thephan wrote:His (baseball) book made me want to give up reading.

PARIS (AP) — France's finance minister says European countries should push back harder against the Trump administration over the Iran nuclear deal and not act as "vassals" to the U.S.
But German Chancellor Angela Merkel says the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran accord isn't a reason to dump decades of trans-Atlantic ties altogether.

The back and forth Friday came as thousands of Iranians took to the streets in cities across the country to protest Trump's decision.

European governments are scrambling for ways to save billions of dollars in trade that could collapse because of U.S. President Donald Trump's decision this week to re-impose sanctions. Trump argued that the 2015 nuclear deal, which allowed for the lifting of sanctions, wasn't tough enough on Iran.

French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Europe-1 radio that Europe should not accept that the U.S. is the "world's economic policeman."

"Do we want to be vassals who obey decisions taken by the United States while clinging to the hem of their trousers?" Le Maire asked. "Or do we want to say we have our economic interests, we consider we will continue to do trade with Iran?"

Merkel took a more measured tone.

"This is a serious event, we have to say that, but it is not a reason to call into question the entire trans-Atlantic partnership," she said during an appearance Friday in the western German city of Muenster.

She acknowledged that it is uncertain "to what extent we can keep this (nuclear) agreement alive if a giant economic power doesn't join in."

thephan wrote:Har Har Har... Tubesteak Giuliani's law firm was looking for a reason to dump him since the campaign. They disliked 'on camera' Rudy as he freelanced the law, defended the 'grab her by the...' audio, etc. By flaunting his approach to client management, and making up/disregarding established law on TV lately put the move to oust him on steroids.

phatj wrote:Will was the commencement speaker at my wife's college graduation. I was looking forward to it, but he was deadly boring.

song bird John

Some protesters moved to within about 150 meters (yards) of the border fence. A reporter saw two men who tried to advance further being shot in the legs by Israeli troops.

Clouds of black smoke from burning tires rose into the air. Earlier Monday, Israeli drones dropping incendiary material had pre-emptively set ablaze some of the tires collected in advance by activists.

Protesters have used the thick smoke as cover against Israeli snipers perched on high sand berms on the other side of the border. The army accuses Hamas of using the protests as cover to plan or carry out attacks.

slugsrbad wrote:Today is Embassy day in Jerusalem, and there is massive protests/demonstrations in Gaza. So far Israeli troops have killed 25 and injured hundreds more.

pacino wrote:Bernie Sanders endorsed Rich Lazer in PA5.

the local Our Revolution groups endorsed Molly Sheehan in PA5.

I have no clue why Bernie did this