Ramadan

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Headlines

Trump says he told Navy to ‘destroy’ Iranian boats harassing U.S. ships

Trump and Biden are deadlocked in six key 2020 election states, CNBC/Change Research poll finds

USA: Virus kills 45,236, doubling in a little over a week ...

Northham: Protesters ‘so selfish’ for endangering healthcare workers

2019 was Europe’s warmest year ever recorded

Coronavirus live updates: Accuracy of coronavirus antibody tests questioned, Delta burning $100 million a day

HYDRO-DON’T: No benefit from malaria drug ...

Scalise: Sickening to watch Pelosi use small-business aid as leverage

McConnell slams breaks on next round of coronavirus aid

Kudlow voices support for shielding companies from coronavirus -related lawsuits

California cases rising ... NJ deaths hit high ...

Indonesia to ban Ramadan celebrations

Headlines

‘The epitome of privelege’: Booker supporters rail against Buttigieg mania

JP Morgan: The US-China tariff battle is just the start of a global trade reordering

Saudi tankers ‘sabataged’ ... Mideast tensions flare

Lutz: Bernie is ‘most likely’ Democratic nominee in 2020

Booker hits Warren over proposal to break up tech giants

Beijing defiant on trade war: ‘No one should expect China to swallow bitter fruit’

Iran orders men not to look at women during Ramadan as hardliners tighten control ...

Study: Google search results overwhelmingly favor mainstream

Kamala Harris: ‘I would not have voted for NAFTA’

Bitcoin is now over $7,000 and is now up over 90% year-to-date

Poll: Theresa May headed for historic defeat ...

Healthcare CEO: Medicare for All could ‘collapse’ the system

Headlines

Germany's Merkel endorses idea of joint  European defense force

US is isolated at G7 as allies express 'unanimous concern and disappointment' at Trump's trade policies

President's legal advisers: Misleading journalists is not a crime ...

Bill Clinton shock: Press went easy on Obama -- 'because he's black'

China warns Trump tariffs could impede trade talks

Purdue Pharma knew its opioids were widely abused

New Italian gov't vows to create jobs, deport migrants ...

One year after Paris: Trump brake the spell of the Climate Change mania

Trump to host Ramadan dinner

Dairy farmers are struggling as they are squeezed out of a changing milk market

Angry protests rock Jordan ...

Republicans turn on Nerflix

Headlines

All these headlines were found on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Report: Kushner tried to set up secret communication with Kremlin

Russian scandal casts a uncertainty over Kushner's future role

Flashback -- Report: Obama campaign opened back channel communication with Iran

Pentagon plans ICBM intercept test ...

Rex Tillerson declines to host Ramadan celebration at State Department

USAA yanks ads from Rachael Maddow show

Reports: At least three  anti-Trump leakers identified, expected to be fired soon

Mattis: Trump is 'wide open' on Paris climate deal

D.C. Sniper has life sentence overturned

Clinton launches new campaign against Trump

Trump tells confidant he's pulling out of Paris climate agreement

Not 3,000, but 23,000 jihadists in Britain

Robins Return

We already know that every year the White House celebrates the feast at the end of the Muslim holiday, Ramadan ... see: The Hill Article. But now we are learning that Michelle Obama is putting out the good china to honor Nowruz, the beginning of the Iranian spring ... see: Breitbart Story. Yes, yes we know that our shadow president, Valerie Jarrett, was born in Iran and that our fearless leader has been exchanging love letters with the Ayatollah there ... see: Billets Doux ... and Barry baby is also hell-bent on allowing Iran to get atomic weaponry. But why oh why is our White House also celebrating, along with the largest sponsors of international terrorism, the return of the robins?

Or maybe, in Iran, it's vultures ...

Aphorism Agenda

Dog Whistle

The Obama administration has the enviable knack for establishing imaginative vernaculars for their chief executive as a way of pushing his agenda. These bon mots are sometimes insults cloaked in a velvet glove. Here are a few examples with translations:

Degrade ISIS -- we will not send them any more Ramadan good-wishes cards.

Settled science -- Al Gore says it is so.

Bitter clingers -- a way of dissing "white folks" to non-whites and getting away with it.

Dog whistle -- white folks' way of referring to blacks in a oblique way so as not being called racists ... for examples "inner city" or "Detroit" ... i.e., a silent sound that only other whites can hear.

New car smell -- a suggestion that tired, old politicians (such as Hillary and Mitt) are not what America wants in the next election ... rather we need a fresh face like Elizabeth Warren.

Hope and change -- an oblique way of suggesting that President George W. Bush took this country in the wrong direction without saying exactly where we need to go. (We have unfortunately found out.)

You folks -- a way of seeming to belong to a group liking hamburgers while consuming copious quantities of waygu beef.

Dreamers -- the wrapping of illegal immigrants in a term that presupposes they are all young, ambitious and benign.

Let me be clear -- this may be a lie but I am saying it forcefully.

I won --- shut up you losers and let me do my silly stuff.

Islam is a religion of peace -- except for that scallywag, Osama ben Laden,