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“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
No longer “if” but when, because Mighty Mango is running out of options.
Amusing is how the “interview” (or its possibility) currently functions as a buffer against the firing, simply because of the motives of 45*’s lawyers to keep getting paid. As if you could convince the entire investigation to go away as a condition of the interview, because what what Lord Dampnut says is always “the truth, and nothing but the truth, so help him Stormy and her rolled up magazine”.
One sidebar comes from leaks again yakking about Red Lines and Mueller furthering the investigation into Trump Organization finances. There is no such line.
We’re way past that, considering there’s ample evidence that SIL Kushner was using his “diplomacy” travel to work on his financial portfolio.
And then there’s issues unrelated to the Steele Dossier, even if you’re an ideological idiot insisting on the “Fake Dossier”.
All that Nunes obstruction and disinformation work only reinforced the factual elements and now makes the Minority Report even more… democratic.
And then there’s all these naked violations of emolument laws, not to mention the naked Commandment violations. It’s enough to make you want to install a big block of granite somewhere on public property.
The thing is, he should have thought of that when he (probably) OK’d the contact between the “Russian Orphanage” folks and those guys now in the indictment barrel in Trump Tower in June 2016. Sins of the son, as if Agent Orange could resist eavesdropping on the meeting from his office one floor above.
This Lawfare story is important to read just to get some of the legal issues when the Mueller firing comes
The Fake News is beside themselves that McCabe was caught, called out and fired. How many hundreds of thousands of dollars was given to wifeâÂÂs campaign by Crooked H friend, Terry M, who was also under investigation? How many lies? How many leaks? Comey knew it all, and much more!
â Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 17, 2018
desperate for GOP support, trying to discredit evidence from registered Republicans
Susan Ludvigson is a paradox. She has published nine collections of poetry, and a couple of chapbooks, but her “biography” listings are one or two paragraphs about the number of fellowships she’s been awarded, and that she has spent much of her adult life teaching, mostly at the university level. Not even her birth year is listed.
This is as personal as the bios get: “She teaches at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, where she lives with her husband, novelist and short story writer Scott Ely.”
Her poems do illuminate her inner life – a dream landscape at once strange and familiar.
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Here she reveals the courage behind ‘ordinary’ lives which often passes unnoticed:
Some Notes on Courage
Think of a child who goes out into the new neighborhood, cap at an angle, and offers to lend a baseball glove. He knows how many traps there are– his accent or his clothes, the club already formed. Think of a pregnant woman whose first child died– her history of blood. Or your friend whose father locked her in basements, closets, cars. Now when she speaks to strangers, she must have all the windows open. She forces herself indoors each day, sheer will makes her climb the stairs. And love. Imagine it. After all those years in the circus, that last bad fall when the net didn’t hold. Think of the ladder to the wire, spotlights moving as you move, then how you used to see yourself balanced on shiny air. Think of doing it again.
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