Bill
Cosby was found guilty on three counts of drugging anad raping a woman. Each charge carries a ten year sentence. Cosby will be pretty old in ten years but of
course he’s going to appeal the case.
Apparently he was not judged a flight risk so got bail. But he
did have to surrender his passport.
Norman Goldman says that the defense attorney made a bad decision being
so hostile to other women in Bill’s life and the strategy backfired. Goldman says to be subtle and just create
doubt in some jurors.
Mike
Pompeo was approved by 57 senators today and now will be our next secretary of
state. In any other time the vote would
have failed because it takes a two thirds majority. But the use of the filibuster has been very
restricted today. That other guy Ronald
Jackson who was going to head the Veterans Administration withdrew his
candidacy this morning because of the many scandals swirling around his
case. He gets drunk at parties and
crashed a government car. Co workers hate
him and many people say that he is foul mouthed and with a bad temper. They say it’s their worst employment experience
of all time. I’m glad the guy is gone
and am puzzled why the previous guy couldn’t have stayed on at the VA because I
thought he was doing a good job at cleaning up the mess there. Meanwhile Trump had thrown Koehn under the
bus. He says “Well maybe he is crooked
but not with me. But he runs a lot of
other business and these are probably corrupt dealings”. This would lessen the likelihood of a
Presidential pardon. Trump of course is at war with his own Justice Department and thinks that Former FBI director Comey is a corrupt individual with "fake news".
They
spoke of a curfew of seven o clock being established for teenagers under
eighteen. I guess they’ll have to be
with their parents if they want to frequent the malls in the evening. There has been a lot of teenage fighting in
malls lately so the sins of the few are being paid for by the many. Is this a statewide regulation? I guess today is officially “take your
daughter to work” day. They had that
back thirty years ago.
That
Golden State killer guy, Joseph Di Angelo, was captured yesterday.
He had terrorized the whole state with rapes and false imprisonments and
murders and such. He had been at large
for forty years but he was captured in his home with his wife while fixing a
pot roast. He is 72 now and his last
crime was in 1986 and now he’s a 72 year old man. DNA evidence is what did him in. Thank heaven for modern science.
On a personal note I was in Vince's room from Tuesday evening of last week till Monday afternoon of this week because my room was being fumigated. My mattress was less than four months old but it already had a severe case of beg bugs.
I still disagree with Stephen Hawking's chapter in his "History of Time" book on subatomic particles. There are far better sources to get an understand of subatomic particles. Also I think Hawking is exaggerating what Heisenberg meant by the "uncertainty principle" that came out back in the thirties. Heisenberg meant it to say that you can't believe everything you see in the microscope because photons (and ether) are imperfect mediums of light transmission. However Hawking takes it to mean that "nothing is certain" and "Not even God knows what's going to happen next; it's all random chance".
