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U.S. approves first Sudanese ambassador in two decades
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Europe
German court has set a bomb under the EU legal order.
[Twitter]
Posted by: 3dc || 05/05/2020 10:45 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The "FT" seems to be crying about the ruling in it's rent-seeking neo-marxist drivel of an article.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 05/05/2020 13:36 Comments || Top||

#2  It's indeed the first time the German Constitutional Court has ruled against the EU High Court.

But don't "worry". The eurocrats will find a way around the ruling.
Posted by: European Conservative || 05/05/2020 14:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Or ignore it
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/05/2020 16:53 Comments || Top||

#4  German politicians can't ignore it.
Posted by: European Conservative || 05/05/2020 18:39 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Nashville Mayor Cooper's proposed budget includes 32% property tax increase
Never let a crisis go to waste
[NewsChannel5] Mayor John Cooper filed his recommended budget for the 2021 fiscal year with Metro Council. The $2.447 billion budget includes raising the city's property tax by almost 32% to recover from the financial impact of the March tornado and the COVID-19 shutdown.

"While this budget does not include the many new investments I had hoped to make in a full deployment of body cameras, affordable housing, transportation, social and emotional learning, and much more, this budget will provide needed financial stability to Metro Government," said Mayor Cooper. "Nashville's growth will return once again, our economy will flourish as it did before the storm, and we will not lose sight of the good work we've set out to do on behalf of all Nashvillians."
Posted by: Frank G || 05/05/2020 05:45 || Comments || Link || [10 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Emotional Learning = learning to smile while the GIVERnment F’s your paycheck.
Posted by: Airandee || 05/05/2020 6:36 Comments || Top||

#2  And once the 'hard times' are over and the economy returns to normal, the toll tax increase will be dropped.... right ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/05/2020 7:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I just had an idea for designing a perfect society - every elected politician required to work two years on sheep farm before assuming office.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/05/2020 7:36 Comments || Top||

#4  "affordable housing" "social and emotional learning"... Nashville's success story is at the beginning of the end if mayors such as this continue to fester (read: get elected).
Posted by: Clem || 05/05/2020 7:37 Comments || Top||

#5  Tough to have 'affordable housing' when you're jacking up taxes that much. Of course the irony escapes him.
Posted by: Raj || 05/05/2020 7:41 Comments || Top||

#6  The real money is not in "affordable housing" or rentals. The real money is in gentrification.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/05/2020 8:08 Comments || Top||

#7  g(r)omgoru they already do. That's where they learn how to fleece the people.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 05/05/2020 8:20 Comments || Top||

#8  ^To learn you can't fleece the sheep too often.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/05/2020 8:24 Comments || Top||

#9  Socialists always fleece too much. They kill the golden geese too.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/05/2020 10:08 Comments || Top||

#10  Raj makes the all too obvious point that politicians somehow always fail to notice.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/05/2020 11:49 Comments || Top||

#11  Property tax gets passed to the renters as rate increases, property owner writes off the deduction.

Win, win.
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/05/2020 12:51 Comments || Top||

#12  property owner writes off the deduction.

The past two years I haven't been able to do that. I have to take the "standard deduction". It's a good thing California still has Proposition 13 but I'm sure Newsom is looking for ways around it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/05/2020 15:36 Comments || Top||


Daily Word Salad from Po' Joe Biden:
[Gateway Pundit]
Posted by: Lex || 05/05/2020 03:34 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "...That right there is some authentic frontier political gibberish!"

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 05/05/2020 4:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Doesn't he have a speech writer?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/05/2020 4:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Jeez - I can talk better than that at last call.
Posted by: Raj || 05/05/2020 7:38 Comments || Top||

#4  If this guy ever debates Trump it's going to be like dropping an anvil on a baby bunny.
Posted by: Cesare || 05/05/2020 9:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Apparently he was trying to read from his notes... this was during a softball "interview" with Sharpton. Apparently the guy now uses a TelePrompTer frequently - and he still screws it up.

It's beyond embarrassing. He needs to be told to step down asap.
Posted by: Lex || 05/05/2020 9:30 Comments || Top||

#6  Impressive.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 05/05/2020 10:01 Comments || Top||

#7  Seems like the Dems are now leaning toward Fauxcahontas.

So they'll go from a serial plagiarist, now demented, to a pathological liar. Behold the "reality-based" party.
Posted by: Lex || 05/05/2020 10:19 Comments || Top||

#8  Stroke induced Dyslexia
Posted by: Skidmark || 05/05/2020 12:23 Comments || Top||

#9  Reminds me of the frontier gibberish scene from “Blazing Saddles”
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 05/05/2020 18:04 Comments || Top||

#10  Hence, Mike K's #1 comment
Posted by: Frank G || 05/05/2020 18:09 Comments || Top||


Ilhan Omar signs onto AIPAC letter backing Trump's position on Iran
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/05/2020 03:26 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Uh huh
Omar’s office said the Minnesota Democrat has been ‘consistent’ in her support for arms embargos against human rights abusers, but emphasized that Omar differed with the Trump administration on the Iran nuclear deal, which President Trump withdrew from in 2018.

“Congresswoman Omar has consistently, for a long time, supported arms embargos against human rights abusers,” Omar’s office told Al-Monitor. “However, that is not to say that she supports Pompeo’s tactics or that her position on sanctions has changed, or that she is not in support of the [nuclear deal]. It was just a narrow ask that we couldn’t find anything wrong with.”
Posted by: Frank G || 05/05/2020 5:01 Comments || Top||

#2  No mystery here. Iran are shiites. Those same abuses done by sunnis will be all acceptable to her.
Posted by: Dron66046 || 05/05/2020 7:22 Comments || Top||

#3  /\ Yes, tribalism and money, the usual suspects.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/05/2020 7:50 Comments || Top||

#4  Either that or she can't read....
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/05/2020 8:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Oops, sorry. Confused her for a minute with AOC.
Posted by: Mercutio || 05/05/2020 8:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Omar must have responded to only the Public Affairs part of the first paragraph and didn't read the rest.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/05/2020 11:36 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2020-05-05
  U.S. approves first Sudanese ambassador in two decades
Mon 2020-05-04
  66 civilians killed, wounded in Taliban attacks in first week of Ramadan
Sun 2020-05-03
  Multiple gunshots fired from N. Korea
hit S. Korean DMZ guard post
Sat 2020-05-02
  Trial begins in Denmark of man accused of attack plot for Iran
Fri 2020-05-01
  Southern Transitional Council declares self rule in Yemen
Thu 2020-04-30
  German government bans Hezbollah — Interior Ministry
Wed 2020-04-29
  El Salvador's President Takes On The Country's Gangs Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Tue 2020-04-28
  Haftar declares himself a ruler of Libya
Mon 2020-04-27
  Pakistan to keep Mosques open during Ramadan
Sun 2020-04-26
  GNA Refuses Operation IRINI Because It Will Disrupt Arms Supplies From Turkey
Sat 2020-04-25
  North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un again rumored to be dead
Fri 2020-04-24
  Poland Detains Lebanese Man Suspected of 'Planning Attacks'
Thu 2020-04-23
  Afrin: Kurdish population more than halved since 2018 offensive
Wed 2020-04-22
  Trump says he's ordered Navy to destroy
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  North Korea's Kim Jong Un in grave danger
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