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Like an old 80s sitcom, this episode was taped before a live audience of about 90 regular listeners who carried on a vigorous commentary and questions in the Zoom chat, and we had a special guest at the very end—John Hinderaker in the (virtual) flesh! And since we actually recorded during happy hour for a change (and not Saturday morning as has been the case for the last several weeks), we rolled out several whisky choices for the episode.
Listeners may know that Lucretia, this week's host, has been partial in the past to Glenmorangie, which the great Kingsley Amis noted "has been called delicate and mild, even faintly sweet." This is not a description anyone would ever use about Lucretia, making this a dubious match. Tonight she had two varieties of Glenfiddich on hand, which Amis called "fruity and well balanced." Maybe she's better matched with Macallan, which Amis says is "powerful yet smooth." That sounds more like it!
By popular demand, we took up a news items we didn't get to last week in the crush of shocking news stories, namely Judge Aileen Cannon's ruling that special counsel Jack Smith's appointment as special counsel to torment Trump is unconstitutional. Steve invented a special judicial scale—the Silberman Scale from 1 - 10—for John Yoo to grade the opinion, and he gave it a solid 8, which is pretty darn good.
From there—oh my! Lucretia unveiled her handcrafted tin foil cowboy hat, as we kicked around whether the loss of trust in key government institutions (cough, cough—FBI—cough, cough, or cough—Secret Service—cough) is because they are merely incompetent and negligent, or whether their carelessness is deliberate. From there John Hinderaker gave us an update on the FBI investigation of the firebombing of his office building back in January, and finally we all gave our predictions for Kamala Harris's running mate, but not until we rolled out the first of whiat is doubtless to be many weeks of ritual denunciation of Harris. So if you missed the live taping, pour yourself a nice, dry single malt and settle in.
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How wonderful a protege' she must have been for Willie Brown to have bought her a brand new BMW....and some attorneys I know from SF tell me she never declared the gift as income....(Maybe she had an illegal driver to whom she never paid Social Security?_
BTW, Don't Californicate Colorado was up when Denver was going to have the Winter Olympics---late 60s, early 70s.
And, Kammy is proceeding unburdened by what has been....
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Haven't heard that song in a long time!
Used to see it on MTV.
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On substituting an existing U.S. Attorney in place of Jack Smith, aren’t U.S. Attorneys geographically limited? One of the dangers posed by a roving “special counsel” like Jack Smith is that he could go anywhere in the country looking for something to assert as a crime. And did assert crimes in two different jurisdictions. If Attorney General Garland substituted in the Florida U.S. Attorney, that U.S. Attorney getting the benefit of the investigation by an improperly appointed “special counsel,” thus tainting the evidence from the Smith investigation?
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On the effort to distance candidate Kamala Harris from vice president Kamala Harris, my recollection is that early in the Biden administration the administration (including especially Kamala Harris) kept emphasizing the Biden-Harris administration (or sometimes even the Harris-Biden administration). Clearly an effort to connect Kamala Harris with all the anticipated wonders expected of the Biden administration so that the public would be eager to elect Harris when Joe Biden did not run for a second term (so was the assumption of 2021). That was of course before the Biden-Harris administration's complete failure became so clear, and Kamala Harris' lack of capability was widely displayed on a national scale. I noticed that part way through the Biden-Harris administration's term they dropped the effort to label their work as the work of the Biden-Harris administration. And now the Harris people are trying to distance Harris from the Biden-Harris administration.
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I'm shorting Let's Go Brandon tee shirts.
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