Headlines

Thousands protest against coronavirus measures in Berlin

Apple surpasses Saudi Aramco to become world’s most valuable company

‘What a fraud this guy is,’ Tucker Carlson rips Dr. Fauci’s dodging of questions about protests

Karen Bass’s long march from Communist fringe to Biden’s VP short list

Trump says he plans to ban TIKTOK in the U.S.

Hurricane Isaias lashes the Bahamas as it bears down on Florida

U.S. Supreme Court rejects request to halt construction of the border wall

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred warns 2020 season could be shut down

Florida teen, 2 others arrested over massive Twitter breach

Big tech spends over $20 million in lobbying in first half of 2020, including on coronavirus bills

Court overturns death sentence of Boston’s Marathon bomber

Exclusive: [Sen.] Cotton presses Google on election interference revelations

STAND UP FOR AMERICA!

Angela

There is this chancellor in Berlin

Many felt that she was without sin.

Then she opened Europe's boards

To vast Middle-Eastern hoards.

Now some of us hope she's a has-been.

Headlines

All from Internet news sites, Guess which from Politico?

Use of personal services widespread in Trump's West Wing

Feds open civil rights probe into church shooting by Sudanese immigrant

Earliest start to Arizona ski start ...

Feds rush aid to Puerto Rico, while Tr,ump tweets about debt

Bannon to Alabama: 'They think you are a bunch of morons'

Trump dedicates $200 million to STEM education

SURVEY: Just quarter of Americans can name three branches of gov't

UNC Charlotte offers 345 diversity, social justice courses

[Sen.] Collns' opposition dooms latest Obamacare repeal effort

Pentagon scenario of new Korean War estimates 20,000 deaths a day in South Korea: retired US general

USA to curb Russian military flights over American territory ...

Almost half of crimes in Berlin committed by migrants

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites.

Berlin manhunt as killer escapes, Europe on Xmas alert

[Obama] Uses executive authority for 'permanent' bans on off-shore drilling

Refugee resettlements accelerate in Obama's final months ...

India overtakes Britain as world's 6th largest economy ...

Naples mega volcano 'reawakening' ...

Poll: Democrat women most likely to block, unfriend over politics

Report: Boccelli out of Trump inauguration after boycott threats

Stock market adds $1,600,000,000,000 since election ...

CEOs who supposedly love Trump are dumping stock in post-election rally

Uber admits it has a problem with driverless cars cutting off cyclists

California secession organizers say they've opened an embassy in Moscow ...

Illinois loses more residents than any other state ...

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites.

Russian Ambassador assassinated in Turkey ... 'We die in Aleppo, you die here' ...

Terror truck slams into Berlin Christmas market ... At least 9 dead, dozens wounded ...

Obama golfs after learning about German, Turkish [terror] attacks

Electoral College makes [Trump's] election official ...

IMF's Lagarde found guilty in French tycoon's payout trial ... leaves country before verdict

Hillary Clinton loses a THIRD of Washington [State] electoral votes

Fitness gadgets allow corporations to spy on users

Customers 'offered drugs by [Uber] drivers' ...

Whoopi Goldberg says she is more qualified to be president than Donald Trump

Seven test positive for latent TB at Nebraska high school

... [Obama] warns Trump not to overuse executive orders ...

President Obama grants 153 commutations, 78 pardons to individuals deserving of a second chance

2016 Predictions

Once again I post some of the more interesting predictions made at our traditional New Year's Eve festivities:

- Kasich is on Republican ticket with Ted Cruz
               
 - ISIS will be eliminated but darker force takes its place

- One of George’s blogs will be picked up by major newspaper

- Fitbit recalls millions of units – give false sense of higher activity

- Bill Cosby is NOT found guilty

- Merkel is out in Germany                          

- Saudi Arabia will be attacked by ISIS or al Qaeda

- Hillary wins – appoints Trump Secretary of State

- A terrorist strike in London and Berlin

- An illness takes Donald Trump out of presidential race                 

And here are a few of the right-on predictions from last year:

- ISIS creates chaos in France 

- De Blasio will take NYC back to the chaos under David Dinkins

- Obamacare will suffer serious setbacks

- Patriots win Super Bowl

- Malaysian Airlines flight 370 will finally be located

Exclusivity

The Berghain Nightclub Bouncer

"I wouldn't want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member." --  Groucho Marx

There is something about the human psyche that compels people to want to be where they are not wanted. This is what propelled the manically exclusive Studio 54 in the 1970's and 1980's into the "place to be" and the "place to be seen." Keeping people out of this devil's den only made people want to be there even more. Now we have, in Berlin, a remake of this type of glitterati grotto. Descend with the author of this story into the world of debauchery, drugs, alternate lifestyles, tattoos, body piercing and mosh pits as she recounts her nightclub experience in Germany. The Berghain nightclub in (East) Berlin seems a modern day remake of the infamous Studio 54 where the fringes of society suddenly became its center. To read about this odyssey see:  New York Post Story.

At my age, I think I'll pass ...

Afterward: I wonder if the Berghain nightclub will admit Syrian refugees?

Let Them Eat Cake

We are living in a plutocracy of insanely-wealthy bankers and let-them-eat-cake governance … while, at the same time, the rest of us are pinching pennies to try to pay the taxes that support these lavish Washington lifestyles.  The governing class in this country is tone deaf to the need to cut back on their spending.  In fact, many of our brain-dead bureaucrats have said that government spending is not a problem.  It clearly is.

In early February, right before the federal government-spending sequestration took place, Vice President, Joe Biden, traveled to Europe with his wife, Jill, and his security staff for a 4-day trip with a modicum of official business.  There are few knowns about this trip (see: Neon Tommy) and many unknowns. We do know that he and his group went to Berlin, Munich, the German resort, Landstuhl, Paris and London.  We also know that this group stayed overnight in Munich (probably), Landstuhl, Paris and London … and it wasn’t cheap.  In Paris, it cost us taxpaying schlubs $585,000 for their one night stay at a five-star hotel (see: Weekly Standard Story) and, in London, they put us back $459, 387 for equivalent opulence (see: Weekly Standard Story).. Who knows what Munich and Landstuhl cost?  And this was just for lodging.  Add to this, transportation, meals, and, I would wager, lots and lots of other expensive extras.

Perhaps we could ask Good Ol’ Joe for a justifying trip report and a detailed expense account … showing what portion of these cost he was covering?  (HA HA)