Comment on Trump’s Post-Verdict Playbook

“North Korea sent a new batch of balloons carrying trash across the border into South Korea after Seoul said it detected parasites such as roundworms in the contents of previous dispatches,” Bloomberg reports. “About 350 balloons were sent from Monday night, South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said, and the government advised the public not to touch any content that was carried across.

“Rep. Bob Good’s (R-VA) efforts to sow doubts about the results of his too-close-to-call GOP primary are being met with eye rolls from many of his House Republican colleagues,” Axios reports. “The House Freedom Caucus chair is tapping into a strain of election denialism common in Donald Trump’s Republican Party – but without the widespread GOP support Trump enjoyed.” Said one House Republican: “No one is buying it, but all understand this is one of the several stages of electoral grief.” New York Times: Good seeks funds for recount.

“The federal judge overseeing former President Donald J. Trump’s classified documents case posed tough questions on Monday to prosecutors who have asked her to bar him from making inflammatory statements that might endanger any FBI agents involved in the case,” the New York Times reports. “At a contentious hearing in Federal District Court in Fort Pierce, Fla., the judge, Aileen M.

“Ed Burke, the longest-serving City Council member in Chicago history, was sentenced to two years in prison Monday for squeezing developers who needed his help for permits,” the AP reports.. “It was far short of the eight-year term recommended by federal prosecutors. With credit for good behavior, Burke will likely spend less than two years in custody.”

Law enforcement officals in Aurora will no longer have to provide 72-hour notice to people camping illegally in the city before disassembling and clearing encampments, following a change Aurora’s elected leaders made to the city’s camping ban Monday night. The council voted 6-3 to pass an ordinance that the measure’s proponents say will tighten Aurora’s 2-year-old urban camping ban so that people without a roof over their head can’t so quickly pitch a tent again in the city. Aurora will target encampments — initially with plenty of no-camping and no-trespassing signs — in the Interstate 225 corridor.

If I need my passport next year to travel, I plan on picking up translator earbuds. I went to Italy in 1995 and while they do have a lot of English speaking businesses, hotels and restaurants, when I first got there it was a little unsettling not being able to read or speak the language. There are plenty of new tech products coming for the end of the year so should be a fun Christmas and holiday season. I hope I live long enough so that the healthcare industry will be able to develop a Star Trek Tricorder device so a doctor can scan you and diagnose the problem. read more