February 2018

 The United States government is NOT The Trump Organization. 
Republicans think government is just a badly run business that can be improved by corporate practices. They think their party should behave like Devin Nunes's dairy herd. This theory of government is called corporatism,  propounded by Benedetto Croce, an Italian philosopher, and enacted as fascism by the government of Benito Mussolini, il Duce.
In plain American English, we call it authoritarian obstruction of justice. -- blj
 
 

 Is it frivolous to suggest that the burr under Rep. Devin "Cowboy" Nunes' saddle blanket is the success of the San Joaquin River Restoration Project? Spring-run Chinook salmon are spawning again where they have not been able to for 60 years because most of their river has been diverted down south in a canal to help farmers who had overdrafted their groundwater.

“One wonders if they couldn’t deliver the project more quickly and more efficiently,” he (Jeffrey Mount, a water expert with the Public Policy Institute of California) said. -- Kasler and Sabalow, Sacramento Bee, Feb. 13, 2018

 
These are a few articles concerning some Trump nominations for important, unfilled positions in the government. The first two concern nominations of people whose records show they are opposed to the mission they are being considered to lead. That would be like appointing Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the EPA.
But, of course, Pruitt was appointed to that position.

 The end of school! Summer job outside and maybe in the mountains. The fruits and nuts and grapes have set. Rivers high and canals still chilled by snow water. Maybe up the Clarks Fork before work starts if its not too high to fish it and too cold and wet to camp.

This is an excellent article to orient you to the problem of gun manufacturing in the US and its lucrative and corrupting relationships with government, to a significant extent through the National Rifle Association, which these companies control. -- blj
6-14-18
Mother Jones

Fully Loaded: Inside the Shadowy World of America's 10 Biggest Gun Makers