Zipped over to Manahawkin early to run various errands and was back before Pat got up. Received a message from brother Jim to the effect that he had put Mom's name in Missingmoney.com and she had over $600 owed her from the sale of some stocks, so we're rich, rich, RICH! Okay, we each get a C-note and a five, but hey, it's found money.
Was pleased to get a call from cousin Bob in California. I wanted to ask him when our mutual grandfather was born, but he wasn't able to tell me. However, we had a good phone visit.
Must concentrate on getting ready for my trip. I may not add to this blog for a day or two.
Wider: Chris Floyd has a hard-hitting essay in his usual lucid prose on O.'s intention to sweep the former administration's torture crimes under the rug. It includes:
"It is clear in the context of his (Obama's) statement that 'the forces that would divide us' refers to those who are calling for the instigators and perpetrators to be prosecuted. They are the ones insisting on the disturbing, disunifying course of 'laying blame for the past.' But what, in the name of God, are America's 'core values,' if they do not include prosecuting people who order and commit the high crime of torture?"
Chris quotes memos from house lawyers of the time that assures its readers of the legality of this horror, so those who move it along can argue they were only following orders. This, of course, is the Nuremberg defense. We've sunk low, haven't we?