Pelosi, Impeachment and Senate 'Scheduling'

Most people don't grasp this, but there's a flowing schedule which sets out Senate priorities over the next month or two.  Various committees have people scheduled to appear, and witnesses have the dates marked on their calendars. 

So as each week goes by......the Senate schedule is kinda in a mess to keep organized.....if they don't get the Articles of Impeachment.

It'd be like your boss hinting of a major conference meeting next week, but as of Friday this week.....you have no idea which day it will occur, or at what time.  And you might be shocked that this critical meeting.....gets pushed to the week after, or even two weeks after next week.

So Pelosi is kinda playing with this mess, and seeing how much she can probably get away with. 

Closing of the Newseum

Next Tuesday, the Newseum will shut down in DC.  It was a critically placed building (fine structure) that sat between the White House and the Capital Building.

I went to the structure in 2011 and spent two hours walking around.  For me, it was the biggest waste of $20-$25 that I'd ever made in my life.  On that particular Saturday, there was one busload of kids in the place (mostly bored by the tour), and maybe ten tourists. 

They basically tried to make a museum into something that tourists would want to come and see.....it being all about the news.

Financially, from day one (11 years ago), it's been in this profitability 'mess'.  No one cared to come, and it was continually draining resources.  So the structure is being sold off, and this marginal idea will come to an end. 

2019, and Great Movies

Back in the mid-1970s....there was a year or two in there where there just weren't that many great movies produced.  In fact, you can go to several periods in the past 30 years where there might have been six classics put out in a year. 

So I come to 2019, and this odd factor of maybe fifteen great movies, and it's kinda shocking at the level worth seeing.

The list:

- The Irishman
- Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
- Richard Jewell
- Little Women
- Avengers Endgame (ok, maybe not a classic but worth viewing)
- Knives Out
- Marriage Story
- Parasite (South Korean, and surprising quality)
- Joker
- Downtown Abbey
- Uncut Gems
- Ford versus Ferrari
- The Lighthouse
- 1917 (probably one of the ten best war movies ever made)
- Dolemite is My Name (Eddie Murphy ought to win a Oscar)
- Midway (actually a great war movie)
- Birds of Passage

Then behind this group....there's at least ten more which are just a step or two behind.  This group would include The Kid (great western), Deadwood the Movie (another great western),