53 thoughts on “Sunday Serendipity”

  1. beautiful background music for what lies ahead on the trail, jack.

    especially liked the getting in tune part – how appropriate for the coming week

  3. another trail is disappearing but there are taped-up crumbs of what’s still left for intrepid historians 

    the guardian:

    Trump has been cavalier about the law requiring that records be preserved. He has a habit of ripping up documents before tossing them out, forcing White House workers to spend hours taping them back together.
    White House staff quickly learned about Trump’s disregard for documents as they witnessed him tearing them up and discarding them. “My director came up to me and said, ‘You have to tape these together,’” said Solomon Lartey, a former White House records analyst.
    The first document he taped back together was a letter from Chuck Schumer, the Democratic leader in the Senate, about a government shutdown. “They told [Trump] to stop doing it. He didn’t want to stop.”
    Lartey said the White House chief of staff’s office told the president that the documents were considered presidential records and needed to be preserved by law. About 10 records staff ended up on Scotch tape duty, starting with Trump’s first days in the White House through at least mid-2018.
    The president also confiscated an interpreter’s notes after speaking with Vladimir Putin – a conversation where topics were suspected to have included Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election. Trump scolded his White House counsel for taking notes at a meeting during the Russia investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller. Top executive branch officials had to be reminded not to conduct official business on private email or text messaging systems, and to preserve it if they did.
    […]
    In the Trump White House “not only has record-keeping not been a priority, but we have multiple examples of it seeking to conceal or destroy that record”, said Richard Immerman, from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations.
    And now Trump’s baseless claim of widespread voter fraud – which postponed for weeks an acknowledgement of Joe Biden’s presidential victory – has delayed the transfer of documents to the National Archives and Records Administration, further heightening concern about the integrity of the records.
    Lack of a complete record might also hinder investigations of Trump, from his impeachment trial and other prospective federal inquiries to investigations in the state of New York.
    […]
    The National Security Archive, two historical associations and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington have sued to prevent the Trump White House destroying electronic communications or records sent or received on non-official accounts, such as personal email or WhatsApp. They alleged the White House has already likely destroyed presidential materials.
    […]
    “I believe we will find that there’s going to be a huge hole in the historical record of this president because I think there’s probably been serious noncompliance of the Presidential Records Act,” said Anne Weismann, one of the lawyers representing the groups in their suit.
    “I don’t think president Trump cares about his record and what it says. I think he probably cares, though, about what it might say about his criminal culpability.”
    [continues]

  5. Ludwig van B, my classical music gateway composer and still among my top 2. Absolutely love PC3. Thanks for starting my Sunday with it. 

  7. Jack

    Thank you.  PC3 is a wonderful composition, but I always think the first notes sound as if someone is sneaking up on you. 

     

  8. Otay folks – Last night I posted this on my FB page, I thought it might give some people a laugh, a giggle or a “are you crazy”.  I did not expect someone with a complete lack of irony, humour or whatever.  A guy sent me a question of why post this, it makes no sense.  He did not even begin to get the thing.

    Thinking about the year that was I am putting together a list of newly acquired skills. One is being able to put a mask on one handed. Useful for when you are carrying groceries into the house and find a burglar at the door and you need to mask up.

  9. newsweek:

    The Lincoln Project, a conservative super PAC opposed to President Donald Trump, is taking aim at Republicans who challenged the certification of President-elect Joe Biden‘s electoral victory after the U.S. Capitol riot.

    “This is your coup,” a narrator said in an ad’s 30-second clip. “This is your siege. This is your insurrection. With your support for Donald Trump you have brought this shame to America.”

    https://twitter.com/i/status/1349056046086590464

     

    LP is also running same kind of ad against mo brooks, jim jordan & louie gohmert

  10. Karl Rove just said on Fox News that if Rudy Giuliani defends President Trump in his impeachment trial, there is a “strong likelihood” that Trump will be convicted.

  11. Craig – I would be willing to say the bookies would not put it on the board.  And, if he did old hands in the pants might end up being put in jail too.

  12. Watching a retrospective on the Rio games this morning.  
    Athletes will have their shots and we’ll see the Olympic Games this summer. I have hope.  

    Los Angeles is to host the 2028 Olympics. If the idiot, white nationalists are still in Congress and causing trouble, I suggest that all other countries will boycott the games. Well, Rusher might show up.  

    Seriously, though, outside pressure might be a wake-up call for others to stand up to the weasels instead of bending like they did to tRUMPsky.

  13. Rudee! Rudee! Rudee!   You can’t write a better ending to SFB than having Rudee take him down with his insane ineptitude.

  15. Jack…  thanks…   LOVE Beethoven!  Good luck to your Chiefs this afternoon.
     
    CBob…   thanks for the Enya and Nitty Gritty.  I usually see your late night posts the next morning.  I really enjoy reading your stuff lately.

  19. My extended family is getting creamed by COVID- a bunch of horror stories i won’t share.  i need Joe in there ASAP to fix this disastrous vaccine rollout🤞

  21. tRUMPsky’s terrorists are resorting to radio to communicate.  Hope there are legions of ham radio operators surveilling the airwaves and turning in the seditious idiots. 

  22. Since Flatus is MIA I’m watching the Browns and Chiefs. Smart money has to be on KC. Mahomes has a bum foot and except for KC’s last series he was lights out. 11 1st downs in 21 plays. Mayfield looks good, but not like that. 

  26. I’ll leave that to the professional-amateurs with good set-ups and who know what they’re doing.  I believe one has to have a license to operate a ham radio.   

  28. Democrats arguing that dipshit shouldn’t receive intelligence briefings are missing an obvious play, like the oldest trick in the book🙄

  31. Stephen Colbert in Vanity Faire

    Look At What We Love.  It’s On Fire.  If Joe Biden is a pair of khaki pants inside a manila envelope, that would be great.

    He’s right about that.  It was media’s lust for dollars and eyeballs that gave us Donald in the first place with all the “But Her Emails” nonsense.  All media should be sentenced for four years of total boredom.

     

     

     

     

  33. Might want to plant something just plausible enough to see if any Repug on a committee is still carrying water for tRUMPsky. 

  35. Soooo if Dumbass’ dumbasses are planning shit via Ham radio, other than trying to secure the Capitol complex what higher priorities would that be? One odest trick in the book?  WTF is that?  A false flag op?

  36. I can just imagine how F*d up the Morse code would be if the cult tried using ham radios.  They are out of their little craniums, even the bank managers and the strange operatives who think they need to wear fur with cow horns.

  37. Where did we diverge, good Sir Pogo?  Maybe just ignore my posts?  You misread all of them- although it’s likely a fault of mine, as most things are😭

  42. Good idea. It’s getting there and beyond that concerns me. Frankly I’m less concerned about Joe and Kamala than I probably should be – at least through Wednesday. Seems like DC is pretty well covered, but then again, who knows?  After then, who can say what Dumbass’ crazy followers are capable of?  

  43. Cheri Jacobus

    If George Conway had gotten the job of Solicitor General with Trump that he wanted, he’d have been arguing cases for Trump before the Supreme Court. He flew around with him, advised him, supported him even after a TON of crap, & only pivoted to NeverTrump to help pack the courts

  47. Well, apparently today’s armed March was a bit of a feint. It didn’t occur.  So Bink and BID may be onto something. 

    The troops were in formation. The residents were told to stay home. The heart of Washington was a fortress of fences, concrete barriers and security checkpoints. But on Sunday, the planned and promoted “armed march” on the nation’s capital never materialized.

    There were no gathered crowds, large or small, and authorities reported just one arrest of an armed man carrying a handgun and ammunition near barricades surrounding the Capitol building just after midnight.

    The quiet Sunday brought little relief to a city on edge from an attack on the Capitol. Each day leading up to the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden comes with fear of additional violence and ever more security
    …

    What next?

     

  49. The idiots should just assume everything is a sting, because many opportunities to cause trouble will be just that.  Just like they caught lone wolves after 9/11, they’ll be setting up the tRUMPsky brain trust. 

  50. pogo – I was thinking more along the lines of sprinkling in a bit of plausible garbage to security briefing to see which of the critters in Congress is a traitor and to which enemy, foreign or domestic, they contact.

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