Robert Mueller held a 10-minute conference this morning and talked about two things; 1) he's resigning from the defense department and 2) he confirmed what he had already stated in his report. As we had covered before, Mr. Mueller reaffirmed there had not been enough evidence to indict anymore people, than he already had, with conspiracy. He further reaffirmed the only possible outcome of his investigation with regards to obstruction of justice were; 1) no obstruction, or 2) his report. In his report, he stated that under the...

Much is to be said about today's 24 hour news cycle and how it treats truths and facts. And our President has done very little to help the situation, in fact, one could argue he's taken it to the next level. He's done this by labeling anything with which he does not agree as fake, or untruthful. The oddest part is how his following "seems" to believe him. How can this be? How can people, believe him? This got me thinking, what is the relationship between truth and...

There is a very funny scene in Game of Thrones, where Arya, the youngest of the Starks, is stuck on avenging her family. One of the people on her list is the Queen of the Seven Kingdoms, Queen Cersei. As Arya is wondering through Westeros in her journey to kill the Queen, she encounters a bunch of the Queen's soldiers. She is hungry and tired, and decides to stop and make conversation. I'm going to kill the Queen Everything is going well until they ask her where it...

The possibility of going to war with Iran is looming and it has become a stronger possibility as days have progressed. Trump came into office with many promises, and one of them was no more wars. Since Trump took office, he's most definitely limited our confrontations with other nations. In Syria, he began to pull US troops from the conflict earlier this year. With North Korea, whether I agree with his approach in dealing with Kim Jong-un or not, he managed to de-escalate the conflict with the Asian...

For the past 3 years, ever since he was running for President, Trump has been talking about China and its unfair trade practices. Few can argue with that. Trump is right to note China's unfair trade practices. However, given its size (1.2 billion people), it can talk softly while carrying the fastest-growing stick (economy) at its side. China's economy is not as beholden to the U.S. as it used to be. It is for this reason that if you want to do business in China, and everyone does,...

Everyone with and without kids has watched Nemo. It's a great movie with plenty of adult comedy thrown in to make it enjoyable for the whole family. Like all kids movies, it shows a very idealistic way of the world, with a few exceptions. GetYarn.io One of those exceptions is a scene where the neighborhood bird comes to the dentist office to catch up with the fish on the day's news. Suddenly it notices Nemo and realizes he's a new addition to the tank. Nemo is introduced as...

I have always maintained the scariest trait of Trump is not just what he says to the crowds to rile them up, or his narcissism, or lack of mastery of language, or his fake orange-tan, or lies. While all of those are scary on their own, it is his lack of shame I fear most. Most of us do not give shame the credit it deserves. Shame is one of the most effective tools we, the people, have to keep powerful people in check. The focus of shame...

It has been about 2 weeks since the Special Counsel Report by former FBI director, Robert Mueller, was released to the public. The report was made public, in redacted form, about 3 weeks after Attorney General William Barr had sent a summary of the report to congress. The full report is close to 450 pages, hence when the AG (Attorney General) summarized it in 4 pages, there was considerable uproar and pressure for the eventual release the full report (in redacted form). The AG maintained the report does...

According to the second part of the Mueller Report, James Comey's account of his interaction with the President is accurate. This is in spite of the many denials from the President about the matter. After Comey's account of the President's request to "let[] Flynn go" became public, the President publicly disputed several aspects of the story. The President told the New York Times that he did not "shoo other people out of the room" when he talked to Comey and that he did not remember having a one-on-one...

The veiled threats the President often volleys across to his opponents, or people who simply do not agree with him, have been so normalized that we often rationalize them as "his public persona", or "that's just twitter", or "he's go people writing that for him", or anything that helps us better understand why a person with so much power could be so vindictive and petty. Yet, as the report shows, the Trump on twitter is not his "public persona", but Trump himself through the twitter megaphone. Right after...