Sturgeon moon

 

How to view the last supermoon of the year.

1. Go outside.

2. Look up.

Who needs the New York Times?

Remember when Paul Pelosi was arrested for misdemeanor DUI?  And his wife got the charges dropped, although she actually didn't?  And then she went to Taiwan and started a war with China, which really didn't happen?  And it turned out she had brought her son Paul, Jr., who is a businessman and sometimes does business in Asian countries, and when Fox News found out they decided he was Hunter Biden without the drug problems?  Remember all that?  

Well, forget it.  This is much more fun and it's documented by the Denver Post.  The colorful Boeberts made the police blotter again after one of their sons drove his dune buggy through the 25 mph neighborhood at around 50.  A resident remonstrated with him and was told to fuck off, my mom's a Congressman, or words to that effect.  Shortly afterward the dad, Jayson -- yes, the one who flashed some girls in front of a bowling alley -- arrived in his Ford 150 

because no jerk with a criminal record ever drives a sedan.  Jayson proceeded to demolish the neighbor's mailbox while he was making a 911 call.  By this time a second resident was calling 911 and was getting his mailbox crushed.  (Does Jayson listen to the police band?)  If you can't fight your way through the Post's demands for money, the recording is here.  Congressmama wasn't involved directly, she was way off in Washington doin' the people's bidness.  But nobody got arrested, which certainly had nothing to do with her position.

The Espionage Act has been around since 1917 and was originally used to abrogate the First Amendment rights of people who opposed American entry into World War I and the military draft that accompanied it, like Eugene V. Debs, five-time Socialist Party candidate for president.  But the right hasn't had much of a problem with it until this week, when questions began to be raised about why a twice-impeached ex-president needed to store Top Secret papers in his basement in a closet secured with a bicycle lock.  Now Rand Paul and something called the Future of Freedom Foundation demand it be repealed at once, i.e., before anyone else can be prosecuted under it.  So leaving the White House with classified nuclear information is pretty much the same as making a speech that annoys Woodrow Wilson?  Let me write that down.  It's odd what will motivate people to come out for, let's say, prison reform.  

According to the New York Times -- I know, they get lucky sometimes -- a member of the Trump court called the Justice Department Friday just before the attorney general's statement.  He had a message from Trump:  "The country is on fire.  What can I do to reduce the heat?"  Given Trump's technique of identifying himself with "Our great Country," it's clear what heat he was allegedly referring to.  Not that sad clown in Cincinnati or a couple of marching mobs but the impending linkage of his name with nuclear espionage, which might give pause to all but the most brainwashed followers.  It was a more veiled threat than the one he made to Volodymyr Zelensky -- do me a favor or there may be a little delay with the weapons -- but a threat nonetheless.  If it reached Garland, he ignored it.

Actually the national fire level is just what you would expect:  death threats to Judge Reinhart and the FBI agents whose names were on the warrant.  Why else would Trump release it to the Wall Street Journal and Breitbart (in case the WSJ was too circumspect)?  There was another deranged rant on Ministry of Truth Social demanding the return of "attorney-client" documents, claiming the CCTV was turned off and again insisting that the evidence was "planted."  As we used to say before CDs came along, turn the record over.  The most boggling excuse is that he could de-classify documents just by saying so.  It's easy when you have no fucking clue how anything works.  At one point he tried to repeal the Fourteenth Amendment by executive order.

By the way, the FBI has now determined that Alec Baldwin pulled the trigger on the gun that killed Halyna Hutchins on a movie set last year (he had claimed it fired by itself).  I'll be very surprised if Baldwin fans start making death threats against the Bureau, or even demanding that its budget be cut.  Sometimes it's very boring to be sane.

The vitriol is spreading.  Judge Bruce Reinhart belongs to Temple Beth David in Palm Beach Gardens, which frequently holds Friday night service on the beach.  This week the service was cancelled because of threats like "He is a kike and a pedophile...he should be tried for treason and executed."  It's especially saddening to learn that Len Dykstra of the 1986 Mets is now a Trumper who went on Twitter to accuse Temple Beth David of being "into 'social justice'" and not sufficiently Jewish for his taste.  (It is Conservative.)  This just happens to be the fifth anniversary of the infamous Charlottesville "Jews will not replace us" rally, where Heather Heyer died and Trump hailed "very fine people on both sides."

With a "Way to go!" from the cockroach-dentist of the planet Gosar, Marjorie Trailertrash Greene announced, "I just filed articles of impeachment against Merrick Garland."  Since the House is in recess it's not clear where she filed them, but I know where they belong.  This should be amusing.

Why Sturgeon Moon?  Why indeed?  The Old Farmer's Almanac is online, with more information about fish and the moon than anybody needs.  The best days for cutting hay are tomorrow and Tuesday, so I'm off to sharpen my scythe.  These days it's good to have a cutting tool handy.