It Is Well

Tamper...

Mud...

Presidential hopefuls took jabs at each other in the Lone Star State.

Starbucks Howard Schultz took aim at progressives and democratic socialists alike.   "if you want a good description of socialism, just look at Venezuela."  

 Washington Governor Jay Inslee, said Schultz "needs to stay in private business."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren declared that she was "not a democratic socialist"  When asked if Bernie Sanders urged her not to run, she danced around it. 

 Former Housing secretary Julian Castro took aim at Sen. Bernie Sanders' remarks that there are better ways of helping the African-American community other than "just writing out a check" for reparations. Castro said when it comes to Medicare-for-all, "the response  "we need a big check." 

سواهَــــا

فإنــــــكَ واجــــــدٌ أرضًـا بأرضٍ 

،،، ونفســكَ لا تجدْ نفسًا سواهَــــا!

وأرزاقٌ لــنـــــــا مــتفــرِّقـــــاتٌ ،،،

 فمـــــــنْ لم تأتـِـــــهِ منَّــــا أتــاهَــا

ولا تجــــــزع لـحـادثة اللّيـــــالي ،،،

 فكـــلُّ مصيبةٍ يأتــــــي انتهــــاهَــا

مشينـــاهَا خطًى كُتبتْ علينَــــا ،،،

 ومن كُتبتْ عليه خطًى مَشاهَا!!

ومـــنْ كــــانتْ منيّتُــه بـــــأرضٍ ،،،

 فليسَ يمــوتُ في أرضٍ سواهَا!

أبي العلاء المعري ...

Kelly...

Olympic track cyclist Kelly Catlin, who helped the U.S. women's pursuit team win the silver medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, died Friday at her home in California. She was 23.

USA Cycling chief executive Rob DeMartini said in a statement that "the entire cycling community is mourning this immense loss. We are offering continuous support to Kelly's teammates, coaches and staff. We also encourage all those who knew Kelly to support each other through the grieving."

Catlin was born and raised near Minneapolis, Minnesota, and rose to prominence on the track as a member of the U.S. national team. She also raced on the road for the Rally UHC Pro Cycling Team, and she was pursuing a graduate degree in computational mathematics at Stanford.

Fascist...

Freikörperkultur is a German movement whose name translates to Free Body Culture. It endorses a naturistic approach to sports and community living. Behind that is the joy of the experience of nature or also of being nude itself, without direct relationship to sexuality.

Move...

Move over, Saudi Arabia. America is about to steal the kingdom's energy exporting crown.

The United States will surpass Saudi Arabia later this year in exports of oil, natural gas liquids and petroleum products, like gasoline, according to energy research firm Rystad Energy. 

That milestone, driven by the transformative shale boom, would make the United States the world's leading exporter of oil and liquids. That has never happened since Saudi Arabia began selling oil overseas in the 1950s.

Drilling innovations have opened up huge swaths of oil and natural gas resources that had been trapped in shale oilfields in Texas, North Dakota and elsewhere. 

With ample supply at home, Congress in 2015 lifted the 40-year oil export ban. Overseas oil sales have exploded since then. And the US Gulf Coast is racing to build facilities that can handle surging foreign demand for US crude.

Ruled...

Germany has ruled out designating Hezbollah, an Iran-backed group, as a terrorist organization, a move likely to cause friction with the U.S. government after the Trump administration urged European countries to put pressure on the Iranian regime.

The decision came in the wake of the United Kingdom’s declaration last month that all wings of Hezbollah are banned in the country and are designated as part of the terror group responsible for destabilizing the Middle East.

“Hezbollah is continuing in its attempts to destabilize the fragile situation in the Middle East, and we are no longer able to distinguish between their already banned military wing and the political party,” Britain’s home secretary Sajid Javid said.

 So who is destabilizing the Middle East?

Over...

Agree...

India has called on the United States to investigate Pakistan's alleged use of American-made F-16 jets during an aerial engagement last month that brought the two nuclear armed neighbors to the brink of conflict.

"We have asked the United States to also examine whether the use of F-16 against India is in accordance with the terms and conditions of sale," Indian foreign ministry spokesperson told journalists.

The Indian Air Force said Pakistan used F-16 fighter jets in the raid that brought down an Indian MIG 21 jet, in a possible violation of the terms of use by the US.

As part of the purchasing agreement, the US puts certain restrictions on how its military equipment can be used. It is unclear what restrictions were placed on the use of Pakistan's F-16 jets.