7.15.2016
Is it a good thing or bad…
Please make it stop
Hil and Kaine: An Adorably Benign Ticket
The Daily Beast
ANNANDALE, Va. — They say that in a democracy, we get the candidates we deserve. Perhaps that is why on a sweltering Thursday afternoon in Northern Virginia, the former Secretary of State and presumptive Democratic nominee to be President of the United States felt it was necessary to make a dad-joke about Pokemon Go. Hillary began addressing a packed gymnasium and, in her typical Hillary style, extolled the virtues of free community college and early childhood education. Then this happened: "I Read the full story
If Hillary Clinton is our national grandma, then he is America's youth pastor.
7.14.2016
Homestead Act? Sounds more like Florida to me
KAMEN-RYBOLOV, Russia — Standing ankle deep in mud in a swampy grassland more than 4,000 miles from his home, Yuri A. Bugaev surveyed a mosquito-infested wasteland that the Russian government is offering to would-be pioneers under its own modern-day version of the 1862 Homestead Act in the United States.
Ahh, for the good old days
1968 Was Worse Calm Down Doom Mongers | National Review
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But telling people that we're on the verge of civil war is a good business model.
Bushes pout (he did give Jeb quite a thumping, it's true)
Here are the Republicans who aren't going to Donald Trump's convention
Vox
The empty seats at the convention further illustrate the growing divide between the GOP's leadership and its voters. Read the full story
Will the Vikings get to see the duck?
Largest Viking ship, headed to Duluth, must pay $400K or turn back - StarTribune.com
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In Duluth, the Draken was to have been one of several tall ships from around the world on display, along with the World's Largest Rubber Duck.
Two ways out of the national suicide pact
Can't vote for Trump or Clinton? You have 2 legitimate alternatives
Can't vote for Trump or Clinton? You have 2 legitimate alternativesChicago Tribune:
Negative views of Mrs. Clinton are at least 12 percentage points higher than those of any of the four Democratic nominees since 1992," reported The Wall Street Journal about recent poll results. "Negative views of Mr. Trump are at least 14 points worse than those of any of the last five GOP nominees." That was before FBI Director James Comey called Clinton's behavior "extremely careless" and Trump offered peculiar praise to Saddam Hussein as a prolific slayer of terrorists. (Trump didn't mention that Hussein also was adept at slaying his own people.)
7.13.2016
Selling to the zombie people
http://goo.gl/sHLvnV
Is Ginsberg a Pats fan?
http://goo.gl/Bc5JAU
Are we the only country in which "dark money" is a thing?
Super PAC And Dark Money Spending Already Tops $100 Million In Fight For Senate Control
The Huffington Post - US
WASHINGTON ― Super PACs and nonprofit groups aligned with Republicans may be shying away from supporting Donald Trump, their controversial presumptive party nominee. But that doesn't mean they're sitting out the 2016 elections entirely. ...
In almost every state where control of the Senate is at stake, groups aligned with Republicans dominate.
And ate all the porridge as well
Colorado deputies free bear that apparently locked itself inside car
Fox News
Authorities in Colorado were involved in a wild incident Tuesday morning after a bear broke into a car in the woods.
The bear destroyed the inside of the car and it had to be towed away. The teen wasn't sure what she was going to do about the car; some insurance agencies claim that an incident with a wild animal is an "Act of God," according to KDVR-TV.
7.12.2016
Whaaat?
From Reuters News:
New Black Panthers to carry arms to Cleveland: chairman
Police in Dallas, where Texas's "open carry" law allows civilians to carry guns in public, said seeing multiple people carrying rifles led them initially to believe they were under attack by multiple shooters.
If this is true, we're all lucky it wasn't an even worse blood – bath.
Bernie kisses the ring
Entering the high school gymnasium together and waving and shaking hands along the rope line and from the stage, Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Sanders stood before a giant American flag image flanked by Mrs. Clinton's motto, "UNINDICTED" [oops no, "Stronger Together."]
Sounds like a perfect match
In 2012, Mr. Stavridis was investigated for having improperly used a military aircraft to fly with his wife to an exclusive party in Burgundy, France with winemakers.…
The Pentagon inspector general's report ultimately concluded that he had failed to exercise sufficient oversight over staff members, and had made several bookkeeping mistakes.
7.11.2016
The most clueless out of touch old geezer on Earth
Hi, I say.
And then, because she's holding in her hands a small, pink stuffed animal of some sort, I add…
I like your pig.
Whereupon this little girl launches into a stern and heartfelt frowning lecture and I come to understand this animal she's holding is not (not!) a pig. It's a…
You, right?
Imagine our shock
http://goo.gl/CAEb1R
Sleep better tonight
http://goo.gl/vJtHNT
Could we get them to take a look at Hillary?
From Reuters News:
German prosecutors say won't be lenient with VW
(Sorry, couldn't resist it.)
Go, money!
From Reuters News:
S&P 500 touches record intraday high
The S&P 500 touched a record intraday high of 2,137.43 points at the open on Monday after a strong monthly jobs report last week boosted confidence in the U.S. economy.
7.10.2016
Hillary should feel right at home
From Reuters News:
Obama says U.S. government must improve cyber security
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday that the U.S. government has to improve its cyber security practices for the modern age of smart phones and other technology, saying that hackers had targeted the White House.
"We have to do better, we have to learn from mistakes," Obama told a news conference in Madrid. "We know that we have had hackers in the White House," he added.
Hillary: She's Unindicted!
