Plead...

 

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters: 

“Until the Electoral College votes, anyone who is running for office can exhaust concerns in counting in any court of appropriate jurisdiction."

“It’s not unusual and should not be alarming,” he added. “At some point here we’ll find out, finally, who was certified in each of these states and the Electoral College will determine the winner.”

President Trump has refused to concede and has instead launched a series of lawsuits in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Georgia,  Arizona and Nevada – essentially every state that the president expected to win, in order to maintain his presidency for another term mainly based on the Mail Ballot fiasco purported by the Democrats..

Democrats have condemned the lawsuits as illegitimate and have called on Trump to concede.

Only...

 

A flight headed from Jacksonville to Houston was forced to land early in Alabama last week to deal with an passenger who was allegedly acting unruly. When the plane landed, the woman was reportedly only wearing a T-shirt and underwear.

Sierra Nicole McClinton is facing charges of disorderly conduct and public intoxication, Fox 10 TV reports.

According to reports, McClinton got into an altercation with another passenger on the flight. When a flight attendant could not calm her down, McClinton was detained until the plane could divert to Mobile, Alabama.

Penguins...

 

Bart rushed into a bar and ordered a double whisky.  With a worried look, he asked the bartender, "Do you happen to know how tall penguins grow?"

"Between 2 and 3 feet tall" answered the bartender.

"Are you sure?" Bart asked.

"Positive" said the bartender.

"Damn" Bart muttered.  "I think I just ran over a nun."

Mentally...

 

The Department of Employment, Division of Labor Standards received a complaint that Bart was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent out to investigate him.

In a demanding tone, the agent said, "I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them."

Bart replied, "Well, there's two hired hands I pay $250 a week plus free room and board. Then there's the mentally challenged guy. He works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of all the work around here.  He makes about $10 per week and pays his own room and board.  I do buy him a bottle of bourbon every Saturday night so he can cope with life and he gets to sleep with my wife occasionally.

Sensing an opportunity to assess a big fine, the agent said, "That's the guy I want to talk to... The mentally challenged one."

Bart answered, "That would be me."

Asked...

 

Photo...

 

US. Attorney General William Barr has authorized the Department of Justice to investigate "substantial 

allegations" of voting irregularities in this year's presidential election despite little evidence of widespread voter fraud, according to a memo obtained by the Associated Press.

In the memo to U.S. attorneys, Barr said investigations "may be conducted if there are clear and apparently-credible allegations of irregularities that, if true, could potentially impact the outcome of a federal election in an individual State."  

Barr had remained silent since the Trump administration has made claims of voter fraud 

after President-elect Joe Biden was projected to be the winner over the weekend.

As Democrats have sought to expand absentee voting amid the coronavirus pandemic, 

Trump has repeatedly attacked mail-in voting, claiming that it leads to widespread 

voter fraud.

Kickoff...

On the day Harris held her kickoff presidential campaign rally in Oakland, long-simmering chatter about her relationship with Brown surfaced.  Brown says he felt compelled to put out a statement about their relationship after getting “peppered” with media inquiries about it.

Brown’s statement:

“Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly speaker,” Brown wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle op-ed. “I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco. I have also helped the careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a host of other politicians.”

Harris and Brown dated briefly in the mid-1990s. They split up in 1995, according to the San Francisco Chronicle, and Harris went on to marry California-based lawyer Douglas Emhoff in 2014.

Interpreted charitably, Brown’s op-ed seems aimed at confronting critiques that Harris could face about their relationship, something she sought to distance herself from when she ran for San Francisco district attorney in 2003.  

“married 60 year old Willie Brown” and “his 29 year old, Kamala.”

Join...

 

Gaslighting...

 

Emotional ...

 

Emotional abuse is often defined in several different ways. One partner harming or breaking down another person’s self-esteem in order to achieve a certain goal (usually to gain power over the other partner or to cause psychological harm).

This can be done in many ways, such as through teasing, criticism, insults, terror, isolation, control and humiliation, and it often goes undetected until its effects have become severe. 

In an emotionally abusive relationship, a person uses words, silence, gestures or behaviors which negatively affect the psychological and/or emotional well-being of another person. Like in physically abusive relationships, the goal of the abuser is to control and to have power over their partner. 

Emotional abuse can start at any time in a relationship. Many abusers start relationships in a healthy manner, creating a strong bond; but once the relationship is established, they begin to mistreat their partner. The normal behavior at the beginning of a relationship creates a strong bond, and in many cases, the other partner is bewildered by this change. Oftentimes, they will stay in a relationship or choose to wait for the person they thought they knew to ‘come back.’ 

A person in an emotionally abusive relationship may begin to change their own behavior for fear of angering their partner. They may feel guilty, hopeless, helpless, manipulated and controlled. This situation, over time, can result in negative effects on physical and mental health.