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Still, many of Trump’s key economic policy pledges remain works in progress.

The House voted Thursday to repeal many of the stricter Dodd-Frank regulations enacted after the 2008 financial crisis, but the legislation faces major hurdles in the Senate because of united Democratic opposition.

The Trump administration this past week unveiled a broad blueprint for a national rebuilding effort and promised that its fuller, still-to-come infrastructure plan will create $1 trillion in investment.

But White House aides said that it will be year’s end before Trump sends Congress even the general principles for achieving that investment, and they offered no timeline for submitting an actual bill.

And in April, Trump unveiled the centerpiece of his economic strategy: a sweeping tax overhaul plan that he promised would include the “one of the biggest tax cuts in American history.”

But it came in the form of a one-page outline that included only a broad-brush overview of bold goals, and nearly two months later, there’s still no word on when a more fully baked policy proposal might be released.

 

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I wasn’t a bigshot at the FBI but I did work at headquarters for three years; technically it was the director’s office and I did have a top secret clearance. The background check was extensive. My title was survey statistician.

Mostly what I did was sit around reading news clippings. My boss, a section head, didn’t want to do it so they came to me. It was a couple times a week and I think they covered every time the FBI was mentioned in the national press. It was photocopied and stapled and “back then” it really was a cut and paste of the press.

The other thing I remember doing a lot of was playing around on the computer, I mean THE computer. That’s where I learned SAS and spent time entering numbers for an entirely self-directed research project. It was slow and sleepy and you could do things like that. Finally, I remember the dorms at Quantico, and the behavioral sciences unit.

The real power and budgets I was close to were in big companies. I don’t know how it happened but it did happen–primary (I know less about secondary) research was always shielded. In fine print, organizationally, we were always connected to someone really high up or even, in a dotted-line way, even the president. I did some important work and people knew me and respected my opinion and the research. SAME GOES with big research companies. Never in my entire career did I receive a call from anyone asking me to change anything or edit anything.

Never.

So on to Mr. Comey. It may be something worth fighting for.

 

“Our response must be to… sing louder and …”

Video deleted by Youtube. It was Coldplay at the concert. It is interesting, people gathering and celebrating terrorism. Trump has a point–you really don’t want to do that.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/30/stocks-vs-bonds-vs-cash-asset-allocation-and-why-its-important.html

Always the contrarian…  What about asset allocation as trading?

https://dailyreckoning.com/stockman-bond-market-one-giant-bubble/

 

It doesn’t help that the Trump administration is rapidly stripping away as many regulations as it can, promising to repeal two for every new one implemented — an ultra-wealthy administration’s attempt to formalize the plutocratic free-for-all that has followed decades of growing corporate power, defined by massive income inequality, regulatory capture, a revolving door between agencies and the industries they oversee, and steadily eroding consumer rights.

That has to be a run-on sentence.

I don’t know, I’m surprised.  But that is the whole point of the experiment.

For anyone who hasn’t seen it, here’s a glimpse into Google Analytics.  This is just after a very few mailings and a brand new website, a pretest if you will.

Pretty soon we’ll be doing this there, but:

What does the FBI have to do with it?, you asked? If you read the one email to the commissioners it is a fair question. I called the commissioners (two of the three I know) and they referred me to this Bryan Johnson guy, head of the Jeffco airport and noise; he called and we talked. I said, this whole thing of relying on complaints and expecting residents to research and complain is not representative; there are no data. I explained that my title at the fbi was survey statistician (in the director’s office)–fbi crime statistics are a survey of police departments. That is my field and I am knowledgeable in it. I further said the only way to know the severity is to follow the path and, literally, knock on doors. The traffic and planes has to be explained.

He took that to the people at DIA who he is friends with. When I talked to them they said “we know you used to work for the FBI and…” and I never mentioned it. The implication is he is in cahoots with the airport–not the taxpayers–to support noise.

I don’t get it, do you think I am the only one?  That is the point of that.

Nuisance?  Small claims and sell house?  I don’t want to live under this noise or government that allows it.  That is another matter and it only takes one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

More on trees in a bit.  Lucky for these before the storm.

Who was it, somewhere, who was writing about how lower branches save the tree from snow and it is unnatural to prune them; or was it the other way around.  I think they just grow as straight and tall as they can.  Anyway, aspen usually break all the conventions.

It is pretty amazing to grow an aspen tree anywhere.

 

 

If Trump is impeached, does that mean there is going to be a women’s march every week?  Ha ha.

You just have to figure James Comey is going to have information at his disposal and he is going to know how to use it.  Remember J. Edgar Hoover and his files?  Regardless.  He is a bit constrained because obviously he can’t say anything classified, but he is going to talk and everyone will listen.  He’s going to go before Congress.  Even if he is a prissy little bitch or whatever names are floating around, it isn’t a wise move.

OMG the markets tumbled because of him.  Well, they didn’t exactly go up because of him either and it is hard to believe investors in Japan, Hong Kong, or London really care that much.  Everyone knew some kind of correction was coming.

He is still feeling his ground and sooner or later he may admit that he doesn’t know everything.  I just need for him to stay in office long enough to fire everyone at the FAA.

Anyway, back to our story.  Nixon fired Archibald Cox on October, 20 1973 which led to a bunch of job openings and difficulty filling them.  On August 8, 1974 Nixon resigned.  It doesn’t look good.

No, the Trump Tower was not bugged because you had your own private server.  Putin is the richest man in the world and a few bribes here and there for a Trump anything makes sense on its own, let alone if there is corroborating evidence which will almost certainly turn up.  Evidence?  Almost certainly?

Almost certainly now that everyone’s looking.  We’ll start with the former FBI director’s personal notes.

 

You chose soup over a woman?

It was a blog.  And it wasn’t about getting her, it was about not getting her.

I’m very glad I thought about this again.  There was nothing there and I sure don’t want to talk about her ex-husband.

“You don’t know what high-priced lawyers do all day.  Sit around and look for things.  Because I left him.”

Condescending.  Wrong.  Selfish.  Why would anyone put up with that?

One reason is she is so much like me.  OMG it was an infatuation and I think it has worked the other way around too.

Another reason is I really didn’t want to go through it again until, maybe, a time in the future.  That grace period is close to over and I probably wouldn’t read it (am email) anyway.

I’d rather, still, write it here.  That reason includes that there is a post here I’d feel better about if I resurrect it.  Found it, Nostalgia, 7/31/16.

The final reason is I just didn’t realize she was that pathetic beaten-down.    1) inability to love.  2) you need to take responsibility for, and solve, your problems.

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http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/tad-cummins-15-year-old-victim-says-shes-love-refuses-go-home

Clean yet provocative writing elicits comments and traffic.  New twist?  I never trusted the father–dangerous dumb.  Jill has quickly sold the house for 137,500.

Why is The Daily Mail out in front?