Apparently, having abandoned even a pretense of reporting the news the Times has taken to comedy writing. NY Times says blaming Palin for shooting was ‘an honest mistake’ By Kaja Whitehouse July 7, 2017 | 10:04pm Sarah PalinGetty Images Sarah Palin’s defamation lawsuit against The New York Times should be tossed because the paper made “an honest mistake” when it said she incited a 2011 shooting that severely wounded Arizona Rep. Gabby Giffords and killed six people, a lawyer for the Gray Lady said on Friday.   “There was an honest mistake in posting the editorial,” lawyer David Schultz told Manhattan federal Judge Jed Rakoff. Last week, Palin sued the Times over a June 14th editorial that stated there was a “direct” link between one of Palin’s PAC ads and the shooting by Jared Lee Loughner. But there’s no evidence he ever saw the ad, which placed Gifford’s district in stylized...

Though I imagine it must be somewhat devastating to be replaced in your job by goats complaining about it just seems to point out how corrupt your organization must be. Are goats taking jobs from union workers? Noe Hernandez , Battle Creek Enquirer  ET July 6, 2017 | Updated 4:20 p.m. ET July 6, 2017 The goat crew arrived on Western Michigan University’s campus in June.(Photo: Nick Gooch/courtesy of Western Michigan University) 789 CONNECTTWEET 6 LINKEDIN 77 COMMENTEMAILMORE A battle is brewing at Western Michigan University this summer between a group of hungry goats and a labor union. The 400-member American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has filed a grievance contending that the work the goats are doing in a wooded lot is taking away jobs from laid-off union workers. “AFSCME takes protecting the jobs of its members very seriously and we have an...

Did not think it was possible for a people to outdo the Maginot Line but the French have topped themselves. First they believed they could prevent the Germans from invading by digging a big hole in the ground. Now they believe they can prevent a climate that is not changing from changing by burying their heads in the sand. The arrogance, or is it simply stupidity, of self-important, ego maniacal world leaders and the fools they lead is simply astonishing. France Plans to End Sales of Gas and Diesel Cars by 2040 By JACK EWINGJULY 6, 2017 France is joining a growing movement to force the extinction of vehicles that run on fossil fuels, saying on Thursday that it would aim to end the sale of gasoline and diesel cars by 2040. The target is less ambitious than ones set by countries like Norway and India. Still, coming from a major car-producing country, France’s declaration gave additional...

Who makes the decisions? This is really quite remarkable. Even Powerful Senator Can’t Get U.S. Intelligence Agencies to Tell Him Whether They’re Spying On Him … by George Washington Jul 3, 2017 2:57 PM A powerful Senator – a member of the Armed Services and Judiciary Committees, the Subcommittee on Defense of the Appropriations Committee, and Formerly on the Select Committee On Intelligence (Lindsey Graham) – asked the general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence: If the government was spying on him Whether his identity had been “unmasked” And whether this information could be used for blackmail by politicians who didn’t like him The counsel for the intelligence agency refused to respond: What should we make of that? Washington’s Blog asked the highest-level NSA whistleblower of all time – Bill Binney* – what he thought. Binney responded:...

We failed miserably, we spent all the money we extorted from you, we have nothing to show for it and now we need more and you know what, we are simply going to TAKE it and there is nothing you can do about it. Eat Cake. 241 years ago tomorrow perhaps the greatest collection of real men ever born into the same era wrote a document to throw of the chains of the type of tyranny we see here. Will there ever be such men again? Apparently not in the state of Illinois anytime soon. The comments in the second article are the typical totalitarian bromides but they are also uttered by republicans in Illinois. Take this one example: “If I lose my seat so be it,” state Rep. Michael Unes, R-Pekin said, adding the state shouldn’t have gotten so close to a financial collapse. “Without this, we will lose thousands of lives and thousands of jobs and the alternative is so much worse. I don’t like this....