Weird Sense of Humor - Or Twisted Mind?

Just before 8 this morning, I posted on Facebook that I would love to see a discussion panel on MSNBC's show AM Joy with Joy Reid that consisted of Jill Wine-Banks, Malcolm Nance, Naveed Jamali, Clint Watts, and Matt Miller.  I wanted them to discuss the Mueller indictments and the fact that 130 members of the White House staff do not have a Security Clearance.  The Security Clearance issue is important to me; I knew that 45's daughter, Ivanka, and her husband, Jared Kushner, did not have a viable Security Clearance.  I had no idea that spokesperson Sarah Suckabee Sanders, chief White House legal adviser Don McGann, and several other folks could not get a permanent clearance.  All of these people have an "Interim"  Clearance, which is supposed to apply for 90 to 180 days - no longer.  This administration has been inside the White House for over a year, which, unless I learned wrong, lasts for 365 or 366 days.  Who can't count here?
  In any event, my room mate and I burst into laughter at the same time this morning, while watching AM Joy.  Joy Reid had a discussion panel about Security Clearances at the White House - and the three people on the panel were Jill Wine-Banks, Malcolm Nance, and Naveed Jamali.  (Three of the five I had hoped for.)  At the end of the discussion, Malcolm made the comment that if any of those 130 people entered  a US Intelligence office, officers and employees would immediately hit the red button, causing a red strobe light to flash, cover everything on their desks and shut down their computers, and it would be loudly shouted that "Uncleared people" were present.  - That's when Beatrice and I started laughing.  Both of us had pictured in our minds images of lepers in the Dark and Middle Ages, shaking their clappers and yelling "Unclean! Unclean!"
 
***  It is truly sad that people with leprosy were shunned and treated so badly before the disfiguring disease was understood....  ***

   But Beatrice and I have a weird sense of humor  -  or do we have twisted minds?

Forty-fifth Day of "45"

I apologize for continuing to write about the circus peanut... but he and his associates just continue to make stupid headlines in the news.  Yesterday cheeto cheeks decided that President Obama had placed wire taps in Trump Tower in New York City to spy on him and his Presidential campaign, and he sent out three bellicose Tweets about it.  This morning, in the forty-fifth day of his Presidency, he again had a Tweet fit, stating that the Obama administration abused its authority during the 2016 campaign, having wiretaps placed on the telephones in Trump Tower.  He also threw out a quote from a meeting that Obama had with then-Russian President Medvedev (referring to a proposed missile defense system) - before the 2012 election - "Tell Vladimir that after the election I'll have more flexibility."  (If you know your Russian history, then you know that Dmitri Medvedev was Putin's hand-picked successor to the Russian Presidency.)
   The White House has now asked the US Congress to examine the Obama administration as a part of it's ongoing probe into Russia's influence of the 2016 Presidential election.  White House spokesman Sean Sphincter stated today that neither the President nor administration officials would speak about this allegation until Congress has completed its investigation - which means no one in the White House will have to explain 45's accusations.  Sphincter said in a statement, "Reports concerning potentially politically motivated investigations immediately ahead of the 2016 election are very troubling."
   An Obama spokesman denied the charge, saying it was "a cardinal rule" that no White House official interfered with independent Justice Department investigations.  Under US law, a federal court would have to have found that the target of the surveillance is an "agent of a foreign power" in order to approve a warrant authorizing any electronic surveillance of Trump Tower.  Today, on NBC's Meet the Press, former Director of Intelligence James Clapper, who left the office at the end of Obama's term, said, "There was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president-elect at the time as a candidate or against his campaign."
   This ridiculous plot was first mentioned by radio and TV host Mark Levin, who broadcast that Obama used "police state" tactics to monitor 45's campaign.  Then Steve Bannon's Breitbart news jumped on the bandwagon.  Now 45 has convinced himself that it's a huge conspiracy....
   Author Stephen King had a great Tweet back, in response to the tiny-handed tangerine tyrant: "Obama tapped Trump's phones IN PERSON! Went in wearing a ConEd coverall.  Michelle stood guard while O spliced the lines.  SAD!"  Then he sent out: "Not only did Obama tap Trump's phones, he stole the strawberry ice cream from the mess locker."  And, later: "Trump should know OBAMA NEVER LEFT THE WHITE HOUSE! He's in the closet!  HE HAS SCISSORS!"
    Most people watching this play out agree that 45 is just trying to deflect attention from, and interest in, the investigation into his ties (and his associates connections to, and meetings with) to the Russians - before and during the campaign, and after the election before the inauguration.  It's a huge ball of worms that must be carefully untangled!