Wanton Disregard

Most all legal torts involve wanton disregard of civilized behavior. wanton disregard for the truth, wanton disregard for life and limb, wanton disregard for public safety, wanton disregard for personal privacy wanton disregard for property tights and wanton disregard for national security.

Maybe we just ought to fashion a law making wanton disregard the crime of crimes ... so much simpler!

Headlines

Israel bans Omar, Tlaib from entering country, as Trump lashes out

Growth forecast are rising and economy looks nowhere near as bad as bond market predicts

Warren packs crowds in NH ... Big Iowa lead ...

Beto O’Rourke on TX Senate run: ‘That would not be good enough’

Trump accuses news media of trying to crash economy

Japan surpasses China as largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasuries

Dayton killer was on cocaine, alcohol and anti-depressants ...

John Hickenlooper drops out of 2020 White House race

Donor with deep Ukrainian ties lent $500,000 to Biden’s brother

Jeffery Epstein had broken neck bones — raising questions about his cause of death

Trump’s purge of national security team almost complete ...

AOC: Trump supporters not educated enough to recognize own racism

Crime and Punishment

Special Counsel Mueller’s inability to prove any collusion or conspiracy between Trump or the Trump campaign and Russia means that there was no national security or criminal predicate for the Obama administration’s spying on Trump and his campaign ... nor any justification for the special counsel ... be it for this charge or even obstruction of justice which was also bogus.

This does appear to have been an Obama administration attempted political coup ... and it deserves to be fully exposed and punished ... even if this means that Obama himself is implicated. Otherwise, such political criminality will be repeated ... and likely do more dastardly damage in future elections.

Sidebar: Is Mueller to be commended for being truthful and exonerating Trump on Russian collusion? If he had done this early on before the six Americans lives were ruined (not Manafort and Cohen), maybe. Therefore, to me, he and his gang of cutthroats have engaged in prosecutorial misconduct ... and his refusal to decide on the obstructing of justice charge compounds this malfeasance.

Misrepresentation

There are two instances of recent purposeful misrepresentation  from the left that really irk me:

- Trump recently tweeted that, if California did!'t let its  snow runoff water flow out to the Pacific Ocean, then their wildfires might not be as severe. The fake media has changed this criticism to mean that the firefighters in the Golden State didn't have enough water to fight  their  wildfires. Balderdash! What Trump clearly meant was that the environmentalist's attempt to save the snail darter, etc. has kept  the state from using this water to keep its trees and underbrush from dying during periods of drought.  (It is estimated that California now has 14.9 million dead trees.) This dead vegetation and resistance to cutting it down makes them the fuel for these epic wildfires there.

- President Trump imposed tariffs on steel and aluminum using national defense as a reason. He indicated that, because of dumping, both these industries in the US were close to death and this was a national security threat and couldn't be allowed to happen as we would need this manufacturing might in case of international conflict. Canadian Premier Trudeau purposely twisted this rationale by saying that his country was not a national security threat to the US. -- a purposeful distortion. No wonder he has attracted Trump's opprobrium.

National Security?

From Mostly Cajun blog

October Surprise

Bob Beckel said last night on "The Five" that he believed that the Democrats had an October surprise up their sleeves to help them hold onto the Senate ... see: Breitbart Video. He suggested that it had to do with national security. Obviously this would not be the first time that the Democrats have cynically toyed with the safety of the American people in order to win elections ... remember Benghazi? How can this administration hold back on a national security issue and then cause it to surface on cue? I just hope that this possible bit of subterfuge does not misfire and cost the lives of any more Americans.

Will we be able to identify such an October surprise when it occurs? Now I know I will.