I have been struck by the number of the more virulent insurrectionists who are failures in life, who still live with their mothers.

There's a lesson in there somewhere.

Steve Thomas

An impeachment trial in the Senate would preclude any other business from taking place.

Joe Biden would not be able to get his Cabinet members confirmed. We would not be able to get the vaccines out to people, etc.

Congressman, Jim Clyburn has suggested that the House go ahead and impeach Donald Trump, but not send those Articles over to the Senate until after the first 100 days of the Biden Administration have passed.

I think that's a good idea.

Steve Thomas

"The president should be very careful over the next ten days,"[Republican Senator, Roy] Blunt said. "Now my personal view is that the president touched the hot stove on Wednesday and is unlikely to touch it again."

He must have been talking to Susan Collins - "The President has learned his lesson"

Steve Thomas

[Congressman Jim] "Jordan pleaded with President-elect Joe Biden to give a speech defending Trump.

"Let's bring the country together and move forward, and return to being this America, the greatest nation ever," he remarked. "That's where we need to focus."

"For the good of the country, I think it makes sense for Vice President Biden to do that," the Ohio Republican said."

Are you insane?

Are you stark raving mad bonkers?

Maybe you'd like Biden to be waving the Confederate Flag too while he's at it.

Steve Thomas

GOP staffers threatening to quit if their bosses don't impeach Trump: report

January 09, 2021

Matthew Chapman

https://www.rawstory.com/republicans-trump-impeachment/

"And I've been speaking with Republicans and what you are hearing is sheer rage. One of the quotes I heard from a House staffer who has been a Trump supporter from day one, says 'I'm burning my MAGA hat.' They are upset."

"I am even hearing that they are — some Republican staffers are threatening to quit their job if their boss, if their Republican does not support impeachment, and I'm also hearing that some have even quit their positions," said Beavers. "I know of at least two House staffers who have quit their positions because of how their boss voted with the objections on Wednesday about the election certification. So you are really kind of seeing the entire Capitol Hill having this awakening moment and Republicans, while they might not be saying publicly where they are, we are looking at a few maybe moderate Republicans who might be joining.""

Steve Thomas

3 hours ago, Ron Bulman said:

It's worth noting the library card, even upside down, says 602 Elsbeth for the address.  Jmo again but if I was a betting man, I'd lean toward Oswald already being gone when Kaminsky and Truly started letting employee's out.  Once he heard JFK had actually been shot he knew he was implicated and tried to get the hell out of Dallas.

Ron.

According to the Dispatch Tapes, George Lumpkin had arrived at the TSBD by 12:49 PM

http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/dpdtapes/

15 (Captain C.E. Talbert): “15 is at the scene. We... the building's the Old Purse Company on the east side of Houston. Somebody cut off the back side, will you? Make sure nobody leaves there.”

Dispatcher: “10-4, 15”

15: “15's in charge down here. Correction 5's (Deputy Chief Lumpkin) in charge.”

(It appears that Talbert had the wrong building in mind).

The after-action report fled by Batchelor, Stevenson and Lumpkin matches exactly what Postal Inspector, Harry Holmes wrote in his Report of Oswald's interrogation on Sunday, November 24^th.

See Warren Report, Appendix XI page 636

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=946#relPageId=660&tab=page

Steve Thomas

3 hours ago, James DiEugenio said:

From Greg Parker:

Oswald's name appears at the top of the Revill list because he was first to be let out by Truly and Lt Kaminsky (just before Truly reported Oswald missing). Those leaving were required to show Kaminsky ID with an address.

I think the cops who went to the boarding house either saw that list, or took a copy with them in order to check all names against the register - looking to  unearth a communist cell.
 

Jim,

These are good suppositions except for a couple of things:

a) there is no indication that employees were required to show any ID to Kaminsky; and,

b) even if Oswald had shown his library card as ID, there was nothing on it that would lead the police to Beckley.

c) the idea that Kaminsky saw Oswald's library car upside down is pure speculation - there's no way for us to know.

It was Kaminsky who Deputy Chief Lumpkin had positioned at the front door of the TSBD.

Portal to Texas History

[Report from Charles Batchelor to Chief J. E. Curry, November 30, 1963] Page: 43 of 70

https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth338584/m1/43/?q=Stevenson

pp21-22.

Steve Thomas

Liberty University the lone holdout after every other college strips Trump of honorary degrees

By Bob Brigham January 09, 2021

https://www.rawstory.com/falwell-trump/

"Donald Trump has been granted five honorary degrees in his lifetime - from Lehigh University in 1988, from Wagner College in 2004, from Robert Gordon University in Scotland in 2010, and from Liberty University, which granted honorary degrees to Mr. Trump on two occasions - 2012 and 2017," Forbes reported Saturday. "But as of today, only one of those institutions - Liberty University - has not revoked the honorary degrees originally granted to Mr. Trump."

"Robert Gordon rescinded the degree it awarded in 2015, after determining that Trump had "made a number of statements that are wholly incompatible with the ethos and values of the university," Forbes noted. "Yesterday, both Lehigh and Wagner followed suit, after the storming and siege at the nation's Capitol on Wednesday which followed a speech by the president that many saw as inciting the violence."

Steve Thomas

39 minutes ago, Douglas Caddy said:

Looks like January 6 was just a warm up. 

 

Doug,

More than the U.S. Capitol, I fear for the State Capitols. On January 6th, the State Capitols in

Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Utah, and Washington were attacked and shut down and/or evacuated.

What happened in Washington, D.C was not an isolated incident.

Steve Thomas

- Parler's Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff -

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9128295/Google-suspends-Parler-social-networking-app-Play-Store-Apple-gives-24-hour-warning.html

“‘Amazon is also raising some problems, and I'm not sure how serious that is, because I've yet to speak to them. I will later today. You know, they provide the server for us,’ she said.

‘And if they were to remove their services, then we would be down. As it is, we are having some difficulties now with the uptick in traffic, that if they took their service away, we'd be gone.’”

Steve Thomas

On 1/7/2021 at 5:27 AM, Steve Thomas said:

I wondered all day yesterday why there were no fires. I heard on one news report that a truck full of molotov cocktails had been seized. I don't know if that is true or not, but I wondered if yesterday wasn't supposed to have been our Reichstag Fire.

Steve Thomas

By Elaine Shannon

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-capitol-riot-is-over-but-the-search-for-booby-traps-could-take-weeks?ref=home

"The U.S. Capitol is not safe.

It’s safer than it was Wednesday, when a mob stormed it shortly after 1 p.m. The Capitol complex was declared secured by the police by 5:40 p.m.

And it’s safer after U.S. Capitol Police discovered a red GMC Sierra 1500 pickup parked near the Capitol which, according to an affidavit filed by a U.S. Capitol policeman, contained a handgun, an M4 carbine assault rifle, magazines of ammunition and 11 mason jars filled with a gasoline-Styrofoam mix, that, when detonated, would act like napalm, sticking to and ferociously burning any surface or human body where it landed.

At 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 6, after the rioters had dispersed, the truck’s registered owner, Lonnie Leroy Coffman of Falkland, Alabama, showed up, packing a 9 mm Smith & Wesson and a .22 caliber derringer. He told the officers he was trying to leave the area and asked if they “had located the bombs.”

(He later amended his statement to say that by “bombs,” he meant “perimeter.” Go figure.) He was arrested and charged with firearms violations."

Steve Thomas

6 hours ago, Richard Price said:

  He is still trapped and will try ANYTHING to stay in power because he knows a reckoning is coming.  Since he is totally self absorbed, he will be open to any option to avoid that reckoning.  With his abuse of power in stopping the Capitol from being protected, what can we expect when the inauguration is happening (and he is not present).

Richard,

This is just a rhetorical question...

What if Trump gets some drunken judge to administer him the Oath of Office on January 20th starts going around claiming that he is really the legitimate President of the U.S. ?

It wouldn't be official, of course, but what if he then calls on his followers to "Come to me my children", or whatever?

Steve Thomas

Donald Trump announced that he will not be attending Joe Biden's inauguration.

Steve Thomas

4 hours ago, W. Niederhut said:

Steve,

     This is exactly right.  Sociopaths like Donald Trump only respond to the threat of external consequences for their sociopathic conduct.

 

W.,

It struck me earlier today that on Wednesday, the Legislative Branch of our Government and the Vice President of the U.S. were gathered in one place at the same time.

The Legislative Branch, who would handle any moves to impeach Trump; and the Vice President, who would be in charge of any moves to invoke the 25th Amendment.

With those two bodies out of the way, there would have been no one to stop Trump from completely taking over the government.

Several weeks ago, Trump fired the head of the Pentagon and several other high-ranking members of the Pentagon and replaced them with flunkies who were uniquely unqualified. At the time, no one could figure out why. When the Capitol was being overrun and desperate calls went out to the Pentagon to send in the DC National Guard, those calls were ignored. Now, I think we know why.

I think Wednesday had been planned for a long time.

That's why we can't afford to leave Trump in office one more day.

As one person put it, Congress has to treat Trump's removal as a life-threatening visit to the emergency room, and not as a visit to the doctor's office for a routine checkup.

Pelosi has already spoken to General Milley about ignoring any orders from Trump for a nuclear strike anywhere in the world. Michael Cohen said that he expects Trump to set fire to the White House.

Things are serious.

Steve Thomas

We  can't leave Trump alone to plot and scheme.

We have to put him on the defensive.

We can't sit around and wait to see what he is going to do next.

Whether it's someone showing up and his office with an arrest warrant, or filing new Articles of Impeachment, or whatever.

We have to make him react to us and not the other way around. He needs to be hounded and harried from pillar to post and not give him time to lay his own plans.

Steve Thomas

The polar vortex may be on its way

By Allison Chinchar, CNN meteorologist January 7, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/07/weather/polar-vortex-shifts-arctic-air-south/index.html

“The polar vortex appears to be on the move. That's because stratospheric warming is occurring at high altitudes above the North Pole, resulting in a spike in temperatures.

That, in turn, could result in bitter cold air pushing southward into the United States within a couple of weeks, though where exactly that Arctic air will swoop down -- and for how long -- remains uncertain.”

Oh, that's just f'ing great.

Steve Thomas

‘He screwed the country’: Trump loyalty disintegrates

By GABBY ORR, ANITA KUMAR and MERIDITH MCGRAW

01/06/2021

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/06/trump-loyalty-capitol-attack-455667

“Pence spokesperson Devin O'Malley said the vice president would return to the Senate chamber Wednesday night to resume the certification process, after congressional leaders announced plans to reconvene at 8 p.m.

"VP was in regular contact [with] House & Senate leadership, Cap Police, DOJ & DoD to facilitate efforts to secure the Capitol & reconvene Congress. And now we will finish the people's business," O'Malley wrote, notably omitting any contact between Pence and Trump.”

At a time of crisis, the President of the United States was nowhere to be found.

Steve Thomas

2 hours ago, Joe Bauer said:

 

We spend $750 billion annually on "defense" and the center of American government fell in two hours to the duck dynasty and the guy in the chewbacca bikini.

Joe,

I don't know if you read this, but the guy on the right-hand side of the picture wearing the blue sweatshirt and red ball cap was an employee of Navistar Direct Marketing. That thing hanging around his neck is his employee ID badge. He got fired yesterday.

Duck Dynasty indeed.

Steve Thomas

13 Members of the House of Representatives have drawn up Articles of Impeachment against Donald Trump for High Crimes and Misdemeanors.

https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1347230206646509573/photo/1

Even if the Senate refuses to convict, I think Trump should be forever written up in the history books as the only President to be impeached twice.

Steve Thomas

- Donald Trump, ten hours after his mob attacked the Capitol.

" it’s only the beginning of our fight to Make America Great Again!”

He won't stop. He must be removed from power now. He must also be denied the ability to send messages to his followers.

Steve Thomas

Yesterday, the Confederate Flag was paraded through the halls of Congress.

Yesterday, they succeeded in doing what the secessionists failed to do at Bull Run in 1862.

The Confederate flag flew in our Capitol.

Steve Thomas

If Donald Trump can't be indicted because he is a sitting President, Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump, Jr. should both be arrested today for inciting a riot.

Steve Thomas

Richard,

As I understand it, the Capitol Bldg., etc. are Federal property. As such, the Mayor of DC had to ask the Pentagon to deploy the National Guard. She asked, and was told her request was being referred "up the chain of command." The top of the "chain of command" is the President. He was asked and said no.

National Guard units did arrive, but they came from the States of Virginia and Maryland, whose National Guard units are under the command of their respective Governors.

Steve Thomas

On 12/7/2020 at 4:23 PM, David Andrews said:

Is there a place to download a copy of Loran Hall's HSCA testimony? (NARA Record Numbers: 180-10118-10115 and 180-10118-10125)  I'm afraid I can't afford a Mary Farrell membership right now.  Thanks.

On 12/7/2020 at 4:23 PM, David Andrews said:

Is there a place to download a copy of Loran Hall's HSCA testimony? (NARA Record Numbers: 180-10118-10115 and 180-10118-10125)  I'm afraid I can't afford a Mary Farrell membership right now.  Thanks.

David,

Here's 180-10118-10125

https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=60423&search=180-10118-10125#relPageId=1&tab=page

Steve Thomas

I was most interested in videos of people wandering around in the Legislative Chamber taking pictures of the paperwork laying around on Members' desks.

And I went, "Whoa. What is this"? "These aren't redneck yahoos." "What the hell is going on here?"

Steve Thomas