Hopefully Mueller can make him sing: "Treason's just another word for nothin' left to lose."

A cozy relationship. Such a good foundation for business transactions such as selling your country.

Hmmmm.

This is such a pile of barnyard byproducts it almost reads as though someone is using...

... Google translator while tongue is planted firmly in cheek.

Want to try again?

Watched the fire top the ridge the other night, as the ash fell like a light snow...

Fortunately we are not getting sundowners, so the fires are (as the Fire Chief said) fuel-driven and not wind-driven. All day today we had a light breeze from the ocean, so I was able to open the house and cool it off.

But you never know.

On the first day of this fire that started at Lake Cachuma, all the campers were evacuated lickety-split -- so much so that any number of tents and some RVs were left behind and went up in flames. All the campers -- that is, except the 90 or so kids plus 40 adults who were at a summer camp around a bend in the road. They were trapped and told to "shelter in place." There were some fire-professionals there. And finally, after several hours, they were able to be rescued and some buses from the Chumash Tribe drove in and took them out.

Good luck and good neighbors.

Fires are a fact of life in California. When we had the Gap Fire 7 or 8 years ago it was in the foothills just in back of our tract. Practically a dozen people gathered in my neighbor's driveway to follow its early progress, including a houseful of college students who passed the time landmarking their young lives by the major fires they had witnessed.

Any child knows fires respect no boundaries. Any child knows that firefighters are special, that they risk their very lives to protect us and our homes. That includes the volunteers and the prisoners who volunteer.

The long droughts have weakened the trees of the forests in So Cal, so in many cases they've become infested with bark beetles and are now dead. The Central Coast where I live is a lot of chaparral. It's all fuel.

Fires respect no boundaries. It's all-hands and mutual aid agreements not just in California but throughout the Western states. It's expensive as hell. We need our tax money to come back to us as per agreement in order to manage what Nature deals out.

It takes a special kind of stupid, a special kind of entitled asshole, to squat in Washington appointing Cabinet members tasked with destroying the very departments they are supposed to run.

Gods help us.

OK --Time to praise Dems for speaking out. Ted Lieu just now!

Eric Swallwell earlier today

Tim Kain used the T-word yesterday

Auntie Maxine!

Diane Feinstein

Nancy Pelosi

Dems "clamoring" for Jared the K to lose his security clearance (yay!)

Check in as you see our people speaking up. They are doing it all the time, rumors to the contrary be damned.

I don't know whether to laugh or cry...

.... I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the news unfolding about Junior's emails.

In that room were the 3 top people of the Trump campaign: Manafort (aka Fixer of Governments found surplus to requirements by Putin), Jared the K (aka the Prince Consort), and Junior (aka Beavis).

Now we have a real, live, paper trail (as soon as all the emails are printed out, and they have been) proving beyond the shadow of a doubt that there was a quid pro quo arrangement between the Russians and the highest levels of the Trump campaign.

"Collusion"? How about Treason.

Yoo-hoo! Republicans, where are you?

Nancy usually knows exactly what she's talking about. When she says "Yet," she means it.

She doesn't mean she thinks your idea is a bad idea. She doesn't mean she disapproves of your idea.

What she means is (and she says it in words of one syllable) that the votes are not yet there to accomplish what you (and so many of us) want accomplished.

If the votes were there, she would round up the Democrats and get it done. But they are not. We are a minority party in Congress, and she is working with what she's got.

If the votes had been there for impeachment, it would have been on the table. I do not know what is so hard to understand about that.

If the votes were there for single payer, it would have happened back when Hillary proposed it and instead got crucified. Likewise when Obama's ACA so laboriously made its way thru. Nancy Pelosi cannot manufacture votes out of thin air. But she is damn good at collecting them or holding them back when the time is right.

Speaking of holding votes back: anybody remember how many Democrats in the House voted for Trumpcare?

Zero. Zip. Nada. And that would not have happened without the skills of Nancy Pelosi.