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Ummm ... reading is fundamental and apparently not Trump's strong suit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/...e-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

 

Result of a Preibus-Pence intervention?

 

I'm probably naive here, but why is the incoming NSA talking to the ambassador of another country such a diabolical thing? I would assume, especially in instances where there's a pretty big W.H. change aborning, that such is routine.

 

Maybe California has firemen on permanent vacation like that, I don't know. It's damn sure not true in Alabama.

We used to use firemen as part time help in the physician's office where I worked. They basically functioned as LPN's, taking histories, vital signs, giving shots, etc. Those were the hardest working guys I knew. They'd work full time in one city, part time as a fireman in another municipality, and most had a side job of some sort. They did not make enough money as firemen (with two jobs) so they'd start a landscaping business or something on the side.

Add in that thing about running *into* burning buildings. One of the guys I worked with was killed when he went in the front door of a house on fire. He had no way of knowing that the basement was fully involved and that the floors had been weakened. He fell through the floor into the basement, and his bunker gear was pulled off over his head as he went through. At least it was fast... but you know that was a horrible way to go.

Cut the boys some slack.

 

"pour encourager les autres"?

 

I hear firing squads are back in vogue.

 

I agree.

 

Yeah, but firemen never have to deal with high school football deadlines without pizza. It's all relative

 

Simply talking to the Russian ambassador isn't diabolical, although it doesn't look great given the specific circumstances.

What was said, though, could be criminal. What the Post story described sounds like a violation of the little-used Logan Act, which prohibits unauthorized persons from negotiating with foreign governments on U.S. policy matters.

 

There was also the thought that the office would modulate trump's maniacal egotism. Instead, it seems to embolden his irrationality Conway Bannon Flynn feed his ego and therefore I believe that faction will prevail.

 

Why is the Logan Act "little-used"?