I manged three Rex Stout novels - his Arnold Zeck Trilogy - and a Stuart Kaminsky Toby Peters mystery, The Howard Hughes Affair. Old favorites, old entertainments. Nero Wolfe is civilization.
My sister says she has a bike for me. CC is sick, again. Those were yesterday's phone calls.
I have stalled on Robert Bolano's The Spirit of Science Fiction. What I read, I truly enjoyed. It is not a book I had seen reviewed, so I bought it as a remaindered book. It makes me curious even more to read the books that everyone else clamors about.
Speaking of Bolano, The Millions republished from 2008, Was Bolaño a Junkie? by Garth Risk Hallberg. It has links to essays on his work.
The problem is an energy thing. I am not sure if it is merely down to the diabetes and weight issues, or getting back to work after really not having worked daily since February, or a combination of the two. But this lack of energy is affected my getting work done here.
I did take care of the PO and taxes yesterday. There is a letter from FSSA that needs taken care of. That was all I accomplished last night. No getting at my pretrial detention journal. I saw the lawyer about dad's trust.
As the world knows, Trump was (finally) indicted. He brought it on himself. Witch hunt? Only in his mind. I watched the almost endless rehashing on MSNBC - saved only from true tedium by their reading from the indictment and showing the images included in the indictment. I am fascinated by what the question of what was Trump thinking, what did he really from trashing our government. What does a man of his age and temperament and history of privilege do when confronted with cross-examination and rules of evidence? And what do his followers do?
Let's see how the world looks at this mess:
The Irish Independent: Donald Trump faces seven charges over classified papers found in Mar-a-Lago ballroom, bathroom and shower
The Irish times: Trump held on to secret documents about nuclear programmes and military vulnerabilities, prosecutors claim
Which led to How the United States government keeps its secrets – and what they do when they’re leaked
Donald Trump will not be the first senior public figure to face prosecution in relation to the handling of classified information.
In 2005 Sandy Berger, the former national security adviser in the Clinton administration, was fined $50,000 and sentenced to community service and probation after being found to have hidden documents from the National Archives in his clothes and taken them out of the building.
He said at the time that he needed them to prepare for dealing with the commission investigating the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
In 2015 David Petraeus, one of the most prominent American generals in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and later head of the CIA, was sentenced to two years’ probation and a $100,000 fine for providing classified information to his biographer, with whom he was having an affair.
In 2019 a former National Security Agency contractor Harold Martin was sentenced to nine years after investigators found thousands of pages of documents, some marked “secret” or top secret” in his home.
US president Joe Biden is also under investigation over how he handled classified material.
The UK Independent (U.S. Edition) has a slew of interesting headlines, but I am only picking on three:
Trump praised attorney for deleting Hillary Clinton’s 30,000 emails, indictment shows
As a candidate and president, Mr Trump repeatedly called for his 2016 presidential opponent to be locked up after she was found to have been “extremely careless” in using a private server for official communications as secretary of state.
Privately, he joked about how her lawyers had “done a great job” deleting the emails and in his telling, protecting her from scrutiny, according to the indictment.
Fox host Mark Levin screams at camera in outrage at Trump indictment over secret papers - the thumbsuckers start their ranting.
That last article got me thinking about the whole MAGA thing: what do they think made America great? Because Trump is about to find out: the presumption of innocence, trial by jury, and the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. Why do none of these nutcases say this: Trump's innocence will be vindicated by a jury of his fellow citizens? Maybe they know Trump is guilty of putting himself ahead of his country, that no jury is going to let him go.
I have crashed Firefox - which may acutely be the wifi driver - twice, so I want to wrap this up.
The Age (Australia) has: Latest indictment shows that things are getting sticky for Teflon Don
The Toronto Star has Former U.S. president Donald Trump has been indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents. Here’s what you need to know (which has a collection of reactions at its end.)
One thing more and I am done with this: Joe Scarborough yesterday said this is not a happy moment, and I agree. Read Livy's History of Rome. Or just read about Catiline on Wikipedia.
What else for today? Laundry, writing and more writing.
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Oops.
I might as well add a few things I just got to in my email.
Let's do this as two sides of Muncie:
According to Muncie police, Rhum was arrested Saturday night after he threw a Molotov cocktail — an incendiary weapon designed to start fires — at a dog house outside a home in the 1700 block of West 15th Street.
About two hours earlier, he had allegedly thrown the same kind of device at a chicken coop on the same property.
Rhum told police he had thrown the devices in a bid to kill the property owner's dog.
Investigators said Rhum's own dog, named Athena, had died on Saturday morning, a victim of stab wounds suffered a few days earlier after Rhum's canine had attacked the other man's dog.
The target of the Molotov cocktails said he had to fatally wound Rhum's dog "in self defense" because of its repeated attacks on his dog, on his property.
Ball State PBS’s Be My Neighbor Day is returning to downtown Muncie!
Join Daniel Tiger for an afternoon of free fun 1-4 p.m. Saturday, June 10, at Canan Commons. The event will also include more than 20 booths (neighbors) offering hands-on activities – from sunflower planting to rock painting to puppet making – for the whole family.
One more Trump thing: HELP PROVE I’M INNOCENT BY SENDING ME MONEY IMMEDIATELY by Eli Grober
UMC loses 174 Hoosier congregations at annual state conference in ongoing schism
A blog I forgot about: Boing Boing.
And I finally did some checking on my possible bald eagle sighting a few months back and got a surprise:
Bald eagles becoming more visible in East Central Indiana
The DNR's map of sightings and nestings is very interesting.
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