+ As warped and fragmentary as the Nunes memo on FISA warrants may be, it provides a brief peak into the sleazy tactics used by law enforcement at every level of government, practices that go unlamented when they are used almost hourly to obtain wiretaps, search warrants and grand jury indictments against blacks, Hispanics and working class whites.
Most members of Congress, both Republican and Democrat, are former prosecutors, who regularly used Confidential Informants and jail house snitches for warrants. Biased and purchased testimony is endemic to the prosecutorial state.
+ What will they come up with next? Republicans in Congress are clamoring to strip funding for cancer research at the World Health Organization unless the outfit reverses its ruling that the active ingredients in Monsanto’s killer herbicide RoundUp is a carcinogen. Next thing you know they’ll be reclassifying RoundUp as a vitamin and making it a required supplement to school lunch menus.
+ The most grotesque presidential scalp shot since the Zapruder film?
+ In addition to the cruel new work requirements for Medicaid, Trump now wants lifetime caps on Medicaid payments for Alzheimer’s, the chronically ill and the disabled. Just one more reason our health care system is the “envy of the world.”
+ That tsunami warning the other day on the East Coast was triggered by Nigel Farage jumping off the Dover Cliffs….
+ When do they ever go after oil and gas activists?
+ As I’ve advised Trump…