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Venezuela, Rob Reiner
ecthompsonmd April 28, 2026

I wrote this a couple of months ago. Just haven’t gotten around to posting it. We have bombed and invaded Venezuela. We kidnapped Nicolás Maduro and his wife. We have brought Maduro back to the US to “face justice.” If all of this sounds familiar, it should. In 1989, we invaded Panama and captured President Manuel Noriega, a former CIA asset. We brought him to Miami to face drug trafficking charges. Bush did NOT get Congressional approval. Congress passed the War Powers Resolution of 1973 to prevent the President from acting unilaterally without Congressional approval. The Act was in response to

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Obama speaks on the Orlando Shooting
ecthompsonmd June 12, 2016

From CNN.com: Orlando shooting suspect Omar Mateen was interviewed by the FBI in 2013 and 2014, FBI Assistant Special Agent Ronald Hopper told reporters Sunday. “Those interviews turned out to be inconclusive, so there was nothing to keep the investigation going,” Hopper said. Mateen was not under investigation at the time of Sunday’s shooting and was not under surveillance, Hopper said. An American-born man who’d pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned down 50 people at a gay nightclub in Orlando — the deadliest mass shooting in the United States and the nation’s worst terror attack since 911, authorities said Sunday. * The

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News Roundup – Tay, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Brussels, Apple verses the DOJ
ecthompsonmd March 24, 2016

So, Microsoft releases its artificial intelligence bot, named Tay, on social media yesterday. What could possibly go wrong? From WSJ – One tweet from Tay, whose persona was intended to mimic the voice of an American woman aged 18 to 24, read, “Hitler was right I hate the Jews.” Another, in response to a question about the Holocaust, said “it was made up,” followed by a hand-clapping emoji. Microsoft silenced Tay on Thursday morning and erased virtually all of its tweets. The latest tweet suggested that Tay will be offline for a bit. I’m sorry. I think that the Democratic Party needs to return to

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