Chuck Schumer

What does "off the deep end" mean exactly? The Urban dictionary's take: "To degenerate cognitively, to be in the process of having a mental breakdown, the process of going crazy." The Cambridge Dictionary is a little more formal and less emotive: "to get very angry about something or lose control of yourself." And Wikipedia had the best take of all, although, alas, unrelated to my purpose: Off the Deep End is the seventh studio album by 'Weird Al' Yankovic, released in 1992. This album was the first album self-produced by Yankovic, after six albums with Rick Derringer.

As US and Israeli leaders tout ‘great day,’ human rights defenders decry breach of international law and abhorrent violence. (CD) — Human rights advocates are shattering the characterization of the U.S. embassy’s opening in Jerusalem on Monday as something to celebrate—a portrayal put forth by President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and the Senate’s top Democrat, […]

New Dems are taking over the Democratic Party and moving it rightOne of the Blue America candidates was told by the DCCC that they would consider backing his campaign if he joined the Blue Dogs. He told them he's joining the Congressional Progressive Caucus because his policy agenda and their policy agenda are in synch and because he doesn't agree with the Blue Dogs' reactionary approach. The DCCC didn't endorse him.

Yesterday after months of careful vetting, Blue America endorsed the progressive candidate in the CO-06 race, Levi Tillemann. I was struck by one of the points on his website about making banksters-- not just bank shareholders-- pay for bank criminality. "[W]e need to ensure," he wrote, "that ALL Americans are treated equally under the law. This includes white collar criminals from powerful banks on Wall Street.

By Philip Giraldi | American Herald Tribune | March 12, 2018 The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, has just completed its annual conference in Washington. There were reportedly 18,000 attendees speakers including the Vice President, United Nations Ambassador, as well as numerous senators and congressmen. The organization is better known by its acronym AIPAC, and […]

(COMMONDREAMS) — “Bigoted,” “outrageous,” and “disgusting” were just a handful of the many adjectives critics used to denounce Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s (D-N.Y.) speech this week before the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which attributed ongoing Middle East conflict not to Israel’s decades of brutal U.S.-backed occupation of Palestinian territories, but to Palestinians’ failure to “believe in […]

Of course politicians, intelligence officials, and the entire swamp ecosystem will profit handsomely off the stupid Russian bot indictment cooked up by special counsel Robert Mueller…and all of it will be charged to the American taxpayer.

Press TV – February 21, 2018 US Democratic leaders have called for more than $300 million in new funding to protect upcoming midterm elections from Russian interference. Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House minority leader Nancy Pelosi demanded a budget boost Wednesday, claiming that the amount is necessary to safeguard November’s elections. The […]

Tide pods, Coke worms and shots of Patrón + this day in history w/Ted Bundy's execution and our song of the day by Calexico on your Morning Monarchy for January 24, 2018.

Dozens of illegal aliens surrounded the New York house of Democrat Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer demanding that Congress pass legislation immediately to give amnesty and a pathway to citizenship to as many as 3.6 million DACA Dreamers in the US illegally. The protesters were organized by United We Dream, a non-governmental organization funded by George Soros' Open Society Foundation. [...]