Headlines

Democrats demand details from banks, Treasury on small business bailout

Supreme Court rules that workers can’t be fired for being gay or transgender

FDA revokes emergency use of hydroxychlorquine

Chris Wallace: Trump is missing ‘cultural shift’ — ‘he runs the risk of being left behind‘

Security researchers uncover Trump campaign app vulnerability

Coronavirus updates: U.S. restaurants took a $120 billion hit, former FDA chief warns of hot spots

Shock poll: Biden +14 ...

Navarro: Trump ‘very interested’ in ‘at least 2 trillion for Phase 4’

Amazon’s Bezos willing to testify in House antitrust probe

Texas reports record-breaking coronavirus hospitalizations, the sixth new high in a week

De Blasio sick ...

Poll: 79% of truckers won’t deliver to cities with defunded police

Headlines

Warren, Biden and Buttigieg dangerously close to going broke

Facebook considers making clearer that pro-Bloomberg posts come from staffers

Weekend: A.I. Picks Sanders to win big in Nevada: Biden voters shifting to Buttigieg ...

Tim Scott predicts black support for Trump to increase by 50 percent

Down-ball or Republicans watch with glee as Sanders gains steam

WHO officials say coronavirus outbreak in Iran ‘very worrisome’

Poll: Satisfaction with USA highest since 2005 ...

Coronavirus drag on U.S. economy appears bigger than expected

Pompeo announces ‘understanding’ between U.S. and Taliban

Larry Kudlow says falling bond yields don’t reflect the U.S. fundamentals

NYT: Russia backs Trump re-election, and he fears Dems will exploit ... ‘Hoax number 7!’

Elizabeth Warren claims transgender athletes ‘not a threat’

Political Silliness

I guess I’ll never understand those silly people who vote for somebody for president BECAUSE they are gay, or tall, or black, or female, or Catholic, or a heterosexual male with orange hair. I sincerely doubt if any of these attributes guarantees stellar performance once in office.

Would you choose your brain surgeon only because she was a transgender Mormon?

Shemale

Trending: Transgender female bicycle race winner. Seems fair to me ...

Headlines

‘Ice in his veins’: McConnell steers GOP through Trump Ukraine crisis

Wall Street Democrats warn the party: We’ll sit out, or back Trump, if you nominate Elizabeth Warren

(Whistleblower on Trump] Lays out other documents and witnesses ...

Democrats wrote to Ukraine in May asking to investigate Trump

Majority of House supports impeachment inquiry

New Beijing airport takes China one step closer to becoming the world’s largest aviation market

Rove: Pelosi’s circular firing squad ...

Olympics delays new transgender rules after scientists disagree

Democrats vow trade deal talks will continue despite impeachment push

China’s economic growth may be looking at another rough quarter

Local govts spend millions on migrants dumped by Border Patrol ...

Kevin McCarthy on impeachment: Left has ‘officially lost their minds,’

Social Credits

China has instituted a “social credit” score for virtually all its adult citizens ... in essence a computer weighing based upon many social parameters as to how good a “citizen” its residents are. This score is then used by China to allow or restrict social rewards: freedom to travel, welfare benefits, medical services ... anything that the government can control ... and the government of China controls almost everything. This is all very restrictive and frightening ... the ultimate in Big Brother tyranny.

Now the barons of Silicone Valley are thinking to emulate this Brave New World ... see: Fast Company Story. Will these tech tyrants follow China’s lead in using the same parameters that measure us? (They already have quite a bit of raw data with which to work ... our buying patterns, our credit scores, our browsing histories, our friends, our travel preferences, our DNA, etc. ... and now are vying to corner our medical records and banking transactions too ... but, interestingly, not if we are a US citizen). So this development, unless it is nipped in the bud by Trump, might collect some other personal data on us Americans. May I suppose:

- have we ever typed or spoken the word “transgender”?

- do we vape or do any drugs?

- do we listen to gospel music?

- have we ever made a political donation ... and to which party?

- do we own an all-electric vehicle?

- what level of melanin do we have in our skin?

- do we believe in God, Allah, or climate change caused by CO2?

- do we own a weapon more powerful than a BB gun?

- do we own a BB gun?

- have we memorized any Bob Dylan lyrics?


Will  Mark Zukerburg soon effectively own us everyone ... cast our votes ...  make all other choices for us? ... or else!

Headlines

Senate passes border funding package, setting up fight with House

Democrats take aim at big business, spar over health care at the first 2020 presidential debate

She [Gabbard] is most searched name during debate — Google ...

Cory Booker: We need to talk more about transgender Americans

Reddit cracks down on pro-Trump channel over ‘repeated rule breaking’

Huawei says it doesn’t cooperate with Chinese military — after report says its employees did

Trump [on debate]: Boring ...

De Blasio: Yes, Democrats are for 70% tax rate, free college

Appellate court raises new threat to Obamacare

Trump campaign shells out on YouTube ad to draw more views than Democrat debate

ISIS threatens to bomb New York ahead of Fourth of July ...

20 times Breirbart reported migrant deaths during Obama-Biden

Headlines

Senate rebuffs Trump with vote cutting off U.S. support in Yemen

Gary Cohn lashes out at former White House colleagues: ‘Living in chaos’

Gambino crime family boss killed outside Staten Island home ...

GOP to change Senate rules to stop obstruction of nominees

Beto announces bid for presidency

China and U.S. to reportedly push back Trump-Xi meeting to at least April

Manafort sentence reaches 7.5 years ...

Speaker Pelosi revokes Vice President Pence’s House office space

New Pentagon transgender rule sets limits for troops

Facebook reportedly faces criminal probe in user data deals

Top Mueller prosecutor stepping down ...

‘Parliament no longer represents the people’: May loses her own motion

Headlines

'Campaign Gold': McConnell delivers election gift to Manchin and red state Dems

China stocks surge more than 3.9 percent, extending Friday's rally

Caravan swells to 5,000 ... vows to reach USA

Feds draft plan to discard Obama's transgender ideology

Donald Trump learns to love his haters

Don't believe the doves: US trade disputes likely to escalate after the midterms

Mueller examines conflicting accounts of Roger Stone ...

Economic profiles of 50 states reveals GOP represent the poor, Dems the rich

Russia slams U.S. withdrawal from arms treaty as 'blackmail'

Quake of magnitude 6.7 strikes off of Canada's British Columbia

Texas MAGA crowd in line 24+ hours before event ...

Poll: Majority of Americans oppose 'assault rifle' ban ...

Headlines

Manafort's prosecution's frustration with judge leads to firey clashes

Beijing blasts 'double faces' U.S. and 'will not surrender' to 'trade blackmail'

FACEBOOKAPPLEGOOGle get out of the free-speech movement ...

Report: Illegal aliens self-deporting to Canada due to Trump's crackdown

Trump: 'U.S. seeking world peace, nothing less' with Iran sanctions

Ongoing California wildfire is  now now state's largest ever in recorded history

Senate Dems circulating plans for gov't takeover of Internet ...

Early Democrat polls favor Joe Biden for 2020, Ssenate colleagues sceptical

Democrats poised to pick transgender woman for Vermont governor

U.S. and India square off on trade. This spells trouble for Modi

China tests 4,563-mph hypersonic aircraft that fires 'unstoppable' nukes

Scientists spot massive rogue planer just outside solar system

Cause du Jour

Why is it that only liberals seem to have causes that they will stage emotive protests for: legalize marijuana, "women's reproductive rights," equal pay, transgender bathrooms, black lives matter, dump Trump Women's March, safe spaces, #MeToo, down with Civil War monuments, save the planet, bam guns, no tax cuts, open borders, same sex marriage, evil white privilege, eliminate ICE? The list goes on and on and on. As soon as the emotion drains out of one cause, another one steps in to take it's place. Do not these fulminaters have anything else to do with their empty lives? Must our media always have a weekend protest or boycott or diatribe to headline? It all seems very artificial and superficial to this observer.

Are these real grassroots protests or is this a lot of AstroTurf ... ginned-up crowds comprised mostly of many Soros-paid actors ... or  rent-a-mobs? (There are agencies which will actually rent you a spittle-flecked mob for any cause you want. How cynical can you get?)

The free-speech, save the whales and free-love activists of our youth seem so much more tame and naive than the cause du jour gauntlets we are forced to endure these days. What's next? "Green cards  for all the jihadists'  children?" Spare me!

Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

There was a cowgirl from Dallas

Who sported a vestigial phallus.

She went on a bender,

When told she's transgender

And dismissed the premise with malice.

64 Bitcoin Question

For you Never-Trumpers. I know you are clearly turned off by Trump's style. So now, if Trump's policies were presented with Obama's silken style ... maybe even by an Afro-American version of Trump, would you feel any differently about him? (Imagine he is transgender too, if this helps. )

 Or, if you really want to have night sweats, imagine Obama with Trump's policies ...

Silver Linings

- "Shithole": takes Michael Wolff's book off of the front page for a while

- A poorly designed new U.S. Embassy: gives Trump and excuse for not visiting London

- The Energizer Bunny: tends to keep Bill Clinton out of the public square

- Expensive Chardonnay: tends to keep Hillary Clinton out of the public square

- Cryptocurrencies: a novel way for the wealthy to piss away huge fortunes

 - Mexican wall: the bullet in the Democrats' game of Russian Roulette

- NYC truck attack: a reason to get rid of  the visa lottery and chain migration

- Colin Kaepernick's protest: an excuse not to watch increasingly boring NFL games

- Russian meddling charge: exposes the perfidy of Obama's Deep State

- Transgender bathrooms: shows the folly of women pissing into an urinal standing up

- Weiner-Abedin marriage: keeps Carlos Danger from testifying against Huma

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which from Politico?

Scaramucci cranks up the pressure on Priebus

IRS continues to hire employees with performance problems

Plane sized asteroid buzzes Earth undetected ...

Erdogan: Universities need to stop Muslim 'brain drain to West'

Joint Chiefs: 'No change' to transgender policy

Pakistani village orders teen raped for her brother's crime

Texas GDP soars 3.9%: California flatlines at 0.1%

Amazon Bezos world's richest man

Graham: Firing Mueller would be the 'beginning of the end' of Trump's presidency

Newt Gingrich tells Scaramucci to slow down and learn the business

OJ sends cease and desist to Goldmans ... says threatening him ...

The 'Trump option': Basic health care for all, private insurance for everything else

Gender Bemding

Sometimes distinctions make common sense. President Trump's new policy of banning transgenders (just the T in LGBT) from the military has raised another imbroglio. It seems that this about-face from an Obama out-the-door policy was primarily motivated by Congress's inability to deny taxpayer payments for sex-change operations and hormone therapy for transgender service personnel.

Who has been our most recent transgender soldier? Remember? Why Bradley Manning, that's who. He was the traitor who gave over seven hundred thousand secret and sensitive documents to Wikileaks, was convicted of espionage, started sex reassignment treatments and renamed himself  Chelsea ... and spent less than four years in the brig out of his 35 year sentence ... having gotten an executive pardon during Obama's last days in office.

Maybe, with Trump's new policy tweet, this Chelsea Mamning debacle will now be a lot less likely to be repeated?

Afterward: Why did Obama find a novel and departing affinity for transgenders?

Headlines

These headlines all came from Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Is State Dept. going easy on Russian diplomats?

Hillary Clinton calls GOP the 'death party'

Refugees to US cut in half

Military chiefs want transgender enlistments put on hold

Grassley, Feinstein want answers from Lynch

Federal court upholds law allowing refusal of service to LGBT couples

Georgia seeing huge decrease in food stamp use ...

Legacy on line: Obama return to campaign trail to save Democrats

Macron's EU charm offensive stops at Eastern Europe

Time Magazine falsely claims Planned Parenthood funding used for mammograms

Universal health care bill stalls in California ... 'The plan is dead' ...

Turkey claims U.S. promised to confiscate weapons from Kurds

Headlines

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

NKorea 'fires missile at Japan' ... fail ... exploded ...

Finally: A former law student hilariously tries to be Neil Gorsuch's Anita Hill

Sears warns of 'substantial doubt' about company's future ...

Ivanka Trump gets West Wing office as role expands ...

California lawmakers warn companies against working on border wall

Police: Chicago teen gang-raped on Facebook live

Wellesley students can't handle controversial opinions, professors say

Biological man who 'identifies' as a woman crushes the competition

Germany: Three Islamists teens convicted of bombing Sikh temple

Schumer calls for delaying Gorsuch vote because of Trump-Russia probe

Chinese companies investing in American manufacturing plants

Jerry Brown seeks 'common ground' with Trump

Town Hall-itosis

One of the latest fake news memes is that Republicans are in full revolt as seen in some town halls full of shouting protesters. Now, President Trump is suggesting that some of these uprisings have been packed with (Soros?) lefties ... see: Politico Story.

Is Trump right? I think maybe he is. Yes, there is some distress that is coming from the right ... particularly about the slow pace of remaking Obamacare, tax reform, and regulation rollbacks. However, when I heard that these town hall protesters are shouting at their Congress persons to resist Trump's immigration and transgender policies (as some have been doing), then I think Trump is onto something. There even is a town-hall protest "Training Manual" put out by  Obama's "Organizing for Action" ... see: NY Post Article.

So, dear reader, may I suggest that you carefully listen to what questions are asked and look at the placards that these "constituents" are using at these town meetings. If these meetings are full of insidious histrionics, then this does not sound like conservatives. After all, it has been only a little over a month since Trump was inaugurated ... and the Democrats have declared the "honeymoon" was over before it even started ... a good reason for some delays.

Loyal Republicans would likely be a little more understanding and patient, IMHO. This Town Hall-itosis reportage just doesn't smell right.

Afterward: See also: Powerline Blog.

FU America

President Obummer, instead of blowing kisses to his constituency as he leaves for his coming life of abject luxury ... wherein he is expected to rake in at least a billion dollars of tribute, is instead giving the one finger salute to his countrymen. One of many of his parting gifts is the commutation of the sentences of 1715 drug offenders (more than the last 12 presidents combined, see: USA Today Story  ... mostly amphetamine or heroine or crack cocaine dealers and manufacturers) who, according to source research done by Howie Carr, over a third of which had used guns in the commission of their crimes (likely quite a bit higher percentage since many gun offenses are often plea-bargained away to obtain a guilty drug plea.) Apparently gun control is, cynically, quite a relative thing to Obummer.

The obvious question is: How many of these drug offenders will return to a life of crime and exacerbate the opioid and drug epidemic that this nation is currently suffering? Recidivism rates are generally quite high among such criminals. Studies have shown that as many as 41% of such offenders will be re-arrested within the first year after release! See: National Institute of Justice for interesting data. Now, may we assume that Obummer's vetting process cuts this number in half ... down to 20%. This still means that, as a parting gift, Obummer has punished us with 340 bad guys out to corrupt our children and grandchildren with their evil goods. (And I am sure the numbers will be substantially higher.) What a sinister way to say goodbye and "thank you" to American for all that has come his way.

And why would Obummer perform this evil deed? Perhaps because he was a heavy drug user himself in his youth and identifies with the equivalent of his former suppliers?

Among others (see: Washington Post Article), he has also commuted the 35 year sentence of Chelsea (née Bradley) Manning for treason. This transgender seditious soldier, Manning, will be released after serving less than 10% of this easily justifiable sentence. (He could have and probably should have been executed.) I wonder what Obummer saw in Manning that inspired him to empathize with this scumbag? I wonder?

Lastly, Obummer also granted clemency to Oscar Lopez Rivera, the FALN terrorist who killed 6 people and was an ally of Fidel Castro ... shades of his "neighbor," the Weather Underground bomber Bill Ayers.

Are we beginning to see a pattern here?