Headlines

Biden campaign agonizes over Iowa shellacking

Coronavirus update: Mnuchin says coronavirus won’t hurt trade deal, Yum’s warning

Pete gaining quickly in NH ...

Elizabeth Warren: ‘Decent and honorable’ Romney ‘did the right thing’

Cuomo adviser accuses Trump admin of ‘retaliation’ over ‘sanctuary’ law

Amazon says it will create 15,000 jobs in Bellevue, Washington, and build it’s biggest tower ever

President rips impeachment foes at prayer breakfast ...  59.99% chance for re-election ...

Gaetz to file ethics charges against Pelosi ...

China announces tariff cuts as part of phase 1 deal despite coronavirus outbreak

Bernie Sanders raised a staggering $25 million in January to fund Super Tuesday push

Gallup: Record 90% Americans satisfied with life ...

Pope Francis calls for global wealth redistribution

Headlines

‘It simply isn’t our time’: Julien Castro ends his presidential bid

‘First five days’ indicator, which has a solid track record at predicting year, off to good start

Bernie cash blowout ... Tops Dem field

Trump: Iran will pay ‘Very BIG PRICE’ for embassy attack

Trump warns Turkey’s Erdogan against military intervention in Libya

Amazon threatens to fire employees who speak out on climate change

Florida poised to surpass New York in congressional seats ...

Pope Francis apologizes for slapping woman’s hand

‘The game has changed’ : Defense secretary warns of defensive strikes on Iranian group

People couldn’t wait to leave New Jersey in 2019

Fed pumps [liquidity by] $56.72 billion ...

Joe Biden urges coal miners to ‘learn’ to code

Headlines

Pelosi downplays threat to withhold impeachment articles from Senate

S&P rises to another record as investors shake off impeachment, hits 3,200

Reporters caught celebrating [impeachment]?

Pope Francis has migrant crucifix installed in Vatican

Democrats stockpile cash for state-by-state redistricting fight

Housing supply hits record low, igniting prices

Schiff claims that Trump made ‘veiled threat’ to him ...

Clyburn: I would delay transmitting articles ‘as long as it takes’

Putin says Trump won’t be removed on ‘trumped-up charges’

Investors bet on a Clinton-like rally with stocks up 7% since impeachment inquiry began

Senate trial in doubt ... McConnell threatens to cancel

Mitch McConnell: Pelosi ‘to afraid’ to send impeachment articles to Senate

Headlines

U.S., Mexico resolve differences in USMCA talks

Warren’s antitrust bill would dramatically boost government control over biggest US companies

Six other [Saudis] arrested; filmed attack ...

Trump backs down on designating Mexican cartels as terrorists

DeVos orders partial loan relief for many duped student borrowers

It’s possible US economy is not just ‘late cycle’ but rather just recharging

Kudlow claims Dec 15 ‘important [China trade deal] date ...

Pope Francis compares Trump to murderous King Herod

Hostilities between Warren and Buttigieg boil over

Managing China is NATO’s biggest challenge yet

Release of Trump banking records delayed by Ruth Bader Ginsburg ...

Trump Science Advisor Will Harper: Global warming is a ‘scam’

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Bad blood: Rand Paul moves to block a Liz Cheney Senate run

Trump heads to UN with a list of deals he’s yet to close

Iran preps war ...

Pope Francis: Money is the Devil’s doing

Trump wants ‘diplomatic solution’ with Iran, Pompeo says

Democrat Adam Schiff says Trump’s Ukraine call could justify impeachment

Trade regulators approve APPLE trade exemptions ...

Hollywood joins climate strike: Kids will lead us

Iran wants West to leave Persian Gulf

Suspected drone activity diverts flights coming into Dubai, airport authorities

EU’s Juncker convinced Brexit will happen ...

Iran’s General Salami boasts ‘hidden’ military powers

Headlines

It’s now Biden, Warren, Sanders — and everyone else

Hurricane Dorian weakens to a Category 2 as it heads toward Florida coast

Paglia argues students socially undeveloped, know little about Western history ...

Pope Francis calls for ‘drastic measures’ to combat climate emergency

Walmart to stop selling handgun ammunition

Former Defense Secretary Mattis says he’ll ‘speak out’ about Trump policies when time’s right

Overseas investors unloading U.S. real estate ...

At least 41 shot, 7 fatally over Labor Day weekend in Chicago

Joe Manchin skips run for [WV] governor

Auto union workers overwhelmingly vote to authorize strikes at GM, Ford, Fiat Chrysler

How secret Dutch mole aided Stuxnet cyberattack [in Iran] ...

Hyperhype China: Musk gets tax break from Beijing

Headlines

How Silicon Valley gamed world’s toughest privacy rules

The stock market would be much lower if it weren’t for companies’ buying back their own shares

‘Summer blast’ unrelenting heatwave to break records in Southwest ...

Jon Voigt: Donald Trump greatest president since Abraham Lincoln

In Japan, Trump praises Kim Jong Un, rails against U.S. border wall ruling

Trump claims stock market would be 10,000 point’s higher if Fed didn’t raise interest rates

Fired up, ready to go? Hillary energizes 1,500 Dems in Texas ...

Pope Francis: ‘Abortion is never the answer’

Supreme Court blocks gerrymandering rulings in Michigan and Ohio

Trump takes dig at Japan for ‘substantial ‘ trade advantage and calls for more investment in US

8 mag quake strikes Peru ...

Mike Pence: West Point graduates should expect to see combat

Headlines

Roger Stone won't shut up

No deal on car tariffs as White House backpedals, Volvo threatens to move jobs overseas

Digital-media bubble bursting ...

Brexit leader Nigel Farage quits UKIP

Wisconsin lawmakers weaken governor, attorney general

Internal Facebook emails show company discussed charging for access to user data

Warrior's salute: [Bob] Dole pays tribute [to Bush] ...

Pope Francis' There's 'no room' for homosexuality in priestly life

Trump asks South Korean president to deliver 'friendly' message to Kim Jong in

'Not to sound to to naive or anything': Trump says he believes 'every word' of Xi's trade truce

UK ON THE BRINK ... [Theresa] May's darkest hour ...

Bond market sends up a recession warning flare

Give and Take

In life we both give and take. However, most of us can be judged, on balance, as either givers or takers. And, to me, this is a pretty fair measure of the man or woman. We tend to like givers and distance ourselves from takers.

Can I therefore give you my take on a few notables who, on balance, seem to belong in each category ... past, present and fictional?

Givers: restaurant chefs, 12/25 Ebenezer Scrooge, the UK, Johnny Carson, Jimmy Carter (possibly too much giving), capitalists, Billy Graham, Walt Disney, Jesus Christ, Oprah, Pope John, Fred (Mr.) Rogers, the enlightened Grinch, my wife

Takers: restaurant diners, 12/24 Ebenezer Scrooge, the EU, Hillary Clinton, Fidel Castro, socialists, Al Gore, Whitey Bulger, the Kennedy clan, Mark Zickerberg, George Soros, Pope Francis, Nicolas Maduro, the early Grinch, Alec Baldwin, me

Headlines

Democrats barrel toward Election Day confident of House takeover

Data suggest renters could be a silent electoral majority in midterms, 2020 elections

Amazon hiring fewer holiday workers, a sign robots replacing ...

Ocasio-Cortez: Impeaching Trump 'no-brainer'

Iran seeks EU guarantees against Trump sanctions

Luxury car owners trade up for American pickups as Ford, GM and  Dodge trucks dominate market

Supreme Court rejects bid to halt 'climate change' trial ...

Jeff Flake: Obama has better 'tone' than Trump

Trump cancels Columbia trip

Amazon reportedly eyes Northern VA for its 2nd headquarters, and decision is 'close'

Russia turns up uninvited to major NATO war games ...

Pope Francis: 'Nations are built by migrants'

Headlines

Cuomo scrambles to stamp out Cynthia Nixon revolt

US-China trade war could cause bear market, stress test shows

Immigrants cited in theft of 39 million Social Security numbers ...

... Terror content remains on social media 17 years after 9/1

White House planning second Trump-Kim summit

The hurricane that's about to hit the Carolin as could be the worst in 60 years

100 Bangladeshi nationals apprehended near Texas [border] ...

Pope Francis compares Vatican whistleblower to Satan

Gov. Brown: Trump administration's rollback of methane rules 'insane'

Trump told Gary Cohn to 'print money' yo lower national debt, according to Woodwatrd book

Job openings climb to record 6.9 million ...

Media expert: Big tech monopolies are going to be a problem more and more

Pope

Not-So-Pius ...

Headlines

Atlanta Fed raises GDP forecast to 4.6% ...

Trump's approval  remains stable despite week's political storm: NBC/WSJ poll

2008 NIGHTMARE: Obama beat McCain by a two-to-one electoral college margin ...

... Palin: 'Today we lost an American original' ...

McCain and Trump: A pugilistic relationship to the end

US softens demand for NAFTA 'sunset clause': Mexican official

BOMBSHELL: Pope Francis accused of covering up for an abusive priest ...

Kenesaw State cuts cheerleaders who took knee during anthem

Mueller team shortens estimated length of 2nd Manafort trial

Former president Jimmy Carter lives in a $167,000 house and shops at Dollar General

Lane's rainfall topples records, inundates [Hawaii's] Big Island ...

Left emboldened: Maddow surges in ratings as Resistance takes a victory lap

Headlines

President calls [Comey] 'slimeball'

[Jim] Jordon fires warning shot at [Kevin] McCarthy

Tesla ships flawed parts to local machine shop for fixes, and they're piled up outside

Rod Rosenstein absent at DOJ press conference

Gazans attempt to breach border wall with explosives, Molotov cocktails ...

Trump approval holds at 50% ...

Hardly anyone is paying taxes on their Bitcoin gains as filing deadline nears

Gallup: Catholic Church attendance drops during Francis papacy

 Minnesota braces for BLIZZARD ...

GOP faction wants Ryan gone now

Feds spied on Trump lawyer Cohen's emails, feared he'd destroy documents

Department of Justice watchdog releases damning Andrew McCabe report

Hell NO

In the run-up to Christendom's most holy days, Pope Francis has broken with his orthodoxy and claims that there is no punishment for an evil life -- hell ... see: CNS News Story. Au contraire your Holiness, if you haven't seen the story, Barack Obama wants to clone a million copies of himself and Michelle in order to finish his fundamental remaking of our society into the Left's notion of utopia. This utopia, Frankie baby, would be as close to Hell (on Earth) as anything Dante could have imagined.

Headlines

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

Chicago breaks 1940 snowfall record ...

Fewer than 200 survivors of the [Pearl Harbor] attack are still alive ...

Paris chokes under worst air pollution in decades ...

US Steel could rehire 10,000 ...

Pope Francis compares 'fake news' to excrement

Two juveniles charged with arson in deadly Tennessee wildfire

U.S. life expectancy in decline for first time in decades ...

Tina Fey: Trump 'can't muster the dignity of a 7th grader'

Valarie Jarrett: Trump's win was 'soul-crushing'

Boehner: 'Trump reminds me of Teddy Roosevelt'

The guy Trump just picked to run the EPA is suing the EPA

Barbara Boxer defends politics as 'noble' profession ...

Headlines

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

Man arrested for wearing home-made Saran Wrap bikini on beach

Chicago Tribune endorses Gary Johnson as 'principled option'

Report: 1,000+ illegal voters in Virginia ...

Pope Francis: Gender theory part of 'global war' to destroy marriage

White House denies -- Jerusalem is in Israel

6 teammates join Kaepernick in Anthem demonstration

Michael Moore: People don't trust Democrats anymore

Obama rushes to make story of Israeli Prenier, Shimon Peres, about himself

San Andreas megaquake warning ...

California opens pathway for cars without steering wheels

Hillary mocks Bernie supporters 'living in parents basement' ...

EU antitrust regulators hit GOOGLE again ... LARGE fine expected

God Knows

Pope Francis has said that the Catholic Church should ask forgiveness of gays for how they have been treated by his church in the past ... see: Yahoo News Story. I'm confused ... is this pontiff  referring to how well Cardinal Law was pampered and protected after it was clear that he enabled hundreds if not thousands of little boys to be molested by American Catholic pedophile priests? Or is he referring to something else? Only God knows ...

Consequences

President Obummer and a phalanx of pissants have stated that global warming is at the root of terrorism ,,, see: Washington Post Story? This sounds logical to me ... and leads me to disclose the following other consequences I've uncovered of our planet's heating up 0.74 degrees Celsius over that last 110 years.

- Many of the best Hollywood actors and actresses of the 1940s and 1950s have passed away
- Pope Francis has donated all the Vatican's vast treasure to Save the Whales (he hasn't?)
- Michelle Obama's school lunches have made our kids thin (could also be because they don't eat them)
- Transgender bathrooms have been conscripted
- Lady Gaga invented twerking out of desperation
- China has decided to turn the entire South China Sea into a military base and amusement park
- Tipper Gore has divorced Al Gore (could also be because he lost the chad war)
- The U.S. economy has been stagnant for the last seven years
- Vladamir Putin of Russia keeps taking off his shirt
- HIV/AIDS has infected large swaths of the other sexes
 - President William Jefferson Clinton, against his will, became oversexed
- Blogging has become a popular way of exhibiting societal frustration

More for later once I've sobered up ...

The Dope Pope

I don't think I need to add much to all the criticism being directed toward Pope Francis over his attempt to swim in America's political pool ... clearly without his water wings. He recently held a Catholic mass at the border between Mexico and the United States and said that we Americans should be building bridges and not walls. Then he implied that Donald Trump is not a Christian for his pronouncements about illegal immigration from Mexico and Syria. This is the same man who recently called capitalism "the spawn of the devil."

This current Vicar of Christ has done almost nothing to remedy the repulsive pederast evils that are eroding the foundations of his Church ... nor has he rigorously spoken out against the Christian massacres occurring almost daily in the Middle East and Africa. He obviously has rather set his praying priorities so that his special God might smite carbon dioxide, conservatives and capitalists.

I predict that he shall forevermore be known as the Dope Pope ...

Afterward: And he is for Castro, condoms and communism ...