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Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Monday, October 7, 2019
Ilhan Omar files for divorce
Must have been some truth to the rumor.
Rep. Ilhan Omar is splitting from her husband.
The Minnesota Democrat filed for divorce from Ahmed Hirsi on Friday, her attorney confirmed to ITK.
"As with all marriages, this is intensely personal and a difficult time for their family," attorney Jaime Driggs said in a statement.
The couple has a seemingly complicated past, and their marriage had been in the spotlight long before TMZ first reported the divorce news on Monday.
Omar and Hirsi became engaged in 2002 but never legally married. The pair had two children together before separating in 2008.
Omar married Ahmed Nur Said Elmi in 2009 and later said the two obtained a divorce in their Muslim faith tradition — albeit not a legal one — in 2011.
Omar and Hirsi reconciled after that and had a third child together in 2012. The lawmaker officially filed to divorce Elmi in 2017, and legally married Hirsi in 2018.
Earlier this year, a Minnesota campaign finance board's investigation found that the 38-year-old freshman congresswoman and Hirsi filed joint tax returns in 2014 and 2015, while she was still legally married to Elmi.
"For years, Ilhan and Ahmed have been the object of speculation and innuendo from political opponents and the media," Driggs said on Monday. "This has taken a significant toll on Ilhan, Ahmed, and their three children."
"Just like any other family navigating this kind of transition," Driggs said, "Ilhan wishes to have their privacy respected for themselves and their children and will not be commenting any further."
Omar, one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress and a member of the so-called "Squad," is a frequent subject of criticism from President Trump, who plans to hold a rally in her district on Thursday as part of his bid to flip Minnesota from blue to red in 2020.
“You F*cked Up!” – EXCLUSIVE REPORT: Joe Biden Blasted Ukrainian President After Politico Report – Reveals Biden’s Role in 2016 DNC Election Interference
On a tip from Ed Kilbane.
The Gateway Pundit Breaking Exclusive–
A Ukrainian source has revealed that former Vice President Joe Biden was furious about an article in Politico that revealed election interference and collusion between the government of Ukraine and the Democratic National Committee.
Biden let out his anger with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on his January 15th, 2017 trip to Kiev, Ukraine, reportedly telling the foreign leader, “You fucked up! What we were working on all leaked to the press!”
Joe Biden with former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko
This new disclosure indicates that Biden had a much more significant role in the 2016 election interference by Democrats close to Hillary Clinton than has been previously revealed.
After Biden’s outburst, Poroshenko then called in a former Ukrainian official who he believed to be a whistleblower and threatened him. The Ukrainian whistleblower was later forced to flee Ukraine, fearing for his safety.
A Kyiv Post article from January 2017 confirmed that Biden was in Ukraine shortly after the Politico article’s release and met with Poroshenko.
The Politico article Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire detailed how a longtime DNC operative named Alexandra Chalupa worked directly with the Ukrainian embassy to attempt to get dirt on then-candidate Trump in an attempt to tie him to Russia.
One of the most chilling parts of that article revealed that Chalupa had told Ukrainian officials that the Democrats planned hearings prior to the election attempting to tie Trump to Russia, months before the alleged “DNC hack” was revealed, and months before Glenn Simpson claimed he hired Christoper Steele to write the now-disgraced “Steele Dossier.”
Chalupa admitted that she was working with Ohio liberal Democrat Marcy Kaptur:
Chalupa confirmed that, a week after Manafort’s hiring was announced, she discussed the possibility of a congressional investigation with a foreign policy legislative assistant in the office of Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio), who co-chairs the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus. But, Chalupa said, “It didn’t go anywhere.”
Asked about the effort, the Kaptur legislative assistant called it a “touchy subject” in an internal email to colleagues that was accidentally forwarded to Politico.
Kaptur’s office later emailed an official statement explaining that the lawmaker is backing a bill to create an independent commission to investigate “possible outside interference in our elections.” The office added “at this time, the evidence related to this matter points to Russia, but Congresswoman Kaptur is concerned with any evidence of foreign entities interfering in our elections.”
The article that angered Biden also revealed that Chalupa was working closely with Trump-hating reporter Michael Isikoff and coordinating with the Communications Director Luis Miranda, who was hand-picked for the position by Hillary Clinton’s team.
Those details came out in an email published by Wikileaks.
Politico wrote:
In the email, which was sent in early May to then-DNC communications director Luis Miranda, Chalupa noted that she had extended an invitation to the Library of Congress forum to veteran Washington investigative reporter Michael Isikoff. Two days before the event, he had published a story for Yahoo News revealing the unraveling of a $26 million deal between Manafort and a Russian oligarch related to a telecommunications venture in Ukraine. And Chalupa wrote in the email she’d been “working with for the past few weeks” with Isikoff “and connected him to the Ukrainians” at the event.
The Ukrainian whistleblower has expressed an interest in talking to President Trump directly about the matter, as well as other issues related to Joe Biden’s influence in Ukraine.
This is a developing investigation.
Saturday, October 5, 2019
Diahann Carroll, Groundbreaking Television And Broadway Star, Dead At 84
Sorry to read this. Back in the day... she was really hot.
This 1972 file image shows singer and actress Diahann Carroll. Carroll passed away Friday at her home in Los Angeles after a long bout with cancer. She was 84.Jean-Jacques Levy/AP
Legendary actress, singer and style icon Diahann Carroll died on Friday at her home in Los Angeles after a long bout with cancer. She was 84 years old.
Carroll's longtime manager, Ronni Lynn Hart, confirmed her death to NPR.
In her illustrious career, Carroll won a Tony Award and was nominated for an Oscar. But she is perhaps best known for making television history when she starred as the titular character on the NBC sitcom Julia, which debuted in 1968.
She's widely seen as the first black actress to appear in a lead role depicting a non-stereotypical character on television. Carroll portrayed Julia Baker, a widowed mother raising a young son.
In a 2008 interview with NPR's News & Notes, Carroll said she was "very proud" of that role.
"I look back with great pride," Carroll told host Farai Chideya.
"We've had major, major problems when we went on the air that I think were expressed by both communities, black and white. And we survived," Carroll said, adding: "I looked at it from time to time. And the quality is there, it's charming. And I thought the casting was excellent. So as a product, I think it's a good product. I'm happy to be there."
In that same interview, Carroll was asked if she took the role knowing how many would see her as a role model.
"No. No, I've never done that. I took it because of the work," Carroll said. "I took it because I liked the work. I think that's the way an artist should select a part."
Prior to that role, Carroll had made her name as a nightclub performer. She later would conquer Broadway and Hollywood in musicals like Carmen Jones and Porgy & Bess.
In the 1980s, she portrayed the role of Dominique Deveraux on the primetime soap opera Dynasty.
Actress Diahann Carroll seen here in 2016 at the ABFF Awards ceremony in Beverly, Hills, Calif.Richard Shotwell/Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP
Diahann Carroll was born Carol Diann Johnson in New York City in 1935. She took piano lessons regularly as a child and first began singing around age 6, as a member of the Tiny Tots choir in Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church.
As a teenager she became interested in fashion and at age 14, she sent a picture of herself to the fashion editor at Ebony. She later was one of four teenage girls to win a modeling assignment for Johnson Publishing, Ebony's parent company.
By the late 1950s, Carroll's acting career was on the rise. In 1959 she played the role of Clara in a film adaptation of Porgy and Bess starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge.
In 1962 she starred in No Strings, a Broadway musical where Carroll played a fashion model in Paris, a role for which she became the first African-American woman to win a lead actress Tony Award. In 1975 she was nominated for an Oscar for her role in a film called Claudine, which cast her as a woman struggling to raise six children in Harlem.
She appeared in various roles in television and film throughout the years, including 1997's Eve's Bayou, and recurring roles on the series Soul Food and Grey's Anatomy.
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