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It may be significant that 'Blogo's' clemency was a commutation rather than a pardon. It means that the former Democratic governor gets out of prison but it does not restore his right to vote or his right to own a gun or some other rights and privileged.

I must reconsider my long-held atheistic opinions.

You're not likely to see legislation specifying how Grand Juries are organized because Grand Juries are creations of the Judicial Branch, not of the Legislative Branch. More likely the court system, under the supervision of the State Supreme Court, will work up rules of court that cover this topic.

On a less entertaining note: I have been edgy because the entire impeachment focuses on the phone call to the Ukrainian president in July 2019. Nothing about abandoning the Kurds, about violating the War Powers Act, about violating the Geneva Conventions, about failing to rehab Puerto Rico, about th...

Ed "Kookie" Byrns, of 77 Sunset Strip, dead at 87.

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/edd- ... 203462364/

Should i hold my breath while I wait for Donald Jr., Eric and Jared to enlist in the military to fight Daddy's War?

Anything official that designates American Jews as a nationality other than American or a race other than caucasian raises the possibility of further aggravating antisemitism. Such would be an official recognition and endorsement of the bigots' contention that Jews are not real Americans or are a ra...

Apparently Jones's editor, Paul J. Watson, rejects Alex Jones's crusade about Sandy Hook.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/paul-wat ... 1f411d88b5

Apparently Trump wants/expects recipients of his clemency (for war crimes) to assist his re-election campaign. As a "favor", of course. Could this mean that Trump would refuse clemency to any accused person who was a Democrat or otherwise unlikely to campaign for him? Is this a form of graft or brib...

Williams's attempt at pleadings show he has no legal knowledge at all, nor is he getting any help - not even typing - from his "Common Law Firm" or his purported admirers and past clients in Hawaii.

Ah ha, it turns out that Gallagher's lawyer has an 'in' with Trump:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/24/politics ... index.html

How long before some rightwing nutjob says that the Santa Clarita shooting was a hoax?!

I notice that Giuliani is not on the list of people to be voted off the island. Giuliani made the claim that he had "insurance" against being thrown under the bus -- what he meant wasn't spelled out but the mere assertion suggests that the President's consiglieri has and is describing evidence so so...

Not 63 more states (think about it) but 26. Back in 1814 it would have needed 14 ... 2 more than it had. But by that time, Betsy Patterson, "the Duchess of Baltimore", was no longer married to Jerome Bonaparte and had slipped into obscurity, so the enthusiasm for the TONA had evaporated.

The 18th Amendment (Prohibition) required the adoption of the 21st Amendment to repeal it. IF the ERA is considered adopted, then only another, anti-ERA, amendment could un-adopt it, and the chances of sufficient state legislatures voting to repeal the ERA are slim. There is, however, some serious q...

Donald Trump is the oldest man to be elected President (for a first term - he's now almost as old as Reagan was at the beginning of his second term). What are the chances that all of Trump's outrageous behavior are the result of early stages of dementia?

Those scissors are left-handed.

Apropos of nothing, my Windows 7 PC was corrupted, possibly by a virus, and I foolishly resorted to the Emergency Backup and Restart option -- and lost ALL my word processing files, including my magnum opus. Paying an IT expert to make further repairs accomplished only a slight rehab. I now have to ...

I am watching MOM, with Allison Janney. A mother and her grown daughter have their social life centered on their friends from Alcoholics Anonymous. Very amusing and even therapeutic (something rare in TV). I also got myself the DVD set and binge watched all ten episodes of the short-lived LAW & ORDE...

Ooops, my bad phrasing. The 25th Amendment says "confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress." I assume, from its previous uses in what would have been Nixon's Second Term, that means a majority of the House and a majority of the Senate, in no particular sequence. And, yes, I'd like t...

Under the 25th Amendment (1967), if the office of VP is vacant - as, for example, the VP moving up when the President is removed from office - the (new) President nominates a new VP, who must (sec. 2) be confirmed by a majority vote of BOTH Houses of Congress. Until that new VP is confirmed, I think...

I presume that, by now, Trump has had a little chat with Mike Pence about granting him a pardon. Considering that Trump might be indicted after leaving office, and be considered too serious a flight risk to be bonded out, it may be difficult for Trump to advise Pence to wait until after Election Day...

More evidence of irresponsibility in his Sandy Hook reporting: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/infowars-editor-says-he-warned-staff-not-to-spread-sandy-hook-lies-was-laughed-at_n_5d935dc9e4b0ac3cddaf11d7 A 13-year veteran of conspiracy website Infowars said in a recent court deposition that he repeat...

Don't be surprised if vaguely identified sources start with heavy propagandizing that Pence would be a terrible President. Republican VPs tend to serve as impeachment insurance and Pence is not an exception.

Jessye Norman, soprano, dead at age 74.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/30/obit ... -dead.html