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Newly elected Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is one of the new maverick members of Congress. At age 29, she is taking the media by storm and we will discuss her impact. She has confronted Wells Fargo over their stake in private prisons and the controversial pipeline in North Dakota. We have been inundaetd with 3 prank calls tonight by the same person who keeps mentioning his obsession with Howard Stern. We had a strong debate in confronting Jon over Donald Trump's unhealthy projection of what he claims to be vslid American values that contradict the universal feeling of human rights and the maintenance of a democratic structure.

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(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agsalmTlwZ0)

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Jon will lead the discussion on current hot topics. Jane will highlight public testimony on Michael Cohen. Hush money to Stormy, Trump's hidden plans for Trump Tower in Russia, rigging political polls, inflating Trump's wealth Don, Jon, Albert and Wade segway into other international topics such as 2030 UN predictions, environimental hazards and what cataclysmic effects may happen with misuse of the earth. We end the show discussing Donald Trump's history of hiring illegal immigrantss throughout his many businesses including modeling and construction.

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On December 7, 2018, Prez Donald Trump announced his nomination of Barr for Attorney General to succeed Jeff Sessions. Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman reported that Trump had sought Barr as chief defense lawyer for Trump regarding Mueller Investigation of 2017 after Barr supported Trump filing of Comey (May 9, 2017); questioned the appointments of some of Mueller's prosecutors due to political donations they had made to the Clinton campaign; and also alleged there were conflicts of interest of 2 appointees to the Special Counsel Team, Jennie Rhee and Bruce Ohrr. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a vote on Barr on February 14th 54-45. There were 3 democrats who voted for Barr. Barr will have to manage the Mueller investigation outcome & what to feed the public. Barr served as Attorney General under GHWB in the 1990s. He promoted strict adherence to the law, mass incarceration & reduction of appeals by prisoners. He is 68 yrs old and he also supports the Muslim Ban. As Deputy Attorney General, Barr – together with others at the Department of Justice – successfully led the effort for the withdrawal of a proposed Department of Health and Human Services rule that would have allowed people with HIV/AIDS into the United States. He also advocated the use of Guantanamo Bay to prevent Haitian refugees and HIV infected individuals from claiming asylum in the United States.According to Vox in December 2018, Barr took supported an aggressive ?law and%2...

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Longer version of my #MeToo Story

#MeToo “An Inside Job”   by Jane Hoffman I live in Duluth and drive to a school every day in Superior.  He lives in Superior and drives to a school in Duluth.  I met him at a lounge/restaurant in Superior after school one day.  I met him in a casual manner, the way you give someone a high five after a sports event.  When I first met him, he had a hat on and a nice smile, seemingly warm  He sat next to me once in my favorite spot at Keyport and 4 days later, he sat in the same spot.  This time, I said hi.  We fist bumped after I told him something good that happened.  We ended up talking at the bar and he gave me his phone number on paper.  He wrote like a girl in accented letters, almost sensationally curvy.  I tucked the phone number in the compartment of my car.  A few days later he called.  His first text to me ever was "Do you want to make love?"  I texted back.  "Maybe not on the first date."  I went to his house and he was watching MASH.  He had all the old DVDs, a series collection.  He put on a movie called "Shutter Island" with Leo DiCaprio.  He was donning a robe, a bald head and glasses.  He did not quite look like the figure at the bar but more like a retired referee relaxing for the night.  I don't think he ever hit "play" on the movie.  The same rotational song just kept playing as I heard the droning music and wacko patient scenes circulating as he planted his lips upon my face. I don't know what happened from that moment on, but I suddenly got sucked into a Kim Basinger/Mickey Rourke 9 1/2 Weeks movie.  After 3 years of furlough, I was suddenly caught up in an unmitigated love affair.  It was magical and transcendent.  The synapses of my brain were open to a new range of emotions I had not experienced in a long time.  It was nothing I really weighed, I was caught up in the moment over a period of weeks. Over the course of several weeks, there were certain darts of realities that I could not unequivocally ignore.  He discussed his marriage of 19 years to a woman named Tamia who was apparently the apple of his eye.  She left him for another man and lied about her whereabouts one night.  He told me they lost their house in Duluth in 2011 to a UHC layoff.  He also blatantly blamed Barack Obama for the layoff she received from United Health Care.  I am a political scientist and talk show radio host so I examined the information he presented to me.  United Health Care routinely has large layoffs.  They also had several federal contracts cut off for multiple billing and were penalized that year for mismanagement.  A prominent Medical organization, UCare, terminated their contract with UHC as well.  Barack Obama is a personal hero of mine.  He is 1/2 African like my 6'3" West African son and I don't like when people say blanket statements about presidents I have liked.  One night a week later, he called Obama a nigger.  His grandfather was knifed by a Black man in Chicago in a form of necklace and my new love interest told me his father hated Blacks.  "He can't stand the Black race."  This posed a problem for me, being that when I was 20 years old, I left UW-LaCrosse on an exchange program to go to North Carolina Central to get involved in the Civil Rights Movement.  My goal was to be a Civil Rights activist.  I was the only white living on campus in 1980 as a Midwest transplant.  I received no disrespect as the sole minority. Over the weeks his behavior changed radically.  He intensified his demands on me physically but also simultaneously gave me other messages that were hurtful and abrasive.  He said "He didn't want to be in a relationship,"  "I want to be alone," "Women have screwed me over,"  "I cannot trust women." “For some reason, I only trust you.” I also discovered he was an alcoholic.  He could only navigate a 6 block radius in his neighborhood on the weekend because he started drinking at 7:00 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays.  Despite all his flaws, I showed him mercy and provided emotional support. I drove him to my place on a Friday night after a work Christmas party because he did not want to be in his own neighborhood.  He said, "I need to get out of here."  His father was on a feeding tube and he had to change it every 2-6 hours because one surgery had failed.  He made his father soup on the weekend.  One time when he got drunk, he uttered incoherent thoughts- said he was a Gulf War Veteran and many of his friends died.  This was not true because in his younger days, he was severely overweight and he would not have attained the Army weight requirement. I continued to see him because of the 9 1/2 weeks aspect.  One night in early December, he had to leave at 4:30 a.m. to plow the school he worked at.  He had a dental appointment that day and only needed to go into work in the morning  I slept in his bed and he returned around 7:00 a.m.  I was asleep on my back, comfortable in pillows.  When he returned from the school snow plow job, he crawled on top of me while I was asleep and shoved his penis in my mouth literally.  He then laid on top of me with  his face  toward my feet trying to arouse me.  I couldn't move and I didn't want to do what he was suggesting.  I had trouble breathing and I tried to push him off.  I couldn't so I just laid there still.  I remained silent until I garnered the courage to tell him to get off.  "Please get off" I whispered.  He didn't understand why I was not interested.  I ran to the bathroom and cried, pushing away my tears.  I didn't understand why he wanted this from me. I had been patient throughout the relationship as he complained about his ex wife, how few people in the family rarely helped him with his dad, how he needed a house appraisal to get his dad off the mortgage, etc.  Rarely did he ask me questions about my own life.  I knew that I was becoming codependent and a fix it person, trying to fix the holes in his own life, to be there for him.  I became attached to him emotionally because of the physical liaison and rare kindness he showed me when sober.  He was a good cook and would give me plastic containers of leftovers. I did report the crime two days later when he refused to discuss it.  He would not take me seriously and refused to answer his door one night.  I gave him a 24 hour notice and told him that if he didn't want to table the matter, I had no choice but to go to the police.  He refused.  I had evidence at the time of DNA and a bite mark on my chest from him that police took a picture of on a body cam. It was a feeling of regret and fear that I felt after going to the police.  I did not know if the police would believe me or if I had done the right thing.  At that time, I had just been to the doctor for another sex related dilemma, a urinary tract infection.  He had also told me he would do anal sex on me and I said "No” emphatically.  He said, "too bad, it's too late" and one night forced entry. At this point, I don't know why but he talked me into dropping the charges 2 days later.  He said he would lose his job at the school and bring shame to his family.  No one could efficiently care for his father.  I did reinstate the charges shortly after with a local officer in terms of following up for an interview. We remained strained friends although it was not comfortable. I had taken on the role of the person trying to lead him to Alcoholic Anonymous or church.  One night, on January 9th, I went to his house 3 hours early and a woman was there.  She told me they had been seeing each other one year and he had proposed after two weeks.  Surprisingly, everyone was calm and discussion ensued.  He complained I had been to the police over him.  She said "Martin has done the same thing to me, many times. It's so ridiculous when he does that."  She didn't seem to mind that I was there or had been through a similar experience.  When she found correlating texts in both of our phones (plus another woman), she said, "Oh, Martin, you just need attention."  I felt she was sympathetic to the wrong cause and I left.  The whole time I was with him, he said he couldn't be in a relationship because of his father's illness.  I was the other woman without knowing it.  There were no traces of her existence in his house. I was able to confront him twice since this incident.  The first time he sobbed when I handed him a letter.  He never initiated an apology for all his betrayal, lies or behavior.  The second time, I confronted him, he had no explanation or apology for the way he treated me.  I asked him why he treated me poorly and he said, "I don't know."  His wife, Tamia, in my estimation did not leave him because she wanted to do him wrong.  She left because he could not face his actions and consequences for his behavior.  He is now probably struggling with the fact that another woman did him wrong.  I was the only one who had the courage to challenge his attitude and violence toward women.  After one or two drinks, he will placate the situation in his mind and believe I was just another woman who did him in..

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Love Triangle

My main blog is www.janessaconquers.blogspot.com

My most recent boyfriend’s quasi girlfriend has been stalking it.  I feel like she is obsessing about me.  Most people want a lot of people reading their blogs but I don’t in this case.  I will post my story of our break up soon.  Part of the story was in the Superior Telegram a week or two ago.