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These Zuckerburg hearings, a big yawn if you ask me.  How come nobody complained when our names addresses and phone numbers were all printed in the phone book for any aggressive marketeer to get at?  Who cares if I like some mention of beer and then get commercials and sales for beer on my page?  I consider it a favor.  Congressional hearings, since Watergate, what a bore, preening senators or reps, double bore.  And then they ask some question meant to nail the poor sap to the wall, another pelt for the pols trophy room, and say it's a simple question (when it's anything but) and they demand a yes or no, because if you are seeking the truth doesn't it come down to a one or a zero?  No.  Stupidest assumption in the world, and yet it goes on and on.  Like the stupid slippery slope notion, debunked again and again and yet it rises from the dead every time.  And the so is your mother argument lives on way past its time, forever a roadblock on the high road to the truth.

It wasn't that long ago that trade wars bestrode the airwaves (can we include the internet in the airwaves?  I think we can it's just like air, only in tubes), and then bam Syria, and then bam the FBI is pulling records out of Trump's lawyer's office.  The last word on that last night was they were after that famous grab them by the pussy tape, giving the networks a chance to reair it again and again.  Ugh.

Syria,  I remember when Obama drew the red line and then did nothing while Syria crossed it.  I thought drawing the red line was one of the dumbest things Obama did, and doing nothing when the Syrians crossed it was one of the smartest things he did,  Trump gave them 24 to 48 hours within which something would happen 3 days ago.  Just now I hear that he is going to meet with somebody today or something to make some sort of decision.  I fully believe that he thought sending out a nasty threatening tweet was doing something, and I hear all he does lately is watch Fox and steam over the attack on his thug in a suit.

Well again I'd just as soon do nothing.  Gas is terrible, but we're not sure that they did it because what reason would they have to do it since now that the Turks are battling the Kurds they are rolling through the opposition, who are more like ISIS guys than what we think of as freedom fighters?  Though they are pretty bad actors so maybe they did.  But aren't we enabling, nay, now that Trump has done the sword dance, encouraging the carnage in Yemen, so it's not like our hands are lily white.

I hear the tweets are coming over the transom this morning.  It appears that firing Mueller will be today's theme, but it's still early.