Centerist Macron Wins over Le Penn In France

This is Monday May 8, 2017 after breakfast.  Today is VE day or Victory in Europe day in 1945 and the European theater of combat was won.  Today is also the day 45 years ago in 1972 that I came home from the hospital after my Suicide attempt a little after three in the afternoon.   This weekend it was victory over the conservatives.  Macron beat Le Penn in the election on Sunday for President of France and it’s a rebuke to the move to elect “Trump II” in France.  They say Le Penn was getting help from Putin and the two of them met personally, which seems strange to me.  Macron is what is known as a “centrist” but the same could be said of Hillary Clinton and we know what happened to her.  Now she is surfacing and sharing her feelings about the past election of 2016 and how she is no friend of FBI director Comey.  The Trump health care plan will affect the red states more adversely than the blue states because they will be the states to “opt out” of the pre existing condition regulation.  Also Madic-ade will be cut in the red states as well as a host of women’s issues that will no longer be covered.   So now all of the pundits are saying that there could be a Democratic landslide in congress as Republican congressmen in districts that voted for Hillary will now return to voting Democratic for Congress as a protest. 

The Cleveland Cavileers defeated the Torranto Rapters in Torranto sweeping them in a four to zero victory.  The game was covered on ABC and I watched it from about one to a little after three when the game concluded.  I think the Jazz have one game left to try and turn the tide against the GS Warriors.  The Ducks play the Edmonton Oilers tonight in Edmonton in game six where all they have to do is win to win round two in the NHL playoff.   Of course ABC blacks out round three in the NBA.

Last night it was ABC network news and cruising Ventura Blvd from east to west to find the best eating places mainly.  I went for medication at seven and it was Ricardo doing it.  I smoked.  The first Sixty Minutes segment was on immigration.  The middle segment was this 97 year old prosecutor at the Nurremburg trials who prosecuted SS troops who killed over a million Jews, Gypseys and Communists in eastern Europe shooting them all in a ditch.  He has a sunny disposition despite the grim realities he has to live with.  Now he’s on a crusade to end all war because war turns normal people into mass killers.  Then it was the Chicago Cubs manager and the Cubs’ five year campaign for self improvement leading to winning the World Series.  Then it was NCIS Los Angeles on channel two, with touchy reception.  

FBI director James Clapper and Sally Yates met jointly before the Senate Judiciary committee today, carried on CSPAN (CNN)Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates said Monday that she alerted the White House earlier this year that former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn could be "essentially blackmailed by the Russians."  "We believed that Gen. Flynn was compromised with respect to the Russians,"  Director Clapper was first to give an opening statement that was very meaty with material. Yates told a Senate judiciary subcommittee, in a high-profile hearing on Russian meddling into the US election.  Yates told the panel that she had a meeting with White House Counsel Donald McGahn on January 26 to tell him that she had information that statements by Vice President Mike Pence, based on his conversations with Flynn, were false. She was joined in the meeting by a senior career official in the Justice Department.  "We weren't the only ones that knew all of this, that the Russians also knew about what General Flynn had done and the Russians also knew that General Flynn had misled the vice president and others," Yates said, relating the contents of her conversation with McGahn.  Yates was speaking at a hearing led by Sen. Lindsey Graham, who opened the hearing with an implicit rebuke of the President and his alternative explanations for the interference in the election.  The South Carolina Republican said the hacking was not the work of "some 400-pound guy sitting on a bed or any other country," a reference to a comment Trump has previously made on the matter.