, also holds Iranian citizenship.  

Federal law allows judges to order witnesses to be arrested and detained if the government can prove their testimony has extraordinary value for a criminal case and that they would be a flight risk and unlikely to respond to a subpoena. 

The statute generally requires those witnesses to be promptly released once they are deposed. 

نظام غذائي

Add some Fava beans, lentil, falafel, Haumos, Chilli, Brown Rice, and the likes.

Negative...

You magnify the negative aspects of a situation and filter out positive ones. 

When something bad occurs, you automatically blame yourself. 

You hear that an evening out with friends is canceled, and you assume no one wanted to be around you.

You automatically anticipate the worst. The drive-through coffee shop gets your order wrong and you automatically think that the rest of your day will be a disaster.

You see things only as either good or bad. There is no middle ground. You feel that you have to be perfect or you're a total failure.


You were complimented for completing your task well.  That evening, you focus only on your plan to do even more tasks and forget about the compliments. So adjust accordingly. 
Just a thought.

Guided...

After initially opposing the idea of her home state granting driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has had a change of heart.

“I think we have to make it possible for people to provide for their families."

At a news conference in Troy – a city of about 50,000 residents just outside Gillibrand's birthplace, the state capital Albany – the second-term senator said her heart has guided her policy reversals on issues such as gun control, granting amnesty to illegal immigrants and her opposition to sanctuary cities, according to the Washington Free Beacon.