In October, I wrote: "This may, but I'm not sure, have Roger Stone written all over it."

Among other stories: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/21/us/roger-stone-donald-trump-russia.html

Weird; it's like everyone is looking at Manafort, or some other random agent. It's Stone. I reiterate: it's Stone. Look there.

Tricksters always get what's coming to them. He should have picked his role more carefully.

Now that the Entire Fucking World has had sufficient time to have Trump in its mouth, let's all have a brief reminder of exactly what sort of fuckery with which we have to deal.

A few months ago, in late October 2016, I made a post about something that has lately become common knowledge. By this time, it should be crystal clear that fuckery, of a type accurately named High Crimes and Misdemeanors. I specifically refer to Section 4, Article Two of the United States Constitution:

As everyone has heard, Tony Weiner has once again reared his head (or poked his nose into the tent) with predictable (I want to say disastrous; but apparently we're not there yet) results. But all of that...a digression and a sideshow to what appears to be missing in this. So, without any sort of preparation of a coherent timeline, the real story:

It appears in "The Media" here :

Today, I started a new position with a non-profit human service organization in NYC. A very large, very old, very respected one.

Not that the size and age are relevant to anything; it's JIC you can read between the lines.

WSJ article. It seems that the electrical system inside the center randomly arcs, destroying a lot of equipment. That's a plural arcs. Almost once a month in the last year; with a destroyed equipment cost around $100,000 each time. That's before multiple consultants to identify the problem were paid and before the repairs were made.

In case anyone is interested, Bruce Schneier is a recognized face for cryptography and related issues. While I am sure there are others, I find Schneier to be accessible and he is covering this latest issue on his blog.

If interested, one can read a live thread by hackers concerned with such issues here. The first line in the thread:

At least several someones get it:

Fugitive Snowden in running for European rights prize

Snowden, who is in hiding in Russia, is one of seven nominations made by members of the European Parliament for the Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought [emphasis added for those who don't get it], a move likely to upset Washington which wants to try him on espionage charges.

Rumor has it that the Pope faces arrest.

Reuters:

Pope will have security, immunity by remaining in the Vatican

http://itccs.org/ has several blurbs; apparently, an arrest warrant was issued on Feb. 4; six days later Ratzinger resigned; and then the PR spin began: pity the poor old man who is physically degenerating; he can hardly stand up!

It's old; and hardly news...and I don't think I've seen it here, so in case it's interesting:

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2013-01-16.html

GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, THE MENTALLY ILL DO

I really don't like that whole "play the nazi/fascist card" thing. But sometimes, statements like this specific one by Coulter seem to exhibit  a willingnes of the speaker to walk right up to the boundary between "other stuff" and outright fascist-like eugenics.

Race and "My body, not yours.": Virginia DA Cuccinelli falls down, spins on back: TPM

Race: Virginia Senate apartheids the dance floor.

FYI: I recently discovered the Blogs at the WP under She the People.

Several of the recent entries there concern the issue in the subject line, mental health. I think it's recommended reading.

For instance:

The NRA’s school safety plan: Round up the sick and arm the children

and:

After Newtown: What mental health system?

Earlier this week, I noted that no one had yet gone over the line and scapegoated the mentally ill.

I have just finished reading Wayne LaPierre's remarks, and I'm here to let you know that Wayne has done just that: put out the cat's paw  or trial balloon to scapegoat the mentally ill:

Page 3, first paragraph:

"A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?"

What's the difference between a child soldier in, say, Africa and Adam Lanza?

While the child soldier in Africa is at least as heavily armed as Lanza, he's killed fewer people.

That's not intended to be a joke.

Since I'm usually interested in sarcasm as a means to, metaphorically, slap people who are in a panic I can ask this:

Since at least one group in Africa cites the bible as a source for fielding child soldiers, will those people scapegoating video games commission an equivalent investigation into the bible?

This time, it's about the scapegoats people are trying to find and, IMO, pathologically require as a part of some fake grieving process and, allegedly, change[1].

It's pretty clear that part of the "process" of the upcoming conversation is well underway so I'm engaging in more wishful thinking and trying to stomp, using sarcasm, on the relevant flailings that I've seen here at DB and elsewhere. Here's my so-far list:

1) Video games

2) Quentin Tarantino

3) SSRI

Tonight, while I was at a bookstore and again while I was washing dishes, I mulled the events of the past week and was thankful that America rejected the bully.

As I was thinking of this, I was also thinking of how to remind people that Romney is a bully, and a blood-heir to the bullying politics of the GOP.

I did not watch the debates. I have read the reviews; and I can just about feel the clenching vocal cords as people draw in their breath, silently asking: "What is Obama doing?"

As if he's some sort of performance artist who seems to have recently gained weight, shock-horror!

Me? For some reason, all I can think is: Rope-a-Dope.

I could be wrong; but that's my call.

It seems to me that everyone (where everyone is, generally, "the Media") has chosen to go mute on the sex angle.

Seriously, everyone: the Republican nominee for President speaks at the home of a private banker (you remember bankers, right, peanut gallery? the ones who screwed, basically, the entire world a few years ago?) who throws or allows or hosts orgies in his pool at the Hamptons...I take it the radio silence is some sort of modesty?

Questions:

What was the ratio of penises to vaginas?

Was it het-on-het, or were multi-organed pansexuals allowed in?

To think I re-read Year of the Bastard by Warren Ellis just this weekend.

For myself, I've wondered when (even if) the Smiler would actually show up in American politics via our tech level's version of source gas. It's actually kind of stunning to see it happen. But maybe I'm naive.

One:

On August 5, 2012, a mass shooting took place at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek Wisconsin. A lone gunman...

Two:

Fire destroys Missouri mosque in second blaze at the Islamic center in 5 weeks; no injuries Published: August

JOPLIN, Mo. — Investigators say it will take a few days to determine if the fire that destroyed a southwest Missouri mosque was arson.