Miscellany
As I listen to the expensive explosions from the Billy Bowleg Festival, I note that Bonnie got back to the Atlantic and regained tropical storm status for a short time as it passes over the Gulf Stream. It will return to post-tropical cyclone status some time tomorrow.
There are floods in Paris and other West and Central European cities, in Eastern Australia, and across Texas caused by heavy rainfall. Of course, none of these floods can be conclusively shown to be the result of global climate change – it’s just a coincidence … really …
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Yeah, it’s been raining almost constantly here the past week or so. So far, it’s not been a real problem around here, just a damned nuisance! The farmers around here are concerned of course. Too much water is as bad as too little! Many expanded their dam’s and waterways after the last couple of severe rain events, but there is only so much they can do to prepare.
OT: Was browsing a blog I check now and then, and came across this article I thought you may find of some interest.
Is The CIA Getting Ready To Dump The Clintons?
It’s primarily about the ‘Clinton Foundation’ which I have mentioned before and suspected as being a front (most of these *Foundations* are!) Anyway, I found it an interesting read. 🙂
Oh! And this: Scientists Say Fraud Causing Crisis of Science – #NewWorldNextWeek
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That first link of yours seems a bit Alex Jones-y, Kryten. Lots of speculation and imagination, little verifiable information. BTW, I have personal knowledge of Alex Jones just Making S**T Up and hurting the family of a friend of mine, so don’t even go there on Alex Jones. The man is a scam artist, and a vile one at that.
The Clinton Foundation is a front for one thing, and one thing only: Funneling lots of money into Clinton pockets. When the Clintons exited the White House they were pretty much bankrupt. They owned basically nothing except the clothes on their back, and fine clothes they were, but you can’t eat clothes. Hillary (because you know damn well that Bill has about as much initiative as a turnip unless there’s a skirt involved) decided to remedy that, and did so, with the whole “foundation” scam. The hilarious thing, the thing that makes right wingers furious, is that the scam is legal, even, thanks to laws passed under Reagan to legalize that whole right-wing constellation of bogus “non-partisan” foundation scams.
And no way, no how, is Hillary getting indicted on that email thing while President Obama is in office. Justice Department policy requires the consent of the Attorney General before submitting charges to a grand jury for indictment of a major political figure, for obvious reasons (because it would create a major sh*tstorm that the Attorney General and his peeps have to prepare for if they allow it to go ahead), and that consent is not going to be forthcoming. No way, no how does the Obama administration want the political circus that would ensue. Obama is intent upon finishing up his lame duck year then slithering out of office with as little drama as possible while accomplishing as much as possible, and letting A.G. Lynch submit that package to a grand jury would be totally contrary to that desire.
It amuses me that people think that a sitting Democratic president would actually proffer an indictment of his probable successor to a grand jury when that would likely result in a President Trump. How naive, thinking that rule of law trumps politics in that kind of thing…
The e-mail thing is BS. I had my job title classified twice in 8 years, meaning the formal name for what I did was stamped with a classified stamp, actually an absurdly high classification, and a new name was created that was subsequently classified. That happened within the Air Force, Clinton’s e-mail are being judged by another department with different rules. So far I have seen no claims that the servers was hacked, something that cannot be said about CIA personnel records on an official government server.
Attorney generals for two separate states could go to a grand jury for fraud related to “Trump University”, and what are the Repubs going to do if he’s indicted?
Who knows – we could end up with Sanders vs Cruz 😈
My understanding is that at most Secretary Clinton violated departmental policy. But the appropriate remedy for that would be an administrative remedy where Secretary Clinton placed a warning in her file with the threat of Secretary Clinton firing herself if she didn’t use the departmental mail server as required by departmental policy. Uhm, yeah. As if that was going to happen :). Point being, the boss gets to make their own policy on the spot, because there’s nobody with the authority to discipline the boss other than in this case the President, and the President damn well wasn’t going to fire Secretary Clinton over an email server when he had a similar setup himself (except with far more security on it, the NSA and Secret Service set up his).
The other thing that gets whined about is the fact that she deleted personal emails off that server. But there is no law prohibiting a government official from deleting personal emails off of her personal email server. Otherwise half the Bush administration would be in jail.
But all of that is nonsense in the first place, because it presumes that a Democratic president would authorize the indictment of his likely successor even if there was a law violated. Which is about as likely as cows flying by flapping their ears.
Regarding Trump being indicted… I have no idea WTF is going to happen there if he actually is indicted. Given how slowly these cases wind through state courts, he’ll likely just call it a partisan witch-hunt and stall any actual trial until well after the election. In a sense I get the feeling that his entire run for office was intended to immunize him against these kinds of prosecutions by allowing him to call it politics. Reminds me of an old codger who ran for Governor of Louisiana every four years, because Louisiana had a law that a politician running for office could not be sued for libel. So he paid the filing fee every four years just so he could libel pretty much everybody in Louisiana state government and his local Parish government with impunity. It drove them nuts, but it was their own law to prevent themselves from being sued for libel when they smeared their opponent, so what were they to do other than wait for the dude to die of old age, which eventually he did, heh.
Why don’t they just hire Kenneth Starr to investigate it – he’s between jobs now. That would be the Republican thing to do when there’s a Clinton in the White House.
Ah, Kenneth Star. Maybe they can get Newt Gingrich out of retirement at the same time to lead the impeachment effort. He’s got experience at it, after all.
They can charge her with being a ‘Clinton’, which is apparently an impeachable of offense 😈