Episodes

Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
Flash Briefing 01292020
Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
Wednesday Jan 29, 2020
Alexa flash briefing; if Senators expect to push this impeachment decision off to the American public to decide then....
Trumps legal argues this impeachment is over ‘policy differences’.. that’s insulting to all Americans and the Constitution..

Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
Flash Briefing 01282020
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
Alexa flash briefing; Trumps defense team “who is John Bolton?”.. Bidens are irrelevant to the Trump impeachment trial because.. offbeat news: disappearing islands, bees are finding an ally in this crop..

Sunday Jan 26, 2020
Flash Briefing 01272020
Sunday Jan 26, 2020
Sunday Jan 26, 2020
Alexa flash briefing; Bolton manuscripts from his new book detail Trump wanted aid for Ukraine paused until officials there helped with Biden investigations..
CBS reporter Paula Reid quotes Giuliani as not having been at the 4/30 meeting where Parnas recorded Trump wanting to fire former Ukraine Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch... this raises some important questions...

Saturday Jan 25, 2020
Flash Briefing 01252020
Saturday Jan 25, 2020
Saturday Jan 25, 2020
Alexa flash briefing: if Republicans believe the evidence was not compelling enough or that this is just an impeachment hoax then...

Friday Jan 24, 2020
Flash Briefing 01242020
Friday Jan 24, 2020
Friday Jan 24, 2020
Adam Schiffs compelling and riveting closing arguments in the Senate Impeachment trial stand in sharp contrast to servile Republicans..
China is the second largest economy and if it slows..

Thursday Jan 23, 2020
Flash Briefing 01232020
Thursday Jan 23, 2020
Thursday Jan 23, 2020
Trump admits he’s withholding crucial impeachment evidence, later says cuts to social security are on the table in the future while in Davos yesterday..

Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
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Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
Wednesday Jan 22, 2020
A great quote from Congressman Adam Schiff in the impeachment trial.

Sunday Jan 12, 2020
Sunday Jan 12, 2020
The Republicans dirty little secret- gerrymandering the vote; Mike Bloomberg and Hawkfish- a lethal combination?
According to this Associated Press story, despite the Democratic tsunami in 2018, Republicans won more seats than they should have because of gerrymandering.. are you surprised? Listen to just how bad it is folks...
Check out this website spearheaded by former Obama Attorney General Eric Holder, The National Democratic Redistricting Committee and stay up to date on the amazing work these folks are doing to ensure fair elections are a reality!
Rabid republicans want you to feel like they are ‘more patriotic’ than you when they say things like.....
Bloomberg and Hawkfish..
Mike Bloomberg deserves a serious look in his push for president because..
Bloomberg’s Hawkfish has all the earmarks of a Democratic oriented lethal digital machine.. (watch out Brad Parscale it’s coming..)
Yes, there’s more weird news than I can shake a stick at..
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Monday Jan 06, 2020
Monday Jan 06, 2020
From Bush’s ‘Iraqi Liberation’ In 2003 To The ‘Chaos’ Of Trumps Iraqi Sanctions Today..
Do you really think that Brigadier General William Seeley’s letter stating that the US would acknowledge the Iraqi Parliament’s vote for the US to leave Iraq was a ‘mistake’? Hear me out on this..
Given what we know about Trump and a growing international isolationist approach with our allies, where Trump has even discussed getting out of NATO (NY Times article) and the fact that he is surrounded by “yes” men- how concerned should we be?
Impeachment: today, former National Security Advisor John Bolton said that he would be willing to testify given a subpoena.. we only need 51 votes to make a motion to have the Senate hold a fair trial and hear from witnesses like John Bolton..
Here’s some troubling information folks, according to the San Diego Times, Duncan Hunter will likely receive his taxpayer-funded congressional pension despite guilty plea- and he’s not the only one! You remember Duncan- he was indicted in August 2018 on 60 federal charges that he stole $250,000 of campaign money and used it for family vacations, groceries, extramarital affairs and other non-campaign uses dating back to at least 2010.
The story is here.
Yes, the system is rigged against you middle America when companies like Chevron make $4.5 billion last year yet get a check back from the IRS for $181 million...

Friday Jan 03, 2020
The World On Edge With Iran: Where’s The Diplomacy?
Friday Jan 03, 2020
Friday Jan 03, 2020
The World On Edge With Iran: Where’s The Diplomacy?
Here we go folks, a look at the tit-for-tat slow train wreck with Iran that leaves us all wondering what is next. Here’s how we got to where we now sit pondering that very question today.
Another ‘thing’ that attacks bees found in Washington State....
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there for more options by entering ‘pollinator kits’. You can have a great looking wild flower
garden and give bees a helpful habitat at the same time
From The Weird News Collection:
-English teachers can be kind of odd can’t they? Here’s an interesting story..
“Antiques Road Show Gone Wobbly” the case of what is in that old bottle...?