Did You Miss Me?

 Go away for a few days and, well, things continue their downward spiral. 

My wife and I wandered off on a short trip to the Central Coast for a respite before the new school year springs to life with all its myriad complexity and challenge. In preparation, I wrote a series of blog posts that would fill the void for you, dear reader, while I was gone. 

This also allowed me to focus on anything but the "breaking news" that flows in torrents from our nation's capitol. 

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting its doors. Not a surprise exactly, but one that confirms the mission of Project 2025 continues apace. 

The convicted felon plans to spend two hundred million dollars building a grand ballroom as a part of his scheme to recreate his own personal Versailles. This regime will be different from Louis XVI's in that they won't even bother bringing up serving the peasants "cake." Gotta save the cake for washing down with Diet Coke. 

That same convicted felon is doing a favor for another convicted felon, Ghislaine Maxwell, who will be moved from a maximum security prison in Florida to a more relaxed setting in Texas: a prison "camp" in the Lone Star State. Here she will be hobnobbing with celebrity felons such as Elizabeth Holmes and Jen Shah. Here she will no doubt be awaiting her day in court or a pardon from the guy who claims to have little or no knowledge of anybody connected to (checks list) Jeffery Epstein. 

You may not remember Ms. Holmes or Ms. Shah, but you probably remember Mr. Epstein. He's the guy who may or may not have killed himself in jail. Subsequently, all the charges of sex trafficking against him were dropped, which turned the spotlight on his right hand trafficker, Ms. Maxwell. 

Meanwhile, the felon who is tearing up the White House just recalled that his relationship with Mr. Epstein fell apart after the sex trafficker "stole employees" from Mar-A-Lago. "He took people, I say 'don't do it anymore', you know they work for me... beyond that, he took some others. Once he did that, that was the end of him." One of these purloined employees was Virginia Giuffre, who had said she began working at Mar-a-Lago in the summer of 2000, when she was sixteen. 

If the name Virginia Giuffre sounds familiar, it could be because you have heard the story about how she was procured for Prince Andrew by Mr. Epstein and later sought to bring charges against her traffickers, Maxwell and Epstein. You may also recall that Ms. Giuffre committed suicide back in April. 

And if you didn't remember all of this, please try and remember that the same guy who is wreaking havoc with our public media and the People's House is also the one who would like you to forget any and all of the details I have just laid out here. 

I should have stayed on vacation.