There's so much for the Schloss-Blog to digest and so little time. to do it.
A suspiciously timed indictment of Hunter Biden, a slew of library closings under threat of bombings and presidential impeachment all rearing their ugly heads.
Again.
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So, when did slutty Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt (underage) Gaetz start running America?
They run Kevin McCarthy, who's lying when he says he didn't change his mind about announcing an impeachment inquiry instead of putting it to a vote, which he knew would fail. But the impeachment will fail because there's no evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors.
Yet, Republicans got their wish on Hunter Biden being indicted. On charges that may or may not ever go to trial and/or be dismissed.
From everything I can tell, they will not ever link President Biden to Hunter's illicit dealings, however extensive they may be.
But what Vice-President Biden did wrong back then was knowing Hunter was screwing up and not going to him and telling him to knock it off. Joe did what good parents do - stayed out of his adult child's life.
Now though, it's too late. The Schloss-Blog's question: will Hunter or Trump be convicted and go to jail? Both? Either?
Maybe.
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Kudos to Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, who spearheaded the bill that makes libraries around the state ineligible for state grants if "they restrict or ban materials because of 'partisan or doctrinal' disapproval."
In other words, stop preventing our children from reading, oh, say, Shakespeare. The law is viewed as a possible template for other states to prevent overtly restrictive book banning.
Giannoulias was grilled before the U.S. Senate about it, but stood tall. But he in good part championed the bill because libraries around Illinois have been experiencing bomb threats, ostensibly from those who object to, oh say, Shakespeare.
Violent threats and violence itself seem to be a way of life in the United States: for people who think the Department of Justice has been too soft on Hunter Biden; for people who think the FBI was too intrusive with Donald Trump; for people who just don't like Black people.
When Trump is convicted, somewhere, and he will be, we'll see if the civil war-level protests he has predicted come to pass.
By the way, I don't know anyone who watched Trump's interview with Tucker Carlson. and who's Tucker Carlson, btw?
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Was going to get into one of my periodic updates on the differences between men and women, but that's out of place with the above. So, I'll just say that's coming, along the lines of a prior post in which I decried that men like to sing along with songs on the radio while driving around.
Women know the words.
So, along different lines, in a fabulous column in the NY Times, Ross Douthat explains that "the ball always finds you."
In other words, if you're a weak or unconfident baseball player, in a key situation, someone will hit the ball to you.
Will you field it successfully, make the big play?
A wobbly ankle-boned Bill Buckner could not in the 1986 World Series and Douthat notes that Buckner should've been subbed out for his defensive caddy, Dave Stapleton, before that ball was hit.
Douthat's point? It applies to politics. Joe Biden decided to run despite his age. Will it cost Biden, like Buckner's ankles cost him?
It could cost Trump too, who's just three years younger.
If you have a weakness, "the ball will find you."
It found Bill Buckner.
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Men like to eat.
Women know what's healthy.
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Good night, Mrs. Calabash. Here's to you, Mrs. Robinson.
More Sunday night on my Radio Free Phoenix rock 'n' roll show. Where the ball always finds me.
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