20190418

Thu Apr 18 09:29:24 EDT 2019 Slept from ten-thirty to six-thirty without waking. High of sixty-nine today. Thunderstorms likely. Work: - Update RG rents in Production Done. - Check PO for Heidi Done. - Ansible inventory Done. Home: - Yvonne's birthday Dropped off a card. Netflix raised their prices again. Canceled. Maybe I'll resubscribe every third or fourth month to catch up on their handful of quality exclusives. Need to finish that historical Korean zombie show before the billing period ends. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fig_wasp#Life_cycle Hmm. Maybe I should use the time I spend wishing the world was more interesting, weird, and mysterious making the world more interesting, weird, and mysterious. https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/us/politics/mueller-report-released-live.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/18/us/politics/live-mueller-report-analysis.html > And the investigation did not establish that one Campaign official’s efforts to dilute a portion of the Republican Party platform on providing assistance to Ukraine were undertaken at the behest of candidate Trump or Russia. That's hard to swallow. Maybe the operative phrase is "did not establish", but it still seem really freakin' likely. > [Manafort and his Russian associate] believed the plan would require candidate Trump’s assent to succeed (were he to be elected president.) They also discussed the status of the Trump campaign and Manafort’s strategy for winning Democratic votes in Midwestern states. Hoho: > Page 216: On June 17, 2017 the president called McGahn at home and directed him to call the acting attorney general and say that the special counsel had conflicts of interest and must be removed. McGahn did not carry out the direction, however, deciding that he would resign rather than trigger what he regarded as a potential Saturday Night Massacre. > Like collusion, “coordination” does not have a settled definition in federal criminal law. We understood coordination to require an agreement—tacit or express—between the Trump Campaign and the Russian government on election interference. That requires more than the two parties taking actions that were informed by or responsive to the other’s actions or interests. > When Mr. Trump learned of Mr. Mueller’s appointment, he slumped in his chair and said, “Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I’m fucked.” > One of the biggest questions of the past two years — something that fueled the news coverage, the federal investigation and congressional scrutiny — is why so many people around Mr. Trump lied, misled and changed their stories. People hoping that Mr. Mueller would resolve those questions will be disappointed. Time and again, Mr. Mueller seems as confused as anyone else about the motives. — Matt Apuzzo > If we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the president clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. And they did not. Vacuumed. Watched an episode of The Curse of Oak Island. Worked on Go inventory server. Servings: grains 7/6, fruit 4/4, vegetables 4/4, dairy 1/2, meat 4/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: migas, mandarin, banana, carrots, tomato, coffee Lunch: carrots, apple, yogurt Afternoon snack: grapfruit, coffee Dinner: pizza 102/66

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