To paraphrase Mark Twain, Melania Trump's recent "death (life of deprivation) as reported by the mainscream media has been greatly exaggerated"

 

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From the" it makes sense" department - Online headline/story: "Trump administration readies to release plans for reorganizing government * Proposed plans include moving a number of them to the Health and Human Services Department, including the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known to some as food stamps. * “You have low-income assistance in a bunch of different shops without one point of oversight and without a whole lot of communication. Why not have one federal agency responsible for execution?” one of the sources told Politico." -- WOW! an "umbrella" for the government "safety net"... Uh-oh... prepare for a DIMocrat Party and mainscream media MELTDOWN!

I have but one question to ask.. where was Trump in 2008!

 

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Saw something online that really caught me off guard.. Michael Jackson's "Neverland" home is still available for sale...10 years after...... now down to $87 MILLION.

 

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Hmmm... there are now more job openings available in the US than there are people seeking employment.. what this tells me is that if a young person has a high school diploma and/or college degree and no job, high schools and colleges failed.

 

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From the "please, let this be the last we hear about/from Stormy Daniels" department - Online headline: "Stormy Daniels files new lawsuit alleging her 'puppet' ex-attorney 'colluded' with President Trump and Michael Cohen" -- You know.. it's become very apparent that Stormy Daniels is no "one-trick pony".. in fact she's a "1000s-of-tricks" cow.

 

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McCabe wants immunity...before he testifies...no way! Well, not unless he has the smoking guns of Comey, Lynch, Holder, Hellary, and Obama.

 

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L-E headline/story: "Confusion over hands-free law prompts clarification * The governor’s safety agency posted this clarification Wednesday morning on Face-book: “DYK: Under the new law going into effect 7/1, streaming music from your phone while driving (Pandora, Spotify, etc.) is allowed as long as your phone is still in a hands-free capacity, which means not held in your hand or supported by your body in any way.” -- Good grief.. basically, we are now in a "big brother" zone.. and when you think about it, u[you're breaking this law if you're listening to your in-dash radio and have to push a button to switch stations pr bands.

Another strange aspect" We know that if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.. now if only law enforcement personnel can use their walkie-talkies or cellphones, then only law enforcement personnel are outlaws.

 

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I see the Miss Georgia Pageant is upon us.. hmmm... since there will be no swimsuit competition, will the tickets be discounted... something should be "half-off"...

 

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L-E headline/story: "Feds: Woman was part of scheme to file bogus taxes, cashed checks * Shade Bakare was sentenced Tuesday to three years in prison and three years on supervised release after pleading guilty Aug. 1 to conspiracy to commit theft of public money, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft." -- Hmmm... what about reimbursement for the funds she fraudulently received.. there's no mention of this.. of course, the lack of information may be just routine L-E incompetence.

 

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L-E headline: "Mystery grows as US diplomats in China fall ill" -- Hmmm... first Cuba, and now China...can California be next?

 

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L-E headline/story: "Secret Obama-era permit allowed Iran to use US dollars in swap * After striking an elusive nuclear deal with Iran, the Obama administration found itself in a quandary in early 2016: Iran had been promised access to its long-frozen overseas reserves, including $5.7 billion stuck in an Omani bank. * To spend it, Iran wanted to convert the money briefly into U.S. dollars, the most widely used international medium of exchange, and then use the dollars to buy euros, but top U.S. officials had repeatedly promised Congress that Iran would never gain access to America’s financial system. * Those assurances notwithstanding, the Obama administration secretly issued a license to let Iran sidestep U.S. sanctions for the moment required to convert the funds through an American bank, an investigation by Senate Republicans released Wednesday showed. The plan failed when two U.S. banks refused to participate." -- Hmmm... another one of those "after the election, I'll be more flexible" moments of Obama...

 

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L-E story: "House Speaker Paul Ryan agreed on Wednesday that the FBI did nothing wrong by using a confidential informant to contact members of the Trump campaign as it investigated its ties to Russia, contradicting President Donald Trump’s assertions of a broad conspiracy by federal law enforcement." -- Good grief.. I knew I was disappointed in Romney in 2012, but now I find that I am more disappointed in having supported Ryan...

 

You know, an informant is someone on the inside that comes forward with information about something wrong... a person sent into an organization to look for something wrong is a spy... always has been...

 

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L-E headline/story: "Hurricanes are slowing down * The globe’s hurricanes have seen a striking slowdown in their speed of movement across landscapes and seascapes over the past 65 years, a finding that suggests rising rainfall and storm-surge risks, according to research reported Wednesday." -- Wait a minute.. the Climate Warming Advocates must be having a hissy-fit! Foe years they've preached how hurricanes wind speeds are caused my warming temps and now we learn they are actually slowing...

 

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L-E headline: "Climbers smash record for scaling El Capitan" -- Hmmm.. and wasn't it just a few days ago we read about two climbers making the fastest descent of El Capitan...as they fell and smashed? Sorry for the gore, but I just think celebritizing inane accomplishments is wrong..

 

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L-E "headLIE"/story: "Vulnerable Republicans see immigration as lifeline * In four previous campaigns for his House seat, Rep. Jeff Denham had never seen anything quite like the rolling circus that trails him through his sprawling district in California’s Central Valley – the “Dump Denham” signs, the papier-mâché effigies, the shouting. * Denham, a Republican, is responding in a way that touches almost everybody in California farm country: He is leading the charge on Capitol Hill to pressure Speaker Paul Ryan to hold a vote on legislation to protect the young unauthorized immigrants known as Dreamers." -- First, the protesters are probably not even voters, but the main error in the headline and story is that if Denham was a Republican, he would not be worried.. He's a RINO... at best.

 

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From the "caught in another lie" department - L-E commentary headline: "Black lives don’t matter * BY LEONARD PITTS JR." -- Knew it had to be coming.. Leonard "the" Pitts writing about something that he couldn't tell the truth because the truth is not within him.. ALL lives matter...