December 19, 2019 --

A Reminder of a Description Past …

The Inspector General's report on FBI conduct in its probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election charged the bureau with "'gross incompetence,;" rather than acting from political partisanship.   LPR is reminded how, in 2016, then-FBI Director James Comey downgraded the handling of classified information by Hillary Clinton from "'grossly negligent,'" to "'extreme carelessness.'"

Sen. Graham, on Face the Nation, Stands Up to the Democrats …

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham told Moderator Margaret Brennan, December 15, "This whole process around the Ukraine is -- reeks with politics.   [The Democrats have] done everything but take a wrecking ball to Donald Trump and his family. We're not going to live in a world where only Republicans get looked at."    (And the Democrats have been "look[ing] at" President Trump, based on hosotility, not evidence,  ever since he took office.

LPR Expects ...

...that the closer the Democrats get to failing to oust the president, their attacks on Mr. Trump will become increasingly hysterical and unseemly, particularly as he heads towards re-election. And if he is re-elected, what will the Democrats do, impeach all over again?   But for that, they will have to retain their House majority.

Congratulations ...

... to the Buffalo Bills, the only New York state team in the National Football League, for making it to the playoffs of the American Conference, with their 17-10 defeat of the Pittsburgh Steelers.  And congratulations, also, to the U.S. team,  led by player-captain Tiger Woods, in winning the Presidents Cup, 16-14, over the Internationals, in Melbourne, Australia. And congratulations, too, to  Prime Minister Boris Johnson on his spectacular victory, December 12, winning a perhaps unexpected  majority in the House of Commons, certainly far greater than the public opinion polls, and pundits, predicted.

A Designated Unsafe Place ...

These days when college students demand safe places where they won't hear political views that the oppose, there is far less concern, apparently, with establishing city parks as safe places from assault and murder. On December 11, the killing of 18-year old Tessa Majors, a freshman at Carnard College, occurred near Morningside Park  in Manhattan, not far from Barnard and Columbia University.   A resident of the area  who had been mugged was quoted in the New York Post, December 15, "'I was told be police that it was not a very safe place to be."   LPR wonders:  has Mayor de Blasio instructed police not to make sure all places are safe, but simply to designate areas as unsafe, perhaps with signs warning, "Unsafe. Enter at risk to life and limb."

Least Surprising New York Times  Editorial  for 2019 ...

The Times editorial for December 15, with this one-word title:  "Impeach"

LPR Recommends ...

... The Two Popes.  Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce are delightful a Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis II.

December 5, 2019 --

On the Bloomberg Candidacy …

Concerning the announcement by Michael Bloomberg that he is a candidate for the Democratic nomination for president, LPR will stand by this link, written 14 year ago. CLICK HERE TO VIEW. Under Mayor Bloomberg, in February 2005, the LPR mobile with Shana inside was towed from Manhattan to a car pound in Brooklyn.

Mr. Seib Wasn't Through, Though

In his November 26 column, Mr. Seib went on to suggest that "Russian disinformation was unleashed in an attempt to convince citizens to vote in 2016 to leave the European Union."   How busy the U.S.S,R. -- sorry, the Russian --  Bureau of Disinformation was that fateful year of 2016, what with the American election to meddle in as well.    Mr. Seib curiously added that Prime Minister Boris Johnson  -- refusing to disclose an intelligence report "on Brexit interference"  --  ignited "a partisan argument just as Britain heads towards a new national election."   How dare Vladimir  inject partisanship into  elections, in the West, or anywhere.   Everyone knows the deep state has ruled that elections in the West are supposed to be between Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum, with the "winner" doing as the deep state directs.

Two Example from the Adversary Media, Slumbering before January 20, 2017, and  Now Wide Awake …

From Bret Stephens, New York Times, November 23:

"Donald Trump ought to be impeached and removed from office."

And this  lead sentence in  a news article on the president, November 23:

"President Trump unleashed a series of falsehoods on Friday in an effort to invalidate the impeachment inquiry and counter sworn testimony from officials in his own administration, after a week of damaging public hearings."

The LPR Political Crystal Ball, or How the GOP Regains the Backing of Suburban Women …

This prediction is prompted by reports that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is being urged by Republicans to run for senator from Kansas.   It will,  probably, be  conceded that if Secretary Pompeo does run for the U. S. Senate, he will be succeeded by former UN ambassador Nikki Haley.    (It is not unusual at the UN for an  ambassadors to  be promoted to  foreign minister.)    If the Trump-Pence ticket is re-elected, Ms. Haley would be a likely candidate for vice president on the 2024 ticket, headed by  Mike Pence for president.  If President Pence were to be elected to two terms, Vice President Nikki Haley, in 2032, would be the first woman to run for president on the Republican ticket.  And  Ms. Haley  would make U.S. political history by picking Senator (currently Congresswoman) Elise Stefanik to be vice president.   The Republican Party --the first party to have an all-women national  political ticket.  All they need do, right now,   is to get past impeachment,  bring Ms. Haley to the State Department, and re-elect the Trump - Pence ticket.