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Our annual June 21 photo of Larry Summers, simply to scare the children.
This will be your Weekend Open Thread. There is some hope for new content this week as well. Your patience is appreciated. Or at least it will be if you convey it to us. Please proceed with appropriate dignity, decorum, etc.
About Greg Diamond
Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that.
Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too.
He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)
His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
Don’t talk about the upcoming Democratic Presidential debates, though, if you can help it — I have a post upcoming on that topic.
For WOT-
Perhaps only news to me but I caught this in the San Diego Trib while searching another article. FWIW- Keep American water (bill revenue) American !
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/business/energy-green/story/2019-05-30/report-carlsbad-desalination-plant-bought-for-1b
*Excellent article….well worth reading thank you BBORW!
*War in Iran……now that is worth chatting it up about ….eh? They just had to blow up the biggest Oil Refinery on the East Coast to crank oil prices at the pump….now that war with Iran might just cause the demise of the entire Middle East and the loss of over 30,000 American Soldiers. These folks needed to be diplomatically dealt with….and we were doing just fine until the Trumpster came to the party. Maybe the thought of a Israel in flames finally got the Gran Poobah’s attention. Meanwhile, the cheap asses in the Air Farce didn’t even add a $2.3 Million dollar “Counter Measure” for those $130 Million dollar drones. Idiots!
*We actually offered another comment….and that was deleted….what’s up here?
Me too. (Oops ! I mean “Myself also ” !)
” Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. ”
– A. J. Liebling writing in “The New Yorker”: (1960)
Ask Alex Jones how that works online these days.
By the way, Larry Summers (in that photo) has been identified as one of the traveling partners of Jeffrey Epstein.
Speaking of Mr Epstein, –
BTW the Server for the Party Caucus at the center of one of the incidents was from the office of then caucus chair Xavier Becerra, who took a convenient exit from DC to fill the vacated Attorney General slot from Kamala Harris election to Senate, and became a champion of covering up police misconduct records.
And speaking of police misconduct, be thankful we’re not in Arizona –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/police-officer-lost-job-shooting-120824546.html
For WOT-
News (perhaps only) to me, perhaps of interest- FWIW