Saturday, December 08, 2018

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  1. Mob mentality: how Mueller is working to turn Trump's troops [Click] To a prosecutor with mob prosecutions experience, this does not look like the ninth inning…

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  2. Nobody Can Save Trump Now [Click]

    Absentee Vote Changes May Have Invited ‘Ballot Harvesting’ In NC [Click] Paying people to collect ballots and deliver them to the county clerk? That has to be far more expensive than a postage-paid envelope, in addition to inviting fraud.

    The Strongest Evidence Yet for a Highly Controversial Addiction Treatment [Click] When other approaches fail, the most effective way to fight a heroin addiction can be heroin itself.

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  3. Fog this morning, followed by partly cloudy blue sky 57/43 degrees F; I have no excuse for failure to rake leaves. Snowfall in the mountains a little more than the historical average for this time of year.

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  4. The Big Bread Crumb in the Cohen Memo
    Josh Marshall

    I want to focus your attention on a very important detail in yesterday’s Special Counsel’s Office sentencing memo for Michael Cohen. I noted this yesterday. But I want to zero in on some critical context. The memorandum states that “If the [Moscow building] project was completed, the [Trump Organization] could have received hundreds of millions of dollars from Russian sources in licensing fees and other revenues.”

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  5. Should Dear Leader in time take up residence in a secure federal facility, we ought to consider such precedents as we might have. The only president I am aware of previously having the privilege was Jefferson Davis, but it is generally accepted that his accommodations at Fort Monroe were not salubrious. I still think that reactivating Fort Jefferson [Click] has much to be said for it. The subtropical climate ought to be superior to most others, and if the Trump Organization were to fund the restoration (and perhaps completion) of the facility, that good-will gesture ought to be considered good behavior and a credit toward his period of residency. Secret Service protection should be easy.

    HRC fails the “Who Can Fill a Stadium” test for Presidential candidates [Click] But will she be able to read the tea leaves? I certainly hope so.

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    1. I'm very much afraid that like Don Jr. she thinks she's far more important than she actually is. She is not a good campaigner and she does not come off as a warm, likeable human being. She and Bill had their time and now should just RETIRE.

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  6. Alan, the heroin article roughly jibes with my own belief, since I was about 13, and the anti-drug doc came to our junior high school to warm us. He'd mentioned the free heroin clinics in England, and I asked (not a big stander upper/asker in public places) what heroin would do to your body if NOT overdosed? Would it kill you? Answer was pretty much nothing.

    So, for me, it fell immediately into that class of things that some people didn't want other people to do because the others might be having fun that you (according to your own beliefs) *couldn't* have, and therefore you must stop *them.*

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    1. A pathologist of my acquaintance had part of his training (residency?) in the UK and practiced there. He speaks well of heroin, and says that if he or his should ever suffer from severe chronic pain, that is what he would use, laws be damned.

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  7. Millennials Didn’t Kill the Economy. The Economy Killed Millennials. [Click] “The American system has thrown them into debt, depressed their wages, kept them from buying homes—and then blamed them for everything.”

    Individual 1 Is In Grave Danger [Click] “All three briefs show the special counsel and the Southern District closing in on President Trump and his administration… A Democratic House of Representatives, just days away, strains at the leash to help. The game’s afoot.” [Emphasis added.]

    Britannia contemplates a bleak future – cartoon [Click] Headlines:Brexit/Cabinet splits over second referendum on deal. May’s plan heading for huge defeat as senior Tory suggests second referendum cold be “PM’s only chance.” Analysis: No hope of success and no plan B—but the PM won’t blink. Lord Heseltine: Britain’s youth will never forgive us for Brexit. Second referendum: Remain and leave campaigners prepare.

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  8. Sorry to be so absent! We are in the sprint before our family gathering next weekend and there's still tons to do. My life quiets down considerably beginning the 17th! It's FUN stuff, though! We are having to be careful because this illness is still hanging around and relapse is common. We think it's like the Andromeda Strain in that it mutates every couple of days and your body gets a two steps back situation until it figures out what's needed to push it back again. Wild. Don't get this virus, okay?

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