Big weekend for you and Sweetie. Enjoy it!

Tonight we are going to a Halloween party that our neighbor is having. It is the first time in thirty years that I have gone to a Halloween party. I bought this long black wig which makes me look really witchy. I do not need any makeup to look the part though. My husband is an old fuddy duddy and refuses to dress up. Boo! I may be the only one in costume although the hostess said that she and her husband would be wearing something in the spirit. It should be funny since we all are over sixty!

Bill de Blasio endorses Hillary Clinton.

Bill De Blasio Endorses Hillary Clinton For President

"She has said what she believes in. This is a very sharp progressive platform. I believe she will follow through on it," de Blasio said during an interview with MSNBC's "Morning Joe," adding that Clinton "has the ability to follow through on it."

If he actually believes that, he's a sodding idiot. Because I as sure as sin don't believe him.

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Last week’s “first of the ISIS war” combat death for a US soldier in Iraq gave way to admissions, over the past two days, that the Pentagon is engaged in ground combat as a fairly regular matter during what officials have presented as an exclusively “advisory” deployment. It’s also apparently not new.
Apparently determined to protest the charge of “mission creep” in the war, officials are now conceding that they’ve been engaged in secret ground combat for months now, and therefore this isn’t mission creep, but rather a transition to public admission of what they’ve been doing all along.
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Sen. Bob Corker (R – TN), head of the Foreign Relations Committee, downplayed the seriousness of the White House carrying out a secret ground war even as they were publicly telling the American people that no ground combat would ever happen in Iraq, saying “it’s the way our government is set up.”
That apparently even leaves open the question of whether last week’s death was the first “combat casualty” of the war, as officials are now suggesting that there are at least five American ground soldiers who were wounded in Iraq over the course of the war, and the details of all of those incidents are being kept secret.

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First, Iceland jailed its crooked bankers for their direct involvement in the financial crisis of 2008. Now, every Icelander will receive a payout for the sale of one of its three largest banks, Íslandsbanki.

If Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson has his way — and he likely will — Icelanders will be paid kr 30,000 after the government takes over ownership of the bank. Íslandsbanki would be second of the three largest banks under State proprietorship.

“I am saying that the government take [sic] some decided portion, 5%, and simply hand it over to the people of this country,” he stated.

Because Icelanders took control of their government, they effectively own the banks. Benediktsson believes this will bring foreign capital into the country and ultimately fuel the economy — which, incidentally, remains the only European nation to recover fully from the 2008 crisis. Iceland even managed to pay its outstanding debt to the IMF in full — in advance of the due date.

They better watch out or the U.S. will invade them in order to stop making us look bad.

Please send birthday wishes Sweetie's way.

We are shutting off all the lights and holing up in a back bedroom. Given the way our pathway to the door and the new garden go hand and hand, we decided the little goblins would tromp all over the new plants. This garden is starting to own me. Don't know how well we're going to get along.

OT diary. Have fun.

Yesterday I took (finally) a walk without my dog around a near-by neighborhood lake. There is one garden bordering the shoreline that is always highly decorated with all kind of stuff. Yesterday, I wondered why there was in one part of the lake a lot of fog (looked like vaporizing surface water) and when I passed by that house, I saw that the owner had a little machine that produced vapor/fog to make everything else he had in his garden, look more spooky, and even the lake was "scary". Every step you take passing his lot, there is another monster/witch/devil bird etc making a lot of noise. The owner came out and clapped his hands and for sure there was the next monster trying to reach out to the bypasser and make threatening noises and fiery glowing eyes showing of a huge mouth of evil teeth. I just wondered what my dog would have said to those "scary people".

Ok, I got it now. It's Halloween. Have fun. Thanks for your always great "musical answers".

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Just imagine you had this thingy in your nose...

U.S. Presidential Candidates' Forum · November 3-4, 2015, Inbal Jerusalem Hotel, Jerusalem, Israel

Family Research Council, International Leaders Summit and National Religious Broadcasters are co-hosting the first U.S. Presidential Candidate Forum to be held in the state of Israel and focused on issues of mutual interest and concerns as well as economic, foreign, defense and cultural policy.

Each US presidential candidate will have a one hour segment at the forum, presenting their own ideas and solutions to questions put to them by a select group of media leaders.

Through this highly focused and personalized opportunity to address key issues, US presidential candidates will be able to articulate their vision to a live audience in Jerusalem comprised of supporters and partners of the host organizations, concerned residents in the state of Israel and audiences in the US and around the world through US and international televised broadcasting groups, online and print media. …

(via Huffington Post)

Can't resist saying it: Netanyahu's vettin' yahoos . . .