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Fri Jun 2 08:25:09 EDT 2017
Slept from eleven to seven. Woke briefly around five.
Mostly sunny today. High of seventy-seven.
Work:
- Follow up with HR on interviews for HZ
Done.
- Call Jason for exit info
I left voicemails for Mike and Jason.
- Review invoices
Done.
- Remember to change backup cartridge
Done.
Scott's off until Tuesday, attending his niece's graduation (?) in Minnesota.
User support kept me pretty busy this morning.
Twenty minute walk after Thai food.
Hot.
Saw a dragonfly and a little white butterfly.
Shit, I think I might have just been forced from "effectively but unofficially in charge of HZ" to "officially in charge of HZ".
Setting up usemod wiki on Debian:
# apt-get install usemod-wiki
# ln -s /etc/apache2/mods-available/cgi.load /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/cgi.load
# sudo systemctl restart apache2
Customize settings in `/etc/usemod-wiki/config`.
Home:
- Work on some Go something
- Send Comey/Mueller article to Kate
Done.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/05/18/james-comey-trump-special-prosecutor-robert-mueller-fbi-215154
Kellyanne Conway says Trump might invoke executive privilege to stop Comey's Senate testimony.
At first, I thought that would be a dumb move, but would it?
The day-to-day practical checks and balances that constrain our leaders are basic decency, ethics, and aggressive press coverage tied to public support.
The Trump team has worked their "fake news" message hard to disconnect the link between press coverage and public support (at least, the support from their base).
Firing the FBI director might look bad.
Barring him from testifying might look bad.
But the more often they do something that looks bad, get bad press from it, and then complain about the untrustworthiness of the media, the more inoculated they become from public blow-back.
I asked my, which aside from being a Trump supporter is otherwise an intelligent and likable human being, whether it would be bad if Trump exercised this executive privilege to stop Comey's testimony.
She says, "it would look bad, but I'm sure he would have a legitimate reason."
All is lost!
Breakfast: carrots, spinach, peanut butter toast, coffee
Lunch: Pad Ped
Dinner:
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