Le jour de gloire est arrivé ! The day of glory has arrived again, in spades, as it does every summer in France. Strikes, strikes, strikes. Demonstrations, marches. Due to  change in labor laws on transport workers. 

Airport strikes and flight cancelations, 3 unions going out, RER nd SNCF train strikes cancelations planned a couple days a week (at a minimum) until at least July, police under siege and demonstrating for 'respect'...

Anyone going to France, be sure you can afford a car, and are ready to use GPS for navigation.

Sanders interview: ..asserted twice that Israel killed over 10,000 innocent civilians in the course of that conflict...seven times the self-serving figure asserted by Hamas, the terror group that runs Gaza..Sanders demanded Israel remove its blockade from Gaza while simultaneously professing to support Israelis’ “right to live in peace and security.” ...Demanding that Israel end the Gaza blockade is tantamount to demanding that Hamas be enabled to freely bring in rockets, missiles and all manner of other military equipment to expedite Israel’s demise.

Retired Congressman and co-author of the Dodd-Frank Act on Bernie Sanders: ...I saw one commercial that said the big companies weren’t punished. Why? Well, maybe it’s because Hillary is getting speaking fees. So the secretary of state should have been indicting people? I mean, yes, McCarthyite in the sense that it’s guilt by association....Where’s the beef of that?

Muricans don't trust each other so they buy guns. They don't trust their government so they want legally untouchable iPhones. Deep distrust doesn't bode well for a big government, 'bring us all together', progressive revolution. Bernie's free everything pie-in-the sky-promises may be all there is motivating his i wanna supporters.

Expect the midnight flights with pallets full of US service members caskets if Trump gets into the Oval Office. Trump names John Bolton, who has "no regrets" over backing the war as his 'go to guy' for foreign policy because 'Bolton knows what he is talking about'. Donald Trump's Curious Relationship With an Iraq War Hawk The tycoon decries the US invasion of Iraq but embraces one of its architects... David Corn/Mother Jones

Nearly 15 months after a Cleveland police officer fatally shot Tamir Rice, 12, while the boy was playing with a pellet gun near a recreation area, the city has sued to collect $500 for his “last dying expense” — the cost of his emergency medical treatment....Cleveland refrained from charging Tamir's family for the cost of the cop bullets that killed him.....his case is far from over, the family has received no settlement

The new Republican anointed Congressional Budget Office is going to work fast to cut SS. By changing Social Security math to label beneficiaries as undeserving loafers. Using a switch from traditional 'median worker wages/benefits' to use of 'statistical means' which makes benefits for cohorts look 50% too generous.

The super PAC supporting former Florida Gov.

Ted, the ultimate example of a swaggering demagogue: The San Bernardino shootings underscore that “we are at [sic] a time of war,” Cruz has said in an address at the Republican Jewish Coalition forum, according to Reuters, which adds the line:

Cruz, who remains behind in the polls, said the attacks prove the country needs “a war-time president to defend” the nation.

“While we still do not know the shooter’s motive, what is clear is that Planned Parenthood has been the subject of vicious and unsubstantiated statements attacking an organization that provides critical health care for millions of Americans. I strongly support Planned Parenthood and the work it is doing and hope people realize that bitter rhetoric can have unintended consequences.”

Not a guest Op-Ed, the NYT Editorial Board: He was an unapologetic racist whose administration rolled back the gains that African-Americans achieved just after the Civil War, purged black workers from influential jobs and transformed the government into an instrument of white supremacy....The overwhelming weight of the evidence argues for rescinding the honor that (Princeton University) bestowed decades ago on an unrepentant racist.

ISTANBUL — Turkish fighter jets....shot down a Russian warplane that Turkey said had violated its airspace, a long-feared escalation that could further strain relations between Russia and the West.

Black Daesh, white Daesh. The former slits throats, kills, stones, cuts off hands, destroys humanity’s common heritage and despises archaeology, women and non-Muslims. The latter is better dressed and neater but does the same things. The Islamic State; Saudi Arabia. In its struggle against terrorism, the West wages war on one, but shakes hands with the other. This is a mechanism of denial, and denial has a price......

According to a study by the Brookings Institute dealing with a 20,000 sample size, Saudi Arabia is the top location claimed by Twitter users supporting ISIS in 2015. Syria follows and Iraq rounds off the top three. BUT BANDAR BUSH AND THE GUYS IN THE KINGDOM ARE ON OUR SIDE, RIGHT... ?

Low flying anti-tank A-10 Warthogs with rapid fire cannons and AC-130 gunships were used to destroy oil tankers ISIS uses to transport oil to Turkey and elsewhere for revenue. We didn't do it before because of possible 'civilian casualties'. Leaflets were dropped first to warn the innocents working for ISIS in their oil operations.