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Senate Dems ready tactics to muck up Supreme Court confirmation

Supreme Court to face major cases on Obamacare and religion

Former Trump economist: Biden tax plan would kill 3 million jobs

Sharpton: ‘I was glad’ Barrett’s children attended the ceremony ... ‘because I didn’t see too many people of color’ in audience’

North Korea accuses South Korea of illegally crossing boundary

U.S. has a ‘long way to go’ before herd immunity with less than 10% showing coronavirus antibodies

Tens of thousands attend Prayer March 2020 led by Franklin Graham

[Lindsey] Graham: Confirmation could get to the Senate floor ‘around’ October 26

Poland looks to toughen already stringent abortion laws

The September market swoon accomplished much of what market corrections are supposed to do

Latest Flynn document dump poses threat to Dems

Coney Barrett mentored first blind female Supreme Court clerk in U.S. history ...

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Poland

Gdańsk, Poland ... again

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Chicago mayor: ‘We’re never going to get everything we need from the federal government’

Biden maintains national lead over Trump ahead of convention in NBC News/WSJ poll

AOC refuses to condemn BLM activists who demanded whites turn over their homes

Left mock POTUS over brother Robert’s death

Trump officials blame media for questions of Harris’ eligibility

Forty percent of Covid-19 tests come back too late to be clinically meaningful, data show

South Dakota Gov Noem will not accept federal unemployment funds, says not needed due to state’s economic rebound

NSA O’Brien: ‘Possible’ Saudi-Israel deal next

U.S., South Korea to begin scaled-down drills amid virus spike

CDC says quarantine guidance does not imply immunity to coronavirus for six months

Mike Pompeo signs pact to redeploy U.S. troops from Germany to Poland

Disney unveils first bisexual lead character

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Quotable Quote

“Now came multitudes of men of the lowest class from the south of Italy, and men of the meaner sort out of Hungary and Poland, men out of the ranks, where there was neither skill nor energy nor any initiative of quick intelligence, and they came in numbers which increased from year to year, as if the countries of the south of Europe were disburdening themselves of the more sordid and hapless elements of their population.” — Woodrow Wilson

Afterward: Princeton erases the Woodrow Wilson (D) legacy ... see: Politico Story

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Workers file 1.5m unemployment claims, as infections spike

Supreme Court rules against Trump’s bid to end program to shield ‘Dreamer’ immigrants

President Trump responds to ‘dope’ John Bolton’s allegations

Corporate America floods social justice causes with cash amid protests

New U.S. broadcasting chief fires agency heads

Apple CEO Tim Cook praises Supreme Court’s decision on dreamers

Georgia’s Bureau of Investigation says they were not consulted before DA filed murder charges against officer

... Atlanta cops walk out in protest ...

Poland’s Duda gets White House invitation

Coronavirus updates: Staggering jobless claims persist, global deaths near 450,000

30% of households missed their June housing payments

Farage: BLM wants to destroy the West

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Gdańsk, Poland ... looks like Holland!

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Gdańsk, Poland

D-Day Repost

Five years ago I published the following blog post. To remember this day I think you, kind reader, might use this repost to help understand the drama surrounding today (please read the hyperlink too):

First some background … my wife is of Polish heritage although her mother was born in the U.S.A. of a Polish mother and Polish father (here to work in the Pennsylvania coal mines). Her mother’s mother died giving birth to her younger brother and so the father took my wife’s mother, the younger brother and an older brother and sister back to Poland to marry his wife’s sister. When World War II eventually loomed the father sent my wife’s mother (a U.S. citizen and now a young woman) back to the States to escape the war … eventually to be followed by the younger two siblings (also American citizens … the brother eventually was killed as a soldier in Italy.) However, the oldest sister was not born in the U.S. so she tried to escape the war by moving to France … where she eventually married a Frenchman … but didn’t sidestep the war.

Fast forward about thirty-five years … my wife and our two young children were visiting France where we went to stay a few days with this older aunt in a small village west of Arras, France. (She was a fabulous cook.) On our last day there, a few neighbors came by to this modest home to meet us … one was an Englishman and his French wife … he acted as a translator for our backs and forths. Since it was early June and since this village was near to where the D-Day invasion took place, this became one subject of our conversation. One French neighbor woman then broke down in tears telling us that her son had been killed by the bombardment on that fateful day. She added, between sobs, that she held no grudge against Americans since we were just doing what we had to do to liberate France.

However, re-reading my previous blog post on the details of the Omaha beach invasion (see: A D-Day Recollection), I noticed that U.S. bombers could not see the details of their coastal targets because of clouds and mist so, fearing hitting their own men, they dropped their ordinance a number of miles inland. 

Now, I can’t help but wonder if this overcast weather is why this French neighbor’s son lost his life?

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Forget Mexico, Democrats turn focus to porous Canadian border

Saudi oil minister: Russia moving 'slower than I'd like' on oil cuts

White House sought options for striking Iran ...

Netanyahu confirms latest Syrian strike

Democrat governors steer party to left for universal health care

Julian Castro announces bid for 2020 Democrat presidential bid

Dems party in Puerto Rico during shutdown, fun and sun!

Tehran warns Poland: Don't side with U.S. against Iran

Theresa May: Brexit deal rejection may lead to democratic 'catastropy'

Huawei reportedly fires employee in Poland after charges of espionage

Poll: President, Republicans blamed for shutdown ...

Michael Avenati: Stormy Daniels to attend Cohen hearing

Two Quotes

My wife (of second generation Polish heritage) had two priceless and original comments about Trump's attempts to get Putin to help us with some of our international problems:

- "You can give a gorilla a piano but that doesn't mean he can play it."

and

- "The last time we were nice to Russia, it took half of Europe."

Use her perspective to balance out my previous blog: Chaos.

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Economy to grow at 5.4% in first quarter, Atlanta Fed tracker says

Comey blasts 'weasels and liars' over release of FISA memo

Michelle O: All we have now is hope!

Report: FBI, DOJ want names redacted from FISA memo

At retreat Trump pushes GOP for compromise on immigration bill

Fact: The Polish people still bear quite a bit of responsibility for the holocaust

Kissinger: Strong temptation for preemptive strike on NKorea ...

Def. Sec. Mattis to lawmakers at GOP retreat: 'I need to make the military more lethal'

FBI memo firestorm engulfs GOP retreat

Over $100 billion wiped off cryptocurrency markets in 24 hours

Fidel Castro's oldest son commits suicide ...

UN: Turkish invasion displaced 15,000 civilians in notthern Syria

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Blast from the Past

All from Internet news sites. Guess which from Politico?

Trump urges DOJ to investigate Hillary Clinton

McCain aide who handled Trump dossier is accused of dodging supoena

Update: Plague outbreak 'crisis point' ... cases soar ...

Conservative, anti-mass migration parties see surge in popular support in Poland, Hungary

Lawmakers: Carter Page is withholding documents in their Russian probe

House votes to abolish Obamacare 'death panels'

Prince William warns there are too many people in world ...

Western powers tense as Xi vows recovery from China's 'century of humiliation'

Opposites agree: Trump, Warren say Democrat primary was tigges

DNC fires finance director after abysmal fiscal year

Poll: 50% of mellaniels would rather live in socialist, communist countries ...

Trump: NYC terror suspect 'point of contact' for 23 additional immigrants

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All on Internet news sites. Guess which from Politico?

McCain once almost left the GOP. What about now?

Exclusive: Ex-Wasserman Schultz aide in Pakistan may still be moving big money out of the US

755 diplomats must leave Russia ...

House Judiciary asks for new special counsel for Clinton, Comey, and Lynch

Kelly's first task: Stabilize the West Wing

Leading US missile defense system guns down incoming missile

South [Korea] wants its own nukes

EU takes legal action against Poland ... for refusing to do as told

Lawsuits could force Feds to pay Obamacare insurers

ISIS connected Australian Lebanese terrorist planned to gas everyone on board plane

Saudi Arabia says internationalization of holy sites 'an act of war' ...

CA high-speed rail faces delay as Greens win in court

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De Blasio races to Hamburg to join G20 protests ...

Illinois still insolvent as Democrats override veto to raise taxes

McCaskill finds Obamacare support in Trump country

CNN slides to #13 in cable rankings

Japan odds of intercepting ICBM unfavorable ...

Muslim groups boycott Starbucks for LGBT support ...

McConnell: If we can't repeal Obamacare, we'll fix it

Trans female soldiers don't have to undergo gender surgery to shower with women

Trump DOJ urges court to end Texas voter ID lawsuit

Fed spending to top $4 trillion ...

Trump hands a big win to Polish nationalists

Welcome to Hell: German police battle left-wing rioters ahead of G20

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U.S. missile shield not yet ready for North Korean nukes

Trump says NATO money is 'pouring in'

Trump: The West will never be broken

Majority of Poles would rather leave EU than be forced to take Muslim migrants

Trump is winning the immigration debate

Trump considers 'pretty serious things' in response to North Korea

Rare 5.8 mag quake hits Montana ...

Madonna mocked in topless Fourth of July photo: 'Put some clothes on'

Dems' new pitch to voters: a 'better deal'

Fight for 15 fail: Missouri rolls back $10 minimum wage to $7.70

DNA from sharks which live to .400 could be secret to longer life ...

Erdogan regime rapidly seizing ancient churches, monasteries

Headlins

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NEA President: Trump at 'dangerous intersection of arrogance and ignorance'

U.S. general in South Korea: Only self restraint is keeping us from war

Democrats: Did the Americans help the Russians hack the election?

Fashion world flustered as ousted Vogue editor tells all ...

New Orleans mayor attacks Trump's 'narrow, myopic view'

U.S. Cardinal trashes Trump: Appeals to 'dark side of Americans'

Poll: Trump's 'face lift' tweet crossed the line

Historic Harvard Club again all-male after expelling women [members]

Kamala Harris uses children's citizenship ceremony to trash Trump

Judge dismisses Facebook lawsuit over tracking logged-out users

Trump's plan to praise solidarity leader Lech Walesa irks Polish government

Google facing second massive antitrust fine ...

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The following headlines have all come from Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Trump tweets about Mika 'bleeding badly from a face lift'

Republicans condemn Trump for crude Tweets about 'Morning Joe' host

Gallup: 61% support big tax cuts ...

Bolton: Venezuelan instability could spread throughout the region

Philadelphia DA sent to jail after admitting to accepting bribes

Manhattan skyscraper owned by Iran can be seized by US gov't

 [Sen.]  Grassley goes after acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe

[Valerie] Jarrett: Obamacare process 'was all very transparent,' 'open and honest'

Death threats after universal health care shelved in California

Pentagon: 'Rookie' ISIS fighters are accidentally blowing themselves up in Mosul

Trump to meet Putin on sidelines of G-20 gathering next week

EU rattled by Trump's visit to right wing, anti-migrant Poland

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All these headlines are real ... recovered from Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from the HuffPost?

First Deep State arrest: Government contractor busted for leaking NSA docs to 'The intercept'

Europeans respond to terrorist attacks with tougher gun control laws

Senate GOP aims for June vote on Obamacare repeal

London mayor: UK shouldn't host Trump on a state visit

Donald Trump: Media trying to sell 'pathetic excuse' from London mayor

85% drop in food stamp use after counties restart work requirement ...

Senator Al Franken cancels Bill Maher appearance amid controversy

'Torture memo' author nominated for Trump administration post

Senate prods Trump to move U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem

Nikki Haley: U.S. doesn't need advice on protecting the environment

Poland: Refusing to import Muslims only proven counterterrorism method

Top diplomat in China quits over Trumps climate policy

The 2% Solution

Yesterday, President Donald Trump chastised the many members of the NATO alliance for not living up to their commitment to spend 2% of their GNP n defense. Of NATO's 28 members only Great Britain, Estonia, Greece, Poland and the United States are meeting or exceeding this commitment. For decades the other 23 countries, including France and Germany, have shirked this commitment without recourse ... relying on the United States to pick up the slack. And when Trump reminded those slackers of their deficiencies, the representative from Luxembourg turned the Macron, the President of France, with a hand-covered snide remark and a snicker ... see: Fox News Video. To me, this is the height of sophomoric haughtiness. Perhaps Trump will find a way to remind this Euro-jerk of America's part in the history of  20th Century Europe.

And I have a prediction ... yes, some of these countries now in default (I'm thinking France and Germany) will find a way of meeting this NATO treaty obligation ... but do it with accounting tricks and not with genuine military buildups. Wait and see.

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These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Tunnel collapses at WA nuclear [waste] site ...

Who has Trump's ear? Often rich, white Republican men.

U.N. attacks Poland for anti-abortion laws

Jerad Kushner, Justin Trudeau team up to save NAFTA

Ryan predicts Senate will pass Obamacare reform 'in a month or two'

Abbas says willing to meet with Israel PM as part of Trump peace effort

$3M for [Obama] speech [in Milan]

O[bama] warns world: meat consumption destroying climate

Erdogan urges Muslims to flood Jerusalem ...

Christie says he didn't see 'red flags' with Michael Flynn

Left wing Dems pressed for overwhelmingly white staffs

[MA] Judge throws out Aaron Hernandez murder conviction ...