What's Good For The Goose...

NEWS ITEM: WASHINGTON - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump criticized U.S. policy in Iraq again, but this time he aired his grievances on an unusual platform: a Russian government-funded television network.

EDITORIAL: OK, Republicans, that’s your cue. Go after him with the same vitriolic rage as you did the Dixie Chicks back in 2003. (Oh, wait. I'm sorry. They were women.)

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A Year Wiser Than Kindergarten

I’ve decided to cast my vote for president for a man who recently said "When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different." I mean how can you not?

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Funny Mike Pence Quote re Little Donnie:

“I know they’re (voters) going to elect a bold truth teller in 2016.” Here are some of those bold truths:

No one reads the bible more than me.

No one respects women more than me.

I have the best words.

Nobody knows the tax code better than I do. OK. I know it better. I’m the king of the tax code.

I am the least racist person that you’ve ever seen.

I know more about ISIS than the generals do, believe me.

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Billy Buzzkill Alert:

NEWS ITEM: Last week, South Korean officials announced that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un had executed one senior official, reportedly for slouching at a political meeting, and banished two others to reeducation camps.

EDITORIAL: And remember, kids, this man has nukes.

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Why You Don't Want Me Doing Your Taxes

So I’m watching the film “Margin Call,” set in a Wall Street investment bank during the early hours of 2007-8 financial crisis. Spotting the iceberg ahead and confident re the grim magnitude of what is about to befall them, they call in the big boss who helicopters in. Surrounded by a roomful of razor sharp analysts, he wants an explanation, prefacing his request with words to the effect of “And explain it to me as if I’m your six year old granddaughter or your cocker spaniel. Remember, I didn’t get to this position by way of smarts.”

The analyst does as directed. I still don’t get it.

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Cap and Traitors

(As was pointed out to me) I wonder how many people who hate NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick for not standing during the national anthem, his silent protest that his country still has quite a ways to go before self-praising its own greatness, are at a rally right now wearing made in China baseball caps emblazoned with a statement outright denying America’s greatness and cheering the man who manufactured them.

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Yes, there is only one word: "Amazing." (Believe me.)

In keeping with the Republican tradition of addressing problems that don’t really exist, Little Donnie unveiled his (logistics and cost bereft) ten-point plan on immigration despite the fact that more Mexican immigrants and their children left the US for Mexico than came FROM it from 2009 to 2014.

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