Saturday, June 20, 2020

Solstice Bonfire



       Summer begins at 21:44 UTC

26 comments:

  1. I think these three posts give a fair idea of the SDNY contretemps:

    From Playbook:
    Questions on Trump’s [Attempted] Friday Night Massacre [Click]

    Two From Talking Points Memo:
    A Remarkable Turn of Events [Click] Berman’s surprising background, etc.

    More Complicated Than it Looks [to fire Berman] [Click]

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  2. Pelosi's masks start another fashion trend [Click] Hmmmm . . . I don’t recall DT starting any fashion trends. . .

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  3. VT: 1147/ 56 (+3/ 0)
    172 active/ 0 deaths x 3 days
    Recovered: 920 (+2)
    In Hospital = 0 (-2)
    Tests 57,028 (+1141)

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  4. OHIO: As of Saturday afternoon, there have been at least 44,262 confirmed or probable cases in the state, 2,697 deaths, and 7,201 hospitalizations, according to the Ohio Department of Health.

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  5. The Walls of the Church Couldn’t Keep the Trump Era Out [Click] “The young pastor wasn’t sure his congregation would like what he had to say and had no idea where it would lead all of them. He found himself at a crossroads of God, Alabama and Donald Trump.” Oh, my.

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    1. Maybe time to convert it into a Sacred Harp society--that ought to be religion enough for most anyone, and it is as nearly impossible for hostility to develop as can be imagined.

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  6. Berlin’s Olympic Stadium [Click] An excellent renovation! I was not aware that it dated back to 1916.

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  7. Trump Fires U.S. Attorney Who Investigated Associates [or tries to] [Click] Wall Street Journal: “The matter is nearly certain to end up in court, as the legal grounds for removing a sitting U.S. Attorney remain murky.”

    What in Heaven's name is Trump trying to cover up?

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    1. Here is the WSJ article—not behind the paywall. [Click] And only the SDNY judges can appoint a temporary replacement [vide “More Complicated Than it Looks” above.

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  8. WaPo: The U.S. Park Police’s reputation is in tatters [Click] It sounds like the entire force needs to be reconstituted.

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  9. Pandemic causes coin shortage. [Click] When I was young coin shortages remained more common in the West than back East. It’s sure been a long time; I should have thought that electronic transactions would have put an end to them.

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  10. First: Barr claims that Trump Fires U.S. Attorney Who Investigated His Associates [Click] Second: Trump Claims He Wasn’t Involved in Firing [Click] That’s something of a sticky wicket, given that Only Trump, not Barr, can fire Berman. [Click] So evidently Berman remains in office. So yet again Trump runs afoul of the legally required way of doing things, and fails to compare notes with his underlings before either they or he open their mouths. This should be fun. Anyone care to bet on whether Mr. Berman testifies before the House Judiciary Committee this coming week?

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    1. I laughed so hard as I read this! Thank you, Alan!!

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    2. Read further... it's even more bizarre...

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  11. Just yesterday I was reflecting on the candidates to whom I am sending my small contributions. There are three:

    Rafael Warnock, Georgia US Senate,
    Charles Booker, Kentucky US Senate, and
    Jamaal Bowman, NY-16.

    It dawned on me that not a one of them is melanocytically challenged; that's something new for me. Well, for the past three elections I have voted for a woman as President (not one of them named Hillary) and that doesn't look like it will happen again this year. Am I making a compensatory course correction? Or going with the flow? Or being simply right-minded? I suppose the available selections have something to do with it.

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  12. Trump Holds Rally In Tulsa
    June 20, 2020 at 7:41 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
    Attendance at President Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa is reported to be underwhelming.

    From The Guardian live blog:
    The cameras have shown a wide view of the arena, and there are plenty of empty seats in the upper decks and on the floor (there are more people in the lower ring of seats). The president was due on stage by now, and Mike Pence has left the stage so he should be on soon. Fox News says it looks “packed” but it’s ... not? Anyway, it’s probably not the most important issue in the country right now.
    Pictures on Twitter [Click]

    The Trump campaign blamed “radical protesters” for stopping some of the president’s supporters from attending today’s rally. Our southern bureau chief, Oliver Laughland, is on the ground tonight and saw no evidence of that.
    Photos here. [Click] It lookx like DT will not be addressing the overflow crowd.

    News helicopter film clip here. [Click]

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  13. Berman Resigns, Ending His Turbulent Standoff With Barr [Click] WHAT?! I don’t even have the popcorn ready!
    Berman said in a statement that he was leaving “in light of Attorney General Barr’s decision to respect the normal operation of law” by replacing him with Deputy U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss.

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    1. York was the seat of government of Upper Canada, and the Yankees burnt the legislature and the archives. Only a couple of years ago was one of their trophies--a sculpture of an eagle, as I recall, taken from the legislature--returned to Canada. Washington was torched in retaliation. Quite reasonably, I dare say. One or two of my ancestors, as part of a well-regulated militia, helped to defend Upper Canada from the perfidious Yankees in the War of 1812. There was another relative who had moved south of the border and served with said Yanks in the same war.

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  15. Here's some wonderful music to conclude the day; enjoy.

    Wiregrass Singers [Click]

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