Pruitt/EPA update

Pruitt turned down help from the White House to prepare for congressional hearings.

Pruitt support in the Senate declines.

The White House has discouraged allies from supporting Pruitt.

Bush’s ethics lawyer thinks Pruitt could face criminal charges.

This is why Trump keeps Pruitt:

The EPA plans to implement a regulation that will limit the use of scientific studies used for making policies.

Update:  List of Pruitt issues

Pruitt’s strategy will be to blame his staff members

Democrats need to focus on the issues

I agree with the ideas expressed by the people interviewed in this column.

From the article: “The DNC is doing a good job of winning New York and California,” said David Betras, the Democratic county party chair in Mahoning County, Ohio, home to Youngstown. “I’m not saying it’s not important — of course it’s important — but do they honestly think that people that were just laid off another shift at the car plant in my home county give a shit about Russia when they don’t have a frickin’ job?”

Trump’s hypocrisy

Trump blasted Clinton (and was correct) for having a private email server.  Now he’s doing something which has similar security issues.  Sad!

Spectrum Pop Festival 1969

The first concert I attended was the Spectrum Pop Festival in 1969.  I saw the Friday night show.  I went primarily to see the Mothers of Invention and Ten Years After but was most impressed by Sly and the Family Stone.  I saw them again at the Spectrum in 1971 (when Sly was still showing up on time or close).  They were so loud, they made the built-in hockey rink at the Spectrum vibrate!  The Jeff Beck Group must have included Rod Stewart then but I don’t remember him.  Savoy Brown didn’t show up.  Sets were about a half-hour with about another half hour in between performers.

For me, the highlights of the Woodstock film were Sly, Ten Years After, and Santana.  I was glad I got to see two of them in person just a few weeks earlier.

Link to the list of artists

Disagreeing with you doesn’t make me unpatriotic

The Trump White House has said several times that people who disagree with them don’t love our country.

The column states: “It’s one thing to accuse the other side of playing politics on very serious matters and harming national security; it’s another to question whether they are acting in the interests of their country and how much they love their country.”

This is disgusting.  Just because I don’t agree with Trump and his supporters doesn’t make me any less patriotic.  There is room for disagreement without saying I am un-American if I don’t support Trump’s views.  This is just another dangerous authoritarian action.

Sad!