China Syndrome

There was a wired dude from Wuhan,

Who hatched a diabolical plan:

Eat some bat soup,

Infect the whole group,

Then fly to Tehran and Milan.

Pooh-Pooh

Gun grabbers pooh-pooh the notion that our Second Amendment was designed to prevent the growth of a repressive central government which would then deny us our other basic Constitutional freedoms.

Please try to convince the protesters in Hong Kong, Caracas and Tehran that such tyranny can never occur there even though they are not allowed any effective defense.

Headlines

Republicans threaten revolt, may block Trump’s Mexico tariffs

The Fed is ‘indicating that a rate cut is coming,’ says former central banker

ISIS terror in Ebola zone ...

Joe Biden lied in 1987 with claim he marched in civil rights movement

Manafort will get no special treatment at Rikers Island, de Blasio says

Trade tensions have had a significant impact on China, IMF says

‘Straight Pride’ parade in Boston?

Border agency buying 2.2 million diapers to help migrants

Former Parkland school deputy arrested on 11 charges tied to school shooting

Japan’s Abe may walk a tightrope between Trump and Tehran

Homelessness jumps 16% in LA; officials stunned ... 59,000 live on streets ...

At least four dead in Darwin, Australia, mass shooting

Headlines

How Stephen Miller made immigration personal

Trump will end Iran oil sanctions wavers, seeking to drive Islamic Republican’s oil exports to zero

Trump mistakenly tweets million dead [in Sri Lanka] ...

Nine in ten new UK jobs since Brexit went to British workers

Trump wins back big donors who snubbed him in 2016

Apple spends more than $30 million on Amazon’s cloud every month, making it a top AWS customer

Reports: Mexican troops disarm American soldiers on US side of border ...

Sri Lanka blasts: Radical Islamic terrorists blamed

Seth Moulton announces 2020 bid

Elizabeth Warren wants her wealth tax to wipe out America’s college debt and pay for tuition

Tehran raises stakes by threatening to close [Strait of] Hormuz ...

Gohmert on Mueller: ‘This is not a good man’

Headlines

Trump's border wall obsession frustrates conservative activists

Wilbur Ross says unpaid federal workers shouldn't need food banks, they can just get a loan

Jobless claims lowest since 1969 ...

President Donald Trump: SOTU won't happen until shutdown ends

Senate set to reject funding plan it once embraced

Chart suggests Tesla [stock] could have trouble breaking higher

Syria threatens to bomb Tel Aviv ...

Report: [NBC's] BuzzFeed to cut 15% of its staff

'Ruthless': How Kamala Harris won her first race

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross: The U.S. is still 'miles and mi,es' from a China trade deal

Tehran arrests 7,000 dissidents in 'year of shame' ...

Britain supports USA, backs [Venezuela] opposition ...

Headlines

Trump hosts golf outing for Coast Guard members near Mar-a-Lago

As Iran blames 'foreign' influence, new economic protests in Tehran pose a threat to government

Apple flagship windows cracking [from the cold] ...

'The world is watching': Trump, State Department respond to Iran protests

Tax law creates confusion and uproar in city halls across America

Russian tankers fueled North Korea via transfers at sea

Two security guards shot dead at off-Strip casino in Vegas ...

Boko Haram forced 135 children into suicide bombings in 2017

Trump: Postal Service is 'dumber and poorer' for not charging Amazon more

Coming to a mall near you in 2018: craft brewers, children's theaters and gyms

Cold records smashed ... little Ice Age ...

DHS: Deportations of illegal aliens increased 37 percent under Trump

Headlines

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

American warship fires warning shots at Iranian vessels ...

Mattis wanted to strike Iran in retaliation for killing U.S. troops, Obama denied him

Trump planning to give cabinet unusually wide latitude

Tehran to receive huge shipment of uranium ...

HUD's Castro fears 'going backwards' under Ben Carson

Man spends days in jail after kitty litter mistaken for meth ...

Urban League cites Obama's failure for Black America ...

Iconic tunnel tree [Sequoia] topples in California storm ...

Brutal cold wreaks havoc across Europe ...

Paper: NY Giants trash airplanes after loss ...

Stuck without a Trump job, Christie is back in New Jersey ...

Half of German women feel unsafe in their neighborhoods

Not So Fast

Recent headlines suggest that the moderates in Iran have achieved a great victory in the elections there . This then supposedly justifies Obummer's bending over backwards in the recently concluded nuclear negotiations there ... not so fast. This is really not the case ... see: Daily Caller Article. According to those in the know, over 50% of those running for the parliament and 80% of those running for the Assembly of Experts were excluded from running ... not a real sign that the moderates were given a shot and did indeed prevail. And also note that the Assembly of Experts is the group which will choose the next Ayatollah once Khameni expires.

Read the above article for the details of this new Iranian ruse before you get your hopes too elevated by the news coming out of Tehran.

When dealing with Iran, nothing really is what it is made to appear to be ... a lesson that we, like Charlie Brown, somehow keep forgetting. I find it difficult to believe that Obummer's Svengali, Valarie Jarrett, spending her early years in Iran, does not understand such things

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El Chapo

The number one drug lord in Mexico, Joaquin Guzman Loera or El Chapo, has escaped from a maximum security Mexican prison for the second time ... this time  through a mile-long tunnel. This multi-multi billionaire (see: A Bunch of Imgur Pictures) obviously can buy or threaten his way to freedom in this most corrupt of corrupt nations.

Since, this man has such unlimited dirty drug pelf, any amount of bribery money is of no constraint to this man finding a safe haven, Therefore I have a few suggestions as to where Mexico, or better yet our law enforcement agents, might search for this mega-criminal:

1) The San Francisco's sheriff's home
2) The president of Mexico's executive mansion
3) The Greek Parthenon
4) The headquarters of the Clinton Foundation
5) Anywhere in Bernie Sander's Vermont
6) Tehran, Iran
7) The Lincoln bedroom in the White House

Presidential Library

Pretty soon President Obama has to decide where his presidential library is going to be located. There are a number of possibilities and, to help him in this decision, I would love to get the readers of this blog to weigh in on which is their preferred choice. Therefore, either choose one of the options below ... or, offer an alternative:

- Chicago, Illinois

- Tehran, Iran

- Honolulu, Hawaii

- Cambridge, Massachusetts

- Havana, Cuba

- Nairobi, Kenya

- Ferguson, Missouri

- Jakarta, Indonesia

- The Gates of Hell

Or, given his plutocratic tendencies, maybe all of them  ...