Benghazi

Clinton Brushes Aside Human Rights, Takes Pompeo's Call to Help Prep for SoS Hearings

CIA Director Mike Pompeo, the same asshat who hammered Hillary Clinton over "Benghazi e-mail", called Clinton for advice in preparing for the Senate confirmation hearings for the cabinet post to head the State Department.

Sunday Open Thread: December 24 is Xmas Eve + How to Wear a Man Bun

World History this day

1777 -- Captain Cook "discovered" Kiritimati roughly 240 years after Hernando de Grijalva did. It wasn't nuked until the 1950s
1914 -- The "Christmas truce" began
1941 -- Benghazi was conquered by British troops
1943 -- Ike was named Supreme Allied Commander for Normandy
1951 -- Libya became independent

Benghazi--again (subtitled: Hillary's perfidy)

"Consider the source" has been a rebuttal of disdain for opinions arising from partisan sources. But "consider the facts" is something else. See this link. Judicial watch is a well-known conservative organization--true. But if were not for their freedom of information act (FOIA) law suits, plural, much of what we know about Hillary Clinton's emails would still be unknown today.

FROM THE CHURCH OF INEFFABLE STUPIDITY: A GNU DEI or a nude A?

1899 -Friedrich Bayer & Co patented acetylsalicylic acid, which it modestly named Bayer Aspirin.

1945 - The spawn of the devil was surreptitiously mixed with a used wet mop, fungi collected from the broken fridge in a college's male dormitory, and a badly edited "do it yourself" book, Egotism for Morons, resulting in the birth of Donald Trump.

COINCIDENCE? I think NOT!

Republican Benghazi obsession yielding evidence of Hillary Clinton's lies and manipulations driving the destruction of Libya

David Mizner has an article up at Jacobin magazine that really needs some attention from the progressive media.