I haven't yet spoken to The Don's most outrageous move -- well, the worst in the past couple of days, at least! (Selling out the Syrian Kurds and the whole Ukraine fiasco -- they're SO last-week ( Read more... )

Just as he's made the Fourth of July on the National Mall about himself, the Asshole-in-Chief tonight moved to make the 2020 U.S. Census about his, DJT's, ludicrous vision of a country ruled by his own ridiculous SELF ( Read more... )

So, yeah, I'm watching a little TV, here in central eastern FL -- and Rachel Maddow is on, saying that the main newspaper of Orlando (80 miles from here), the Sentinal, has gone on record NOT endorsing Donald J.Trumpsky in 2020 ( Read more... )

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I wrote a lot about the Iran nuclear deal last year, and have a couple of friends who were directly involved in the negotiations. Moreover, I was pleased at the Obama Administration's adroit maneuvers in gaining Republican support for its Congressional approval. (This is, of course, in contrast to so many other fiascos in its relations with "the ( Read more... )

http://ultradevi.tumblr.com/post/132096652702/justine-good-question My reblog answered (sort of) the question Kaethe posed in her distinctive drawing here: "how many secrets can you keep?" (I answered, fully aware there are "secrets" galore in ( Read more... )

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The "Politico" Website reports as of 4:00 this afternoon the Senate will vote to send a bill ending the budget/debt-ceiling impasse to the House. The sense I get is that the House Republican "leadership" (actually, the "being-led-ship") has given up its pathetic efforts. The "tea party" is pissed. Stock markets have already rebounded on the news ( Read more... )

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