There would be people in the streets in numbers never seen.

I believe that.  Personally I am already signed up.  I expect most of us are.  It could come down to us.

It seems likely one or both of them just might have information about Russian money finding its way into the pockets of us politicians.

Which is illegal, I believe.

It seems to me only explanation for what they are doing.  I simply do not think there is that much love for Trump.  These people are acting in their own interests.

Nunes never resd them. WTF?

But Gowdy denounced the memo today. WTF?

KeysDan: "And, the weakness of the romantic FBI emailers role needed to be bolstered with reference to Agent Lisa Page as Agent Strzok's mistress, rather than the more correct, Adulterer Strzok and the Adulteress Page."

The real question is...  what type of behavior by a sympathetic person, like this father, is acceptable and what isn't?  If he gets a free pass, for the most part, on aggressively charging a convicted rapist, what can someone do to a convicted murderer? Does this free pass only exist once someone is convicted or is it OK to do during the actual trial?

I understand the judges decision but I think it sends the wrong message. I'm sure he's not the only grieving relative to get a break.  I just wonder if this break had anything to do with the high profile  nature of the case.  

Also while I did not watch the bowl there was a very smart ad for a movie that dropped right after the game.  What a great marketing idea.

Lastest in the CLOVERFIELD franchise, which I love, THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX.

lots on overnight chatter about how it fits into and helps make sense of the other two.  Worth a Google if you are into that sort of thing.

I haven't read much from Roiphe but I like that she dares to take an unpopular position. From Wikipedia

In her first book, The Morning After, Roiphe argues that in many instances of supposed campus date rape, women are at least partly responsible for their actions...
...Why aren't college women responsible for their own intake of alcohol or drugs? A man may give her drugs, but she herself decides to take them...
...If a woman's 'judgment is impaired' and she has sex, it isn't always the man's fault; it isn't necessarily always rape."[6]

"There is a Russia investigation without a dossier," Gowdy said in an interview that aired Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation," days after he announced his decision not to seek re-election.

He was oddly specific here  

the dossier has nothing to do with the meeting at Trump Tower," Gowdy said. "The dossier has nothing to do with an email sent by Cambridge Analytica. The dossier really has nothing to do with George Papadopoulos' meeting in Great Britain. It also doesn't have anything to do with obstruction of justice."

I've seen footage of people liberated from Belsen who looked better nourished.

She has taken public stances that are hateful. Her one laudable public stance against bullying is laughable, not only because she has enabled a bully but also because she since has done nothing in her alleged campaign.

She has taken public funding, our taxes, for trips to spas, in a total cost for her trips that in one year exceeded what her predessors spent in entire terms of office.

She came here on a tourist visa, and later self-sponsored for a green card because of her "extraordinary ability as a model."  Digest that one for a minute.  Perhaps talk about why America needs more models.  Consider that in a Trump immigration system, she'd be stuck in Slovenia having been found to not merit entry.

Sadly, she's shown no inclination to offer an immigrant's point of view on the kinds of proposals being suggested.  But, who would notice, considering she always looks so good.

Suffice it to say there are still questions about Melania's immigration history, and just like her husband's tax returns, Melania's immigration records have not been made available for verification or confirmation of her claims.

But she looks great.

She starts dating Trump while he is still married.  Getting a divorce, but still married.

She is all in on the birther movement.  But she looks great while doing it.

She delivers a plagiarized speech at the RNC.  I don't know how people could be so mean to someone who looked so good that night.

She takes on anti-bullying as her signature issue.  Many Americans come close to keeling over at the irony.

She has soaked the taxpayers for huge amounts of money traveling back and forth from NY to DC, and to Mar-a-:Lago.  She not only looks good, she's good at using other people's money to her own benefit. It's how the rich get richer.

I don't much care if she married him for love or for money - that's her business - but I do wonder about someone who can love a person of such questionable character, someone who lies, welshes on his financial commitments, cheats on his wives, brags about assaulting women, and has spoken publicly in very crude terms about the lovely and well-dressed Melania.

Just prior to the House Intelligence Committee's party-line vote to release the document, Gowdy was asked by Rep. Mike Quigley (D-IL) whether anyone in the Trump administration was involved in the crafting of the memo, and Gowdy demurred evasively for the public record.

One has to wonder if the often goofily-coiffed gentleman from South Carolina - who voted for the memo's release - didn't suddenly come to the appalling realization afterward that he's disastrously aligned himself politically with the mother of all clusterphuques.

This past weekend, Gowdy made a concerted effort on CBS's "Face the Nation" to insulate the Mueller probe from the Nunes memo, insisting that the Special Counsel's inquiry will continue. In the process, he appeared to throw Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, Paul Manafort, Cambridge Analytica, George Papadopoulos and even Trump himself under the proverbial bus:

"To the extent that the [Nunes memo] deals with the [Steele dossier] and the FISA process, the dossier has nothing to do with the meeting in Trump Tower, the dossier has nothing to do with an email sent by Cambridge Analytica, the dossier has nothing to do with George Papadopoulos' meeting in Great Britain, and it also doesn't have anything to do with obstruction of justice."

Given his high level of security clearance, Gowdy probably knows better than most of us what Robert Mueller himself knows at this point. His statement confirms what so many of his Republican colleagues are in denial about, which is that Trump & Co. were likely in bed with the Russians and are probably as guilty as sin.

November holds rich potential to be a real political bloodbath, particularly if Robert Mueller's investigation implicates a lot of Trump's ever-evolving inner circle -- and perhaps even a few congresscritters -- in the burgeoning Trump-Russia conspiracy.