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TRUMP INDICTED, PLEADS INNOCENT, RELEASED....and the World Turns

Well, the day finally came, for former president Donald Trump was arraigned in a Florida court, indicted, electronically fingerprinted, plead not guilty to everything, released, should get $2 million at a fundraiser and will  give a speech tonight  at 8:45PM EDT from his Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey.  On what, who really knows.  But his judge has not limited what he can say. You can read the details  here .  Some might want to watch the analyses on MSNBC with Rachel Maddow and her cohorts at 8PM EDT. Here is my take: The court cases are getting more and more serious for Trump.  Sure, "stealing"  15 boxes  of  more than 300 ( 325, actually ) confidential files  and  11,000 records  from his office when he left the presidency was a concern.  Worse was his effort to defy the government which tried to get those papers back.  This was nothing like Biden and Pence embarrassingly returning mostly trivial information they mistakenly took. If Trump had acted similarly, today

WILL THOSE INCOMING COMET AND ASTEROID THREATEN LIFE ON PLANET EARTH?

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MY FAIR LADY

I woke up this morning, and there was nothing of any urgency or attraction on television.   News channels had the full Merrick Garland hearing for Attorney General.  He will be confirmed.  Hardly worth watching.  Looks like the Supreme Court did Donald Trump a favor by not announcing their verdict that he would need to provide his tax returns to Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr., until today.  Trump's niece has already provided some details, but not everything.  No worthy sports program.   No tsunami heading for Hawaii, making local stations repeat old news. I noticed My Fair Lady on TCM had around half an hour left.  I have NEVER just seen the end of any of my favorite films.  But, with nothing else of interest, I did.  This was the restored 50th Anniversary version.  Can you believe that this flick was released in 1964, 57 years ago?  Rotten Tomatoes bestowed 95/90 ratings. When the author of Pygmalion , George Bernard Shaw passed away in 1950, Gabriel Pascal asked