Thursday, May 18, 2017

Special Prosecutor Bob Muller is Selected

 Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein or whoever just appointed a special prosecutor.  I'm surprised he had a change of heart because this is the hand picked guy Trump put in that post to insure that the status quo was maintained.  This is perhaps the biggest news story of the entire Trump administration.  It signifies a definite turning point shades of Watergate.  It's like Goldwater coming to Nixon in early August after the "Stay the hell out of this investigation" remark got reported where Nixon called off the FBI.  That was the turning point where congressmen convinced Nixon it would be pointless to fight the impeachment since a resolution had already been voted out of comittee.  This was on the Norman Goldman show, but prior to that I was watching other videos from the Washington Post.  Mc Connell wants a little less drama.  The Senate Majority leader and Paul Ryan are now equivocating in their undying support for Trump.  It’s former FBI head Bob Muller from the Bush and Obama administrations.  He served from 2001 to 2013.  Judy doesn’t believe there is any substance to any of these charges but it’s all some massive media blow-up for ratings.  Judy is really going to the wall for Trump;.  The best Judy can say is that if Trump did any wrong then "All men have sinned and come short of the glory of God" and therefore anything they do should be overlooked.  I don't think Judy yet understands the magnitude of this special prosecutor appointment.  You can’t buy that kind of loyalty.  Her view continues to be "Trump had pledged to do a lot of marvelous things for this country and the media and congress should just get out of his way and let Trump get about the business of running the country.  Judy also doesn't understand that this is not "just another congressional comittee" like we had with Hillary and Bengazi.  This is serious.  Muller has the power to subpoena witnesses and to reccomend indictments to the Justice Department.  We also talked about my health. 

Here's other stuff.  "Based upon the unique circumstances, the public interest requires me to place this investigation under the authority of a person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command," Rosenstein said in a statement. "A special counsel is necessary in order for the American people to have full confidence in the outcome. Our nation is grounded on the rule of law, and the Public must be assured that government officials administer the law fairly."  As special counsel, Mueller will have broad investigatory powers to look into how Russia may have influenced the 2016 election. The investigation, which could take months and will follow a separate track from congressional inquiries, likely will involve accessing classified documents and interviews, and Mueller can also convene grand juries and seek indictments if he deems it appropriate. He will have access to all the information the FBI and Justice Department have compiled so far.

Trump said in a statement after the announcement that he expected the probe would find no collusion between his 2016 White House campaign and foreign countries.  No matter what happens Shawn Hannity and FOX news are going to pretend this whole development of yesterday never happened.  No matter how much evidence piles up they continue to say blindly "There is not one shred of evidence of any guilt of any administration official".  It's the blind leading the blind on the FOX right.  


Roger Ailes founder and longtime head of Fox News, died Thursday morning at 77, according to a statement released by his wife.  "I am profoundly sad and heartbroken to report that my husband, Roger Ailes, passed away this morning," Elizabeth Ailes said. "Roger was a loving husband to me, to his son Zachary, and a loyal friend to many. He was also a patriot, profoundly grateful to live in a country that gave him so much opportunity to work hard, to rise — and to give back."  The former Fox News chairman was credited with making the channel a ratings powerhouse over his 20 years at the helm. The right-wing channel is divisive, though, and Ailes’ personal legacy was clouded by allegations of sexual harassment.  “No one did more to change the media landscape than Roger Ailes, but no media executive did more to divide America,” said Joe Peyronnin, a former network news executive who worked for Fox before Ailes was hired to launch the news channel.

TWO DAYS AGO:  The latest Trump news is that a memo came to light where Trump instructed Director Comey not to pursue any investigation of Flynn or the Russian connection.  This will increase the likelihood of impeachment.  This is some E mail memo or a series of E mails time and date identified to late January.   Comey thus had kept quiet about this request of Trump for four months.  We hear Comey was also requested to give his undying loyalty to President Trump personally.  This is besides the Israeli connection of yesterday where Russia was informed of intelligence Israel had on ISIS.  The trouble is that Russia could turn around and sell this information to Israel’s enemies.  No doubt we’ll be hearing more on these issues.  But don't tell Judy that.  Suddenly compromising Israel's security is of no concern to her.  Whatever she hears she thinks the media just makes it up as though Israel's security concerns were not real or Russia could not turn around and sell this information to Syria or Iran.  Meanwhile we haven't heard any more about Assad's crematoria where he cremates the bodies of the thousands he's butchered.  In other late news Turkey's private security guards beat up protestors on US soil and they can't even be arrested for their deeds because they have diplomatic immunity.  Trump not only likes to order beatings of dissenters in his own campaign rallies, now he allows foreign Turkish thugs to do it.   

This morning I had Thom Hartman on briefly and went out to talk to Phyllis wondering if I had an appointment to see Dr Nichols.  I went to look at the menu but then Tim or somebody says I have an appointment in a few minutes to see Dr Nichols.  I went back here and closed down the computer and went out by the kitchen and waited for the other patient in a wheel chair to join us.  We made all the green lights going there.  In the waiting room there was a guy who threw a fit because others were called in ahead of him and he got their first.  He used profanity and they asked him to leave.  At 10:20 I was ushered into the examining room and there I waited over 25 minutes to see Dr Nichols.  I told him about my butt and he looked at it and asked me if I woke up nights with the butt itching.  I said I did.  I told him my butt was the only place I was itching now.  He put some dark purple stuff all over my butt and when I got home I looked at it and it’s terrible.  Dr Nichols also gave me a shot in the butt and said he wanted to see me in two weeks.  He says I was on the road to recovery.  Then I used the restroom key and went down to smoke two cigarettes on the bench.  Then I went inside and went up to the waiting room and Tim and the patient were not there and a lady says “Then went inside”.  I went down and sat in the lobby on a chair.  They returned down the elevator and we were able to go home but we didn’t arrive here till about ten to twelve.  The dining room was clearing out.  We had a hot dog with lots of catsup, a salad, and a banana.  I asked for coffee and juice but I didn’t want soup. 

HERE ARE FIVE ECONOMIC FACTORS THAT ARE RUINING AMERICA
1. Globalization–free flow of capital, labor arbitrage
2. Nearly free money from central banks for financiers and corporations
3. Pay-to-play “democracy”
4. State protected cartels that privatize gains and socialize losses
5. A system stripped of self-correcting feedback and accountability

The writer says that the economy is rigged against the poorer middle class now.

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