The chime mechanism works, because somehow while fiddling with the thing yesterday I triggered it; the motor ran and everything worked correctly. So, just a matter of figuring out why it's not working now.
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So, there are rumblings that the Obama administration wiretapped Trump Tower, Trump's campaign headquarters, both during the campaign, and after the election. "...[T]he Obama administration almost certainly misbehaved if it even attempted to get a FISA warrant to spy on a presidential candidate."
Difference between this and Watergate: Obama administration allegedly got a warrant issued by falsifying the reason for the wiretaps. Watergate had no veneer of legal sanction such as a wiretap warrant.
This bring us to Watergate-on-Steroids, or #ObamaGate. Here are the problematic aspects of the Obama surveillance on Trump's team, and on Trump himself. First, it is not apparent FISA could ever be invoked. Second, it is possible Obama's team may have perjured themselves before the FISA court by withholding material information essential to the FISA court's willingness to permit the government surveillance. Third, it could be that Obama's team illegally disseminated and disclosed FISA information in direct violation of the statute precisely prohibiting such dissemination and disclosure. FISA prohibits, under criminal penalty, Obama's team from doing any of the three.I think a quote from the Watergate scandal is appropriate: "What did [Obama] know, and when did he know it?"
Heap bad juju if it turns out to be true.
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High speed fail is fail. Trump's transportation secretary halted funding for the California high speed fail project, because it's seven years behind schedule and almost $4 billion over budget.
California would do well to examine the example given by Florida. The article makes the point that I've made all along: if passenger rail were economically necessary, we would already have it.
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TSA taking a cue from the biggest Trump campaign kerfluffle: now they'll grab 'em by the pussy. Wrong lesson to take, TSA. In fact, why haven't we done away with this horseshit? C'mon, Trump!
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Scroll down a bit and you find out how far Colin Kaepernick's principled stand against American racism goes.
He's become a free agent, and coincidentally! has abandoned his need to not stand for the national anthem.
I figured as much. As soon as he finds that his "protest" may have a deleterious effect on his marketability, suddenly he "....no longer wants his method of protest to detract from the positive change he believes has been created."
Words fail me, and I therefore must fall back on invective: what an asshole.
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So, today is Sunday. Yes, Sunday.
Ah. Well, then.