This guy is something else.

This war-monger can say ANYTHING he wants about ANYBODY or ANY OTHER COUNTRY. But criticism criticize him, his country, his supporters or, simply humanely state you advocate a cease-fire and peace, and he goes ballistic. 

Breitbart: Netanyahu: You Can’t be ‘MAGA’ If You’re Anti-Israel. 

JPost: Netanyahu criticizes hostage deal protesters.

Opposition head Yair Lapid said in response. "Netanyahu, maybe enough with the whining and your endless self-victimization? You are the most secure person in the Middle East." 

2023, 2024, 2025...how many hostage release deals offered that Hamas agreed to? Many. Search it yourself using DDG. Every time Netanyahu piles on 6-8 more demands that he knows are deal breakers. He does this because he doesn't care about the lives of the hostages. He only cares about his personal vendetta and vengeance.  He launched an UNPROVOKED ATTACK ON IRAN. 

READ Israel-based news providers because our MSM never reports this; Israeli citizens are fed up with Netanyau. Protests against him in 2025 alone. The families of the hostages speak out against him; they can't stand him - our MSM rarely covers this. His popularity is at an all-time low in Israel. 

BBC: Netanyahu accuses Australian PM of 'betraying' Israel. 

Breitbart: Netanyahu Raps Cindy McCain for Claiming Gaza ‘Starving’.

Not a fan of Cindy McCain, yet another example of Netanyahu's fragility. 

Reuters: Netanyahu calls Belgium PM 'weak' after Palestinian recognition pledge.

RT: Netanyahu accuses Macron of fueling anti-Semitism.

JPost: Benjamin Netanyahu criticizes PM Kier Keir Starmer. 

Times of Israel: In call with Putin, Netanyahu criticizes Russia.

NBC News: Netanyahu criticizes comments from U.N. speakers about Israel. 

The Samson Option. Yeah, anything bad that happens to Israel and they nuke the entire globe. How many other world leaders can get away with saying this and remain criticism-free? Trump? Putin? Xi? Kimmy, Jr? Think they wouldn't be piled on by the rest of the world?  

Sounds good. All Jews in the U.S. can lace up their combat boots and fly to God's Chosen Land and fight. See ya, Bye! 

No reason for America to fight or put the lives of our Military at risk for another of Israel's, Netanyahu's or any of its future leader's never-ending Wars.  Trump repeatedly says he wants to stop both wars in Ukraine-Russia and Israel-and-all-its-neighbors. Stop funding and providing military support to both Ukraine and Israel. 

Whine, Kvetch, pi$$, moan, grumble, Play the Victim [repeat ad nauseam for thousands of years].  

Assange has no reason to make this up. 

☝  True/Source (2005)

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Off topic brief: I read about this thing, maybe you've heard of it, it's called The Epstein Files, I believe. I guess Congress is looking into this matter, which is reassuring, isn't it? Pretty safe to say the public will have full access to this within, oh...two weeks? Because our RINO Congress is so transparent. Things habbening at Warp Speed. 😎 

Dan Crenshaw gets new eye!

Whoever did this about Eyepatch McCain...outstanding! 🤣 

U.S. Foreign Aid Taxpayer Giveaway reactions; Social Media & Memes.

100 Percent Fed Up: ➡ The RINOs Who Voted YES On Ukraine Aid.

"Eyepatch McCain" is on the list, surprising no one.  

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Irrelevant Cindy McCain says late husband John 'wouldn't recognize' today's Republican Party.

SHUT UP PLEBE! MRS. MCCAIN IS SPEAKING! YOU MUST LISTEN TO HER!

Daily Mail: Cindy McCain says late husband John 'wouldn't recognize' today's Republican Party, says 'we've lost our way' and praises Liz Cheney for doing 'what's good for the country' even though it will 'harm her in the end.

Cindy McCain, the widow of the late Senator John McCain, said her husband wouldn't recognize today's Republican Party.

'I don't believe my husband would recognize it,' she told MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell.

'I do know one thing, he would be fighting like the dickens to pull it back together,' she said.

She praised Rep. Liz Cheney for doing the 'right thing'.

(Sigh...)

'I do know one thing, he would be fighting like the dickens to pull it back together,' she said.  

Ooooooh, this relic is so in touch with the every day people, ain't she? Yep, sure is, youbetcha', like the dickens, she is, I tell ya fer shure.

Nobody cares, little Miss Heiress, who had an affair with a guy while his wife was sickly bedridden, and who later married him. No wonder she went through a phase of being a pill-popper. It's the only way she can live with herself and her sordid past.

John McCain died again.

AL.com: Utah’s Orrin Hatch, longest serving GOP senator in history, dies at 88.

Orrin G. Hatch, the longest-serving Republican senator in history who was a fixture in Utah politics for more than four decades, died Saturday at age 88.

His death was announced in a statement from his foundation, which did not specify a cause.

A staunch conservative on most economic and social issues, he also teamed with Democrats several times during his long career on issues ranging from stem cell research to rights for people with disabilities to expanding children’s health insurance. He also formed friendships across the aisle, particularly with the late Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.

Story Archived.

"Staunch Conservative"? The writer uses that term like they know what it means.

"Teamed with democrats"? It was a sprint across the aisle between Hatch and McCain on who could genuflect faster before the dems.

Age of presidential candidates is only an issue if you're not a DEM.

Interchangeable, aged, DEM presidential candidates.

2020 DEM candidates and their current age:

Joe Biden, born on November 20, 1942 - (age 77)
Bernie Sanders, born on September 8, 1941 - (age 78)
Michael Rubens Bloomberg, born on February 14, 1942 - (age 78)
Elizabeth Warren, born on June 22, 1949 - (age 70) (can we believe her considering her past fictional tales 'o her life?)
* Ages and date of birth via Wiki (for all candidates), footnotes referenced at Wiki.

In the 2008 presidential race, the age of RINO John McCain, born on August 29, 1936, was a "widespread concern". DEMS pointed out his age as often as possible. 

Wikipedia: 2008 presidential race age issue:

Similar to Senator Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign, one of the more widely leveled charges against McCain was the issue of his age—he turned 72 in August and there was widespread concern about the idea of electing a man who would be 80 years old if he completed two full terms in office[.]

With three 2020 DEM presidential candidates, there is no "widespread concern" over the their age. The DEMS are unconcerned over three of theirs on the doorstep of being 80. The media rarely mentions it either.

President Donald Trump, born June 14, 1946, is a youthful and energetic age 73.

Interchangeable, aged, DEM presidential candidates.

Take your pick. Bernie, Joe, Lil' Mike.

Mittens makes new friends. Loses others. President Trump Acquitted on both impeachment charges.

Sad Mittens

Breitbart: Mitt Romney: Donald Trump Should Be Removed from Office.

[FOX] Anchor Chris Wallace asked, “Do you believe that Donald Trump is unfit to serve as president and should be removed from office?”

Romney said, “I do believe he should be removed from office. That’s the vote that I will take in a while.”

Roll Call: Senate votes to acquit Trump on both impeachment charges.

The Senate voted 48-52 to reject the House’s abuse of power charge and 47-53 to reject the obstruction of Congress charge.
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Utah Republican Mitt Romney became the only Republican in Congress to defy Trump during the inquiry and trial, casting a vote to convict the president on the charge of abuse of power.

It's interesting that it was only last week that the JUNIOR Senator from Utah - (I read somewhere Romney hates being referred to as the JUNIOR Senator so let's all plan on using that when we write about him) - said he wanted the Senate to call witnesses because he felt there was more information needed. How quickly he decided today that he didn't need any additional info.

Mittens, you have some new friends with the DEMS. Likely the same as those who were palsy with John McCain.

Enjoy the short-lived attention. What - it's already over? This one's for you, Mittens:

"Everybody's My Friend" from Drastic Measures by Kansas.
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EDIT: I used the term "palsy" as in "palsy-walsy", not the medical condition(s). Just to clear up any misperception or misinterpretation.

A dying John McCain continued doing his best in pushing the false Steele anti-Trump dossier to James Comey.

Breitbart: IG Report Reveals Steele Funneled Claims Through John McCain After FBI Dropped Him.

Late Senator John McCain provided disgraced former FBI chief James Comey with five separate reports from Christopher Steele that the FBI didn’t previously possess related to unsubstantiated allegations of collusion between Russia and President Trump’s 2016 campaign, the Justice Department’s recent Inspector General report revealed.

There have long been questions about why it was necessary for McCain to pass Steele’s anti-Trump dossier to Comey on December 9, 2016, several weeks after the November 2016 presidential election. By then, Steele had already met numerous times with FBI agents to provide them with his controversial reports. Steele, however, was terminated as an FBI source in the fall of 2016 because he spoke to the news media.
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The IG report also verifies that a McCain aid obtained the Steele reports directly from Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, meaning that when McCain transferred the anti-Trump charges to Comey he had to have known that the material originated with a firm that specializes in controversial opposition tactics.
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States the IG report:

    Several weeks later, on December 9, 2016, Senator John McCain provided Corney with a collection of 16 Steele election reports, 5 of which Steele had not given the FBI. McCain had obtained these reports from a staff member at the McCain Institute. The McCain Institute staff member had met with Steele and later acquired the reports from Simpson.
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Prior to his death, McCain admitted to personally handing the dossier to Comey but he refused repeated requests for comment about whether he had a role in providing the dossier to BuzzFeed, including numerous inquiries sent to his office by this reporter.

In his book published last year, McCain maintained he had an “obligation” to pass the dossier charges against Trump to Comey and he would even do it again. “Anyone who doesn’t like it can go to hell,” McCain exclaimed.

Doing work so dirty even the DEMS didn't want to touch it. But McCain? He was only too happy and eager to oblige. And with pride...while he was dying.

You're handed a death sentence - a terminal diagnosis. You have limited time remaining on this planet. Who spends that time consumed with hatred and bitterness for a person they define as their "political nemesis"? You'd have to ask the McCain family, especially daughter Meghan and The Widow Cindy.

Joe Biden loved coal before he hated it.

Breitbart: Biden Attacks McCain in 2008 for not supporting the coal industry.

Biden told a crowd consisting of union mine workers in the closing days of the 2008 race that he and then-candidate Barack Obama would be better for the coal industry than McCain, the Republican presidential nominee.

“Ladies and gentleman, John McCain does not believe that clean coal is part of our future,” Biden said[.]
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“We’re not supporting clean coal,” Biden said looping Obama, who had campaigned on his support for the energy source [coal][.]
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The incident quickly became politically controversial, especially as “clean coal” was a top issue the Obama campaign[.]

National Interest: Biden in 2016: No place for fossil fuels in my administration, yet he loved coal in 2012.

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s proclamation that fossil fuels would have no place in his administration during Wednesday night’s debate was a far cry from his 2012 declaration that “we desperately need coal.”
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Biden says no place for coal in his administration pic.twitter.com/VeeUFjG9SH [.]
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“No, we would work it out. We would make sure it’s eliminated and no more subsidies … for any fossil fuel,” he responded.

Joe Biden; he'll say anything and everything.

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Today was John McCain Day? Who dis?

Today is Flag Day and the birthday of President Donald Trump.

I was unaware the McCaininites wanted to co-opt June 14, attempting to make this day a topical trending social media phenom.

I don't think things went as they planned.

I like the Tweet from Amy@Right Hook USA:

John McCain? Who dis?

I suppose Pudges McCain was beside herself today. The universe revolves around her, you know. She's cereal...Super Cereal!

From "Family Guy"

There are those who may feel this post is in Bad Taste. No...it's Caustic Sarcasm! It's what readers of this blog expect from me - at least, occasionally.

Happy Birthday, again, President Trump!

Meghan McCain's HYSTERICAL reaction to Fake News. The universe revolves around her, you know.

Meghan McCain

CNN: Meghan McCain blasts Trump over USS McCain controversy.

McCain was responding to reports that the White House Military Office asked lower-level US Navy officials about keeping the USS John McCain, named for the late senator's father and grandfather, out of view during Trump's trip to Japan last weekend.

 

Nice one, Pudges. Too bad you sucked up the Fake News like a Dyson:

Pudges reads the Fake News about the name of the USS McCain being obscured, doesn't bother to verify the story, goes straight to her Twatter account and bemoans, again, that it's all about her and her late dad. Pudges was Triggered by Fake News. I could be wrong, but I think most people would kind of be embarrassed and humbled by such triggering. Not Pudges. Give her a day, or less, and she'll back on her soap box.

Some guy who said one humorous anecdote several decades ago desperately seeks media attention, hopping on a momentary, topical Fake News story: 

He was funnier as a cokehead.

None of us has experienced the death of a loved one and suffered the degree of grief as has Pudges McCain. None of us. We can't imagine her grief; we just can't. Pudges is the Standard-Bearer of Grief and we must all accept the universe revolves around her.

It's all about you, Pudges. And your dad who spent the latter years of his Senate career, and presidential campaign, promising Americans one of his top priorities is to repeal Obama Care. And when the time came to belly up to the bar, he betrayed his promise to the people and voted to keep Obamacare. Why? It was John McCain's only way to give a "fuck you" to Trump. Wow, what character. What a display of statesmanship. What a two-faced tiny, little, bitter, selfish man.

I'll remind everyone that Pudges, this past April, said that she, "hopes Julian Assange rots in hell." Lots of compassion and forgiveness in the McCain family, huh?

I'm REALLY HAPPY to know the McCain family supports Creepy, Pervy, Hair-Sniffin DEM Joe Biden for president. If the McCain's had stated they support President Donald Trump, I'd be questioning the state of my mental health.

"Only in America." DEM Chris Cuomo mocks rape survivor Kimberly Corban.

Chris Cuomo Twitter

The Federalist: Chris Cuomo Mocks Rape Survivor For 2nd Amendment Views.

CNN Anchor Chris Cuomo thought he had a real sick burn on Wednesday when he mocked rape survivor Kimberly Corban on Twitter for saying she protects herself and her family with a firearm.

“Only in America,” Cuomo tweeted in response to a National Rifle Association video of Corban sharing about the night she was suffocated and raped in her dorm room at age 20.

Daily Mail: Backlash against Cuomo as he tries to backtrack his way out of his thoughtless tweet.

Janice Dean tweeted: ‘You might want explain this tweet a little better to those of us who’ve actually had to face predators in our own homes and defend ourselves without a big strong man like yourself?’

Liz Cheney, the Republican member of Congress, tweeted: ‘Yes, @ChrisCuomo, in America we believe women should be able to defend themselves. And we know the Second Amendment guarantees our right to do so.’

Cuomo then responded to a number of his critics, including McCain, when he wrote: ‘Read what I tweeted. You have my intentions wrong.

‘A survivor story and the right to bear arms is not where we are stuck...We can’t get past this deadlock on all or none to make reasonable changes to help reduce deadly violence.

‘Happy to talk if you have more questions.’

Daily Mail (October 2018): Chris Cuomo dubbed Trump's attack on Dr Ford as a 'shame campaign.'

[Dr Christine Blasey Ford's sister-in-law] Sandra Mendler said it was 'really terrible' to see Dr Ford's testimony misrepresented by Trump in an appearance on CNN's Cuomo Prime Time on Wednesday evening.
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During the interview, host Chris Cuomo dubbed Trump's attack on Dr Ford as a 'shame campaign,' adding: 'I didn't even see that coming.'

August 9, 2018; Cuomo gets a Lemon Birthday cake:

Cuomo: "What a wonderful surprise from Don Lemon CNN - a real birthday treat!"

Chris Cuomo..."only in America."

Meghan McCain Demands to be taken cereal!

Meghan McCain is cereal; super cereal. 

Yahoo: Meghan McCain Demands to Be Taken Seriously by ‘The View’ Co-Hosts.

[.]Meghan McCain seemed a bit irritated and annoyed with her colleagues for not taking her viewpoints on politics seriously enough[.]

 Epic Injustice!

The world universe revolves around Meg Griffin Meghan McCain

Meg Griffin Meghan McCain

It does, you know - - - everything revolves around Meg Griffin Meghan McCain:

Hey, who doesn't love a guy who leaves his disfigured and handicapped wife for a WEALTHY and much younger woman? People.com: 

Within a year of meeting [future second wife] Cindy, the still-married McCain, then 43, asked the 25-year-old Cindy to marry him.
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[Said McCain's first wife Carol Shepp], "He was looking for a way to be young again, and that was the end of that. I didn’t know anything about it, I had no idea what was going on, I was pretty much blindsided and it broke my heart.”

NewsOne: Cindy McCain steals vicodin and percocet from her own charity. I wonder if she swilled them down with Budweiser?

John McCain was...I'll be nice and not call him a POS...a miserable, bitter, envious, tiny little man.

The Phoenix New Times describes McCain as the Most Reprehensible of the Keating Five.

ShadowProof: John McCain lives the Keating Five Lush Highlife.

Business Insider: McCain the one who received the phony Steele dossier. And man, did McCain "run" with this report out of his hatred for President Donald Trump.

I hear he's been bestowed Sainthood.

Pudgy Meghan? She's not missing any meals or at risk of eating too few calories per day:

"I want a hamburger... no, a cheeseburger. I want a hot dog. I want a milkshake..."

Tech News

ArsTechnia: A history of Japan's car industry.

Hit the link. Check out the image gallery of cars.

Extreme Tech: Best cars of the 2019 Chicago auto show.

Hit the links in the link for more images.

Technocracy: Self-driving cars are INCREASING urban congestion.

Self-driving cars will likely jam up downtown streets by cruising at slow speeds rather than parking, according to a new analysis published in the journal Transport Policy. Using game theory and simulated traffic models, report author Adam Millard-Ball found that the vehicles will be incentivized to circle streets rather than pay for parking.

According to Millard-Ball’s model, even as few as 2,000 self-driving cars in downtown San Francisco could slow traffic to less than 2 miles per hour.

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Tech Dirt: Italy tells EU to drop Articles 11 and 13 in copyright reform.

Italy... has now made a pretty clear statement that if the country is going to support the latest directive, it needs to protect the users of the web, and the only way to do that is to remove Articles 11 and 13.

Good for Italy!
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ZD Net: Will Robot love fulfill emotional needs?

I wonder...how close are we to the era of when our robots will need shrinks?

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Beta News: Spotify to ban ad-blockers.

Under the heading "the following is not permitted for any reason whatsoever" Spotify lists, among other things:

   - circumventing or blocking advertisements in the Spotify Service, or creating or distributing tools designed to block advertisements in the Spotify Service[.]

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TechSpot: Senate investigations into government workers use of VPNs.

Recent months have been filled with news of international cybersecurity concerns and foreign meddling, and now two US Senators are going after a new target – virtual private networks (VPNs) used by governmental employees.

Who are the two senators? Marco Rubio (Republican) and Ron Wyden (Democrat).

10,000 to one odds that, three weeks ago, there might have been two - at most - two senators, who know what a VPN is.  This is similar to when John McCain was convinced the 2016 presidential election was hacked, and he pretended to know about hacking, yet didn't know what an exit node is. Sputnik News:

When questioned by a Sputnik reporter following the hearing about the debunking of the Joint Annual Report by security experts, including the finding that 43 percent of the IP addresses attributed to ‘Russian hackers’ were generic web-browser Tor exit nodes, the Senator responded by saying that he had “no idea” what she was talking about.

Lawmakers getting involved in Tech. Again. You have better odds in uniting the properties of water and electricity.
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Tech News World: Wireless carriers really selling our data.

AT&T, T-Mobile and Sprint have sold access to subscribers' real-time location data to aggregators, which in turn have sold it to about 250 bounty hunters and related businesses, Motherboard reported Wednesday.

In some cases, the data allowed users to track individuals to their specific locations inside a building.

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Gizmodo: Washington state's snow-induced mayhem.

Yeah, and hey, Washington, your snows keep coming our way, hitting the central Midwest. So...stop it!
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Computer World: Apple is disabling Safari's "do not track" feature.

The list of online entities who do not respect DNT requests includes all the usual privacy-eroding suspects, such as Google, Facebook, and Twitter. Medium, Pinterest, and Reddit do honor these requests, which rather suggests you can find alternative ways to make a business.

The Biden Buzz. Hey Joe, what's the website number?

Joe "The Great, Legendary, Acclaimed Plagiarist" Biden and his possible run for the White House is generating buzz.

WTVR - Biden will announce 2020 presidential run "soon."

Biden’s silence has raised questions among some Democratic donors and activists about whether he is ambivalent about running and uncertain about plunging his family into a bruising campaign, despite friends saying Biden has repeatedly argued he is the party’s strongest candidate to defeat President Donald Trump.
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[Said Biden], “I wouldn’t announce even if I were going to run that early. It’d be too early to get started.” [Timing] “would depend on the circumstances in the field and a whole lot of things.”

Ohhh...Ahhh...."circumstances in the field and a whole lot of things." He sounds so scientific and impressive. A deep thinker. He inspires confidence, doesn't he?

The Jeff Bezos Peoples' Republic examines what they call "a problem with Biden's rationale" for a 2020 run:

Other possible contenders and their supporters naturally would take issue with Biden’s assessment, citing his age, his goofiness and his identity as a Washington insider as liabilities. They’d argue that he’s too moderate to satisfy the progressive base. In addition, it’s far from clear that the Democratic Party wants a 70-something white guy as its standard-bearer.

Hey, hey, hey - stop right there. Let's not be slacky on the "70-something" age of Biden. The Left made John McCain's age an issue on his presidential run. Biden will be turning 78 on November 20, 2020. We're safe in rounding that up to 80.

Let's not forget Biden's "A-Game" Classic Moment in February 2009, when he asked, "Do you know the website number?"  LA Times Blogs:

While discussing Recovery.gov, the taxpayer's stimulus guide The Ticket wrote about this morning, on the CBS Early Show today, Biden was asked what the address for the website was.

His clueless response undoubtedly put a smile on the faces of tech savvy viewers.

"You know, I'm embarrassed," Biden said. Turning to someone off screen, he asked, "Do you know the website number?"

Bloggers and Twitter users scoffed at the phrase "website number" over the course of the day. Such a misnomer wouldn't be a shock coming from most 66-year-olds, but the Obama administration has emitted an air of tech savvy up until now. "Website number" sounds like something we'd hear from Sen. John McCain.

Joe considers himself the best Dem candidate. MSN:

In one of his calls over the holidays, Mr. Biden repeated a variation of a line he has used publicly: “If you can persuade me there is somebody better who can win, I’m happy not to do it,” he said[.]
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But then Mr. Biden said something he has not stated so bluntly in public: “But I don’t see the candidate who can clearly do what has to be done to win.”

The Week: "Joe doesn't 'get it'."  Most of us concluded this a long time ago.

We know Biden thinks dividing up geographical areas - like countries - is a great solution for intra-geographical - like countries - problems.

Iraq? NBC News:  Joe says, split it up into three.

Israel? VOA News: Joe says, split it in two.

Maybe Joe is the One who, if elected president, could successfully split the USA into two entities; Red State - Blue State. We'd all be happy with that, right? We should probably give another look at supporting Joe, for this reason alone. 'Ya think?

Run, Joe, run! You too Hillary! And Bernie, God love him; run Bernie, run! I'm looking forward to the Clown Show.

Mitt Goes to Washington

Desert News: Mitt Romney's niece sides with Trump.

GOP Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel issued a statement supporting President Donald Trump and challenging her uncle, Utah Sen.-elect Mitt Romney, on Wednesday morning.

McDaniel’s tweet came less than 12 hours after Romney wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post that spoke out against Trump.
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“What is interesting is that [Romney's op/ed] was sent to a national news organization. He was clearly attempting to address the nation and the world in some way. Before his first official day on the job Mitt Romney is already shaping the conversation in Washington,” [said] Jason Perry, director of the Hinckley Institute of Politics at the University of Utah.

Without John McCain and Jeff Flake, someone has to take up the (ahem...) moral compass (cough, cough, hack). Leave it to Mitt.

World News - July 17, 2018

He appears to have a lot of practice sucking co... eating snow-cones.

Awwwwwww...The Kenyan returns home. SMH:

Former US president Barack Obama has arrived in Kenya for a lower-profile visit than the ones he made to the country as senator and president, still he is making headlines and meeting leaders.

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GlobalNews.ca - Thai cave rescuer called ‘pedo-guy’ by Elon Musk suggests he might take legal action. 

The British cave diver publicly called a “pedo” by tech billionaire Elon Musk is considering taking legal action against the Tesla CEO.
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Musk gave no evidence for alleging [rescuer] Unsworth was a pedophile. Unsworth said he would consider taking legal action against Musk over the remarks[.]

I like, and have a lot of respect for, Musk, and I think we need to listen to what he says about AI and its potential to be used for harm. But his pedo comment is his ego leaping ahead of his intellect. C'mon Elon, you know better.
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Dying RINO John McCain still bitter he's not the president and that he still hates President Donald Trump.  AZ Central:

McCain's issued statement was among a number of Republican lawmakers who were condemning Trump's appearance in Helsinki, Finland.
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McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee and a frequent Trump critic, said in a statement that "no prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant."

Yeah, well, fuck you John. I'll take "Word Phrases That We'll Never Hear For $500:" The Answer is: President John McCain. "What are words that John McCain will go to his death never hearing?" I am correct.
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GNewt GNingrich (who, IMO has never been able to decide what side of an issue he is on or for what length of time) and Lindsay Grahamcrackhead had apoplectical hissy-fits over Trump's words at the Trump-Putin Summit. BBC:

President Trump must clarify his statements in Helsinki on our intelligence system and Putin. It is the most serious mistake of his presidency and must be corrected—-immediately.
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) July 16, 2018
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Senator Lindsey Graham...called the summit a "missed opportunity", a "bad day for the US" that will be sign of weakness to Russia."

Yeah, fuck these two dinosaurs. Both are irrelevant and long ago obsolete. And Lindsay...well, when one thinks of a "Strong America", the first person that pops into my mind is Lindsay. He's got that Bruce Willis/Charles Bronson/Clint Eastwood aura working for him. Am I wrong?
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France24 - The EU continues enabling Iran:

... the (European) Council has endorsed the update of the blocking statute annex on the nuclear deal with Iran[.]
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The "blocking statute" forbids EU firms from complying with US sanctions, allowing them to recover damages from such penalties and nullifying any foreign court rulings against them.

And when Iran chomps the ass of any part of the EU...gee, I wonder who the EU will go whining to for protection and assistance?
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Google engineer was beaten to death . Deutsche Welle:

A 32-year-old Google engineer was beaten to death and three others were severely injured... on Friday in the latest incident of mob violence fueled by fake social media messages.
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Since May, at least 25 people have become victims of vigilante justice triggered by fake warnings of kidnappers or organ harvesters circulated on the Facebook-owned messaging platform WhatsApp.

Maybe Elon Musk has a plan to solve this problem.
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The ever-competent IMF says trade tensions could pose risks to global economic growth. Italy News Net:

'But the risk that current trade tensions escalate further - with adverse effects on confidence, asset prices, and investment - is the greatest near-term threat to global growth,' IMF Chief Economist Maurice Obstfeld said.

And then again, maybe not. I love it when organizations like the IMF, or the World Bank, or the UN put out generalized statements that have as much value as saying, "you know, gambling in Las Vegas could harm you financially." Wow, would anyone think of this shit if it weren't for the IMF, WB or UN? And of course...the EU.
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New Zealand Herald - Vaping airline pilot causes plane to plunge 10,000 feet:

Air China Boeing 737 aircraft was flying to the Chinese city of Dalian from Hong Kong when it went down to 10,000 feet (3048m), with oxygen masks deployed.
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"In the preliminary investigation, the co-pilot was found to be smoking an e-cigarette," state-owned China News said[.] 

See, in the U.S. we go and pay good money at amusement parks in order to experience the same kind of thing. With Air China you get two-for-one; one from Corrumn A and one from Corrumn B. It's a Win-Win!

Image: CBC

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VOA News: Greenhouse gases making food less nutritious.

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China cozies up to, and wants to be BFF with EU. Xinhua Net:

Chinese President Xi Jinping said], "China stands ready to work with the EU on the basis of mutual respect, fairness, justice and win-win cooperation, to make still further progress in the China-EU comprehensive strategic partnership and promote bilateral economic and social development and people's welfare.

No doubt China and the EU will get along...fabulously.
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Coming soon - Carnivore Free Menu? The Politicalization of Food. Globe and Mail:

Plant-based choices will be strongly encouraged and eating more animal proteins will be frowned upon. Switzerland just released a new food guide that encourages consumers to reduce their meat consumption by 70 per cent. It’s happening everywhere.

"When they take the bacon from my cold, dead hands."

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All the little critters living in your house. CBC:

... a team of entomologists spends a week delving into the dark crevices of a typical Toronto house, finding a whopping 112 distinct species. But they say that's no cause for concern; an insect census taken in homes all over the United States revealed that number is about average.

Well, there are worse things, I guess, that could be living in our homes.  (Fast-forward to the 2:30 time mark).
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NDTV -  Striking workers put dent in Amazon's Prime Day Shopping Bonanza: 

Nearly 1,800 Amazon workers in Spain went on strike Monday during Prime Day, the company's biggest sales day of the year, according to labor activitists [sic]. Thousands more Amazon employees in Germany are expected to walk off the job Tuesday, the second day of the 36-hour sale, for similar reasons. 

CNBC: Amazon's Jeff Bezos wealthiest man in modern history.

According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Bezos’ fortune just crossed the $150 billion mark. That’s $55 billion richer than Bill Gates, at number two.

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Hmmmm...interesting.

Property owned by Pervez Musharraf seized. News Internationalist Pakistan:

The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has decided to seize [five luxury properties held] by General (retd) Pervez Musharraf after he failed to appear before the anti-corruption watchdog over allegations of Rs1,000 billion corruption and owning assets beyond means.

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TesFa News - it's a love fest now: Eritrean Embassy in Ethiopia Reopened:

“I feel boundless joy as I convey to you the message of peace, love and good wishes of the people of Eritrea. And, I congratulate you warmly for the successful and historic changes that you have brought about,” President Isaias said at a concert celebrating the peace process at the Millenial Hall in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa.

One. More. Time.
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The Week - Donald Trump's Weird Eating Habits:

The president’s diet has been ridiculed as childish and unhealthy. Here is what he eats and some of the weird ways he does it. He normally doesn’t eat breakfast.

OMG - what a heathen. He skips breakfast. (GAAAAASSSSP!) He must be the only one.  Why, I bet Trump wasn't even born in the United States.

John McCain - Bitter Until Death?

How can one remain so bitter at the end of their life? If one believes in an afterlife, and I believe that John McCain does, and you have a terminal medical issue and your time is limited; how can you hold on to, and foster, such bitterness until the very end?

I've never been a supporter of McCain, a RINO who disappointed Republicans by siding with Dems far too often.

I appreciate his service to our country. Was he "Songbird John" as some suggest? I don't know. Maybe, maybe not. There's a limited number of people who know if he was or wasn't. Does it matter at this stage?

"It doesn't matter, he's dying anyway,"  the remark from White House press aide Kelly Sadler. Whether it was said or meant with invective or not, so what? It's not like this remark triggered bitterness in McCain, as if prior to the remark his entire lifetime demeanor was "Mister Holly Jolly Christmas."

Are "distasteful remarks" now the new standard of judgment? If so, let's not pretend that this is the only distasteful remark made by a politician. There are plenty of distasteful and/or disrespectful remarks made by EVERYONE. Chances are, that since you woke up this morning, you've made a distasteful remark about someone or some thing. Is this how you want to be judged?

When people remember John McCain after he passes, does he want the first recollections of him to be, "bitter until the end," or, "Oh, that Maverick McCain, he sure gave Trump the 'fuck you' when he said he didn't want Trump at his funeral."

McCain meddled in affairs in which he had no business being involved, the least egregious being The Keating Five.

His major pissing points appear to be not being elected president and Trump's remark of "I like people who don't get captured."  His thumbs down vote against repeal of ObamaCare was nothing more than another "fuck you" to Trump.

His presidential campaign sucked and he is solely responsible for his loss, not Sarah Palin, not this or that or anything else. In his first presidential debate with Barack Obama, McCain came across as an angry, bitter old fuck. Is this someone I want as my president? Nope. I sat that election out and have no regrets.

You're dying Senator - - do you really want to hold onto bitterness until your last gasp?

Bernie Sanders 2020

Yeah...he'll be only 78 years old.

I remember...I'm pretty sure...that a bunch of people said that at age 72, John McCain was too old to be president. Gosh...who said that??? Oh, yeah; Democrats.

From The Independent:

Bernie Sanders' upcoming scheduled events - including appearances in New Hampshire - have prompted rumours [sic] of a 2020 presidential bid.

The Democratic Senator from Vermont is set to appear  at events over the US Labour Day holiday weekend.