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Clinton now says she is 'surprised her announcement NOT to run in 2020 was taken at face value and is waiting for the Mueller report before making a final decision', sources claim Hillary Clinton ruled out a 2020 presidential bid on Monday night Less than 24 hours later, sources said she was surprised by the reaction to her interview and she was waiting to see Mueller's Russia report before deciding In an interview with a New York TV station, Clinton had ruled out running but said she was 'not going anywhere' when it comes to speaking out about politics The former Secretary of State said she planned to take on an active role in the Democratic party in the lead up to the next election Clinton has already met with some of the 2020 candidates and offered up advice to not take 'anything for granted' ... More at: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6771683/Hillary-Clinton-confirms-NOT-running-president-2020.html

This is indeed a groundswell trend; i.e. the Democratic party's Old Guard is stepping aside [read being pushed out of the way] to make way for the party's young contenders. Just like Obama, Hillary intends to attempt to continue influencing the party from the sidelines. Doubtless Tulsi Gabbard, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris, Amy Klobuchar and the leader of the Wannabe tribe: Pocahontas AKA Elizabeth Warren are relieved to have Hillary out of the way. ----------- End of an era: Hillary Clinton confirms for the first time she is NOT running for president in 2020 and says she won't seek elected office again, but adds she is 'not going anywhere' Hillary Clinton ruled out a 2020 presidential bid on Monday night Despite ruling out a presidential bid, Clinton said she 'is not going anywhere' when it comes to speaking out about politics The former Secretary of State said she plans to take on an active role in the Democratic party in the lead up to th...

Last week all eyes were focused on the testimony of a convicted shyster lawyer in Senate and Congrees, ... Cohen is a convected felon one his way to prison (three years IIRC) who is trying his lying best to get his sentence reduced by saying what he thinks they want to hear. "Michael Cohen is, famously, a lowlife and screwball who?s made his living as an enforcer, liar and thug. He is going to prison essentially for these things. He has taken to implying his turning on Donald Trump is linked to an inner moral conversion, which may be true but is conveniently timed: He has nothing to lose and some form of leniency to gain." https://www.wsj.com/articles/michael-cohen-makes-history-11551397848 In December 2018, he was sentenced to three years in federal prison and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine. He is scheduled to report to prison on May 6, 2019.[1][12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Cohen_(lawyer)

I've just finished re-re-reading Emergence by David R. Palmer. https://www.amazon.com/Emergence-David-R-Palmer/dp/0553255193 The Paperback edition (2018) from Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Press is available now: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0553255193/ref=rdr_ext_tmb It's also available as an ebook. (Palmer's writing, in this book, reminded me of Robert A. Heinlein's Podkayne of Mars https://www.amazon.com/Podkayne-Mars-Robert-Heinlein/dp/1612422942 ----------- My review: Emergence This is a very well written coming of age book in a journal format: After a bionuclear war which killed off virtually all humans in the cold war era, Candy Smith-Foster an 11 year old, fifth degree Karate black belt, girl genius sets out to find the next step in human evolution -- homo post hominem. Along the way she singlehandedly and barehanded kills two full grown adult male bad guys, is almost killed in an auto accident by a speed crazed auto racing fanatic boy genius abo...

[I lived in San Diego for many years and had no problems with illegals but then almost all illegals were Mexicans seeking work. At one point my landlady hired two of them to help us dig leach lines for a septic system she was installing behind our house. They were good honest workers and although they spoke no English and I spoke no Spanish we got along with hand signals and demonstrations. HOWEVER , in those days illegals were Mexicans here to earn some money and take it home. Nowadays whole families are coming to stay ! And they're not just from Mexico, many are from South America. Also, a disturbing number of them are criminals fleeing prosecution in their own countries. Countries without borders aren't.] --------------- WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government said Tuesday it has expanded a program requiring asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico while their cases proceed through immigration court. They also reported that 240 migrants seeking asylum have been returned to Me...

There have been a lot of changes here since I created my first blog here many years ago. I'd been posting on another site but the restrictions imposed on conservatives began to chafe so I'm trying this out. Hopefully y'all will like what I offer and come back. If not, leave me a note and we'll talk. I intend to make every Headline a Link to the story/report I'm writing about. I'm hoping Blogger will let me do that. We'll see.