Trump: I don’t expect to release my tax returns before November

Trump: I don’t expect to release my tax returns before November

In a reversal, Donald Trump no longer appears eager to release his tax returns before the November election. 

The party of "Family Values" nominates a candidate with 3 marriages, then attacks their opponent for holdin' hers together.- Tea Pain

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• ISIS claims responsibility for Baghdad bombing that killed dozens
• Georgia begins U.S.-led military exercise, angering Russia
• US heralds Romania missile defence system as step forward

Hey remember the last time we elected a millionaire-at-birth CEO who supported Nam but avoided serving to run America like a business? - John Fugelsang

Republican Shenanigans

• George W. Bush's daughter tries to set up squirming Prince Harry with her twin sister: 'Listen, she's available'
• Will Miami's Republican mayor vote for Trump? 'Of course not'
• Mitt Romney rips Trump for not releasing his taxes: He can only be hiding ‘bombshell of unusual size’
• ‘Your mic is hot!’: Sean Hannity screams for Geraldo to stop insulting Bernie during victory speech
• Donald Trump turns his attention from ‘Crooked Hillary’ to ‘Crazy Bernie’
• North Carolina school official suggests kids use pepper spray on trans people in bathrooms

In North Carolina, 30% of bridges are structurally or functionally obsolete and the state ranks 37th worst for bridge safety. But their bathroom security is the envy of the world. - Andy Borowitz

Do You Remember When George H W Bush Got Sick In Japan?
Japanese are welcoming President Barack Obama's decision to visit the atomic-bombed city of Hiroshima, and those interviewed Wednesday said they aren't seeking an apology.

Rock The Voter News

• Independents just delivered another state for Bernie Sanders
• Bernie Sanders to MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell: 'Please do not moan to me about Hillary Clinton's problems'
• Hillary Clinton Backs Income Limits on Parents' Costs for Child Care

The NRA’s Unhinged Spokesman 
Ted Nugent’s at it again, posting a video of Bernie Sanders shooting Hillary Clinton.

A FB friend had a baby 2 hours ago and she already posted a video slideshow of baby pics complete with music. [snorts birth control pills] - OhNoSheTwitnt

Biz/Tech News

• Crude Oil 46.07
• Yen pressured after Japan's verbal warning, dollar gains traction
• Fox News says new tabloid stories on Ed Henry raise ‘serious questions’
• CalPERS, NYC pensions urge Exxon investors to back climate measure

Instead of America maybe Budweiser should change its name to a country whose election isn't being laughed at by the rest of the world. - OhNoSheTwitnt

Google Says NO To Payday Lenders
Internet giant Google said Wednesday it will ban all ads from payday lenders, calling the industry "deceptive" and "harmful."


If Gene Simmons thinks Prince was "pathetic" then Gene Simmons still hasn't watched the Gene Simmons sex tape.- John Fugelsang

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Odd News

• 'This is impossible:' New York man wins his 2nd $1M lottery
• Man admits locking Verizon worker in underground vault
• Beware Everest graffiti artists, China is watching you
• A wild tune: Alaska moose harmonizes with home's wind chimes
• The San Andreas fault is about to crack — here’s what will happen when it does

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Polish sculptor Małgorzata Chodakowska has made a name for herself by creating unique, moving sculptures and statues that actually feel like they have a human-like presence in the room. Now, she's taken her work a step further and added water, creating bronze statues that double as spectacular fountains. Hey, I'm half Polish! You go girl! :)  See more pictures

Peace.

Trump says he'd make exception to Muslim ban for London mayor

Trump says he'd make exception to Muslim ban for London mayor
Donald Trump suggested Monday he would make an exception to his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the country for London’s newly elected mayor, according to The New York Times.
“There will always be exceptions,” Trump told the paper when asked about Sadiq Khan, who was elected on Friday as London's first Muslim mayor.


Dick Cheney supports Donald Trump.
Cheney: "He had me at waterboarding." - Tea Pain

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• ISIS Battle in Iraq Stalled by Ethnic and Religious Strife
• China scrambles fighters as U.S. sails warship near Chinese-claimed reef
• Islamic State 'military emir' killed in Iraq during US-led air strike: Pentagon
• Israel Patrols Its Southern Border as ISIS Lurks in the Sinai Peninsula
• Iran equipped with Russian missile system: defence minister
• Afghan Taliban tighten squeeze on Helmand capital
• Obama to be first sitting US president to visit Hiroshima

GOP Benghazi Panel Uncovers Disturbing Finding: Hillary Still Presidential Frontrunner. - Cafe Tweet

Oregon's Militants On The Increase
Joseph Rice’s manner is a long way from militia stereotypes. The Patriot Movement leader does not present as a crazed gun nut, nor as a blowhard white supremacist. He’s genial, folksy, and matter-of-fact in laying out his views. But talk to him for long enough, and time and again the Patriot Movement leader returns to what really drives him: land.


Trump's ignorant view of Islam could make both our countries less safe. It risks alienating mainstream Muslims. London has proved him wrong. - First Muslim Mayor of London

Republican Shenanigans

• NC Republicans fear ‘bathroom law’ will dent ‘small government’ brand — and cost them the election
• Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick bullies superintendent for accommodating transgender students
• Seth Meyers nails flip-flopper Trump as a ‘Magic 8-ball’ candidate: Shake him for a different answer
• Heidi Cruz compares Ted’s presidential campaign to the fight to end slavery 

I just dream of an America where people can use the correct bathroom without Republicans crying about it.- LOLGOP

Of Course The Donald Won't Raise Taxes On The Rich. He Was Kidding!
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump backtracked on Monday on his remarks about raising taxes on wealthy Americans, saying the rich might simply get a smaller tax cut than he originally proposed.


Lindsey Graham: "Donald Trump is a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot.” 
Trump Supporter: "I know!  Isn't he great?" - Tea Pain

Bundy Rallies The Troops
Environmental groups have called on the government to round up Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy’s cattle with a mass seizure of livestock that some fear could lead to a tense standoff between armed militia groups and federal authorities.


Next week Trump will order Chinese take-out and declare, "I just love the Orientals!" - Tea Pain

Rock The Voter News

• Voters in West Virginia and Nebraska cast primary ballots

Every 1 dollar spent on prison education saves us $5 on re-incarceration costs & that's why we need to cut those programs. - John Fugelsang

Biz/Tech News

• Kerry: Businesses using US sanctions as excuse to avoid Iran
• Nigerian oil output falls towards 22-year low as violence spreads
• 30 finalists for ‘World’s Best Building’ announced -- which would you pick? 
• Hyperloop reveals how it will levitate at 760 mph

A corrupt finance system has made income inequality not only a threat to our economic security, but a threat to our democratic values.- Bernie Sanders

Patriotic Beer!
As part of its summer 2016 summer ad campaign, beginning May 23 Anheuser-Busch is replacing the word Budweiser on its cans and bottles with 'America,' and swapping out King of Beers for the U.S. motto, E Pluribus Unum. 

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Odd News

• Crops grown on barge allows New York City residents to pick food for free
• ‘Second Skin’ May Reduce Wrinkles, Eyebags, Scientists Say
• 30-year-old Siamese cat is named world's oldest living cat
• Being polite to officer leads to Massachusetts man's arrest
• Alaska's favorite ice guessing game has 44 winning tickets

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Kumano Nachi Taisha Temple and Nachi Falls,in beautiful Japan.

Peace.

Donald Trump: My Administration Will Hike Taxes on the Rich

Donald Trump: My Administration Will Hike Taxes on the Rich
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump signaled Sunday that the wealthy would see higher taxes under his administration, breaking with conservative orthodoxy and his own tax plan.


I'd like to thank all the trolls for teaching us that Bill Clinton's history w/women means Donald Trump should get the nuclear launch codes. - John Fugelsang

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam

• Pentagon report reveals confusion among U.S. troops over Afghan mission
• Russia, US in fresh push on Syria resolution as Aleppo truce extended
• Taiwan enters South China Sea legal fray, as group seeks to sway international court
• Judge OKs U.S. extradition of Mexican drug boss 'El Chapo' Guzman

Tomorrow, Obama national security team will begin debating plan to arm moderate Republican rebels. - Jeffrey Goldberg

WMD = Weapon of Math Destruction
An Ivy League professor said his flight was delayed because a fellow passenger thought the math equations he was writing might be a sign he was a terrorist.

To correct an earlier rumor, Donald Trump will appoint Sarah Palin to head the "Department of Blamin' Stuff on Obama." - Tea Pain



Republican Shenanigans

• Jan Brewer calls for fewer female candidates: ‘This woman thing has gotten way out of control’
• Donald Trump picks Chris Christie to head transition team
• Rubio: I don’t want to be Trump’s VP
• Ex-McCain aide: ‘Assh*le’ Trump might literally go insane when he starts losing to Hillary
• North Carolina sues the Justice Department to protect its anti-LGBT ‘bathroom law’
• Pat Buchanan goes ballistic after feds sue NC: 'Why can't the minority deal with it?'
• Paul Ryan appears to be looking for an excuse not to go to Cleveland

Which is scarier to Republicans: gay couples eating cake, trans people using the correct restroom or poor people getting health insurance?- LOLGOP



SCOTUS Nominee: Yes To Trump, Still NO To Obama
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) said Monday that there'd be "no problem" with presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump nominating someone to replace the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

32,000 Americans die each year due to guns and if we can just solve the problem of trans people needing to pee, we may want to look at that.- LOLGOP

Rock The Voter News

• Reid: GOP got what it deserves with Trump
• Bernie Sanders helps staffer get engaged
• Hillary Clinton's Plan to Combat Climate Change

Donald Trump calls Bill Clinton a "serial adulterer" in a new interview in People In Glass Houses Magazine. - John Fugelsang

The Nerve! Obama Makes Bison U.S.A.'s Mammal!
The bison has become the official national mammal of the United States under legislation signed into law by President Barack Obama on Monday.






Biz/Tech News

• Crude Oil 43.37
• CNN host pleads with Trump for more phone interviews after on-air tantrum about ‘misreporting’
• Panama Papers database exposing more than 200,000 shell companies goes online
• Madoff Sons' Fight Over Cash Endures Long After Their Deaths

I Can't Support The Troops On This
Active-duty service members prefer Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton by 2-to-1, according to an informal survey released Monday by Military Times.

So it seems that rank-and-file Republican voters now realize that the GOP's conservative agenda has only served to further enrich the wealthy while doing zero for them. It only took them forty years to figure this out. - Andy Borowitz

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Odd News

• Here Are the Unusual Ways You’re Likely to Die, Based on the State You Live In
• Johnny Depp mocks his videotaped “war on terrier” apology 
• Man gets jail for pretending to be senator on school tour
• Shiitakepalooza helps Vermont mushroom growers and aspirants
• Police: Man seeking revenge causes damage at wrong home

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A mouse asleep inside a flower says, life is good!

Peace.