Headlines

‘F—-ing insane’: DeBlasio aides warn against 2020 run

The 2020 presidential race could weigh on FANG stocks as Dems attack big tech

Airlines ground Boeing 737 MAX ...

Sen. Cory Booker calls transgender soldiers ‘heroes’

Dems have started the wheels of impeachment. Can they still turn back?

Companies with big global exposure could face double-digit Q1 earnings decline

Bloodbath: 4,810 retail stores closures in ‘19 ...

Tony Blair ‘secretly advising’ Macron on how to stop Brexit

McCabe ‘shocked’ by Manafort sentence

Democrats pick Milwaukee for 2020 convention as they look to bounce back in Wisconsin

China database lists ‘breedready’ status of 1.8 million women ...

Donald Trump endorses permanent daylight savings time

Reality

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -- Albert Einstein

Kafka is alive and well. He has hacked into the program in that super-mega-giga-computer that Elon Musk believes is running the software simulation hundreds of years from now that has created our current reality. To me, it seems like the world is loosing it balance ... or perhaps it is just a bunch of 22nd century programmers having some fun with our lives? Not only has our current  political process gotten bizarre, but every day events seem to present themselves as head-scratchers. In particular, here are two news items that seem to be three-sigma events.

The black Milwaukee police officer, who shot and killed a black armed thug, turns out to be a part-time rapper and classmate of the very man he shot. Except for the police uniform this would be a forgettable commonplace event in this Blatz-beer  city ... see: Powerline Blog Posting. So effectively blue pants, a blue shirt and a badge have just caused extensive rioting, arson and looting in Milwaukee ... Strange!

For another real dose of reality, the Obummer administration fessed up today ... under the cover of the Olympic's swimmers' scandal ... that it really did pay $400 million as a quid pro quo for the release of four American prisoners ... ransom that is ... see: NY Post Story. This is after many months of adamantly denying same ... including President Obummer. I guess we are all so used to these scum bags lying that they are not even shamed by this revelation ... How very sad!

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