Greece has sucked the oxygen out of the financial news at owing $270 billion for this country of 11 million people and now wants to stick it to those who became the “other peoples’ money”.  PR also made news when its governor said that it could not pay back its $72 billion debt and now wants US laws changed so as to be able to go bankrupt (and also stick it to those who became the “other peoples’ money”.

And then there is China – no, not quite the debt that is the topic.  It is their absolute meltdown of their stock exchanges over the last 3 weeks or so: $3.2 Trillion of value just vanished.  We Groksters had a number of emails on the techie news of the day (United Air Lines, Wall St Journal, NY Stock Exchange) but also mentioned China.  My 2 cents:

China has been a ticking time bomb for a while, financially.  Folks for a few years, have thought that Commies have been fudging their economic numbers and their exchanges have lost $3.2 Trillion over the last month or so.  Now, the Chinese govt can’t stem the flood of what Instapundit calls a “preference cascade” – investors finally got sick of putting up with the nonsense and started pulling out as some of the real data’s results starting showing up.

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Huh (reformatted, emphasis mine)?

Fidel Castro hails Alexis Tsipras’s ‘brilliant political victory’

ATHENS: Former Cuban president Fidel Castro congratulated Greek Prime Minister Alexis ­Tsipras for his “brilliant political victory” in the country’s ­referendum, which saw voters ­deliver a resounding “no” to more austerity measures…

…Dr Castro wrote to Mr Tsipras saying he had “closely followed this victory” on Venezuelan TV station Tele Sur, said a statement from Mr Tsipras’s office.The letter from the 88-year-old described Greece as a country well-known to Cubans for its ­history and famed contributions to “the most complex of all human activities, art and political science”.  Dr Castro wrote that Greece had “the admiration of the Latin American and Carribean peoples” for the way in which it “defends its identity and its culture against external aggression”.

Really?  Only in a Socialist / Communist world of delusion can one Commie tell another one that.  OK, buckos, riddle me this:

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Ariana licks donuts and hates American and apologizes, sort of or something, but some folks aren’t buying it.

No one is fooled by your pretend intentions. We know you weren’t thinking of the childhood obesity epidemic when you decided to lick a donut and not pay for it.

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A number of deeply committed lefty central planners have longed to put an end to state issued marriage certificates because they believe it will empower the government to define all standards of social behavior and relationships.

Take note, libertarians: central planners like Fineman view state recognition of marriage as the “institutional protection” for family autonomy and privacy which, when removed, would get the government more operational inside the home.

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Snarky title aside, here is yet another example where someone demands additional Government action because someone made a rather dumb decision to do something rather dangerous, thinking he would not be in line for a Darwin Award. No, the site doesn’t list Devon Staples yet (it used to be MUCH more up to date in the past but rarely much lately) but I will not be surprised if soon.  This is the 22 year old Calais, Maine that decided he could use a mortar based firework as a helmet – and lit it even as his buddies were telling him with words to the effect “dude, that might not be such a great idea”.  It is also my understanding that liquid libations containing ethyl alcohol added to his refusal to listen (“hey, wanna hold my beer – watch this!” is a common sentence that precedes a dismal outcome). They said “No!”, he beamed broadly, and lit it off.  And died instantly.

Now, I do feel bad for his friends and family.  I, however, do have to take issue with this (reformatted, emphasis mine):

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• Hillary Clinton: And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”
• Michelle Obama: “That’s why we start with kids, right? We can affect who they will be forever.”, “He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism…Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed”

And add in the militant gay activists who are demanding total affirmation and celebration – or you will be destroyed.  Doubt me?  From taking away tax exemptions from churches that won’t give into gay demands, the destruction of businesses, reputations, and careers, we see this mob not just willing to win but have a scorched earth policy of General Sherman.  And now we can add kicking anyone out of the military who violates their secular religion (and with no small amount of attitude):

“What truly troubles these cretinous sentinels of vile prejudice and hate-mongering bigotry is the fact that this ruling will go down historically as the watershed moment which may indeed shatter the spine of the religious right in the U.S. military, whose prior viselike grip over the chaplaincy has formed the key obstacle to social progress within the Armed Forces. Cry us a river!

Translation:

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“Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.” — Jack Zipes
https://youtu.be/ZAwqumoO0Ds

California wants your tourism dollars…California needs your tourism dollars…..because they are broke. So the California tourism board makes these catchy little “fairy tale” commercials to separate suckers from their cash…

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The Democrat bench in New Hampshire is having a rough year. Three New Hampshire House special elections. Three humiliating defeats. The last two losses to young Republicans, both under the age of twenty, both running on smaller, less intrusive government and tax relief for business owners–the latter a key component of the Republican State budget declared irresponsible by Democrat Governor Maggie Hassan in her veto.

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Obama said,  “I think it is important for us to recognize the threat of violent extremism is not restricted to any one community. Here in the United States, we’ve all kinds of home grown terrorism. And tragically, recent history reminds how even a single individual can inflict horrendous harm on Americans. So our efforts to counter violent extremism must not target any one community, because of the patriotic Muslim Americans who are partners in keeping our country safe.”

He talks about religious freedom but his actions have defied his words when it comes to the US majority religion, Christianity? And once again we see him simply brush aside the attacks that Muslims have inflicted on American soil; it almost like he wants to whitewash history.  In fact, there are quite a few Muslim attacks going back a few decades:

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“The three rules of journalism are 1. Mislead, 2. Misinform, and 3. Misdirect. The news serves to sever you from reality and keep you in Fantasy Land.” ? Jarod Kintz

Senate Bill 116 was destined for the veto pen. While some will call me negative and pessimistic, I rather think I am being realistic. We’ve seen this pattern before…Like Deja Vu all over again. You have a so-called Republican-dominated Senate….Republican-dominated house, and twelve Republicans who voted no. Most Dems voted no…we knew that…But a few voted yes. At the end of the day, there exists no veto-proof majority. Thus, the bill dies.

One degree of difference

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Today Governor Maggie Hassan vetoed Senate Bill 116 aka Constitutional Carry. Proponents of this bill have implored Governor Hassan to end almost 100 years of state-sanctioned discrimination, racism and gender bias but Hassan chose to allow it to continue.

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On Saturday Hillary Clinton made her first actual public appearance since before 2008 in a Gorham, New Hampshire Independence Day parade. Up until this point, all of Clinton’s visits to the Granite State have been completely staged with supporters. The Clinton campaign probably chose Gorham because it’s a small town located up in North Country.

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