THEY NEED PENSION REFORM, OF COURSE. THEY NEED A LOT OF SOCIALIST-LITE ELEMENTS OF SOCIETY REFORMED OR DONE AWAY WITH IF THEY ARE TO SURVIVE AS A COUNTRY. BUT AFTER YOUR ELITES AND GOVERNMENT HAVE LIED TO YOU FOR YEARS AND YOU KNOW IT, ARE YOU GOING TO TRUST THEM TO DO WHAT’S BEST FOR YOU, NOT THEIR POCKETBOOKS?  FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU; FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON YOU. BUT IF YOU KEEP DOING IT, AND BEING FOUND OUT? THIS IS HOW THE WORLD BURNS. BECAUSE FOOL ME 345 TIMES, AND YOU’LL END UP DECORATING A LAMP POST:  Macron pension reform: France paralysed by biggest strike in years.

Too bad so sad. Or in French c’est tant pis.

Note to our resident obfuscating left: it’s not just that you run out of other people’s moneys, guys. At some point you run out of credibility. For you guys? that was seven years ago.

AND FREEDOM IS CATCHING:  You Cannot Enslave a Free Man.

JEFFREY EPSTEIN’S PILOT MIGHT HAVE DIED OF PERFECTLY NATURAL CAUSES, BUT AFTER HIS PLASTIC SURGEON DIED IN A FREAK AIRPLANE ACCIDENT, WE’RE SUSPICIOUS…  Prince Andrew sex allegations: Jeffrey Epstein’s butler Alfredo Rodriguez, who stole tell-all ‘black book’, dies age 60.

Truly for your safety, we encourage you to have bumper stickers printed that say “I have not now nor at any point had any dealings with Jeffrey Epstein.”  Too long for a bumper? How about “I don’t know Jeffrey Epstein.” And while you’re at it add another one “I know nothing about Hillary Clinton.”
Really, they should hand these out free with first-aid kits and other preparedness materials.

99c, ON SALE FOR CYBERWEEK, FROM ZOEY IVERS:   The Barton Street Gym (Doors into the Dimensions Book 1).

In a future where no one needs to sleep, homes are unnecessary. A simple dimensional cubby in a hi-rise gymnasium is all anyone needs.
Perhaps the designers ought to have considered the possibility of unintended effects from thousands of multi-dimensional bubbles in close proximity to each other. But they weren’t physicists . . .

Joe is independent, his divorced father a bit absent minded. Joe and his “bio-model” friend were exploring the pedestrian tunnels under the Barton Street Gym when they found themselves trapping in a strange landscape with a hungry dinosaur.

Alice Brown is used to getting in trouble; her parents are quite strict. But being attacked by a Tyrannosaurus Rex in a strange dimension just a step across a malfunctioning D-door is not her usual sort of trouble.

YEAH, THIS IS MY SHOCKED FACE:  No Surprises There.

ALL OF IT:  Trump, Schiff’s Schpy-gate, and more.

OUT BOTH SIDES OF HIS MOUTH:  Pete Buttigieg, in Spanish, Promises Free Healthcare for Illegal Aliens.

TEACH WOMEN-JUDGES NOT TO ABUSE THEIR POWER:  Sex, campaign donations and armtwisting: An NKY judge faces…

WORSE, HE HAS DANGEROUS LACK OF THINKING:  Michael Bloomberg Has Dangerous Ideas About China.

AS SHE SHOULD:  Melania Trump Blasts Pamela Karlan For Using Barron To Smear Trump.

WELL, OF COURSE IT’S SLANTED:  Bias triggers and the New York Post’s failure to understand satire — a fisk.

EPSTEIN’S LAWYER DIDN’T KILL HIMSELF:  Banker with Ties to Jeffrey Epstein Found Dead from Apparent Suicide.

99c, ON SALE FOR CYBER WEEK, FROM BLAKE SMITH:   The Hartington Inheritance (The Hartington Series Book 1).

Almira Hartington was heir to the largest fortune in the galaxy, amassed by her father during his time as a director of the Andromeda Company. But when Sir Josiah commits suicide, Almira discovers that she and her siblings are penniless. All three of them must learn to work if they wish to eat, and are quickly scattered to the far reaches of the universe. Almira stubbornly remains on-planet, determined to remain respectable despite the sneers of her former friends.

Sir Percy Wallingham pities the new Lady Hartington. But the lady’s family will take care of her, surely? It’s only after he encounters Almira in her new circumstances that he realizes the extent of her troubles and is determined to help her if he can. He doesn’t know that a scandal is brewing around Sir Josiah’s death and Almira’s exile from society. But it could cost him his life, and the lady he has come to love.

EPSTEIN DIDN’T KILL HIMSELF, YOU KNOW?  Rattling the Cage Doors.

OH, DEAR LORD: U.N.’s #COP25 Conference: Make Climate Change Scary Again.

AND THIS IS NO REASON FOR CRIMINAL PROSECUTION?  Schiff Obtained Phone Records of Nunes, Journalist, Others.

BLOOMBUG HAS DANGEROUS IDEAS, PERIOD:  Michael Bloomberg Has Dangerous Ideas About China.

BUT… BUT… BUT WE’VE ALREADY SPENT SO MUCH ON ROPE, TAR, FEATHERS AND A RAIL!!!!  Pelosi waiting for Judiciary Committee hearings before committing to impeachment.  (And the commitment should be involuntary and to a mental facility for Pelosi and the gang. Look, if ever I saw a crying need for anti-psychotics.)

SHUSH, YOU. MY CATS ARE NOT LEFTISTS:  Cats are trying to talk to you with their faces: study.

BARELY, THAT’S HOW!  ‘Snowball Earth’ discovery: Experts reveal how life survived prehistoric ice age.

THEY DON’T WANT THESE “FREE” THEY WANT THEM PAID FOR BY SOMEBODY ELSE AND ARE TOO IGNORANT TO PROCESS THE DISTINCTION. SERIOUSLY, FOR $13.25 A MONTH THEY’D SELL THEIR LIBERTY? ALSO, WHAT KIND OF INSANITY IS THIS? WHAT ELSE SHOULD BE FREE? SOCKS? HAIR CREAM? IF NOT, WHY NOT? WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE, PRECISELY? HAVE THEY TAKEN LEAVE OF THEIR SENSES?  Should feminine hygiene products be free?

LET THEM EAT TATER TOTS: Farmers warn of possible french fry famine and smaller spuds.

99c ON SALE FOR CYBER WEEK FROM CEDAR SANDERSON:  Tanager’s Fledglings (The Tanager Book 1).

When the starship’s captain died midway through a run with a cargo of exotic animals, the owner gave first mate Jem one chance, and one choice. The chance: if he successfully runs the trade route solo, he’ll become the new captain. If he fails, he’ll lose the only home he’s ever known.

And the choice? He’s now raising an old earth animal called a basset hound. Between station officials, housebreaking, pirates, and drool, Jem’s got his hands full!

A DAUGHTER NO FATHER WOULD ADMIT TO:  Daughter of police chief in Starbucks cup scandal says he’s ‘absolutely a pig’.

FROM SAM SCHALL, ON SALE FOR 99c FOR CYBER MONDAY:  Battle Flight: An Honor and Duty Prequel.

Honor and duty. Corps and family. Those values had been drilled into Ashlyn Shaw as long as she could remember.

Long before conspiracies and war threatened her home planet and those she loved, Ashlyn had to prove to herself and others that she had what it took to be a member of Fuercon’s Marine Corps. Along the way, she learned the true meaning of honor, duty and sacrifice.