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  • MTG

    MTG ( that's Marjorie Taylor Greene), The latest non-productive member of Congress to seek her 15 minutes of fame and beyond. In case you missed the news about the latest representative member of Congress to rise from the bog. Here are a few of her better known hits: Hillary Clinton sacrificed and ate a baby. …

  • THE SAD TRUTH

      The founding fathers and early Presidents left a revered legacy that has endured through today. Added to by Lincoln,Theodore Roosevelt, and Franklin Roosevelt, the foundation of our country was established, with an unfaltering determination and resilience. Fast forwarding to the Trump era, we have seen the Republican Party become a nest of self serving,…

  • Who Can Win America’s Politics of Humiliation?

    About four years ago, without asking anybody, I changed my job description. It used to be "New York Times foreign affairs columnist." Instead, I started calling myself the "New York Times humiliation and dignity columnist." I even included it on my business card. It had become so obvious to me that so much of what…

  • A True Sportsman

    Golf is the ultimate gentleman’s game, played with honor, nobility and pride. It is a game that tests a person’s mettle, examines their character, shows how they handle adversity and what they do when a bending 30-footer somehow finds the hole. Want to find the true makeup of a person? Take them to the golf…

  • “We’re losing our damn minds”: James Carville unloads on the Democratic Party

    James Carville is "scared to death" of the November 2020 election. James Carville wearing a suit and tie: James Carville arrives for the annual JFK Profiles in Courage Award ceremony in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 20, 2018. © Paul Marotta/Getty Images James Carville arrives for the annual JFK Profiles in Courage Award ceremony in Boston,…

  • HOW DID WE GET OURSELVES INTO THIS MESS

    There were a few, myself included, who called Trump a snake -oil salesman, after he declared his bid for the Presidency in 2015. What has happened since, has been the replacement of truth and sincerity, with hokum and bunkum. The real Trump doctrine. I will lie to you as often as necessary to keep you…

  • YOU DON’T ALWAYS GET IT RIGHT

    During the summer of 2001,Condoleezza Rice, then National Security Advisor, met with CIA Director George Tenet to discuss the possibilities and prevention of terrorist attacks on American targets. On July 10, 2001, Rice met with Tenet in what he referred to as an "emergency meeting"[60] held at the White House at Tenet's request to brief Rice and the NSC…

  • THE SABRE-TOOTH TIGER IN THE CHICKEN COOP

    What have we learned over the past month? That the pace of the shocks and bizarre behavior is accelerating rapidly. The President now has all his yes men and women in place. The Trump- Barr fast train to the right sees clear sailing. He has been called the Manchurian Candidate, a compromised puppet, and a…

  • SUPER COMPUTING TAKES IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL

    World’s fastest supercomputer will be built by AMD and Cray for US government 6 Frontier is expected to go online in 2021 with 1.5 exaflops of processing power By James Vincent  May 7, 2019, 7:00am EDT SHARE A rendering of the planned Frontier supercomputer. Credit: DOE / Oak Ridge National Laboratory The world’s fastest supercomputer will be built…

  • PUTIN DOES TRUMP PROUD

      With Putin’s signature, ‘fake news’ bill becomes law     Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he meets with members of the public in Simferopol, Crimea, on March 18. (Yuri Kadobnov/Pool/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock) By Emily Tamkin March 18 at 3:21 PM Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law a set of bills that will make it illegal to…

  • WHO WILL STAND UP NOW

           Senator McCain's legacy in his own words                                         AUG.27.201801:21 Speaking of country's best qualities, McCain wrote that "we weaken our greatness when we confuse our patriotism with tribal rivalries that have sown resentment and hatred and violence in all corners of the globe." "We weaken it when we hide behind walls, rather than tear them…

  • It’s Starting To look like Fascism

    Machiavellian characters come and go. A difference with the character currently residing in 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. is that arrogance is a source of pride. While the firing of Comey and McCabe rounded out the course material for Fascism 101, the assaults on the media and Justice Department have completed the introduction to Fascism 202. Where…

  • TRUMP – A DAY IN THE LIFE

      I wake up every morning excited to find out who I can berate today. What little guy can I beat up on today. Who has said something unflattering about me today. I can't wait to tear into them. What piece of Obama's legacy can I spit on today! Who can I disparage that will…

  • TRUMP AND THE SECOND CIVIL WAR

    Donald Trump has ushered in the second round of the Civil War.  We have witnessed him incite violence. We have heard him go to the defense of Neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, and white supremacists. He has created a fictitious adversary in the alt left. On many occasions he has diminished the brand of the United…

  • The Betrayal of an Honest Man- First Page of the New Book

    The man was watching the news when it was announced that three states, previously thought to be in the bag for his opponent had  put him over the top, by a combined total of fewer than 110,000 votes. The electorate in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,and Michigan had just made him the President elect.   It is said…

  • THE BATTLE FOR THE DOLLARS

    Who will win the battle for the dollars?  As more dollars are spent advertising support for issues ranging from healthcare to Supreme Court nominees to environmental issues, the groups that can raise the most cash to fund their issues, have a decided advantage in shaping policy. We know of at least $13M spent by conservative groups,( including $10M…

  • Trump’s relationship with the truth is becoming a national embarrassment

    CNN)Donald Trump’s peculiar relationship with the truth — his penchant for promoting unfounded stories and conspiracies theories — represents not just a curious quirk or a character flaw. They are a much-practiced technique that has paid dividends as self-promotion in his business career and in his political rise. Over decades spent in the company of…

  • HOLD ON TO YOUR HATS, WE’RE IN FOR A BUMPY RIDE

    On the eve of the inauguration, when power looms mighty, we stop and give pause to the intentions of the almighty. POWER ALWAYS THINKS IT HAS A GREAT SOUL, AND THAT IT IS DOING GOD’S SERVICE, WHEN IT IS VIOLATING ALL HIS LAWS.   – JOHN ADAMS NEARLY ALL MEN CAN STAND ADVERSITY, BUT IF YOU…

  • Some thoughts of the day

      Let others praise you. It is unbecoming to praise yourself.  Coolidge devotedly articulated Garman’s ethics forty years later: “There is a standard of righteousness that might does not make right, that the end does not justify the means, and that expediency as a working principle is bound to fail. The only hope of perfecting…

  • POLITICS 2017

    Fascist playbook 101.  Convince people that you know more than everyone else, especially the media.  Reinforce this with a small group of talking heads and acolytes who use lies, spins and intimidation. Release information by un-named administration advisor or source.  This creates an environment where there is  deniability, confusion, distraction and lack of accountability. Create as…

  • When Society Moves Too Fast

     Why did the electorate vote for Trump.  Let’s try these explanations: In their desire to find someone different from the mainstream politician, the voters chose someone different from everybody. A lot of people don’t have the time or inclination to read the New York Times  or the Economist, or even watch the nightly news.  They come…

  • AND THE UPSETS HAVE IT

    On the morning of the Brexit vote in England, Ladbrokes Betting Parlor was giving five to one that England would stay in the EU.  The odds that Cleveland would win the NBA championship after being down 3 games to 1, was Golden State -1600, Cleveland +850. One week before the Nobel Prize for literature was announced,…

  • TRUMP- LYING CAN ONLY GET YOU SO FAR

    Trump grabbed the low hanging fruit in the primaries.  Whether he adds to or loses from this base will not make him competitive in November.  A Trump Candidacy is unbelievable to begin with and is only made possible by a very weak Republican Party. A Trump Presidency is completely unfathomable.  Some Republicans would have you believe that he…

  • TRUMP- AMALGAM OF STRANGE

    People have been trying to figure out what Trump is all about. What makes him behave the way he does. What is an act and what does he truly believe.  Donald Trump is an amalgam of strange. From his appearance, to his hand gestures, to his facial expressions, to his use of repetition in his speech pattern,…

  • Clinton-The Ad She Needs To Run

    Donald Trump talks a lot about things he will fix, but he has never fixed anything.  He has built some buildings, but a lot of people have built buildings, they don't say it qualifies themselves to be President. He has defrauded students at his so called University and is currently being investigated. He has discriminated…

  • Trump- The latest attempt at fooling the public

    Trump’s teleprompted speech last night, didn’t include either of the words; sorry or apologize. Does he regret saying all those insulting, stupid and provocative things? He regrets them because the blowback was more than he could handle. The polls indicated a seriously deteriorating chance of even being competitive in the election. New people came in…

  • TRUMP- BE PREPARED FOR THREE MORE MONTHS OF THE SAME

    The republican party has no mechanism to remove Trump from the ticket. Nor can they talk him into changing his ways, because the legacy he wants to leave is that nobody tells him what to do. The man who uses his phone and twitter account like a little boy uses a new toy, seems to…

  • No Mass Shootings in Australia in 20 Years: How Did They Do It?

    Mass shootings stopped in Australia after strict new gun laws passed, researchers reported Wednesday. And overall deaths from firearms have fallen since the 1997 law, which banned certain semi-automatic and pump-action weapons and forced owners to sell them back to the government, the team reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. "Following enactment…

  • U.S. diplomats to White House: Change policy on Syria

      By Margaret Brennan CBS News June 17, 2016, 12:24 AM WASHINGTON — Fifty-one career diplomats from across the State Department have signed an internal cable calling for a new U.S. policy on Syria, including more direct action against Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, CBS News has learned. The cable itself is classified. It was formally…

  • THE ORANGE MAN DOES IT AGAIN

    (A spoiled, whiny, man who thrives on intimidation and likes to play by his own rules.  Since trump has denigrated women, by his logic he would be entitled to ask for the recusal of any female judge who gave him an unfavorable ruling in one of his 3500 lawsuits.)     A Biased Judge? Donald Trump Has Claimed It…

  • Trump (With Liberty, Equality, and Disdain for All)

    If a 12 year old boy who ends every sentence with O.K,  Believe me , It's terrible, or It's great, is your idea of solid government then Trump is your candidate. Mix in the verbal deliveries of Gilbert Gottfried, Andrew Dice Clay and Joan Rivers and you have for yourself the perfect opening act at "Catch A Rising Star". In…

  • Greece’s Bank Debt

    Greece owes $350 Billion, which represents approximately 175% of their gross national product.  Around $40 Billion of that debt is to European banks.(according to December 2014 numbers).  Around 100 years ago financier John Paul Getty had this to say about debt. "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank…

  • Albert Wohlstetter

                                                      In all honesty, I can lay no claims to having been a star student. That role was reserved for my younger brother Albert, recognized by all around him as a prodigious talent well before he went on to become a renowned mathematical logician and defense intellectual. At seventeen, while a student at…

  • Our Embarrassment

    Don’t you find it odd that the Republicans in Congress were running at an 18 to 25% approval rating over the past two years, yet they were the politicians that so many voters ran too, to take control of Congress. Obstructionism has it’s allure, as does oblique racism. It troubled me that as soon as…

  • THE HIDDEN INTERNET

    Huge raid to shut down 400-plus dark net sites By Jane Wakefield Technology reporter  The sites operated on the Tor network – a part of the internet unreachable via traditional search engines.   The joint operation between 16 European countries and the US saw 17 arrests. Tor is home to thousands of illegal marketplaces, trading in…

  • U.S. EMBASSY IN LONDON TO OPEN IN 2017

    A striking glass structure, set to open in 2017, will be the new U.S. embassy in London. But six months into construction, CBS News has learned, the project is already at least $100 million over the initial cost estimate, partly due to manufacturing challenges with the design's six-inch-thick blast-proof glass. Patrick Kennedy, the State Department's…

  • STAR WARS

    WASHINGTON — The phrase "faster than a speeding bullet" just took on a whole new meaning. "An electromagnetic rail gun is a gun that uses just electricity — no gun powder — and, oh, by the way, can shoot a projectile like this, well over 100 miles at Mach 7," said Rear Adm. Matthew Klunder, the…

  • Battle begins on defense budget spending

    The Obama administration wants to build a 21st century military, but it may have to go to war with Congress to get its plan approved. The pushback began quickly on Monday as the Pentagon revealed next year's proposed budget, which would shrink the Army to its smallest size since the 1930s before WW2. Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich.,…

  • MILITARY’S ”IRON MAN”SUIT MAY BE READY TO TEST THIS SUMMER

    The U.S. Army is developing a high-tech suit for soldiers à la “Iron Man.”  U.S. ARMY The first prototypes of a high-tech suit of armor to give soldiers superhuman abilities could be ready to test this summer, according to top military officials. The suits, which have drawn comparisons to the one worn by Marvel Comics superhero “Iron Man,” could be…

  • FIVE % OF THE WORLD”S POPULATION / FIFTY % OF THE MILITARY SPENDING

    F-35: Looking at most expensive weapons system ever 60 Minutes gets an inside look at what makes the $400 billion F-35 Joint Strike Fighter the most expensive weapons system in history. In the rush to stay ahead of China and Russia, the Pentagon started buying the F-35 before testing it, breaking the traditional “fly-before-you-buy” rule…