CNN: ‘SCOTUS Blocks Biden’s Student Loan Plan & Limits LGBTQ Protections in Major Rulings’

Source:CNN- at the U.S. Supreme Court.

Source:The New Democrat

“The Supreme Court issued two monumental 6-3 decisions on the final day of its current term. The conservative court blocked President Joe Biden’s student loan forgiveness program and limited LGBTQ protections in a separate Colorado case.

Biden slammed the court’s decision to reject his plan to deliver up to $20,000 in relief to millions of borrowers, calling it “unthinkable.” Click here for more on what the ruling means for borrowers.

Biden will deliver remarks at 3:30 p.m. ET on Friday’s student loan decision and is expected to announce new actions to protect borrowers, a source told CNN.

In the another decision, the justices ruled in favor of a Christian web designer in Colorado, who refused to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings out of religious objections. The ruling — rooted in free speech grounds — represents the latest victory for religious conservatives at the high court.” 

From CNN 

“CNN senior Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic provides details from the room as the Justices read their decision on the Biden administration’s student loan debt forgiveness plan.”

Source:CNN- at the U.S. Supreme Court.

From CNN 

Before I tell you what I think of the student loans decision from SCOTUS, I’m going to give you a couple of ways that people could look at it.

If you look at SCOTUS decisions as a hyper-partisan, especially when it comes to executive orders, to cut to the chase (to put it cleanly) you would probably say something like: “It’s perfectly legal and constitutional when our side does it. But when the other side does it, it’s completely illegal and unconstitutional and the President should be impeached for that.”

To give you an example of that from the Democratic Party: when President Donald Trump back in 2018-19, tried to appropriate money by himself and go around Congress on that, even though Congress (House & Senate has the sole authority or appropriate under the U.S. Constitution) Democrats, especially partisan Democrats, called that illegal and unconstitutional. And of course they’re right about that. But Republicans said that President Trump had the authority to do that under some made up emergency power of the President.

To give you a Republican example: when President Joe Biden tried to unilaterally wipe out student debt and just write it off the Federal Government’s book and declare that all these Americans who are buried in government student loans, no longer have to pay any of that back, Republicans said that was illegal and unconstitutional and perhaps some Republicans not just Representatives Lauren Boebert and Marjorie T. Greene, we’re calling for President Biden’s impeachment on that. While Democrats said that of course President Biden has the constitutional authority to legislate from The White House on this.

I mean if you are an Independent today or even just an Independent Democrat or Republican whose a member of one party, perhaps simply because you dislike the other party a little more, it’s easy to see why Americans hate politicians and politics today, even if they overwhelmingly reelect their own U.S. Representative over and over again.

There’s just too much partisan, political, garbage (to be kind) for any honest American to try to have to put up with. Washington already gets too much hot air from its own summers, because of all the heat and humidity it gets. But add Washington politicians to the environment and it makes breathing in Washington a luxury for too many Washingtonians.

As far as student loan forgiveness or what I prefer to call college affordability: there’s a New York Times (of all newspapers) opinion piece from 2016 called: “Why Free College is Not Free” I only mention that to state the obvious.

There are very good reasons why a good, 4 year college education, can cost the average American 150,000 dollars, for four years. What you can learn from college (if you bother to pay attention and can put your phone down long enough and stay out of off the coffee house long enough) lasts and benefits you for a lifetime. You can get the skills and knowledge that you need there to put yourself in position to never have to worry about finding a good job and earning a good living in America. Of course that shouldn’t be free, because it takes so much money to teach and train all those young Americans.

President Biden would be smart to take this SCOTUS decision and use it as a very good lesson. You want to make college affordable for every American, regardless of their income level, their parents income level, their race, ethnicity, gender, etc, you have to work with Congress on that.

President Biden could start with the Senate when it comes to things like personal college accounts, that people could set up for their kids the day that their kid is born, that could be matched by their employer and perhaps even the Federal Government and make those accounts free for low-income parents. And then see if you can find some reasonable Republicans in the House and try to work with them on this issue as well. But only Congress can legislate, not the President, it’s in the Constitution.

CNN: ‘Supreme Court Guts Affirmative Action in College Admissions’

Source:CNN- welcome to the United States Supreme Court.

Source:The New Democrat

“The Supreme Court ruled colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a specific basis in admissions — a landmark decision that overturns long-standing precedent that has benefited Black and Latino students in higher education.

Chief Justice John Roberts, who wrote the opinion for the conservative majority, said Harvard and University of North Carolina admissions programs violated the Equal Protection Clause because they failed to offer “measurable” objectives to justify the use of race.

The opinion claims the court was not expressly overturning prior cases authorizing race-based affirmative action, and suggested that how race has affected an applicant’s life can still be part of how their application is considered. Liberal justices slammed the opinion in their dissent, saying the decision will make it practically impossible for colleges and universities to take race into account.”

From CNN

“CNN senior Supreme Court analyst Joan Biskupic was in the room as the highest court in the land delivered their landmark decision on affirmative action. Biskupic details the atmosphere of the courtroom.”

Source:CNN- The United States Supreme Court.

From CNN

If the Equal Protection Clause, equality, equal justice, equal rights, if every American regardless of racial, ethnic, gender, has the same individual rights and responsibilities as everyone else, then affirmative action had to be thrown out, because it violates all of those great, American, liberal values, that most Americans believe in, but too many of take for granted.

I understand the importance of building a society where everyone can succeed. Not only do I understand that, but I actually believe in that as a Liberal. (Meaning real Liberal) But you don’t create that free society for everybody by denying people access in America, like with education, simply because too many members of their race or ethnicity, are already doing well in America.

What a lot of supporters of so-called affirmative action laws have never understood, is that affirmative action just doesn’t hurt European-Americans, especially European-American men, (which affirmative action supporters don’t seem to have a problem with) but it hurts Asian-Americans as well, it hurts Latino-Americans who are primarily of Spanish or other European descent, it hurts Middle Eastern-Americans, it hurts Jewish-Americans. Why? Because these folks are already doing well in America and aren’t from the right racial or ethnic background, according to supporters of affirmative action.

Again, if you want that free society where everyone can make it in America, you don’t do that penalizing Americans who are already doing well, especially because of their race, ethnicity, or gender. But instead create a society where everyone has a quality opportunity, regardless of where they’re from, the income level of their parents, or their race, ethnicity, or gender.

To create that free society for every American,  that gets to things like education where every American is entitled to a quality education, regardless of their race, ethnicity, or gender, again the income level of their parents.

As well as empowering low-skilled, low-income adults, who were denied access to a good education growing, either because of mistakes that they made growing up, or mistakes that their parents made, or the fact that they came from a low-income community and empower them to finish and further their education, so they can make it in America as well.

You don’t create that American free society by saying that since these groups were discriminated in the past and in African-Americans, case were kidnapped and forced to come to America as slaves, what we’re going to do now to try to correct that, is punish Americans who are already doing well, including Asian-Americans, but Spanish-Latinos, Middle Eastern-Americans, and Jewish-Americans, so more African-Americans can get a good education and a good job, even if they’re not academically and financially ready to do well in college.

CNN: 'Kevin McCarthy Does Damage Control After Questioning Donald Trump’s Political Strength'

Source:CNN- left to right: Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy & former President Donald J. Trump. 

"Speaker Kevin McCarthy has scrambled to contain the fallout after he questioned whether former President Donald Trump is the strongest candidate in the 2024 presidential race – comments that outraged Trump allies." 

From CNN

I guess there are two Kevin McCarthy's. One of them sort of sounds like he's on truth serum and the next time he ever lies, he'll go to prison for the rest of his life. Perhaps he just graduated from Liars Anonymous. Which is an organization that might be able to do Donald Trump some good. And the other Kevin McCarthy, sounds like he gets in line to pay Donald Trump a 1000 bucks everyday (money that Trump might actually need) to get on his feet and kiss The Donald's feet (to be clean) everyday and wouldn't do anything that perhaps would even risk offending Donald Trump.

The real Kevin McCarthy, is a guy who has a tendency to shoot his mouth off. And in Washington speak, that means speaking the truth, or at least being honest. The bad Kevin McCarthy, is a guy that would deny that it's hot in Arizona on a July day in Phoenix, if he thought it would help him politically. He would claim that he could jump into a lake and not get wet, if he thought he needed to that to help him politically. He would claim that Donald Trump is actually Jesus Christ, if he thought he needed to do that to save him politically. 

The real Kevin McCarthy, did a solid impersonation of Captain Obvious yesterday. He was asked by NBC News whether Donald Trump, after the indictment and the new tape that was released about him, where Trump admits that he has illegally obtained classified information in his private possession, if Donald Trump based on all of that, is still the strongest Republican presidential candidate in a general election in 2024. And Speaker McCarthy said perhaps not. 

McCarthy didn't tell NBC News that Donald Trump is definitely not the best Republican presidential candidate, or of course not, don't be silly, etc, of course Trump would lose to Joe Biden. He just said that Trump might not be the strongest Republican candidate in a general election right now. Which is what got him into trouble with the Far-Right of his own party yesterday. 

Bad Kevin McCarthy, at around 4PM yesterday, told Breitbart News (which is basically the state newspaper of MAGA) did a clean up on isle seven (and in Washington speak, that means taking back any negative facts and candor that you might have been caught expressing) basically said that of course Donald Trump is the best Republican presidential candidate right now.

Part of me understands Kevin McCarthy's dilemma right now. He isn't just Speaker of the 435 member House of Representatives, but leader of a 222 member Republican conference, where maybe half of those members aren't real Republicans anyway, at least not ideologically. But instead members of a national political cult known as MAGA, who are all looking to be the next Donald Trump, the next great, authoritarian leader of the West. 

But the other part of me, the more direct, honest, and candid, a lot less diplomatic, part says that no one kidnapped Kevin McCarthy (that anyone knows about) and forced McCarthy to first become House Minority Leader in 2019 and then Speaker of the House 4 years later. McCarthy isn't as braindead as he might appear. He knows exactly the people that he has to try to lead and knows that maybe 1/2 of them don't belong in government at all, expect that they were elected to the House of Representatives, because they won right-wing gerrymandered House districts. 

McCarthy could always go home and get a real job in Washington and make a lot more money actually working for a living and not feel the need to sell his credibility, legacy, and sole to the Devil (also known as Donald Trump) every time that he speaks about the former President. 

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CNN: 'Hear How Donald Trump Tried To Spin Classified Docs in Interview Before Audio Leak'

Source:CNN- former President Donald J. Trump, learning what a real interview from FOX News anchor Brett Baier, is like.

"CNN exclusively obtained the audio recording of the 2021 meeting in Bedminster, New Jersey, where former President Donald Trump discusses holding secret documents he did not declassify. The audio appears to contradict a Fox News interview he gave on June 19, in which he denied being in possession of a classified document that discusses Iran." 

From CNN

"Donald Trump admitted that he did not win the 2020 presidential election in an interview with a panel of historians in 2021. The ex-president also said Iran, China and South Korea were happy Biden won, adding that ‘the election was rigged and lost’. 

Referring to his attempts to make South Korea pay more for US military assistance, Trump said Moon Jae-in, the South Korean president, was among the 'happiest' world leaders after he lost the 2020 US election. Trump said they were on the brink of making a deal for South Korea to contribute $5bn annually to that bill. 

Source:The Guardian- former President Donald J. Trump (Republican, Florida)

From The Guardian

"Former President Donald Trump delivered his first remarks since he was charged with 34 felony counts, and mentioned "all we needed was 16.9 [points]" in the 2020 election, Chuck Todd points out. "I went, 'whoa, Donald Trump is admitting he didn't win the election.'" 

Source:NBC News- former President Donald J. Trump (Republican, Florida)

From NBC News

I think most people who don't live in MAGA world (meaning everyone whose not confined to a mental institution right now or a political cult right now) has always known, or at least highly suspected, that Donald J. Trump has never taken. national security information very seriously, at least in the sense of treating like the value government, national security property that it is, that needs to be protected and kept away from anyone who doesn't have a national security clearance. Like a former President of the United States, political advisers who aren't currently working for the U.S Government, members of the media, etc. 

President Trump's own National Security Adviser John Bolton (no left-winger or Democrat) has already said that the only time that President Trump was never interested in national security intelligence, unless it was something that could benefit him politically, or something that he could use to hurt his political opponents.

But with this tape that CNN obtained, (perhaps now CNN is no longer unwatchable) we now know that is the truth and that Donald Trump saw the papers and information that he received as President, as if it was his own personal property. Like his golf clubs or something and not the classified, national security, information that it is, where you have to have a U.S. national security clearance, just to be near it, let alone be able to see it. And being one of Donald Trump's most loyal supporters, doesn't count as a U.S. national security clearance.

We learned something very valuable about Donald J. Trump, not just last night, but in the last few months: he knows that he's no longer President of the United States. He also knows that he lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden. And he can say it was rigged all he wants, but all those Republican legislatures, governor's, and secretary of state's, all disagree with him. All those folks also voted for him in 2016 and 2020 as well. 

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Dan August: When The Shouting Dies (1970) With Vera Miles

Source:IMDB- Hollywood Goddess Vera Miles, as usual with a memorable performance.

"A beautiful blackmailer dies in a fall from an apartment balcony, and the prime suspect is Dan's old friend, Heap Canfield. 

Best episode of the ones seen so far, WHEN THE SHOUTING DIES has Burt Reynolds' titular Dan August once again having to investigate yet another old friend for possible murder, only this time he and the guy have some chemistry, that being his future SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT pursuer Mike Henry (who'd play Jackie Gleason's dimwit son): he's a former football buddy and star on his own, owner of a restaurant and blamed for throwing a woman out a window, which opens the show with her getting beaten as jazzy game show-type music plays... other guests include Victor French, Geoffrey Lewis and Burt actually mentions the actor Jon Voight, his soon-to-be DELIVERANCE co-star... This episode has the same device of going from place to place with questions only the questions and answers are intriguing, and Burt comes out of his monotone this time... just a little more than usual." 

From IMDB

If you like crime TV and fictional, Hollywood, crime shows, I think you'll really like this episode of Dan August and perhaps the rest of this series from 1970. It was only one season on ABC, but there's enough good TV and excellent supporting actors, as well as having Burt Reynolds, (yes, that Burt Reynolds) Norman Fell, and Richard Anderson, as the lead actors and a whole host of excellent supporting actors and guest stars, that I think you'll like this series, especially the When The Shouting Dies episode with Vera Miles and Mike Henry.

Mike Henry plays a former high school football star in this fictional, Southern California town of Santa Luisa, that's near Santa Barbara and Oxnard, who never quite made it in pro football (as they say) and instead is a local businessman, who seems to be loaded financially. But what most of the people in this town don't know, he's actually broke. It's his wealthy wife Carla (played by the gorgeous and adorable Vera Miles) who owns these businesses and his company, it's just in Heap Canfield's (played by Mike Henry) name. 

Heap Canfield is basically an 18 or 19 year old mentally and personally, in the body of a 34-35 football player. He cheats on his wife Carla but she knows and doesn't care. She doesn't respect him and just sees him as a boy toy that she uses to pleasure him. But Heap's latest affair with a young woman named Jenny Bowman (played by Donna Garrett) goes too far. She has blackmail on him and threatens to expose him as the immature, loser that he actually is. Heap can't handle that and beats her to death, actually she gets thrown out of her own apartment. (So to speak) The question is did Heap intentionally throw her out the window, was it unintentional, or did she accidentally fall out the window. 

Santa Luisa Police Detective Lieutenant Dan August (played by Burt Reynolds, yes that Burt Reynolds) just happens to be Heap Canfield's old friend and football teammate from high school. August's whole unit, including his partner Sergeant Charlie Wilentz (played by Norman Fell) and perhaps the whole police department, including the Chief (played by Richard Anderson) believes that Heap is guilty. Motive, means, opportunity, no alibi, he had the time to pull off the murder and get away with it. But Dan August knows that Heap is not a murderer. (At least not normally) And he's really just a big, teddy bear of a guy, who wouldn't intentionally hurt anybody. 

I love this episode for all the reasons that I just laid out. But most importantly because of Vera Miles. But 1970, she's in her early 40s (if I have her bio right) and no longer ,making movies for the most part and instead making a lot of important and starring guest appearances on fictional crime shows, like Dan August, 3 appearances on Cannon in the early and mid 1970s, Hawaii 50 in 1973, Barnaby Jones in 1977. 

Vera had a tendency to play women who were a lot tougher and sharper than they appeared. And in Dan August, she plays a gorgeous and yet pussycat looking sweetheart, who happens to also be very wicked, who knows what she wants and how to maintain it, which is Heap Canfield, her boy toy husband and gives a great performance.

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Sundance: Indefensible: Casey Anthony (2022)

Source:Sundance Indefensible Casey Anthony.

"Jena Friedman travels America to unspool real cases on the ground, but unlike most true crime shows, this one doesn’t end when the criminal gets locked up. Jena finds there’s always more to the story and drives to a different outcome beyond the simple whodunnit. Using her unflinching comedic point of view and disarming interview skills, Jena uncovers the “why” and “how” not only of crimes themselves, but of our sometimes dysfunctional criminal justice system." 

From Sundance

I'm sure I heard about the Casey Anthony story breaking (if you want to put it that way) back in 2008, (I wasn't vacationing in Afghanistan or some place) but it's only in the last few years when I've been blogging anything about true crime, that I've following this case and looking into it myself. So no, I'm not an expert on it, I'm not a lawyer, not a detective, not even a true crime reporter, but I can give you what I know about the case and what I think about it, from what I've seen about it. 

Just looking at it from the outside, I think Casey Anthony is guilty of something horrible here, in the death of her daughter Caylee. And it looks like her parents and brother believe that as well. And it might just be she knows what happened to her daughter, but is protecting the person whose actually responsible for the death of her daughter. Which is bad enough, but that alone doesn't make you a murderer. 

My own theory is that that the baby died accidentally, Casey freaked out about that and instead of acting like a mature, responsible, adult (which she's never been) she freaked out and decided to try to cover it up, even though she didn't personally murder her baby, but perhaps didn't want to be blamed for the murder of her baby. 

I believe that Casey is responsible for the accidental death or saw her daughter die, perhaps found her dead, but doesn't know how she died, because there's no absolutely convincing evidence that she murdered her daughter. Just a lot and I mean a truck load (to be clean) of and perhaps just as much circumstantial evidence to suggest that O.J. Simpson murder Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, just 14 years earlier in 1994. 

Then you just look at how Casey was acting after the baby died like she was almost relieved by it and partying heavily like her social life just returned, because she no longer has a baby to take care of. The fact that Casey waited 20 days to report her daughter missing, or the trunk of her car smelling like a dead body, motive, means, opportunity, etc.

As far as the Casey Anthony trial: again, I'm not a lawyer, but to not just go for murder 1, but for the death penalty, I know this is Florida, but it's always useful to live in the real world and when you can't prove 1st degree murder, I think the death penalty is the last thing you should be looking at. I think the prosecution lost this case just based on the punishment that they were seeking. And that might be why the jury acquitted her and nothing else. I think if the prosecution goes for manslaughter and child endangerment or just child endangerment, Casey Anthony is probably still be in prison today. 

As I said, I think Casey Anthony at the very least knows what happened to her daughter, but doesn't want to give the person up, like herself, if she's actually responsible here. But we may never know, unless Casey comes clean, how her daughter died on that horrible day in 2008. 

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CNN: SE Cupp: 'The Hypocrisy of Censuring Adam Schiff'

Source:CNN political commentator and real-life Conservative Republican, S.E. Cupp. Not someone who pretends to be a Conservative, unlike MAGA Republicans.

"SE Cupp argues that the Republican-controlled House's censure of Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff was nothing more than a theatrical performance, which showcased a party far more interested in revenge than problem-solving or legislating." 

From CNN

When MAGA Republicans tell you that they believe in fiscal responsibility, or even fiscal conservatism, family values, integrity, the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution, personal responsibility, tradition, you know things that seem like old school values today, but were what defined the Republican Party up until, I don't know the Tea Party years, let's say, ask then if they also have an oceanfront beach house in South Dakota that they would like to sell you. As well as next week's lotto number in all 50 states, (or at least in every state that has a state lottery) because you would have to be President of Suckers United, to even consider taking them seriously on any of that.

The old school values that I mentioned before, are the values of the Republican Party that S.E. Cupp comes from. The values of :"We need to get them, because they're against Donald Trump." are the values of the MAGA wing of the country. 

I mean, let's face it, MAGA people aren't really Republicans, at least not ideologically. They are registered Republicans in ordered to get elected to high office, like the U.S. House of Representatives. And most of their districts are right-wing gerrymandered districts anyway.

As far as the censure of Representative Adam Schiff: I really don't have anything to add to what S.E Cupp said here. They censured him (which is not even worth a ticket for jaywalking) simply because he's a Democrat, who opposes Donald Trump (the leader of the MAGA Cult) and he's a Democrat. 

If Representative Schiff supported Donald Trump 100% of the time, he could be a serial rapist, as well as murderer and no one in MAGA would oppose him for anything. Just as long as he supports Donald J. Trump 100% of the time. 

Hell, President Trump would probably pardon Representative Schiff (God save America, if Donald Trump ever becomes POTUS again) just as long as Schiff supports him 100% of the time, all the time, no breaks, no holidays. 

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CNN: 'Maggie Haberman Shares Two Reasons Why Donald Trump Has Trouble Keeping Lawyers'

Source:CNN & New York Times Donald Trump whisperer Maggie Haberman.

"CNN's Jessica Schneider breaks down the latest in former President Donald Trump's federal classified documents case. CNN's Alex Marquardt discusses with CNN's panel of experts." 

From CNN

Maggie Haberman as usual put the nail on the head here. I mean if you were a lawyer who worked 70-80 hours a week, making 6 or 7 figures a year, working and living in Washington or New York, would you want to do that free, regardless of who your client was? Because that's probably what you would be doing, if your client was Donald J. Trump. 

This just adds to the speculation that former President Trump doesn't pay his lawyers, simply because he can't afford too and not just of all the cases that have snowballed on hm the last 2 years and even longer than that, but because of all the debt he piled up, even before he became President of the United States, as well as the debt he piled up as President, which the net worth of his businesses plummeting because of his unpopularity as President. 

But also and I got into this yesterday and last week, Donald Trump doesn't pay people who work for him, because he doesn't think he has to. He sees himself as some type of an American king, that everyone around should feel lucky just to be in the same room as him. And therefor, he's never obligated to pay for any of the services that he ever receives.

And the other reason why Donald Trump struggles to obtain and retain quality counsel for him, because he's a horrible client! If you wanted to come up with a fantasy or nightmare about the worst possible legal client, in the history of the world, perhaps (there might be worst legal clients then Donald Trump) I think Donald John Trump would certainly be on the list. 

So now you are not even getting paid by your client, even after all the work and research that you put in to give him a sound defense, but your client is a compulsive liar, who talks way too much (as most compulsive liars do) and can't stick to the same story (or piece of garbage) for 5 minutes, let alone an entire day, who literally makes things (to be kind) up on the fly to try to get through the latest crisis, or day, really, that he created for himself. Which just creates more work for you that you are probably doing for free, because now the prosecution can use what your client just said against him. 

I mean with a client like Donald J. Trump, you must feel like you just checked into Hell, with a room on the top floor, with no escape, other than jumping out your window. And you might be wondering how many people you just murdered, to have to be going through this experience, or when will this nightmare be over.

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CNN: 'Donald Trump Offers New Reason For Not Giving Classified Material To Investigators'

Source:CNN- former President Donald J. Trump (Republican, Florida) getting a real interview (for a change) from FOX News.

"During an interview with Fox News' Bret Baier, former President Donald Trump offered a multitude of new justifications for keeping classified material after leaving the White House and refusing to give them back to the National Archives and Records Administration." 

From CNN

Let's say that the boxes that Donald Trump went through just after getting back home in Florida, after least The White House in early 2021, was actually just items and gifts that he picked while as President, like golf shirts, pants, etc, but nothing that is classified, like, I don't know, intelligence about Iran's nuclear program (just to use as an example) and while we're assuming that, let's assume that Saudi Arabia runs out of oil, gas, dirt, and sand, tomorrow and we've already seen our last violent crime in America, and politicians, especially Donald Trump, never lie. 

To take Donald Trump seriously on this, we would not only have to admit that we're total morons, but were running for President of Suckers of America, who wait in line everyday to get screwed by the latest scam artist. We would have to assume a lot here that's obviously factually false, before we could assume that President Trump is either attempting to tell the truth here, let alone just purely bullshitting (to be frank) someone who at least at one point, was very friendly to Donald Trump, FOX News anchor Brett Baier. 

I mean Brett Baier was real time fact-checking a Republican President during this interview, which gives you an ides that he wasn't swallowing the bullshit (again, to be frank) that President Trump was trying to feed him. Baier, was literally reading off the indictment against Trump, as he was trying to question the former President, to counter what Trump was trying to feed him.

But again, just for the hell of it: what are gifts that President Trump received, doing in boxes with all sorts of classified documents in them? Who does that, especially a government official? 

I think what this gets down too (and again, I'm not a lawyer) is that Donald Trump never expected to lose reelection, because he knew what and who were coming for him, once he was a private citizen and was caught completely off guard by his election lost and hasn't figured out how to handle that, other than to run for President again, pray (even though he's not religious) to God that he's elected again and can pardon himself. 

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Cannon Season 5: Fall Guy (1975) Guest Starring Vera Miles

Source:IMDB- William Conrad as former LAPD detective & current Los Angeles private eye Frank Cannon.

"Cannon investigates on the behalf of an oil executive who claims he is being framed for fraud and embezzlement. But he runs into heavy resistance in his investigation from the corporation's domineering female president. 

I'm working my way through the entire series and am now, sadly, reaching the end! Most weekday afternoons I retire to my "Manshed" and watch an episode with a large cigar (I think William Conrad would have approved!) Wonderful trips down memory lane.

Anyway, I found this episode to be one of the best. I appreciated the bullish, no-nonsense nature of the client (played with great gusto by Alan Feinstein), the tough woman boss (excellent Vera Miles) so different from her performance as the damsel in distress in the pilot. And great to see former Tarzan, Denny Miller roll Cannon out of his office and give him a thrashing. I love that on his next visit to see him, Cannon held a ship-in-a-bottle for protection!

The plot has been covered by other reviewers but I thought it moved at a great pace and was extremely well directed.

Cannon is really up against it in this one and takes more lumps that usual. The conclusion may not be a great surprise but the whole show is well acted and stands up really well.

Don't be put off by the other very low ratings; this one is a corker!" 

From IMDB 

"CANNON, (from left): William Conrad, Vera Miles, Fall Guy , (Season 5, aired Nov. 5, 1975), 1971-76. Courtesy Everett Collection !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Y Copyright: xCourtesyxEverettxCollectionx TSDCANN EC009... 

Source:IMAGO- William Conrad & Vera Miles. Hopefully you can figure for yourself who is who.

From IMAGO 

"Cannon goes up against a tough female CEO when one of her executives hires the PI to clear his name." 

Source:TV Maze- Vera Miles & William Conrad. Hopefully you can figure out for yourself who is who.

From TV Maze

Just to give you a little personal background about me regarding this episode first: 

Late 2017 and early 2018, I was still an insomniac and I was flipping around one night and saw this episode of Cannon on MeTV. Actually, I saw several Cannon episodes from season 5 as well before the Fall Guy episode and most if not all of them were very good. 

I don't think Cannon was a great detective series, but some of the episodes, especially from the 1st half of the last season, are some of the best private eye TV episodes that I've ever seen, to the point I have a lot of them on DVD now and seen them all several times. But the Fall Guy episode, especially with Vera Miles, whose gorgeous and yet absolutely adorable and sexy in everything that she's ever done, is the episode in the entire 5 seasons of the Cannon TV series.

Before I saw Vera Miles on Cannon, I heard the name before, but I didn't have much of an idea who she was. After seeing her on Cannon several years ago, I developed a crush on her. She was also the pilot film of this series in 1971 and made another appearance on during season 1 as well. But didn't come back again until the last season, playing another difference character in late 1975. 

To give you an idea what the Fall Guy episode is like: if you are a fan of soap operas, especially soap operas that lets say involve criminal activity, or at the very least immoral, but not criminal behavior, I think you'll love the Fall Guy. Think about a great episode of The Young & The Restless. 

In Fall Guy, you have two competing corporate executives, the two highest ranking people in this Anacott Oil Company based in San Diego, California, the President of the company played by Vera Miles and essentially the Executive Vice President played by Alan Feinstein, the CEO and COO of the company. 

Vivian Cabe (the President of Anacott Oil) simply doesn't like Mike Marsh (played by Alan Feinstein the Executive Vice President of Anacott Oil) to the point she no longer wants to work with him and has come up with this plan to get rid of him, either by having him arrested or finding a way to fire him, without being in breach of his contract.

Vivian's plan to get Mike fired, is to accuse him of fraud, embezzlement, and even money laundering. Even though it's Viv that has the so-called clean slush fund, which is like having a clean dumpster. The only way that is even possible, is to have nothing in the slush fund or in the dumpster. 

Mike Marsh (played by Alan Feinstein) knows that Mrs. Cabe wants his neck (to be clean) and wants him out, but I guess is too much of a man (again, to be clean) and won't go down without a fight, especially when he's innocent. Well, innocent of what she's accusing him of and doesn't go down without a fight. And hire private eye Frank Cannon, to come down to San Diego from Los Angeles to clear him.

What I think this is really about is Vivian is jealous that Mike Marsh is dating her daughter and not her. Think about it, Mike Marsh is 6'2, well-built, handsome, 34 at this point and is already executive vice president of a major California oil company. And Vivian is left with a cuck (to be frank) or a wimp (if you prefer) whose basically living off his wife. 

There's a line in the show where Vivian is trying to talk her daughter out of seeing Mike and she basically offers to pimp her out. And tells her that she would be happy to underwrite another young, good looking man, who looks good in tight pants, but only if her daughter dumps Mike. 

Again, this looks like a great soap opera episode to me. You have the great storyline, the great directing, the episode flies by, because it has a great start to it with one of the people that Anacott does business with and get their oil from, being murdered and it just takes off with one big scene after another. Which is one reason why Mike Marsh hires Frank Cannon, because he doesn't wan't to be framed for that murder, to go on top of everything else that he's facing. 

In Fall Guy, you also has the great insults between Viv and Mike, with Mike calling her the witch of the world (1970s TV lingo) and Viv calling him a cheap-chaser.  

You also have a scene in the end when Vivian whose made up with Mike. to the point that she agrees to pick of the costs of Frank Cannon's (played by William Conrad) investigation and agrees to pay his bill for him, but then tries to get out of it by mentioning Cannon's extra legal tactics that were used in his investigation. And then he mentions about her so-called laundered clean slush fund (which is like having a clean dumpster or clean toilet that's currently in use) so, they both have something on the other, which is how he gets her to cover his expenses for this trip. 

Vera looks great in it and gives a great performance and Alan Feinstein showing some excellent comedic timing, especially when he's angry and frustrated. One of my favorite TV episodes.

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CNN: 'President Obama Responds To Sen. Tim Scott's Comments About Race in America'

Source:CNN- President Barack H. Obama (Democrat, Illinois) 44th President of the United States (2009-17)

"Former president Barack Obama responded to Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott's (R-SC) comments on the Republican Party's progress on race." 

From CNN 

"Both sides of the aisle can do a better job on the issue of race," the Republican presidential candidate tells "The View" co-hosts." 

Source:The View- U.S. Senator Tim Scott (Republican, South Carolina) on ABC's The View.

From The View 

I think this whole discussion about race in America in the African-American community, is the perfect example of why no racial or ethnic group is monolithic. 

You have a left-wing and far-left-wing in the African-American community, you have a Black Nationalist wing in the African-American community, you a center-left-wing in the African-American community, but you also have a center-right-wing in that community as well, that Senator Tim Scott represents, whose been in Congress since 2011.

African-Americans get stereotyped as left-wing Democrats, or at least as Democrats, who always vote for Democrats and always want more government and more government spending in their communities, more Welfare, etc. And of course there are leftists in that community, but there are leftists in every racial and ethnic community. 

One's political philosophy is not determined by race, ethnicity, or color. It's determined by one's own upbringing and own personal experiences and what they personally go through in their own lives. Not. because of their DNA or complexion. 

So you look at Senator Tim Scott who was part of the Tea Party wave in the House of Representatives, who was elected to the House in 2010 and then appointed to the U.S. Senate a couple years later and won election statewide in South Carolina (by the way) as an African-American Republican, whose saying what African-Americans, what all Americans who are struggling in America, need, is an opportunity to achieve their own American dream. Not a handout, not affirmative action, not more welfare, but a good education, a chance to get themselves the skills that they need to make it in America. 

While everyone else on The View, except for Alyssa Farah Griffin, whose also a Conservative Republican, essentially saying: 

"It's the whole racist system in America that's holding African-Americans down, not the lack of opportunity. And we need to take down the whole racist system and replace it with something more equal and just." Which has always been the left-wing view about race and inequality in America. 

And then President Obama saying, who don't think he agrees with Senator Scott on this, saying that we (meaning the left in America) shouldn't put down people as bad and as bigots, simply because they say things that we don't like and don't put everything exactly the way we want them to, or don't completely agree with us (meaning the left) on everything, especially when it comes to race in America.

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CNN: ''He’s Scared Shitless’: Hear John Kelly’s Blunt Take On Donald Trump Indictment'

Source:CNN- John Kelly was President Donald J. Trump's 2nd Chief of Staff in 2017.

"Former White House chief of staff John Kelly told the Washington Post that Donald Trump has "never been held accountable before” after the former president was arraigned on federal charges." 

From CNN 

Let's say John Kelly is right and Donald Trump is "scared shitless" about the indictment and the evidence that's against him, why don't we try to figure out why that is. 

Even if Donald Trump has a message for becoming President again, even if it's just a private message, it's basically this: "I need to become President again to pardon myself and the people around me." Because of you at all the cases and all the evidence against the former President, he's going to not just be convicted, but he's going to get convicted multiple times, of multiple felonies and all these convictions will happen before the November, 2024 elections.  

What does this all mean? It means that Donald Trump is headed for jail and his political career and probably business career will be over. He turns 77 this month, he'll be 78 before the 2024 elections, even if he just gets a total of 10 years in prison, that's a death sentence for his career. And then he's probably looking at more civil lawsuits, even after U.S. DOJ, Fulton County, and Manhattan are done with him. 

So that is why, assuming John Kelly a man I've never even met before and have never met Donald Trump either, is right that Trump is "scared shitless" because he knows what going to happen to him, if he never becomes President before these convictions go through and now he has to try to appeal them. Assuming he never cooperates with any of these jurisdictions that are prosecuting him. 

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CNN: 'Maggie Haberman Reveals What Has Donald Trump 'Especially Rattled'

Source:CNN- former President Donald J. Trump (Republican, Florida) I believe back at Bedminster, New Jersey.

"CNN political analyst Maggie Haberman reveals how former President Trump is reacting to his historic federal indictment stemming from the Department of Justice's classified documents investigation." 

From CNN 

"CNN political analyst Maggie Haberman reveals how former President Trump is reacting to his historic federal indictment stemming from the Department of Justice's classified documents investigation." 

Source:CNN- Donald J. Trump (Republican, Florida) 45th POTUS (2017-2021) I guess we can thank God that he only created 1 DJT (unless you count his son Junior Mint) but we can also blame God, since DJT is almost too much for any liberal democracy.

From CNN 

What I'm about to do might sound dangerous, especially considering that I've never even been at the same place, at the same time, as Donald J. Trump, let alone seen him in person, know the man, or have even met him. But I'm going to try to get into his head (and hope I can get out of it) and try to give you can idea of what he's going through and how he's looking at this case. 

Imagine if you can that you are Donald John Trump, (as terrifying as that may sound) you see yourself essentially as an American king, (even though America is a republic) who has to answer to know one and doesn't have to live by any rules. 

I'm thinking that President Trump is basically saying to himself: "They can't arrest me, because when I do it, it's not illegal, because I'm Donald Trump and I don't have to answer to any rules, let alone the rules of any ordinary American (like his voters) and everyone should just thank God that I let anyone else share my country with them and let them live here, let alone have to be accountable to any law, that's not written by me. (Or his ghostwriter)" 

You can talk about the fact that Hillary Clinton was never arrested for using an un-secure email server for her government emails and that Joe Biden and his President Trump's former Vice President were also not arrested for having classified documents in their private possession. Three different cases: 

Trump DOJ said themselves that they didn't have enough evidence to prosecute Hillary Clinton and President Biden and Vice President Pence cooperated with DOJ immediately after it was known that they had the documents. But that's not what is making Donald Trump mad right now, it's something else. 

What's driving Trump crazy today and this whole week, is just the very fact that anyone would ever have the character, courage, and judgement, to officially charge him with anything. Because we're talking about a man whose never believed in the rule of law, especially for himself and who sees himself as someone whose so special, that he should never be held accountable to anyone, for anything.

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Hezakya Newz: '1977-1987 SPECIAL REPORT: GARY GILMORE'

Source:Hezakya Newz- with a documentary about convicted serial murderer Gary Gilmore.

"Gary Mark Gilmore was an American criminal who gained international attention for demanding the implementation of his death sentence for two murders he had admitted to committing in Utah." 

From Hezakya Newz

As Bill Moyers (who is no right-winger) said in his own documentary, Gary Gilmore was a loser. There's nothing in his life that warrants a documentary made about him. The only thing that he ever accomplished in life (if you want to call murder an accomplishment) is murdering multiple people. 

I only mention this because no one should weep or feel sorry for Gary Gilmore. He did have a rough childhood, but had opportunities to get himself an education, including while in prison where he spent as much time in prison as an adult, then as a free man. But he chose to be a career criminal who murdered people to cover up his other crimes. 

Whatever you think of the death penalty, Gary Gilmore was sentenced to death in October, 1976 and chose not to either fight his conviction or even his sentence. 

I can understand being against the death penalty when there's reasonable doubt or even the possibility that the defendant might not have committed the murder and he just gets life without instead of the death penalty. Or just being against the death penalty all together which a lot of Catholics and other Christians are. 

But don't be against the death penalty because of Gary Gilmore and his case. He's not worth and certainly doesn't deserve your sympathy.

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CNN: 'John Bolton Makes Prediction On Donald Trump's Political Career After Indictment'

Source:CNN- Keep in mind, John Bolton was President Donald J. Trump's NSA from 2017-18.

"Former National Security Adviser John Bolton tells CNN's Phil Mattingly why he thinks Donald Trump's political career will be over following a second indictment against him." 

From CNN 

John Bolton is obviously not just a lawyer, but an accomplished lawyer both in the U.S. Government and in the private sector, so he would know this better than me. But from what I'm hearing, it might a year from now at the earliest, that Special Counsel Jack Smith and company, would be ready to prosecute former President Donald J. Trump and perhaps July next year, would be the earliest that there would be a conviction. 

Again, I''m not a lawyer, but a full-time blogger, but the case looks fairly obvious here. President Trump obviously never declassified the documents, otherwise we (meaning the public) would already not just know about that, but we would know what documents that President Trump declassified. And we would know which documents that he took from The White House, down to Mar-E-Lago. Which means he had them in his possession illegally. Also, people who worked for him, who don't have security clearances, we're allowed to look at those documents, because of Donald Trump. 

Assuming the Donald Trump's lawyers (and he seems to be running out of them) aren't able to make a case other than process and trying to argue that DOJ is just going after their client, because they don't like him, even with all the hard evidence against their client, all the documents, witnesses, including people who currently work for President Trump, or were working for him after he left The White House, as well as Tump's own words against him on tape, I think this is a fairly easy case. 

And because of this is a fairly simple case, DOJ should move as soon as they can to get the trial started as soon as possible. And even to all the discovery that the defense team wants, because that will just bring out more hard evidence agains their client and make him look even worst and more criminal. But again, I'm not a lawyer.  

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CNN: 'Donald Trump Makes 'Damning' Admission On Tape'

Source:CNN- Donald J. Trump (Republican, Florida) former President of the United States (2017-21)

"CNN obtained a transcript of former President Donald Trump saying on tape in 2021 that he didn't declassify "secret information," seemingly rebutting his claims made about his ability to declassify documents. The new details come as Trump was indicted on seven counts in the special counsel's classified documents probe." 

From CNN

If it's not obvious enough why Donald Trump's own lawyers, never want him testifying for himself, especially under oath or never even talking to any media about his own legal issues, then you obviously don't know the man and haven't been following him at all the last 8 years. 

The reason why Donald Trump's lawyers don't ever want him speaking on his own behalf, especially under oath, about his own legal issues, because he's the worst possible witness that you could possibly dream up of, for himself. 

Donald Trump is a: 

compulsive liar 

he can't stick to the same story, like with most compulsive liars 

he rarely, if ever puts any thought behind what he's about to say before he says it and generally is just trying to get though the latest criss that he created for himself 

and when he thinks he's off the record and there's no one around him that he believes could hurt him and speak out against him, he tends like with a lot of career criminals, to speak in the most damning ways about him, that if he what he ever said got out, would make him look very guilty.

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Youn Gala: 'NBA Legends & Players Explain How SCARY GOOD PRIME Patrick Ewing Was'

Source:Youn Gala- Shaquille O'Neal talking about a player that he says is better than him.

"Patrick Ewing is a New York Knicks Legend!!!

NBA Legends And Players Explain How SCARY GOOD PRIME Patrick Ewing Was" 

From Youn Gala 

Just a couple things from this video and then I'll get into how I personally feel about The Great Patrick Ewing. 

Shaquille O'Neal saying that Patrick Ewing is not only a top 5 NBA center of all-time, but that Ewing is better than him. I have heard Shaq say that Pat was the toughest center that he ever had to play against, but not that he was a better player than him. I think this says a lot because even though I think Shaq is overrated myself, he's still a top 10-15 centers of all-time and he's one of the smartest and honest men, whose ever played in the NBA. 

As far as Pat Ewing and what I feel about him: imagine the last 25 years of the NBA is really just the longest national nightmare in pro sports history and the game today is still basically the same today as it was, let's say pre-2000s: 

centers are real centers, not beefed up small forwards, trying to play center or even natural power forwards, trying to play center 

point guards were expected to run the offense, not sport up for 3's every chance that they get. 

power forwards run the wings on the break looking for a slam dunk or a layup, not spotting up for 3's on the fast break and they have inside responsibility on offense, not running screens to free themselves up for a 3-pointer

the center position was still around, instead of big, tall, strong, guys, thinking they could be the next great point forward. 

Imagine the NBA today was basically the same league today, as it was in the late 1980s, as far as the quality of teams, players, the style of play and you are looking for the next great center and have this guy whose 7'0, 255 pounds of all muscle, who runs like a horse, can block jump shots, who doesn't even know how to take a play off and rest, who went to and graduated from Georgetown, so you know he's smart and was coached by John Thompson and you are tying to win a championship. You are tying to knock off the Boston Celtics or Los Angeles Lakers to do that, maybe you are Pat Riley running this team, after leaving the Lakers. You would be braindead not to draft Pat Ewing, if he's available when your pick comes up. 

In the 1990s, there were really only 3 centers in the NBA who were good, strong, big, and disciplined enough to play Shaquille O'Neal on defense, not really stop him for the most part, but make him have to work hard on offense, so he couldn't  just be able to dominate you. 

Shaq said Ewing was the toughest player that he ever had to play against, because he made him work for position in the post and then was able to make Shaq work on defense, even in the post, because Ewing had the size, the strength, the quickness, the footwork, etc, to score against Shaq. Even though Ewing even in his prime, was probably giving up 40-50 pounds to Shaq, he still had the upper body and leg strength to play Shaq on defense and not get dominated and score against him on offense, even in the post. 

The other two centers in the 1990s that had these qualities to play Shaq well, were Hakeem Olajuwon and Alonzo Mourning. In case anyone wanted to know. 

The reason why Patrick Ewing doesn't get more respect and recognition as being one of the top 10 NBA centers ever, even though he is a top 10 center, because he didn't win an NBA championship. 

The New York Knicks probably had the better team in 1994 and should've beaten the Houston Rockets, probably could've done it in 6 games. And I understand all of that. But the fact that the Knicks were even in a game 7 in the NBA Finals in that era, is because of Pat Riley and Pat Ewing, the co-MVP's of the New York Knicks Organization. 

Ewing played with a lot of good players, a lot of very good players. He never played with another great player, another Hall of Fame player. 

You go try to win an NBA Finals in the 1990s with Charles Smith, whose a center and you are trying to make him your small forward. 

You try to win the NBA Finals in the 1990s with John Starks, who would've been a 3rd guard, someone who could play the 1 and 2 equally as well, but he would've been a 3rd guard on most NBA championship teams, maybe even the 4th guard and he's just starting 2-guard, who misses 14-17 jump shots in game 7 of the NBA Finals.

I think Charles Oakley, Anthony Mason, Derek Harper, and Herb Williams, were the right pieces for a good NBA championship team: 

But where is Michael Jordan without Scottie Pippen today? 

Where would Shaquille O'Neal be today without Kobe Bryant? 

And you could go on. The 90s Knicks were probably 2 players short and one of those players being a great player, from winning an NBA championship in during that decade.

If you want my all-time NBA center list: I'll give it to you anyway: 

1. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

2. Wilt Chamberlain 

3. Bill Russell 

4. Hakeem Olajuwon 

5. Moses Malone 

6. Patrick Ewing 

OK, that's just 6 and hopefully you get the idea. I have Pat Ewing at 6, because if you look at the 6 best centers ever and what they brought to the game and what they could do and did do personally, I don't think there are 5 better NBA centers ever. Guys who won more championships, more MVP's, etc, sure. But if you look at the center position and what centers are supposed to be able to do, there aren't 5 better offense or defensive centers better than Patrick Ewing. And that's where I come down.

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