My favorite Chi daily, by a long shot.

Seems like a solution here — assuming S-T keeps its identity.

From Tom Hickey’s With Both Hands:

President Haughty gave out his academic-smoothie aura so clearly, did he not?

“My hemorrhoids are acting up, otherwise I’m OK. And you?” (Jake kissed the h-word goodbye ages ago, but the caller didn’t know that and never will.)

Jake, no relation, by the way, is a throwback to old pre-digital Blithe Spirit days, about which more later. Ditto Jake.

Later: A less sardonic reply, which Jake did not supply, would be, to being asked how you are doing, “About to feel much better, thank you.”

Look, I tell you what Jake says but want to be helpful on my own, OK?

​Guilty as charged: Pot called kettle black.​




​FBI #2 on heavy take from Virginia’s top Dem while in the thick of investigating Trump? His better half, that is. What is this anyway?

​Busy, busy, busy they are at WaPo, linking to Nixon’s Sat. Night Massacre et al., after years of somnolence during Obama time. Something there is that wakes them up in Republican time.​

They come to life!

​Your tax dollars at work, trolling ICE people to think twice about enforcement.

​The first three named:​

1. Before he bombed the Boston Marathon, the FBI interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev but let him go. Russia sent the Obama Administration a second warning, but the FBI opted against investigating him again.
2. Shortly after the NSA scandal exploded in 2013, the FBI was exposed conducting its own data mining on innocent Americans; the agency, Bloomberg reported, retains that material for decades (even if no wrongdoing is found).
3. The FBI had possession of emails sent by Nidal Hasan saying he wanted to kill his fellow soldiers to protect the Taliban — but didn’t intervene, leading many critics to argue the tragedy that resulted in the death of 31 Americans at Fort Hood could have been prevented.

​Etc.

His was a firing waiting to happen.​

I have often wondered about this, which may be an idea whose time has come.​

https://nalert.blogspot.com/2017/05/liz-harrington-health-care-is-not.html

​Some interesting things said here.

From Wash Free Beacon woman on not a right: Constitution is about rights not to be treated, not what’s to be provided.

From Fox Business host: Reminds us of FDR’s "four freedoms" — from want, etc., a basically socialistic position ballyhooed in my childhood (1930s, 40s) as a New Deal plank. Nothing there about right not to be treated by the government.

Basic issues here, basic point of difference.​

​​Comey, he compromised.

Tsk.