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Morning AB, All. As always, thank you AB for doing this thread so reliably and keeping the peace with gentle thread policing. Thank you Bray for weekly written wisdom, Thank all yon contributors for excellent commentary to flesh it all out.

Below are the words from my daily political diary. It is quite long so scroll on by if not interested. But do stay around and add your commentary and point of view to the thread.

Check out the acerbic but thought-provoking commentary of DanZ.

He's a bit rough around the edges but he knows a thing or a thousand.

Tuesday Date-2/6/18

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THE EAGLES WON THE SUPER BOWL!!!

And no player got on a knee.

But the folks in Philadelphia are tearing that town apart.

Why?

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Stock market dropped yesterday by 1,175 plus.

Allegedly it's because of a fear of inflation and a possible raise in interest rates.

It was time for a stock market adjustment. And so it is.

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Wednesday Date-2/7/18

The stock markets goes on a roller coaster ride.

In this past year my 401K went up some $13,000.

The sudden down draft yesterday didn't wipe out my gains but I got nervous.

Today the stock market went up by almost 600, gaining back a good amount of monies lost yesterday when the stock market plunged over a thousand.

I guess it's just an adjustment because every day that thing was going up at an amazing rate.

Thus all will settle down and I have not lost all my savings.

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Thursday Date-2/8/18

Two great radio shows aired yesterday that I'd like to summarize.

First is Mark Levin's show on 2/7/18.

Levin went over quite a few investigations by the FBI, loser burgers, America's KGB.

At one time, like many Americans, I admired the FBI, considered them a top notch investigatory agency. Now I can't stand any of them who would get involved in over-turning elections and file fake requests for FISA.

Levin reviewed the infamous anthrax deliveries that followed the Iraq war.

It would turn out that FBI, idiots and boobaloobs, focused on Steven Hatfill, a guy who should have been a suspect, make no mistake, but after six years they finally arrested the REAL perp.

Who led this investigation and wasted six years and millions of dollars investigating the wrong guy?

ROBERT MUELLER!!!!

Just remember this when another political partisan tells you how wonderful this jerk is.

Levin also went over the big accounting scandal of Enron, holding the firm of Arthur Andersen, who I once worked for.

There was also the Martha Stewart mess. I don't like Martha Stewart particularly but she should not have been thrown in jail for denying why she sold stock. How could the FBI prove such a thing.

BUT THEY ARE THE GODS OF ALL CREATION!!! They are the wonder of the universe and the must serve their masters in the administration to keep their jobs.

As for Enron, the FBI managed to shut down Arthur Andersen with their awful investigation which got overturned by the courts.

Below, some excerpts on terrible FBI investigations. AND DON'T FORGET RICHARD JEWELL!!!

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To be sure, there was less of the ambient dread that followed the 2001 attacks, when the letters laced with anthrax were sent. Those letters set off widespread panic, with fears that Al Qaeda was behind them. The White House ordered staff members to take an antibiotic, Cipro, as a protective measure. The F.B.I., after a long investigation, concluded that a military scientist, Bruce Ivins, had sent the letters. He was about to be charged in 2008 when he committed suicide.

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After the anthrax letters were mailed in September and October of 2001, the FBI for nearly five years pursued a former Army virologist, Steven Hatfill, as the prime suspect.

Hatfill had filled several prescriptions in 2001 for Cipro, an antibiotic effective against anthrax, among other infections. He had also boasted of his expertise in biological warfare.

Based on this and other information, inspector Richard Lambert, handpicked by FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III to lead the investigation, was convinced that Hatfill was the perpetrator. With Mueller's backing, he drove his agents to find evidence to support an indictment against Hatfill. It never came.

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Arthur Andersen was charged with and found guilty of obstruction of justice for shredding the thousands of documents and deleting e-mails and company files that tied the firm to its audit of Enron.[149] Although only a small number of Arthur Andersen's employees were involved with the scandal, the firm was effectively put out of business; the SEC is not allowed to accept audits from convicted felons. The company surrendered its CPA license on August 31, 2002, and 85,000 employees lost their jobs.[150][151] The conviction was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court due to the jury not being properly instructed on the charge against Andersen.[152] The Supreme Court ruling theoretically left Andersen free to resume operations. However, the damage to the Andersen name has been so great that it has not returned as a viable business even on a limited scale.

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Mark Levin did a great job of going over these items and taught me that the FBI is a bunch of turkeys whose main talent is kissing the butt of superiors.

And to hell with the American public.

> Tomorrow, Rush Limbaugh's marvelous take on the matter.

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Friday Date-2/9/18

Wednesday Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh gave a very believable scenario about this Russian scenario and the attempts to impeach Donald Trump.

All of the hiding and lying and corruption is to protect, guess who?

BARACK OBAMA!!!!

President Obama was bought and paid for by the Muslim Brotherhood, everybody knows that. He sold uranium to Iran and recently, with the help of Hillary, sold Russia 20% of AMERICA'S uranium!

What's America to do?

A handsome, personable black man gets elected in the United States for the first time.

Should congress and investigators do the right thing, find his whole administration guilty, including Hillary Clinton, Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder…the whole bunch of them?

The wholesale arrest of those who thought it was perfectly fine to sell out this country is bound to cast a dark cloud across the political life of America.

Frankly I think all this attempt to ridiculously impeach a lawfully elected president, the corruptors just give it up. Make a deal with Obama that he goes away and keeps mostly silent.

For sure Hillary Clinton needs to go away. Her own party can't stand her.

Send Valerie Jarrett back to Iran and make her stay there.

Then allow the congress and president run the country without making every other damn country on this earth rich off of American money.

None of them, not Barack, Valjar or Hillary loved America.

America was a way to get rich and gain power across the world.

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Saturday Date-2/10/18

The biggest smirk of the day yesterday was Nancy Pelosi's assertion that her grandson expressed a wish that he could be like his friend.

When Nancy asked why, the grandson he wanted to be a pretty light brown.

Or something.

This is such a dumb thing for the House minority leader to say I must imagine how dumb she is.

Yeah, I used to play games with Nancy Pelosi when I was child. Beat her all the time although she's almost ten years older.

Only she was Nancy D'Alesandro then.

It's an intriguing story.

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On a personal note, my story on the subject of the empowerment of women has been selected for a Chicken Soup for the Soul compendium on the same subject.

Indeed Ronald Reagan was President, I worked for Western Electric, the manufacturing arm of AT&T, and AT&T was being broken up.

Heh. Mighty AT&T is still a huge company today but Western Electric no longer exists.

They locked the only other female in my department in the high voltage cage and thought it was cute.

I threatened, yes I did, to report to "60 Minutes" because what a story that woulda been.

But they fired some folks and I, ladies and gems, was elected Union Rep and eventually got a big promotion.

It's quite a story and I wrote a book about it: "Everything You Need to Know About Being a Woman Can Be Learned in the Garden."

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Dear Patricia

Your story “The High Voltage Cage ” has made it to the final selection round for Chicken Soup for the Soul: The Empowered Woman. Only a small percent of the submitted stories have made it this far.

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This is my tenth time selected for these books.