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By the way, Bill, it’s the job of defense counsel to “jerk around” the government when there’s a dispute. You don’t roll over if you believe you’re in the right. Moreover, read the Durham report. You appointed the guy. DOJ is corrupt especially in its treatment of Trump. As for the Espionage Act, I challenge you to show me anywhere that it was intended to be used in this way. It wasn’t used against LBJ, Hillary, Biden, etc. There should have been no grand jury. No warrant. No swat team. No criminal obstruction. No violations of privilege. None of the...

ATLANTA (AP) — When Democrat Stacey Abrams first ran for Georgia governor in 2018, her lackluster personal finances and a hefty bill from the IRS gave Republicans fodder to question how she could manage a state budget when she struggled with her own debts. As she launches a second bid this year, that’s no longer an issue. Abrams now says she’s worth $3.17 million, according to state disclosures filed in March. That’s compared with a net worth of $109,000 when she first ran four years ago. Her rapid ascent into millionaire status corresponds with her rise in national politics.

I pulled the trigger, yesterday. Been wanting to sign up and have been doing all the research. I just joined their very BASIC program; $3+ a week for 2 months and then three free or some such deal. Affordable. On-line. Self-directed. No mandatory meetings. My Mom always used Weight Watchers when she wanted to shed some pounds, and I've spent 3/4 of my LIFE maintaining my weight to strict Army standards. Not FUN - but I also used to get a LOT more exercise than I do now, at age 62. Also, no longer working a job where I was...

“The View” co-host Meghan McCain touted the way her father handled defeat in 2008 and suggested President Trump and his family would “melt down” and create “absolute bedlam, anger, and hysteria” if they’re defeated by Democratic nominee Joe Biden. [Snip] “When my Dad lost in ‘08, he huddled my brothers and sisters in a corner and said buck up, we’re the luckiest people in the entire world and we’re not going to feel sorry for ourselves, we made history. He then thanked the secret service and told them to go home to their family,” McCain wrote in a tweet. “I...

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Oprah Winfrey was likely feeling a lot lighter Tuesday evening – in her investment portfolio. After the stock of WW (formerly Weight Watchers) nosedived in after-hours trading, the wellness company’s single biggest individual investor was down anywhere from $39 million to nearly $48 million, according to reports. The stock, which was priced around $103 per share last June, sank to about $22 per share late Tuesday, reports said. The drop followed WW Chief Executive Mindy Grossman’s disclosure to analysts that WW would have fewer members in 2019 than in 2018, the New York Post reported. Grossman blamed the company’s winter...

In a hostile, lengthy exchange on ABC’s The View Friday, co-host Meghan McCain admitted frustration at being the sole Republican host on the show. Trying to explain to co-host Joy Behar that Trump supporters “don’t care” about the Michael Wolff book, or other controversies the media hypes about the White House, McCain gushed, “I have never felt more conservative and more defensive of the middle of the country than I have before I started working on this show.”The segment started by talking about the news of the day, the salacious book about Trump’s White House by Michael Wolff, released today...

Oprah Winfrey may have shed some pounds using Weight Watchers. But she may have lost something else -- influence. And money. Shares of Weight Watchers (WTW) plunged nearly 30% Friday after the diet company reported a surprise $11 million quarterly loss. The company's sales fell and, most alarmingly, so did the number of Weight Watchers subscribers and attendance at meetings. Shares of Weight Watchers surged in October after Oprah announced she was taking a 10% stake in the company, joining its board and becoming a member as well. The hope was that Oprah's blessing would lead to a surge in...

Oprah Winfrey to buy 10 pct stake in Weight Watchers and join board.

If it were up to voters, the 2016 presidential race would be a battle between Hillary Rodham Clinton and Gov. Chris Christie, according to a poll released by Kean University today. According to the poll, 67 percent of Democratic voters said they would support Clinton — the former First Lady, U.S. Senator from New York and Secretary of State — for president. Vice President Joe Biden finished a distant second There's a sense that the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination is Hillary Clinton's for the asking," Terry Golway, director of the Kean University Center for History, Politics, and Policy, said in...

Dinosaurs were often hefty, but not as plump as previously thought. A new study describes a new technique used to measure the weight and size of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. It could forever change museum exhibits, book illustrations, and other recreations of these now-extinct species. The study appears in the latest issue of Biology Letters “This is a huge help for any sort of reconstruction,” lead author William Sellers told Discovery News. “We now have a number that suggests how much flesh to add to the bones and that should help people produce animals that are the right balance...

Charles Barkley thought the cameras were off during commercial break of TNT's broadcast of the Hawks-Heat game last night. But NBA.tv was streaming live when Barkley went on one of his funny mini-rants and called his Weight Watchers endorsement a "scam." "I thought this was the greatest scam going—getting paid for watching sports—this Weight Watchers thing is a bigger scam," he said. To be fair, he never said that Weight Watchers itself was a scam (he talked about how he lost two pounds a week for three months). He's saying it's a scam that all he has to do is...

If, like me, you scanned the crowds rioting at Penn State last night after the announcement of the firing of Joe Paterno, you may have noticed that nearly all the people there were white men. The riots were about white men not liking to be held accountable. As a native Pennsylvanian, I never once considered attending Penn State University. Penn State always seemed like a place full of cliquish white people recalling their glory years of making fun of the dorky kids in high school. More progressive white people and people of color went to big city state schools like...

I went down to Occupy Denver late Thursday afternoon to hear Michael Moore address the occupiers. When I arrived I walked smack dab into two occupiers fighting over pot. That was entertaining for a moment. At any there is audio of his time there on the Hear Us Now website if you're interested. Kelly Maher of Who Said, You Said shuld have video up some time Friday afternoon.

Anti-capitalist film director Michael Moore has drawn fire in recent days for standing with the Occupy Wall Street protesters while failing to acknowledge that he is part of the “1 percent,” not the 99 percent. Now the director of “Capitalism: A Love Story” and other documentaries has come clean and admitted that he is indeed among the nation’s wealthiest citizens, but without providing details of just how rich he is. In a post titled “Life Among the 1%” on his blog “Open Mike,” Moore recalls how he made his first millions when he sold the distribution rights to his 1989...

In the late summer of 2000 I entered the doorway of the nearest Weight Watchers and tipped the scale at a little over 200 pounds. After having two little boys within two years of each other, health issues from the first birth experience, and the death of my mother just days after my second son was born I took solace in one thing: chocolate. A busy work schedule which included me passing off the little boys to my husband, Pat, as I headed to my retail job in the evening did not help matters. I knew I needed to eat...

Protesters in Madison have "aroused a sleeping giant" in the national fight for workers' rights, filmmaker Michael Moore told thousands at the Capitol Square on Saturday, as rallies opposing Gov. Scott Walker's budget proposals wrapped up their third week.... "America is not broke ... Wisconsin is not broke," Moore said. "The only thing that's broke is the moral compass of the rulers." More at Wisconsin State Journal A "sleeping giant" was aroused?!? I'm confused, I'll explain why in Pulp Fiction style: First of all, boobs...check...liberal ideology....check...did I not just say a fat lady is singing? Second, assuming his skin...

The documentary filmmaker was in Wisconsin yesterday, slamming Republicans for cutting union benefits. Michael Moore has a message for Wisconsinites: Contrary to what those in power would like you to believe -- so that you'll give up your pension, cut your wages, and settle for the life your great-grandparents had -- America is not broke. The claim came at the beginning of a speech delivered by the documentary filmmaker and liberal firebrand at the Wisconsin State Captiol yesterday. Over the course of 30 minutes, Moore railed against Republicans, who he accused of misleading the American public when they claim that...

[snip] The new plan, company officials say, is based on scientific findings about how the body processes different foods. The biggest change: All fruits and most vegetables are point-free (or free of PointsPlus, as the new program is called). Processed foods, meanwhile, generally have higher point values, which roughly translates to: should be eaten less. [snip] “It’s a complete overhaul; it doesn’t get any bigger than this,” said Karen Miller-Kovach, the chief scientific officer for Weight Watchers International. “Fifteen years ago we said a calorie is a calorie is a calorie. If you ate 100 calories of butter or 100...