I'm thankful to say that my dependence on talk radio for news and information....a dependence that turned into more of a bondage as the news and info dwindled....replaced by President Trump talking points....has itself dwindled down to a 'tune in.....and click off' within minutes....as every morning and afternoon and evening it is the same ole' same ole'....obscure....attack....and repeat..
For a couple of years now I wanted to know more of this Christopher Steele and Fusion and Orbis et al but all that talk radio would give its listeners was rants on how evil they were....and how it was a conspiracy from the start....but a book finally came out that more than gave a general synopsis....(there are plenty of those books)....for this one.....Crime In Progress....Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump....was written by the main protagonists on the Fusion side....Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch.
I think that I related this way back at the beginning of these posts....eleven years ago....on how my love of reading may have begun in army basic training at Fort Dix back in 1969.....as when we were finally permitted to go to the base PX....I bought a couple of Ian Fleming James Bond books to pass the little free time....and I don't think that I stopped reading since.
I give that anecdote here because in maybe the first third of Crime In Progress I felt like I was reading a James Bond book....something like Goldfinger....(any idea why I picked that title?)....but having completed it I would have to put it in the category of All The President's Men (Bernstein & Woodward.) Should the Lord tarry....and society continue as it is.....there might very well be a major movie out someday titled Crime In Progress.
So....if you are like me and just wanted the other side of the story on the Steele Dossier....this is it.
I thought this a good time to bring back this recent post:
Good-bye, Langley
You are an analyst for the CIA. You're 64 years old and set to retire at the end of the year so you have seen lot in your career....and developed a sense of spotting trouble when something is not right. Today Putin is being pushed in Russia....and he has a nasty habit of pushing back. Hong Kong may explode. The trade wars may back the Communist Party of China into a corner that they will have to fight their way out of. Both Russia and China have fiercely been stocking up on gold. The Mullahs in Iran are more than willing to go to war....along with their surrogates....provided there are other wars going on. Meanwhile.....Kim Jong-un just commissioned his newest submarine and is testing ballistic rocket systems right and left.
You've got a memo already typed up and ready to push the send button....a worst-case scenario....but no one to send it to....for everybody above you is focusing on Venezuela....on the possibility of a blockade.....for 'humanitarian purposes' of course....certainly not oil. You wonder if you should have included Venezuela to get their attention. You delete the memo from the computer and roll up the printed copy....tossing it the waste can....to be burned later. You decide to vacation out instead of waiting until the end of the year.
They all shake your hand on your last day. You buy a comfortable cabin in the remotest section of Cook Forest, Pennsylvania where there is no WiFi or cable television. You bring a book that you've always meant to read.....page one....by the time that you have read through the book of Daniel you wish that you had sent that memo....by the time you've finished Revelation you think about....and utter the words out loud of the second thief on the cross....from the Gospel of Luke you believe....for you know no other way to put it...."Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
"But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self (Donald Trump?), lovers of money (Donald Trump?), boastful (Donald Trump?), arrogant (Donald Trump?), revilers (Donald Trump?)...." (2 Timothy 3:1)
For a couple of years now I wanted to know more of this Christopher Steele and Fusion and Orbis et al but all that talk radio would give its listeners was rants on how evil they were....and how it was a conspiracy from the start....but a book finally came out that more than gave a general synopsis....(there are plenty of those books)....for this one.....Crime In Progress....Inside the Steele Dossier and the Fusion GPS Investigation of Donald Trump....was written by the main protagonists on the Fusion side....Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch.
I think that I related this way back at the beginning of these posts....eleven years ago....on how my love of reading may have begun in army basic training at Fort Dix back in 1969.....as when we were finally permitted to go to the base PX....I bought a couple of Ian Fleming James Bond books to pass the little free time....and I don't think that I stopped reading since.
I give that anecdote here because in maybe the first third of Crime In Progress I felt like I was reading a James Bond book....something like Goldfinger....(any idea why I picked that title?)....but having completed it I would have to put it in the category of All The President's Men (Bernstein & Woodward.) Should the Lord tarry....and society continue as it is.....there might very well be a major movie out someday titled Crime In Progress.
So....if you are like me and just wanted the other side of the story on the Steele Dossier....this is it.
I thought this a good time to bring back this recent post:
Good-bye, Langley
You are an analyst for the CIA. You're 64 years old and set to retire at the end of the year so you have seen lot in your career....and developed a sense of spotting trouble when something is not right. Today Putin is being pushed in Russia....and he has a nasty habit of pushing back. Hong Kong may explode. The trade wars may back the Communist Party of China into a corner that they will have to fight their way out of. Both Russia and China have fiercely been stocking up on gold. The Mullahs in Iran are more than willing to go to war....along with their surrogates....provided there are other wars going on. Meanwhile.....Kim Jong-un just commissioned his newest submarine and is testing ballistic rocket systems right and left.
You've got a memo already typed up and ready to push the send button....a worst-case scenario....but no one to send it to....for everybody above you is focusing on Venezuela....on the possibility of a blockade.....for 'humanitarian purposes' of course....certainly not oil. You wonder if you should have included Venezuela to get their attention. You delete the memo from the computer and roll up the printed copy....tossing it the waste can....to be burned later. You decide to vacation out instead of waiting until the end of the year.
They all shake your hand on your last day. You buy a comfortable cabin in the remotest section of Cook Forest, Pennsylvania where there is no WiFi or cable television. You bring a book that you've always meant to read.....page one....by the time that you have read through the book of Daniel you wish that you had sent that memo....by the time you've finished Revelation you think about....and utter the words out loud of the second thief on the cross....from the Gospel of Luke you believe....for you know no other way to put it...."Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
"But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For men will be lovers of self (Donald Trump?), lovers of money (Donald Trump?), boastful (Donald Trump?), arrogant (Donald Trump?), revilers (Donald Trump?)...." (2 Timothy 3:1)
