@Wally
Biden is still in the running, how sorry is that. Ah well.

have a great one.

Polls for Breakfast! Since it's CNN, add 5 pts. to Bernie's numbers. Look at the drop in the enthusiasm for Warren among her supporters! We'll be seeing a lot more photos of her shaking hands with and even hugging Bernie.

OMG #Bernie2020 #BernieSanders #BernieOrBust #BernieBeatsTrump #BernieSanders2020 #cnn #berniesandersyoubastards #toptier #ILikeBernieSanders #ILikeBernie pic.twitter.com/XGDx3EnLGi

— TheBernieHouse (@BernieHouseBP) January 22, 2020

@smiley7
Saw that myself.

Have a great one.

thanks for the good stories and links, in a hurry this morning, will return later.

RIP Terry Jones of Monty Python https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-51209197

@Lookout
since their creation.

The CIA needs to be broken apart
...along with the FBI, and restructured to promote peace.

Thanks for the link and quotation and thanks for reading.

have a good one

...along with the FBI, and restructured to promote peace.

Take a look at their long history of crimes...
http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/CIAtimeline.html
This piece concludes...

The CIA should be abolished, its leadership dismissed and its relevant members tried for crimes against humanity. Our intelligence community should be rebuilt from the ground up, with the goal of collecting and analyzing information. As for covert action, there are two moral options. The first one is to eliminate covert action completely. But this gives jitters to people worried about the Adolf Hitlers of the world. So a second option is that we can place covert action under extensive and true democratic oversight. For example, a bipartisan Congressional Committee of 40 members could review and veto all aspects of CIA operations upon a majority or super-majority vote. Which of these two options is best may be the subject of debate, but one thing is clear: like dictatorship, like monarchy, unaccountable covert operations should die like the dinosaurs they are.

@Wally

Seems Bernie is ratcheting up and broadening his offensive scheme and taking square aim at Biden in behalf of older (and younger) voters, g'nabbit! I don't think there's any wiggle room for him to apologize for this one:

Let’s be honest, Joe. One of us fought for decades to cut Social Security, and one of us didn’t. But don’t take it from me. Take it from you. pic.twitter.com/qh7qb1Hmcl

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) January 22, 2020

@ggersh
headlines on all US media, but, of course, isn't and won't be. Gotta love this line, artfully bolded above:

Meanwhile, U.S. troops didn’t know whether the enemy was al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Pakistan, Islamic State, foreign jihadists or warlords on the CIA payroll.

Thanks for bringing that to the party, and, of course, for reading.

have a good one.

ameriKans can't have things you know like SS, M4A, free college modern infrastructure etc.etc.etc.

EDIT: added link
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/bush-obama-and-trump-have-all-routinel...

The Bush, Obama and Trump administrations all routinely lied to the American people about the success of the 18-year war in Afghanistan. They exaggerated progress and inflated statistics to create an illusion that that the war was winnable. But after the deaths of 157,000 people at a cost of $2 trillion, corruption is rampant and the carnage continues.

“There’s an odor of mendacity throughout the Afghanistan issue … mendacity and hubris,” John Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee during his January 15 testimony. In the last few years, Sopko said, the Trump administration has been “lying by omissions,” classifying “everything that is bad news,” including Afghan troop casualties and calculation of Taliban strength.

Sopko was called to testify before the committee to explain The Washington Post’s explosive December 2019 series known as “The Afghanistan Papers.” Based on hundreds of interviews with leading U.S. officials, Sopko published “Lessons Learned,” seven reports about the secret history of the war. The reports omitted the names of more than 90 percent of the interviewees.

“Several of those interviewed described explicit and sustained efforts by the U.S. government to deliberately mislead the public,” the Post reported. “They said it was common at military headquarters in Kabul — and at the White House — to distort statistics to make it appear the United States was winning the war when that was not the case.” U.S. military officials took a page from the Vietnam War playbook, “manipulating public opinion.” As Sopko told the Post, “the American people have constantly been lied to.”

In September 2008, Army Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Schloesser declared in a news briefing, “Are we losing this war? Absolutely no way. Can the enemy win it? Absolutely no way.”

Meanwhile, U.S. troops didn’t know whether the enemy was al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Pakistan, Islamic State, foreign jihadists or warlords on the CIA payroll.

Indeed, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld wrote in a 2003 memo, “I have no visibility into who the bad guys are.”

Since Bush illegally invaded Afghanistan in 2001, about 157,000 people have been killed, including 2,300 U.S. military personnel and 43,074 Afghan civilians. In 2018 alone, 3,804 Afghan civilians were killed, the highest yearly number since the United Nations began calculating casualties 10 years ago.

The cost of the United States’ longest war is over $2 trillion. That figure includes $1.5 trillion to wage war, $87 billion to train Afghan military and police, $10 billion for counter-narcotics, $24 billion for economic development, $30 billion for other reconstruction programs and $500 billion for interest.

Moreover, U.S. policies have exacerbated corruption in Afghanistan. “A toxic mix of U.S. government policies, under the administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama, directly contributed to Afghanistan’s descent into one of the world’s most corrupt countries,” the Post reported.

The massive amount of money Congress appropriated was distributed “with little oversight or recordkeeping,” according to the Post. “The ensuing greed and corruption undermined the legitimacy of the nascent government and helped make the ground more fertile for the Taliban’s resurgence.”

For example, a forensic accountant analyzed 3,000 Defense Department contracts from 2010 to 2012, totaling $106 billion. Approximately 40 percent of that money went to line the pockets of corrupt Afghan officials, criminal syndicates or insurgents.

A senior U.S. official reported, “[W]e were the most corrupt here, so had no credibility on the corruption issue.” One government contractor said he distributed $3 million per day for projects in an Afghan district the size of a county in the United States.

@QMS

the figures you reference have no indication
of the costs involved in psy-ops.
Yeah, no doubt they lie us into paying for wars of choice.
Let's see some congressional committee break that egg.
What it costs to mis-appropriate the truth.
In dollars and sense

@mimi
really, really don't at all recall the rules for this type of thing, but, generally, one cn libel/slander a public figure, which is good for Hillary, because the "merely telling the truth" defense is unavailable to her, since that was a blatant lie. What I'm super unclear is how "malice" enters into the equation, specifically, does it override the public figure exemption. In that case, it could get to be fun, since Hillary is over-the-top malicious except when she is trying to get something out of somebody.

have a good one.

Tulsi Gabbard sues Hillary Clinton for $50M over 'Russian asset' remark

I admire and respect this woman. Let's hope she wins.

@Anja Geitz
feel. Tee Hee. Thanks for reading and for saying what needed to be said. Itend to think of then as anklebones - waaay lower than assholes.

have a good one.

Let's really talk about extremists measures. Targeting environmental groups who have a constitutional right to free speech is just another thuggish tactic our government uses to protect their benefactors. The DHS can suck on donkey dicks.

Sorry for saying that EL, but that just steams my ass.