By Lois Barber
A recent storm hit my ancient apple trees especially hard. I have been losing these trees on a steady basis for the last five years, with only five straggly trees where a small grove once was. The survivors do not bear fruit, and no longer even flower, and they are, really, a bit of an eyesore, with leaves only at the tips of their top branches.
My husband wants to chain saw them, but I want to let them live until they succumb to natural causes. My home was built in 1790 and a wall in the basement has tally marks of barrels of peaches and apples harvested from its orchards; unfortunately, no years are included with the tallies, so I have no idea how old these trees are.
the caucus is out in favor of impeachment. i don t think that tells the full story i know for a fact a lot of members who have come out for impeachment have done so because it s the easy thing to do and it s demanded in their district and they believe, also, that it s not the best politics for them but pelosi has made clear she believes the politics are bad for democrats and she s not, again, moved an inch off of that and she refuses to talk about it i mean, at her press conference last week, she was pressed about this what are you thinking, if it s not impeachment, what should we be calling it, how should we be thinking about it? she says i m done answering these questions. i m not talking about this anymore. and that tells you all you need to know, frankly, about how she feels about this and if what you said is true, matt, i accept that lewandowski today did testify that the president did ask him to intervene here, so, like, that should be the end of it under according to what you
president is still in office. you know, they could put forward a conspiracy indictment that includes the president as an unindicted coconspirator for political reasons. one of the things that really came clear out of michael cohen s testimony yesterday is that this is looking more and more like a racketeering or rico case that you have an overlapping group of players. you have an overlapping group of criminal conspiracies. you have an overlapping set of crimes. this is not individual instances. this is an organization that was involved in corrupt practices from top to bottom on a wide variety of fronts. and, frankly, there is no office in the country that is better at a rico prosecution than the southern district of new york which effectively invented it
york which invented it under, wait for it, u.s. attorney rudy giuliani. interesting. you think that sdny is not as powerful as special counsel? i think investigating the president they have less jurisdictional limits and it s much awkward or difficult for them to get their story they can only speak through indictments, as garret was saying. so if thaw can indict the president, that s sitting doj poli policy hoard how thaw can get a report to congress. that s got be to the last wrurd. investigations into russian interference are expanding on capitol hill. what to expect next. you ve tried moisturizer after moisturizer.
full well and so does rudy jo e juligiuliani that in this volat political environment you can speak code, you can make references, and you can intimidate them and generate threats. it is just the kind of political climate we life in now. i think he has genuine reason to be concerned. what accommodations are you open to making for him on this, putting it under, taking it out of the public square? what acome daugss do you think are reasonable for his safety? i think it is still a desirable thing to have michael cohen testify in public under oath to try to tell us much of the whole narrative as he can so the public can hear in one case,