Thursday Reads

While we were all sleeping, the FIB sent its rigged conclusions to the Senate:


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And this:

Brett Kavanaugh, 2020 run https://t.co/W4sOjdRX0G via @TexasTribune

— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) October 4, 2018

This is all about the Gamble case before the high court.

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Obituary:  Juan Romero, 68, was a busboy back in 1968 when he gained international fame as being the person who cradled a dying RFK fifty years ago.  Romero has died.

I kneeled down to him and I could see his lips moving, so I put my ear next to his lips and I heard him say, 'Is everybody OK?' I said, 'Yes, everybody's OK.' I put my hand between the cold concrete and his head just to make him comfortable."

"I could feel a steady stream of blood coming through my fingers," Romero said. "I remember I had a rosary in my shirt pocket and I took it out, thinking that he would need it a lot more than me. I wrapped it around his right hand and then they wheeled him away."

The photo of that moment — light illuminating the fallen senator's face, the young man crouched at his side — locked Romero into the public memory of RFK's assassination. And it left him with an uncomfortable legacy.

Romero died after suffering a heart attack.
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Of course the FBI "investigation" was a sham.
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It is a happy ending for a dog whose owner killed herself but wanted to ensure the dog had a good home before she died.