Friday, February 17, 2017

More from Joy Reid #3--from The Daily Beast:



From Russia’s point of view, the rank incompetence of the Trump administration in handling everything from the Flynn situation to the poorly written travel ban executive order to their failure to conduct the kind of rudimentary vetting that keeps embarrassing things from happening—like a half dozen proposed administration appointees failing their FBI background checks or Flynn’s preferred replacement, former Navy SEAL, Vice Admiral Bob Harward, turning down a job he considered a “shit sandwich—has to give some pause. So must Trump’s dismal approval ratings, which hover at a historically low 39 percent in the latest Pew Research poll. Is this the man who can deliver an historic shift in U.S.-Russian relations?

OMG--Alun Lewis is buried in Htaukkyan War Cemetery--near Rangoon.

Lewis died on 5 March 1944 during the Burma campaign against the Imperial Japanese Army. He was found shot in the head, after shaving and wa...