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Welcome to Fall, 2018. The summer has ended. Football season has begun. And "Lodestar" has entered the American lexicon where it will take its place next to "deepthroat" as a recognized code-word for secret efforts to thwart a corrupt presidency. 
Referring to the late Senator John McCain, the anonymous writer of the NY Times Op Ed piece this week wrote "But we will always have his example — a lodestar for restoring honor to public life and our national dialogue."

Lodestar's significance and understanding will soon supplant  Deepthroat because the source for the Washington Post reporters -decades later revealed to be FBI Associate Director Mark Felt- was only talking about the corruption of money and the presidency. Serious issues to be sure. 

Lodestar however speaks to presidential incompetency. A president who rumbles throughout the day, shouting at staff members, issuing orders willy-nilly to deny aid to countries who are our allies, and impose tariffs on trading partners for slights-real and imagined. At any moment it appears that the President will ruminate about withdrawing all troops from Korea, issue an order to assassinate President Assad of Syria, invade Venezuela, and demand the justice department indict his political rivals. 

Lodestar has sought to assure the American people that "there are adults in the room" who are protecting the Country and the Constitution. Deepthroat's information about the illegal movement of a few million dollars -even 1970 dollars- pales in comparison. 

Lodestar is not the new Deepthroat. There is no comparison to this remarkable letter to the American People about the complete incompetence of the President of the United States.

ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?
It's on. 
The world famous, entertaining, Miami-Shaking, Viagra-taking, Justice Building Survivor League has begun. But it's not too late to join. Send an email to Fbpool12@gmail.com and you are in. Then, every-week, pick one winner, no point spread needed, and if your team wins, you survive. The only rule is once you pick the Eagles over the Jets, you cannot pick the Eagles again. Sounds simple. But it's not. For those of you newly hired by the SAO or the PD, ignore your supervisor's threats. You cannot be fired for reading the blog, as both the SA and the PD read our missives daily. You can participate in our survivor pool. Legions of new hires have previously done so, and we have successfully fought subpoenas forcing us to reveal the identity of our participants. Go to Google- open a new email account- say "newbie@gmail.com" and shoot us an email with your first pick and you are IN. 

The Justice Building Fantasy Football league also had its draft this week. Why did a respected lawyer and a respected Judge BOTH pass on drafting Steeler RB Leveon Bell, the leading FF player for the last two years,  in the first round? 
Why did Rumpole pass on WR Antonio Brown to select rookie running back Saquon Barkley in the first round, only to pass on Falcons RB Devonta  Freeman and draft Denver rookie running back Royce Freeman in the second round?

It's fall. There's football. The weather will get (a bit) crisper. The sky is a beautiful azure blue. A few months of hard work, and then we enter the Thanksgiving-Christmas-New Years- holiday cycle and then we do it all over again. 

And we have Lodestar, who apparently is a careful reader of this blog, because s/he has indeed taken our daily admonition to heart and, from occupied DC, is fighting the power. 
Well done Lodestar. Well done indeed.