GEORGIA: The Perfect Legal Storm

First, an update about the Lahaina Apocalypse:

Deaths up to 99 with more to come.
Law firms have arrived on Maui to do what they did to PG&E. The S&P Global Ratings downgraded Hawaiian Electric stock to junk.
Real estate predators are attempting to get wildfire victims to sell their land.

Today, part one about the state of Georgia. Sometime later this week will come GEORGIA: Entertainment Trifecta, featuring the #1 Major League Baseball Team, the Atlanta Braves, #1 college football team, Georgia Bulldogs, and #1 TV attraction, the Donald Trump Georgia Indictment, for the odds are good that the whole trial will be televised.

But about today, here is a Fox News link so you can read about the status of Donald Trump's Georgia indictment from a supportive news source. But if you must, here is where you can read the views of NBC News. And, by the way, if you don't know what RICO stands for, it is the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act.

Read the 2009 book, The Perfect Storm, by Sebastian Junger, or seen the film? There actually was a perfect storm, in 1991, a coming together of a nor'easter and Hurricane Grace, developing off the coast of Atlantic Canada just before Halloween. Waves reached as high as 100 feet, although the one that capsized the Andrea Gail, killing all 6 crew members, was said to be "only" 39 feet.

Say a book/film is one day made of what is now confronting Donald Trump in Georgia, where perhaps by then George Clooney could be Trump and Mark Wahlberg can play Rudy Giuliani. They starred in the The Perfect Storm movie, where Rotten Tomatoes reviewers only gave it a 46% rating.

Why is this Trump Georgia indictment a perfect legal storm? Perfect against Trump, that is, for he will be confronted with the following:

A state essentially perturbed about he daring to try to steal the election, where he personally got blamed for spurring the Senate victories of Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff, and even endorsed David Perdue, who lost the election to Republican Brian Kemp for Georgia governor. Everyone in a position of power in that state, Republicans and Democrats, now thinks Trump is a loser, and, also too, probably, crook. Certainly a liar and worse.

There is no time deadline, for even if he is elected president on 5 November 2024, he can still be convicted in Georgia, and serve his presidency in jail. He will not be able to pardon himself by state law.
There are so many co-conspirators identified that a few will almost surely flip to protect themselves and family from doom.

The trial could well be televised, and the case against him is so obviously damning, beginning with his recorded phone call to Brad Raffensperger, but more, and the effect should be powerful enough to persuade a sufficient number of voters to deny him the re-election.

When will this trial be held? Not yet known, but before the Jack Smith DC trial or after, Georgia will put a lot of pressure on a few more Trump allies to testify against him for both cases.

As there will also be the Smith trial, there will further be a second sinking, for the Tamaroa, the Coast Guard vessel in the film, was also purposefully sunk in 2017.
So Donald Trump and loyalists have boarded the Andrea Gail, awaiting a terminal fate.

African Blood Lily Day 12.

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By now most know that the Omicron BA.5 subvariant has become the dominant infectious agent, now accounting for more than 80% of all COVID-19 cases. Very few are aware that a new one, BA.4.6, is sneaking in and steadily rising, now accounting for 13% of sequenced samples . However, as BA.4.6 has emerged from BA.4, while there is uncertainty, the scientific sense is that the latest bivalent booster targeting BA.4 and BA.5 should also be effective for this next threat. One concern is that Evusheld--the only monoclonal antibody authorized for COVID prevention in immunocompromised individuals--is not effective against BA.4.6. Here is a reference as to what this means. A series of two injections is involved. Evusheld was developed by British-Swedish company AstraZeneca, and is a t ixagevimab co-packaged with cilgavimab . More recently, Los Angeles County reported on subvariant BA.2.75.2 . which Tony Fauci termed suspicious and troublesome. This strain has also been spreading in

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The story of the day is Hurricane Milton, now a Category 4 at 145 MPH, with a track that has moved further south and the eye projected to make landfall just south of Sarasota. Good news for Tampa, which is 73 miles north. Milton will crash into Florida as a Category 4, and is huge, so a lot of problems can still be expected in Tampa Bay with storm surge. If the eye had crossed into the state just north of Tampa, the damage would have been catastrophic. Milton is a fast-moving storm, currently at 17 MPH, so as bad as the rainfall will be over Florida, again, a blessing. The eye will make landfall around 10PM EDT today, and will move into the Atlantic Ocean north of Palm Bay Thursday morning. My first trip to Seattle was in June of 1962 just after I graduated from Stanford University. Caught a bus. Was called the Century 21 Exposition . Also the Seattle World's Fair. 10 million joined me on a six-month run. My first. These are held every five years, and there have only been

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