Spring forward...fall down

Rosa Maria Hernandez is looking much happier since she was sprung from a detention center and returned to her family, and all it took was a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union.  Keep this in mind the next time you want to stop supporting them because they also fight for the Constitutional rights of Nazis and Klansmen.  The ACLU is under attack from a vengeful and frustrated Justice Department because they helped a 17-year-old get released from ICE detention (Texas again) for an abortion, so give till it hurts.

The military's investigation into the SAPFU in Niger has revealed that Sgt. LaDavid Johnson became separated from the other three soldiers and was apparently taken prisoner before being shot.  At least we know why Trump was so dismissive to his widow:  he likes people who don't get captured, OK?

Republican versus Republican, evangelical Christian versus evangelical Christian -- say what you will about Commander Bonespurs, he has a gift for dividing the previously undivided.  (Maybe we are "relitigating" the Civil War.)  All I'm saying is, don't be surprised if there's an East and West Korea when he returns from his Asiapalooza tour.  This morning he and FPOTUS arrived in Hawaii to look for Obama's birth certificate visit the Pearl Harbor memorial.  And maybe a little grift?  Reporters were surprised by a non-scheduled stop at the Trump Hotel Waikiki; I'm surprised they're still capable of being surprised.  When he gets to the Philippines, perhaps Duterte will let him shoot a drug dealer --  it will soothe his rage over not being able to use the Justice Department to harass a private citizen because she got more votes than he did.  Even Sessions isn't that bent.

Before daddy went away, he left a big pile of tweets for the kids to play with.  Predictably, the sentence involving no (more) jail time for Bowe Bergdahl is "a disgrace" (don't tell me -- death penalty?).  The Book of the Trump Club recommends the "new Donna B book" (the Help don't need surnames), which appears to be an attempt to reopen the wounds of last year's primary season for reasons I can't imagine -- like Trump, I haven't read it.

Sometimes the untweeted is the most significant.  No congratulations to the Houston Astros.  No comment about the (white) man who killed three (Latino) people in a Colorado Walmart -- the justice system, however ponderous, can deal with this obviously "troubled" individual who definitely did not yell "Alahu Akbar."  And no protest over the jailing of an American writer in Zimbabwe who called Robert Mugabe "a selfish and sick man" on Twitter and is facing twenty years for "plotting to overthrow the government."  If the babysitters have even tried to explain this to Trump, he probably wishes we had similar laws to protect him from haters like Martha O'Donovan.  If we had a functioning State Department they'd be going through channels on her behalf.  But we don't need one, he told rightwing nut radio, because "I am the only one that matters."

Oh lordy, it's time to change the clocks again.  Standard time will last until March 11, when we have to do it all over again.  Yes, a little more than four months.  Can we just pick one and be done with it?