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ossy-serenity · 5 months
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Looks can be Deceiving
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It`s right in front of you
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mo-torious-mo-blog · 6 years
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[CHANGING MY NAME TO: Mo (first name) Torious (last name)] i asked my parents if I could come up to westchester to have dinner with them, or to briefly stay while I looked for an apartment. They said no. It’s funny, Dr Tabar at Belkvue Hospital (Dr Mounir, intake), told me that I should cut off my relationship with my mother. The only reason my father asked me to attend her 80th birthday party, was to keep up appearances. Before the night was over, and after my speech (unmmmzm....I got you a car), he told me in no uncertain terms that I am no longer welcome in his house. I dove get it. His brother Ladipo Fayemi is a caseworker at HRA HASA, who never once intervened for me, and who nobody in that agency thought to refer my case to. Mr. McCoy, used to make fun of the name. No matter, I no longer want to be called that. I told them that since my father still continues to lie about not having received a copy of the doctored IRS Filings which Lucy Ostrofsky (acting in house counsel) had filed, directly ignoring my instructions, before I was forced out of the company and off the corporate bank account (it takes 3 members of management: myself, Richard McGinnis (Kurt Salmon Associates), President of Motorious Retail Stores (m&m/Mars Family: sponsor of Kyle Bush’s Toyota at NASXAR), patent holder, casino slot machine algorithms) and Philip Munger (who once, unbeknownst to me, withdrew $5,000 in cash from his personal Citibank account, and deposited it into my (the corporate) account, triggering FBI Money Laundering Red Flag: I have never even seen $5,000.00 in cash in one place in my entire life. I spent $500 to $10,000/month on my AMEX PLATINUM: and repaid it within 30 days. Beginning in 1992. Until I didn’t and went bankrupt for $60,000. Bottom line: I don’t trust the man, and he and I no longer have a relationship. All he and my mother have done is agree with the psychiatrists who keep diagnosing me with paranoid delusions that I run a company. All this, I believe, because the only company he ever ran, ended up in trouble with the IRS. I’m beginning to be really suspect about his book selling and his AIDS Charity for orphans in Africa. Before he kicked me out of the house, he asked me if I wanted to help him with his Foundation, and I said « no » I want German citizenship. A look at my brief work history shows I never stay in 1 place very long. What’s wrong with having wanted a change and to seek opportunities abroad? Science Advisers, led by Norman Heyman, Jean Robert Le Shufy, and Kevin DeVito (New Capital Horizons, the US arm of New Capital AG in Switzerland: COPE Holdings (XTERA DAX | NASDAQ) Zuggero, CEO | lent ICV, llc (Integrated Concepts Vehicles, llc, Flipboard.com/@ICV_llc, the first $137,000 after I had lent the corporation $60,000. MOTORIOUS MONEY GRID: says $100,000.00 loan am was made by Phil Munger on November 1, 1999. If that had been the case, why were none of the vendors at the show paid, and why did I receive a phone message on December 31, 1999 from Philip Munger: [email protected], the DAY AFTER I received a message from Wayne Irving of Spin Records that he had secured $25 Million from ING Barings? My only Full Time Employee: John Goodwin, who I met at Pump No 8 at the Mobil Gas Station in Rancho Palos Verdea, took a salary of $80,000.00 + benefits + expense reimbursement, where on July 2, 1999 he secured an LOI with the Make A Wish charity for a proposed October 31, 2000 Charity Rade at Texas Motor Speedway. He had 9 months to secure a deal with Ford to provide NASCAR vehicles for the event, which was supposed to commemorate 100 Years of Motorsports in America, and also commemorate both Ford and Harley Davidson’s 100th Anniversary. Moose returned saying that the sponsors (especially the protected sponsor, Coke, will not let the drivers out of their contests to drive the event) Autoweek Magazine, the same issue it quoted several drivers as wanting to participate, reported that My Apple Laptop « had ears ». Motor Trend Magazine wrote an article entitled « The Automotive Analyst », a « fictitious story about a Wall Street analyst having problems with his wife, while talking to his shrink. The concluding sentence: « Build The Car » My only contribution to Ford would have been when I called the $3 million monstrosity (Focus) built by John Colletti and Motor Trend: Ian Cartabiano has penned a sick Mis-Engined Ford Focus Rally Car, which was to have shared a platform with the Renault R5 (Nissan: where Doi had previously worked after NCIS). That, and the referral from Mark Stehrenberger to Scott Sharpe Racing, to [Ford Tuner: I ferget] , who wrote a proposal for tuning the 4.0 liter Jaguar V8 for the Motorious Show Stand, as a potential BMW M5 competitor. Of the $137,000.00 loan, $50,000 went to Mark Stehrenberger Design, who was to generate 3 proposals for the Deusenberg PHAETON: Mercedes Benz Ocean 4 door convertible concept...to. E build at the DRESDEN Factory in Germany), the other $50,000 went to Robert Marianich in Huntington Beach, who was to have converted his studio, and built a « clay resurfaced » proposal of the RIVOLUZIONW: 1999 LA Auto Show, next to Shelby Series One (I met Carroll at Jay Leno’s, where he asked me to contact his assistant, Pearlita Shelby, about helping him with production of the OLDSMOBILE AURORA Engined SERIES ONE: autopsia.wordpress.com, slated to return to INDYCAR, to replace the Honda unit, now that they created Touring Car. I wanted to get the rights to MG ROVER (BBC: BMW’s English Patient), known as Rover Sterling 825 in America (Acura Legend): ARCONA | After the misérable failure of Phoenix Holdings, which paid Queen Elizabeth the nominal sum of £10, and then before becoming the four most overpaid executives in the UK Auto Industry. I even went so far as to ask Lakshmi Mittal (Arcelor Mittal and Harris’s) if he would help me to purchase Land Rover from TATA. CAR AND DRIVER MAGAZINE (Hearst Publications: Vladimir Putin) April Fool’s | Toyota buys Oldsmobile Trademark for $5,000. FIAT acquire the right to the Oldsmobile Aurora Engine through my partnership with Carroll Shelby, Gets the Oldsmobile Dealerships (10 year warrante on the engine), Change the nage to Alfa Romeo, and modify the engine for use in US Alfa’s, like the GT-V8, Spider Véloce (Duetto V8: BMWfilms.com Béat the Devil). Unfortunately, John Goodwin went bankrupt, my ex-wife had a hidden camera in our bedroom vent (Waiting to Exhale, Bernadine’s Rage: 6624 Oceancrest Drive, RPV, CA, 90275). And all of our personal and my corporate accounts were closed on August 14, 2001, due to malfeasance on her part: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwNcNOTVzY [The Private Bank: Union Bank of California (Mitsubishi Sumitomo: KIRETSU): Peggy Fahnestock, Gloria Marquez: who refinanced my BMW Financial Loan from JP Morgan Chase, because it was higher interest rate than a similarly situated white nan, all other things being equal. The VENDETTA (redesigned Rivoluzione: 200 LA Auto Show, was in an accident THE FIRST DAY I DROVE IT. I didn’t even make it to the highway. There was at least $100,000? In customization (hand hammered and rolled Aluminum body parts riveted and bonded to the steel: Robin Officer, Captain Metal, Magic Mountain, CA (A Kiwi). who I believe, was interviewed on the Jay Leno show dresses in drag. By keeping all the receipts to every modification, the insurance company: GEICO, had to first restore the vehicle to its original condition, THEN, cover all the replacement customization which they did, before canceling my policy the sane day the lease on my 328i was repossed, with $5,000.00 worth of renderings and sketches by Ian Cartabiano, which actually appeared in Bimmer Magazine in 1998. My mother refuses to give me my birth certificate. Whats wrong with this picture? mo torious On Oct 14, 30 Heisei, at 2:25 AM, mo torious wrote: David Ebersman, Will you be the part time CFO on my private placement? except for the fact that Angel List is formerly Google, and I found it impossible to do due diligence on who people claimed to be. since I came from Wall Street, and have helped raise over $500 Million for companies during my career, even though it is many years later, I still know many of the same people. The first person who made a referral for me, was Paul Howard of HQH: Hambrecht & Quist Healthcare, in NYC, when he introduced me to his MIT Sloan School Claasmate, Douglas A Doi (founder of Doi Golf). I see his name on many research publication footnotes, such as the NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE ARTICLE: The Beginning is the End of AIDS. The second referral came from Barney Hallibgby, who introduced me to Doug Casey at Gates Capital at 200 Park Avenue, New York, NY, who floats Government Bonds and Municipal Bonds for manufacturing, such as at the March Global Port, which was a former military base turned into a commercial port. As part of the 3Q/2001 earnings report, as quoted in the Wall Street Journal, William Clay Ford, III made two announcements: 1. We are no longer pursuing our aftermarket strategy. (usurped and mismanaged by Jacques Naaser) 2 We can no longer afford to spend 11.1% of sales, on Marketing/Advertising. Bad news for Ogilvy/Mather. Possible 11.1% increase in margins. William Clay Ford: Uber is losing hundreds of millions to billions every year. If All the risks are borne by the driver, why can’t they turn a profit? The following article on the same page of the WSJ, was that The Blackstone Group « was looking for its next big deal ». Instinct tells me to defer from inviting them, or Goldman Sachs or any of its clients (like Facebook and Twitter) to participate in this private placement. http://fortune.com/2012/02/01/meet-the-man-behind-the-facebook-ipo/ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B5gQoZEZn04 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O8PM_EybRdo https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/07/01/facebook-not-feeling-friendly-with-nasdaq/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/09/04/facebook-sets-another-new-low-nyt-rips-cfo-ebersman/ mo torious On Oct 13, 30 Heisei, at 10:56 PM, mo torious wrote: M_DriversLicense (@onyx_project) 2/6/28 H, 12:51 PM i-am-motorious.tumblr.com/post/129742049… ⁦‪@AngelList‬⁩ ⁦‪@UBSf1‬⁩ ⁦‪@UBS‬⁩ frontinalispartners.com ⁦‪@Ford‬⁩ @LapoElkann_LE ⁦‪@Zurich‬⁩ ⁦‪@CreditSuisse‬⁩ pic.twitter.com/2pZqP9LAin
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mayasbananapuddin · 7 years
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Are We There Yet?
Blurb Summary: As the group nears the music fest, Kaitlyn and Zack have a talk; Kaitlyn admits feeling apprehensive about Becca's call to MC. ------------------------------------------- "Just three more hours." Zack states, fiddling with the thrice-duck taped rear-view mirror. Four decades of use and abuse have essentially rendered it to nothing more than a decoration. "Three more hours, Kaitlyn, and I'll be seeing Kevin effing Driver! With my own two eyes! These eyes, right here!" He says, pointing to his face for emphasis. "I can practically smell the patchouli already. I. AM. SO. PUMPED! Hey, are you listening? Hello?? Earth to Kaitlyn!" A hand waving frantically in front of your face snaps you to attention. "Oh shit, sorry, man. What'd you say?" "Nothing important, I guess," Zack shrugs. "I was just going on about Kevin Driver. You know me." You respond with a light chuckle, but your thoughts are elsewhere. "I'm sorry Zack, my mind's like, a thousand miles away right now. I'm spaced out." "Hey it's cool. No worries. You need to sleep? I can wake one of them up." He says, jerking his thumb towards the back of the van, to where your friends are sprawled, sleeping soundly. "I'm sure Chris wouldn't mind being my co-pilot for a while." "Nah, let him sleep, I'm alright. Really, I'm not tired. I guess there's just been something on my mind." Face scrunched with concern, Zack throws you a glance, "Well I'm here to talk. We've literally got nothing but time and it's not like I'm going anywhere." "Ha.. it's nothing, really. Just me being, I dunno, I guess unnecessarily paranoid? I don't know." "Well what's up, Liao. Spill them beans," he jokes while lightly nudging your arm. "I don't know, man. It's kind of..." You turn over your shoulder, looking toward the back of the van, pausing for a moment, as your eyes rest upon MC's sleeping form. "It's kind of relationship related. I don't want to be an ass and vent to you, while you're dealing with stuff on your end, you know?" You see his shoulders slump slightly. You're about to change the subject, when Zack interjects. "Kaitlyn, it's okay. Really. This trip has done more for me than you guys could ever know. I'm not putting on a front when I say that I genuinely feel so much better about the whole breakup thing." He rubs the back of his neck, and continues, "I mean yeah, it hurts. Of course. But... I don't know. I guess, I feel good? Or I feel positive, at least. So please, unload. It's totally fine. Lord knows I've been doing that for weeks now." You reach over to tousle his hair, and he laughs lightly in response. "So spill, what's buggin' you?" He holds his hand in front of your face, as though clutching a microphone, "Go ahead, caller, I'm listening." "Heh.. well okay." You take a deep breath and glance once more in MC's direction. She's still sleeping. "So, before you say anything, I KNOW I'm reaching at nothing here, I know I'm being paranoid and I know it's probably nothing. But..." "But..." He echoes, motioning for you to continue. "But," you drop your voice to a whisper. "Don't you think it's a little weird that Becca, of all people, called M? Becca. This a girl who spent an entire year making our lives hell every chance she could. And she just calls M out of the blue, then on top of that, she's actually meeting us at Aurora? Like, they hate each other!" You slump back in your seat, "Or I guess, I thought they did. I mean what's up with that?" You turn to look at Zack as he bites his bottom lip, looking pensive. "What? Don't you think that's weird? Or am I imaging things?" He runs his hand through his hair, "I suppose it could be considered... uncharacteristic." He says evenly, as though being careful when choosing his words. "I mean, yes, Becca has been kind of an asshole to all of us, I agree with you there. And yeah, she has had a degree of... I guess, what could be considered, animosity, towards MC in particular. So going off of that alone, yeah, it could seem a bit odd. I guess. But, people change, you know?" He finishes with a shrug. Slightly crestfallen, you mumble under your breath. "What?" He turns to you, "I couldn't hear you, Mush Mouth, say that again." You repeat yourself, louder this time, "I said, that's awfully diplomatic of you." "Well I don't know what else to say about it, Kaitlyn. I mean you said you didn't want to talk to me about it because it had to do with relationships, but so far, you literally did not mention one thing that actually had to do with relationships?" Silence falls between the two of you. You tilt your head back, resting it gently against the headrest; watching the road signs along highway blur as the dilapidated VW grumbles past them. One after another. Your vision clouds suddenly, the back of your eyes stinging as you rapidly blink away tears. Slowly exhaling a shaky breath, you quietly say, "You didn't see her face, Zack. You didn't see how... how happy she looked." Zack looks over at you, about to respond, when Tyler suddenly yawns and sleepily asks, "Hey, are we there yet?"
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buddaimond · 7 years
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Yahoo Movies exclusive interview with Robert Pattinson by Kevin Polowy
How familiar were you with the source material for Lost City of Z? Had you read David Grann’s book?
Yeah, James gave me the book when it was a totally different script. Or I may have read it long before there was even a script at all. I think at the time he was thinking about me to play Percy’s son. Because I must’ve only been about 21. And then I just kind of stayed with it as time went on, and it went through all these different casts. [Laughs]
It sounds like the script changed a lot through the years. What were the biggest changes made over time?
When I first read it, it was a straight action movie, like Indiana Jones. It was this rip-roaring adventure movie, and not this kind of epic, elegant saga that takes place over 30 years.
Costin is a much more minor character in the book. What did you build off of to shape him?
Well, I always thought with Percy’s character it would be a good idea to have a foil. I always interpreted Percy’s character as this man determined to fix the reputation that he thinks he’s deserved, and which his father has ruined for him. … He keeps going back to the jungle again and again and again, just to fix this insecurity. So I liked the idea of Costin being this character who basically had a total disregard for the English aristocracy or any kind of social climbing whatsoever. So he didn’t really want to bring anything back from the jungle, anyway. The entire point for him was just to go because he had nothing to live for in England.
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How much information was out there about the real guy? Any sense of his military career?
Well, Costin in reality was a refrigerator salesman. There was an advert in the Times of London saying, “Adventurers Wanted.” That’s actually how he got the job. [Laughs] He was one of the only people who applied for it. But he was in the army — he was a physical fitness instructor. But really, I liked the craziness of just applying to be an adventurer.
You rock some pretty rad facial hair in this movie. Did that look grow on you — pun intended — or did you not care for it?
By the end, I was definitely over it. But at least when you’re shooting a movie with your face covered, there’s very little makeup to be done. It was definitely a “Get out of bed and that’s it” situation. That helped in the middle of the jungle.
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You’ve played lead roles, you’ve taken supporting parts — this is more of a supporting role in an ensemble. Do you have a preference these days?
There are certain directors I just really want to work with, and you bring what you can to a part. But in some ways it’s kind of nice [to play a supporting role]. It is a little bit liberating because you don’t have to concentrate on the narrative thrust of the story. You’re just purely thinking about character and just embellishing it a little bit. But with this, I would’ve played any part in it, pretty much.
Costin has some great lines in this movie. I think one of my favorites is when you say to Hunnam, “We’re too British for this jungle.” Did you guys feel out of your element filming in the jungles of Colombia?
No, I really loved it. I guess in some ways, it was kind of hard. But it’s just incredible, going to work every day in a little boat, going up river in the middle of virgin jungle in Colombia. It was very, very close to being on vacation, to be honest. [Laughs]
But the type of vacation where you couldn’t eat anything?
Well, yeah. There’s a certain degree of harshness, and we were trying to lose as much as weight as possible in a really short period of time. So I guess there’s that element to it. But there’s a reason those guys wanted to keep going back as well. It’s amazing.
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Do you consider yourself pretty adventurous? Could your relate to that thirst for exploration?
Yeah, definitely. I do sometimes find myself gravitating toward a job just because it’s shooting out in the middle of nowhere. If I’m shooting in a city, generally it can become a repetitive scenario. If you have anyone taking pictures on their phones, it just constantly reminds you of the reality of your life. And I find it becomes a little more difficult. Whereas if you’re out in the jungle and everyone is on the same page as you, you just sort of believe in character a little bit more.
What is your own personal Amazonian adventure? What is the biggest risk you’ve taken in your career so far?
I don’t know: I’ve done things which I thought were going to be really risky, which ended up not being risky at all. I generally try to keep finding ways to push the envelope as much as I can, and whenever I get the opportunity to do it, I generally try to take it. But I don’t really worry about taking risks, to be honest.
What’s something you thought was risky that ended up not being so?
I did this movie years ago called Bel Ami, which was at the height of all the Twilight stuff. It was this Guy de Maupassant novel about a guy who seduces women specifically to screw them out of their money and ruin their lives. I thought that was a relatively subversive choice to make at the time. [Laughs] And no one really seemed to think the same thing.
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What is your relationship with your Twilight fan base these days? Has the madness that surrounded your life calmed down at all?
It’s definitely calmed down in terms of my everyday life, but mainly because I spend more time in London, which is totally different. And I’m doing more parts that just sort of interest me, while in a lot of ways taking a little bit of a step back just to learn and get better. I guess I’ve never really acknowledged what the fan base is, or even if I have one. [Laughs]
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Oh, you have one.
But, yeah, I’m always pretty curious about what people say afterward, and who turns up, who likes the movie. It’s always kind of random. But I love it when someone who you just really wouldn’t expect says, “Oh, I liked you in this.”
What films have been most unexpected?
It’s always just really strange. I’ve done a bunch of movies which I thought might’ve been impossible to be seen. There was this film Little Ashes, where I played Salvador Dalí, from years and years ago, and just the other day I was walking down the street and somebody came up and said, “Oh, that’s my favorite film!” You kind of forget that people even watch your films. [Laughs]
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What do you think of all the universe building that is going on in Hollywood right now and the possibility that they could reboot Twilight and expand its world? Could you ever see yourself playing Edward Cullen again?
Really, they’re expanding it? So I’ll get my own spin-off? [Laughs]
Potentially! It could be called Edward: Homecoming.
Yeah, exactly.
But would you ever dip back in if the opportunity presented itself?
I mean, I’m always kind of curious. Anything where there’s a mass audience — or seemingly an audience for it — I always like the idea of subverting people’s expectations. So there could be some radical way of doing it, which could be quite fun. It’s always difficult when there’s no source material. But, yeah, I’m always curious.
What type of role haven’t you been offered yet that you’re eager for?
I sort of, to a fault, rely a little bit too much on being inspired by things that land on my doorstep. I literally just did this movie called Good Time, which I think is a really interesting role. But I would’ve never, ever predicted that I would’ve liked it. [Pattinson plays a New York bank robber running from the police.] I think that he’s basically the embodiment of an angry commenter on the Internet.
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That sounds great.
Well, if you watch the movie you’ll probably be like, “Huh? What are you talking about?” But one of my favorite things to do — this is quite embarrassing — but you know how when you look on Amazon and you see a product that’s got a consumer review that is so scathing, on like an electric toothbrush or something? Like, literally buying this toothbrush has ruined this person’s life. I always click on that person’s buying history, or their other reviews, and I’ll just read them for days and days. And I’m really amused. These people just have to vent this kind of furious anger on product reviews. I’ve always found that sort of character really interesting. [Laughs]
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“The Lost City of Z”, opens today April 14 2017 in NY and LA, with a wider release on Friday, April 21.
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darling-i-fancy-you · 8 years
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A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Kiss Me (4)
[A/N: Okay so this is fourth time attempting to upload this chapter now! It’s been revised a little since it was last mistakenly uploaded, just the final part of the chapter. I feel a bit ‘blah’ on this one, I’m not 100% sold on it but that’s because I really just want to move onto the next chapter, I have so many good things to come! (I hope!)
I’m really thankful for all the messages as well, you’re all awesome and I’m loving that you’re loving this. Despite my feelings on this chapter I hope you enjoy it!]
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‘Can we walk to Pop’s?’ Betty asked as you began to walk down the path of your neighbourhood. She was picking the lilac nail polish off from her nails, studying them with a deep focus.
‘Yeah, sure.’ Your voice was flat, ‘Can you start telling me whilst we walk over?’
Betty hummed and nodded. She began to tell you how she and Veronica felt about the whole situation that had transpired last night. She said that what Jug had done to you was completely unacceptable, that just because he was Jughead Jones it did not mean he could treat people like total trash. Her words stung but they were same words you had spoken to yourself, you wonder exactly where she was going with her tale.
She went on to tell you that she had tricked Jughead into meeting her and Veronica at the diner with the promise of a burger and with the incentive that it would be all of you meeting up. You could tell that the worst of Betty’s story was still yet to become and as if on cue she began to fall quiet.
You felt a nervous bubble of anticipation forming in your stomach, you stopped in your tracks and stared a Betty who was nervously pulling at the sleeve of her jumper. What could Betty have done to Jughead that caused him to storm out of the diner like he did last night?
‘Betty-’ you asked firmly, ‘what did you do?’
The blonde girl looked at you - like a deer caught in the headlights.
‘Betty.’ You demanded.
The doe-eyed girl looked into your eyes timidly. She started to tell you quietly exactly what they had both told Jughead; with each word she said your brows knitted further and further together in anger.
‘We didn’t expect him to get so angry.’ Betty mumbled to the floor.
You had reached your destination at Pop’s; as you walked through the door you noticed it was unusually quiet for a mid-morning Saturday. And as you both sat down in your usual booth you couldn’t say that you were particularly hungry.
‘Did Archie find him?’ you murmured. You hated that after everything that asshole had done to you that you were still concerned for him.
Betty scoffed, ‘Yeah he found him alright. They got into a bit of a fight.’
‘What?’ You asked in disbelief.
Betty then explained the scuffle she and Ronnie had watched from her bedroom window. She said Jughead had been waiting for him and that when Archie got home he started shouting something but they couldn’t hear what; eventually the guys started throwing punches at each other until it looked like Archie had broken Jughead’s nose.
Good. You thought bitterly, he deserved to feel some pain.
‘But then-’ The blonde girl began to get quiet again, she distracted herself by playing with the salt-shaker.
‘Spit it out, Betty.’ You weren’t in any mood to be tiptoed around with today.
‘Okay, so Jughead hasn’t been seen since last night. We’ve tried texting him and ringing him but he just won’t answer.’ Betty spoke rapidly. ‘Mo, it’s probably nothing to worry about but we’re just a little concerned. I mean what with the whole Jaso-’
The incessant ringing of the phone in your back pocket cut Betty off. A backlog of texts seemed to be pouring into your phone as it ‘dinged’ continuously. You pulled the phone from your pocket and stared at the screen, messages upon messages were flashing up: Kevin, Veronica, Kevin, Kevin, Archie, Veronica, Veronica, Archie, Kevin, again and again.
You studied your phone curiously, your index finger slid across the screen to open the messages.
Kevin: Jason’s body. I found it. By the lake.
Veronica: Has Kevin texted you? He’s found Jason’s body, like what the hell? X
Kevin: You’ve got to come down here.
Kevin: He was shot.
Archie: Did Kevin text you too? Meet me by the lake xx
Veronica: Is Betty with you? She’s not answering.
Veronica: Hellooooooooooo???? x
The messages went on and on and they were still pouring in; you handed your phone to Betty.
‘He’ll probably be there.’ The anxiety that had effervesced within you now evaporated, you knew without a doubt that he would be by the lake studying the morbid discovery that had washed up onto the bank. Although you were still a tiny bit concerned that Betty and Veronica had managed to make him so angry in the first place.
You noticed that Betty began to raise herself out of the booth.
‘We’ve gotta go!’ She said frantically, handing your phone back to you.
‘You can go, Bets,’ you sighed, ‘but I just don’t feel up to seeing a dead body today.’
Betty huffed and stomped her foot.
‘That only works on V.’ you pointed out to her, thoroughly unimpressed.
‘C’mon M, if it’s because he’ll be there, then I’m sure Archie won’t mind threatening him with another punch if you want him to stay away.’ She smiled softly and held out her hand to you. Betty Cooper used her sunny disposition to win you over once more.
‘Okay, let’s go ask my Dad if I can use his truck.’
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It seemed like the whole town was down at the lake by the time you and Betty got there. You spotted on the far right hand side of the lake Veronica and Archie who were watching Kevin speak to his dad. Your dad was also down there, observing the body of the very dead Jason Blossom, you wondered if your mom knew what had happened down here before you left the house this morning. Veronica suddenly caught sight of Betty and began storming up the incline to meet you both, Archie spun around and smiled solemnly at you.
‘Betty Cooper, do you know what a mobile phone is?!’ Ronnie berated her girlfriend. ‘I have been worried sick-’
Betty grabbed Ron by the shoulders and smiled sweetly, ‘Ronnie, you knew I was going over to Mona’s, stop being so dramatic.’ She sighed and rubbed her hands down the brunette’s arms in a soothing motion.
Archie began to make his way up the incline to the three of you, his hands wedged firmly into his pockets.
‘I think Kevin’s gonna be finished up soon,’ he announced and the girls turned to face him, ‘we could all head back to mine, kick back and watch some movies?’ He suggested and the two girls hummed in agreement.
Your eyes were too busy scanning the crowds of people to focus on the redhead’s words. You had to make sure that your suspicions were correct, that he was here, just for your peace of mind.
‘He was here,’ Archie sighed, as if reading your mind.
Your head snapped up to his face and red blush began to creep from your neck to your cheeks, you must have seemed totally desperate.
‘He was pretty beat up, which was my fault,’ Archie continued, ‘But he was here and alive, if that’s what you was wondering.’
You nodded timidly and looked down at the black dead leaves under your feet.
‘Okay guys, get me out of here!’ Kevin hollered as he bundled up the leafy slope, the mourners at the bottom of the lake looked up with distaste. ‘That was absolutely mortifying.’
‘I can’t even imagine what it must be like to find a dead body.’ Betty hushed as she linked one arm through Kevin’s and the other through Ronnie’s.
‘Oh god, that bit was a walk in the park’ he rolled his eyes, ‘try explaining to your dad why you were with Moose Mason at twelve o’clock on a Friday night down by the river!’
‘Why you were with Moose Mason at twelve o’clock on a Friday night down by the river?’ Veronica sniggered.
‘Oh honey, you don’t wanna know.’ Kevin smirked.
As the five of you made your way back up to the car-park Archie slung one of his free arms around your shoulders and smiled down at you. His warm brown eyes stared back into yours.
‘It’s gonna be okay.’ He muttered quietly, just to you, and when he smiled like that you were inclined to agree.
-
He knew why they had done what they did.
To teach him a lesson: that it wasn’t nice to mess around with people’s feelings, especially people you actually cared about.
Jughead knew that his relationship with Mona was different to his relationships with Betty, Veronica, and even Archie. He had known for some time that Mo had some kind of crush on him and he wished she could have been like Betty or Veronica. He questioned why it seemed impossible for a girl and guy to simply be friends without strange and complicated feelings getting in the way.
Why did she have to ruin a good thing? He thought to himself, as he shuffled away from Archie Andrews’ house.
They worked well as friends: she always knew the right time to place a hilarious sarcastic comment- usually when he was drinking so the liquid would burst from his nose. She was always on hand for him to vent when his creative streak ran dry- sometimes she’d offer one of the best one-liners she could think of and suddenly the pool would flood in again. She never seemed to mind if he stole a fry or better yet an entire burger off her plate and she’d do anything he asked with barely even a question as to why.
And now that he was beginning to think about it, what did he even bring to the friendship?
Jughead raised a tentative hand up towards his nose, the brush of his fingers caused a hot pain to erupt from the bone and he groaned quietly in agony. He just hoped the break wasn’t bad enough to warrant a trip to the hospital, there’s no way he could afford to go there and get his nose reset. In the past he would have considered allowing Mo’s mom to take a look at it but now that option seemed highly improbable. He imagined Mo would probably see his pain as a fitting punishment for his actions tonight but Jughead begged to disagree; the universe could have dealt him a much bigger blow than anything Archie Andrews could throw at him and it still wouldn’t be punishment enough.
He felt shitty. More than shitty. What’s the shittiest you could possibly feel? That’s how Jughead Jones felt.  And if Mo felt anywhere near as shitty as he did then that would only make him feel shittier.
He couldn’t even develop a decent enough excuse as to why he had stood up Mo tonight. A lead on the Jason Bloom case? Pathetic. He was chicken shit and he knew it. Archie knew it too. And Betty and Veronica.
He couldn’t claim innocence that in the past he had no idea what he was doing to her. When he let out a sarcastic quip it was for her benefit, to see her smile mischievously over her milkshake at Pop’s. Every time he stole a fry from her plate it was so that she’d playfully fight him and feign annoyance. He’d rest his head on her shoulder in Pop’s, when the writing well had dried up and his eyes were beginning to sting, he’d hear her breathing become shallower and he knew what it meant.
When he’d ask her to go to the dance with him he saw the light shining behind her eyes. He couldn’t miss the soft smile that graced her lips as they made plans in the following days, she was trying not to give away how much it meant to her but he knew her better than that.
Being in that situation though, at the dance with her in that dress, it scared the ever living shit out of him.
Being so close to her, feeling her breath on his neck as he did the gentlemanly thing and offered her a dance because god did she deserve that, it terrified him.
Looking into her eyes as she told him what a lovely night she had with him and all he could think about was placing a kiss on her cheek, he couldn’t do it.
That wasn’t him. He wished it was. For her he wished it was but he couldn’t offer her those things.  
That’s why he sent Archie, the knight in shining armour, too shiny it seemed.
If there was ever a last chance for Jug to act on his wildest dreams it was last night; but rather than play that part he let the lead girl fall into the arms of another man. A better man.
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Business ImageDianne Feinstein’s anger over the treatment of Anita Hill in 1991 helped fuel her rise to the Senate.CreditCreditErin Schaff for The New York TimesWASHINGTON — In October 1991, Dianne Feinstein, the former mayor of San Francisco, joined a silent crowd gathered around a television at Heathrow Airport in London to watch an all-male Senate Judiciary Committee question a young law professor about allegations that a Supreme Court nominee had sexually harassed her.Enraged by what she saw in the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings, Ms. Feinstein ran for and won a Senate seat in California the next fall — and shortly after, a spot on the Judiciary Committee.“Every woman that watched that changed,” Ms. Feinstein said in an interview last month with “The Daily,” a New York Times podcast, reflecting on what became known as the Year of the Woman. “I think change happened at that moment. What I am thinking to myself is, ‘Can I change this?’”Twenty-seven years later, Ms. Feinstein, now the Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat, appears to finally have a chance to alter the course not just of a Supreme Court nomination but also a churning cultural conversation about women and sexual assault. But “change” is proving to be very complicated.By disclosing the existence of a letter accusing Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual assault — a letter she had held secretly for weeks — Ms. Feinstein helped precipitate the outing of a reluctant accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, just days before a confirmation vote. In doing so, she has brought back to the forefront many of the same themes that Ms. Hill’s testimony raised a quarter century ago, and exposed herself to withering criticism, perhaps the worst of her Senate career.Even before the letter emerged, Ms. Feinstein had found herself criticized by liberal Democrats who believed she had been too timid and deferential in her treatment of Judge Kavanaugh, President Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee.“We need a senator from California who will stand up and #RESIST not #ASSIST,” State Senator Kevin de León, who is challenging Ms. Feinstein for her Senate seat, said after she had all but apologized to Judge Kavanaugh for the liberal protesters who interrupted his confirmation hearings.Ms. Feinstein, at 85 the oldest member of the Senate, has at times appeared bewildered by the swirl of attention. Surrounded earlier this week by dozens of reporters as she moved through the Capitol, she waved her hands as if to cut off the questioning. At another point, she told a Fox News reporter on Tuesday, “I can’t say everything’s truthful” in Dr. Blasey’s account. She later cleaned up the remark, but not before the White House seized on it.Now, as Dr. Blasey, a California university professor, appears willing once again to come forward with testimony against Judge Kavanaugh, Ms. Feinstein faces unrelenting questions about her handling of the matter, and perhaps more pressing ones about how to navigate what comes next.“When Senator Feinstein sat with Judge Kavanaugh for a long period of time — a long, long meeting — she had this letter,” President Trump said on Tuesday. “Why didn’t she bring it up? Why didn’t the Democrats bring it up then? Because they obstruct and because they resist.”VideoDuring a joint news conference with President Andrzej Duda of Poland, President Trump reaffirmed his defense of his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who has been accused of sexual assault.Published OnSept. 18, 2018CreditCreditImage by Doug Mills/The New York TimesRepublican senators, wary of attacking Dr. Blasey directly, have piled on Ms. Feinstein instead, dispensing with much of the courtesy typically extended to a fellow lawmaker over what they see as a cynical 11th-hour effort to derail Judge Kavanaugh: “An ambush attack,” said Senator John Thune of South Dakota. A “drive by,” said Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas.Even Ms. Feinstein’s hometown newspaper, The San Francisco Chronicle, blasted the senator’s approach as “unfair,” specifically her release last week of a cryptic statement that she had referred a “matter to federal investigative authorities,” without saying what the matter was or whom it involved.“Feinstein has been around Washington long enough to know that her opaque statement guaranteed that the contents of the letter, sent by a Stanford law professor on behalf of the accuser, would be pursued and publicized in short order,” the paper’s editorial board wrote on Monday.ImageMs. Feinstein in 1985, when she was the mayor of San Francisco.CreditBoris Yurchenko/Associated PressMs. Feinstein has denied that she calculated much of anything — she was simply honoring Dr. Blasey’s wish for privacy. Aides say that in private, Ms. Feinstein has been taken aback by the intensity and repetition of the criticism, but expressed confidence she handled the situation correctly. Dr. Blasey’s lawyers and outside groups that work on women’s rights issues have agreed.“President Trump, Dr. Blasey Ford did not want her story of sexual assault to be public,” Ms. Feinstein wrote Wednesday on Twitter. “She requested confidentiality and I honored that. It wasn’t until the media outed her that she decided to come forward. You may not respect women and the wishes of victims, but I do.”A spokesman declined to make Ms. Feinstein available for an interview, but in statements, she has given Dr. Blasey forceful backing, accusing Republicans of short-circuiting a proper investigation on the matter by rushing a hearing.It is an odd position for Ms. Feinstein, a patrician Democrat who prizes her reputation as a dealmaker and puts relationships with Republicans above partisan credentials. In August, when Mr. Grassley and his wife celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary, Ms. Feinstein sent a white orchid — the kind of charm that typically accompanies her overtures to Republican senators.For more liberal Democrats who have rallied around hard-nosed resistance to Mr. Trump, the results are often frustrating. The senator’s apparent apology to Judge Kavanaugh for the protesters, for instance, drew sharp dismissals from liberals on Twitter such as Leah Litman, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine.Ms. Feinstein first learned of Dr. Blasey’s story in late July, when Representative Anna Eshoo, a fellow California Democrat, hand-delivered the letter to the senator’s office in Washington. Ms. Feinstein’s staff asked the Senate Ethics Committee whether the senator could hire an independent, outside counsel to represent Dr. Blasey. But that would have required the signoff of two Republican chairmen, a violation of Ms. Feinstein’s pledge of confidentiality, so the effort was dropped.Around the same time, Dr. Blasey retained a lawyer, Debra Katz, with whom Feinstein staff members repeatedly consulted in the ensuing weeks to see if the accuser would go public. She declined, even as senators sounded alarms about the implications of Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation on women’s rights.“Feinstein was really an honest broker in this in saying: ‘These are serious allegations, and I will do what you would like. I will respect your decision,’” Ms. Katz said in an interview.But as Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings barreled ahead, and speculation about the letter began to spread across Capitol Hill, the calculus changed. Under pressure from other Democratic senators on the committee, several of whom felt any serious allegation must be publicized, Ms. Feinstein called a meeting on Sept. 12 to brief them on its contents for the first time.After redacting Dr. Blasey’s name, she sent it to the F.B.I. that night, and issued her cryptic statement the next day acknowledging publicly for the first time that she had received “information from an individual concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.” Within hours, news outlets, including The Times, reported the broad outlines of its contents. On Sunday, Dr. Blasey identified herself to The Washington Post.Some committee Democrats privately vented that Ms. Feinstein should have found a way forward earlier with a potentially nomination-changing accusation. But in the days since the accusation became public, Democrats have closed ranks.“Senator Feinstein faced a choice that none of us would want to, and I think she handled it responsibly,” said Senator Richard J. Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who sits on the panel. “What was Senator Feinstein to do at this point, ignore her request, make it public to the embarrassment of her and her family?”Outside of written statements, Ms. Feinstein has done little to defend her thinking. And the senator has only muddled her own case when speaking with reporters this week — sometimes despite reminders from staff members that she need not answer questions.When, for example, one reporter asked Ms. Feinstein as she entered the Senate on Monday evening if she had had any discussions with Dr. Blasey after receiving the letter, the senator could not recall.“I’ll have to look back,” she said. “I don’t know right now.”Then she walked out of reach. Read More | https://ift.tt/2poBQCt |
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Business ImageDianne Feinstein’s anger over the treatment of Anita Hill in 1991 helped fuel her rise to the Senate.CreditCreditErin Schaff for The New York TimesWASHINGTON — In October 1991, Dianne Feinstein, the former mayor of San Francisco, joined a silent crowd gathered around a television at Heathrow Airport in London to watch an all-male Senate Judiciary Committee question a young law professor about allegations that a Supreme Court nominee had sexually harassed her.Enraged by what she saw in the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings, Ms. Feinstein ran for and won a Senate seat in California the next fall — and shortly after, a spot on the Judiciary Committee.“Every woman that watched that changed,” Ms. Feinstein said in an interview last month with “The Daily,” a New York Times podcast, reflecting on what became known as the Year of the Woman. “I think change happened at that moment. What I am thinking to myself is, ‘Can I change this?’”Twenty-seven years later, Ms. Feinstein, now the Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat, appears to finally have a chance to alter the course not just of a Supreme Court nomination but also a churning cultural conversation about women and sexual assault. But “change” is proving to be very complicated.By disclosing the existence of a letter accusing Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual assault — a letter she had held secretly for weeks — Ms. Feinstein helped precipitate the outing of a reluctant accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, just days before a confirmation vote. In doing so, she has brought back to the forefront many of the same themes that Ms. Hill’s testimony raised a quarter century ago, and exposed herself to withering criticism, perhaps the worst of her Senate career.Even before the letter emerged, Ms. Feinstein had found herself criticized by liberal Democrats who believed she had been too timid and deferential in her treatment of Judge Kavanaugh, President Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee.“We need a senator from California who will stand up and #RESIST not #ASSIST,” State Senator Kevin de León, who is challenging Ms. Feinstein for her Senate seat, said after she had all but apologized to Judge Kavanaugh for the liberal protesters who interrupted his confirmation hearings.Ms. Feinstein, at 85 the oldest member of the Senate, has at times appeared bewildered by the swirl of attention. Surrounded earlier this week by dozens of reporters as she moved through the Capitol, she waved her hands as if to cut off the questioning. At another point, she told a Fox News reporter on Tuesday, “I can’t say everything’s truthful” in Dr. Blasey’s account. She later cleaned up the remark, but not before the White House seized on it.Now, as Dr. Blasey, a California university professor, appears willing once again to come forward with testimony against Judge Kavanaugh, Ms. Feinstein faces unrelenting questions about her handling of the matter, and perhaps more pressing ones about how to navigate what comes next.“When Senator Feinstein sat with Judge Kavanaugh for a long period of time — a long, long meeting — she had this letter,” President Trump said on Tuesday. “Why didn’t she bring it up? Why didn’t the Democrats bring it up then? Because they obstruct and because they resist.”VideoDuring a joint news conference with President Andrzej Duda of Poland, President Trump reaffirmed his defense of his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who has been accused of sexual assault.Published OnSept. 18, 2018CreditCreditImage by Doug Mills/The New York TimesRepublican senators, wary of attacking Dr. Blasey directly, have piled on Ms. Feinstein instead, dispensing with much of the courtesy typically extended to a fellow lawmaker over what they see as a cynical 11th-hour effort to derail Judge Kavanaugh: “An ambush attack,” said Senator John Thune of South Dakota. A “drive by,” said Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas.Even Ms. Feinstein’s hometown newspaper, The San Francisco Chronicle, blasted the senator’s approach as “unfair,” specifically her release last week of a cryptic statement that she had referred a “matter to federal investigative authorities,” without saying what the matter was or whom it involved.“Feinstein has been around Washington long enough to know that her opaque statement guaranteed that the contents of the letter, sent by a Stanford law professor on behalf of the accuser, would be pursued and publicized in short order,” the paper’s editorial board wrote on Monday.ImageMs. Feinstein in 1985, when she was the mayor of San Francisco.CreditBoris Yurchenko/Associated PressMs. Feinstein has denied that she calculated much of anything — she was simply honoring Dr. Blasey’s wish for privacy. Aides say that in private, Ms. Feinstein has been taken aback by the intensity and repetition of the criticism, but expressed confidence she handled the situation correctly. Dr. Blasey’s lawyers and outside groups that work on women’s rights issues have agreed.“President Trump, Dr. Blasey Ford did not want her story of sexual assault to be public,” Ms. Feinstein wrote Wednesday on Twitter. “She requested confidentiality and I honored that. It wasn’t until the media outed her that she decided to come forward. You may not respect women and the wishes of victims, but I do.”A spokesman declined to make Ms. Feinstein available for an interview, but in statements, she has given Dr. Blasey forceful backing, accusing Republicans of short-circuiting a proper investigation on the matter by rushing a hearing.It is an odd position for Ms. Feinstein, a patrician Democrat who prizes her reputation as a dealmaker and puts relationships with Republicans above partisan credentials. In August, when Mr. Grassley and his wife celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary, Ms. Feinstein sent a white orchid — the kind of charm that typically accompanies her overtures to Republican senators.For more liberal Democrats who have rallied around hard-nosed resistance to Mr. Trump, the results are often frustrating. The senator’s apparent apology to Judge Kavanaugh for the protesters, for instance, drew sharp dismissals from liberals on Twitter such as Leah Litman, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine.Ms. Feinstein first learned of Dr. Blasey’s story in late July, when Representative Anna Eshoo, a fellow California Democrat, hand-delivered the letter to the senator’s office in Washington. Ms. Feinstein’s staff asked the Senate Ethics Committee whether the senator could hire an independent, outside counsel to represent Dr. Blasey. But that would have required the signoff of two Republican chairmen, a violation of Ms. Feinstein’s pledge of confidentiality, so the effort was dropped.Around the same time, Dr. Blasey retained a lawyer, Debra Katz, with whom Feinstein staff members repeatedly consulted in the ensuing weeks to see if the accuser would go public. She declined, even as senators sounded alarms about the implications of Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation on women’s rights.“Feinstein was really an honest broker in this in saying: ‘These are serious allegations, and I will do what you would like. I will respect your decision,’” Ms. Katz said in an interview.But as Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings barreled ahead, and speculation about the letter began to spread across Capitol Hill, the calculus changed. Under pressure from other Democratic senators on the committee, several of whom felt any serious allegation must be publicized, Ms. Feinstein called a meeting on Sept. 12 to brief them on its contents for the first time.After redacting Dr. Blasey’s name, she sent it to the F.B.I. that night, and issued her cryptic statement the next day acknowledging publicly for the first time that she had received “information from an individual concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.” Within hours, news outlets, including The Times, reported the broad outlines of its contents. On Sunday, Dr. Blasey identified herself to The Washington Post.Some committee Democrats privately vented that Ms. Feinstein should have found a way forward earlier with a potentially nomination-changing accusation. But in the days since the accusation became public, Democrats have closed ranks.“Senator Feinstein faced a choice that none of us would want to, and I think she handled it responsibly,” said Senator Richard J. Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who sits on the panel. “What was Senator Feinstein to do at this point, ignore her request, make it public to the embarrassment of her and her family?”Outside of written statements, Ms. Feinstein has done little to defend her thinking. And the senator has only muddled her own case when speaking with reporters this week — sometimes despite reminders from staff members that she need not answer questions.When, for example, one reporter asked Ms. Feinstein as she entered the Senate on Monday evening if she had had any discussions with Dr. Blasey after receiving the letter, the senator could not recall.“I’ll have to look back,” she said. “I don’t know right now.”Then she walked out of reach. Read More | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/dianne-feinstein-brett-kavanaugh-sexual-misconduct.html |
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Business ImageDianne Feinstein’s anger over the treatment of Anita Hill in 1991 helped fuel her rise to the Senate.CreditCreditErin Schaff for The New York TimesWASHINGTON — In October 1991, Dianne Feinstein, the former mayor of San Francisco, joined a silent crowd gathered around a television at Heathrow Airport in London to watch an all-male Senate Judiciary Committee question a young law professor about allegations that a Supreme Court nominee had sexually harassed her.Enraged by what she saw in the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas hearings, Ms. Feinstein ran for and won a Senate seat in California the next fall — and shortly after, a spot on the Judiciary Committee.“Every woman that watched that changed,” Ms. Feinstein said in an interview last month with “The Daily,” a New York Times podcast, reflecting on what became known as the Year of the Woman. “I think change happened at that moment. What I am thinking to myself is, ‘Can I change this?’”Twenty-seven years later, Ms. Feinstein, now the Judiciary Committee’s top Democrat, appears to finally have a chance to alter the course not just of a Supreme Court nomination but also a churning cultural conversation about women and sexual assault. But “change” is proving to be very complicated.By disclosing the existence of a letter accusing Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual assault — a letter she had held secretly for weeks — Ms. Feinstein helped precipitate the outing of a reluctant accuser, Christine Blasey Ford, just days before a confirmation vote. In doing so, she has brought back to the forefront many of the same themes that Ms. Hill’s testimony raised a quarter century ago, and exposed herself to withering criticism, perhaps the worst of her Senate career.Even before the letter emerged, Ms. Feinstein had found herself criticized by liberal Democrats who believed she had been too timid and deferential in her treatment of Judge Kavanaugh, President Trump’s second Supreme Court nominee.“We need a senator from California who will stand up and #RESIST not #ASSIST,” State Senator Kevin de León, who is challenging Ms. Feinstein for her Senate seat, said after she had all but apologized to Judge Kavanaugh for the liberal protesters who interrupted his confirmation hearings.Ms. Feinstein, at 85 the oldest member of the Senate, has at times appeared bewildered by the swirl of attention. Surrounded earlier this week by dozens of reporters as she moved through the Capitol, she waved her hands as if to cut off the questioning. At another point, she told a Fox News reporter on Tuesday, “I can’t say everything’s truthful” in Dr. Blasey’s account. She later cleaned up the remark, but not before the White House seized on it.Now, as Dr. Blasey, a California university professor, appears willing once again to come forward with testimony against Judge Kavanaugh, Ms. Feinstein faces unrelenting questions about her handling of the matter, and perhaps more pressing ones about how to navigate what comes next.“When Senator Feinstein sat with Judge Kavanaugh for a long period of time — a long, long meeting — she had this letter,” President Trump said on Tuesday. “Why didn’t she bring it up? Why didn’t the Democrats bring it up then? Because they obstruct and because they resist.”VideoDuring a joint news conference with President Andrzej Duda of Poland, President Trump reaffirmed his defense of his Supreme Court nominee, Judge Brett Kavanaugh, who has been accused of sexual assault.Published OnSept. 18, 2018CreditCreditImage by Doug Mills/The New York TimesRepublican senators, wary of attacking Dr. Blasey directly, have piled on Ms. Feinstein instead, dispensing with much of the courtesy typically extended to a fellow lawmaker over what they see as a cynical 11th-hour effort to derail Judge Kavanaugh: “An ambush attack,” said Senator John Thune of South Dakota. A “drive by,” said Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas.Even Ms. Feinstein’s hometown newspaper, The San Francisco Chronicle, blasted the senator’s approach as “unfair,” specifically her release last week of a cryptic statement that she had referred a “matter to federal investigative authorities,” without saying what the matter was or whom it involved.“Feinstein has been around Washington long enough to know that her opaque statement guaranteed that the contents of the letter, sent by a Stanford law professor on behalf of the accuser, would be pursued and publicized in short order,” the paper’s editorial board wrote on Monday.ImageMs. Feinstein in 1985, when she was the mayor of San Francisco.CreditBoris Yurchenko/Associated PressMs. Feinstein has denied that she calculated much of anything — she was simply honoring Dr. Blasey’s wish for privacy. Aides say that in private, Ms. Feinstein has been taken aback by the intensity and repetition of the criticism, but expressed confidence she handled the situation correctly. Dr. Blasey’s lawyers and outside groups that work on women’s rights issues have agreed.“President Trump, Dr. Blasey Ford did not want her story of sexual assault to be public,” Ms. Feinstein wrote Wednesday on Twitter. “She requested confidentiality and I honored that. It wasn’t until the media outed her that she decided to come forward. You may not respect women and the wishes of victims, but I do.”A spokesman declined to make Ms. Feinstein available for an interview, but in statements, she has given Dr. Blasey forceful backing, accusing Republicans of short-circuiting a proper investigation on the matter by rushing a hearing.It is an odd position for Ms. Feinstein, a patrician Democrat who prizes her reputation as a dealmaker and puts relationships with Republicans above partisan credentials. In August, when Mr. Grassley and his wife celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary, Ms. Feinstein sent a white orchid — the kind of charm that typically accompanies her overtures to Republican senators.For more liberal Democrats who have rallied around hard-nosed resistance to Mr. Trump, the results are often frustrating. The senator’s apparent apology to Judge Kavanaugh for the protesters, for instance, drew sharp dismissals from liberals on Twitter such as Leah Litman, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine.Ms. Feinstein first learned of Dr. Blasey’s story in late July, when Representative Anna Eshoo, a fellow California Democrat, hand-delivered the letter to the senator’s office in Washington. Ms. Feinstein’s staff asked the Senate Ethics Committee whether the senator could hire an independent, outside counsel to represent Dr. Blasey. But that would have required the signoff of two Republican chairmen, a violation of Ms. Feinstein’s pledge of confidentiality, so the effort was dropped.Around the same time, Dr. Blasey retained a lawyer, Debra Katz, with whom Feinstein staff members repeatedly consulted in the ensuing weeks to see if the accuser would go public. She declined, even as senators sounded alarms about the implications of Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation on women’s rights.“Feinstein was really an honest broker in this in saying: ‘These are serious allegations, and I will do what you would like. I will respect your decision,’” Ms. Katz said in an interview.But as Judge Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings barreled ahead, and speculation about the letter began to spread across Capitol Hill, the calculus changed. Under pressure from other Democratic senators on the committee, several of whom felt any serious allegation must be publicized, Ms. Feinstein called a meeting on Sept. 12 to brief them on its contents for the first time.After redacting Dr. Blasey’s name, she sent it to the F.B.I. that night, and issued her cryptic statement the next day acknowledging publicly for the first time that she had received “information from an individual concerning the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.” Within hours, news outlets, including The Times, reported the broad outlines of its contents. On Sunday, Dr. Blasey identified herself to The Washington Post.Some committee Democrats privately vented that Ms. Feinstein should have found a way forward earlier with a potentially nomination-changing accusation. But in the days since the accusation became public, Democrats have closed ranks.“Senator Feinstein faced a choice that none of us would want to, and I think she handled it responsibly,” said Senator Richard J. Durbin, an Illinois Democrat who sits on the panel. “What was Senator Feinstein to do at this point, ignore her request, make it public to the embarrassment of her and her family?”Outside of written statements, Ms. Feinstein has done little to defend her thinking. And the senator has only muddled her own case when speaking with reporters this week — sometimes despite reminders from staff members that she need not answer questions.When, for example, one reporter asked Ms. Feinstein as she entered the Senate on Monday evening if she had had any discussions with Dr. Blasey after receiving the letter, the senator could not recall.“I’ll have to look back,” she said. “I don’t know right now.”Then she walked out of reach. Read More | https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/us/politics/dianne-feinstein-brett-kavanaugh-sexual-misconduct.html |
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[CHANGING MY NAME TO: Mo (first name) Torious (last name)]
i asked my parents if I could come up to westchester to have dinner with them, or to briefly stay while I looked for an apartment.
They said no. It’s funny, Dr Tabar at Belkvue Hospital (Dr Mounir, intake), told me that I should cut off my relationship with my mother. The only reason my father asked me to attend her 80th birthday party, was to keep up appearances. Before the night was over, and after my speech (unmmmzm....I got you a car), he told me in no uncertain terms that I am no longer welcome in his house. I dove get it. His brother Ladipo Fayemi is a caseworker at HRA HASA, who never once intervened for me, and who nobody in that agency thought to refer my case to. Mr. McCoy, used to make fun of the name. No matter, I no longer want to be called that.
I told them that since my father still continues to lie about not having received a copy of the doctored IRS Filings which Lucy Ostrofsky (acting in house counsel) had filed, directly ignoring my instructions, before I was forced out of the company and off the corporate bank account (it takes 3 members of management: myself, Richard McGinnis (Kurt Salmon Associates), President of Motorious Retail Stores (m&m/Mars Family: sponsor of Kyle Bush’s Toyota at NASXAR), patent holder, casino slot machine algorithms) and Philip Munger (who once, unbeknownst to me, withdrew $5,000 in cash from his personal Citibank account, and deposited it into my (the corporate) account, triggering FBI Money Laundering Red Flag: I have never even seen $5,000.00 in cash in one place in my entire life. I spent $500 to $10,000/month on my AMEX PLATINUM: and repaid it within 30 days. Beginning in 1992. Until I didn’t and went bankrupt for $60,000.
Bottom line: I don’t trust the man, and he and I no longer have a relationship. All he and my mother have done is agree with the psychiatrists who keep diagnosing me with paranoid delusions that I run a company. All this, I believe, because the only company he ever ran, ended up in trouble with the IRS. I’m beginning to be really suspect about his book selling and his AIDS Charity for orphans in Africa. Before he kicked me out of the house, he asked me if I wanted to help him with his Foundation, and I said « no » I want German citizenship.
A look at my brief work history shows I never stay in 1 place very long. What’s wrong with having wanted a change and to seek opportunities abroad?
Science Advisers, led by Norman Heyman, Jean Robert Le Shufy, and Kevin DeVito (New Capital Horizons, the US arm of New Capital AG in Switzerland: COPE Holdings (XTERA DAX | NASDAQ) Zuggero, CEO | lent ICV, llc (Integrated Concepts Vehicles, llc, Flipboard.com/@ICV_llc, the first $137,000 after I had lent the corporation $60,000.
MOTORIOUS MONEY GRID: says $100,000.00 loan am was made by Phil Munger on November 1, 1999. If that had been the case, why were none of the vendors at the show paid, and why did I receive a phone message on December 31, 1999 from Philip Munger: [email protected], the DAY AFTER I received a message from Wayne Irving of Spin Records that he had secured $25 Million from ING Barings?
My only Full Time Employee: John Goodwin, who I met at Pump No 8 at the Mobil Gas Station in Rancho Palos Verdea, took a salary of $80,000.00 + benefits + expense reimbursement, where on July 2, 1999 he secured an LOI with the Make A Wish charity for a proposed October 31, 2000 Charity Rade at Texas Motor Speedway.
He had 9 months to secure a deal with Ford to provide NASCAR vehicles for the event, which was supposed to commemorate 100 Years of Motorsports in America, and also commemorate both Ford and Harley Davidson’s 100th Anniversary. Moose returned saying that the sponsors (especially the protected sponsor, Coke, will not let the drivers out of their contests to drive the event)
Autoweek Magazine, the same issue it quoted several drivers as wanting to participate, reported that My Apple Laptop « had ears ». Motor Trend Magazine wrote an article entitled « The Automotive Analyst », a « fictitious story about a Wall Street analyst having problems with his wife, while talking to his shrink. The concluding sentence: « Build The Car »
My only contribution to Ford would have been when I called the $3 million monstrosity (Focus) built by John Colletti and Motor Trend: Ian Cartabiano has penned a sick Mis-Engined Ford Focus Rally Car, which was to have shared a platform with the Renault R5 (Nissan: where Doi had previously worked after NCIS).
That, and the referral from Mark Stehrenberger to Scott Sharpe Racing, to [Ford Tuner: I ferget] , who wrote a proposal for tuning the 4.0 liter Jaguar V8 for the Motorious Show Stand, as a potential BMW M5 competitor.
Of the $137,000.00 loan, $50,000 went to Mark Stehrenberger Design, who was to generate 3 proposals for the Deusenberg PHAETON: Mercedes Benz Ocean 4 door convertible concept...to. E build at the DRESDEN Factory in Germany), the other $50,000 went to Robert Marianich in Huntington Beach, who was to have converted his studio, and built a « clay resurfaced » proposal of the RIVOLUZIONW: 1999 LA Auto Show, next to Shelby Series One (I met Carroll at Jay Leno’s, where he asked me to contact his assistant, Pearlita Shelby, about helping him with production of the OLDSMOBILE AURORA Engined SERIES ONE: autopsia.wordpress.com, slated to return to INDYCAR, to replace the Honda unit, now that they created Touring Car.  
I wanted to get the rights to MG ROVER (BBC: BMW’s English Patient), known as Rover Sterling 825 in America (Acura Legend): ARCONA | After the misérable failure of Phoenix Holdings, which paid Queen Elizabeth the nominal sum of £10, and then before becoming the four most overpaid executives in the UK Auto Industry. I even went so far as to ask Lakshmi Mittal (Arcelor Mittal and Harris’s) if he would help me to purchase Land Rover from TATA.
CAR AND DRIVER MAGAZINE (Hearst Publications: Vladimir Putin) April Fool’s | Toyota buys Oldsmobile Trademark for $5,000.  
FIAT acquire the right to the Oldsmobile Aurora Engine through my partnership with Carroll Shelby, Gets the Oldsmobile Dealerships (10 year warrante on the engine), Change the nage to Alfa Romeo, and modify the engine for use in US Alfa’s, like the GT-V8, Spider Véloce (Duetto V8: BMWfilms.com Béat the Devil).
Unfortunately, John Goodwin went bankrupt, my ex-wife had a hidden camera in our bedroom vent (Waiting to Exhale, Bernadine’s Rage: 6624 Oceancrest Drive, RPV, CA, 90275). And all of our personal and my corporate accounts were closed on August 14, 2001, due to malfeasance on her part:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwNcNOTVzY
[The Private Bank: Union Bank of California (Mitsubishi Sumitomo: KIRETSU): Peggy Fahnestock, Gloria Marquez: who refinanced my BMW Financial Loan from JP Morgan Chase, because it was higher interest rate than a similarly situated white nan, all other things being equal.
The VENDETTA (redesigned Rivoluzione: 200 LA Auto Show, was in an accident THE FIRST DAY I DROVE IT. I didn’t even make it to the highway. There was at least $100,000? In customization (hand hammered and rolled Aluminum body parts riveted and bonded to the steel: Robin Officer, Captain Metal, Magic Mountain, CA (A Kiwi). who I believe, was interviewed on the Jay Leno show dresses in drag. By keeping all the receipts to every modification, the insurance company: GEICO, had to first restore the vehicle to its original condition, THEN, cover all the replacement customization which they did, before canceling my policy the sane day the lease on my 328i was repossed, with $5,000.00 worth of renderings and sketches by Ian Cartabiano, which actually appeared in Bimmer Magazine in 1998.
My mother refuses to give me my birth certificate. Whats wrong with this picture?
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