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The US and Russian military chiefs are to meet in Vienna to discuss operations in Syria, where the US has decided to leave a residual force to protect its Kurdish allies.

Since Russia's entry into the Syria conflict in 2015, Moscow and Washington have worked out their respective areas of operations against the Islamic State group, warning each other of planned air operations to avoid contact.

The military chiefs have kept open a channel of communications despite all issues.

In August 2018, Russia sent a confidential letter, which leaked, containing proposals for cooperation to assure Syria's reconstruction and the return of refugees.

Let us hope for the best for the Syrian children.  Just a thought.

Aaugh...

House Democrats will offer a resolution  condemning anti-Semitism in response to Rep. Ilhan Omar's latest remarks on Israel.

The declaration, supported by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, comes after Omar made new remarks about Israel that critics decried as anti-Semitic. She said "political influence in this country that says it is okay for people to push for allegiance to a foreign country."

The Anti-Defamation League has demanded that House Democrats offer a resolution that makes clear every member of Congress opposes anti-Semitism.

Democrats over the weekend drafted a resolution with that message. Its text was not final yet.

Photo-Op...

Mayor Bill de Blasio declared a state of emergency for the city effective at midnight Monday night, as a massive and dangerous snowstorm bore down on the area.

He is defending his decision to declare a snow day for the city’s 1.1 million public school kids and parents who didn't go to work to babysit the kids..

Joe Lhota, “Why exactly did we close public schools?” asked on Twitter, adding a photo of CBS’ John Elliott delivering the snowfall totals ranging from 1.6 inches in Bergen Beach, Brooklyn, to 3.8 inches in Central Park.

Seven hundred city trucks with salt wondering aimelessly in the city streets to protect the Mayor's image from being embarrassed again.
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The Governor and I agree ...…?

Yay...

New York- Wisconsin.

Mismanaged...

Governor Andrew Cuomo begged Amazon to reconsider its decision to back out of plans to bring HQ2 to Queens after public criticism, while in northern Virginia, the company is facing protests and calls for hearings on a similar project.

Eighteen months after the e-commerce giant launched its search for a second headquarters, the company’s site-selection plans are no less controversial.   Critics say governments shouldn’t be lavishing subsidies on Amazon, whose presence is likely to drive up housing costs, middle and low income families out of the area and increase traffic congestion for Cuomo to tax the little people.

New York civic leaders published an open letter to Amazon, promising that Cuomo will personally oversee state approval and a package of tax incentives totaling about $3 billion, and apologizing for the “rough and not very welcoming” debate that prompted the company to withdraw. Cuomo himself didn’t sign the letter, but the New York Times reported that he had made a personal pitch to Bezos in an effort to revive the deal.

The letter, signed by local politicians and executives, appeared in the New York Times just hours after protesters disrupted a networking event in Arlington, Virginia, where hundreds of local real estate professionals had paid $200 each to hear from Holly Sullivan, Amazon’s head of economic development, talk about the company’s plans for an area in Virginia that Amazon has rebranded as National Landing.

Pay to play is not OK! 

Kama Sutra...

Roseanne Barr didn't hold back on the #MeToo movement in a new interview.

The 66-year-old comedian sat down with conservative commentator Candace Owens, where she mocked sexual assault accusers and the #MeToo movement "witch hunt."

"If you don't run out the room … but you stayed around because you're like, 'I thought maybe he was going to give me a writing job,' well, you ain't nothing but a ho," Barr said after asking why women were in men's hotel rooms late at night.  

Barr and Owens compared the feminist movement to white supremacy, while Barr added that #MeToo accusers are "pretending that they didn’t go to trade sexual favors for money." " ho privilege."

Then lashed out against Sen. Kamala Harris, nicknaming her "Kama Sutra Harris."

"We all know what she did … she slept her way to the bottom," Barr said, referring to the senator's former relationship with ex-San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown.

Barr also took shots at Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, "She should be in prison," Barr said, adding that Ford used her "white woman privilege" to avoid time behind bars. She claimed that "nothing happened" to Ford. 

"Women are encouraged to be conniving," Barr said.

"Conniving little wimps," Owens agreed.

الساقية*...

حمار الساقية  

  هو الحمار المعصوب العينين المربوط في الساقية لتدويرها، واستخراج الماء اللازم للرى، تلك هى مهنته التي يبدأها مع مطلع الشمس وحتى غروبها، لا يختلف زاده تبعا لنوع الزراعة التي يرويها، فلم يأت يوما أن أطعمه أحدا عنبا لأنه سقا حقلا للعنب، فدائما البرسيم هو طبقه الرسمي،  فبينما يستطيع الفلاح النوم والاستراحة بجوار حقله، يظل الحمار دائر في دائرة لاتنتهي ولا يرى بدايتها أو نهايتها.  الساقيه في حاله دوران مستمر , الرغبه في الحصول علي الميه  رغبه مستمره

Guts*...

Sen. Bernie Sanders blasted 13 Senate Democrats for lacking the “guts” to stand up to the pharmaceutical industry after they voted against a measure he pushed to help drive down drug costs by importing them from Canada.   A dozen Republicans voted in favor.

“The Democratic Party are not going to win elections until they do right by the American people.

The measure by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Sanders would have allowed pharmaceutical distributors and pharmacists to import low-cost medicine from Canada and other countries.   

Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet - Co, Bob Menendez and Cory Booker -NJ, Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray -WA, Tom Carper and Chris Coons- DE, Bob Casey PA, Joe Donnelly- IN, Martin Heinrich -NM, Heidi Heitkamp -ND, Jon Tester -MO and Mark Warner - VA all voted against it.

Sanders said  “If we can import vegetables,  fish, poultry and beef from all corners of the Earth, don’t tell me that we cannot bring in, from Canada and other major countries, name brand prescription drugs of some of the largest corporations in the world.” “That’s a laughable statement.”

So, here ya go, the Democrats are defeating themselves. They say they are for the little people and here they are for ...

Climate*...

U.S. Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, responded to President Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement:

“President Trump’s decision ...... is a vicious blow to American leadership  and to our future. “President Trump is just plain wrong: it's not economy versus the environment or America versus the world. It's future versus past; progress and opportunity versus retreat and surrender.

Earlier the social media blew up with condemnation of Cory Booker and other Senate Democrats for voting against an amendment introduced by Bernie Sanders that would allow for the importation of prescription drugs in order to drive prices down.

Affordable medication is not that urgent, nor progressive enough for Spartacus!!!  Just a thought.

Integrity...