Writes Jerome Barber:

Volodymyr Zelenskyy personally takes one on a test flight.

Writes Daniel McAdams:

Couldn’t have had anything to do with betraying all of Ron Paul’s principles and giving Dick Armey a few million dollar golden handshake – when all he deserved was a golden shower…

See here.

Writes Brian Dunaway:

Boy, those Germans sure got dumb. The first nation in the history of the world to achieve “universal” literacy among their population, now apparently 57% of them believe in a “debunked conspiracy theory.”

From the article:

“The most recent survey shows an absolute majority of 52 percent rather agree with the statement that ’Germany should generally no longer accept refugees from Islamic countries’. Only 34 percent say ‘disagree’ or ‘tend to disagree’ with this statement.

“There is even greater agreement with the statement that ‘in certain areas of my town or village, I have the feeling that I am no longer in Germany.’ According to the poll, 57 percent agree with the statement, while 36 percent do not share this feeling.”

Writes Rick Rozoff:

CS Lewis, Tolkien, Orwell among works tagged as triggers for ‘far-right’ extremism by anti-terrorism group.

Other authors whose work is allegedly shared by people sympathetic with “the far-right and Brexit” also reportedly include Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Edmund Burke, Thomas Carlyle, Adam Smith and William Shakespeare.

Thanks, Vicki Marzullo. 

Thanks, Chris Sullivan. 

Writes Gail Appel:

Proof that Trump was the first President lawfully elected by “We The People” in decades.

And proof that Bush Sr., W, Obama, Hillary Clinton( against the powers that be) and Biden were installed by the global elites with the Deep State.

See here.

Writes Ginny Garner:

Lew,

I was absolutely disgusted by the PT video of US troops led by MacArthur, Eisenhower and Patton on order from “Commander in Chief” President Herbert Hoover burning the tents and possessions of the WWI veterans marching on Washington DC for their promised bonuses. The troops tear gas and thrust bayonets at the Bonus Marchers. I found a lot of videos of this shocking event on YouTube. Here is an extended clip of the heroic Smedley Butler (“War is a Racket”) addressing the abused vets:

….thank you for your service.

Writes Andy Thomas:

“I guess we’re going to find out just how stupid the clowns running Clown World really are.”

See here.

Writes David Martin:

I was among those anti-Vietnam War protesters, and this article certainly resonates with me.

See here.

Thanks, Rick Rozoff. 

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RT News

Thanks, Rick Rozoff.

Thanks, Chris Sullivan. 

Writes David Martin:

“The violence against protesters was extreme,” said Corinna Mullin, an adjunct assistant professor of political science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, part of CUNY, at a recent news conference. Mullin was among those arrested Tuesday night at City College.

See here.

Thanks, Tim McGraw. 

But do the Big Swinging Dicks realize they’ve lost control of the narrative? Are they the dinosaur who just had T-Rex bite off its tail but the message hasn’t reached the tiny brain of the Brontasaurus yet?

Thanks, David Martin.

Trump’s calling for worse for us.

Trump lays out new vision of Jewish Supremacy:

“Those seeking (Jews) destruction, we will seek *their* destruction.”

“For crimes like (antisemitism) we have to bring back the death penalty. They have to pay the ultimate price.”https://t.co/fc2zm2eoy8 pic.twitter.com/8Gewww69gy

— Jason Kessler (@TheMadDimension) May 4, 2024

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Asia Times

Thanks, Vicki Marzullo. 

Writes Ginny Garner:

Lew,

This stunning video shows how the man who advises Joe Biden on economics doesn’t understand the basics of economics. Gen. Michael Flynn comments on how shocking it is that Jared Bernstein, the Chair of the Council on Economic Advisors, is in charge of advising the president. Bernstein’s background is in music and social work, not economics.

Writes Gail Appel:

Lew, read the comments. She’s great. The only drawback is that she will have greater star power than Trump. His ego colors every choice he makes.

Writes Brian Dunaway;

Here’s a nice story for a Sunday.

The below is from the band:

“When Johnny Comes Marching Home” was published on September 26, 1863, by Henry Tolman & Co., of Boston, MA. The melody and lyrics were attributed to “Louis Lambert”, a pseudonym for Irish-American military band leader Patrick Gilmore. It is unknown why Gilmore chose not to acknowledge his composition.

 Interestingly, in an 1883 article in the “Musical Herald,” Gilmore acknowledged that the music was not original. Early in the “rebellion” he described overhearing a “waif” humming the tune. He wrote it down, dressed it up, added lyrics reflecting the emotions of the times, and gave the song its name.

“Johnny” quickly became very popular, expressing as it did, much of America’s longing for the war to end, and the homecoming of their loved ones. Like many other songs that became popular with the public, the catchy melody of “Johnny” would soon be used in a mocking parody – “For Bales”, published in 1864, by A. E. Blackmar of New Orleans.

The lyrics chronicle the failed Union “Red River Campaign”, between March and May of 1864. The main Federal objectives were to destroy the Confederate Army, and confiscate all available cotton bales.

 The Red River Valley of Louisiana, southwestern Arkansas and eastern Texas, was the great cotton production center of the Confederacy. The bumper crop of 1863, had produced tens of thousands of cotton bales that were sitting on the Red River docks around Shreveport, then the acting capital of Louisiana, awaiting transport up River to Texas.

 The lack of Southern cotton had caused massive unemployment and economic hardship. Desperate New England textile mills were operating under 20% capacity. Given the situation, who better to lead the campaign than General Nathaniel Banks, a political-appointee general from Massachusetts ?

 In expectation of quick success, Banks was given 36,000 men and Admiral David Porter’s Mississippi Squadron, which comprised nearly 100 vessels. Of course, the confidently optimistic politician in Banks could not resist the chance to refurbish his reputation (which had suffered greatly at the hands of Stonewall Jackson, in Virginia two years earlier) by including the steamboat “Black Hawk”, crammed with news reporters, cotton speculators, and such creature comforts as champagne and ice.

 Though greatly outnumbered (as usual), having only 18,000 troops and a handful of river vessels guarding Shreveport, the Confederates fortunately were commanded by Generals Kirby Smith and Richard Taylor. General Taylor had experience with General Banks, having fought with distinction against him in Stonewall Jackson’s legendary 1862 Shenandoah Campaign.

 After heavy fighting the Federal forces were defeated on land and on the river, and were driven back to the Mississippi River. None of the Federal objectives being accomplished, General Bank’s military service came to an end, the cotton speculators returned to Union held New Orleans, burying their disappointment in gallon bowls of liquor. “…Johnny, fill up the bowl !”

Thanks, Tim McGraw. 

Writes John Leo Keenan:

I read this in an msn article two days ago (almost sent it to you).  U.S. television and most American media, and the govt. publicly, seem to be ignoring this.  This could be a situation close to the 1962 Russia-U.S. crisis.  The Iranian example exposed that Russia is doing something wrong vis-a-vis the West.  The U.S. does to it what it won’t do to the Ayatollah, but every Russian leader knows this now, so it’s harder to eat ultimatums now without remembering how Iran does it.  This is another Russian ultimatum.  Very dangerous.  The ATACM U.S. missiles were devastatingly used against Crimea.  The famous SAM-400s of Russia could not stop them.

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Suzan Mazur

Writes Gail Appel:

Lew,

Why are they so hellbent on banning what the congregants want? It’s so peculiar.

The Jewish houses of worship are Reform- which is kind of kumbaya modern. All in English, none of the traditional chants.  and the music is more folksy. Similar to the Methodist The Conservative sect recites the prayers in Hebrew with English translation and the services and are generally English with the benediction in Hebrew . The Orthodox is all Hebrew and only the sermon is in English.

Though I wasn’t (embarrassingly) big on adhering to the text one way or another, I liked the Conservative Judaism because I enjoyed learning a different language and it was culturally traditional. The Reform was too trite, the Orthodox , too severe.

My Catholic friends and practitioners love the Latin Mass. They understand the text, most having attended parochial schools. My husband, too. He went to Mary Immaculate for twelve years and it was literally second nature.Its about the beauty of tradition.

Is that now a bad thing? Am I wrong in thinking its an enriching and a learning experience?

See here.

Writes Rick Rozoff:

If Congressman Jamie Raskin is this far off on a number (the world’s population) that any halfway attentive high school student would know, how are he and others like him in the least qualified to lecture the rest of us on matters of global significance?

Writes Gail Appel:

Poetic. Justice, however, would be a landmark class action settlement for Trump and Bragg, Colangelo, Daniels, and Cohen sharing a cell for 25 to life.

See here

Writes Tim McGraw:

Damn Yankees! Sing this song at the Lincoln Memorial in DC and see what happens.

Writes Tim McGraw:

You can hear the Scots-Irish influence on the Confederacy in this song. The Yankees were mostly English. Sometimes, I think the American War Between the States was just the same argument the Scots-Irish had with the English back in the UK.