The question is did Trump after going through 2years of the grueling Mueller investigation
that's seemed to get started when the DNC funded now discredited Steele Report got handed to the FBI ... The FBI who ... ruled that neither the personal email account (giving her personal control) deletion of 33,000 Clinton Emails she informed FBI they were personal, she did not have Criminal intent... forget it how does this compare..??
"The prospect of Mr Trump, who has praised Ukraine’s arch-enemy Vladimir Putin, becoming leader of the country’s biggest ally has spurred not just Mr Leshchenko but Kiev’s wider political leadership to do something they would never have attempted before: intervene, however indirectly, in a US election. Mr Leshchenko and Ukraine’s anti-corruption bureau published a secret ledger this month that authorities claim show millions of dollars of off-the-book cash payments to Paul Manafort, Mr Trump’s campaign director, while he was advising Mr Yanukovich’s Regions party from 2005."
"Kiev moved beyond verbal criticism when Ukraine’s national anti-corruption bureau and Mr Leshchenko — who has a reputation for being close to the bureau — published the ledger showing alleged payments to Mr Manafort last week. The revelations provoked fury among former Regions party backers. Asked by telephone about Mr Manafort’s activities in Ukraine, a former Yanukovich loyalist now playing a lead role in the Regions party’s successor, called Opposition Bloc, let loose a string of expletives. He accused western media of “working in the interests of Hillary Clinton by trying to bring down Trump”. Though most Ukrainians are disillusioned with the country’s current leadership for stalled reforms and lacklustre anti-corruption efforts, Mr Leshchenko said events of the past two years had locked Ukraine on to a pro-western course. The majority of Ukraine’s politicians, he added, are “on Hillary Clinton’s side”."
In Clinton's case, the FBI did not find evidence "sufficient to establish" that she knew she was receiving or sending classified information and that it was against the law, Comey said.
"I think she was extremely careless. I think she was negligent. That I could establish. What we can't establish is that she acted with the necessary criminal intent," he insisted. "'Should have known,' 'must have known,' 'had to know' does not get you there. You have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they knew they were engaged in something that was unlawful."
Comey said he knows that "frustrates people, but that's the way the law is, and that's the way the practice is in the Department of Justice."
He said that as many as 20 agents, investigators, analysts and others within the FBI were assigned to the case and that they unanimously agreed charges were not warranted.
As you saw yesterday, that whole nonsense ended with a very poor performance by a man named Robert Mueller, an incompetent performance, but they say a lot of it started with Ukraine. Whatever you can do it’s very important that you do it if that’s possible.
Comey testified that the FBI "didn't find any evidence of evil intent and intent to obstruct justice."
What would Obama do?
For you young people who weren''t around when this was going on. Can you imagine if Trump did this. No the problem with Trump is he disrespects our noble security state...
Report: Obama White House OK'd Spying On Other Leaders
Lest you forget. What is your sensitivity or insensitivity level... does it depend on which party is in power?
So Trump asks Zelensky to check it out ... "Whatever you can do its very important that you do it if that is possible?" Translation ... I got raked over the coals by false charges emanating with an FBI Democratic Party collusion. Would you look into this Ukraine story?
The other thing, There's a lot of talk about Biden's son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great. Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it... It sounds horrible to me.
It still sounds horrible to me too or at least the same old BS .... Can you look into it? Withholding aid .... ? That's what Biden threatened. Was there ever an investigation to prove that there was no corruption with the Bidens or is it simply self-evident? 'Everyone' says 'unsubstantiated' Was there an investigation? Whatever... let's get back to work America. Drop the hysteria and hatred so much to do. Let's get the Hell out of the MidEast. Are you a Faux Isolationist Trump? Do it! let's get out. Stop the BS with our National Debt. Democrats too. Etc..etc.... Ride Bicycles more! get rid of the damn winter cold, in my lungs! Why do I even bother?
The melting pot. The USA a sad story of hypocrisy, murder and greed .... or
just the ongoing struggle for the uplift in our own lives, the daily doing our best,
the daily doing our best being joined by a million others. 'Of the people, by the people,
for the people, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness'
'Keep moving!'
'If you can't fly, run.
'If you can't run, walk.
'If you can't walk, crawl.
Keep moving!'
MLK October 26, 1967
Some say here in 2020, there are too many complaining voices, where is the gratitude? Perhaps if I hear the hollowness sometimes in my own voice. How you doing? 'Blah blah I have a cold, boohoo.'
Then you hear someone say .. "Great!" with such conviction and I might think what is it about someone who can come right there no matter what and be 'Great!' Wow! I wish I had that, a bit more of that... Power! Yes!
I can post JFK videos or MLK videos with the most uplifting stuff known to man and no one
gives a damn about my posts on FB. Why? Some emptiness still waiting to be filled. Some space in the making of a human that can't fake it... that no matter how much the Torch can be seen ....
“These are the times for real choices, not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we all must protest.”
Beyond protest, we must Demonstrate as we use our lives as examples.
"We have met the enemy and he is Us!" So we discover Power. We wake up and remove the cynic robe of non-participation, spectator sport BS and get local.
It is not about Race. It is about Life on Earth. It is about our won choices in Conserving Life on Earth
and it requires a sense of place, it requires the ability to spread out your roots and our happiness.
Keep on. Just keep on. In my fumbling, bumbling (brilliant) way.
In your unique way.
We are at the gate. Standing in front of the gate. Knock knock.... Who's there?
Me.
Me who?
Me who thinks he is we because I was born with 'Try' in my bones.
???
Me who feels the words of Midnight Oil's. ' How can you sleep when your Bed is burning?' 1987
Me who knows 1970 is long gone .... 'Look at Mother Nature on the run in the 1970's' Neil Young 'After the Gold Rush' and still ....
Sundays are for Horses. Just one day a week Humans. Just one day a week to breathe and make like
fungi spread our mycelial fibers .... beneath the surface and unite as ... People in Nature.
A great unifying circle.... and how can a circle be anything but unifying?
I can do better. The narrative I am talking about.
A population flatline for the ages
The United States population, which is now 328,239,523, grew by 0.5 percent from July 1, 2018, to July 1, 2019. The natural increase, which factors in the number of births and deaths, was fewer than one million — the first time it has dropped below that figure in decades, the Census Bureau said.
From the January 1st story in the NY Times.
... and yes skipping .... Impeachment... Iran General and his Iraqi buddy taken out .... 52 strategic sites including cultural.. Ukrainian Airliner.... calm down Guy...
William H. Frey, a noted demographer and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said in an interview Monday that the percentage increase was the lowest in a century. The growth rate during the most recent decade, about 6.7 percent, is expected to be the lowest since the government started taking population counts around 1790, he said.
“This is a huge downturn in the nation’s growth,” Mr. Frey said. “This is even lower than the Great Depression.”
'The lowest since 'the government started taking population counts around 1790' !
The addition of an estimated 595,348 immigrants to the population in 2019 is a stark contrast to three years ago, when the country added more than one million immigrants, according to the population data.
“The immigration is really the safety valve for us going forward,” Mr. Frey said of population growth. “I think that immigration is an important part of what we have to think about going forward.”
'Going forward' ..... ?
Someone told me that the movie Blade Runner released in 1982 based on the Phillip K. Dick SF book was fictionally set in 2019. Interesting in dreaming 37 years into the future, a dark future, a nightmarish warning. We didn't come close in 2019, It will take many more years before we perfect androids or create an urban landscape so ugly... and yet where are we going?
I think we are in the process of turning away from the 'growth forever' model of progress. I think it is a very exciting development in human evolution. Wall Street is getting very anxious. Some people believe that once the population starts dropping it won't stop and much of what we perceive as 'progress' will start crumbling. Mike Judge's humorous and disturbing 'Idiocracy' has an interesting take on the future, not a bad Saturday night popcorn movie if you didn't see it. 'Wall-E' was one of the best from Pixar that deftly looked at the disaster of 'civilization' always growing.. 'BuynLarge' was the name of the fictitious Mega Store, with it's piles of waste.
a pot-head fantasy. It still seems to have something to say, at least to me and I am not even sure if I read it back then. I just liked what Garcia said in his first or second interview in Rolling Stone Magazine.... 'It's all mop up'. The deed is done, the magic is released, it will take awhile to circulate, can't be stopped.
You can throw EF Schumaker's 'Small is Beautiful' 1973, in the forgotten PipeDream mix of counter-cultural relics. Who knows?
If it don't have that swing, it don't mean a thing.
Thelonius Monk
'The Fabulous Fungi' a film named after me! Hah! Wouldn't it be nice to be that Guy!
Christmas was pretty special and now the days roll into our New Year.
Tonight I have a bottle of Nyquil by my bed. Being sick is pretty miserable....
Who knows perhaps I might get some strange benefits from it all. I am willing to
be surprised in that regard.
What is the nature of your inner dialogue when you feel like you are being tortured...
Why me? That is pretty weak isn't it.
I have a ticket to get up to Oregon and visit family. I might put off departure until
I am back to feeling 'presentable' again.
I brought up John and Yoko and their Christmas Song.... even almost sang a line or two...
'Recognising the accessibility and popular appeal that made his 1971 single "Imagine" a commercial success compared to the other songs he had released up to that point, Lennon concluded, "Now I understand what you have to do: Put your political message across with a little honey."[13] He conceived "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" as a means of elaborating upon the themes of social unity and peaceful change enacted through personal accountability and empowerment that served as the basis of the earlier billboard campaign,[14][15][16] trying to convey optimism while avoiding the sentimentality that he felt often characterised Christmas songs.[17][18][19] ...from Wikipedia
So this is Christmas
And what have you done Another year over And a new one just begun And so this is Christmas I hope you have fun The near and the dear one The old and the young
A very Merry Christmas And a happy new year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear
And so this is Christmas For weak and for strong For rich and the poor ones The world is so wrong And so happy Christmas For black and for white For yellow and red one Let's stop all the fight
A very Merry Christmas And a happy new year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear
And so this is Christmas And what have we done Another year over A new one just begun And so happy Christmas We hope you have fun The near and the dear one The old and the young
A very Merry Christmas And a happy new year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear War is over, if you want it War is over now
He conceived "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" as a means of elaborating upon the themes of social unity and peaceful change enacted through personal accountability and empowerment that served as the basis of the earlier billboard campaign,[14][15][16]
'Peaceful Change enacted through personal accountability and empowerment'
Many of us might say something at times that we felt didn't quite express ourselves very well but we tried or felt in the moment that what we were trying to express was valid but that maybe you/I have added a few more sentences to explain the full concept in a better way (for instance right now) ... in this 'blog'....
I think about Lennon and Yoko's song Imagine.... I think about my own song. My Life. I ponder a lot because of my father's singular mission to deliver a 'New World' a world, that like Lennon imagined a world where there was no countries. Right now coincidentally I am reading a biography of Christopher Columbus and his discovering on behalf of European Civilization. 'The New World'. I think a New World is fine to Imagine. I think it is waiting for and maybe approaching the proper gestation period though that birth is simply a mystery or my illusions.
By the time I was a teenager I had already decided that 'Nationalism' wasn't the enemy. As I watched the fans at the World Cup maybe Holland versus Brazil..... The colors that each side wore. What is this empathetic joy or identification with Us.... in the world of Sports 'Us vs Them'?
... and the World will live as one. Possible in many ways, maybe we are very very close to simply turning on the right circuit. 'Peaceful Change through personal accountability and empowerment'. The empowerment gained by 'fighting' enemies may simply not equal the empowerment gained from flipping an enemy so that, that will take us over the Barricades with our winning banner.
I recognize Representative Golden's dilemma, The Second count in the impeachment ....security component of the impeachment. Simply not there.
I agree with Mitch McConnell ... I am not impartial either.
I see an attempt to bulldoze using emotional
rage contrived and reinforced through the media and then reinforced by the Jack Ass in Chief himself. Our heads-are spinning and everyone wants you to get in their and fuel the flames. Democrats need to wake up it's one thing to have the pleasure of having a 'dire enemy' whose
ability to appall seem effortless, it's an entirely something else to offer something to Americans that has any semblance of Conservative, including a conservative tone that offers respect for all. We don't need a Democrat who can lead the Democrats to victory we need leadership that can cut through the wall of hate. How do we have the vision to understand that all our military will battling enemies across the globe is about as empty, barren of substance and chance of returning a positive result as our domestic policy currently manifested as we either elect 'Our Guy (gal it doesn't matter)' to beat down 'their Guy' (gal/gender whatever). When does it ever become clear? The other side is not the enemy. There is nothing in the way of deeply positive results. When you stop reinforcing fear, utilizing fear/emotion as a means to gain power then what options could be achieved. The people, all the people are ready for something new. A new approach something is wretchedly wrong in Denmark as someone once said. Don't run in fear of someone who wants America to Be Great Again? Say Yes! Let's talk.
Maybe until we acknowledge that there is something There. This USA. Just like there is something there this Planet Earth. Something worth slowing down for, worth saying 'Alright if my actions do make some small difference, to improve things instead of making things worse could I attempt to try just a little harder?' Of course you could, you would, I will, I want to, we all want to .... be of positive use and value on the planet.
Number one is we have to let go of our need for enemies, despite all the calls of practical men and women whose words through the years only keep the walls up of Fear, Hostility Security. That is still the ultimate rebellion that the world is waiting for, it might not be as hard as we imagine.
