Crossing...

Over the years, villagers who live near Greece's border with Turkey got used to seeing small groups of people enter their country illegally. The Greek residents often offered the just-arrived newcomers a bite to eat and directed them to the nearest police or railway station.

But the warm welcomes wore off. When Turkey started channeling thousands of people to Greece, insisting that its ancient regional rival and NATO ally receive them as refugees, the Greek government sealed the border and rushed police and military reinforcements to help hold back the flood.

Greeks in the border region rallied behind the expanding border force, collecting provisions and offering any possible contribution to what is seen as a national effort to stop a Turkish-spurred incursion.

Greek authorities said that out of a the 252 people arrested for illegal entry over the past week as of Friday, 64% were Afghans, 19% Pakistanis, 5% Turks and 4% Syrians, while the others were from Iraq, Iran, Morocco, Ethiopia, Bangladesh and Egypt. They're all illegal migrants and that's why they're trying to get into Europe (this way).”

Rattled...

Markets are in turmoil after the collapse of an alliance between Saudi Arabia and Russia, two of the world's top oil producers, triggered the worst one-day crash in oil prices in nearly 30 years — fanning new fears about a global economy already reeling from the coronavirus pandemic.

Saudi Arabia slashed oil prices after Russia refused to go along with OPEC's proposal to impose deeper cuts to production in the face of slumping demand. The standoff sent Brent crude futures, the global benchmark, down as much as 31% to $31.02 per barrel, as traders brace for Saudi Arabia to flood the market with crude.

The shock has also rattled stock and bond markets, which were already freaking out over the global spread of the coronavirus. On Sunday, Italy put much of its prosperous north — including financial capital Milan  on semi-lockdown, the most dramatic effort yet to contain the virus outside China.

Less money from the oil, will lead to less support for all the Middle East troubles.

Come up with...

Fake...

When Sen. Elizabeth Warren dropped out of the presidential race, having failed to inspire Democrat voters, she blamed “unconscious bias and . . . gendered language.”

Warren's stunning lack of humility doesn’t occur to her, in her self-congratulatory, liberal feminist self-image, that voters, male or female, just don’t want what she is selling.

Warren’s fatal mistake was to embrace identity politics, claiming victim status by being a member of various oppressed groups when in reality, she was a privileged white professor. In the end, the woke parasite devours its own.

She started with baggage from her claim of being partly Native American. DNA test, which proved she had very little Native-American ancestry, and spent the rest of the campaign trying to apologize

Then she tried to earn victim points by claiming she once had been fired for being pregnant.

Finally, she revealed herself as cravenly unserious when she declared she would recruit a “young trans person” to vet her potential Cabinet appointees.

Her deep hate for rich people, while she is one of them, make you think it is all fake.

Just a thought.

Issue...

Split...

Not going to happen.

Puppet...

Running far away from socialism. Just a thought.

No...

Don't do it.

Clicks Up...

An MSNBC guest is getting heat online after saying during a segment on the network that "many people" consider Duchess of Sussex Meghan Markle to be "five clicks up from trailer trash."

According to BuzzFeed News, the moment came during journalist Victoria Mather's appearance on "MSNBC Live" on Saturday morning.

She had been sharing her position on Markle and Prince Harry's recent visit to England, months after the two announced they would be stepping back from some of their duties as members of the royal family.

"I think what has really, really upset the British public is that Meghan Markle, who many people consider as only, you know, five clicks up from trailer trash, has actually tried to disrespect the queen," she said at one point during the appearance. 

Lock down...

Italy’s prime minister ordered the complete lockdown of some 16 million people in the country’s coronavirus-plagued north  including the cities of Venice and Milan  in a draconian health measure expected to be approved by legislators later in the day.

The quarantine ordered by Guiseppe Conte effects ten million living in the Lombardy region another 6 million living in 14 provinces; it bars anyone from entering or leaving except for “undeferrable work needs or emergency situations” until at least April 3.

Cinemas, theaters, dance schools, bingo halls and pubs will also be closed — but restaurants will stay open if they can provide seating that keeps a distance of one meter, or a little over a yard, between customers.

The measure was due for a vote as Italy logged at least 5,883 infected patients and 233 deaths. Only two countries have been hit harder by the coronavirus: Mainland China, which has 3,097 deaths, and South Korea, which has 50 deaths.