Remembering the brave who gave their lives so we might live in freedom

Memorial Day losing its meaning, vets groups and families lament
Allison Jaslow heard it more than once as the long holiday weekend approached -- a cheerful "Happy Memorial Day!" from oblivious well-wishers. The former Army captain and Iraq War veteran had a ready reply, telling them, matter-of ...



Trump:
- avoided military service
- mocked a prisoner of war
- insulted a Gold Star family
- cut VA funding in proposed budget
#MemorialDay
- Jeff Tiedrich



I cried when I saw this tweet this morning.

Then I saw this meme.

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• North Korea fires missile in latest provocation — and despite tough talk from Trump
• Trump raged at Palestinian President Abbas in meeting: ‘You tricked me!’
• McCain: Putin is a greater threat to the world than ISIS
• State Department official: ‘Tacky’ Trump acted like a ‘drunk tourist’ during disastrous Europe trip
• Macron attacks Russian media outlets
• How a single sentence from Angela Merkel showed what Trump means to the world
• ‘They didn’t even know me’: Target of Portland killer’s hate speech thanks heroes who gave their lives

"I like people who weren't captured."
-- Donald J. Trump, June 18, 2015

It's 2017, Germany has a woman leader, and the United States is being run by Nazis. Life... comes at you fast. - OhNoSheTwitnt‏



Trump Pisses Off Germany
Germany's foreign minister launched a scathing criticism of Donald Trump on Monday, claiming the US President's actions have "weakened" the West and accusing the US government of standing "against the interests of the European Union.

A crazy thing about being white now is when other white people talk to you about Trump like they assume since you're white you love him too.- OhNoSheTwitnt‏



Republican Shenanigans

• Kushner Asked to 'Lay Low' After Russia-Related Reports, Source Says
• Republican Sen Chuck Grassley calls for probe into promotion of Kushner
• Trump family members met with GOP leaders to discuss strategy
• Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declines to host Ramadan event at State Department
• MSNBC host stunned when spy catcher insists Jared Kushner is ‘absolutely’ a Russian agent
• ‘There is only one snowflake’: Kimmel writer hilariously mocks Trump after he blocked her on Twitter

Today we honor president Trump's bone spurs, who served him bravely, then died suddenly when the draft was over.  - OhNoSheTwitnt‏

100 Eighth Graders Refused to Pose for a Photo with Paul Ryan
For students across the country, the traditional eighth-grade trip to Washington is a chance to join the throngs on the Mall and perhaps spot some of the world's most powerful people on the grounds of the U.S.

On a personal agony level, watching this president interact with foreign leaders is on par with watching grandpa try to breakdance.- John Fugelsang


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Can the next white supremacist to murder innocent Americans also please leak some White House secrets so the President will mention it?- John Fugelsang



Rock The Voter News

• Obama hung out with Prince Harry this weekend
• WATCH: Adorable Texas girl wants to know 'where did Obama go?' in set of viral videos
• Former Michigan gov: Trump is ‘creating a circular firing squad and he’s the one pulling the trigger’

Jimmy Carter wearing an Allman Brother's Band t-shirt. Godspeed Gregg.

Benghazi and Emails Die a Quiet Death
A federal judge in Washington has dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Hillary Clinton's lax security surrounding her emails led to the deaths of two of the Americans killed in the 2012 attack on the U.S.





The only thing worse than a president who embarrasses us in front of our allies is having our allies be embarrassed for us.- John Fugelsang

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Biz/Tech News

• Oil edges up in quiet holiday trade, focus on crude glut
• British Airways vows 'never again' after costly IT collapse
• Expanded laptop ban could cover half a million travelers a day
• Most Chipotle restaurants hacked with credit card stealing malware

During a NATO meeting , President Trump was seen pushing aside the prime minister of Montenegro so he could move to the front of the group. You're a world leader, a world leader at a meeting of dignitaries and you act like they just called your number at KFC. - Seth Myers

Meanwhile In Russia
Russia completed the maiden flight of its new MS-21 medium-range passenger plane on Sunday, its first foray into mainline commercial aircraft since the collapse of the Soviet Union.







I hold up a $1 dollar bill to the 5-yr old.
"Who's this?"
"George."
"George who?"
"George... Harrison."
I let him keep the dollar. - John Fugelsang

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Odd News

• Golf legend Tiger Woods arrested in Florida on DUI charges
• Great white shark goes airborne, knocks over stunned fisherman
• ‘Bad neighbor’ unplugs bounce house at girl’s birthday party
• Why’d a turtle cross the road? To lay eggs on the other side
• ESO Begins Construction Of Telescope Big Enough To Find Alien Life

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Happy birthday, Mr. President. John F. Kennedy would have been 100 today. One of my favorite quotes from him is, "We cannot expect that everyone will talk sense to the American people. But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. "

Peace.

Montana Bodyslammer Gets Elected. D.C. Press Corp Reacts.

Gianforte's victory after assaulting reporter reflects rising tribalism in American politics
Greg Gianforte admitted to attacking a reporter and apologized during his victory speech last night, as he kept Montana's sole House seat in Republican hands.



The Republican congressional candidate for a special election in Montana yesterday reportedly body-slammed a journalist after he asked a question about the Republican health care plan. Now, to be fair, that basically is the Republican health care plan. - Seth Myers

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• Terrorism in America: If You Knew What I Knew, You'd Never Leave the House, DHS's Kelly Says
• Gunmen kill 26 people in latest attack on Coptic Christians in Egypt
• Chinese Jets Intercept US Plane in 'Unsafe' Incident
• US secretary of state flies to Britain to say sorry for Manchester leaks
• Donald Trump and NATO: Why His Silence on Article 5 Is a Big Deal
• Scarborough Blasts Donald Trump’s NATO Speech: ‘Love Note to Vladimir Putin’
• Mystery ensues after federal prosecutor found dead in Florida

I no longer think Trump conspired with Russia to win the election, because he would have bragged about it to a barista by now. - Conan O'Brien

Trump Bullies Germans
President Donald Trump has said Germans are “bad” for having a large trade surplus with the United States, drawing attention to a contentious issue at a summit of world leaders where trade is already a sticking point.



Soon, a politician will hack up a reporter with a chainsaw & a majority will say, "He still gets my vote because he supports school vouchers" - Erik Bransteen

Republican Shenanigans

• Jared Kushner now a focus in Russia investigation
• Federal appeals court maintains freeze of Trump's travel ban. Attorney general vows Supreme Court appeal.
• Republican Senators Say Scathing Report on Health Care Bill Makes Repealing Obamacare Harder
• WATCH: Macron Cooly Ignores Trump Just Long Enough to Make It Uncomfortable
• Rush Limbaugh Swoons Over ‘Manly, Studly’ Gianforte
• John Boehner unloads on Trump: A 'complete disaster'

Usually I'm against nepotism but I would support Jared Kushner going to the same prison as his father. - Andy Borowitz

The media's obsession with Trump voters is like sympathizing with drunk drivers instead of the innocent people they mow over. -@goldengateblond

Jesus Christ. Trump Always Was Nuts.
A Nobel Prize-winning cardiologist says that Donald Trump has had “Russia mania” for decades, and that the president once asked for his help in order to get close to the former head of the Soviet Union....and then he took his thumb and he hit the desk and he said, ‘And within one hour the Cold War would be over!’ I sat there dumbfounded. ‘Who is this self-inflated individual? Is he sane or what?'”



I would say that Melania's anti-bullying campaign hasn't really taken off. - Andy Borowitz

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In Rare Consensus, 28 NATO Nations Agree That Trump is Asshole. - Andy Borowitz



Rock The Voter News

• Barack Obama plays golf at St Andrews on Scottish visit
• Clinton on election loss: ‘I won’t lie, Chardonnay helped’
• Hillary Clinton Threw Major Shade at President Trump at Wellesley's Graduation

GOP strategist admits he colluded with Russian hackers to hurt Hillary Clinton, Democrats
The U.S. intelligence community has long since concluded Russia meddled in the 2016 election, and it was reported shortly after the 2016 presidential election that a GOP superPAC linked to Paul Ryan used illegally hacked material to attack Democratic... 




Easy to ridicule Montana for electing a congressman who assaulted one man until you remember that the United States elected a President who boasted about assaulting multiple women. - Andy Borowitz

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Trump called Germany "bad, very bad" for their car exports days after doing a sword dance with a regime that beheads dissidents with swords. - Brian Klaas

Biz/Tech News

• FBI investigating attempted hack of Trump Organization: report
• Trump and May reaffirm plans to boost trade after Brexit
• Lawsuit Claims GM Used Defeat Devices On Duramax Diesel Trucks And SUVs
• CEO pay by the numbers: How big were last year's raises?

Costs associated with body slamming, such as X-rays to the elbow and other injured body parts, would have to be paid for out of pocket under the G.O.P. plan. - Andy Borowitz

Trump Was Right! Lying Ted!
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) on Thursday said that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) improperly accounted for Goldman Sachs loans he received during his 2012 Senate campaign.
The FEC’s finding, which was posted on its website, marked a rare moment of agreement between the agency’s five commissioners.








They make cat food out of cow, fish, turkey, chicken & lamb meat.
But not mouse meat.
Which is probably all cats really want. - John Fugelsang

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FYI: I in no way resemble the woman above.

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Odd News

• Inmate hijacks van full of Lino Lakes prisoners and escapes
• Death rate from Alzheimer's disease in the US has risen by 55%, says CDC
• They tried for 17 years to have a baby. Now they have sextuplets
• Be Afraid Because Science Says Some Snakes Hunt in Packs
• 7th-grader gets 'Most Likely to Become a Terrorist' Award

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A Zeppelin flying above the more than 4,000 year old pyramids of Giza in Egypt, 1931. I wonder what those Egyptian men were thinking?

Best Wishes for a Peaceful Weekend.

Comey Investigation Update

Bad intel from Russia influenced Comey's Clinton announcement: report
Former FBI Director James Comey’s controversial decision to detail the FBI’s findings in the Hillary Clinton email case without Justice Department input was influenced by a dubious Russian document that the FBI now considers to be bad intelligence



Wow. Mueller is going to have his hands full. So Comey acted on fake Russian intel. He sure made a lot of bad decisions that all involved Hillary. There is more to this story.



This Russian investigation into Trump is like one of those Russian nesting dolls, except every time you open one, the doll inside is somehow bigger. And instead of it being a doll, it’s a horrible conspiracy concocted by Russian hackers to systematically erode America’s democratic freedoms. - James Corden

The World Is A Safer Place Without Saddam Trump

• US: More than 100 civilians killed in Iraq bombing in March
• Manafort advised the Trump team on the Russia investigation 
• Trump’s war on the press reaches dangerous levels
• Belgians to Donald Trump: ‘We love our hellhole’
• Trump scolds NATO allies for not paying their fair share 
• Victim of Turkish DC embassy brawl set to sue over injuries

President Trump is still on his big trip overseas. And I saw that he actually took over an entire hotel in Jerusalem. Mary and Joseph were like, “Seriously? You make room for THAT guy?” - Jimmy Fallon

Jeff Sessions Blames FBI Agent For Omissions
Attorney General Jeff Sessions did not disclose on security clearance forms that he met twice last year with Russia's ambassador, CNN reported Wednesday.
The form, the SF-86, asks applicants to disclose any contacts with a foreign government or its representatives over the past seven years.
Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores told CNN that an FBI employee who was helping Sessions complete the form advised him that he did not have to disclose meetings with foreign ambassadors that took place during his time in the Senate. 





daily reminder: your president is an ignorant, demented racist who walks around looking like his head got stuck in a cotton candy machine. - Jeff Tiedrich





After Trump pushes his way through, he snaps his coat and lifts his chin. Gawd what a thug.


You see Trump shove Montenegro’s PM to get to the front of NATO group? He's just longing for human contact since his wife won’t touch him. - Bette Midler


Republican Shenanigans

• Federal appeals court largely maintains freeze of Trump's travel ban
• FBI Tells Chaffetz They Won’t Supply Comey Memos For Now, Citing Mueller Probe
• Sean Spicer didn’t get to meet the pope. Even reporters feel sorry for him.
• Report: Trump can’t stop himself from interrupting meetings to fume about Russia and Comey
• Trump and French President Macron get to know each other with a fierce handshake
• ‘Fox & Friends’ ignore network’s own reporting on Gianforte assault to cover for GOP candidate
• ‘The fish rots from the head’: Morning Joe blames ‘brutish’ Trump for Gianforte’s assault on reporter
• Ben Carson: "I think poverty to a large extent is also a state of mind" 
• Reince Priebus ‘nervous’ Comey will leak another ‘damning’ memo — or that Trump will ‘blurt it out’ 
• Advertisers pull out of Sean Hannity’s show over Seth Rich conspiracy theory

It’s come out that President Trump asked two intelligence chiefs to push back against the Russia probe. Trump also asked them to make Melania hold his freakin’ hand. - Conan O'Brien

Loose Lips Sink Ships Seems To Be The Intent
A growing and critical narrative of the Trump administration — depending on one’s political leanings — is the alleged leaking of critical intelligence in a manner that undermines strategic allies and covert investigations and operations.
After the name of bomber Salman Abedi was leaked to US media just hours after the attack, which left 22 dead — and photos printed by NY Times that revealed the type of bomb used in the Manchester suicide attack — it now appears that Prime Minister Theresa May is jumping on board with those critical of some loose lips.

Pope Francis is pretty composed for someone who is finally coming face to face with the Antichrist. - Warren Holstein

Breaking: Man who refuses to provide proof that he pays taxes lectures other countries about paying for stuff. - OhNoSheTwitnt‏


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Rock The Voter News

• ‘We can’t hide behind a wall’: Obama taunts Donald Trump’s isolationism after rock-star welcome in Berlin

Yes, that's Donald Trump Jr. with the bodyslammer.

Killing Bodyslamming The Messenger
Greg Gianforte, the Republican candidate in Thursday's special congressional election in Montana, allegedly "body slammed" a reporter for The Guardian last night at a meet-and-greet event. The reporter, Ben Jacobs, took to twitter to describe the incident and claimed the altercation broke his glasses.




Modern Journalism 101
1) What?
2) Who?
3) Where?
4) When?
5) Why?
6) How?
7) Duck!

- Warren Holstein

The former head of the CIA told investigators that the Russians “brazenly interfered” with our election and actively contacted members of the Trump administration. And according to The Washington Post, the president asked two top intelligence officials to publicly deny evidence of collusion, and also asked them to find ways to get FBI Director James Comey to drop his investigation. Just like an innocent person would do. - Jimmy Kimmel


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Biz/Tech News

• US crude settles at $48.90
• S&P and Nasdaq hit all-time highs as big tech stocks rise
• Bitcoin plunges more than $300, goes negative after earlier hitting all-time high
• DARPA and Boeing Team Up to Build a Hypersonic Spaceplane

The whole thing is particularly cruel to one minority group: Trump’s voters. Because the president’s budget hits his own voters the hardest, taking aim at the social safety net on which many of them rely. It’s all there on Trump’s new hat, “Make the Poor Live on Squirrel Meat Again.” - Stephen Colbert

The GOP Did The Right Thing? Why. Yes. They. Did.
Restaurants, grocers and other businesses celebrated on Thursday as House Republicans backed off efforts to eliminate the cap on fees that banks can charge retailers when customers use a debit card.



I had this horrible nightmare that they came out with honey almond butter M&Ms and the paramedics couldn't fit me into the ambulance. - John Fugelsang

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Odd News

• 'Playboy' Model Sentenced Over Body-Shaming Woman At Gym
• Girl pulled into harbor by sea lion treated for rare seal finger disease
• Wisconsin woman jumps on hood of her SUV to prevent theft
• Trial date set for members of an Amish community in Kentucky cited over horse dung
• Florida student accused of changing grade from F to B

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NASA before Powerpoint, 1961.


Peace.