This is a really silly political commercial.

Hillary Clinton is correct in her statements about outsourcing. Republicans have no interest in protecting American jobs. I would think the "W" administration was the best example of that. Those looking for work in 2 to 3 jobs were lucky to live in the USA where those jobs existed. Bush was no more interested in protecting American jobs than the "Man in the Moon." He liked to pretend most Americans missed the boat to build a Wall Street portfolio and enjoying "The Good Life." If anyone in the political landscape is laughable when it comes to succeeding with Wall Street it is "W." His three bankrupt petroleum companies are testament to what amounts to 'a real wise guy' to point to others as having 'missed the boat.'

But, in this video Hillary Clinton clearly states the USA government missed the boat when it did not invest in new technologies and business fronts. She is correct.

The USA's local economies have been the one place where economic stability exists and after 2008 the local economies have been the champion of the country. The local economies did and continues to do all the heavy lifting for the USA economy. The local economies have come under attack within it's own sovereign borders by the TPP. The TPP is one of the most toxic trade agreements to date. It has to be stopped before it begins. The really tragic part of the TPP is that the US Congress actually WANTS to defeat the local economy to benefit Wall Street. The Republicans and President Obama have been economic champions for Wall Street in this Trade Agreement.

The political focus is how Hillary Clinton guarantees outsourcing. She isn't guaranteeing anything because the USA Congress Republicans will act against a successful local economy wherever it can. Guaranteeing outsourcing is exactly what exists in the USA today because of Republicans and their profound lack of economic prowess. The USA Republicans 'have no clue' about what is an economy, they simple scream deregulation IN HOPES Wall Street will take advantage of it.

Divesting American citizens of their jobs is not an economic strategy, it is profound and entrenched corruption through Republicans that facilitate it with monies paid by Wall Street through "Citizens United."

Hillary Clinton's words in this film loop is correct. She speaks no evil, she states the truth and the blatant attack by the US Congress on American citizens. 

The USA media is completely befuddled by Donald Trump. FOX is using a "Wheel of Fortune" to find THE STATEMENT that will stick to the wall. MSNBC is insisting the RNC find Donald Trump incompetent. At least CNN is departing from the attempts to find a statement that sticks and actually is reporting the news. WOW, that is switch.

There is no reason to look for THE DEFINITIVE statement that will sink Donald Trump because it will change in the next 60 seconds.

The New York Times has an article about a central intelligence effort by Daesh. It has been known there is a "Charasmatic Daesh" since it's first KNOWN existence, so this article confirms it.

August 3, 2016
By Rukmini Callimachi 

...“He was speaking openly (click here) about the situation, saying that they have loads of people living in European countries and waiting for commands to attack the European people,” Mr. Sarfo recounted on Monday, in an interview with The New York Times conducted in English inside the maximum-security prison near Bremen. “And that was before the Brussels attacks, before the Paris attacks.”... 

I had stated early on with Daesh, NATO has a real concern in Europe. There is no reason to expand the mission for NATO while a profound danger exists there.

The idea Daesh is a sovereign authority is way off base. It is a terrorist organization that seeks to destabilize sovereign governments. Daesh is not governed as a sovereign authority, it is governed as a terrorist theocracy. The beginnings of Daesh started in 2003 with the invasion into Iraq. The Ba'athists migrated to Syria and set up housekeeping no different than al Qaeda in Afghanistan among the Taliban.

Daesh does not have the range it claims into Iraq either. The reason Daesh exists at all in Anbar is to save lives until it can be defeated. Claiming to belong to Daesh, Anbar is simply treading water until it is defeated and driven out of Iraq. Anbar surrendered while it was alarmed by Daesh's existence. It isn't as though Daesh has a solid existence there. That fluid existence is typical of Daesh's claims in any destabilized country, including Libya. 

Daesh has no sovereign military. It has no munitions production and steals or buys with oil money every bit of it's armament. The real danger of other groups, in particular, those that exist in Pakistan, is that they have the capacity to produce their own guns. It is done by artisans in Pakistan that produce components of guns and assembled there. The Pakistani government has not been able to take down that capacity within it's sovereign borders, but, I don't know that was ever attempted either.

The artisan gun culture in Pakistan is a complete affront to the Small Arms Treaty of the United Nations. 

But, as to Daesh in general, it's greatest threat is within other sovereign countries. This migration to Europe was purposeful while Europe allowed itself to believe these young men were refugees. It is nonsense. The migration of these men became obvious to most observers as it occurred. The desire for Europe to have open borders between all it's members, including Turkey, caused the dissemination of the terrorists. Now, it is up to Europe's intelligence agencies to rout out the terrorists and bring them to court and/or prison if there is not an armed response in the first place. 

Realizing through this article by the NYTimes the reality of Daesh in Europe brings a far greater concern in that an armed presence may be necessary if the group is planning an uprising among the people. Intelligence needs to work as quickly as possible to identify the new men and bring them to authorities to deport back to Syria. They are not at all refugees. They are enemies of the country in which they have migrated. These men are a danger to Europe and need to be deported back to their homeland. Turkey also needs to harden it's borders with Syria. Turkey has to recognize Russia's right to assist an ally and provide a space for Russia to patrol the Syrian's borders since Turkey seems completely incapable of conducting that vital capacity to stem the movement of Daesh.

Daesh is a global concern, but, it is manageable. It is a terrorist organization that has existed since 2003 and it needs to be acted on to remove the threat. The global community can wait for people to carry out an attack as in Europe, however, Indonesia has been managing these dangerous people for a very long time. What is amazing about Indonesia is that is carries out it's sovereign authority as an island nation. Amazing.

Management by removing dangerous people among citizens is a far better approach then putting out fires as they occur. And, again, there is a strong reason for media to be a friend to the people in addressing these arrests and finding the fact to protect the innocent.

For Republicans, racism is fund raising.

August 2, 2016
By Julie Bykowicz

AP - Hillary Clinton raised $63 million in July (click here) for her presidential campaign, her best month yet and a summertime haul that puts her ahead of President Barack Obama's fundraising at the same point in his re-election race.

The Democratic nominee also may have out raised her Republican opponent once again. In addition to her campaign money, she brought in another $26 million last month for the Democratic National Committee and state parties, bringing her total monthly fundraising to about $90 million.

Donald Trump said Monday that he'd raised $35.8 million for his campaign in small donations, but he has not disclosed his full July total. Like Clinton, Trump has a fundraising partnership with party allies through which he can collect checks of hundreds of thousands of dollars from individual donors.

Both campaigns must provide their latest fundraising details to federal regulators by August 20....

Good night everyone.

There is no psychiatrist that will try to treat racism. Racism is not a diagnosis in the DSM-5.

Racism is not a mental health problem.

Donald Trump is unaware of what he is saying? Psychotic I suppose. Off his medication maybe.

The fact the Khan family was on the stage of the Democratic National Convention is proof of the respect they are afforded. They were on the stage at the Democratic National Convention because of the racism in the Republican PARTY that call religious extremists in a specific way.

I have seen it before, the line Donald Trump crossed has been crossed before time and again by Republicans. This is not a mental health problem, this is a Republican strategy called a 'dog whistle.'

Racism is a Repubilcans' stock and trade.

October 6, 1999
By George Lardner, Jr. and Michael Dobbs

 Beset by the leak (click here) of a top secret history of the Vietnam War and rising unemployment statistics that were hurting his standing in the polls in summer of 1971, President Richard M. Nixon lashed out repeatedly at "the Jews" he saw at the root of his problems.

"The Jews are all over the government," Nixon complained to his chief of staff, H.R. "Bob" Haldeman, in the Oval Office meeting recorded on one of a set of White House takes released yesterday at the National Archives. Nixon said the Jews needed to be brought under control by putting someone "in charge who is not Jewish" in key agencies....

Nixon used to take Dilantin while in office and he never had a convulsive disorder. Mental health is a pathetic excuse for politics. Just recognize the racism.

Bill O'Reilly? He would rather attack Donald Trump than talk about sexism at FOX.

MSNBC is embarrassing themselves.

I take it Hillary Clinton is not attacking Donald Trump's mental health. That would be letting him off too easily. 

Ahhhh...the poor Republicans are in a place they have never been in before. 

The party has a split. The establishment Republicans welcomed the money and politics of the Tea Party since 2008. The Tea Party was rolled out before the inauguration in 2009. The establishment Republicans were real happy to accept them then. Then they started to lose seats in primaries of the Tea Party. Well, they lost this nomination as well.

The establishment Republicans are ruthless and cater to the extremists. How did anyone think this was going to turn out?

Democracy is not desireable?

Donald Trump is not going to release his tax returns. Romney didn't. In Romney's case he was offshoring money. Republicans are embarrassed by their tax returns that prove the cronies they would have as elected officials.

It is amazing to me that someone from outside the Washington inner circle is considered a threat, but, when Cheney was cooking the books at Halliburton he was never questioned as a Vice Presidential candidate.

"W" was the worst President this country has had in modern times. Eisenhower did not go back to war and even warned about using the military prowess of the USA for the wrong reasons. Eisenhower wasn't alone either. There have been Presidents across our history that have warned about the power the USA has and the prudent use of it.

Why didn't the media make a SCENE over "W" or Cheney. Only AFTER the fact did facts emerge to the wrongful path of the USA under their leadership. Why is that? Maybe because exposing tax returns seems enough to know about a potential president?

Rumsfeld's cabal was established long before the 2000 election.

The USA has a democratic process to be respected. Hijacking it is equally as bad as a supposedly "unfit" candidate. It is amazing to watch how people in power believe they have the RIGHT to control election outcomes.

It is a process to bring candidates before the people. When are the people going to be respected again for THE POWER they have.

I am so sorry the survivors of the tsunami cannot move forward.

Five years after the tsunami that killed tens of thousands in Japan, a husband still searches the sea for his wife, joined by a father hoping to find his daughter.

August 2, 2016
By Jennifer Percy

...Takahashi kept maps and records (click here) of Takamatsu’s searches, recording which shore and what depth. Sometimes the men searched the same region several times, because bodies and debris moved around in the currents. The shape of each search was different: circular, semicircular, a straight sweep though a current. Now and then Takamatsu had an intuition that his wife was in one part of the sea or another, and Takahashi tried to accommodate his hopes. But there were many restricted areas — fishing routes, places with dangerous currents — and Takahashi had to coordinate each dive with the coast guard and fishermen.

On the first dive, Takamatsu took a boat out to sea. He was scared. The water wasn’t clear, and he knew that below the surface, there were dangers — he could get caught by a rope or cut by debris. A flipper might hit his head and flood his mask. The regulator might not work. He might panic. He could die of hypothermia, entanglement, the bends....

The love in this dedication is indescribable. No one can understand the depth at which these people loved each other. It would be good for Japan to find a way of honoring those lost in the tsunami. This is heartache. The idea the bodies are somewhere rational waiting to be retrieved does not have expectations defined in science. 

August 2, 2016
By Daisy Grewal

...2002 study in the journal Legal Medicine (click here) examined nine bodies that had drifted hundreds of kilometers in cold waters off the coast of Portugal and Spain. Bodies recovered in the first week were in good condition, but the beginning signs of decomposition were present on a body recovered after eight days. The two bodies recovered after 20 days were highly decomposed and could only be identified through DNA analysis or dental records. As for warmer water, A 2008 study on two human bodies recovered following aircraft accidents found one body off of Sicily to be partially skeletonized after 34 days and a second body off of Namibia to be completely skeletonized after three months.*...

It is called democracy.

Most USA citizens don't want candidates groomed by and for Wall Street. Since "W" the people have seen a rise in non-Wall Street family businesses that seek control over the power of the USA. 

We aren't interested. Donald Trump while owning a family business is not carrying out promises of bailouts to failing petroleum industries. He is not pandering to money and uses the public and cable media to promote his candidacy. The Republicans of the Tea Party have a right to seek their own candidates. Now that they have everyone is scared to their civvies. 

Too bad. The Donald Trump campaign earned their current status legally and within the primary process.

I am quite surprised President Obama is attempting to dictate an outcome to the 2016 elections. Very surprised actually.

August 2, 2016
By Isaac Stanley-Becker and Sean

President Obama on Tuesday (click here) escalated his criticism of Donald Trump, calling him “unfit to serve as president,” as the Republican presidential nominee faced censure from members of both parties for disparaging the parents of a fallen army captain.
“The notion that he would attack a Gold Star family that made such extraordinary sacrifices on behalf of our country, the fact that he doesn’t appear to have basic knowledge around critical issues in Europe, in the Middle East, in Asia, means that he is woefully unprepared to do this job,” Obama said at the White House, during a news conference with the prime minister of Singapore.
Obama also challenged Republican leaders to go beyond distancing themselves from Trump, saying their objections “ring hollow” as long as they still pledge to vote for him....

I strongly suggest the Democratic movement begin their voter to the polls drives now. I am not afraid of democracy, I am afraid of men that move into the Pacific to bring pressure to major powers to act.

I strongly suggest the Democratic movement begin their voter to the polls drives now. I am not afraid of democracy, I am afraid of men that move into the Pacific to bring pressure to major powers to act.

There is no sincere or competent leadership at the national level of the DNC. I strongly suggest the state and local campaigns carry out their own fund raising and organize to get out the vote.

August 2, 2016

By Abby Phillip and Katie Zezima

Denver — Three top officials (click here) at the Democratic National Committee will leave their posts this week amid the controversy over the release of a cache of hacked emails from the committee.
Chief executive Amy Dacey, Chief Financial Officer Brad Marshall and Communications Director Luis Miranda will leave the DNC just days after a new leader took the helm.
A trove of nearly 20,000 emails were posted on WikiLeaks last month. They included some emails that raised questions about the faith of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's primary rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), and others that seemed to disparage donors....

China.

August 1, 2016
By John R. Schindler

Today the Department of Justice (click here) revealed that a longtime employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has been charged with espionage on behalf of China, his homeland. Kun Shan Chun, who was employed by the FBI since 1997, was arrested back in March of this year and has already pleaded guilty to his betrayal.

Chun, who went by “Joey,” worked for nearly two decades as an electronics technician with the FBI’s huge New York field office, where ten percent of the Bureau is assigned. He held Top Secret security clearances since 1998. Part of his job, as one of the legions of technical personnel who support the FBI’s storied special agents, included accessing classified information. It seems safe to assume that was what Chun was sharing with Beijing.

Chun admitted that, from 2011 to 2016, he passed sensitive information to a Chinese official whom he knew to be a government representative, i.e. a spy. Among the classified information he passed included the identity and travel plans of an FBI agent, an internal organizational chart, plus photos taken by Chun of documents in a restricted area related to surveillance technology....

"Pokemon Go" demoralizes participants lives. Amazing. It should be banned on military bases. It is a national security issue.

August 2, 2016

A two-year-old toddler (click here) found crying outside his home after his parents allegedly left him alone to go play Pokemon Go, authorities said.

Brent and Brianne Daley, of San Tan Valley, Arizona, were arrested and charged with child endangerment after Pinal County Sheriff deputies found the boy barefoot and wearing only a diaper and T-shirt outside the home.

The Daleys admitted to leaving their child while he was sleeping to play the augmented reality game, which requires users to find Pokemon in real-world locations.

Reports claim the boy was left alone anywhere from 90 minutes to two hours, according to NBC 12 News and KTAR News.

At some point the boy exited the home while distraught in temperatures of approximately 95 degrees and was spotted around  10:30 pm....

"Jack" attacked by black lakeland terrier ending his 25 year life.

Sincerest sympathies to Jack's 70 year old owner.

August 2, 2016

By Leon Watson

Britain's oldest dog (click here) has been mauled to death while on a morning walk.

Jack, a 25-year-old Yorkie, was attacked and bitten by a black lakeland terrier near its home on Teeside.

Owner Ray Bunn, 70, said: "I am still in shock. We expected Jack to die quietly in his sleep, not in this horrible, violent way. The dog just came out of nowhere and grabbed Jack on his side.

"I was desperate to get the dog off Jack. I punched it, but it was about three minutes before it let go.

"Jack was bleeding heavily but still breathing. Someone had a blanket and we wrapped him up and put him in the back of the car."

The dog, who would be 117 in human years, was rescued by Ray and his wife Mary 17 years ago from a couple who could not care for it....

16 month investigation by the Associated Press shows the pollution in Rio beaches exceed clean water standards.

August 2, 2016

J. D Durkin

...“Can you swim at the bay (click here) where the sailing competition’s gonna take place? Yes you can. I did a dive there!” says Andre Correa, the Environmental Secretary for Rio. However, the AP warns that locals like Correa likely have built up a high degree of tolerance to the viruses that visitors have not. And that’s the exact concern just three days before the state of the Olympics… with an estimated 500,000 guests expected to hit the shores in the next three weeks.

“Nearly 100% of the people who come in contact with the water will get infected,” admits virologist Fernando Spilki in the report. “But getting sick will only happen to some of them.” The likely symptoms include nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea.

New Zealand to increase their refugee quota by one third.

August 2, 2016

By Nicholas Jones

Doubling the refugee quota (click here) would have cost $41.2 million more a year, according to Government estimates.

Cabinet ultimately decided to increase the annual quota from 750 to 1000 - a move that will cost $20.6 million a year in the long-run.

The costings have been outlined in documents relating to the refugee quota system released under the Official Information Act today.

Other detail includes advice from immigration officials that a suspension of the refugee quota programme would be considered in the event of a mass arrival of asylum seekers.

There has been strong lobbying from NGOs for the refugee quota to be at least doubled, a position that had broad support among other parties in Parliament.

Three options were presented to Cabinet as part of the Government's regular review of the quota - leaving the annual quota at 750, increasing it to 1000, or doubling it to 1500....

Donald Trump will eventually apologize. He has started his lead in to an apology already. BUT, first he has to bleed all the Muslim haters for their donations.

He will do this over and over again throughout the election until he has apologized his way into American hearts.

Republican leadership wants to win, not carry out decency and justice to the American people.

Republican leadership will not care about the level of bigotry in any legislature either. They are not signing the final document and they will leverage power for their croines. Paul "No Clue" Ryan will gavel the bigots in and enjoy the majority the silence created in January 2017.

Count the dollars to the RNC during this period and understand why this continues.

By Friederdorf

...Enter Donald Trump. (click here) His transgressions are many. Ryan himself declared Trump’s comments about a Mexican American judge “the textbook definition of racism.”

Now let’s return to Trump’s latest egregious affront against an ethnic minority: trying to discredit the parents of a fallen soldier by prejudging them as a chauvinist husband and a cowed wife who wasn’t allowed to speak; ignorantly spreading that stereotype; and offering no retraction even after knowing it to be false.

If that were the end of the story, it would be bad enough for Paul Ryan. He would be relearning this about himself: that electing a Republican is more important to him than opposing naked racism and prejudice. Few partisans want to think that about themselves.

Yet there’s more than the personal cost of knowing it about himself.

The father of a fallen soldier intends to keep reminding Paul Ryan about this, to keep insisting that it is a moral failure, until Ryan changes his mind. As Josh Barro put it, the Mexican American jurist, Gonzalo Curiel, “is a sitting judge presiding over a Trump case, so he couldn't camp out on TV and keep the story alive. Khizr Khan can.”

That will have consequences.

Before, Republicans could always maintain, with at least some veneer of plausibility, that they would of course repudiate a politician who crossed a certain line.

With Donald Trump as their standard-bearer, that line has been shown to encompass a candidate who, feeling attacked by the father of a fallen soldier, finds that his first instinct is to lash out at the man’s grieving wife, the fallen soldier’s mother, impugning both with ignorant, derogatory speculation rooted in prejudice....

Since there won't be any presidential or vice presidential debates in the USA...

...John Oliver will have to develop a virtual set of four debates. The Supreme Court virtual reality with pets worked for me.

We all love the late Justice Scalia and his sense of humor on the bench. He rarely sat silently during any argument presented to him. He enjoyed carrying the words rather than Justice What's his name....Oh, Justice Thomas.

One of the most important messages conservation groups have this November is the dangers of fracking need there own homes.

Every Pennsylvania citizen lives in danger of a fracking well that effects their water and air quality. Fracking is not a viable method of sustaining an economy. 

June 15, 2016

About 1.5 million Pennsylvanians (click here) live within a half mile of an oil or gas facility. (USGS/Wikimedia Commons)

Harrisburg, Pa. -- Methane pollution is a health hazard, studies have found, and now an online map can tell you how close that risk is to you.

About 1.5 million people live within a half mile of one or more of the more than 100,000 oil and gas facilities operating in Pennsylvania. Studies show that those people are at greatest risk of the negative health impact of methane exposure, including fetal damage and respiratory ailments.

Conrad Schneider, advocacy director for the Clean Air Task Force, said the new online map can help people assess the risk they face in their own homes.

"We hope that, armed with this information, they will demand protective safeguards requiring the industry to clean up its act and reduce these serious risks to public health," he said....

"Fracking is uneconomic...." This is GAS, not a mineral like coal. Gas per well is hideous to think about. Substantial amount of methane escapes from wells. The wells have grossly under performed. The leases to the owner of the land is a complete lie to their income. The danger to the land is not worth the potential royalties.

"...Over 90 percent of the wells are uneconomic...."

Fracking has always been a bad investment FOR THE OWNER OF THE LAND! Don't do it. The average well produces methane for seven years. The entire sales pitch to land owners is a lie.

"Diminishing returns with plummeting revenues." The economic benefit of these wells is the initial start of the well. AGAIN, this is gas and not a solid. When the initial gas is accessed it leaks. There is a profound danger to this science in well drilling to the land, water and air. Fracking is without doubt the 2008 Housing Crisis of the petroleum industry. 

Jobs are lost in the tourism industry (which is completely sustainable to the future) when a state fracks its land.

Continued oil and gas drilling beyond profitability and at a loss to pay the debt service. The drilling of the land produces NOTHING to the land owner because beyond the initial drilling there is less income per dollar of debt for the petroleum company. Land owners MUST examine their royalty contracts to be sure they do not share in a negative balance sheets when the well is accruing losses and not profits.

The SEC allows corruption without independent third party assessments of the gas reserves. Every state has an environmental/conservation/resources agency. Where is the honest assessment by the state's own infrastructure?

"Morning Papers" 

The Rooster

"Okeydoke"

Pennsylvania was named for William Penn. (click here) William Penn identified refugees in the colony that was the 13 united states. He dedicated land to protect religious refugees. He identified liberty out of the suffering of others.

Almost 70% of Pennsylvania's agricultural (click here) income is generated by livestock and livestock products. Milk is the state's most important livestock product and Pennsylvania is a leading state in the production of milk.

Beef cattle rank second among the state's products in this sector.

Chcken eggs, broilers (young chickens), and hogs are also valuable livestock products generating revenues in the state. Pennsylvania is a leading egg-producing state.

Some turkeys are raised in the state and there is some activity in aquaculture and in raising sheep and lambs....

Local economies are extremely valuable to cities. Cities don't have enough land to do it's own farming. The beautiful part of local economies is that the shipping into the city is minimal. Definitely do this thing!

Locally grown,  harvested, raised, roasted, baked, and brewed products have pride of place in our stores, not only for their quality and integrity of materials, but also because the true value of being a community market is in making contributions to the lives of our neighbors and the local economy. We carry local products on many of our shelves and work with over 100 local producers in the Greater Philadelphia area....

Good Night, Moon

The waning crescent

27.7 days old

3.7 % lit

July 31, 2016
By Belle Smith

The world was recently introduced to Mimikkyu, an adorable little character who wears a Pikachu costume in "Pokémon Sun and Moon". But will fans get to learn more about the Pokémon in the Nintendo games big reveal on August 1?...
Mimikkyu was first seen in the Coro Coro magazine, where the Pokémon was featured alongside a new "Pokémon Sun and Moon" character Kiteruguma. Fans immediately fell in love with the Pikachu pretender that hides under a veil. Will people finally know more about Mimikkyu in the major reveal on Monday?...
...What To Expect In The "Pokémon Sun and Moon" Reveal On Monday

Fans can look forward to new gameplay features which include fourway battles (via The BitBag). There could also be a new Pokémon that will be introduced in the "Pokémon Sun and Moon" big reveal.