Considering there is nothing going on in these passing gray days in the National Capital Region there is an awful lot going on, you know? It is both personal and national, of course. The Legal Section added to the various impositions on their Intern, who has been muttering things like “Back to school coming soon, you Guys!”

We responded by turning our attention to the manuscript on what we had a chance to perform as “official travel.” It is fun to look back at how things used to work before the Government we apparently have now.

The downsizing phase of life has made great progress with some painful reminders. We never got to the disposition of the two or three estates that had been piled up in the basement of the house once owned by Chairman’s parents. Refuge Farm had provided plenty of room for that sort of storage, just as Pete’s Auction House of Madisen had shown a way to launch it all again in the moving marketplace.

Some of that load still surfaces despite three moves we used to call “Changes of Station.” Some of those assorted items have been a matter under investigation of late, since we are trying to wrap up that project for completion before the Intern gets to go back to campus and the credentialled staff has to go back to billable activity. We are emerging from the swirl of three changes of residence in the last year. So, there is distinct pressure from Management to identify the next major Product.

We did a compilation of the 70-day period between the 2020 election and the installation of the current Administration. That was complex, since we don’t know who actually is running it. The complexities of campaigning are not news, are not intended to be, and only is of interest in the news dump as the messaging is packaged for weekend distribution.

Yesterday provided enough time to capture our breaths between news releases. A former president flew into DCA, our portal airport of power. He was in a spare jet he happens to own, and useful once he had to give back Air Force One. He was motorcaded to the Courthouse for his afternoon appearance. It was show-biz. His lawyer and legal spokesperson displayed a hint of decolletage in her business attire. It was a reminder that real life continues in the chaos of the courtroom carnival.

The spokesperson is named Alina Habba. She appeared on screen to lay out the timeline of the assorted indictments from a defense perspective. Her accounting notes that the news about her client’s defense are filed after major revelations of the incumbent’s exciting legal life.

The graphics on the television are kind of cool, if you have “legal events” on the upper or lower side of the chronological line toward the November after the next one neatly demonstrates the balance in “law” and “campaign” events.

The latest indictment played out yesterday isn’t even the end of them. There is supposed to be something pending in Georgia that will drop at a predictably inconvenient time to keep motions and referrals and subpoenas and depositions straight as we enter the actual last year of the campaign.

Even we alleged experts get confused. The Intern took “their” time in setting the stage for what we could talk about. Fridays are hard, since we publish in the morning and the actual news- the bit they want to have laying around all weekend- doesn’t get released until the Interns at the Department of Justice take it past the mailroom on their way out of the building for the weekend.

So, we don’t know what it is yet. Two American Sailors apparently spying for the Chinese? That matter could lurch over into something that actually is “breaking news,” and we will have to run this mention back through Legal to see if we can talk about it.

All the rest of that is on the slide, although our mail server won’t let us do anything except attach it, this morning. And all the other policy stuff we are not talking about since the items actually could be implemented: elimination of back up generators powered by gas, for example. It is easier to just view this thing as part of the show. Until the power goes out, of course.

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