Afternoon Report – 9/1/16

Posted on September 1, 2016 by Kevin S. Willis

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R2-D2 is joining the Dark Side for Rogue One. Not really, but it sure looks like a black R2-D2.

It’s good to be the King. Or an ex-king. Apparently, money allotted by the Former President’s Act (a program created largely after the time when a president’ dying in penury was actually a potential problem) has been used to pay salaries and benefits to Clinton aides.

But even as the Clintons got rich and grew their foundation into a $2 billion organization credited with major victories in the fights against childhood obesity and AIDS — while paying six-figure salaries to top aides — Bill Clinton continued drawing more cash from the Former President’s Act than any other ex-president, according to a POLITICO analysis. The analysis also found that Clinton’s representatives, between 2001, when the Clintons left the White House, and the end of this year, had requested allocations under the Act totaling $16 million. That’s more than any of the other living former presidents — Jimmy Carter, George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush — requested during that span.

Well, isn’t that special?

Mel Brook’s “It’s Good to be the King Rap” ended up with Mel Brooks being the first white artist to land a rap song on the R&B charts.

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Life gets a little more like cautionary science fiction every day: Scientist’s Using Light to Reprogram Brains.

French police make woman wearing too many clothes take some off at the beach. Well, that’s one way to belatedly deal with their immigration policies. Probably not the best one.

Trump went to Mexico. Not exactly Nixon in China, but, you know, it happened.

I want to unload my dad’s house. Anybody got any warnings or useful info regarding HomeVestors and We Buy Ugly Houses?

The UK is working on how to extract itself from the EU (or maybe not), but as to how it’s going to extract itself from the caliphate is another story entirely.

An oldy-but-a-goody: Tear gas in parliament. An average day of politics in Kosovo.

So what’s up with you?

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