Off Topic, but I have to say this. Trump wanted his criminal trial in NY delayed, and Bragg said no, until Merrick Garland came to his rescue and dropped tens of thousands of documents that they had from their investigation.
Here is the kicker. Alvin Bragg's office had asked for the documents one year ago, no answer from DOJ, until Bragg …
Off Topic, but I have to say this. Trump wanted his criminal trial in NY delayed, and Bragg said no, until Merrick Garland came to his rescue and dropped tens of thousands of documents that they had from their investigation.
Here is the kicker. Alvin Bragg's office had asked for the documents one year ago, no answer from DOJ, until Bragg wouldn't delay the trial, then comes the document dump, and now defense has the right to review the docs, they asked for a 90 day delay, Bragg gave them 30, Trump's lawyers are appealing to the Supremes for more time and we know how that goes.
Once again into the breach for Trump, flies Merrick Garland.
Thanks Joe, you brought the fox into the hen house. What were you thinking?
I'll still vote you, but only because I have to, the alternative is unthinkable.
William Farrar and Bob Johnson, your comments along with today's Hartmann Report was enough to depress me on a beautiful sunny day in the Bay Area. That said, I agree with you both
100%.
I don't know why Biden keeps Garland in office any more than I know why Biden hasn't appointed the necessary Dem (he recently appointed one person) to the USPS Board of Governors so they can fire Postmaster General DeJoy. One is on target to destroy the DOJ and threatens democracy. The other continues unabated in his goal to privatize the oldest institution in our country, the USPS, for his financial gain.
Hi Reb: I lived in Santa Cruz for seven years and it was a life changing experience. I moved, in 1996, before it went through the roof, though a friend and her girlfriend bought a crap of a home, almost falling down and had to restore l and it cost a fortune.
I was working in APTOS, 5 miles from the epicenter of the Loma Prieta Quake, Oct 89. I was lucky an acquaintance, Robin, was working in the Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting company and died.
I totally agree but accuse Biden of , well I will save the accusation. Here is what I know, in December 2021, two seats on the UPSPS came open, he filled them with a Democrat and a Republican thus assuring that DeJoy would continue as PM General. Two more seats came open in Dec 2022 and he has left them instead of filling the seats with Democrats, he has left them empty. It makes me wonder what is really going on.
I know he is not omniscient, and he has advisors, but he chose his advisors and cabinet. Or someone like Larry Summers, the gris eminence behind Obama's administration "guides" him.
But that I blame on Biden, because he listens to them. It can't be that folk like you and I, know more than Biden.
He was mentored in the Senate by racist Dixicrats, and 34 years of comity, cocktail parties,bipartisan ship taught him the wrong lessons.
Senates make terrible presidents, because they have learned the wrong lessons and not how to govern. Governors like Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom have experience governing and make hard decisions and not equivocating or compromising.
Don't get me wrong I will vote for Biden, just like I did he last time, because the alternative is unthinkable, the problem, as far as I am concerned, is in the DNC, the DLC, the establishment assholes who run the party.
William, its a small world. I lived in Aptos, as well, but moved in 1987. Still go there quite often as my best friend still lives in Santa Cruz County.
I've been a member of the Save The Post Office coalition for several years. The coalitiion identified two excellent candidates to fill the vacancies on the USPS Board of Governors and worked hard to get Biden to nominate them to no avail. The fellow he nominated is a labor guy which is good. But that still leaves one vacancy. Another Governor's term expires at the end of this year. It's hard to understand why Biden has failed to nominate people who will remove DeJoy.
You remember the shortest 4th of Jul parade then., one or two blocks long.
You surely have been to Santa Cruz, if you ever see the Clint Eastwood Movie, Sudden Impact, you will see Santa Cruz before the quake, and the house that was featured was built near a cliff overlooking Monterey Bay, which is were it resides now.
That Biden made Garland AG was his greatest error, as Garland has turned on him
But not filling the Board of Governors of USPS with Democrats makes me suspicious..
And if I were capable, depressed, but nothing depresses me. It is not in my DNA.
I'm one of those fossils, and agree 100%. Governing the country is best done by someone who has a vested interest in the future. I barely have a grasp on the present. This is a Windows 7 Computer, with a mouse. I don't have a cell phone, nor a tablet, I don't do social media and have no need or interest. The acronym's I use on the interwebs are relics of the past, like ROTFLMAO.
My first computer was a 286AT, the hard drive weighed 10 lbs, the operating system was DOS, and my internet connection was via a 2400 Baud dial up, the forum I used was the WELL, Whole Earth Lectronic Link out of Sausalita, on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge.
We communicated via FTP, upload and download conversations. Then came Windows 3, then Win 3.1, and some genius invented an Email program he named after his mother, Eudora.
Then Windows 95, and gasp Netscape Navigator, then even had a book Netscape for Dummies, hog heaven. then forums, like Liberty Forum and Anomalies and Enigmas.
When Gates made Win95 obsolete with Win98, I quit trying to keep up. I stayed with Win98, until I could no longer use by browser, becaue they went from 64 bytes to 124 bytes, I bought a new computer with Windows 7, and there I stand.
I understand the Windows 10, is now obsolete and the latest is Window 11, and now you have to subscribe annually.. Highway robbery, Microsoft Office, so I hear is an annual subscription.
Better to have a sharp mind than an updated operating system :) Not a techie, but switching to a MAC, got an offer I could not refuse. Their OS is free (for now).
I bought my Mom an old Apple computer (she died in 2000), and the mouse didn't have a right click, so that was a loser for me. Plus I don't want to learn new architecture, like where files are stored, finally I have too many peripherals, scanners, printers, that probably are not compatible with MAC.
Also, I find that the older I get, the less patience I have. Which is the reverse of what intuition suggests.
Thom is absolutely correct about all the instances of the right wingers destroying trust in America, our government's competence and virtues, but the thing that has eviscerated my trust the most is the department of Justice under Merrick Garland. The Democrats should have won the Congress and could have fixed the supreme Court or could fix it real soon by adding more members. If Biden does not fire Garland he needs to step down and let Kamala Harris run the show and hopefully she would.
I have always had trust that the greedy capitalist would put money and power before the well-being of this country and God.
That is true and a variation on the maxim that a crook thinks everyone is a crook,an honest person thinks every one is honest.. Well said.
There is no doubt in my mind that Biden is an honest man, can't say the same for his son though. despite beliefs to the contrary a child does not necessarily mimic the parents, makes an interesting add for car insurance, but not in reality.
Neither I or my sisters, mimicked our mother, in fact we grew up, just the opposite (single Mom, in a way I mimicked my Dad, (genetics) but not because he raised us, parents split the sheets when I was six.
My sisters resent my mother, I forgave her,though I took the brunt of her frustrations and anger.
Can this be as obvious as it appears? that Merrick Garland is working against Biden and the Democrats, and working to support Trump's possibe future presidency? He always appeared (to me) to behave like a timorous old lady, but is he enamored of the rough and crude tactics (machismo that he lacks) that ended his even getting a hearing to become a justice of the SCOTUS?
Yes Valerie, that is the only conclusion that makes sense. He dragged his feet on prosecuting Trump,or appointing a special counsel. He has not investigated the conspirators in Congress, he hasn't used the investigation of Matt Gaetz to prosecute him, he jumped at the chance of appointing a special counsel for Hunter, but nary a mention of Ivanka and Don Jr.
He had the documents case moved to Florida on the pretext that was where the crime occurred, but it actually occurred in DC when Waltine Nauta moved the boxes from the White House to the truck and to his plane. then he appointed Aileen Cannon using a specious excuse.
He withheld the Documents, tens of thousands of them, from Alvin Bragg for a year, and just before the trial was to begin to start he dropped them on Bragg, giving Trump an excuse to delay the trial. until after the election, same with the trial in Florida). Trump will never be tried in Federal Court, maybe if he loses the election,l but the RNC is hard at work in the states, to ensure that he won't lose the electoral votes, and Muslims and young black males are helping Trump by flipping Dems and Biden the bird, even Hispanics now.
There is more in my brief against Garland, but that is off the top of my head.
Off Topic, but I have to say this. Trump wanted his criminal trial in NY delayed, and Bragg said no, until Merrick Garland came to his rescue and dropped tens of thousands of documents that they had from their investigation.
Here is the kicker. Alvin Bragg's office had asked for the documents one year ago, no answer from DOJ, until Bragg wouldn't delay the trial, then comes the document dump, and now defense has the right to review the docs, they asked for a 90 day delay, Bragg gave them 30, Trump's lawyers are appealing to the Supremes for more time and we know how that goes.
Once again into the breach for Trump, flies Merrick Garland.
Thanks Joe, you brought the fox into the hen house. What were you thinking?
I'll still vote you, but only because I have to, the alternative is unthinkable.
William Farrar and Bob Johnson, your comments along with today's Hartmann Report was enough to depress me on a beautiful sunny day in the Bay Area. That said, I agree with you both
100%.
I don't know why Biden keeps Garland in office any more than I know why Biden hasn't appointed the necessary Dem (he recently appointed one person) to the USPS Board of Governors so they can fire Postmaster General DeJoy. One is on target to destroy the DOJ and threatens democracy. The other continues unabated in his goal to privatize the oldest institution in our country, the USPS, for his financial gain.
Hi Reb: I lived in Santa Cruz for seven years and it was a life changing experience. I moved, in 1996, before it went through the roof, though a friend and her girlfriend bought a crap of a home, almost falling down and had to restore l and it cost a fortune.
I was working in APTOS, 5 miles from the epicenter of the Loma Prieta Quake, Oct 89. I was lucky an acquaintance, Robin, was working in the Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting company and died.
I totally agree but accuse Biden of , well I will save the accusation. Here is what I know, in December 2021, two seats on the UPSPS came open, he filled them with a Democrat and a Republican thus assuring that DeJoy would continue as PM General. Two more seats came open in Dec 2022 and he has left them instead of filling the seats with Democrats, he has left them empty. It makes me wonder what is really going on.
I know he is not omniscient, and he has advisors, but he chose his advisors and cabinet. Or someone like Larry Summers, the gris eminence behind Obama's administration "guides" him.
But that I blame on Biden, because he listens to them. It can't be that folk like you and I, know more than Biden.
He was mentored in the Senate by racist Dixicrats, and 34 years of comity, cocktail parties,bipartisan ship taught him the wrong lessons.
Senates make terrible presidents, because they have learned the wrong lessons and not how to govern. Governors like Gretchen Whitmer and Gavin Newsom have experience governing and make hard decisions and not equivocating or compromising.
Don't get me wrong I will vote for Biden, just like I did he last time, because the alternative is unthinkable, the problem, as far as I am concerned, is in the DNC, the DLC, the establishment assholes who run the party.
William, its a small world. I lived in Aptos, as well, but moved in 1987. Still go there quite often as my best friend still lives in Santa Cruz County.
I've been a member of the Save The Post Office coalition for several years. The coalitiion identified two excellent candidates to fill the vacancies on the USPS Board of Governors and worked hard to get Biden to nominate them to no avail. The fellow he nominated is a labor guy which is good. But that still leaves one vacancy. Another Governor's term expires at the end of this year. It's hard to understand why Biden has failed to nominate people who will remove DeJoy.
You remember the shortest 4th of Jul parade then., one or two blocks long.
You surely have been to Santa Cruz, if you ever see the Clint Eastwood Movie, Sudden Impact, you will see Santa Cruz before the quake, and the house that was featured was built near a cliff overlooking Monterey Bay, which is were it resides now.
That Biden made Garland AG was his greatest error, as Garland has turned on him
But not filling the Board of Governors of USPS with Democrats makes me suspicious..
And if I were capable, depressed, but nothing depresses me. It is not in my DNA.
Exactly. If Biden doesn’t last another 4 years at least we get Harris, someone younger than these fossils that are continuously becoming President.
I'm one of those fossils, and agree 100%. Governing the country is best done by someone who has a vested interest in the future. I barely have a grasp on the present. This is a Windows 7 Computer, with a mouse. I don't have a cell phone, nor a tablet, I don't do social media and have no need or interest. The acronym's I use on the interwebs are relics of the past, like ROTFLMAO.
My first computer was a 286AT, the hard drive weighed 10 lbs, the operating system was DOS, and my internet connection was via a 2400 Baud dial up, the forum I used was the WELL, Whole Earth Lectronic Link out of Sausalita, on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge.
We communicated via FTP, upload and download conversations. Then came Windows 3, then Win 3.1, and some genius invented an Email program he named after his mother, Eudora.
Then Windows 95, and gasp Netscape Navigator, then even had a book Netscape for Dummies, hog heaven. then forums, like Liberty Forum and Anomalies and Enigmas.
When Gates made Win95 obsolete with Win98, I quit trying to keep up. I stayed with Win98, until I could no longer use by browser, becaue they went from 64 bytes to 124 bytes, I bought a new computer with Windows 7, and there I stand.
I understand the Windows 10, is now obsolete and the latest is Window 11, and now you have to subscribe annually.. Highway robbery, Microsoft Office, so I hear is an annual subscription.
I still use Office 2007, works just fine for me.
Better to have a sharp mind than an updated operating system :) Not a techie, but switching to a MAC, got an offer I could not refuse. Their OS is free (for now).
I bought my Mom an old Apple computer (she died in 2000), and the mouse didn't have a right click, so that was a loser for me. Plus I don't want to learn new architecture, like where files are stored, finally I have too many peripherals, scanners, printers, that probably are not compatible with MAC.
Also, I find that the older I get, the less patience I have. Which is the reverse of what intuition suggests.
I don't understand it either, Biden sure is campaigning on the seriousness of the issue yet he doesn't do anything, he likes maintaining status quo.
Thom is absolutely correct about all the instances of the right wingers destroying trust in America, our government's competence and virtues, but the thing that has eviscerated my trust the most is the department of Justice under Merrick Garland. The Democrats should have won the Congress and could have fixed the supreme Court or could fix it real soon by adding more members. If Biden does not fire Garland he needs to step down and let Kamala Harris run the show and hopefully she would.
I have always had trust that the greedy capitalist would put money and power before the well-being of this country and God.
Just as Trump thinks 'everyone cheats', as he does - Biden thinks 'everyone has integrity' as he does.
That is true and a variation on the maxim that a crook thinks everyone is a crook,an honest person thinks every one is honest.. Well said.
There is no doubt in my mind that Biden is an honest man, can't say the same for his son though. despite beliefs to the contrary a child does not necessarily mimic the parents, makes an interesting add for car insurance, but not in reality.
Neither I or my sisters, mimicked our mother, in fact we grew up, just the opposite (single Mom, in a way I mimicked my Dad, (genetics) but not because he raised us, parents split the sheets when I was six.
My sisters resent my mother, I forgave her,though I took the brunt of her frustrations and anger.
Can this be as obvious as it appears? that Merrick Garland is working against Biden and the Democrats, and working to support Trump's possibe future presidency? He always appeared (to me) to behave like a timorous old lady, but is he enamored of the rough and crude tactics (machismo that he lacks) that ended his even getting a hearing to become a justice of the SCOTUS?
Yes Valerie, that is the only conclusion that makes sense. He dragged his feet on prosecuting Trump,or appointing a special counsel. He has not investigated the conspirators in Congress, he hasn't used the investigation of Matt Gaetz to prosecute him, he jumped at the chance of appointing a special counsel for Hunter, but nary a mention of Ivanka and Don Jr.
He had the documents case moved to Florida on the pretext that was where the crime occurred, but it actually occurred in DC when Waltine Nauta moved the boxes from the White House to the truck and to his plane. then he appointed Aileen Cannon using a specious excuse.
He withheld the Documents, tens of thousands of them, from Alvin Bragg for a year, and just before the trial was to begin to start he dropped them on Bragg, giving Trump an excuse to delay the trial. until after the election, same with the trial in Florida). Trump will never be tried in Federal Court, maybe if he loses the election,l but the RNC is hard at work in the states, to ensure that he won't lose the electoral votes, and Muslims and young black males are helping Trump by flipping Dems and Biden the bird, even Hispanics now.
There is more in my brief against Garland, but that is off the top of my head.