Financial Times, 8/28/16: "Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee, is backed by the pro-western government that took power after Mr Yanukovich was ousted"

https://www.ft.com/content/c98078d0-6ae7-11e6-a0b1-d87a9fea034f :

The prospect of Mr Trump, who has praised Ukraine’s arch-enemy Vladimir Putin, becoming leader of the country’s biggest ally has spurred not just Mr Leshchenko but Kiev’s wider political leadership to do something they would never have attempted before: intervene, however indirectly, in a US election.

"Financial Times" Editor: "Can't Find" What Article GOP Sen. John Kennedy Is Citing About Ukraine Election Interference

The editor isn't stupid. He just thinks you are.

Grand Rapids, Michigan, climate update for November 2019

Grand Rapids, MI, climate update for November 2019

Max temp 54, mean 66 (third lowest max since 1892)

Min temp 15, mean 17

Av temp 34.6, mean 39.1 (tied with 2018 for tenth coldest on record)

Precip 2.62, mean 2.84

Snow 6.5, mean 6.3

Heating Degree Days 910, mean 771 (ninth coldest on record)

HDD to date 1422, mean 1356 (4.9% colder than the mean, season to date)

Bill Kristol is such a joke: "DOJ serves every whim of Trump" but somehow can't bring itself to prosecute its own who weaponized intel to prevent his election

I just hate it when Mark Zuckerberg says anything remotely reasonable

It means the robots will soon be almost impossible to detect.

OK BOOMER is out, OK COMMIE is in

America was an extremist country until 1913

So says this nut, Adam Grossman:

As a Libertarian, some of [Harry] Browne’s economic proposals were extreme—including, for instance, abolishing income taxes. 

Well now, since the total public debt is today $23.076 trillion and climbing inexorably, I'd say the extremism is all post-1913. Measured in trillions, the public debt in 1913 was less than $0.00 trillion. 

Isn't it obvious that income taxes have become irrelevant?

We spend in deficit every year and simply keep adding to the total owed. Might as well just stop collecting income taxes altogether, since we've decided we can borrow indefinitely. We never pay as we go, let alone make payments on what we owe.

Why are taxes even necessary anymore, since nothing has ever had to be paid for, or paid off?

Income taxes are dispensable.   

DNC still full of malarkey, won't recognize Boston Globe poll showing Tulsi at 6% qualifying her for Dec debate

Rigged!

Hong Kongers embrace Trump as their Rocky Balboa after Trump signs The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act

The FBI is in a shambles, but the DOJ is a complete train wreck

A 63-page report released last month found "numerous issues" with the FBI's use of confidential sources during a period that included the 2016 election. That report revealed that the FBI lacked appropriate procedures to vet and maintain oversight of sources like the ones used against the Trump campaign. This created a security risk for the United States. Yet no prosecutions have been announced.

Last August, an even more serious finding was released when the IG determined that the FBI director himself [James Comey] had violated FBI policy and the terms of his own employment agreement in disseminating classified information for release to the media. Though the DOJ could have prosecuted based on the report's findings, it declined to do so.

A May 2019 IG report implicated the FBI deputy assistant director for unauthorized contacts with the media, illegally disclosing sealed court documents and other sensitive information to the media, and accepting gifts from the media. The DOJ declined to prosecute. But why? The IG recommended prosecution.

The IG's June 2018 probe into the Hillary Clinton email investigation implicated the FBI's head of counterintelligence, Peter Strzok, of repeatedly articulating a strong political bias even as he headed up the investigation of Clinton's exposure of classified information. The 500-page report, which reviewed 1.2 million documents and included interviews with more than 100 witnesses, documented numerous questionable decisions that benefited Clinton or damaged Trump, though the IG acknowledged the parties denied their political bias impacted their decisions.

Finally, an April 2018 report implicated FBI Assistant Director Andrew McCabe of inappropriately authorizing the disclosure of sensitive information to a reporter and repeatedly lying to investigators about it. The report found McCabe lied four times, three under oath, and that it was done "in a manner designed to advance his personal interests at the expense of Department leadership." Though McCabe was fired, he wasn't prosecuted.

The story is here.

The secret mission of the Biden tour bus is to clean up the malarkey flushed by the DNC bus in 2016

DPRK News Service drops mask in rare display of counter-revolutionary personal gloating after second victory over US propaganda organs

The victory belongs to all the people of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, not just you.

CA-25 must be the oculus to hell: It's going from Katie Hill boinking everyone in sight to Cenk Uygur doing the dog

Remember that politicians usually lead with the thing they will end up botching the most, so your choice is tons more immigrants under Trump or tons more malarkey under Biden

Joe Biden sucks . . . just ask his wife

Obviously Pocahonky has never observed how Injuns routinely fleece whitey at their casinos

France's Macron says Russia is not the enemy of NATO, John McCain rolls over in grave

Trump abandoned his America First immigration agenda already at the beginning of 2019, making Michael Bloomberg a distinction without a difference

England's Brexit party has gone off the rails just like Trump

It's like the two "movements", in reality just evanescent phenomena, upon discovering their political power went straight for the aisle where the stupid pills are kept and bought every last bottle.

In the matter of Pocahonky v. Northam, Democrats have ruled in favor of Northam

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