Well….just listened to Keith and his latest tweetcast and there were a few pertinent points that he made that I want to comment on….I lived through the original “Saturday night massacre” when Nixon’s solicitor general fired Archibald Cox…the special prosecutor who was investigating Nixon and Watergate. A few days after the firing, Cox came out with a statement that included this question: “Are we a nation of men or of laws?” That’s a question that is still pertinent now…are we a nation of men or of laws? Is the president above the law or does he have to adhere to them as the rest of us do? In Watergate, the answer was yes, he does have to adhere to the law just like the rest of us…and I ask the repubs in congress now…does the president have to adhere to the law as the rest of us do? The answer from McConnell yesterday was that trump is above the law, that he will not be held accountable for his crimes…even the latest count of obstruction of justice by firing the person that was investigating him…and I agree with Keith…”you don’t fire the person investigating you…” it’s only happened once before…..and we all know how that turned out…impeach….
The real reason Comey was fired…
Well….forget all of the bullshit and lies that are coming from trump and his cronies about why they fired James Comey yesterday….there is only one reason, and it’s not how he handled the Clinton e-mails…a few days before he was fired, Comey went to the justice department to ask for more money and personnel to expand the trump/Russia investigation…after the preliminary work found a massive connections that he needed more money and investigators to unravel. Once sessions heard about it, he ran to trump in a panic and convinced him to do something…and that something was obstruction of justice by firing Comey. With this little tattletale move by sessions, it is clear that it was a lie that he recused himself ..from the Russian investigation, but, everyone knows that there are only liars in this administration and this is just the latest lie from the creepy Keebler elf. Sessions needs to resign right now…and the repubs in the house and senate need to start doing their damn jobs and holding trump accountable….impeach….
May 10th
Well….up and running a little early today…still getting up way too early but I’m not sure what to do about it….go to bed later? Nope…too damn bored to stay up later….at least the pain is less today and my back is finally a little better…I felt it crack working out yesterday and I hope it does it again today….at least the temp is up enough that I can get on the bike as soon as I finish working out….had a good ride yesterday but didn’t get much else done….with getting this place cleaned up, I don’t have a lot to do around here so I guess that’s okay….I may be meeting up with T for a couple late this aft so that is something to look forward to….more later…..
Trump fires Comey….
Well…did anyone else see this coming? As the noose closes around trump and his cronies, trump flails around like the wounded elephant that he is and fires the FBI director….the reaction to this obstruction of justice has been varied on the web from “we’re all screwed” to “this just shows how desperate trump is”…..I’m not sure how I feel about this just yet but I still have a little faith in our institutions and think there are enough ethical folks out there working on these investigations that won’t let this deter them from doing their jobs…like the NY AG who is working on trump money laundering and many other crimes that his gang have committed. And the grand jury in VA that has already issued RICO warrants that are yet to be served…and that is where Comey was for his last day of work….talking to that grand jury and I’m sure that is one of the reasons they fired him today…but, trump is so damn stupid and doesn’t understand how government works that he thinks that firing the director will stop all of the investigations…what does he expect all of the FBI agents to do? Just sit at their desks and play on Facebook until a new director is named? Not gonna happen…the stink of desperation is all over this….impeach…
I forgot this….
Well…with my son coming into town, he had to get a rental car to get around for a few days…and he shows up with a new Camaro….now, I’ve heard that those cars were kind of claustrophobic with the gun slot windows and the small doors, but it is worse than that….I had a hard time getting in the darn thing…much worse than my tiny little Miata and for a car that big, there is not a lot of room inside it either. I wonder what product designer signed off on it? It’s not a car I could live with on a daily basis, that’s for sure…and I’ve lived with the Miata for over 4 years now….
May 9th
Well…running a little late today but I have been up since just before 6 so that isn’t it….feeling run down again today but I just started drinking coffee so I guess I’ll give that some time to work…my son did come in to town yesterday and it was fun catching up…I think we’re going to hang out again today for a while so that will be cool….I did get this place cleaned up some yesterday and that is good to see….I should continue that today but I’m not sure I will….I really do hope this weather changes soon….it is only 30 outside right now and that will mean the bike ride will have to wait until later….more later….
A crime family is running this country…
Well…the day after the idiot trump extended the EB-5 visa program that allows investors that invest 500k to a million dollars in the US to get a green card and permanent residency here, guess who was in China selling the visas? Of course it has to be someone in the crooked trump administration….or related to it…Jared Kushner’s sister was hawking the visas at a meeting in China over the weekend, making the implied idea that the investment would find favor with trump and his administration…even going so far as to assert that trump himself was the “decision maker” where the visas were concerned. Now, this is such a conflict of interest since trump himself will profit from these investments that I can’t believe that there is not one person in the government ethics agencies that think this is wrong…but, that’s the new world we live in ..a crime family is now running this country…impeach,,,,
May 8th
Well…just having a hard time getting started this morning and that seems to be standard lately….and my damn back is still hurting to the point that I can’t sit in certain positions or it just screams at me….oh, well….didn’t get a lot done yesterday so today will have to be different…..my son is coming in from NYC today and it will be cool to see him…I think it’s been a couple of years…looks like the bike ride will have to wait until this aft since it is frosty out there…and it’s frickin May….I guess the climate change deniers will be saying that this proves there’s no warming going on….okay…need coffee and to move around a little more later….
This is pretty funny….
Well…with the French elections being held today and the idiot trump’s candidate getting crushed, I had to laugh a little…not just at that but that the first phone call that the winner Macron made was not to the US *president as has been the custom until trump, but to the leader of the free world, Angela Merkel…showing the contempt that the rest of the world has for trump. And, all Trump did was tweet his congratulations…no phone call, no nothing from the sore loser baby *president. There was one more little tidbit that I read about today…..that Macron and Merkel are going to meet with trump on the 25th of May, and they are going to discuss all of the classified information before they meet trump….since they don’t trust him or his cronies…and they feel that any classified info would end up in Russia just as fast as they talked about it…this is where trump has gotten us…from the leaders of the free world who had the respect of the world under Obama to the joke of the world….having the *president of this country treated like the idiot that he is…that sure is some winning there…impeach….
May 7th
Well….running a little late this morning and I really don’t care why….had an okay day yesterday but didn’t get a lot done other than the bike ride….and it looks like I wan’t get out until this aft since it is still in the 30’s and I don’t want to be cold anymore….I do need to clean some today with my son coming in tomorrow and I’m not sure if he’s coming over here or not….and I do need to clean anyway….my back is killing me this morning and I think I should take something for it…not sure what the deal is but it is getting annoying…should try to pop it but it hasn’t worked the last 50 times I tried…..more later….