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Heh, get this! It's for a super PAC devoted to a grassroots(!) democratic turnout...

In propaganda, the Russians are posers!

Lyme disease a bioweapon gone awry? Rep. Chris Smith pushes Trump to investigate

Now Lyme advocates have a new weapon — an explosive book that alleges the epidemic spawned from an American biological warfare experiment gone awry — and Smith, a Republican whose districts stretches across parts of Monmouth, Ocean and Mercer counties, is appealing to President Donald Trump for action.

The book is “Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons” by Stanford University-based science writer Kris Newby. A chronic Lyme sufferer herself, Newby documents how the U.S. military infected ticks with complex, hard-to-detect pathogens in the 1960s. The book’s linchpin is an interview with late scientist Willy Burgdorfer, who did the infecting and references an accidental release of weaponized ticks that might have ignited all of this.

The relationship between the experiments and the continued denial of chronic Lyme is something Smith would like to see explored further.

“If this (book) this is true — and the documentation is very persuasive — we were doing bio-weapons work that was grossly immoral,” Smith said in an interview with the Asbury Park Press prior to Wednesday’s town meeting. “It’s a shocking read, and I hope it adds to our push. Looking at what happened might help us come up with how we deal with it now.”

He wrote a letter to that extent to President Trump and three inspectors general — of the departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Agriculture — requesting a “serious and comprehensive investigation” into the book’s assertions.

“We owe it to the overwhelming number of patients currently suffering from Lyme disease,” Smith wrote in the letter, dated May 14. “These individuals — and the American public — deserve to know the truth.”

Although he has not received a formal response, Smith said his appeal got the attention of members of Trump’s inner circle. If Congress won’t act on his bipartisan bill (H.R. 220) to bump up funding for research — currently a measly $11 million for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and $28 million for the National Institutes of Health — he’d like to nudge Trump to enact changes via executive order.

"I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected." -- Donald J Trump, May 30, 2019

It is illegal for foreign nationals or governments to help people get elected.

Sorry, I got curious...

But damn! The guy lays it on pretty thick, doesn't he? I mean, that picture!

Nutritionist says pizza is better for breakfast than most cereals

Sage nutritional advice.

Beer Archaeologists Are Reviving Ancient Ales — With Some Strange Results

Boston Dogfish Beer Head Company should patent all the ancient ales.

Electricity is too complex. And besides, the generators aren't powered by batteries.

They're also ripping out the reactors and going back to coal and kerosene lamps. Much simpler system. Do away with electricity altogether. Your EMP weapons are useless here.

We have a very wise saying in New York. Don't piss into the wind!!!! foxnews.com/politics/trump-primary-challenger-weld-admits-gop-voters-arent-into-insurgents

Chairman Kim sent up some of his little Rockets. That's all right. Very confident that he will keep his promise to me.

Also love how he called Joe Bidan a Low IQ person -- and worse. Possibly a very special signal to me? foxnews.com/world/north-korea-joe-biden-editorial

Trump approves sending more forces to the Middle East amid tensions with Iran

Trump's projection tells us more about him than it does about those he's accusing:

"In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran." - Donald Trump, 1:48 PM - Nov 29, 2011

"Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate." - Donald Trump, 3:39 PM - Oct 9, 2012

"I predict that President Obama will at some point attack Iran in order to save face!" - Donald Trump, 2:23 PM - 16 Sep 2013