SHORT TAKES ON THE DRIFTING WRECKAGE – AT 11:57 P.M. ET: 

GOOD NEWS – From PJ Media:  "Turks went to the polls today in parliamentary elections, and the era of single-party Islamist rule appears to be over.  President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had been counting on the continued rule of his AKP party to change the country’s constitution after these elections, consolidating his already increasingly authoritarian rule into something even more dastardly.  But a 2/3 majority of AKP in parliament is needed to change the constitution.  Today, the Islamist party walked away with only 41 percent of seats.  That’s an eight percent drop from 2011.  In a country where the Islamists have garnered the animosity of all manner of opposition groups, from nationalists to Kurds, good luck forming a coalition."
Obama once described Erdogan as his best friend in the Mideast.  Now we'll see how Obama defines "best friend."  I'll bet Erdogan winds up under the same bus where Obama's other best friends wound up.

MAJOR SCIENCE NEWS – From Buzzfeed:  "Malaysia’s government is blaming a group of foreign tourists for causing a deadly earthquake on one of the country’s sacred mountains.  The magnitude 5.9 earthquake on Mount Kinabalu killed at least 13 people on Friday, the Associated Press reported. Authorities are still searching for at least six missing people.  On Saturday, the deputy chief minister of the state of Sabah told reporter that he believes the earthquake was caused by a group of 10 tourists who stripped naked on the mountain a few weeks ago.   Tan Sri Joseph Pairin said that the earthquake was a 'confirmation' that the mountain is sacred, and humanity 'cannot take it lightly,' according to the Malay Mail Online."  I don't know what we're going to do about the naked tourist problem.  It's reached crisis proportions.

THEIR GOOD HEARTS – from freebeacon.com:  "A little-known private foundation controlled by Bill and Hillary Clinton donated $100,000 to the New York Times’ charitable fund in 2008, the same year the newspaper’s editorial page endorsed Clinton in the Democratic presidential primary, according to tax documents reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon.  The Clinton Family Foundation, a separate entity from the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation, has been the family’s vehicle for personal charitable giving since 2001.  It is funded directly by the Clintons and distributes more than $1 million a year to civic and educational causes."  I'm sure the Clintons weren't trying to buy influence.  Who would accuse them of that?

June 7, 2015