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I see a collision of wills happening with the District Courts grabbing executive power. At this point, the President is in two critical struggles that will define his success, replacing OCare and getting the tax system fixed. He cannot ignite a media storm about judicial fights while they are underway.

Sad as it may by, I believe the strategy is the following:

• Wait for the SCOTUS nominee to get on the court
• Slow walk the appeals until then
• Hope no incident of terror or heinous crime occurs in the meantime by a refugee or visa holder from one of the countries in the order
• Maintain the rallies and label the judges as overreaching

If there is an incident , I expect he will either declare the … Continue reading →

The title refers to the iconography of the KGB. The shield signified protecting the country and the sword to smite her enemies. Mention the KGB and you immediately elicit a response from people about these heavy-weight Russian types who kicked in doors and sent people to the gulag.

Born in 1922, one Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin became a Soviet foreign intelligence officer in 1948, at the time with the MGB. This organization would eventually become the KGB. His initial service was during the Stalinist paranoia. In 1953 Khrushchev ousted Beria from the control of the MGB. A new era arrived.

Vasili Mitrokhin thought things were going to improve. They did, but hardly enough to allow for some of his more outspoken criticisms of the service. In retaliation he … Continue reading →

I am loving this one. The President just assembled a herd of sacred cows and marked them for slaughter. He knows his GOP congress will wilt under the pressure from the media on cutting anything, much less Big Bird , the funders of Piss Christ and the United Nations.

He also knows many of the same members are going to be posturing with extreme prejudice on the costs of replacing OCare, infrastructure and the tax cuts.

“So Senator, if you are so concerned about the spending here, where was that when you supported Big Bird and the NEA?”

Okay, with a title like that no one is even going to read this post. Well, what should I call it gruel? BTW, what really is in porridge. Is it just a nice way to say eat the thing because it is good for you.

When I was young, oatmeal was terrible. It became like this thing that was impervious to milk if it wasn’t eaten right away. It was just oatmeal, milk, and the kid who didn’t want to eat it at that time. Now I even like the stuff. Of course I make it differently.

I bet Brent is a gruel guy.

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Jordan Peterson makes up for Justin Bieber in my book. I ran across this on YouTube. Has anyone heard of him? I going to check if he has any books.

Is it me or has the pace of anxiety changed and we are settling into the new normal of Trump at the Wheel?

I know I am much less enthused at the latest Washington DC breathless catastrophe by saying it wrong and the eternal gotcha nonsense.

Congress is bungling and arguing , which is their other setting after leaving town and doing nothing.

The economy is moving quite nicely.  I talked to an excavator who has jobs coming out of the woodwork for commercial foundations and new housing. New restaurants, new offices, new factories.

Apparently a lot of money is coming off the sidelines and out of Bill Devane’s safe.

Me, I still check in, but I am finding that without Obama and the Dems running the executive, … Continue reading →

I occasionally succumb to a desire to embrace what my daughter calls “retro”. It comes easy being a codger, but it is also a state of mind.

Mine is shaving. I was the beginning of the multiblade marketing tsunami, where entire generations were lectured that two blades was far superior to one, complete with animated pictures on television of the second blade neatly slicing the follicle off after it eluded the ever incompetent first blade.

As two blades went to three and Teflon doo-dads were added, (I think they tried lemon scented for a short while)  the process of forced and dictated obsolescence was in full swing.

At five blades and costs approaching  fifty dollars at Costco for a package of replacement blades, I decided to get off … Continue reading →