I am a non-voter so I observe the current “race” for the Offal Office with clinical interest but nothing more. I admire Bernie Sanders because he is an unapologetic Stalinist who is nothing more than EVERY US political candidate on truth serum. He is the polar opposite of Ron Paul, a true exemplar of the pro-death religion that is the state idolater. Whoever gets the ring of power for the next four years in Mordor on the Potomac to run the American Necromonger Complex will deliver more of the same but worse. It always gets worse.

Cook "testified that he was not afraid of the dog, but was following training that required him to kill all dogs that approach him, even if it was chained and wagging its tail as Buddy was doing in this case."

Neither Trump nor Berlusconi has a real political program; what they are selling is themselves.

...in many cases, probably most, the flamboyant denunciations of Trump by establishment figures make no sense except as self-aggrandizing pretense, because those condemning him have long tolerated if not outright advocated very similar ideas, albeit with less rhetorical candor. Trump is self-evidently a toxic authoritarian demagogue advocating morally monstrous positions, but in most cases where elite outrage is being vented, he is merely a natural extension of the mainstream rhetorical and policy framework that has been laid, not some radical departure from it. He’s their id.

The letter and subsequent reply reveal that the reactor could not be shut down in an ordinary fashion due to control rods being jammed. The reactor had to be shut down by adding boron to the pressure vessel, an unprecedented procedure in Western Europe, according to an expert.