The administration's rationalization of an obvious emolument is just the latest example of their contempt for the Constitution. The unwillingness to be bound by the Constitution and the brazen circumvention is to me an impeachable violation of Trump's oath of office. The Constitution does not give power, it' purpose is to restrain power. The Constitution does not give rights to citizens (see the ninth amendment), it prevents the government for taking away rights. To me, the Constitution is clear, the administration cannot accept an emolument without an act of Congress no matter whether or not the giver is getting something in return. #

The bullpen problems the Cubs had in their loss to the Mets yesterday is more of the same of the Hoyer era. Every season the Cubs rebuild their bullpen mostly from pitchers who were let go from other teams. When they do sign a free-agent reliever it is not when that person is at their prime but rather after their prime when they don't command as high a salary. Hoyer's plan for building a championship team is predicated largely on luck, but luck is not a strategy. No matter whether the Cubs win the division at the end of the season, Ricketts has only one question to answer and that is, based on his body of work, can Jed Hoyer build a consistently championship level competitive team? I think the evidence since 2017 is clear, he cannot and it is time for a change in direction. #

I am subscribed to the basic plan of micro.blog and that has served me well, but Manton might have just added a feature to premium that could cause me to consider upgrading.#

I've updated the index to this site so that it is now current#

Just updated the firmware on the Note Air 3C and hope that doesn't cause problems.#