TRUMP REJECTS 100-DAY TEST, BUT WANTS "A"
"In case anyone was wondering, President Trump wants it known that he does not care about the false judgment of his administration after just 100 days. 'It's an artificial barrier,' he sniffed the other day. 'Not very meaningful,' he scoffed. A 'ridiculous standard,' he added on Twitter."
"So how is Mr. Trump spending his final week before the artificial and ridiculous 100-day point of his presidency? [B]y a White House program of first-100-days briefings, first-100-days receptions, a first-100-days website and a first-100-days rally."
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HARD-LINERS ON IMMIGRATION, NOW IN HIGH PLACES
"After sending more than 13,000 Twitter messages in less than three years, Jon Feere, an outspoken opponent of illegal immigration, suddenly went silent after Inauguration Day ... [H]e now works for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the agency tasked with finding and deporting people living in the United States illegally."
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AS NORTH KOREA BUILDS BOMBS, TIME DWINDLES
"[C]lassified intelligence reports ... conclude that the country is capable of producing a nuclear bomb every six or seven weeks."
RISE OF CENTRIST IN FRENCH VOTING CALMS E.U. NERVES
"There was palpable relief in mainstream Europe on Monday at the success of the independent centrist Emmanuel Macron in the first round of the French presidential elections, and a wide assumption that he will defeat the far-right Marine Le Pen in a runoff two weeks from now."
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JEWS FIND A NEW HOME IN SICILY, 500 YEARS AFTER THEY WERE FORCED OUT
"The new synagogue ... will be housed in a former Baroque oratory known as Santa Maria del Sabato, or Holy Mary of Saturday."
I'm tempted to say, "if it ain't baroque, don't fix it," but I do hope they change the name.
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HOW THE ELECTION SPLIT FRANCE
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TRUMP TO @ASTROPEGGY: MARS IN MY NEAR FUTURE
"We are cleaning up our urine and making it drinkable."
"Well that's good, I'm glad to hear that ... better you than me."
If only Trump could hitch a ride on the Mars flight, he'd finally be on his way to his home planet.
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SOME JEWISH GROUPS BRISTLE AT THOUGHT OF TRUMP AT A HOLOCAUST CEREMONY
Trump recorded these remarks on a video which was shown at a World Jewish Congress event in New York:
"We mourn, we remember, we pray and we pledge: never again. I say it, never again. The mind cannot fathom the pain, the horror and the loss. Six million Jews, two-thirds of the Jews in Europe, murdered by the Nazi genocide. They were murdered by an evil that words cannot describe, and that the human heart cannot bear.
We must stamp out prejudice and anti-Semitism everywhere it is found. We must defeat terrorism, and we must not ignore the threats of a regime that talks openly of Israel's destruction. We cannot let that ever even be thought of."
Actions speak louder than ...
Nevertheless, with this on the record -- I'd like to give the dude a chance to make good on these words.
Every future action can be compared and contrasted to his fine, lofty verbage above. WE WILL HOLD HIS FEET TO THE FIRE.
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CHECHNYA'S CRACKDOWN ON GAYS
"It would be encouraging to see Ms. Haley take on this cause with as much passion and perseverance as her predecessor, Samantha Power. Without American leadership, forging a global consensus that gay rights are human rights will take longer. Time is not on the side of gay people living in terror in places like Chechnya."
4/27/17 blog entry
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LETTERS: U.S. PERSPECTIVES ON THE FRENCH ELECTION
An intelligent idea about runoff voting by Eric S. Maskin, Cambridge, Mass.
SCIENCE TIMES D1
BLOOMS AMID BARRENS
"'If somebody had taken me from rural Illinois, where I grew up, and dropped me here into this desert landscape to see all these fat succulent things,' said Jon P. Rebman, the chief botanist at the San Diego Natural History Museum and a cactus taxonomist, 'I would have thought I was on Mars.'"
Nearly the exact words my late grandmother said when she first came to visit us here in Tucson several decades ago.
Except she said, "the moon."
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