Michael Cohen hopes "history remembers me as someone who tried to bring country together"

Michael Cohen, the president's former personal lawyer, left the courtroom this week in tears as the judge handed him a three year sentence for criminal behavior. He pleaded guilty to campaign finance violation, tax evasion and lying to Congress.

Cohen hopes his crimes will help bring the country back together, but if it doesn't, he's willing to cut his toenails, because that makes as much sense.

Before he leveled his sentence, U.S. Judge William Pauley said “Cohen pled guilt to a veritable smorgasbord of fraudulent conduct" and “lost his moral compass,” according to a Newsday reporter inside the courtroom, if you can believe that.

Judge Pauley also said that “as a lawyer, Mr. Cohen should have known better.”

Cohen pleaded and begged for leniency and accused President Trump – the man he swore he'd take a bullet for and never walk away before all this happened – of causing him to “follow a path of darkness rather than light” and “cover up his dirty deeds,” according to the Newsday reporter. 

Can I get an 'Amen.'

Prosecutors in the Justice Department’s Southern District of New York charged Cohen with eight felony counts in August, including tax evasion, making false statements to a financial institution, and campaign finance violations. Special counsel Robert Mueller, tasked with investigating Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, tacked on an additional count of lying to Congress last month.

Cohen pleaded guilty to all nine counts adding that he hoped his behavior will inspire Americans to be better Americans and get the country out of the dark and into the light.

Federal prosecutors allege that Cohen violated campaign finance laws by paying off two women who allege to have had affairs with Donald Trump acting “in coordination with and at the direction of” the then-candidate. But that seems to be how Trump rolls.

Trump has argued the payments amount to nothing more than a “simple private transaction,” and do not qualify as campaign finance violations. He does it all the time but said "don't tell Melania." He'll probably come out okay on that charge, I suspect.

Cohen will head off to federal prison in early March. He is not expecting to get a presidential pardon.

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Islam: "If I'm Lying, You're Dying"

A Muslim cleric in India says that what happened to the cartoonists at the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly that showed satirical cartoon of Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, was by-the-book Islam.

Even the prophet said that "Whoever curses a Prophet, kill him. Whoever curses my Companions, beat him." This is incredible new information about the religion of peace that seems to have fallen through the cracks. It appears that liberals haven't gotten the full story yet.

Mo asked his guys, "Who is willing to kill Ka'b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and his Apostle?" This freaked me out--I thought it was impossible for a mere mortal to be able to hurt Allah. I mean, dude, this Allah is supposed to be the creator of all things and another dude can hurt him?

I Said I Wouldn't But I Did--I Lied

They say people lie a lot more than they think they do. In a Psychology Today article by Allison Kornet, (May 1, 1997), the author cites a study done in the prior year. 

Bella DePaulo, a psychologist from the University of Virginia, did a study on lying using 147 subjects between the ages of 17 and 71 and had them keep a diary of all the lies they told over the course of a week. She discovered from the diaries that most people lie between once and twice a day. In social exchanges lasting at least 10 minutes, both men and women lie about one fifth of the time. Over the course of a week, people lie about 30 percent of those with whom they react with on a one-to-one basis. Kids lie to their parents about half the time. And so it goes.

A sturdy wooden chair

I feel better about this, because I lied when I said that I would never watch The Five on Fox News ever again because Bob Beckel, the die-hard liberal, was on it, and his presence annoyed me to the point of boycotting the show. Well, I've changed my tune and I am once again watching The Five. In fact, it wasn't very long after my blog about never watching it again that I did, in fact, tune in. Beckel got me angry, as usual, but I came to realize that without listening to the other point of view, the lunatic ranting liberal viewpoint, that is, I was being narrow minded and less informed.

It's important to hear liberal thinking because it only solidifies your conservative opinions even more. And it also provides you with material to add to your own discourse agenda. So expect to hear more about the Shadow of Michael Moore in the future from me. 


And please forgive me for lying, for I knew not what I did .  .  .  wait, that's a lie.



 

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