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Tuesday, May 16, 2017

Intelligence . . .

(https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/us/politics/trump-russia-classified-information-isis.html?_r=0)
". . . President Trump boasted about highly classified intelligence in a meeting with the Russian foreign minister and ambassador last week, providing details that could expose the source of the information and the manner in which it was collected, a current and a former American government official said Monday. . . Mr. Trump’s disclosure does not appear to have been illegal — the president has the power to declassify almost anything. But sharing the information without the express permission of the ally who provided it was a major breach of espionage etiquette, and could jeopardize a crucial intelligence-sharing relationship. . ."

(http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/05/15/trump-reportedly-revealed-classified-info-about-isis-to-russians.html)
"I was in the room," McMaster concluded. "It didn't happen."

Which is true?

The latter, incidentally, from the Administration of a "President" (and I use the term loosely) who gave us:
1. On 9/11, he personally saw thousands of Muslims in Jersey City cheering.
2. There are actually 93 million people not working and the real unemployment rate is about 40 percent.
3. The Obama administration is sending Syrian refugees to red states.
4. Climate change is a hoax invented by the Chinese.
5. He opposed the Iraq War and has dozens of news clippings to prove it.
6. Among white homicide victims, 81 percent are killed by blacks.
7. America has the highest tax rate in the world.
8. CNN lied when it reported that a speech he gave in South Carolina was one-third empty.
9. His criticism of Ford prompted the company to move a factory from Mexico to Ohio.
10. Vaccines cause autism.
11. The Obama administration wants to admit 250,000 Syrian refugees.
12. ISIS built a luxury hotel in the Middle East.
13. He was on 60 Minutes with Vladimir Putin and "got to know him very well."
14. He was never interested in opening a casino in Florida.
15. November 17: The United States only started bombing ISIS oil fields "two days ago."
16. His campaign is 100 percent self-funded.
17. Mexico doesn't have birthright citizenship.
18. The Iran deal forces us to "fight with Iran against Israel" if Israel attacks Iran.
19. We still "really don't know" if Barack Obama was born in the United States.
20. More than 300,000 veterans have died waiting for VA care.
21. The Bush White House begged him to tone down his "vocal" opposition to the Iraq War.

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Monday, May 15, 2017

Knowing . . .

(from https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-has-a-dangerous-disability/2017/05/03/56ca6118-2f6b-11e7-9534-00e4656c22aa_story.html?utm_term=.26baf340fb2a)
". . . the problem isn’t that he does not know this or that, or that he does not know that he does not know this or that. Rather, the dangerous thing is that he does not know what it is to know something. . . ."

George F. Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs. He began his column with The Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977.

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Sunday, May 14, 2017

Some Days . . .

Some days I feel like I'm twenty-one and I just can't wait to get on with exploring all the wild and wonderful things life has to offer. Other days I wonder if I have ten, maybe twenty years left to do the things that I enjoy and the things that I think I should be doing. At best, that's only about one-third of what I've already had. Don't get me wrong. I'm not regretting anything. It's only that, in spite of all the trying times I've had over the years, I've been having a blast.

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
-Dr. Seuss

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Saturday, May 13, 2017

Old . . .

. . . isn't always GOOD . . .

(from https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8190 - identifying details in parentheses are mine)

John (Podesta, former White House Chief of Staff)--

Attached are three documents:

-- A list of African American, Latino and Asian American candidates,
broken down by Cabinet/Deputy and Under/Assistant/Deputy Assistant
level, plus a list of Native American, Arab/Muslim American and Disabled
American candidates. We have much longer lists for most of the groups,
and the lists will continue to grow as we reach out further and more
openly, but these are the names to date that seem to be coming up as
recommended by various sources for senior level jobs. (I have tried to
include member of Barack's campaign and Senate policy staff, as well as
participants in the Transition project, as appropriate.)

-- While you did not ask for this, I prepared and attached a similar
document on women.

-- At the risk of being presumptuous, I also scoped out how the
Cabinet-level appointments might be put together, probability-weighting
the likelihood of appointing a diverse candidate for each position
(given one view of the short list) and coming up with a straw man
distribution. (Obviously, multiple permutations of this are possible.
This was just one example to show how it might pan out.)

Let me know when you'd like to discuss. I am around this morning until
about 11:30.

-- Mike (Froman, former President and Chief Executive Officer of CitiInsurance and head of Emerging Markets Strategy at Citigroup, managing infrastructure and sustainable development investments and later Assistant to President Barack Obama)
212-793-1987

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Friday, May 12, 2017

A Crying . . .

. . . shame . . .

(https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/05/get-me-roger-stone-donald-trump-netflix/526296/)
". . . The (Roger) Stone mystique is carefully curated. Stone recalls early on how, at a mock election at his elementary school, he took a liking to John F. Kennedy because he had “better hair” than Nixon, and he persuaded his classmates to vote for JFK by assuring them Nixon planned to introduce school on Saturdays. “For the first time ever, I understood the value of misinformation,” Stone says, with a glint in his eye. That the story is too good to be true only further emphasizes his point. . .

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Thursday, May 11, 2017

A Good Job. . .

. . . 'because he wasn't doing a good job' . . .

* John McCain: "I have long called for a special congressional committee to investigate Russia's interference in the 2016 election. The president's decision to remove the FBI Director only confirms the need and the urgency of such a committee."
* Jeff Flake: "I've spent the last several hours trying to find an acceptable rationale for the timing of Comey's firing. I just can't do it."
* Ben Sasse: "Regardless of how you think Director Comey handled the unprecedented complexities of the 2016 election cycle, the timing of this firing is very troubling."
* Richard Burr: "I am troubled by the timing and reasoning of Director Comey's termination."
* Bob Corker: "While the case for removal of Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey laid out by Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein was thorough, his removal at this particular time will raise questions."

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Wednesday, May 10, 2017

Applicable . . .

Maybe you've heard that NPR's unique sports commentator Frank DeFord is retiring after 37 years on the job. A unique voice in the sports world, DeFord brought an original perspective to a world in which I, quite frankly (no pun intended) have little interest. DeFord is also very quotable . . .

(on college sports. . . )
"If the players aren't getting paid, there's something terribly, terribly wrong, and that's true only in the United States. Everywhere else, where money is involved with sport, the players get paid. But these poor kids in college, they're doing it for free, and that's just disgraceful."
-Frank Deford

Does this possibly apply to live music now that we've reached 2017?

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