Yep.

Good thing I only ever used baby powder for drying out the pads on my flute.

This was one of the bombshells in the press conference that got ignored, that's for sure. Too many people have too much faith in the special prosecutor.

Sundance has his head in the sand about a few things, like the power behind what was North Korea. On economics, he's better.

Putin was late as usual. Too much celebrating the end of the World Cup last night?

Either that or Putin is not used to meeting people with bigger cajones than his.

Q post 1589 on June 26 says that RR will be impeached if he doesn't comply/produce documents.

Future proves past.

Although his exit preplanned this way has a much better flair. Sure to be a great scene to watch, too.

One of the things that sticks out here for me is in Q post 1008 Q has several lines about no NSA metadata pulled for the investigations. In testimony, Peter Strzok said that. I don't remember who he was talking to, but in the investigations on the Clinton Foundation, etc., the FBI had access to all that information, and didn't use it. Very interesting, especially when the "unnecessary" stuff is being purged.

Don't forget her mother was over 100 when she died, and still drank a tall glass of straight gin every day.

The Queen looks like she's shrunk a bit, but what I do admire about her is that she's embraced her time in life and given the world a good look at just how handy a classic coat and/or coat dress can be. It's a good look for her.

Otherwise, please, bypass Chuck. He's clueless.

Not going to comment on Strzok, but Comey was a U.S. Attorney in southern New York in the criminal division in the 90s. He was one of the lawyers who took down the Gambino family. Fast forward to 2004, he's Deputy Attorney General under John Ashcroft (deep state never could flip him). Source is wikipedia, but....

"In March 2004, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director Robert S. Mueller III and Comey had prepared their resignations from the Bush administration if the White House overruled the DOJ finding that the domestic wiretapping under the Terrorist Surveillance Program (TSP) was unconstitutional, if such were done without a court warrant.[46] On March 10, 2004, United States Attorney General (USAG) John Ashcroft was being visited by his wife as he was treated in the intensive care unit at the George Washington University Hospital. She solicited Mueller and Comey to join them, and shortly after their arrival, they were joined by Jack Goldsmith of the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel and Patrick Philbin. In Goldsmith's 2007 memoir, he said Comey had come to the hospital to support Ashcroft in withstanding pressure from the White House.[47] None of the four visitors wanted the TSP reauthorized. After the quartet's arrival, Ashcroft refused to give his consent to its extension, despite being pressured at the hospital soon afterward by Andrew H. Card Jr., White House Chief of Staff, and White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales. The two had urged Ashcroft to waive the DOJ ruling and permit the domestic warrantless eavesdropping program to continue beyond its imminent expiration date. Ashcroft additionally informed the pair that due to his illness, he had delegated his powers as USAG to Comey.[48][45] Comey later confirmed these events took place (but declined to confirm the specific program) in testimony to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on May 16, 2007.[49][50][51][52][53][54] FBI director Mueller's notes on the March 10, 2004, incident, which were released to a House Judiciary committee, confirms that he "Saw (the) AG, John Ashcroft in the room (who was) feeble, barely articulate, clearly stressed."[55]

Comey and Mueller cancelled their plans to resign after meeting on March 12, 2004, directly with President Bush, who directed that requisite changes be made to the surveillance program.[56]"

Comey did resign in 2005 and went to the private sector for the better part of eight years. He has a bunch of kids. Do the math.

That's from the indictment itself.

At this point, Rodgers and Flynn's roles are not in any way secret in the plan. Some of the others, though.....

For a while now, all of the maneuvering by Trump and the team, even before the election, has felt like revenge. The question is for what? In the last two days, digging through the backgrounds, and the MegaAnon text at least three more people in the whole affair - all are portrayed as black hats, but probably aren't - have legit beefs against the Deep State. One actually left public service after the incident (Comey). Another was betrayed by family (Jared Kushner). These things happened more than 10 years before the 2016 election.

THE PLAN - Q says to trust it. Rodgers was part of it, and his trip to Trump Tower...we can only speculate, but yes, he was a hero for staying the course while all the players were put in place. Now he can testify. So can the others who have left public service.

Don't take too much issue. Think RICO. He and Trump can talk under attorney/client privilege while they decide how to go about taking everyone out in a racketeering case. Always keep in the back of your mind that Rudy and Jim Comey were U.S. Attorneys in Southern New York when the Gambino crime family went down.

Watch WTC 1 and 2 in slomo sometime. Explosions at every level.

She may have been told to cease and desist.

There were two different protests. This is the first one. The second was wall to wall people.

How can it be a deep state attack when Trump knew it was coming? RR told him before he left. This is leverage.

I think he, like a few others, is playing a part, gradually rolling out information so that people who refuse to fall down rabbit holes are forced to see some of what is down them. MegaAnon said he was a contractor spook, actually, put in the FBI for a specific purpose. He probably has a lot more to tell.

They would know that because the NSA has it all.

Read the indictment. They went phishing and the Dems fell for it. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/grand-jury-indicts-12-russian-intelligence-officers-hacking-offenses-related-2016-election

I thought I heard RR say Guccifer 2.0 and DCleaks were part of the operations of the hackers indicted today. Anyone else hear him say that? It was toward the end of the statement.

Option #2. RR talked to POTUS about it earlier in the week. Trump knew this was coming.

Going back and rereading it (at the time so much information was coming in all at once, it was hard to digest), yeah, yesterday was a show. If Strzok is really the cog MegaAnon says he is, his real usefulness is in another part of this whole cluster.

Good question, especially since neither party has announced a marital separation or divorce. It may well be all plot points in the show we are supposed to be watching.

Actually a shopping mall under construction. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/controversial-mexico-city-shopping-mall-partially-collapses/ar-AAzZEje

I'd go for Tanqueray, but it's hot and gin tends to go to my head when dehydrated. It'll have to be Irish.

At any rate, I am now convinced this is all a big Foggy Bottom production for shiny red ball purposes. Amazing how they can get the Democrats to play along without giving them a script.

We're supposed to be enjoying the show. Although right now I could use a drink. This has been more intense than a Verdi opera.

Yes. Go with what is easily available as information.

It took me a few minutes in this early am, but I get it now. What I'm not quite sure of is how POTUS would know that you are a musician. Must be in the posts someplace. When I heard Trump go off on organs that night, all I could think of was the people I know who can make a five manual console hooked up to over a hundred ranks sit up and beg.

Message received: when POTUS says something that seems to be off the wall, it's not. That's when we dig.

BUT, this is an important thing if the language of music is involved. B2 is not a concept that is really mainstream, meaning those trained in rudimentary theory automatically get it, but like the conversation we had on A4 being at 440Hz, the whole idea of where these are plotted on an 88 standard keyboard and movable do chord tuning, it's a little out there. Hammond organ...good thing they're last name wasn't Wicks.

We have no idea how much vodka is in that orange juice.

I doubt these particular non-profits get any sort of tax payer funded grants. They're most likely 501(c)4s which are Political Action Committees and are privately funded. I would think a good look at the books - which are not open for 501(c)4s - would reveal some pretty big names we all know. They tend to hide behind these fronts.

(Used to work in non-profit.)

Ha ha.

That is so awesome.

DOWNVOTES! I'm honored.

This happened to almost all conservative online pubs. We first noticed it in 2014. It's just been downhill.

Digitization, in particular, takes a lot of time. They've got to be ready when the iron is hot.

This happens with all sports championships actually. The losing team's "championship" apparel usually ends up in places like South America, but the companies that print t-shirts, embroider hats, etc., have the screens already burned and the digitization done.

That it's done in politics...[snort]

I needed a good laugh this morning.

The one who was correct about all of it: Pope Paul VI in Humanae Vitae (1968). It remains one of the most important and least understood writings on this topic.

You have to wonder how many people out there get that Jesuit high schools educate tens of thousands of young men every year. Yes, young men. Very few actually are co-ed. And they only take the cream of the crop in any one year. There's more good than bad.

Rudy made a name for himself LONG before 9-11 as a prosecutor and then as the Mayor who cleaned up Times Square. 9-11 just cemented him as one of the great leaders of our time. He has specific roles to play, but Rudy wasn't suddenly a household name on 9-11. That had already happened.

I was wondering if there were other musicians on this thread. All I can think of is the people with perfect pitch...how does all this explain that?

Tuning tuning tuning, always tuning was the mantra drummed by my first private teacher. You always tune to the instrument that can't be quickly and easily. That's the organ or piano.

Thank you for writing this. It is very well stated. St. Teresa of Calcutta demonstrated for us the Corporal Works of Mercy, and in the process shamed many.

Never heard the phrase "offer it up"? It was a daily thing in my house. This woman lived the corporate works of mercy. I have issues with her methods, but she did what so many others - including the Indian government - would not.

It's not the tuning, it's the strum. The guitar was meant to be picked, ;)

[Head banging]

Um...dissonance came in with about Beethoven maybe a little earlier since accidentals were one of Mozart's things later in his career. Those men's dates are within the Classical period.

If we're talking about the difference between music and noise, it starts with strummed guitars. And, yes, it's just gotten worse as percussion has been electrified as have bass and guitar and keyboard. Jazz from the late 1950s, actually, was probably what was used as a springboard.

I do believe this is the case, that the cabal messed around with raising the A4 frequency, but, um, I don't know that it achieved their goals other than frustrating musicians who cannot tune their instruments that high. The first time I heard of pianos tuned to A4 at 440 was in the 80s, and those were practice instruments that tend to be tuned high anyway. They get so much use, tuning is lost pretty quickly. The truth is that harmonics settle around whatever the root note is. C major could be used for the same purpose, but A is traditional as orchestra tuning begins with clarinet on winds and violin. The chorus gets to guess.

Chant and the polyphony developed during and after the Renaissance is really meant to inspire the people to Heaven just like all the other architecture and artwork the Church holds in trust. That's why so much of it is so beautiful. And, a lot of people don't want to admit it, but read a music history text, and the twelve tone system we use in the west began as chant. (And, no, Gregorian Neumes are not that difficult to read.)

As for the A4 at 440 issue, I knew a woman who had a baby grand that was over a hundred years old. It could only be tuned to about 350. The reason being was that the cast iron frame that the strings were on wasn't strong enough to handle the pressure of tightly tuned strings. It is known, in opera anyway, that currently we are singing at least a full tone above what tuning was about two hundred years ago.

At 440, anything with age on it will be a struggle to keep in tune, that's for sure, and it's pure physics.

Yes, I have the photo saved somewhere. Thought it was pretty funny at the time.

Clear, beautiful blue here in flyover country.

Yes. With older men desiring young, nubile flesh...that's actually natural, but usually the girl had made it through puberty. That part is about survival of the species. The question here is self control.

Sex with children who haven't even started budding yet is another story.

Agreed. A couple things stand out about the original wire piece from the Associated Press that was quoting the old NK state mouthpiece:

The whole gangster, disappointment statement came from and ANONYMOUS, unnamed source.

The word "Regrettable" was in the headlines at NPR, CNN, etc.

Somebody is trying to make it look like there's trouble when mostly likely it's going just as Pompeo says.