Weren't the files supposed to have been released Friday or today?
Was that little flurry we had on Friday, the whole thing?
The mysterious collapse of governments
Germany's Angela Merkel has said she will step down as chancellor in 2021, following recent election setbacks. "I will not be seeking any political post after my term ends," she told a news conference in Berlin. She also said she would not seek re-election as leader of the centre-right CDU party in December. She has held the post since 2000.
The entire Russian government is resigning, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced Wednesday, after Vladimir Putin proposed sweeping reforms that could extend his decades-long grip on power beyond the end of his presidency.
Dutch Rutte government resigns over child welfare fraud scandal.
Italy's former premier Matteo Renzi said on Wednesday he was pulling his party's ministers from the cabinet, effectively leaving the ruling coalition without a majority in parliament. His decision, announced at a news conference, throws Italy into political chaos....
Estonia’s president on Thursday tasked the leader of the main opposition party to form a new government, a day after Prime Minister Juri Ratas and his Cabinet stepped down in the wake of a corruption scandal in Ratas' ruling Center Party.
What an astonishing series of coincidences! Five European governments collapsing in the same week? It can't possibly be an international prelude to the events of January 20, 2021, could it?
Just tell them, you're going to the Supreme Court Justices' Ball.
And they'll tell you, very sternly,
"Supreme Court Justices Don't Have Balls."
...just remind them "neither does Congress."
“It is clear that thought is not free if the profession of certain opinions makes it impossible to earn a living. It is clear also that thought is not free if all the arguments on one side of a controversy are perpetually presented as attractively as possible, while the arguments on the other side can only be discovered by diligent search.”
― Bertrand Russell, Sceptical Essays
We can tell them, we're going to the Supreme Court Justices' Ball.
And they'll tell us, very sternly,
"Supreme Court Justices Don't Have Balls."
From poster George Turner:
The current defense spending bill requires the renaming of military bases that are named after Confederates who fought in the Civil War. That really doesn't upset me because we're going to have lots of newly minted civil war generals that those bases can be named for.