Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, who threatened to resign last week over Trump’s order reversing discipline against a Navy SEAL who was court-martialed for posing with an enemy corpse, was fired Sunday by Secretary of Defense Mike Esper. Spencer ostensibly was fired for going around Esper in pr[...]
Archive for November, 2019
November 24th, 2019 - 10:45 am § in Misc.
Will Trump’s Presidency End on Monday?
The outcome of the Trump Presidency may be decided tomorrow. I think much will depend on how U.S. District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of Washington rules tomorrow regarding the Congressional subpoena of Don McGhan. If McGhan is forced to honor his subpoena, others who have hung back (e.g., Bolton) [...]
November 24th, 2019 - 10:20 am § in Hypocrisy
Is Mike A Troll?
I DON’T THINK SO, But .. Over on Facebook I have this FB friend who I think is a real person. I think Mike is a real person because my wife and I had the real pleasure of meeting Mike for dinner. He seems real! But, on FB he comes across as a troll. The […][...]
November 22nd, 2019 - 12:56 am § in Misc.
Should Dead Paul Allen Own the Seahawks?
Bob Condotta at the Seattle Times just wrote a piece on whether Jeff Bezos should buy the Seattle Seahawks. I have a different question. Why and how should any dead man be able to own a football team? Since Paul Allen’s death on October 2018, the Seahawks have insisted the team is not [...]
Israel’s Trump Indicted
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will face indictments in all three corruption cases against him — for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. The similarity to Trump is all too obvious, including Trumpian entanglement with Jewish lawyers who make my Jewish skin crawl. In the Israeli syste[...]
How to Replace the Two Party System
Despite the shared mythology that Jesus wrote an immutable Constitution, a lot of our actual Constition is, like the Brit Consitution, … an unwritten assumption that things will go as they have gone before. A huge part of what is NOT written is laws regulating the parties. The reason is simple[...]
November 20th, 2019 - 10:26 am § in Misc.
Trump Targets Gordon
Gordon Sondland is a mystery man for those of us who live in Seattle. According to Oregon, Gordon lives here in Seattle .. in a hotel room in the former Hotel Roosevelt. That way he does not pay income taxes n Oregon! Hmm, he seems to be a denizen of Portland where his home is […][...]
November 20th, 2019 - 10:22 am § in Donald Trump
Ken Starr: Sondland testimony ‘guarantees there will be articles of impeachment’
Ken Starr has told Fox News that Gordon Sondland’s testimony before the House Intelligence Committee guarantees there will be articles of impeachment for obstruction, citing the Trump administration’s refusal to give him access to his notes and other records. “‘We have now, a[...]