April 2018

The development came as a former Russian general warned the response to the Salisbury the attack could trigger “the last war in the history of mankind”. -- Sengupta, The Independent, April 3, 2018

 
"I question whether promoting fossil-fuel sales abroad aligns with the EPA's core mission of protecting human health and the environment," said (Rep. Betty) McCullum, who is from Minnesota. --Biesecker, AP, Dec. 13, 2017 

 
Nut producers and sellers including Blue Diamond Growers, the Wonderful Co and Emerald Nuts owner Campbell Soup Co (CPB.N) declined comment.--Baertlein, Saphir, Reuters, April 3, 2018.
 

It must really have been a blow to the nut growers, who are the most voluble flakpersons since the Lord sent the manna. -- blj

 
It's hardly news to people who pay attention to public affairs in Merced County. Nonetheless, the sheer stamina of the discontent of the citizens of Atwater and their council is remarkable, appalling, or remarkably appalling, depending on your point of view. Outsiders exposed to Atwater discontent just hope it won't spread and meanwhile imagine reasons for why the citizens of Atwater are the way they are.

 
4-15-18
The Independent (UK)
Trump's 'mission accomplished' tweet may come back to haunt him as another battle looms around Damascus
As Syrian troops move to another confrontation around the Syrian capital, what will the US president – and the British and French – do if more images of gassed civilians dying in agony appear?
Robert Fisk from Damascus 

“Let’s be crystal clear on the scope of this mission,” Brown wrote in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday. “This will not be a mission to build a new wall. It will not be a mission to round up women and children or detain people escaping violence and seeking a better life. And the California National Guard will not be enforcing federal immigration laws.” -- Tolan, Murphy, Sanchez, Mercury News, April 12, 2018

Mission Statement

 
For your entertainment only
DC Gangle's intrepid White House correspondent, Missy Throckmorton (BA Stanford, 2016), reported a West Wing leak just moments ago and tweeted to our news desk:

Trump plans to fire Dr. Ronny Jackson as White House doctor, pardon Bill Cosby, and hire gynecologist Dr. Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable  to be the new Physician to the President. -- Missy T.

A.J. Gangle, editor and publisher

If the greatest flood ever recorded in California happened in 1862, wouldn't it be hard to blame another of its size on the global warming now occurring? The damage such a flood would cause, quite aside from its cause, would be the result of the state's contemporary population, 39.5 million, compared with the half million in the state in 1862. And these aren't 39.5 million sitting ducks. They don't fly and don't float. But, according to our business and political leaders, they and their new neighbors, just about to arrive, are the life blood of the California economy.