The homemade bombs that exploded in the Chelsea district of NYC and Elisabeth, NJ now appear to have a potential "foreign connection" (according to Governor Andrew Cuomo). The police have identified a suspect, Ahmad Khan Rahami, a 28 year-old US citizen originally born in Afghanistan.
From 05.04.16--
So … Now the Government Wants to Hack Cybercrime Victims
https://www.wired.com/2016/05/now-government-wants-hack-cybercrime-victims/
It recently occurred to me that I've seen this before.
Hillary's "basket of deplorables" comment is enlightening.
First of all, calling everyone who opposes you ignorant racists is the same failed strategy that the anti-Brexit people used.
Isn't that a pithy title no? 
That's what Christine LeGrand of the IMF, says about the next generation of people on this planet in relationship to Climate Change. "Roasted, Toasted, Fried and Grilled" 
I shit you not!
The rest of Steve Earle's pantheon is fine, but right now we need Bill Hicks. He would make this situation funny. He would recognize our voting dilemma:
Confession time.
Crystal Edmonds of Baltimore was walking on a sidewalk in Northwest Baltimore in the wee hours Friday morning when someone walked up behind her and shot her in the back of her head.
She was found on that sidewalk and rushed to a hospital, but she died Friday afternoon.
The 32-year-old Edmonds was a transgender woman.
My latest video blog on our lying by omission and commission media news coverage:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp1JZytFdvY]
Sources below:
How crazy is Donald Trump, or more appropriately, how far outside of the mainstream of US politics is he?
This week over at The Intercept, Robert Mackey posted a piece about Trump's policy proposal to use the US military as the muscle to seize the oil resources of Middle Eastern countries.
His article recounts the many occasions that Trump has touted this policy in interviews and suggests that we can "better understand what Trump really is," by viewing him through this lens.
To give you a flavor of the commentary that Mackey is referring to, here is a condensed version of some of Trump's word salad that Mackey quotes from an appearance on the Bill O'Reilly show (emphasis mine):
"In the old days, when you had wars, you win, right? You win. To the victor belong the spoils. So when we go to Iraq, we spend $1.4 trillion so far and thousands of lives are lost, right? And not to mention all the poor guys and gals with one arm and no arm and all the problems, right? ... I like the old system better: You won a war, you stay there, and you keep the oil. And you know, then those people will not have died in vain. Forget the money we spent, they will not have died in vain. ... You stay and protect the oil, and you take the oil and you take whatever is necessary for them and you take what’s necessary for us and we pay our self back $1.5 trillion or more. We take care of Britain, we take care of other countries that helped us, and we don’t be so stupid."
Mackey goes to some effort to demonstrate that Trump is a lunatic version of Smedley Butler's nightmare.
This blog entry is partly to demonstrate that Sander's evolution as to for newer party candidates happened long before this primary and partly to amplify and correct some of my own prior posts (replies) on this subject. (And, yes, I do know that, for many, this entry is TLTR, but the subject still seems to be so controversial on this board, more than two months after Bernie endorsed Hillary.)
