Showing posts with label James Comey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label James Comey. Show all posts

Friday, October 10, 2025

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Jonathan Turley on what may be Comey's legal defense. Good primer on the case.

Predictions for AI security.

- How bank loans actually work.

- The European Death Wish. Think it may be more accurate that European decision-makers reached their nadir with this policy. Hopefully the pendulum has begun to swing back to sanity.

Monday, September 29, 2025

More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Trump's $20 billion support of Argentina causing riff within GOP.

- When a Chart Tells Half a Story. Soybean sales are cyclical but there's no denying tariffs have hurt and Argentina being an option to China hasn't helped.

- VDH: Comey is facing indictment but his real crimes remain untouched.

- Everything you need to know about the Iowa superintendent ICE arrested. Oh and he's been registered to vote in MD since 2012. 

Saturday, September 27, 2025

James Comey and the Charges to Come?

Comey famously said, "There are costs to standing up to Donald Trump." Would have been more true that he's paying the costs now for not standing up to Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama when Hillary was clearly breaking the law and his job as FBI Director was to arrest those people.

Have a new post up on Substack about the tangled web diva Comey tried to weave when he aimed to deceive.

Sunday, September 21, 2025

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

More Linky Links

More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Dying to set a good example. He's not wrong.

- Jonathan Turley: Democrats face costly calls on Texas redistricting bluffs. He's not wrong.

- Newly released FBI files uncover Comey's plot against Trump. There needs to be jail time.

- Is the left learning the error of its woke ways? For people who say they're "woke" they never seem to "wake" up to how wrong they are.

Thursday, February 27, 2025

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Interesting thoughts on nuclear weapons. Makes sense.

- Also interesting - the EPA and the greenhouse gasses "endangerment findings." Rescinding the finding fits with moving fast and breaking things. Let the courts or Congress decide.

- From the archives: Jethro Tull's guide to Indian food.

- Top 20 FBI Fun Facts - James Comey Edition. James Comey is not a good man (and he doesn't hold a Presidential pardon from Joe Biden either).

Monday, April 17, 2023

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share. 

- The Fall of the FBI. Still say they should move the FBI HQ to Salt Lake City to get the stench of James Comey's political bureaucracy off the department.

Nice simple explainer on what ChatGPT is and how to use it.

- 10-years ago, 2-days after the Boston Marathon bombing, gets me every time.

- Interesting - Samsung is considering replacing Google with Bing on their devices. The browser wars have begun! 

Wednesday, December 16, 2020

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Part me wonders if all the strange and horrible things from 2020 are because George RR Martin never came out with that last damn book... Heh Heh - Smokey Robinson wishes you a happy Chanukah... Wait are some people seriously trying to give Tammany Hall style politics a historical rehabilitation? Seriously?... There's a fish that survives dangers by hiding in the anus of a sea cucumber. The fish is called the Pearl Fish but I like to think of it as the James Comey Fish... It may not seem like it but China didn't pass Japan in terms of GDP until 2011... When people shake hands and say, "How do you do?" I instinctively sat, "How do I do what?"... 

Wednesday, April 01, 2020

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Starting to think the FBI was less messed up and political under J. Edgar Hoover than it was under James Comey.... I'm guessing that one of the side-effects of all this is that once businesses re-open offices are going to significantly increase their office cleaning budgets... When reading about all the FISA Court abuses that happened at the FBI under James Comey - remember that Comey's brother Peter also worked for the Clinton Foundation's law firm DLA Piper while these abuses were happening. It's was a whole den of vipers in Washington... Is there anything less helpful than Twitter's "Trends for you?" Nothing but dumpster fire topics of contention or the names of famous people you might click on only because you're afraid the person passed away... "I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate." - Julia Child...

Thursday, December 19, 2019

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

Tulsi Gabbard votes "Present" on Impeachment. Very wise move. She is the Democratic candidate to watch in my opinion. The question is whether the Democratic Party establishment would allow her to be the candidate. That's a serious concern... Has the cancel culture gone after Cher for her 1973 hit song Half-breed yet? That would be fun to watch... #TulsiCoward is trending on Twitter. Proof that she hit a nerve with her non-vote for Impeachment with the unhinged. That just makes her more attractive for us voters who are hinged... This is one of the reasons why investing in Bitcoin makes me nervous... Heh Heh - Kim Jung-Un the new Siskel & Ebert... Let's be honest - Greta Thunberg's greatest accomplishment was as the inspiration of hundreds of "How dare you!" memes... And I don't care where Tulsi is polling because the polls are crap. If you added Candidate McCandidateface to the polls that choice would immediately become the front-runner. Just saying... If James Comey goes to jail - what are the odds that the Obamas ask if he can be given Jeffrey Epstein's old cell?...

Saturday, June 16, 2018

FBI IG Report

There are many bothersome things detailed in the recent FBI's Inspector General's Report (and full disclosure I haven't read the full report) but one thing in particular has gotten stuck in my craw.

James Comey asserted that he was unaware that Hillary Clinton's top aide Huma Abedin was married to Anthony Weiner. Now I don't mind suspending disbelief when watching a Sci-Fi movie but this is asking too much. If James Comey didn't know Huma Abedin was married to Weiner shouldn't the FBI have immediately jumped on Weiner to get to the bottom of why a former Congressman with no current connection to the government who is under investigation for potentially being a pedophile predator had stores of classified material on his laptop? I mean isn't this EXACTLY the sort of case the Director of the FBI should have made a top priority? Or are we to believe the Director of the FBI doesn't really give a shit about how classified government documents are obtained by persons who have no business having that material?

The only plausible explanation is that the classified material on Anthony Weiner's laptop was sat on for weeks because Comey was well aware of Weiner's connection to the Hillary campaign through his wife and Comey didn't want to the FBI to investigate the matter out of fear of no longer having plausible deniability.

James Comey has ZERO credibility with me. 

Tuesday, May 01, 2018

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- A most rational look at the James Comey situation. Basically Trump was right to fire Comey but it would be wrong to pursue charges against Comey for leaking.

- Heh Heh

- Research - drunk people are better at creative problem solving. Yay booze!

- Speaking of the inefficacy of Universal Basic Income. Just like with communism look for supporters to whine that "true" Universal Basic Income has yet to be tried.

- A reflection in shared humanity. Well worth the read.

- You have to be impressed by the Israeli Intelligence Services. We should repudiate the Iran Deal ASAP.

- Apple could announce repatriation of $285 BILLION to US today!

Monday, April 30, 2018

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

In the next 12 months this is a real possibility - President Donald Trump wins a Nobel Prize for bringing peace to Korea and the White House Correspondents Dinner ceases to be out of shame... I agree - they should also stop calling it the Nerd Prom. How many discussions on quantum biology or arguments on Gandalf and the eagles do you think were happening at those tables?... Wait - seriously? James Comey's brother Peter works for the Clinton Foundation's law firm DLA Piper? Talk about a conflict of interest... Heh heh - funny because it's true... After hiring Michele Wolf the White House correspondents really don't have any high ground to proclaim that Trump is lowering the level of political discourse in this country...  David Pastrnak is flat out good at hockey... Just saying but the motto of the Green Berets is "the Quiet Professionals". How many White House correspondents do you think could be described as "quiet professionals"? Also how many White House correspondents do you think served in the military? If any are able to check both boxes - what is the likelihood they wasted their time attending "Nerd Prom"?

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

When did playoff beards go out of fashion in the NHL? How is the average fan to tell which team wants it more now?... Advice on how to get the best Rx prices... Prediction sometime in the near future the punchline from that famous joke is going to be changed from  "the Aristocrats!" to "Florida!"...  Why hasn't Taylor Swift commented yet on the James Comey book? What is she hiding?... 12 bad decisions you make every day without realizing... "Beware the IoT (Internet of Things)" is bound to become the modern equivalent to the ancient saying "Beware Greeks bearing gifts"... Starting to get the feeling that if Hillary Clinton was a Game of Thrones character she'd be Littlefinger who was eventually undone by just too much scheming and formerly naive characters finally waking up to his true character...

Sunday, April 15, 2018

Flotsam and Jetsam

Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.

I keep waiting for some MSM reporter to explain where the chemical weapons in Syria came from in the first place. I bet much of the stockpiles came from Saddam but reporting that would ruin the idea that there were never any WMD's in Iraq... Hopefully the Zuckerberg hearings in Europe will be broadcast in the US... Could dark matter simply be the leftover quantum entanglement from the matter and antimatter that was annihilated just after the Big Bang?... Elon Musk might end up being President Trump's biggest supporter if Trump can get Musk a manufacturing plant in China without giving up ownership and if Trump can get the NTSB off Tesla's back... "Tiger" running amok in Manhattan was actually a raccoon.  And the existential threat to the fabric of Western Civilization was actually just a Chick Fil-A franchise... Historically - which rock band was more dysfunctional The Kinks or The Ramones?...  The truth in advertising back cover to James Comey's new book...

Saturday, April 07, 2018

Linky Links

Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.

- Good advice. I'd add that you should also try to minimize your monthly expenses so there are fewer financial pressures.

- Agreed - Comey's book tour is a colossal mistake

- Also true.

- Rhode Island on cusp of passing asinine vaping law. Raising taxes like this always leads to less revenue not more.

- Yes! Yes! And Yes! Along with Carly Simon one of my original crushes.

- And speaking of China - Trump's not launching a trade war with China. He's doing something bigger.

- More good advice.