Isn't it Mueller Time?
"In the court papers Monday related to the Russian troll farm, Mueller's team wrote about how their investigation will reach a definitive end."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/22/politics/robert-mueller-russia-investigation-length/index.html
~ National Review
"There's one more way for Mueller's investigation to naturally end: If Rosenstein wants, he could let it expire with the end of the federal government's fiscal year, which is September 30, according to the court filing."
At 2:08am, Alan posted:
ReplyDeleteWe had a shopping and visiting trip to the SF Bay Area today (Saturday--still today here). Had a very good allegedly Chicago-style deep-dish pizza with Naomi at a restaurant in Berkeley which we had visited about ten years ago. Then shopping at a pottery sale in Berkeley, groceries in Oakland Chinatown and San Jose, and home before sundown. Except for what seemed to be a huge number of people heading to the baseball stadium in Oakland, the traffic was really good.
Alan
I didn't mention that after the parade yesterday I went to a pizza fundraiser for the disability-protest organization ADAPT. Only one of the half-dozen pizzas ADAPT had ordered was deep-dish, and everything I had was thin-crust. Which is what most Chicagoans eat most of the time.
DeleteAt 8:55am, Alan posted:
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Woke up early and couldn’t get back to sleep. —Alan
The black detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan[Click] Spike Lee movie in the theaters soon! Trailer looks pretty good.
Oakland's Hollywood moment: films shine light on city's 'grit and beauty'[Click]
Businesses claim it's hard to hire 'good people'. The solution is pretty simple[Click]
Trump isn’t acting like a real Russian agent.[Click] So what does Putin have on him? My suspicion is that it is not evidence of kinky philandering; it has to be something more powerfully motivating for Trump. Maybe—probably—public revelation that he is actually a world-class LOSER, kept afloat only by dirty money from Russia. That is just what Mueller’s inspection of Trump’s tax returns and money laundering would be expected to do.
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DeleteThe black detective who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan[Click]
Oakland's Hollywood moment: films shine light on city's 'grit and beauty'[Click]
Businesses claim it's hard to hire 'good people'. The solution is pretty simple[Click]
Trump isn’t acting like a real Russian agent.[Click]
Alan
At 11:18am, Alan posted:
ReplyDeleteObject lesson: Microfilm.[Click] listener—does your library have a microfilm reader?
—Alan
At 11:23am, Alan posted:
DeleteCome to think of it, a modernized microfilm reader/copier would produce a computer-compatible copy rather than a "Xerox" copy. *.pdf, for example.
Alan
Thanks again for holding down the fort this morning, Alan!
DeleteNo, our Library doesn't have microfilm so no need for a reader. We serve two communities with about 10,000 people total, and far fewer library patrons. The local University Libraries surely use them, though.
I'm a little in and out for a few more days yet.
ReplyDeleteI'm marathoning on the grand baby quilt to try to get it done before the birth.
Also, I am on call if the parents need a rest or if anything starts to happen before planned.
This Isn’t Dianne Feinstein’s Democratic Party[Click] “The longtime senator from California is likely to win reelection. But the state’s liberal, anti-establishment wing is already winning the future.” Seems fairly accurate as far as it goes.
ReplyDeleteRussia’s Strength Is Its Weakness[Click] “Today, Russia’s $1.58 trillion GDP is about the same as that of the greater New York City area…”
—Alan
Re the title of this thread, I should hope that the investigation will eventuate in revelation of Putin's control of Trump through sub rosa lending to The Trump Organization. A communication of some sort in which Trump acknowledges Russian leverage over him would be most welcome. (Welcome under the present unwelcome circumstances, that is.)
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Oh, my. I hadn't thought of anything as concrete as a piece of paper in Trump's handwriting or bearing his signature. That would be fantastic!
Deletehttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/07/30/the-gop-stands-by-as-trump-upends-american-security?mbid=social_facebook
ReplyDeleteJust brainstorming...
DeleteSeeing a major political party implode is unusual in any country; in the US it has happened only once before, about 165 years ago. Not even once in a century, much less once in a lifetime. It is nearly uncharted ground. I think the Democratic Party will probably be able to reinvent itself--there are good auguries mixed with the institutional resistance to change. And somehow or another (as a result of our first-past-the-post electoral system) a new major party will develop, just as the Republican Party did. One of the biggest stumbling blocks is 50-state ballot access. It isn't the only possibility, but I shouldn't be surprised if a center-right party, to the right of the reformed Democratic Party (thus a good home for the Blue Dogs) but including many traditional good-government conservatives, were to develop. Maybe they could seize the remains of the GOP apparatus and use them to claim 50-state ballot access, then change the name of the party.
--Alan
Getting back to the question at the beginning of the thread, "Isn't it Mueller Time?" these sorts of investigations typically require several years. I think it has been Mueller Time for a while now, and will continue to be. Mueller is most unlikely to indict a sitting President, because that would violate departmental policy of long standing. But an ex-President certainly could be indicted.
ReplyDeleteMy two cents' worth.
Alan