Smoke and the Mafia

The smoke is bad today.  It was less bad yesterday when we we rode to the lake.

The key learning yesterday was when the smoke occludes the sun, it's colder than you think it will be.  We warmed up after the first killer up hill, but the first down hill was uncomfortable.  Undershirts would have been good.

This is a terrible cell phone picture; due to the smoke the sky was really dark, and the camera could not focus on anything.  However, look at how orange the moon was. 

It's been a memorable stretch of days.  Queen Elizabeth died last Thursday.  This photo was taken by Pete Souza, who was the official photographer for President Obama.  He liked this photo a lot, and so do I.  Say what you will about the draconian colonial policies carried out by the British Empire, the Queen stayed the course and did her job for 70 years.

Ukraine is currently kicking Russia's butt.  Ukr has commandeered Russian supply trains and is currently using the enemies' guns, ammunition and food to chase the Russians back to their borders.  Unsubstantiated stories of Russians dropping their weapons and fleeing are everywhere.  Russia has announced that it's not sending anymore troops to Ukraine.  However, since they are bastards, Russia continues to shell the nuclear power plant, and power plants, and schools.

The special master saga continues to slog on.  DOJ has accepted Judge Dearie (proposed by the ectoplasm's lawyers) as the master.  These same lawyers are now questioning if classified markings on a document mean it's really classified.  Who knows who is paying for the document review, DOJ has made their position clear, they're not paying.

Meanwhile, last night, the ectoplasm departed Bedminster in his Citation (a jet), arriving Dulles airport.  What was so odd was that he was wearing a golf polo shirt, golf jacket, and golf shoes.  It appeared that his minions had gone and gotten him, and put him on the plane with no time to change.  What would be so important that he would get on his airplane wearing golf shoes?  This morning he was seen driving around his Virginia golf course in the rain, with no clubs on the cart.

He later rendezvoused with several other people in carts, and they stood around looking agitated.

Twitter thinks they're standing around outside because they don't know who the informant was for the search warrant on Mar a Lago, and/or they don't want to be inside because they're afraid of listening devices.  Perhaps it's related to the 40 subpoenas related to January 6 that DOJ issued last week, to include the seizure of two cell phones.  John Gotti and his lawyer used to walk around outside when they were discussing secret mob business, this reminds me of that.

It seems like we've already reached this stage of perfidy and malfeasance, and why isn't he in jail already?

That's it, now we're waiting to see what happens next.