Fogbow

I'm not surprised that some qualified people refuse to run. Whoever wins in 2020 will have to spend at least half his (first) term undoing lots of Trump's damage.

I am surprised that none of Trump's henchmen has absconded to a country with no extradition treaty.

I think that Trump may remain to the end of his (only) term of office, but he's been badly wounded and we may not see many wild or questionable maneuvers from him in the remaining two years.

Another article on the same lawsuit: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/alex-jones-faces-yet-another-lawsuit/ There is a tort, not (I think) often used as a cause of action, 'intentional infliction of emotional distress' -- not commonly used but I'd bet it's getting a work-out with Alex Jones. As it...

Ammon Bundy has spoken out sympathetically for the migrant caravan that makes its way through Mexico to the US border. As a result, it appears that chunks of the usual Bundy Boosters have started murmuring against him ... and he, in turn, is having second thoughts about relying on them as allies. ht...

The public version of the Mueller sentencing memo on Flynn indicates that a number of investigations/prosecutions are ongoing, not all necessarily in Mueller's hands nor all necessarily incriminating Donald Trump directly, but considerably more than most of us knew about. Mueller released this recom...

Ken Berry, star of MAYBERRY RFD (where he replaced Andy Griffith) and of MAMA'S FAMILY, has died, at age 85.

George H.W. Bush, President 41, has died.

I took the Ancestry test about 3 years ago, and came up with mostly Eastern European Jewish - which I fully expected, a fragment of French - also expected, and 1% Irish - which was a total surprise and totally unexplained in my family's history. Since then, Ancestry has sent me about a dozen e-mails...

I finally read NIGHT OF CAMP DAVID, which was written in 1965, the same year that the 25th Amendment was proposed. Unfortunately the book is a little short on remedies. It posits a Prez who starts talking obsessively about flaky proposals, and conjures up people who become concerned about the number...

Ricky Jay, a master magician who first published a book on using playing cards as deadly weapons, and appeared in Mystery Men and in Tomorrow Never Dies, dead of natural causes at age 72.

https://variety.com/2018/film/news/rick ... 203035879/

To add a literary note: Back in 1965, the same year that Congress proposed the 25th Amendment, Fletcher Knebel wrote a novel, NIGHT OF CAMP DAVID, which presented a scenario about a President who seemed to be losing his marbles. A senator became alarmed that the Prez was talking about proposing a na...

It is entirely possible that one or more of his former (2013) Hawaii clients/adherents will show up as prosecution witnesses this time around. Williams took their money (something close to their last bit of money), promised to save them from foreclosure, and then flimflammed them.

I would dare say that military school, such as West Point, was an adequate education for some presidents including such heroes of the Republic as Ulysses Grant and Dwight Eisenhower.

This video was obviously made 5 years ago by one of Williams's adherents sitting in the courtroom. Five years later, with Williams again in a Hawaii court, this time as a defendant facing what could turn into a life sentence, none of his previous Hawaii fanbase has shown up to help him.

Enchroma, a company which invented special glasses for color-blind people, has an online test for color blindness which is very intriguing (takes about 5 minutes):

https://enchroma.com/pages/color-blindn ... ate=dialog

My track record at predicting the ups and downs of Donald Trump is very poor, but I do believe that his admirers no longer have to fear becoming sick of too much winning.

Trump, who delights in attaching nicknames and sobriquets to everyone he doesn't like, can finally have a nickname of his own:

RainMan !

Just as well that the security ("bouncers") at that bar were not armed. Yes, this one instance where someone came in shooting seems to argue otherwise, but thinking of bars/nightclubs/discos in general, having armed guards invites the risk of gun battles with shots from opposite directions endangeri...

We are getting more and more instances that prove the unwisdom of letting certain people have guns, yet Congress doesn't even make pretend motions anymore. Obviously, increasing penalties has little effect on people who set out to commit capital crimes to begin with, and who may even expect to be gu...

Kitty O'Neil, the deaf Hollywood stuntwoman, famous for a land-speed record with an experimental jet car, has died at age 72. She was the subject of a TV movie, Silent Victory, starring Stockard Channing in 1979. http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/ny-ent-kitty-oneil-dies-20181107-story.html ab...

I agree. Despite Dem attempts to magnify their smattering of victories, the Republicans succeeded in entrenching themselves even further, the Senate outcome being a decisive monument to the Republican victory. Don't expect better for 2020, and by 2024 we may have become used to our new Royal Family.

I worry this sets up Trump to be President-for-life (for my life anyway, since I'm old and feeble).

I am very disappointed. And I don't expect any better from the 2020 elections.

Returning Cruz to the Senate might have its compensations - Cruz might figure this as a personal mandate to boost his own Presidential campaign to challenge Trump in 2020, with mutual attrition. Even though Cruz won, O'Rourke came much closer to winning than any Democratic candidate for a Texas Sena...

Didja notice how many of these bozos use their cars - even when parked - as their recording studios?