Headlines

James Comey says he’s backing Biden for president

10-year treasury falls below 1%  for the first time after Fed slashes rates due tc virus

Fauci pandemic warning ...

Hillary: Bernie’s campaign is baloney

Donna Brazile to Ronna McDaniel: ‘Go to hell!’

Coronavirus live update: US cases rise to 108, Fed cuts rates on outbreak risk

Tensions rise as U.S. death toll from coronavirus reaches 7 ...

AOC: Only a ‘progressive mass-movement’ can defeat Trump

Deadly overnight tornadoes disrupt voting in Tennessee

Trump campaign sues Washington Post for defamation

Fed cuts rate half point ...

Beto O’Rourke: ‘Only Joe Biden can beat Donald Trump’

Thanksgiving

When we are gathered around the turkey and cranberry sauce soon, we all should give thanks:

- That Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has decided she doesn’t want to have any children

- For the cold winters in Boston that keeps this city from becoming another Los Angeles for those defecating homeless

- For those Hong Kong protesters who are teaching our American youth the meaning of freedom

- That a political consultant convinced Hillary that she didn’t have to campaign in Wisconsin

- For the Army Corps of Engineers who are building that beautiful Mexican wall

- For that Belgian shepard dog, Conan, which convinced Al-Baghdadi to blow himself up

- That Elizabeth Warren has called for Medicare for All and a wealth tax to pay for it

- That Beto O’Rourke and Bill De Blasio quickly hit the upper limits of their competence

- For President Trump’s internal fortitude

- For America’s crude oil fracking industry that has made us energy independent

Headlines

White House officials spurn demand to testify in impeachment probe

Dow rips higher to a record, now up nearly 18% on the year

Iran announces sharp rise in enriched uranium production ...

Ronan Farrow: Bill Clinton ‘credibly ’ accused of rape in

Castro now a ‘big fan’ of O’Rourke, leaves fellow Texan a voice mail

Wall Street donors are so worried about Warren that they are snubbing Democrats in 2020 Senate races

Bust: Majority not better off financially ...

Run it back? Clinton tops Trump in FoxNews poll

Trump rejects offer of written answers from whistleblower

Trump is competitive in six swing states despite national weakness, polls say

China sending men to sleep in same beds with Uighur women while husbands in prison camps

Mexican cartel stealing trucks in Texas for border battles

Headlines

Beto O’Rourke drops out of 2020 race

China says it’s reached a consensus in principle with the US during this week’s trade talks

Jobs Jobs Jobs  158,510 working  Black unemployment record low

Michelle Obama: Many around the world think Barack is ‘their president’

Fed’s release Flynn’s interview notes

Saudi crown prince approves kick-off of Aramco IPO on Sunday, sources say

US debt passes $23 trillion for first time ...

Joe Biden alleges Trump is involved in cover-up on Ukraine

Trump’s ‘blowout’ jobs numbers look like fuzzy math

Jeff Bezos would pay over $6 billion a year in taxes under Warren plan

NY Fed pumps $104 billion into markets ...

[Impeachment] Resolution  includes ‘loophole’ allowing Democrats to reject [Republican] witnesses

Buh Bye

From Diogenes’ Middle Finger blog

Assault Rifles

Watch out! Beto O’Rourke is coming for your “weapons of war!” If lightning struck and Beto prevailed, what might this mean in the over-all homicide rates. To find out, let’s go to the numbers:

2018 FBI Murder Statistics (see: Statista Site):
Handguns: 6,603
Firearms not stated: 2,063
Knives or cutting instruments: 1,515
Other weapons or weapons not stated: 900   [including poisons?]
Personal weapons (hands, fists, feet, etc.): 672
Blunt objects (clubs, hammers, etc.): 443
Rifles: 297
Shotguns: 235
Other guns: 167

And in 2016: 39 murders out of 11,961 were committed by AR-15s, AK-47s and like weapons (0.3%)... see: Extranosalley Site.

Perhaps these type of statictics are why the last “assault weapons ban” in the 1990’s was not renewed. If the Congress really wants to reduce firearm murders, they would need to eliminate all guns. And, to do this, it would need to repeal the Second Amendment. Good luck with that!

It seems to me, kind reader, that just outlawing these “weapons of war” again would not be, in the grand scheme of things, very influential on these murder statistics ... even mass shootings ... and could be likened to pissing up a rope.

Obvious Truth

If the Democrats choose Mayor Pete or Beto as their candidate for president, it will be like asking a good Little League pitcher to start a World Series game ... a perfect example of a romantic delusion.

Headlines

‘Feel free to leak this’: Inside the Pelosi-Nadler impeachment schism

Fed loses control of its own interest rate on day of big decision — ‘This just doesn’t look good’

Netanyahu falls short of a majority ... Cancels trip to UN ...

Study: Rate of U.S. abortions falls to lowest level since 1973

New poll shows Harris’ support has plunged 13 points in Iowa

Gun violence costs the US $229 billion annually, report finds

Health fears prompt Swiss 5G revolt ...

Martin Luther King Iii urges boycott of NFL over Colin Kaepernick

Trump blames ‘Dummy Beto’ for endangering deal on gun reform

Cramer: FedEx holds ‘most dispiriting call about the economy I’ve heard in a very long time’

Gov’t collects almost everything about everyone entering USA ...

Report: House Democrats 43 votes short of impeachment

Headlines

Trump launches ambitious play to turn New Mexico red

The spike in oil prices will have to get a lot worse before it wrecks the economy

‘Iranian weapons used’ [in Saudi oil attack] ...

Beto O’Rourke confirms, ‘Yes, I want to tear down border walls’

Obama’s team lines up to defend Andrew McCabe in court

2020 Democrats cheer the auto workers strike as they look to top Trump in swing state Michigan

Teachers in Chicago inch closer to possible strike ...

Chicago weekend: 25+ shot, 7+ killed

Judiciary chairman throws cold water on Kavanaugh impeachment

Trump rages after NYT updates story to say alleged Kavanaugh victim ‘does not recall’ incident

RASMUSSEN: Trump approval back at 50% ...

‘Locked and loaded’: Trump tweet threat to Iran

Headlines

Trump confirms death of Osama bin Laden’s son

The US-China trade war has set in motion an unstoppable global economic transformation

Saudi shuts down half of its oil production after drone strikes ... Crude to hit $100?

Democrat senators fear Beto torpedoed gun control with confiscation push

Romney says Trump was right not to cut capital gains tax

Elon Musk is not the problem at Tesla — blame the people around him

Tropical storm Humberto lashes Bahamas, seen becoming hurricane ...

DOJ IG Michael Horowitz finishing report on FISA abuse

Yemen drones hit Saudi oil sites, including key checkpoint

Trump says he discussed a mutual defense treaty with Benjamin Netanyahu

Slow growth has not hurt Trump in key Midwest counties

Trump: Illegal immigration costs Americans $300 billion each year

Headlines

Can the F-Bomb save Beto?

The disappointing jobs report would have been much worse without newly-hired Census workers

Record 157:878,000 employed ...

Biden struggles to explain plan for tackling China on climate change

Dems demand info on Trump allegedly steering government spending to his resorts

Trump’s move to put military money toward border wall could hurt GOP senators

Black unemployment lowest level recorded ...

Major League Soccer declares Betsy Ross flag a ‘symbol of hate’

Facebook joins Google as target of states’ antitrust probes

Hurricane Dorian caused $1.5 billion to $3 billion worth of damage in the Caribbean

FALL PREVIEW: Pressure grows on Biden to release health records ...

U.S. jobs report: 130,000 jobs created in August, wages up 3.2%

Juxtaposition

from Mostly Cajun blog

Headlines

Israel bans Omar, Tlaib from entering country, as Trump lashes out

Growth forecast are rising and economy looks nowhere near as bad as bond market predicts

Warren packs crowds in NH ... Big Iowa lead ...

Beto O’Rourke on TX Senate run: ‘That would not be good enough’

Trump accuses news media of trying to crash economy

Japan surpasses China as largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasuries

Dayton killer was on cocaine, alcohol and anti-depressants ...

John Hickenlooper drops out of 2020 White House race

Donor with deep Ukrainian ties lent $500,000 to Biden’s brother

Jeffery Epstein had broken neck bones — raising questions about his cause of death

Trump’s purge of national security team almost complete ...

AOC: Trump supporters not educated enough to recognize own racism

Headlines

Susan Collins and the GOP court Trump on guns

Trump suggests ‘personal meeting’ with China’s Xi over Hong Kong crisis

Autopsy finds broken bones in Epstein’s neck ...

Elizabeth Warren calls for ‘affordable, gender-affirming’ health care

British Labour leader seeks help to back no-deal Brexit

Strategist: Yield curves predict ‘absolutely nothing,’ and central banks ‘never run out of bullets’

Trump ties trade deal to Chinese action in Hong Kong ...

CNN, Beto O’Rourke target conservative media as terrorist groups

Gunman wounds 6 police officers in Philadelphia

US 30-year Treasury falls to new historic low

FoxNews poll: Trump disapproval rises to 56% ...

Virgin Island senator: ‘Evidence from Epstein estate may have been lost’

Headlines

Peter Strzok sues [FBI] over firing for anti-Trump texts

China’s exit from US agriculture is devastating blow to an already struggling sector

China blinks?  Stocks bounce ...

Twitter account allegedly linked to Ohio shooter anti-ICE

Poll: Biden maintains lead over Sanders in New Hampshire

House Democrats ask National Archives for Brett Kavanaugh’s White House records

Uruguay issues travel warning for USA ...

Beto O’Rourke tells Trump: Stay out of El Paso

Huntsman to step down as ambassador to Russia

Bulletproof backpacks have become another back-to-school special

Palin wins appeal reviving defamation lawsuit against NYT ...

Cory Booker campaign demands Trump cancel New Hampshire rally

Headlines

Trump decries white supremacy, video games following shootings

Kyle Bass: China’s currency would collapse 30% to 40% if they stopped supporting it

[China] Halts new agricultural purchased ...

O’Rourke on Trump: ‘Jesus Christ, of course he’s a racist’

Trump stumbles into Kashmir showdown

China fires biggest warning shot yet in trade war and now its up to Trump to decide how far to go

Super rich selling stocks, buying properties — keeping cash ready ...

President Trump calls for Red Flag laws after Texas, Ohio shootings

Nadler: Judiciary panel could recommend articles of impeachment by late fall

Rating China’s retaliation in the trade war: ‘On a scale of 1 to 10, it’s an 11’

Mexico vows to take legal action against USA after El Paso shooting ...

Chinese state media: White nationalism is deeply rooted in Trump’s mind’

Headlines

Democrats say White House offer on budget deal has ‘nonstarters’

Fed’s Rosengren is not on board for rate cut: ‘I think we should wait’

Omar vows to be a ‘nightmare’ for Trump ...

Cruz: ‘Only fitting’ Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ pays for border wall

Trump: Sen. Rand Paul to help with Iran negotiations

Week ahead: Both Q2 earnings and GDP expected to show sluggish growth, as investors await rate cut

Ex-Brooklyn man busted as high-ranking ISIS sniper ...

Beto: ‘Don’t be a fu*kstick’ could be my new campaign slogan

Iran says it has seized British oil tanker ... and a second one!

Trump says he will call Swedish PM about locked up rapper A$AP Rocky after call from Kanye West

Sanders campaign workers demand $15 hourly pay ...

Taiwan considers dozens of requests for asylum from Hong Kong protesters

Headlines

Kamala Harris proposes $100 billion plan for black homeownership

El-Erian: The market ‘has gotten carried away’ with its Fed rate cut predictions

7.1 mag [quake] rocks CA 125 miles N of LA

Judges reconvict Tommy Robinson for contempt of court

Biden predicts ‘there will be no NATO’ if Trump wins re-election

Fed’s seek $12.6 billion in drug money from ‘El Chapo’

MAGA on Mall ... Future belongs to the brave ...

Biden: We shouldn’t decriminalize entering the U.S. illegally

US adds 224,000 solid jobs, Fed rate cut may be less certain

Beto O’Rourke pushes student loan forgiveness for public school teachers

Explosion reported at University of Nevada, Reno dorm ...

India: Group hacks man, pregnant wife to death over inter-caste marriage

Headlines

Hickenlooper finance director flees to Beto

Trump says major trade talks with China have already begun

Cortez battles border police  Officials deny ‘toilet warer’ claim

Andrew Yang is first Democrat candidate to condemn Antifa attacks

Trump wants census to find out who is ‘an illegal’

Companies are warning that earnings results are going to be brutal

Russia proposes prisoner swap with USA ...

Facebook reconsidering nudity

Biden plummets, Harris vaults to second in major poll

Chinese military conducts anti-ship ballistic missile tests in hotly contested South China Sea

Hong Kong protests descend into chaos in direct challenge to China ...

Chinese media: China responsible for Trump-Kim summit

Headlines

Trump slams NYT report of U.S. cyber attacks against Russia

The Fed won’t cut rates at its June meeting. Here’s why

Internal polling leaks shakes White House ...

Beto: President O’Rourke would end oil and gas leases on federal land

Hong Kong leader delays unpopular extradition bill: activists want more

Vladimir Putin is muscling his way into Africa, and this is bad news for US interests

NYT: U.S.escalates online attacks on Russia’s power grid ...

Venezuela: Guaido confirms talks in Sweden ...

Trump says he was briefed on Navy Sightings of UFOs

Corn futures hit 5-year high as flooding, more rain could add to planting woes in heartland

Warren rising

... EU weighs sanctions on Maduro