The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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Ted Cruz: "Trump is really a crypto Jew..."

 

I love it when the gloves come off.

 

First, Donald Chump Trump played the Cuban/Catholic/(Sp*c) card against Ted Cruz, musing, in his inimitable passive aggressive mode, that few evangelicals come out of Cuba, whereas, he, the Great White Hope of Protestant revanchism (Donald Trump-coming to an Orange Order Belfast march soon), was Presbyterian.

 

Of course, this ignorant prick doesn't realize that the magic denominational affiliation for evangelicals is Baptist, but, soit.

 

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Watcha' gonna do when you get outta jail? Think I'll make a movie....

SMH) We learn again today that the search for fame will subvert the success of even the most fortunate.

In the case of Joaquin Guzman, boss of the Sinaloa Cartel, he is said to have precipitated the raid which ended his brief hiatus (6 months)  from what promises to be permanent imprisonment because of a stated intention to produce his own biopic.

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Friends don't let (WASP) friends use Yiddish when campaigning.

I have previously declared myself deceived by Donald Chump Trump's over the top materialism and coarse address, which,on reflection, gave rise to a misconstruction re:his ethnicity that a close examination of his goyische punim (and goyische kopf) should have corrected.

 

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Why are we with the Arabs and not the Persians? I blame Lawrence.

From time to time it is useful to raise one's head above the AIPAC  generated miasma of anti-Iranian mania, and ask why, all things taken together, we invariably favor the Arabs (Saudis--with their irredentist head-chopping monarchy that, not incidentally, produced the guys who took down our big buildings--and Sunnis generally) over the Persians (who have women in parliament--shit, they HAVE a parliament!)

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trump, trump, rhymes with chump, wedge his whities in a lump...

The recent closing of the New York Military Academy has provided armchair psychologists with an illuminating anecdote from the formative years of the Republican front runner

. According to a person familiar with the facts, when the school closed, files from the guidance counselor previously held in strict confidentiality were inadvertently consigned to a dumpster instead of being shredded as intended. They were retrieved.

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If Greece owes money to Germany, doesn't Germanuy owe money to Greece?

 

 

On a morning when we learn that you may lend to Greece at ten percent more per annum than a loan to Germany, may we not enquire as to the relative equities between these parties if history is weighed in the balance?

 

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Donald Trump:"Sure, I paid $50 for each cheering extra. It was cheap. I rent people all the ime."

-- There'll be another 50 for 'em when they upload a video that shows them voting for me in the primary, It's called disintermediation, and it's the sharing economy, pal.

Why should I spend a fortune on PR when I can just go straight to the target demographic and cut a deal with each individual? It's the American way.

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The Federal Police Inspector General is conducting random audits

 
 
 
Well, at least that's what we might wish for, starting with the creation of such an office...
 

 In point of more specific fact, the epidemic of citizen journalism that has broken out to the effect that atrocities as old as the emergence of municipal police forces from the gang substrates that prece

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McCutcheon: Chief Justice Roberts chooses institutional over party loyalty.

 
 
This is not entirely unexpected, as his title is, after all, Chief Justice.  Still (Taney, C.J., and Rhenquist C.J., egregor), not every U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice in history as been similarly virtuous.
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I am morally humiliated. How 'bout you?

Chris Matthews says that the American People are morally humiliated when, in Syria, ISIS burns an allied pilot alive, or in Libya a gang not actually part of the Islamic State (but soi-disant nonetheless), beheads 45 Egyptians for being Christian.

And that's before today's episode in Iraq, where some captured members of the Iraqi government forces were burned alive.

There is not a moment's introspection into the monstrous hubris this entails.  

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Gitmo detainees claiming innocence--where are the polygraphs?

 

 

When the CIA wants to know if a person is telling the truth, it brings out "the box". No, not some kinda torture device, . The polygraph machine (in the hands of a competent operator).

 

Parenthetically, similar resort to technology is common when district attorneys are deciding whether a report of a crime is veridical, or when Walmart is experiencing excessive "inventory shrinkage" and wants to sort out the honest from dishonest warehouse workers.

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Did young Barack Obama play with toy soldiers?

 

 

I ask because his tortured relationship with his Defense Secretaries is destined to become the topic of more than one PhD dissertation in coming years.

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Christmas in Calcutta, 10021

 

 

"Any help you could give us, or any food, we would really appreciate".

 

Accompanied by two beautiful girls of grade school age, a father was addressing the passengers on the Lexington Avenue Express as it made its way from 59th Street (Bloomingdale's) to 86th St. (Gracie M ansion). By my relatively crude reckoning, we were just then under the streets of the zip code 10021, which for your information is the wealthiest in the country.

 

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Her behavior is riling a lot of people up!

After your jaw has returned to function following your review of this beyond merely entertaining segment on what I will without irony call "quarantinegate". you will want to turn your attention to some of the other ripples caused by that the latest wedge issue: "Should Kaci be quarantined?"

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Never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity...

With apologies to the scumbag who delights in applying this formula to the Palestinian Authority in the context of peace negotiations, let us turn our attention to the sad sack who occupies the White House.

 

Consider the field of play as Ebola fever (the panic kind, not the body temp) began gripping the public imagination.

 

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