Random News: August 27, 2022

DISCLAIMER: Zak's Random News is very random and doesn't cover many things, and not everything may be accurate, because I'm just some guy. Go find a real news source.

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Good morning. It’s August 27, 2022, and it’s a Saturday. I’m in a bathrobe. Let’s go…

• The heavily redacted version of the affidavit for the search warrant action at Mar-a-Lago has been released. Neither the FPOTUS nor the DOJ wanted it released for very different reasons.
• However, the media sued under transparency laws and prevailed.
• A few things to learn from it this far.
• The FPOTUS had 184 classified documents, including some top secret, in his possession at Mar-a-Lago.
• 67 of them were marked as Confidential, 92 of them Secret, and 25 of them Top Secret.
• They felt there was probable cause of obstruction in retrieving the documents. That is a serious crime unto itself, as we’ve discussed previously.
• The paperwork says that the redactions are necessary to protect “a broad range of civilian witnesses.” That almost certainly means that these witnesses are people in the former Trump admin or those close to him at Mar-a-Lago.
• What none of us yet know who aren’t Trump and who don’t work for the DOJ: what those specific documents are.
• However, if you’d asked me even last week if the FPOTUS will actually be indicted for crimes such as obstruction or espionage, I’d say it was likely he would not. If you ask me now? I give it about even odds, or maybe even better than that that he will be indicted.
• To be 100% clear, I believe with all my heart that Donald Trump committed a slew of crimes and that some are so serious, they could make another person eligible for the death penalty or perhaps life in prison.
• But he is banking on the idea that former presidents are immune from the law. I think he’s mistaken and I think he will be indicted.
• When? No one has any idea. Next week? Next month? Next year? It’s anyone’s guess.
• One other note… the FBI says FPOTUS mixed top secret documents with newspapers, magazines, and personal correspondence. I don’t even know what to say about that.
• What an idiot. We almost lost the country to that idiot.
• From the Sports Desk… the Las Vegas Raiders ended up 4-0 in preseason. Last night, their bench made the Patriots’ starters look like a high school team. The Sports Desk is very concerned that all of their mojo was used up in preseason. Guess we’ll see.
• Little reminder that women (and their male allies) getting out to vote to help save their right to make decisions about their own bodies might save the whole world. The 2022 midterm election is in 72 days.
• Vote with a vengeance.
• And now, The Weather: “Concrete Over Water” by Jockstrap.
• Today in history… the Visigoths stop sacking Rome after three days (410). George Washington gets his ass kicked by British forces under William Howe at the Battle of Long Island in what is now Brooklyn, NY (1776). Napoleon defeats a bigger army of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden (1813). Cruse oil is discovered in Titusville, PA, leading to the world's first commercially successful oil well (1859). Krakatoa is almost completely destroyed in four explosions during a volcanic eruption (1883). The UK and Zanzibar fight the world’s shortest war, from 9:02am to 9:40am (1896). In the Battle of Ambos Nogales, the US takes on Mexico in the only battle of WWI fought on American soil (1918). The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations… lol (1928). First flight of the Heinkel He 178, the world's first jet aircraft (1939). The first edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published (1955). An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad (1971). Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years (2003).
• August 27 is the birthday of shōgun Ashikaga Yoshikazu (1407), philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770), vice president Hannibal Hamlin (1809), vice president Charles G. Dawes (1865), serial killer Ed Gein (1906), president Lyndon B. Johnson (1908), actress Martha Raye (1916), baseball player Pee Wee Butts (1919), computer pioneer Kristen Nygaard (1926), writer Ira Levin (1929), pianist Alice Coltrane (1937), guitarist Sonny Sharrock (1940), musician Daryl “Captain” Dragon (1942), actress Tuesday Weld (1943), actor Paul Reubens (1952), guitar rocker Alex Lifeson (1953), fashion designed Tom Ford (1961), and dog trainer Cesar Millan (1969).

I actually have no plans at all. I have no idea what I’m doing today, if anything. I may play some guitar, write some tasty riffs, create some amazing lyrics, and record a demo. I might do none of that. Maybe I should take a shower and get dressed. That seems like a good idea. Enjoy your day.