TRUTH News 5/17/2016

Business Insider: Donald Trump thinks he is 'not going to have a very good relationship’ with David Cameron

Donald Trump has said he is unlikely to have a good relationship with David Cameron because the British prime minister cast the US presidential candidate as "divisive, stupid, and wrong" for proposing a temporary ban on Muslims entering the US.

The problem here is the current policy both countries share: We bomb Middle Eastern countries and then invite their refugees into our countries.

When you are at war with a country, you don't invite people from those countries into yours. It's just dumb. Cameron doesn't get it, but at least Trump understands it, even if he gets the solution wrong.

Speaking of Trump...

ABC News: The Only Time Donald Trump Undersells: Tax Time

The presumptive Republican presidential candidate has so far declined requests to make public his tax returns, citing ongoing IRS audits. Tax experts say that decision has made it next to impossible to assess Trump’s approach to paying taxes. But his effort to minimize his tax burden in Ossining is consistent with similar challenges his lawyers have filed around the country, court records show. And it is in keeping with Trump’s aggressive approach to minimizing his tax burden — a hallmark of his decades in business, according to an ABC News review of public documents and news accounts from the past four decades.

So? Don't we all try to "minimize" our tax burden? So he has access to greater means to accomplish this. Taxation is nothing more than theft by the many. The fact the government uses tax forms which can be used to view a person's finances is every bit as scandalous as the amount of money that gets confiscated by our tax authorities.

If you don't like the fact that Trump can minimize his tax burden, then get rid of tax deductions. Oh no, you'll lose your home mortgage deduction! Think of all the deductions Trump will lose. That should make you feel better.

On to the other side of the aisle...

Media Matters: Benghazi Chairman’s Own Counsel Undercuts Conservative Myth That Benghazi Response Was Willfully Negligent

The former chief counsel to Benghazi committee chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) reportedly “repeatedly commended the military’s actions” responding to the 2012 Benghazi terror attacks, undercutting conservative media claims that there were additional assets the military could have deployed to save more lives as the attacks unfolded.

This article should end the question that the Obama administration could have done more militarily as the Benghazi crisis was unfolding. Unless the Republican former chief counsel was full of it, but that is another question.

That only leaves the questions of whether they could have done more in advance, and why did they lie afterwards and try to cover it up, even going so far as to prosecute a minor filmmaker in the process? The Media swept that under the rug, but I found it.

And the other Democrats...

CBS News: Security concerns end Nevada Democratic convention

The Nevada Democratic Convention turned into an unruly and unpredictable event, after tension with organizers led to some Bernie Sanders supporters throwing chairs and to security clearing the room, organizers said.

It seems Sanders' supporters are just as unruly as Trump supporters, arguably more so.

Speaking of dogs...

CBS News: Dogs are putting the bite on insurers -- and everybody

Phoenix mail carrier John Schmidt had just put a letter in the mailbox when he was confronted with a deliverer's worst nightmare. A 60-pound mutt clamped its choppers on Schmidt's left calf. The dog's owner came out, pulled the canine off and said, "This has happened before, just file a report." 

It's that attitude that has helped make Arizona the most expensive state for dog bites. Homeowners in the Grand Canyon state, or their insurance company, pay out on average $57,000 if their canine bites, mauls or otherwise abuses a pedestrian, bicyclist, child or even postal carrier. That's $20,000 higher than the national average of $37,000 a claim. 

May 15 began America's week-long celebration -- if you want to call it that -- of National Dog Bite Prevention Week. Promoted by (you guessed it) the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), along with insurers, children's organizations and even animal lovers. The idea is to encourage people across the country to keep their dogs leashed, muzzled, fenced in or, at the very least, friendly.

What is strange about this is the next line:

While the actual number of dog injury claims has declined more than 9 percent over the last 12 years, the cost associated with disruptive canines has risen more than 94 percent to $571 million, according to the Insurance Information Institute (III), the industry's clearinghouse. 

I blame Obamacare. Seriously, by insuring everyone, we have eliminated the need for personal responsibility in healthcare, thereby raising medical costs for everyone, including dog bite victims. So as dog bites have gone down, the cost for treating them has risen.

But the next line of the article is classic. Put on your visualization goggles for this one:

This includes not only dog bites, but other canine damage, such as forcing bicyclists to the ground and bouncing their heads on concrete.

Just call it "Doggy Basketball".