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June 28, 2016

There's going to be a bloodbath in Cleveland

It will be the battle of ReTHUG nutters.
I'm stocking up on snacks

June 28, 2016

So one channel is advertising

Viagra single packs. I switch - another is advertising Chantix. This is followed by an ad from the lawyers suing the makers of Invokana which said station advertised earlier.

The corporate media is one big Marketing firm for big pharma - it's for profit business with not one iota of responsibility

June 28, 2016

Prediction- Wendy Davis will be Governor of Texas one of these days

She whipped their sorry asses.
She also showed Dems how to deal with them.
That was a major victory today.

June 27, 2016

Psssssssssssssssssst Thank you Iceland

for sending England packing from the Euro Cup 2-1

That was a stunning upset

June 27, 2016

Howdy-Gowdy!!!! House Democrats release their own Benghazi report

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2016/06/27/democrats-say-no-blame-clinton-benghazi/86425430/
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The Democrats, like previous congressional investigations, fault weak security at the U.S. facility in Benghazi, and military resources that were not in a position to respond quickly enough to save lives.

Clinton, they concluded, did not personally deny requests for increased security at the vulnerable compound and claims of an order that the military "stand down" in its rescue attempts are unsubstantiated, the Democrats said.

A large part of the report attacks the Republicans for using the investigation as a political attack on Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee for president. Gowdy and the GOP have denied it was politically motivated, and instead is meant to be the final fact-based account of the circumstances before, during and after the attacks.

The Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attacks in Benghazi killed four Americans. Unsatisfied with previous congressional investigations, the House created a special investigative committee in May 2014. Despite a cordial beginning, the investigation became starkly partisan.

Democrats make several recommendations, including that the State Department coordinate with the Defense Department and intelligence agencies to "assess the willingness and capacity of host governments to defend U.S. diplomatic facilities within their borders" and if the host government is unwilling, the "sufficient diplomatic security or military forces must be available to defend or evacuate the facility," the report states.

June 27, 2016

Sterling down 10%

temporary suspension of some trades.

June 26, 2016

They should treat guns like printers

Printers cheap - ammo frightfully expensive

June 25, 2016

You've got to see this -Judy Garland’s Daughter Honors Orlando With ‘Over The Rainbow’



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lorna-luft-over-the-rainbow_us_576dffa3e4b017b379f616e8
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Lorna Luft surprised fans at a Wednesday concert in New York with her first-ever live performance of “Over the Rainbow,” a song made famous by her mother, Judy Garland.

The singer-actress, 63, told the crowd at Feinstein’s/54 Below that she’d never performed the song “not because it was too hard for me emotionally, but because I always felt you can’t improve on perfection.”

Pointing to the June 12 mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Luft added, “I thought to myself, if I’m ever going to sing this, now is the time.” (Don’t miss the incredible performance in the video above)

Luft’s decision to introduce the “Wizard of Oz” classic into her concert repertoire had personal significance, too, as June 22 marked the 47th anniversary of Garland’s death at the age of 47.

June 25, 2016

I'm waiting to hear how many of my colleagues pension portfolios

crashed and burned with Brexit.

We made a really good decision last year when I decided to retire.

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