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5/4/16
I wonder how much Boehner's "Lucifer in the flesh" comment had to do with Cruz losing Indiana & immediately capitulating?
5/4/16
and on the way out he punches Heidi ...
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) dropped out of the race for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday. Donald Trump is the presumptive GOP nominee. But Cruz added injury to insult after his concession speech: He accidentally punched and elbowed his wife, Heidi Cruz, in the face after he finished speaking.
Read more from The Huffington Post5/6/16
The men drugged her before they burned her alive. More than a dozen members of an "honor council" near the Pakistani towns of Makol and Dunga Gali, outside of Abbottabad, have been arrested for immolating a 16-year-old girl, according to a local police chief.
Read more from The Daily Beast5/16/16
Over the weekend Trump revealed that his feelings were hurt when the newly elected Mayor of London called him ignorant. "I think they're very rude statements and frankly, tell him, I will remember those statements. They're very nasty statements." He's willing to take an IQ test.
As to banning all Muslims from entering the US, he said such a ban "hasn't been called for yet" and was "only a suggestion."
5/16/16
This could be a good deal. What do you think? You need to go the arkencounter.com to sign up.
5/17/16
On the one hand, bat guano has played an important role in manufacturing gunpowder and explosives since the Middle Ages. Bat guano consists largely of saltpeter used in making (potassium nitrate, available online for US$4 a pound.) It's even said it prolonged the Civil War. "During the conflict, nearly every substantial Gray Bat cave in the South was harvested for its guano, and the Confederacy relied on these caves as a source for saltpeter long after supply lines were cut off."*
On the other hand, bat guano is incredibly rich in nitrogen and makes an excellent fertilizer to grow flowers in the garden.
that's ironic, isn't it ...
5/20/16
another wall story ...
Some Forest Grove High School students are planning a demonstration Thursday to protest a banner hung briefly in the school hallway this week that read "build a wall." Connie Potter, chief of staff for the Forest Grove School District, said the sign was put up Wednesday.
Read more from OregonLive.com5/20/16
Oklahoma calls for impeachment of Obama!
Obama plows on to cement his administration's accomplishments, really, really riling the right. Is that good for the election?
Separate but equal does have a nice ring to it.
OKLAHOMA CITY Oklahoma's Republican-dominated legislature has filed a measure calling for President Barack Obama's impeachment over his administration's recommendations on accommodating transgender students, saying he overstepped his constitutional authority. Lawmakers in the socially conservative state are also expected to take up a measure as early as Friday that would allow students to claim a religious right to have separate but equal bathrooms and changing facilities to segregate them from transgender students.
Read more from Reuters5/25/16
@elizabethforma Goofy Elizabeth Warren, sometimes known as Pocahontas, bought foreclosed housing and made a quick killing. Total hypocrite!
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