I alone took the actions that needed to be done
and it was right and proper that the gods paid
me honors, bribes and flattery. For I know
that it is only the bold that is favored.

For when man speaks of Achilles, they shall always
remember the man who felled the unbeatable.
My greatness, my wit. For it was the great love herself
upon our lover's bed who granted me wisdom's virtue.

This is outrageous. No one wants Zuck, Bezos, or any of these sleazy, opportunistic, arrogant jerks to have their financial data.

When we forget that politics is about weaving a fabric of compassion and justice on which everyone can depend, the first to suffer are the most vulnerable among us—our children, our elderly, our mentally ill, our poor, and our homeless. As they suffer, so does the integrity of our democracy. —Parker Palmer

Now deleted, here a screenshot of the threatening Saudi "infographic" featuring an airliner headed for the Toronto skyline. pic.twitter.com/LrkCLxxjFk

— Tobias Schneider (@tobiaschneider) August 6, 2018

Just weeks after giving a speech that praised a former terrorist that he would gladly have tortured and assassinated in another age, former President Obama has won another prize for a peace that he worked hard to prevent.

Now deleted, here a screenshot of the threatening Saudi "infographic" featuring an airliner headed for the Toronto skyline. pic.twitter.com/LrkCLxxjFk

— Tobias Schneider (@tobiaschneider) August 6, 2018

Much of the case that’s made against Mueller probe defendant Paul Manafort is based in allegations made in the media that Manafort is a paid agent of Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska. What few seem to understand is that Deripaska has been acting as an asset of U.S. intelligence for at least the last nine years, beginning in 2009 when Robert Mueller was Director of the FBI.