Tuesday Night Jam: Jacob Collier’s Unbelievably Awesome Version of “Eleanor Rigby”
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Jacob Collier performs Eleanor Rigby in session at Maida Vale for BBC Introducing and Jamie Cullum on BBC Radio 2.
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In Michigan it appears Kasich has taken over the role that Rubio had in Iowa - win the counties dominated by universities and colleges.
re: #1 freetoken
In Michigan it appears Kasich has taken over the role that Rubio had in Iowa - win the counties dominated by universities and colleges.
Will be interesting to see what happens in their respective home states next week. Gotta think Trump will be favorted in both. Bad news since I think both are winner take all. I give Kasich a better shot to win Ohio than Rubio Florida though. Rubio is floundering big time.
@NeriumLos Yes, vote for the guy promising to enact ethnic & religious cleansing to show your opposition to corruption. @Karoli @bulldoghill
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 9, 2016
.@NeriumLos So you’re going to show your opposition to corruption by voting for someone you KNOW is lying to you. OK. @Karoli @bulldoghill
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 9, 2016
re: #3 goddamnedfrank
He’s a Benghazi person.
@goddamnedfrank @Karoli @bulldoghill better lie about what your going to do than what you did! #BenghaziStillMatters
— NeriumLos (@NeriumLos) March 9, 2016
Talking headz seem surprised that a political party that for years has pandered to angry old white bigoted males suddenly votes for an angry old white male bigot.
Shit even if Trump weren’t a crazy bigoted asshole. You want to put someone that insecure in charge of setting our foreign policy?
re: #6 freetoken
Talking headz seem surprised that a political party that for years has pandered to angry old white bigoted males suddenly votes for an angry old white male bigot.
With fake fucking steaks.
re: #6 freetoken
Talking headz seem surprised that a political party that for years has pandered to angry old white bigoted males suddenly votes for an angry old white male bigot.
No kidding. They finally got a candidate that really speaks for them and they’re showing their support at the polls. What a shock.
George Martin, Producer and Arranger for The Beatles, Dies at 90 https://t.co/3Cxye0gEvM via @thr
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 9, 2016
re: #2 HappyWarrior
Will be interesting to see what happens in their respective home states next week. Gotta think Trump will be favorted in both. Bad news since I think both are winner take all. I give Kasich a better shot to win Ohio than Rubio Florida though. Rubio is floundering big time.
I’ve seen a couple of things suggesting that Trump loses one on one to either Cruz or Rubio (and I’d bet to Kasich). Given Rubio’s inability to actually win, I’m wondering if he doesn’t drop out in order to make it harder for Trump to win Florida, and by “drop out” I mean “have some big money donors explain that he needs to quit now if he ever wants money to run for another office ever again”
re: #3 goddamnedfrank
if you really believe half the shit Trump says about what he wants to do then your as dumb as he is.
You’re right, I don’t believe Trump will do half the shit he says he will. The problem is that I don’t know which half. I don’t think even Trump knows. And if that doesn’t scare the hell out of you, you are a fool of the highest order.
re: #13 KGxvi
I’ve seen a couple of things suggesting that Trump loses one on one to either Cruz or Rubio (and I’d bet to Kasich). Given Rubio’s inability to actually win, I’m wondering if he doesn’t drop out in order to make it harder for Trump to win Florida, and by “drop out” I mean “have some big money donors explain that he needs to quit now if he ever wants money to run for another office ever again”
Hmmmm interesting.
re: #14 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate
You’re right, I don’t believe Trump will do half the shit he says he will. The problem is that I don’t know which half. I don’t think even Trump knows.
Trump may actually get some stuff right but the stuff he may get wrong could result in a major war or crisis. I don’t want to take that risk. And it amazes me that people want to play with fire like this.
re: #13 KGxvi
But Hawaii.
Anyway, I think that it is unlikely that Rubio will drop out before March 15. There is no really good way to save face, but the last thing that a politician wants to project is being a quitter.
Not for nothing. Blind squirrel. Broken clock. Etc.
A special congrats to Hillary for her victory in Mississippi on International Women’s Day. If you win the nomination we will be there w/ you
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) March 9, 2016
.@NeriumLos So you don’t believe his promises to violate & harm ethnic and religious minorities, but they turn you on. @Karoli @bulldoghill
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 9, 2016
.@NeriumLos Too late. You clearly rationalized supporting Trump’s promises to harm minority communities. @Karoli @bulldoghill
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 9, 2016
.@NeriumLos I’ll vote to protect minority communities from promised harm. You choose to condone & rationalize supporting that harm. @Karoli
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 9, 2016
.@NeriumLos Don’t worry, I totally comprehend your desire to rationalize explicit promises of racial targeting and ethnic cleansing. @Karoli
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 9, 2016
re: #1 freetoken
In Michigan it appears Kasich has taken over the role that Rubio had in Iowa - win the counties dominated by universities and colleges.
Why does Kasich get more delegates when Cruz got more votes?
(At least on the NYT page it shows
Cruz 287,102 24.6% 12 delegates
Kasich 284,955 24.4% 15 delegates
re: #4 Ziggy_TARDIS
He’s a Benghazi person.
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Rhetorical Question to ask someone like that: If #BenghaziStillMatters, then why haven’t you worked to persuade the Federal Government to find ways to get the Libyan National Army the equipment it needs to secure Benghazi?
After all, the best way to avenge those who died in Benghazi on 09/11/2012 is to take out the Islamists who carried out the attack. It would also have the side benefit of handing Daesh a defeat.
Not that the Twitter haters will respond intelligently to that, but its a way of coming at goofballs like that from an unexpected direction.
re: #17 HappyWarrior
Trump may actually get some stuff right but the stuff he may get wrong could result in a major war or crisis. I don’t want to take that risk. And it amazes me that people want to play with fire like this.
Exactly. That’s the difference between Cruz and Trump for me. I’m mostly afraid of what Trump would do by accident. I’m mostly afraid of what Cruz would do on purpose.
re: #22 BeachDem
Their both at 16 delegates now.
I think it has to do with the portion of delegates awarded by congressional district. Each state seems to have a variation on the rules, but usually second place gets one delegate, winner gets two. Not sure if that is how MI works, but possibly.
re: #20 goddamnedfrank
u d be dum to believe it would be allowed to happen. Were u also a believer that Obama was going to destroy America
Obama didn’t campaign on explicit promises to destroy America, though.
re: #22 BeachDem
Why does Kasich get more delegates when Cruz got more votes?
(At least on the NYT page it shows
Cruz 287,102 24.6% 12 delegates
Kasich 284,955 24.4% 15 delegates
Some states allocate some of their delegates by Congressional district. So one can narrowly do better in terms of overall votes but still have one to three fewer delegates.
re: #10 HappyWarrior
Fake hair, fake steaks, fake everything.
.@realDonaldTrump’s election night infomercial:
- Trump Steaks: fake
- Trump Water: generic
- Trump Magazine: fakehttps://t.co/ocKN4uWlna— Mashable (@mashable) March 9, 2016
re: #24 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate
Exactly. That’s the difference between Cruz and Trump for me. I’m mostly afraid of what Trump would do by accident. I’m mostly afraid of what Cruz would do on purpose.
It really is scary. I mean it’s like asking should I shoot you point blank in the range in the head or should I stab you in your heart? Both are awful choices. To think a former Gingrich follower like Kasich may be the most decent one in the bunch. It just makes me sick. Clinton may not be perfect but I trust she’ll have an administration that will respect the rights of all Americans regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation, gender, disability status, or economic status. Cannot say the same about the others. Anyone who believes Donald Trump cares about the little guy is a damned fool falling for the worst kind of populist demagoguery.
re: #18 freetoken
But Hawaii.
Anyway, I think that it is unlikely that Rubio will drop out before March 15. There is no really good way to save face, but the last thing that a politician wants to project is being a quitter.
My guess is he stays in trying to win Florida, and if he doesn’t then he has to give it up. But if he decides tomorrow, he can paint it as doing what’s best for party and country (which to republicans is the same thing). “The party has spoken, and it is time for me to bow out. But we must unite behind (non trump) to save our party and our country from a charlatan like trump”
Can’t Bill Murray just wander into the Oval Office on November 4th and become president? Seriously would anyone mind?
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) March 9, 2016
Just smelling bullshit at this point.
.@NeriumLos Interesting how you use this nebulous faith in the country to rationalize not voting against explicit racism yourself. @Karoli
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 9, 2016
.@NeriumLos Yet you’re willing to turn a blind eye to promises of real harm against others. Some set of principles you’ve got there. @Karoli
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 9, 2016
My Dad and I were talking Trump. He’s just dumb founded about the whole appeal. He said and I agreed with him that we both thought that general public perception of Trump is that he’s a damn clown that people laugh at since he’s got such an overly high opinion of himself. i mean that people look at this guy and think YES! HE SHOULD HAVE THE SAME TITLE AND POWER NEXT TO HIS NAME THAT WASHINGTON, LINCOLN, AND ROOSEVELT HAD just makes me dizzy thinking about it. If he does lose, I hope he leaves this country for a deserted island in the middle of no where and leaves the rest of the world alone foerver.
re: #29 Stanley Sea
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If Trump was wise, he’d have said “I was going to have bottled water here but because of the crisis in Flint I sent the water there and I’ve got my volunteers taking the cases to people who have a hard time getting water home from the distribution points.”
That would actually help him and the party.
Remember how the Marvel CEO supported Trump earlier?
Apparently, he likes Trump because he is just as big an asshole.
Befitting a Palm Beach imbroglio, the dispute began over a local tennis pro. Now, at least three lawsuits later, a neighbor of Mr. Perlmutter has accused him and his wife of sending slanderous letters, unsigned, that say the neighbor “sexually assaulted” an 11-year-old “at knife-point” and murdered a local couple.
The hate-mail campaign, which included more than a thousand letters sent to the neighbor’s friends and business associates, is said to be part of an effort by Mr. Perlmutter to pressure the neighbor, Harold Peerenboom, to leave the gated community where they both own homes. One of the letters started, “Today I write you to warn you about Harold Peerenboom of 8 Sloans Curve Road who is a sexual predator.”
Mr. Peerenboom, who has never been accused of these crimes, is now trying to compel Marvel to produce Mr. Perlmutter’s emails.
A spokesman for Marvel declined to comment, saying it does not discuss personal matters involving Mr. Perlmutter.
The next “debate” is on Thursday, from Miami.
It will be on CNN, and given the horrible job that Blitzer did last time, this one has the possibility big donnybrook.
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
If Trump was wise, he’d have said “I was going to have bottled water here but because of the crisis in Flint I sent the water there and I’ve got my volunteers taking the cases to people who have a hard time getting water home from the distribution points.”
That would actually help him and the party.
That would Turmp not being like Trump though.
Thunder to the south. Weather moving in. Most of the heavy stuff is still well to the west. We’ll take whatever we get. For an El Nino winter, this one has been spectacularly dry. Everything has been moving north of us.
re: #37 Ziggy_TARDIS
Remember how the Marvel CEO supported Trump earlier?
Apparently, he likes Trump because he is just as big an asshole.
Missed that. An asshole likes an asshole though. Hardly news but thx.
re: #30 HappyWarrior
Anyone who believes Donald Trump cares about the little guy is a damned fool falling for the worst kind of populist demagoguery.
Donald Trump has no actual principles beyond “Donald Trump should get whatever Donald Trump wants”. His commitment to the little guy will last as long as it continues to be to his benefit, and not one second longer.
ftr, that’s how Obama won the 2008 nomination—big delegate wins in the Deep South. https://t.co/yTPUR0Twqp
— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) March 9, 2016
Van Jones: Hillary mainly winning states Dems have no chance to win in November.
— Greg Mitchell (@GregMitch) March 9, 2016
re: #44 teleskiguy
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I didn’t see anyone making that argument when Bernie won Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Kansas. Listen. Each of these candidates has won a state that likely won’t go for the Democratic party in November. Each of them has lost a safe Democratic state. too. Clinton’s overwhelmingly winning in popular vote too and you can’t discount that along with the delegate lead. I’m sorry but people need to stop letting their dislike of Clinton cloud the reality that she’s very much winning the race.
re: #37 Ziggy_TARDIS
Remember how the Marvel CEO supported Trump earlier?
Apparently, he likes Trump because he is just as big an asshole.
What is it with wingtards and those hyperbolic pædophile claims which turn out to be less solid than an overcooked noodle?
re: #43 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate
Donald Trump has no actual principles beyond “Donald Trump should get whatever Donald Trump wants”. His commitment to the little guy will last as long as it continues to be to his benefit, and not one second longer.
Exactly.
re: #42 HappyWarrior
That actually caused a bit of a problem, because Ms. Marvel, now a Pakistani-American Muslim living in Jersey City, is one of the most popular comic book characters right now.
re: #31 KGxvi
My guess is he stays in trying to win Florida, and if he doesn’t then he has to give it up.
But losing badly there might really end his career. If he pulls out now and urges his voters to support other candidates, he can spin a very poor showing as them following his request. If he stays in, it’s just him getting whupped.
re: #34 goddamnedfrank
@NeriumLos If #BenghaziStillMatters, why haven’t you worked to get the Feds supply the Libyan National Army the weapons to secure Benghazi?
— Kurt Akemann (@Dark_Falcon7) March 9, 2016
Delusional fuckwit at The Federalist says what?
If wishes were horses and beggars could ride pic.twitter.com/h8NKSrDvhB
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) March 9, 2016
Breitbart’s ‘editors’ tomorrow morning are gonna find themselves in a reaaal dilemma https://t.co/Ba5QxafADc
— Zeddonymous (@ZeddRebel) March 9, 2016
re: #49 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate
But losing badly there might really end his career. If he pulls out now and urges his voters to support other candidates, he can spin a very poor showing as them following his request. If he stays in, it’s just him getting whupped.
He is in a tough spot. I’d be shocked if he drops out though.
re: #51 teleskiguy
Delusional fuckwit at The Federalist says what?
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I like hot sauce with my delusion.
#MemeGOP pic.twitter.com/vqCS1v6rZq
— Meme GOP (@GOPMeme) March 9, 2016
re: #19 teleskiguy
Not for nothing. Blind squirrel. Broken clock. Etc.
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I think we will all be together in the end.
@Sam_Schulman @jewsforbernie I’m far from a Bernie supporter but you are a fucking idiot.
— Danial J دانیال ج (@danja84) March 9, 2016
re: #55 Kragar
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Too true. Insisting Trump is awful but offering support if he’s the nominee means Jack.
re: #46 Teukka
Let’s hope Disney has the power to get rid of him.
I think they might. Disney took away his control over the movie studios back in September, after mixed reviews for Age of Ultron.
He is also the reason why there are almost no Black Widow toys.
re: #56 Stanley Sea
I think we will all be together in the end.
We will be because the reality of a Republican president will be starring its ugly head especially if his name is Cruz or Trump.
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
If Trump was wise, he’d have said “I was going to have bottled water here but because of the crisis in Flint I sent the water there and I’ve got my volunteers taking the cases to people who have a hard time getting water home from the distribution points.”
That would actually help him and the party.
We’re talking Trump here.
Oh gee let me find my nano-violin:
Donald Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski forcibly yanked Breitbart reporter Michelle Fields out of the way after his press conference in Florida on Tuesday night.
Fields was attempting to ask Trump a question as he exited the press conference. Secret Service was starting to clear a path, when Fields was forcibly grabbed on her arm by Lewandowski, moving her out of the way and nearly bringing her down to the ground, a source who witnessed the situation told POLITICO.Fields was clearly roughed up by the move, the witness said.
I’m sorry but if you choose to enable fascism you don’t get to act surprised when it turns on you.
re: #64 goddamnedfrank
Oh gee let me find my nano-violin:
I’m sorry but if you choose to enable fascism you don’t get to act surprised when it turns on you.
Poetic justice. That’s all.
re: #60 Ziggy_TARDIS
In regards to Black Widow toys.
The report also indicates that the ripples from Perlmutter’s departure may be even more substantial than originally thought. According to sources, Perlmutter—who has a background in the toy business—was specifically responsible for the controversial decision to take a gendered approach to Avengers merchandise. In short, the blame is falling on him for the conspicuous absence of Black Widow-related toys. This was a decision that even Marvel star Mark Ruffalo publicly protested. So between stars and directors speaking out, and well-publicized rifts, it looks like Marvel, for all its box office success, decided it had a few changes to make. We won’t necessarily see those changes right away; Captain America: Civil War and Doctor Strange are already well underway. But soon we’ll see if all of Marvel’s little problems vanish under sole creative leadership of Kevin Feige.
Perlmutter probably needs to go away.
re: #64 goddamnedfrank
Oh gee let me find my nano-violin:
I’m sorry but if you choose to enable fascism you don’t get to act surprised when it turns on you.
I hate that to happen but I’m inclined to agree and I know Breitbart would laugh it off if it was a liberal critic of Trump being roughed up. So no pity really.
re: #44 teleskiguy
Van Jones: Hillary mainly winning states Dems have no chance to win in November.
Yes, doing better with the somewhat less liberal wing of the Democratic primary electorate will definitely doom her with the voter base in the general.
re: #46 Teukka
What is it with wingtards and those hyperbolic pædophile claims which turn out to be less solid than an overcooked noodle?
Projection?
re: #51 teleskiguy
Delusional fuckwit at The Federalist says what?
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Cruz’s and Rubio’s combined total in MI was still about 30,000 less than Trump. Are they going to stab Kasich in a dark alley (or are they going to have Dr. Ben do it?)
Cruz I think has emerged as the anti Trump. Gotta love it.
re: #76 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate
I like the joke, but that’s a dire Kasich caricature.
Rubio pretty dire as well. Ted, they added lbs, which they shouldn’t.
re: #76 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate
I like the joke, but that’s a dire Kasich caricature.
I thought it was quite apt. (And Rubio is perfect.)
Bernie Sanders is a G. Can’t stop watching this. 😂 pic.twitter.com/FT7Q0hip2x
— Stephen Robinson (@xstex) March 7, 2016
re: #78 BeachDem
I thought it was quite apt. (And Rubio is perfect.)
It amazes me Cruz and Rubio are only a year apart. Never would have guessed that if I didn’t know.
I’m kind of enjoying the Bernie joy tonight. Fuck it.
Trump destroys everything normal.
re: #57 electrotek
Bernie has earned the votes of Islamists.
Of course, what with Islamists’ well known love of Jews and all. It only makes sense.
Wild!
Kyle Odom, Suspect in Idaho Pastor Shooting, Arrested Outside White House
Kyle Andrew Odom, the ex-Marine accused of shooting a prominent Idaho minister outside his church, was arrested by the U.S. Secret Service in Washington, D.C., after he threw objects over the White House fence, police said.
The Secret Service confirmed the arrest to NBC News late Tuesday night.
Tim Remington, senior pastor of The Altar Church in Coeur d’Alene, was shot six times and critically wounded in the church’s parking lot Sunday. His condition has since been upgraded to fair, and he was described as stable.
Odom, 30, was arrested without incident at 8:27 p.m. ET at the South Fence of the White House, Coeur d’Alene Police Chief Lee White said. He was apprehended while throwing objects, including documents and a computer flash drive, over the fence, White said.
…
re: #71 BeachDem
Cruz’s and Rubio’s combined total in MI was still about 30,000 less than Trump. Are they going to stab Kasich in a dark alley (or are they going to have Dr. Ben do it?)
No shit, there’s no way Kasich is gonna stand aside for Cruz. If anything, he’ll expect to pick up votes when Rubio drops out. So it’s gonna be a knife fight between Cruz and Kasich for the “Not-Trump” title while Trump…keeps winning delegates.
re: #83 blueraven
He got a long ways without being detected.
Looking at the calendar going forward, after Hawaii tonight (no results yet), there are no less than 66 more Republican delegates available before March 15th.
However, the contests are all sort of wonky:
Virgin Islands has a caucus on Thursday, the night of the debate.
On Saturday, DC, Guam, and Wyoming are having what they call “conventions”.
All of these seem to be the kind of things that can be wired for Rubio.
So these 66 delegates can be denied to Trump.
Then, if Rubio concentrates on Missouri and Illinois, to pick up candidates on 15th - who knows if Rubio can get ahead of Cruz - certainly the latter doesn’t think so.
There’s something hilarious about how we’re no longer talking about whether or not Trump’s challengers can win the nomination from him, but whether they can deny him enough delegates to prevent him from winning the nomination outright.
Hawaii 4% in… and Trump leads!
Rubio in last place!
The difference between them?
57 votes.
Hawaii’s first numbers roll in, Trump with a 28% lead
re: #88 freetoken
Hawaii 4% in… and Trump leads!
Rubio in last place!
The difference between them?
57 votes.
All from Kauai
Rubio takes a 3 vote lead over Kasich to stay out of last place.
re: #90 FormerDirtDart
All from Kauai
Hawaii totals are utterly meaningless until Honolulu returns comes in. Something like two-thirds of the entire State lives in that county, and it’s a much more urban demographic comparatively.
re: #94 goddamnedfrank
Still, not many Republicans even on Honolulu.
9% of the county in, and Trump leads… with a total of 114 votes.
Just not many Republicans out in the middle of the Pacific.
Just to show how undemocratic this whole process is, a Republican delegate in Hawaii can be had for an order of magnitude less votes than a delegate in Michigan.
But each delegate carries the same weight at the convention.
Depressing note:
Trump is more than 1/3 of the way to the nomination
By next Tuesday night he will more than likely be over 1/2 way there…
It’s tough to argue that superdelegates, who are Democrats, have less of a right to weigh in than indies voting in Democratic primaries.
— Joy Reid (@JoyAnnReid) March 9, 2016
In fact this is why SD’s exist, to prevent the Party from being cynically rat fucked. Which isn’t to say that’s what Bernie represents, but that they exist to fill a legitimate function.
re: #98 goddamnedfrank
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In fact this is why SD’s exist, to prevent the Party from being cynically rat fucked. Which isn’t to say that’s what Bernie represents, but that they exist to fill a legitimate function.
Another strong argument for closed primaries.
OK ya’ll. Over & out. Work has been taxing lately & another day beckons.
re: #97 FormerDirtDart
Still, Trump has less than 50% of the awarded delegates, much less.
He will need to win the winner-take-all contests on March 15th, and then some of the other ones later.
re: #99 BeachDem
Another strong argument for closed primaries.
I can see the argument for allowing Independent’s to request a Dem ballot as is the case here in California, where the GOP in contrast runs a closed primary and is perpetually shut out of power. I think in our case it does help generate a certain amount of “buy in” that helps boost Dem general election numbers.
But who knows. Also total cross over voting like what took place in MI does seem like it’s incredibly problematic and ripe for gamesmanship. If you’re already a registered member of one Party that’s the only ballot you should be allowed to get on Primary day. You should also probably be required to change your registration a week in advance or something if you want to switch.
re: #102 goddamnedfrank
On a personal note I appreciate CA’s approach, because while I lean strongly Democrat, I have very strong personal feelings about not registering as a party member one way or another.
That is a decision I make, knowing what the consequences might be. But it’s nice that in CA, I still get to have a say. I’m not looking to game the system or mess with someone else’s race, I just don’t want to have a party preference recorded as part of my voter registration.
Does it involve underpants gnomes? https://t.co/rYBfqk71Mo
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 9, 2016
How Donald Trump could be blocked at a contested GOP convention https://t.co/wNYl1Ss4At pic.twitter.com/fYxSHjvnv4
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 9, 2016
re: #103 klys (maker of Silmarils)
That’s not the case in Colorado. I couldn’t participate in any of the caucuses (yes, CO is a freaking caucus state) because I’m a registered independent. Me and about another third of Colorado registered voters couldn’t participate in the Republican or Democratic caucus, ‘cause we’re not cool enough.
In Colorado Bernie won the Democratic caucus, Republicans decided “Fuck it! This is bullshit!”
re: #98 goddamnedfrank
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That’s the reality in all this, SDs are a contingency against candidates who game the system in order to win the nomination. They don’t exist to override a legitimate candidate’s nomination, they exist to serve as a fail-safe to prevent the sort of danger the GOP faces of a brokered convention. If Clinton and Sanders get to the convention with enough pledged delegates apiece to win the nomination outright, then the superdelegates are there to ensure that the candidate who the party feels stands the best chance of winning the general election wins the nomination. Hell, if Bernie starts winning enough races convincingly that he can argue that he’s got a better chance to win the general than Hillary does, then those superdelegates could defect and support him over her.
re: #105 teleskiguy
I …am not a fan of caucuses.
CA’s primaries for everything but the Presidential race are pretty awesome. Had to request my Presidential primary ballot, but mailed that off last week.
Given that the President is elected in a rather undemocratic way, we should not be surprised about the strange mechanics of getting candidates on the ballot.
re: #105 teleskiguy
In Colorado Bernie won the Democratic caucus, Republicans decided “Fuck it! This is bullshit!”
The Colorado Republican Party decided last August. The delegates aren’t declaring their candidate until Cleveland, their constituency be damned. That’s smart, especially in Colorado.
Republicans in Colorado know how much of a shit show the Republican primary is, and they’ve decided to wait and see.
re: #103 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I just don’t want to have a party preference recorded as part of my voter registration.
I used to feel that way, but then the GOP got so irredeemably terrible and racist that I felt it was important for me to oppose them as openly and thoroughly as possible. That meant not only that I would never vote Republican ever again, but that I was only fooling myself by pretending to be independent when I no longer had any intention whatsoever of voting that way.
What this election is all about - ratings:
People are passionate and tensions are high. Very normal. My ratings up up 33% last month. I hope we unite soon https://t.co/xn9XYc5fMc
— Sean Hannity (@seanhannity) March 9, 2016
This chucklehead…
How do you know you live in a militaristic empire? When your Gov kills 150 people in a country you’re not at war with & barely anyone blinks
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 8, 2016
I’ll blink when al-Shabab is the name of the most successful sunflower merchant enterprise in East Africa.
Over at The Regurgitant, Son of Erick rambles, illogically spewing out fantasies about Cruz being able to win.
There is no way to photograph Ted Cruz to make him look attractive.
re: #115 freetoken
There is no way to photograph Ted Cruz to make him look attractive.
The photographer in me really wants to argue with that, but can’t. There are things he does style wise and in terms of mannerism that are seriously not helping, but he’s working against a massively stacked deck.
— Randy Prine (@randyprine) March 9, 2016
Science guy writes an article in Forbes in response to lame WSJ article about science is a belief system, like religion.
No, Science Is Not Faith-Based
Ethan Siegel
forbes.com
The concluding paragraph summarize his main points pretty well.
The fundamental question is neither what the object of humanity’s faith will be nor how far it will extend, but rather how far you’re willing-and-able to test your most deeply held beliefs, and whether you’ll have the courage to change your conclusions to follow where the evidence guides. That is what separates science from anything faith-based, and why any faith-based belief system will never be considered scientific.
Creationists and conservatives argue that evolution is a faith-based belief system, just like Genesis and YEC, so it’s totally fair to teach creationism alongside evolution and the Big Bang theory in public school science classes. Siegel’s closing paragraph is a succinct response to this kind of nonsense. Scientists over the ages have discarded or changed theories to fit the evidence. How many creationists would abandon their belief in Genesis if it could be conclusively proved wrong? A very small number, if any.
Science adapts. Fundamentalism retrenches.
re: #115 freetoken
There is no way to photograph Ted Cruz to make him look attractive.
Like putting lipstick on a pig?
re: #120 Kragar
Why do you hate pigs?
Pigs are OK in my book. Basically very honest critters, unlike Ted of Alberta.
One of the more interesting things about this Hawaii Republican caucus is indeed that - it was a closed caucus, not an open primary.
The results upset the narrative that Trump can’t win these sort of things.
No matter what Mitt Romney or Erick Son of Erick want to believe, plenty of True Republicans will vote for Trump.
You have not heard the last of Ben Carson… oh no, not by a long shot:
His Presidential Bid Over, Ben Carson Has a Big Polling Lead
[…]
A new poll shows 56 percent of likely voters would choose Carson if he were to enter the state GOP primary for the job Sen. Marco Rubio plans to vacate. If Carson doesn’t run in what’s likely to be a crowded field, according to the poll, voters so far are backing Florida Rep. David Jolly, but far less enthusiastically: He polled at 18 percent, 38 points behind Carson.
[…]
I am so humbled by the 56 percent support in the News 13/Bay News 9 survey of Florida voters who still believe in me. God bless & thank you.
— Dr. Ben Carson (@RealBenCarson) March 8, 2016
re: #113 Alyosha
How do you know you live in a militaristic empire? When your Gov kills 150 people in a country you’re not at war with & barely anyone blinks
What a bullshit talking point. Whether we’re at war with a country we’re killing people in has nothing to do with whether we should be doing that.
While Trumpenis boasts of his hand size, another celeb tries to walk back his own claim of his physique:
Hulk Hogan admits during Gawker trial he lied about the size of his penis
Hulk Hogan had 24-inch pythons — but he didn’t have a 10-inch penis.
The wrestler admitted on the witness stand Tuesday that he’d exaggerated the size of his manhood, while an attorney for Gawker sought to make the case the wrestler’s boorish bragging indicated he’d chosen to make his private life public.
“I do not have a 10-inch penis, I do not, seriously. Terry Bollea’s penis is not 10 inches,” Hogan said, using his real name.
[…]
100% of the vote in, Trump wins with 5677 votes.
Given 11 delegates from that exercise, that means each delegate represents 546 Hawaiians
Meanwhile, in Michigan, Cruz got 17 delegates for approx. 328,482 voters, or each delegate represents 19,322 Michiganders.
re: #125 freetoken
That will cost him a place in Trump’s cabinet
re: #64 goddamnedfrank
Oh gee let me find my nano-violin:
I’m sorry but if you choose to enable fascism you don’t get to act surprised when it turns on you.
There’s a mention of the encounter up on Breitbart now, with an editor’s note:
POLITICO: Trump Campaign Manager Gets Rough with Breitbart Reporter
Editors Note:
“It’s obviously unacceptable that someone crossed a line and make physical contact with our reporter. What Michelle has told us directly is that someone “grabbed her arm” and while she did not see who it was, Ben Terris of the Washington Post told her that it was Corey Lewandowski. If that’s the case, Corey owes Michelle an immediate apology.” - Larry Solov, Breitbart News CEO and President
What has made this truly surreal is that the commenters are almost entirely Trump fans and are turning their bigoted ire toward the reporter, going full anti-Semitic and sexist in the process.
To those who thought the 2014 Bundy Ranch incident was forgotten by the federal authorities, please peruse the attached (in the OregonLive article) government motion for pretrial detention of Pete Santilli. The motion contains a good rundown of what happened and a lot of information about Santilli.
By the time of the Malhuer incident I did not know anything about Santilli except that he was a “media guy”.
Feds describe Pete Santilli as a “shill” for Cliven Bundy in 2014 standoff in Nevada
What Santilli did in Oregon pales by comparison to his acts in the Nevada precursor.
We acknowledge that United States District Judge Anna J. Brown has agreed to release Santilli in connection with his indictment in this district in United States v. Bundy, et al., 3:16-CR-00051-BR (D. Or.). The Oregon Indictment charges a single count of conspiracy to impede officers of the United States, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 372, in connection with the recent armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. When she made her ruling, however, Judge Brown specifically stated that she was not taking into account the facts surrounding the armed assault against federal agents which is the subject of the Superseding Indictment in the District of Nevada. Because the facts in the pending Nevada case independently justify Santilli’s detention as a danger to the community and a flight risk, for the Court’s consideration in this hearing the government submits the following.
re: #124 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate
What a bullshit talking point. Whether we’re at war with a country we’re killing people in has nothing to do with whether we should be doing that.
Glenn has confused Somalia with a fully-functional state. Ignoring the threat al-Shabab poses to what precious little security Mogadishu has scraped together really shows what his priorities are.
re: #113 Alyosha
How do you know you live in a militaristic empire? When your Gov kills 150 people in a country you’re not at war with & barely anyone blinks
Wait, he suddenly dislikes Putin’s Russia?/
re: #118 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Oh God, this WSJ guy is such an idiot. It’s not “faith” that the Sun will rise tomorrow. It’s Bayesian probabilistic thinking.
great time burner: musiclab.chromeexperiments.com
Basically what I wrote earlier: those are Milo’s target audience.
My lovely internet friends don’t just go for people for no reason. But both @benshapiro & @scrowder have fallen. Wonder what they did?
— Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) March 9, 2016
re: #131 Nyet
Wait, he suddenly dislikes Putin’s Russia?/
Who the fuck knows at this point? Maybe he became a pacifist while no one was paying attention.
How utterly and completely insane the GOP is in Virginia:
The Senate Courts of Justice Committee nominated former Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli for a state Supreme Court seat, according to Senate Republicans, according to CBS 6 .
The state Senate will back the conservative politician’s nomination, but the GOP majority plan was to nominate Appeals Court Judge Rossie Alston, according to Daily Press reporter Travis Fain.
Cuccinelli has been nominated to a seat currently filled by Governor Terry McAuliffe’s recess appointment. McAuliffe’s appointment of Supreme Court Justice Jane Marum Roush has lapsed.
Unbelievable destruction from #GreenwoodExplosion. At least 9 firefighters hurt.
PHOTOS: https://t.co/MgWqgs5vR0 pic.twitter.com/ZKBzSD9amh— KING 5 News (@KING5Seattle) March 9, 2016
Some of the damage from the explosion. pic.twitter.com/BXmzDshnr7
— Seattle Fire Dept (@SeattleFire) March 9, 2016
More pictures from the early morning explosion… pic.twitter.com/EZVXOLzht7
— Seattle Fire Dept (@SeattleFire) March 9, 2016
#GreenwoodExplosion: Natural gas leak reported at 1:04 a.m. Building exploded 39 minutes later. 9 firefighters hurt: https://t.co/MgWqgs5vR0
— KING 5 News (@KING5Seattle) March 9, 2016
re: #132 Nyet
Oh God, this WSJ guy is such an idiot. It’s not “faith” that the Sun will rise tomorrow. It’s Bayesian probabilistic thinking.
I remember when the WSJ, though conservative editorially, was at least intelligent and reputable. Now it’s a more famous version of International Business Daily.
re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth
There was a similar explosion in NYC a few months back, for the same reason.
Those Bratfrat commenters are eating their own, wrt Trump and their own reporter.
Couldn’t happen to a more appropriate cornucopia of slugs.
Kid magnificently answers an exam question in the bullshit style of Donald Trumphttps://t.co/6XFVoknNlr pic.twitter.com/9PtVAojiS8
— The Poke (@ThePoke) March 9, 2016
OK, this article by Graeme Wood discusses the meaning of “Rum” (not, not rum) in ISIS’ interpretation of Islam:
What I’m surprised about is that while the two natural interpretations (literal Rome; the Second Rome - Byzanthium, and Turkey as its successor) have currency, the third one - Russia, the self-styled Third Rome (as well as a self-styled successor to the Byzanthine Empire) - isn’t, although it would also fit the picture.
Then there could be the fourth interpretation: the collective “Rum” represents all the Romes above.
re: #141 freetoken
Those Bratfrat commenters are eating their own, wrt Trump and their own reporter.
Couldn’t happen to a more appropriate cornucopia of slugs.
She’s a Cruzbot, not one of theirs.
re: #144 Nyet
She’s a Cruzbot, not one of theirs.
slugs…snails… hard to tell them apart just by their slime trails.
It’ll be sad when Beatles producer George Martin dies, but on the plus side think of how freaked Game of Thrones nerds will be for a second.
— Ken Jennings (@KenJennings) June 25, 2014
Amusing advertisement on Drudge vs. his headline.
So another bad night for Marco. Sucks to be him.
re: #134 Nyet
Basically what I wrote earlier: those are Milo’s target audience.
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Milo is targeting shapiro & crowder?
re: #151 Dr. Matt
Milo is targeting shapiro & crowder?
I think it’s an “alt-right” thing, but I’ve not paid them much attention.
re: #149 HappyWarrior
I saw that. Agh, another reason why state elections are important.
Don’t blame me, I voted for a Democrat wrote-in Ham Sandwich.
(No Democratic candidate has ran in my Senate district in forever.)
re: #154 Timothy Watson
Don’t blame me, I
voted for a Democratwrote-in Ham Sandwich.(No Democratic candidate has ran in my Senate district in forever.)
Ham Sandwich has integrity and isn’t divisive so easy vote there.
Over here the reputable media has framed the primaries of the day just gone as simply a consolidation of the respective front-runners’ already-considerable leads.
No biggie ;)
Night, all.
Good Morning, Lizards.
I’m saddened to wake up to the news that Sir George Martin has passed. Martin’s portfolio is as weighty as anyone in modern music. He broke tremendous ground with The Beatles, of course - every album revealed a new innovation, a new twist on established procedures, a new way of production that is still a template for how things are done.
But of all the amazing work he produced, this remains my favorite.
In 1974, Martin corralled the wild artistry of Jeff Beck, sending his work in a brand new direction and kicking his career to another entire level. This track closed the groundbreaking ‘Blow By Blow’ album, and Martin’s gorgeous contrapuntal string arrangement steals the show, even in the face of Beck’s beautifully sensitive playing.
The orchestra is so good, Beck even sits out the last refrain and lets Martin’s strings wash over the listener one more time. It never fails to move me to tears with its elegant simplicity. Even now.
Well done, Sir. Well done, indeed.
I missed this yesterday morning:
.@realDonaldTrump when asked by @morningmika abt his foreign policy team… pic.twitter.com/oRd76limHd
— Ali Vitali (@alivitali) March 8, 2016
G’ Morning.
I was reading some of the previous thread and I saw some folks talking about Bernie hanging in until it is finally decided for Clinton. I think they are forgetting about the huge amounts of money Bernie supporters are sending his way. There have been claims of 40 million bucks collected in February. With his win last night there will be more. And that alone will keep him running.
And it is being emphasized right here in Ohio. Bernie is running tons of commercials in the Columbus market. Tons. I am not even paying real close attention and I have seen/heard five commercials so far this morning. The heat is on in Ohio. The Berners are turned up to 11.
I heard Hillary is leading in Ohio polling 53% to 46% and I am not sure when those polls were taken, but it would not surprise me if they get closer after last night’s Bernie win in Michigan.
Big Bill Clinton is going to be at Hillary’s downtown campaign headquarters today for what is being called an organizing event. A bit later he will be in Dayton for the Montgomery County Frolic for Funds Fundraiser at the Dayton Convention Center. I expect Hillary will be here sometime between today and Tuesday’s election too, but nothing arranged so far.
I don’t think I can remember a Democratic primary that is being worked as hard as this one is. Ohio…one more time is the battleground state. October and November are going to be pure hell as far as advertising and campaign stops.
re: #160 ObserverArt
G’ Morning.
I was reading some of the previous thread and I saw some folks talking about Bernie hanging in until it is finally decided for Clinton. I think they are forgetting about the huge amounts of money Bernie supporters are sending his way. There have been claims of 40 million bucks collected in February. With his win last night there will be more. And that alone will keep him running.
And it is being emphasized right here in Ohio. Bernie is running tons of commercials in the Columbus market. Tons. I am not even paying real close attention and I have seen/heard five commercials so far this morning. The heat is on in Ohio. The Berners are turned up to 11.
I heard Hillary is leading in Ohio polling 53% to 46% and I am not sure when those polls were taken, but it would not surprise me if they get closer after last night’s Bernie win in Michigan.
Big Bill Clinton is going to be at Hillary’s downtown campaign headquarters today for what is being called an organizing event. A bit later he will be in Dayton for the Montgomery County Frolic for Funds Fundraiser at the Dayton Convention Center. I expect Hillary will be here sometime between today and Tuesday’s election too, but nothing arranged so far.
I don’t think I can remember a Democratic primary that is being worked as hard as this one is. Ohio…one more time is the battleground state. October and November are going to be pure hell as far as advertising and campaign stops.
I don’t see any reason for him to stay in once she’s clinched the nom. Anyhow it’s going to be interesting to see what happens next week.
re: #161 HappyWarrior
I don’t see any reason for him to stay in once she’s clinched the nom. Anyhow it’s going to be interesting to see what happens next week.
If Bernie keeps doing as well as he did in Michigan, it may take until June for Clinton to clinch the nomination.
re: #162 Big Beautiful Door
If Bernie keeps doing as well as he did in Michigan, it may take until June for Clinton to clinch the nomination.
Yeah that’s true. Anyhow it was a good showing for him all in all.
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. So, tell me, who won the primaries last night.
If you said Bernie, you would be wrong. He still lost, despite winning in Michigan in an upset.
How is this possible? Simple.
To riff on Meghan Trainor, it’s all about the delegates. It’s all about the delegates.
And Hillary won more of them last night than Bernie did.
For the night, @BernieSanders picked up 69 delegates @HillaryClinton picked up 86. Who won? Yeah, Hillary did. Again.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 9, 2016
So, how is it that Bernie managed to beat Hillary in Michigan despite polls saying Hillary would cruise to a win?
I just keep meeting Dems in MI who say Hillary has the primary locked, so they cast anti-Trump votes for Kasich.
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) March 8, 2016
This still only delays the inevitable. Hillary’s still running nearly 2:1 in overall delegate count. She’s up more than 200 in the non-super delegate category.
Over on the GOP side? It’s all Trump. All the time. But the most hilarious thing was that he decided to troll with providing a bunch of Trump-labeled food products at his presser last night.
Of course, on closer inspection, pretty much every single thing offered was BS.
The beef was sourced from someone other than Trump (his steaks went defunct years ago). The water was bottled by someone else who has no problem with sticking a Trump label on branded bottled water that they also sell to gas stations. The wine is the closest thing to the Trump brand, but that’s due to being owned by his son Eric.
On and on it goes, and where it stops? No one knows. Rubio’s toast, losing to a guy who doesn’t even know that he stopped running. The GOP is turning into a 2-way race between Cruz and Trump, and it’s an entirely predictable shit show for the “establishment” - they’ve got two loathsome characters who leadership of the party can’t stand. But they’ll stand by them nonetheless because they all agree on substance, it’s the style they can’t stand.
re: #158 makeitstop
Good Morning, Lizards.
I’m saddened to wake up to the news that Sir George Martin has passed. Martin’s portfolio is as weighty as anyone in modern music. He broke tremendous ground with The Beatles, of course - every album revealed a new innovation, a new twist on established procedures, a new way of production that is still a template for how things are done.
But of all the amazing work he produced, this remains my favorite.
In 1974, Martin corralled the wild artistry of Jeff Beck, sending his work in a brand new direction and kicking his career to another entire level. This track closed the groundbreaking ‘Blow By Blow’ album, and Martin’s gorgeous contrapuntal string arrangement steals the show, even in the face of Beck’s beautifully sensitive playing.
The orchestra is so good, Beck even sits out the last refrain and lets Martin’s strings wash over the listener one more time. It never fails to move me to tears with its elegant simplicity. Even now.Well done, Sir. Well done, indeed.
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For what it’s worth, 538 has Clinton running well ahead of target for the nomination. And at 62% support in Ohio, with a 99% chance of winning the state.
re: #162 Big Beautiful Door
If Bernie keeps doing as well as he did in Michigan, it may take until June for Clinton to clinch the nomination.
The polls are still against him, so I wouldn’t expect that to happen. And no, a one time fluke doesn’t mean we can abandon polls which worked pretty good before. If an upset on March 15 happens, then yes, the error will have been systemic, but right now it’s a fluke.
re: #164 lawhawk
I just keep meeting Dems in MI who say Hillary has the primary locked, so they cast anti-Trump votes for Kasich.
6:18 PM - 8 Mar 2016
Some Dems are as dumb as wingnuts.
I don’t understand the Dems that are crossing over. Just sounds so stupid to me. I’d almost get it if the Dem race was like in 2012 when Obama had no opposition but come on.
re: #164 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. So, tell me, who won the primaries last night.
If you said Bernie, you would be wrong. He still lost, despite winning in Michigan in an upset.
How is this possible? Simple.
To riff on Meghan Trainor, it’s all about the delegates. It’s all about the delegates.
And Hillary won more of them last night than Bernie did.
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This still only delays the inevitable. Hillary’s still running nearly 2:1 in overall delegate count. She’s up more than 200 in the non-super delegate category.
Over on the GOP side? It’s all Trump. All the time. But the most hilarious thing was that he decided to troll with providing a bunch of Trump-labeled food products at his presser last night.
Of course, on closer inspection, pretty much every single thing offered was BS.
The beef was sourced from someone other than Trump (his steaks went defunct years ago). The water was bottled by someone else who has no problem with sticking a Trump label on branded bottled water that they also sell to gas stations. The wine is the closest thing to the Trump brand, but that’s due to being owned by his son Eric.
On and on it goes, and where it stops? No one knows. Rubio’s toast, losing to a guy who doesn’t even know that he stopped running. The GOP is turning into a 2-way race between Cruz and Trump, and it’s an entirely predictable shit show for the “establishment” - they’ve got two loathsome characters who leadership of the party can’t stand. But they’ll stand by them nonetheless because they all agree on substance, it’s the style they can’t stand.
I wish they would stop the open primaries. It opens up the chance for to much manipulation.
re: #169 Nyet
Some Dems are as dumb as wingnuts.
I saw some people I know talking about doing that here in Virginia. The way I look at is if the Republicans are going to be stupid and make Trump their nominee, let them. build their own grave without our help.
re: #171 Tigger2
I wish they would stop the open primaries. It opens up the chance for to much manipulation.
Yep. Open primaries are a dumb idea in the first place.
re: #171 Tigger2
I wish they would stop the open primaries. It opens up the chance for to much manipulation.
As a non-American, it does blow my mind that parties let non-members vote for their candidates.
re: #171 Tigger2
I wish they would stop the open primaries. It opens up the chance for to much manipulation.
I’m slowly coming around on that.
I have to admit open primaries are my preference since it’s what I’m used to but I understand what is being said here about non-party members having a big input in who another party nominates.
re: #168 Nyet
The polls are still against him, so I wouldn’t expect that to happen. And no, a one time fluke doesn’t mean we can abandon polls which worked pretty good before. If an upset on March 15 happens, then yes, the error will have been systemic, but right now it’s a fluke.
But I wouldn’t assume its a fluke. It doesn’t seem unreasonable that Bernie can run even with Hillary outside the South by winning about a third of the black vote and most of the white vote. He isn’t going to be the nominee, but with the donations he’s getting he can keep the race going all the way to the end, just like Hillary did in 2008.
re: #169 Nyet
Meanwhile, Shaun King continues to plow the Bernie-bro line. This is a typical post:
Even on that short list, she could win GA, MA, TN, and VA. But what of it? That’s not how it works. First to 2,383 wins D nom. @ShaunKing
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) March 9, 2016
In the general election, Hillary is likely to win many of the states she lost in the primary, and lose states she won. That’s because of different demos and constituencies.
But if you think that Hillary would lose NY, NJ, CT, VT, or NH, or MA, because she loses those states to Bernie in the primaries (or might lose/come close to losing), you’re off your rocker.
NY has a 2:1 D to GOP advantage. NJ is similarly disposed, and right now the GOP in NJ is in disarray thanks to a MIA Gov. Christie.
King should stick to writing about the police brutality beat; he’s clueless on politics, let alone primary politics.
re: #165 BeenHereAwhile
‘Blow By Blow’ and ‘Wired’ literally changed Beck’s career. He went from being That Dude Who Replaced Clapton In The Yardbirds to a jazz-rock heavyweight.
Beck may have been heading in that direction anyway, but Martin provided the sonics that put those records over the top.
re: #176 HappyWarrior
I have to admit open primaries are my preference since it’s what I’m used to but I understand what is being said here about non-party members having a big input in who another party nominates.
It makes me wonder how many Republicans voted for Bernie because they think he will be more easy to defeat in the General.
re: #174 LastYearsMan
As a non-American, it does blow my mind that parties let non-members vote for their candidates.
To me it makes sense to let independents vote. After all, you are going to have to win their votes to win the general. And some states don’t have registration to vote by party.
re: #180 Tigger2
It makes me wonder how many Republicans voted for Bernie because they think he will more easy to defeat in the General.
I have no idea.
re: #177 Big Beautiful Door
Polls don’t come from the ether and do show the actual level of support, but do not necessarily predict the actual last-minute-intent to vote. So right now it’s reasonable to assume that it’s a fluke with the Dem Hillary supporters shooting themselves in the foot by crossing over. If the other Dems learn this lesson, this might not repeat. If and when it does, some other explanation will have to be found and the current polling models abandoned as flawed.
I think a competitive primary is a good thing all in all truthfully.
Arrrrrrgh!! Someone get me a torch. pic.twitter.com/epTP8iE1eF
— Tj (@Tjpixy) March 8, 2016
re: #178 lawhawk
Shaun has never let facts get in front of an agenda.
He was pretty notorious at dkos for his misleading headlines which he rarely corrected.
re: #174 LastYearsMan
As a non-American, it does blow my mind that parties let non-members vote for their candidates.
Even in our voting system we are Americans first, all encouraged to participate.
What system are you accustomed to?
re: #183 Nyet
Polls don’t come from the ether and do show the actual level of support, but do not necessarily predict the actual last-minute-intent to vote. So right now it’s reasonable to assume that it’s a fluke with the Dem Hillary supporters shooting themselves in the foot by crossing over. If the other Dems learn this lesson, this might not repeat. If and when it does, some other explanation will have to be found and the current polling models abandoned as flawed.
There are a number of scenarios which could be true. Only further voting will tell us for sure. One thing is certain, Sanders isn’t withdrawing from this race anytime soon, and Hillary can’t really argue he should, since she wouldn’t quit in 2008.
re: #178 lawhawk
“This wasn’t unexpected for us” — @HillaryClinton Deputy Communications Director on @BernieSanders’ Michigan win https://t.co/ARlVxKV84W
— New Day (@NewDay) March 9, 2016
Shorter Hillary: I won Michigan in 2008, and I’m not the POTUS right now. https://t.co/mYF0w3QTwQ
— Propane Jane (@docrocktex26) March 9, 2016
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #184 HappyWarrior
I think a competitive primary is a good thing all in all truthfully.
It worked for the Democrats in 2008.
re: #186 Nyet
Shaun has never let facts get in front of an agenda.
He was pretty notorious at dkos for his misleading headlines which he rarely corrected.
You and Kyls did mention that. Honestly, I just don’t think this is helpful. There are some states that Bernie has won that are even less Democratic in a GE than what Hillary has won but I’m not going to trash them or say their delegates don’t matter. To honestly answer his question though I think Hillary wins Iowa, Massachusetts, and Virginia in a GE. Also Nevada which he neglected to mention.
re: #184 HappyWarrior
I think a competitive primary is a good thing all in all truthfully.
Well, in this situation it’s not quite bad I guess. If the GOP were unified behind a single candidate by this time, that wouldn’t have been optimal, but seeing as they have their own problems, the Dems have time.
re: #191 Big Beautiful Door
It worked for the Democrats in 2008.
I really think it made Obama a better candidate. To use a sports analogy, it’s like when you have a competitive division, you’re better prepared for the grind of the playoffs than if you just coast.
re: #3 goddamnedfrank
NeriumLos
@Karoli @bulldoghill why vote for Hillary as a Bernie supporter? I don’t vote for lesser of 2 evils. If so I vote trump. Hillary is corrupt.
The kind of “thinking” one might expect from someone who fell for the Nerium MLM———selling toxic oleander lotion as an anti-aging skin treatment and getting others to do likewise. Nerium folks are nuts.
This person may well just simply be a Trump supporter to begin with.
re: #193 Nyet
Well, in this situation it’s not quite bad I guess. If the GOP were unified behind a single candidate by this time, that wouldn’t have been optimal, but seeing as they have their own problems, the Dems have time.
Oh yeah for sure. I mean the GOP have power brokers openly hoping for a brokered convention to stop the current frontrunner. Whatever problems the Dems have, the Republicans have a lot more.
re: #193 Nyet
Well, in this situation it’s not quite bad I guess. If the GOP were unified behind a single candidate by this time, that wouldn’t have been optimal, but seeing as they have their own problems, the Dems have time.
Considering that if the GOP nominee isn’t Trump it will probably be Cruz, I’d say the Democrats’ problems are minor in comparison.
re: #180 Tigger2
It makes me wonder how many Republicans voted for Bernie because they think he will be more easy to defeat in the General.
Probably not many. Definitely not enough to swing the result of any primary. There’s a couple of reasons - most people don’t think like that because they’re not political junkies who would do that sort of thing. The rank and file (of both parties) will probably vote in their own primaries and that’s about it. Second, the GOP has a contested primary this year, so Republican voters are going to be much more inclined to vote in their own primaries.
In fact, taking a quick look at CNN’s exit polls, it looks like self identified Republicans in open primaries for the Democrats never topped 3%.
What sampling methods are used by the various polling organizations? Do they all rely on cold calls? So many people filter calls with caller ID and voice mail that it could be hard to get a truly random sample.
re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth
I think Hillary supporters would appreciate if she could go with a Mortal Kombat finishing move right about now. End this. Do so to end to drama and Bernie-bro BS.
re: #136 Timothy Watson
Just stay on your side of the Potomac and all is good…
At exact moment Michigan Dem race became big story, networks aired Trump hawking his steaks. They don’t even know what their job is anymore.
— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) March 9, 2016
re: #197 Big Beautiful Door
Considering that if the GOP nominee isn’t Trump it will probably be Cruz, I’d say the Democrats problems are minor in comparison.
Yeah if not Trump, it’s going to be Cruz and people are not going to like that guy once they really get to know him. He’s polling better than Trump right now but I think once America really gets to know Ted Cruz, they’ll want him on the next ship back to Canada. Well not literally but he may worry me in some ways less than Trump as a GE candidate since his views are going to a lot of people off.
re: #199 The Vicious Babushka
The polling largely worked before.
re: #194 HappyWarrior
I really think it made Obama a better candidate. To use a sports analogy, it’s like when you have a competitive division, you’re better prepared for the grind of the playoffs than if you just coast.
In 2000, Bradley was basically a token opponent for Gore, and that turned out badly. I think the only time you don’t want a competitive primary is when an incumbent is running for reelection - that tends to spell doom in the general (see Carter 1980 and Bush 1992 as the most recent examples).
re: #204 Nyet
The polling largely worked before.
Sometimes polls are just wrong. In Kentucky last Fall no published poll showed Republican Matt Bevin crushing Jack Conway like he did.
re: #205 KGxvi
In 2000, Bradley was basically a token opponent for Gore, and that turned out badly. I think the only time you don’t want a competitive primary is when an incumbent is running for reelection - that tends to spell doom in the general (see Carter 1980 and Bush 1992 as the most recent examples).
Right. I agree with this.
Anyone want to speculate on if Rubio will withdraw this week? I’m betting he plays it out and hopes lightening strikes for him in Florida like it did for Bernie in Michigan. But man, Rubio had a bad night; only the most delusional could think he has any shot left at the nomination now.
re: #206 Big Beautiful Door
Sometimes polls are just wrong. In Kentucky last Fall no published poll showed Republican Matt Bevin crushing Jack Conway like he did.
Yes, because polls are probabilistic. The point is, it doesn’t make sense to question the methods in the middle of the game after a single data point. They have worked before, so the methods were adequate.
Now, if it happens again, and again, and again, then we’ll do wtf together.
re: #179 makeitstop
‘Blow By Blow’ and ‘Wired’ literally changed Beck’s career. He went from being That Dude Who Replaced Clapton In The Yardbirds to a jazz-rock heavyweight.
Beck may have been heading in that direction anyway, but Martin provided the sonics that put those records over the top.
If you have listened to the “Jeff Beck Group” album (with the orange on the front) you can sort of hear where Jeff was going to be headed in his career. It came out in ‘72 and the last cut on the album hints at his future.
By the way…RIP George Martin. You added so much to modern music and made people realize that rock-n-roll pop music could be serious too what with your adding classic instruments and arrangements to rock/pop songs. You did way more than what you will get credit for. A great career.
re: #186 Nyet
Shaun has never let facts get in front of an agenda.
He was pretty notorious at dkos for his misleading headlines which he rarely corrected.
And he is not going to be changing anytime soon since he seems to get a lot of attention which keeps him in gigs.
BTW, notice something? Trump and the rest haven’t even started with Sanders. It’s all Hillary all the time.
If we suppose that Sanders wins the nomination, it will be red-baiting time all the time, and all the polls that show today that Sanders wins handily over the whole GOP slate won’t mean a thing. With Hillary, she’s already been through the kitchen sink. Bernie has had it easy all the time.
re: #210 ObserverArt
If you have listened to the “Jeff Beck Group” album (with the orange on the front) you can sort of hear where Jeff was going to be headed in his career. It came out on ‘72 and the last cut on the album hints at his future.
By the way…RIP George Martin. You added so much to modern music and made people realize that rock-n-roll pop music could be serious too what with your adding classic instruments and arrangements to rock/pop songs. You did way more than what you will get credit for. A great career.
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Good call. That lineup of the Beck Group included Max Middleton, who factored heavily on ‘Blow By Blow.’
Having said that, the album after that one was Beck, Bogert & Appice - so even if he was heading towards jazz-rock, he still had a little power trio to get out of his system first. :)
re: #212 Nyet
BTW, notice something? Trump and the rest haven’t even started with Sanders. It’s all Hillary all the time.
If we suppose that Sanders wins the nomination, it will be red-baiting time all the time, and all the polls that show today that Sanders wins handily over the whole GOP slate won’t mean a thing. With Hillary, she’s already been through the kitchen sink. Bernie has had it easy all the time.
This is entirely correct, and why all the hypothetical head-to-head polls showing Bernie easily winning in November are meaningless, except they provide fodder for Bernie’s campaign.
re: #212 Nyet
BTW, notice something? Trump and the rest haven’t even started with Sanders. It’s all Hillary all the time.
If we suppose that Sanders wins the nomination, it will be red-baiting time all the time, and all the polls that show today that Sanders wins handily over the whole GOP slate won’t mean a thing. With Hillary, she’s already been through the kitchen sink. Bernie has had it easy all the time.
I don’t know if I can take all the hand motions if Trump and Bernie go at it.
BREAKING: U.S. captured Iraqi ISIS member who led to chem weapons site https://t.co/mpu8sMJ5VI
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) March 9, 2016
re: #195 KerFuFFler
Just as an aside, Nerium is the name of a marketing scam line of “beauty products” made from oleander (which is also part of the plant’s latin name). 150 dollars for a bottle of lotion. My sister (who has MS, is a wingnut and has no money, without my parents’ help, I have no clue how she’d survive) is deep into this and in turn, my parents have been financing this. To the tune of a couple grand as of right now. By either meaning, nerium is toxic.
re: #216 lawhawk
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I wonder how much this affected the Dem primary. A MI friend also told me HRC had it locked, wanted to cross over https://t.co/XaaSPigajR
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) March 9, 2016
re: #217 A Mom Anon
Just as an aside, Nerium is the name of a marketing scam line of “beauty products” made from oleander (which is also part of the plant’s latin name). 150 dollars for a bottle of lotion. My sister (who has MS, is a wingnut and has no money, without my parents’ help, I have no clue how she’d survive) is deep into this and in turn, my parents have been financing this. To the tune of a couple grand as of right now. By either meaning, nerium is toxic.
Is this the “Mom’s Weird Trick to Stop Wrinkles” scam?
The Executive editor & chief content officer of @Mashable…
SMH
Dear God. https://t.co/9cJimO0FRB pic.twitter.com/QIJmZhSS6W
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) March 9, 2016
So basically Silver led to a Bernie win, in a roundabout way.
re: #216 lawhawk
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See, weapons of mass destruction. In Iraq. I told you guys, been tellin ya for years, haven’t I?
/Nothing but a good time.
re: #212 Nyet
The winguts here in GA are sort of starting. The new meme going around is a Bernie yard sign cut in half with a note replacing the missing half saying “I took half your sign because I didn’t have one, I didn’t think you’d mind”. Get it? Oh How Clever, my stars, how amusing.
They can’t even tell you what the word socialism means, but ooooh it’s soooo bad.
I need a vacation from this fucking place.
re: #223 Dark_Falcon
See, weapons of mass destruction. In Iraq. I told you guys, been tellin ya for years, haven’t I?
/Nothing but a good time.
Ah yes, George Bush was a real prophet and knew about ISIS all the time./
re: #213 makeitstop
Good call. That lineup of the Beck Group included Max Middleton, who factored heavily on ‘Blow By Blow.’
Having said that, the album after that one was Beck, Bogert & Appice - so even if he was heading towards jazz-rock, he still had a little power trio to get out of his system first. :)
I consider that his makeup for when he was going to work with Bogert and Appice earlier but got into his nasty car crash and was laid up. As we have discussed Bogert and Appice went on to work with Jimmy McCarty and formed Cactus. Beck had to make a power album to show he could hang.
I caught Beck Bogert & Appice here in Columbus in ‘73. It was fun seeing him, but truthfully it wasn’t his best work. And it was a strange show. Opening act was Brownsville Station out working “Smoking in the Boys Room” and they actually has more energy. I’ll never forget Cub Koda strutting around with his coke bottle glasses. Good times.
re: #219 Nyet
Dumb Dems are Dumb.
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Dem’s better stop trying to be tricky we have to much to lose.
I’ve never read anything by Martin and have never watched the series, and even I know how he looks like.
re: #208 Big Beautiful Door
Anyone want to speculate on if Rubio will withdraw this week? I’m betting he plays it out and hopes lightening strikes for him in Florida like it did for Bernie in Michigan. But man, Rubio had a bad night; only the most delusional could think he has any shot left at the nomination now.
It’s not just that Trump is winning, however improbable that seemed for so long. It’s that Trump is winning and just eviscerating his opponents. He pretty much got rid of Jeb over the Summer with that one quip about “low energy”. Jeb basically never competed in any of the contests once voting started. And now, Rubio, Little Marco, who has collapsed like a concrete block dropped into a kiddie pool.
And it hardly seems as if Trump is really even trying.
Jeb, Marco, Perry, Jindal, Walker, these were, or were thought to be, capable politicians, most of whom had won re-election in their states. And Trump—who apparently does not even have a polling operation—has just flattened them.
Yes, it may say something about how weak the GOP field really was. But if Jeb or Rubio had won the nomination, either would have put Florida in play for the general election. Same with Kasich in Ohio. So despite the field’s now apparent weakness, it’s far from clear to me that Hillary would have beaten most of them decisively.
Not panicking. Yet. But Trump will be a tougher out in the general than I once imagined. And he’d be tougher than Cruz, who I think Hillary actually would crush.
re: #220 The Vicious Babushka
I don’t think so, Nerium comes off like it’s a Woman Owned Business, but it’s just another scheme, like Amway. You only make money if you get other people to join. The stuff is just stupid expensive, like I said, a 12 ounce bottle of lotion is 150 dollars. The messed up thing is my sister can’t even afford the product she’s selling, and she’s got a bunch of boxes of it stacked in her garage. She’s not rich and doesn’t know too many people who are. She got pissed at me when I told her to be careful, a friend of hers is supposedly making a ton of money off it and she fell for it hook, line and sinker.
Sigh.
re: #227 ObserverArt
I’ll never forget Cub Koda strutting around with his coke bottle glasses. Good times.
And his referee shirt! heh.
re: #184 HappyWarrior
I think a competitive primary is a good thing all in all truthfully.
Competitive yes, petty and backbiting, no.
And for those who missed the announcement, Donald Trump’s 2nd ex, Marla Maples, is one of this season’s contestants on Dancing With the Stars. This does of course mean her daughter with The Donald, Tiffany Trump will be in the audience at times to cheer her mom on.
I expect this to be played for effect better than the Palin family played Bristol’s appearance on the same show, if only because Ms. Maples, her ex husband and their daughter have IQs above room temperature.
re: #217 A Mom Anon
Just as an aside, Nerium is the name of a marketing scam line of “beauty products” made from oleander (which is also part of the plant’s latin name). 150 dollars for a bottle of lotion. My sister (who has MS, is a wingnut and has no money, without my parents’ help, I have no clue how she’d survive) is deep into this and in turn, my parents have been financing this. To the tune of a couple grand as of right now. By either meaning, nerium is toxic.
I’ve never heard of the product till now, but I know well the kind of MLM scam you speak of. I have heard all kinds of MLM pitches, and they all boil down to “We’ve got this super product that will sell like hotcakes once people hear about it, and you’ll be rich, rich, rich! All you need to do is sign up at least three people under you and buy a garage full of our product to sell.”
Health and beauty products are the prime culprits. All the MLM creators need is some offbeat ingredient on which to base their product line, some clever formulations and a lot of glitzy marketing. Nu Skin and Melaleuca are prime examples.
China banned MLMs outright in 1998. Some still function though with bank accounts in Hong Kong.
Lots of polls out this morning, but nothing very revelatory. Same old news - Trump leads in FL and OH, by pretty much what the previous polls indicated.
Regardless of the polls, the talking point against Hillary right now is EMAILS! , if the Faux News and various websites are accurate gauges.
Thanks to everyone who mentioned Jeff Beck here. I hadn’t listened to his music for ages, and I had forgotten what a true master he is.
Aren’t Donald Trump’s nonsense suits the reason for anti-SLAPP laws?
Trump filed a libel lawsuit he knew he couldn’t win just to harass a journalist. https://t.co/grbsuJIYK5 pic.twitter.com/RMaF6WnGl5
— Adam Steinbaugh (@adamsteinbaugh) March 9, 2016
re: #240 The Vicious Babushka
Aren’t Donald Trump’s nonsense suits the reason for anti-SLAPP laws?
All the justice money can buy…
re: #237 freetoken
Lots of polls out this morning, but nothing very revelatory. Same old news - Trump leads in FL and OH, by pretty much what the previous polls indicated.
He’s only ahead of Kasich by 6 points, which is a closable gap. Rubio, though, seems dunzo. So now I have to decide between Kasich and Cruz for the primary.
re: #238 freetoken
Regardless of the polls, the talking point against Hillary right now is EMAILS! , if the Faux News and various websites are accurate gauges.
Emails and Benghazi will be the continuing RWNJ themes until at least 2020. Yes, I anticipate another President Clinton in the White House.
re: #239 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Thanks to everyone who mentioned Jeff Beck here. I hadn’t listened to his music for ages, and I had forgotten what a true master he is.
I’m delving heavily into ‘Blow By Blow’ and ‘Wired’ today. Martin’s influence on Beck’s career from those albums forward is immeasurable. Beck has taken elements of those albums, and Martin’s application of restraint on his playing, and still uses them now.
George Martin taught Beck that it was okay not to play everything at once.
re: #236 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
I’ve never heard of the product till now, but I know well the kind of MLM scam you speak of. I have heard all kinds of MLM pitches, and they all boil down to “We’ve got this super product that will sell like hotcakes once people hear about it, and you’ll be rich, rich, rich! All you need to do is sign up at least three people under you and buy a garage full of our product to sell.”
Health and beauty products are the prime culprits. All the MLM creators need is some offbeat ingredient on which to base their product line, some clever formulations and a lot of glitzy marketing. Nu Skin and Melaleuca are prime examples.
China banned MLMs outright in 1998. Some still function though with bank accounts in Hong Kong.
Yeah I was in Amway for a bit. They also really push for you to buy motivational tapes (back then it was cassette tapes, don’t know about now) every week, and to go to these giant conferences a few times a year to hear more motivational stuff.
Obviously many people have done well with it. And the people you meet at the conferences and other meetings are well-dressed, well-spoken, family oriented. But most are wingnuts and the groupthink involved is just beyond the stars. I couldn’t have continued without selling my soul, so to speak.
re: #242 Dark_Falcon
So now I have to decide between Kasich and Cruz for the primary.
Hobson, choices, and all that jazz…
re: #240 The Vicious Babushka
Aren’t Donald Trump’s nonsense suits the reason for anti-SLAPP laws?
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Not all states have strong anti-SLAPP laws and someone with good lawyers can at times tailor the lawsuit to avoid weaker anti-SLAPP laws. And if anti-SLAPP doesn’t stop a lawsuit, then as the saying goes, the process is the punishment.
re: #230 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
It’s not just that Trump is winning, however improbable that seemed for so long. It’s that Trump is winning and just eviscerating his opponents. He pretty much got rid of Jeb over the Summer with that one quip about “low energy”. Jeb basically never competed in any of the contests once voting started. And now, Rubio, Little Marco, who has collapsed like a concrete block dropped into a kiddie pool.
And it hardly seems as if Trump is really even trying.
Jeb, Marco, Perry, Jindal, Walker, these were, or were thought to be, capable politicians, most of whom had won re-election in their states. And Trump—who apparently does not even have a polling operation—has just flattened them.
Yes, it may say something about how weak the GOP field really was. But if Jeb or Rubio had won the nomination, either would have put Florida in play for the general election. Same with Kasich in Ohio. So despite the field’s now apparent weakness, it’s far from clear to me that Hillary would have beaten most of them decisively.
Not panicking. Yet. But Trump will be a tougher out in the general than I once imagined. And he’d be tougher than Cruz, who I think Hillary actually would crush.
I appreciate your take. However Trump has weaknesses that other Republicans can’t effectively attack but that a Democrat can. The primary weakness is racism, which I believe will drive a very high Hispanic, African-American, Asian, Jewish and Muslim turnout to vote against Trump. Another is Trump’s plan to give a multi-trillion dollar tax cut to the super-rich, which the other Republicans can’t attack because they all plan to give a multi-trillion dollar tax cut to the super-rich. I believe Hillary will defeat Trump handily, and would also defeat Cruz handily if he is the nominee.
re: #242 Dark_Falcon
He’s only ahead of Kasich by 6 points, which is a closable gap. Rubio, though, seems dunzo. So now I have to decide between Kasich and Cruz for the primary.
Really thought Kasich would do better in Michigan. He needed to do better in Michigan. Like Rubio, winning his home state won’t be nearly enough. Unless of course it plays a role in keeping The Donald from getting to 1237. But with Rubio about gone, that’s looking less likely.
So Clinton is over halfway to the required number of delegates to wrap up the nod. When does/should Bernie finally bow out so we [Hillary, Dems, and sane Americans] focus singularly on the Trump shitshow? Will Bernie actually drag this thing out until Hillary finally achieves the magic number?
re: #249 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Really thought Kasich would do better in Michigan. He needed to do better in Michigan. Like Rubio, winning his home state won’t be nearly enough. Unless of course it plays a role in keeping The Donald from getting to 1237. But with Rubio about gone, that’s looking less likely.
I thought Kasich would cut Donald’s margin to single digits in Michigan personally.
re: #251 Dr. Matt
So Clinton is over halfway to the required number of delegates to wrap up the nod. When does/should Bernie finally bow out so we [Hillary, Dems, and sane Americans] focus singularly on the Trump shitshow? Will Bernie actually drag this thing out until Hillary finally achieves the magic number?
I think he’s always intended to do that.
re: #248 Big Beautiful Door
The Dallas Morning news had a front page article yesterday about how Latinos in Texas are finishing their naturalization in order to vote against Trump.
re: #244 makeitstop
I’m delving heavily into ‘Blow By Blow’ and ‘Wired’ today. Martin’s influence on Beck’s career from those albums forward is immeasurable. Beck has taken elements of those albums, and Martin’s application of restraint on his playing, and still uses them now.
George Martin taught Beck that it was okay not to play everything at once.
I’m gonna resume listening to Beck tomorrow. I had some of his albums, but they were lost ages ago. I might have to spend some money on iTunes to replace them now.
Looking over Martin’s bio tonight, I was struck by the idea that he was a teacher as well as a producer. He took young musicians who had raw talent but no experience and made them into polished creative forces. Beck and The Beatles are among the top graduates of the George Martin School of Music.
re: #252 HappyWarrior
I thought Kasich would cut Donald’s margin to single digits in Michigan personally.
One of the latest polls there, or maybe it was the initial exit poll, can’t remember which, had Kasich and Trump essentially tied at 38%. But it was never really close.
re: #253 HappyWarrior
I think he’s always intended to do that.
If so, he’s officially a dudebro douche.
re: #217 A Mom Anon
Just as an aside, Nerium is the name of a marketing scam line of “beauty products” made from oleander (which is also part of the plant’s latin name). 150 dollars for a bottle of lotion. My sister (who has MS, is a wingnut and has no money, without my parents’ help, I have no clue how she’d survive) is deep into this and in turn, my parents have been financing this. To the tune of a couple grand as of right now. By either meaning, nerium is toxic.
It’s too bad your parents are enabling this self defeating endeavor. Something like 98% of the vendors make less than $1000 a year——-but starry eyed hopefuls (rubes) hear repeatedly the rags to riches outcomes of the handful of people who joined the pyramid scheme early on. Nerium higher-ups organize lots of events to hype these success stories and make their newbies dismissive of “haters” or “dream stealers”———people in their lives who advise caution and skepticism. Nerium tries to keep the rubes on the hook as long as possible and encourage repeating such thoughts as “Quitting is one sure way to fail.”
My spidey sense activated when a “friend” from highschool recently contacted me on facebook. We have both been on facebook for years and never bothered friending each other. Turns out she is tracking down every possible contact trying to expand her Nerium network. So I checked the company out. *shivers*
I did not respond to her ‘Friend’ request.
re: #254 Belafon
The Dallas Morning news had a front page article yesterday about how Latinos in Texas are finishing their naturalization in order to vote against Trump.
The Dallas paper is catching up with The New York Times, which reported that same things a couple of days ago. They expect at least a million new voters by November. And doubt they’re going to vote for Trump.
re: #256 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
One of the latest polls there, or maybe it was the initial exit poll, can’t remember which, had Kasich and Trump essentially tied at 38%. But it was never really close.
Right, I was talking about my conception going into that night.
re: #242 Dark_Falcon
He’s only ahead of Kasich by 6 points, which is a closable gap. Rubio, though, seems dunzo. So now I have to decide between Kasich and Cruz for the primary.
They are running pretty evenly, with a slight advantage to Cruz, though Rubio supporters may go to Kasich.
re: #257 Dr. Matt
If so, he’s officially a dudebro douche.
I could well be wrong about FWIW but I think last night’s showing in MI means he’s going to be in for a while longer. Hopefully she does better next week.
It will be interesting to see what the NeverTrump and other groups opposing Trump do now. For the moment, it appears they’re putting all their chips in Florida to try to boost Rubio there and deny Trump delegates. But that seems a little much too late. Illinois, Ohio and Missouri also vote next Tuesday.
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— emily dreyfuss (@EmilyDreyfuss) March 9, 2016
re: #242 Dark_Falcon
He’s only ahead of Kasich by 6 points, which is a closable gap. Rubio, though, seems dunzo. So now I have to decide between Kasich and Cruz for the primary.
What’s the polling in Illinois look like?
re: #245 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Yeah I was in Amway for a bit. They also really push for you to buy motivational tapes (back then it was cassette tapes, don’t know about now) every week, and to go to these giant conferences a few times a year to hear more motivational stuff.
Obviously many people have done well with it. And the people you meet at the conferences and other meetings are well-dressed, well-spoken, family oriented. But most are wingnuts and the groupthink involved is just beyond the stars. I couldn’t have continued without selling my soul, so to speak.
My ex tried some MLM things. We’d go to these meetings, and it reminded of going to a Pentecostal church or one of those motivational groups. I can see why a lot of church people get sucked into these schemes.
re: #251 Dr. Matt
So Clinton is over halfway to the required number of delegates to wrap up the nod. When does/should Bernie finally bow out so we [Hillary, Dems, and sane Americans] focus singularly on the Trump shitshow? Will Bernie actually drag this thing out until Hillary finally achieves the magic number?
As I said above, Hillary can’t really argue he should, because she dragged it out to the bitter end in 2008.
re: #267 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
My ex tried some MLM things. We’d go to these meetings, and it reminded of going to a Pentecostal church or one of those motivational groups. I can see why a lot of church people get sucked into these schemes.
Very Prosperity Gospel oriented. Which was also a problem for me, aside from the political orientation of it.
re: #268 Big Beautiful Door
As I said above, Hillary can’t really argue he should, because she drug it out to the bitter end in 2008.
That is quite true. You know, I do like her but I really wish another candidate had emerged. That said, she’ll easily be the best President of those running.
re: #254 Belafon
The Dallas Morning news had a front page article yesterday about how Latinos in Texas are finishing their naturalization in order to vote against Trump.
It would be nice if Trump had to fight for Texas in the general, but its too much to hope that Hillary might actually win Texas.
re: #251 Dr. Matt
She’s at 770 pledged. Supers should be left out of the equation IMHO since if Sanders began to win, the situation with them wouldn’t be so predictable.
MI upset win gives him the pretext to go until June.
re: #261 HappyWarrior
Right, I was talking about my conception going into that night.
Oh yeah mine too.
re: #244 makeitstop
I’m delving heavily into ‘Blow By Blow’ and ‘Wired’ today. Martin’s influence on Beck’s career from those albums forward is immeasurable. Beck has taken elements of those albums, and Martin’s application of restraint on his playing, and still uses them now.
George Martin taught Beck that it was okay not to play everything at once.
I wish I could get some of my friends to appreciate that. For some reason they have to fill every second of a song with something. I kept trying to get them to allow some space in some of our later stuff, but truth be told, I think it pissed them off. It is not like we were getting paid by the note…we weren’t getting paid at all…we did it for fun.
re: #264 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
I suspect quite a few Republican elected officials are not really so concerned about the office of the President but in how to keep their own office if Trump is top of the ticket.
CBS had a political consultant on last night who services the “conservative” political cottage industry and he was doing his anti-Clinton thing and trying to say that Trump would demolish Hillary… but the other talking hedz were kind of looking at him with that look that says “eyeroll” without actually rolling their eyes.
Cruz beat Trump in MI in the turnout of women.
Think about that for a moment.
Is playing with penny stocks riskier than blackjack?
re: #267 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
My ex tried some MLM things. We’d go to these meetings, and it reminded of going to a Pentecostal church or one of those motivational groups. I can see why a lot of church people get sucked into these schemes.
Lots of people also use the large churches to network and find new “associates”. How could it be a scam if that nice lady from church is involved?//
@KHQJeff @KHQLocalNews Looks like the Grinch that stole Christmas. lol
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) March 9, 2016
If Sanders did begin to win, as unlikely as it would be, I actually do hope that the supers would get out of the people’s way. Bernie is not an optimal candidate, but neither is he Trump (where supers would be useful), so a fair win should be a fair win.
re: #271 HappyWarrior
That is quite true. You know, I do like her but I really wish another candidate had emerged. That said, she’ll easily be the best President of those running.
Yeah it would have better for her to have been pushed, if not from the right, at least from someone not identified as a Democratic Socialist.
But I don’t have a problem with Bernie staying in and making Hillary compete. It will make her a better general election candidate.
re: #268 Big Beautiful Door
As I said above, Hillary can’t really argue he should, because she dragged it out to the bitter end in 2008.
True. But, that race was neck and neck to the [bitter] end. Recall, she did receive more votes overall. Senator Obama won the delegate battle and number of contests. But, I agree she should have “suspended” her campaign a few days earlier after Obama became the presumptive nominee on June 3.
re: #266 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
What’s the polling in Illinois look like?
Trump’s in the lead here, too. That’s why I have to make sure my extended family turns out and votes. Every not-Trump vote is important.
re: #275 ObserverArt
I wish I could get some of my friends to appreciate that. For some reason they have to fill every second of a song with something. I kept trying to get them to allow some space in some of our later stuff, but truth be told, I think it pissed them off. It is not like we were getting paid by the note…we weren’t getting paid at all…we did it for fun.
It’s a hard lesson to learn! Any player’s first instinct is fill up all the spaces.
But the silences between the notes often make the notes much more meaningful. :)
re: #264 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
It will be interesting to see what the NeverTrump and other groups opposing Trump do now. For the moment, it appears they’re putting all their chips in Florida to try to boost Rubio there and deny Trump delegates. But that seems a little much too late. Illinois, Ohio and Missouri also vote next Tuesday.
If nevertrump doesn’t stop Trump on March 15, he will be the nominee. He crushed it last night. Rubio should drop out and endorse Cruz now to stop Trump, since he has no chance of being the nominee.
re: #282 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Yeah it would have better for her to have been pushed, if not from the right, at least from someone not identified as a Democratic Socialist.
But I don’t have a problem with Bernie staying in and making Hillary compete. It will make her a better general election candidate.
As I said, it’s alot like sports. The tough grind of the regular season i.e. primary prepares you for the playoffs i.e. GE.
re: #277 freetoken
I suspect quite a few Republican elected officials are not really so concerned about the office of the President but in how to keep their own office if Trump is top of the ticket.
CBS had a political consultant on last night who services the “conservative” political cottage industry and he was doing his anti-Clinton thing and trying to say that Trump would demolish Hillary… but the other talking hedz were kind of looking at him with that look that says “eyeroll” without actually rolling their eyes.
Cruz beat Trump in MI in the turnout of women.
Think about that for a moment.
Trump made a big deal last night of Paul Ryan calling him and them having a TERRIFIC conversation.
Yeah, Trump certainly has liabilities that his fellow GOPers have not been well positioned to exploit.
re: #283 Dr. Matt
True. But, that race was neck and neck to the [bitter] end. Recall, she did receive more votes overall. Senator Obama won the delegate battle and number of contests. But, I agree she should have “suspended” her campaign a few days earlier after Obama became the presumptive nominee on June 3.
It wasn’t all that neck to neck without MI and FL, but she insisted on including MI and FL votes, her only hope. That was not a fair request since MI and FL votes had been officially barred from the convention at first (Obama was not even on the ballot in MI). So that was a dishonest tactic, but that allowed her to linger that long.
re: #281 Nyet
I will only consider Bernie as having a chance if he wins both FL and OH next week, by more significant margins than last night (where the result couldn’t be called till 97% of the vote was counted.)
Being in California, I vote last. If Hillary has not clinched the nomination through regular delegates and Bernie has real momentum behind him, I will consider voting for him.
But I really do believe the decision will be made before it’s my turn to vote.
Democracy - no, this isn’t really it, when the largest state in the Union and the most powerful Democratic Party in the Union is left out of the choice.
re: #292 freetoken
I will only consider Bernie as having a chance if he wins both FL and OH next week, by more significant margins than last night (where the result couldn’t be called till 97% of the vote was counted.)
Being in California, I vote last. If Hillary has not clinched the nomination through regular delegates and Bernie has real momentum behind him, I will consider voting for him.
But I really do believe the decision will be made before it’s my turn to vote.
Democracy - no, this isn’t really it, when the largest state in the Union and the most powerful Democratic Party in the Union is left out of the choice.
i wonder why CA let themselves have their primary so late. New York is pretty late too.
re: #277 freetoken
I suspect quite a few Republican elected officials are not really so concerned about the office of the President but in how to keep their own office if Trump is top of the ticket.
CBS had a political consultant on last night who services the “conservative” political cottage industry and he was doing his anti-Clinton thing and trying to say that Trump would demolish Hillary… but the other talking hedz were kind of looking at him with that look that says “eyeroll” without actually rolling their eyes.
Cruz beat Trump in MI in the turnout of women.
Think about that for a moment.
Hillary is going to blow Trump out with single women, African-Americans, Hispanics, Muslims and Jews. She’ll point out that Trump plans to give a multi-trillion dollar tax cut to the 1% and deprive over 20 million Americans of health insurance. Trump is so polarizing there should be a record turnout.
re: #278 Amory Blaine
Is playing with penny stocks riskier than blackjack?
Not if you spend a penny./
WATCH: Passenger video shows LaVoy Finicum’s last moments — and demolishes Bundy conspiracies
One of the passengers, Shawna Cox, recorded cell phone video that authorities showed during a Tuesday news conference announcing the results of their investigation.
“You back down or you kill me now,” Finicum shouted at Oregon State Police before fleeing the traffic stop. “This is going to get real! You want my blood on your hands?”
“You want a blood bath? It’s going to be on your hands. We’re going to see the sheriff,” Finicum said.
Authorities stopped another car filled with armed militants who had been occupying the Malheur National Wildlife Reserve, but they agreed to surrender peacefully.
Need to try something new, working hard and playing by the rules isn’t working out so well.
As a now-registered Democrat in California, I find it more than a bit queer that Democrats in Alabama, a state most unlikely to be carried by the contemporary Democratic party, get to make the decision on the Democrat candidate at a critical point in the process, but the Democrats in the largest state with the Democrats with the deepest pockets and largest number of votes… are not really given a choice.
re: #290 Backwoods_Sleuth
His “manifesto” (PDF)…oh dear…
He looks about the right age when Schizophrenia kicks in for some people. I had a good friend that happen to around that age.
Top Trump aide allegedly strong-arms Breitbart reporter after presserhttps://t.co/6Gxv4vsrp7 pic.twitter.com/AkA8hCwjEw
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) March 9, 2016
re: #292 freetoken
Not sure that “left out of the choice” accurately describes the situation.
The only difference between stretching the primaries in time and them taking place all simultaneously is the “momentum” and such stuff - some votes movement does happen within the timeframe.
But the CA votes (or any state’s votes) could just as easily be analyzed into irrelevancy with simulprimaries. Just say “the candidate X could win this, this and this state and clinch the nomination, those other states wouldn’t matter”. And it would still be as democratic as the current process.
So it’s more a matter of psychology than anything.
re: #293 HappyWarrior
i wonder why CA let themselves have their primary so late. New York is pretty late too.
Our June Primary ballot is usually loaded with lots of stuff and many candidates. It’s actually an election that includes more than just the Presidential nomination for a party.
re: #292 freetoken
I will only consider Bernie as having a chance if he wins both FL and OH next week, by more significant margins than last night (where the result couldn’t be called till 97% of the vote was counted.)
Being in California, I vote last. If Hillary has not clinched the nomination through regular delegates and Bernie has real momentum behind him, I will consider voting for him.
But I really do believe the decision will be made before it’s my turn to vote.
Democracy - no, this isn’t really it, when the largest state in the Union and the most powerful Democratic Party in the Union is left out of the choice.
We have a May primary in Kentucky so we have rarely cast a meaningful primary vote either. Looks like it will be this year, like in 2008.
Morning Lizards. Don’t know whether to laugh or cry with cruz winning Idaho. 45.42% to tRumps 28.08%
Behind a Trump voter on my way to work today. #TX #DFW @SMShow @bluegal @nicolesandler @JohnFugelsang @frangeladuo pic.twitter.com/UR7aki0z3z
— Summer Sharp (@SummerSharp) March 9, 2016
re: #300 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
I’ve always wanted to have a manifesto….
Most ours would be: Wake up, shower, go to work, come home, go to bed. Rinse and repeat.
re: #303 freetoken
Our June Primary ballot is usually loaded with lots of stuff and many candidates. It’s actually an election that includes more than just the Presidential nomination for a party.
Ah okay that does make sense why it’s so late then.
WTF just had some rando show up in my mentions claiming to be a “personal friend” of Richard Dawkins and how dare I call him a sexist (based on some Tweets from like 8 weeks ago)
Blocked & muted now.
re: #309 The Vicious Babushka
WTF just had some rando show up in my mentions claiming to be a “personal friend” of Richard Dawkins and how dare I call him a sexist (based on some Tweets from like 8 weeks ago)
Blocked & muted now.
Some people are just begging to be blocked.
re: #307 Dr. Matt
Most ours would be: Wake up, shower, go to work, come home, go to bed. Rinse and repeat.
Mine is mostly “wake up”.
If I manage that, I consider the day a complete success…
re: #301 Lidane
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Are Breitbart and Trump breaking up? Or is this just a lovers’ spat?
I don’t tweet. Just not my thing. I just remember being spooked when strangers started following me.
re: #313 Big Beautiful Door
Are Breitbart and Trump breaking up?
I think they’ve been. I wish I knew over what though.
Carly endorses Cruz.
It’s on the Twitter.
Carly probably cancels out Santorum’s endorsing Rubio (which looks pretty dumb now, Rick).
re: #298 freetoken
As a now-registered Democrat in California, I find it more than a bit queer that Democrats in Alabama, a state most unlikely to be carried by the contemporary Democratic party, get to make the decision on the Democrat candidate at a critical point in the process, but the Democrats in the largest state with the Democrats with the deepest pockets and largest number of votes… are not really given a choice.
Are you interested in a house-swap for a nice 3-bedroom brick? Low taxes!!
For example, come June 7th, I get to vote on Proposition 50:
I didn’t even know this thing existed until I just now looked at the ballot website.
re: #317 Decatur Deb
I knew when I mentioned Alabama it might tingle some ears…
Nothing against Alabama or all you Democrats fighting against the machine there.
re: #319 Big Beautiful Door
I guess Trump supporters didn’t leave their bunkers to go vote in Idaho.
No, the Threeper/CWII types despise Trump as Big Government, they’re really anarchist at heart.
re: #319 Big Beautiful Door
I guess Trump supporters didn’t leave their bunkers to go vote in Idaho.
Too busy throwing footballs over the nearest mountain and eating Tater Tots.
I wonder how Alabama Democrats feel in November when their vote appears to make zero difference to the presidential contest. Maybe we should just freeze them out of the process entirely. I bet that would totally help us shore up shaky gerrymandered districts and maybe retain or expand control of some state legislatures.
SMH
re: #311 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Some people are just begging to be blocked.
Speaking of which, this just showed up in my mentions. It must be my lucky day!
@viciousbabushka @bparker001 I’m proud that my ancestors were Confederate Soldiers who fought the US. None were slave owners.
— El Lobo del Desierto (@PTiberias) March 9, 2016
re: #319 Big Beautiful Door
I guess Trump supporters didn’t leave their bunkers to go vote in Idaho.
But the bible thumpers came out in force. Butch (the gay) Otter must be deeply disappointed that Kasich (who he endorsed) only got 7.45% of the vote.
re: #324 The Vicious Babushka
Speaking of which, this just showed up in my mentions. It must be my lucky day!
Very patriot much America!
Your Republican front-runner:
Donald Trump suggests he’s willing to go to war with Mexico to finance “big, beautiful wall” https://t.co/l7QJFkz7zk pic.twitter.com/VIEwz5PafZ
re: #327 Lidane
Your Republican front-runner:
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Mexico sends us only the worst of their worst, the criminals, the rapists. I wish they’d stop having such a severely deleterious effect on our country that we find ourselves wanting a hundred-billion-dollar wall. I wonder how I can make them stop effecting this low-level impact.
I know, I’ll go to war with them!
re: #324 The Vicious Babushka
Speaking of which, this just showed up in my mentions. It must be my lucky day!
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Proud that his ancestors fought the US but probably gets his panties in a twist over the flag and accuses Obama of not loving America.
re: #164 lawhawk
I just keep meeting Dems in MI who say Hillary has the primary locked, so they cast anti-Trump votes for Kasich.
That’s why I keep telling people Every. Vote. Counts.
I hate this primary game playing. Maybe I am just too honest, but I didn’t believe in Operation Chaos when Limbaugh proposed it and I don’t believe this is the way to go now - or ever.
When I was younger I never voted in primaries. I always voted in the generals, though. I figured I wasn’t as knowledgeable as people who followed politics closer than I did back then. I can still justify that. But there’s no way, for me, to justify primary games.
re: #296 Dr. Matt
WATCH: Passenger video shows LaVoy Finicum’s last moments — and demolishes Bundy conspiracies
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FYI. Start watching the video at 11:40. Outstanding investigation. The restraint law enforcement gave Finicum is something else.
re: #327 Lidane
Your Republican front-runner:
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It’s been done, and not forgotten:
Note the bullet spalling on the wall.
re: #325 Bubblehead II
But the bible thumpers came out in force. Butch (the gay) Otter must be deeply disappointed that Kasich (who he endorsed) only got 7.45% of the vote.
I was surprised Otter endorsed Kasich but granted I know nothing about Idaho politics.
re: #329 HappyWarrior
Proud that his ancestors fought the US but probably gets his panties in a twist over the flag and accuses Obama of not loving America.
I blocked and muted, did not even bother to look at its timeline.
re: #333 HappyWarrior
I was surprised Otter endorsed Kasich but granted I know nothing about Idaho politics.
All I know is Otter was once a Congress-critter, so he probably knew Kasich from when he was AN ESTABLISHMENT GUY IN THE ESTABLISHMENT.
JUST IN: Carly Fiorina has endorsed Ted Cruz - @VaughnHillyard
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) March 9, 2016
Cokie Roberts To Trump: ‘Are You Proud’ Of White Kids Taunting Kids Of Color? (VIDEO) @TPM https://t.co/ii0yvoSR0q
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 9, 2016
“There have been incidents of children, white children, pointing to their darker-skinned classmates and saying, ‘You’ll be deported when Donald Trump is president.’ There have been incidents of white kids at basketball games holding up signs to teams which have Hispanic kids on them, saying, ‘We’re going to build a wall to keep you out,’” Roberts asked Trump on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “Are you proud of that? Is that something you’ve done in American political and social discourse that you’re proud of?”
“Well, I think your question is a very nasty question,” Trump replied. “And I’m not proud of it because I didn’t even hear of it, okay? And I don’t like it at all when I hear about it. You’re the first one whose told me about it.”
Roberts told the frontrunner that such incidents been reported “in many newspapers,” but he continued on.
“I’m not proud of it at all and that’s not the purpose of it is. We want to make America great again,” he said. “We want to bring back industry. We want to bring back our jobs from China and Japan and by the way, Mexico, which has taken so many of our jobs. I have not heard about these instances.”
re: #334 The Vicious Babushka
I blocked and muted, did not even bother to look at its timeline.
Not suggesting you do. Just a funny dynamic.
re: #335 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
All I know is Otter was once a Congress-critter, so he probably knew Kasich from when he was AN ESTABLISHMENT GUY IN THE ESTABLISHMENT.
That was my only guess too.
re: #211 ObserverArt
And he is not going to be changing anytime soon since he seems to get a lot of attention which keeps him in gigs.
That’s what I noticed about Shaun. He is all about him.
re: #331 Dr. Matt
FYI. Start watching the video at 11:40. Outstanding investigation. The restraint law enforcement gave Finicum is something
elseonly a white man would complain about.
FTFY
The HillDem crossover was doubly dumb because the Dem primaries are not winner-take-all and every delegate counts.
re: #342 Nyet
The HillDem crossover was doubly dumb because the Dem primaries are not winner-take-all and every delegate counts.
Incredibly. I do not get these voters at all.
Both Florida polls out this morning show Hillary as twice as popular as Bernie:
re: #344 HappyWarrior
Incredibly. I do not get these voters at all.
A lot of people are so terrified of Trump possibly winning I guess they thought it was worth it to try to stop him. Obviously didn’t work in Michigan.
re: #333 HappyWarrior
I was surprised Otter endorsed Kasich but granted I know nothing about Idaho politics.
Otter is what you could probably call a sane Republican. He knows there is no way Kasich is going to get the nomination and therefore endorsing him was safe.
re: #317 Decatur Deb
Are you interested in a house-swap for a nice 3-bedroom brick? Low taxes!!
I know, right. I would give him a pretty nice house here in Texas if he’d like to switch. And heck, Texas has the added benefit of being part of Super Tuesday.
Bitching about being in a blue state that is being properly run by its leaders.
I hope Hillary makes the point forcefully: vote in the Dem primaries, whether for her or for Bernie, don’t try to game the system.
re: #341 Belafon
FTFY
Yeah. Good point. I was thinking the same thing. One of the LEOs even had a taser trained on him and was about to deploy that. But, after Finicum reached for his pocket for the 4th time, the other two LEOs decided to use lethal force. No minority would have been provided such restraint.
re: #342 Nyet
The HillDem crossover was doubly dumb because the Dem primaries are not winner-take-all and every delegate counts.
Do we have any data on how many did this?
re: #345 freetoken
Both Florida polls out this morning show Hillary as twice as popular as Bernie:
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And, you won’t be seeing any crossover anti-Trump voting in Florida’s closed primaries
re: #174 LastYearsMan
As a non-American, it does blow my mind that parties let non-members vote for their candidates.
Should I assume you’re from a country with a parliamentary system? Dozens of parties, each of whom has a homogenous set of beliefs that all its members agree with 95% of their platform?
The US only has 2 parties with a realistic chance of getting their candidates into high office; most Americans looking at the party platforms agree with 60% of one party’s platform, and 30% of the other party’s.
re: #352 Belafon
Do we have any data on how many did this?
NATE SILVER 9:34 PM
Michigan has open primaries, and it appears as though some voters who were interested in both races wound up voting on the GOP side. According to exit polls, 7 percent of Michigan Republican primary voters were Democrats; by contrast, 3 percent of voters in the Michigan Democratic primary were Republicans.
+ lots of anecdotal data
*headdesk*
Report: GOP suing for access to Clinton aide emails https://t.co/AiPBNGfDLW pic.twitter.com/RGMHnoREif
— The Hill (@thehill) March 9, 2016
They’re suing for emails AFTER Hillary left office. That’s how desperate they’ve gotten.
re: #301 Lidane
Top Trump aide allegedly strong-arms Breitbart reporter after presser
That particular Trump thug is a real piece of work.
Trump seems to like having reprobates on his campaign staff.
re: #355 Nyet
And probably a healthy chunk of indies in the Michigan Dem race. It still looks to me like if you’re a long-term Democratic supporter, you’re very probably a Clinton voter rather than a Sanders one.
Which, well, kinda duh.
re: #355 Nyet
NATE SILVER 9:34 PM
Michigan has open primaries, and it appears as though some voters who were interested in both races wound up voting on the GOP side. According to exit polls, 7 percent of Michigan Republican primary voters were Democrats; by contrast, 3 percent of voters in the Michigan Democratic primary were Republicans.+ lots of anecdotal data
Thanks for the info. Gotta wonder how many of them were Clinton supporters versus “I like what Trump is saying” types.
re: #356 Lidane
*headdesk*
They’re suing for emails AFTER Hillary left office. That’s how desperate they’ve gotten.
But but I’ve had lots of Sanders supporters explain to me in excruciating detail how the FBI indictment of Clinton is just around the corner. One wonders why they’d feel the need, oh wait no one doesn’t.
re: #359 Belafon
I suspect a lot were Trumpers, but here’s where the anecdotal data comes into play - lots of folks saying they know folks who thought Hillary had the nomination locked so they decided to vote for Kasich. Bloody gits.
The last time a Republican carried Michigan was 1988.
You know how Trump punctuates every sentence with OK? Like he thinks it’s a period or something OK? It’s annoying, OK? It’s very, very annoying, OK?
re: #363 Nyet
The writer of that story pushes one of my buttons:
Boch, the head of the Massachusetts-based car distribution empire Boch Enterprises, appeared Tuesday night on the Fox Business Network to explain why Trump should be in charge of the country.
That’s just false.
The President is in charge of the Executive Branch of the Federal government.
That is all.
Oh, yes, said President gets to do other things like picking a sports league commissioner and such niceties, but those things are more for cultural reasons.
re: #337 Backwoods_Sleuth
This pleading ignorance of every negative about his campaign is getting really tiring.
If Trump is such a leader of men, why the fuck doesn’t he actually do something about this shit?
You know that gunfucking mom who was shot by her toddler? She tweeted shit like this==>
Gun advocate, Cruz supporter, shot by her 4yo @jamiegilt is also a racist. Who woulda thunk it?#UniteBlue #tcot pic.twitter.com/8rS1Wb8SYG
— LiA (@LibsInAmerica) March 9, 2016
re: #298 freetoken
As a now-registered Democrat in California, I find it more than a bit queer that Democrats in Alabama, a state most unlikely to be carried by the contemporary Democratic party, get to make the decision on the Democrat candidate at a critical point in the process, but the Democrats in the largest state with the Democrats with the deepest pockets and largest number of votes… are not really given a choice.
California and New York have huge delegations; if the candidates are within 15% of each other at that stage of the process, CA and NY could throw it either way.
so, uh, be careful with chrome extensions, journalists everywhere https://t.co/Wp9c2wSxPF pic.twitter.com/JUpnjYiAes
— emily dreyfuss (@EmilyDreyfuss) March 9, 2016
So this is making the rounds on my FB feed today:
re: #354 sagehen
Should I assume you’re from a country with a parliamentary system? Dozens of parties, each of whom has a homogenous set of beliefs that all its members agree with 95% of their platform?
The US only has 2 parties with a realistic chance of getting their candidates into high office; most Americans looking at the party platforms agree with 60% of one party’s platform, and 30% of the other party’s.
We could change our system to make a multiparty system possible without amending the Constitution, which at this point looks like a good idea to me. This could be done by electing half of the House of Representatives by proportional representation. It could even lead to the end of divided government by having the President elected more often than not by Congress, which is what I think the writers of the Constitution intended, since if the current parties broke up into three or more near equal parties it would be less likely that a Presidential candidate would get the majority of the electoral college.
re: #217 A Mom Anon
Just as an aside, Nerium is the name of a marketing scam line of “beauty products” made from oleander (which is also part of the plant’s latin name). 150 dollars for a bottle of lotion. My sister (who has MS, is a wingnut and has no money, without my parents’ help, I have no clue how she’d survive) is deep into this and in turn, my parents have been financing this. To the tune of a couple grand as of right now. By either meaning, nerium is toxic.
I came across this post on how to deal with family members caught up in MLMs. Seemed like pretty good advice———avoiding overt skepticism, angry confrontations and declarations of “I told you so” so that the victim still feels the loving (emotional) support of their family. Don’t use the word ‘scam’. If people come across as too negative the victim may draw away from “the haters” and be even more emotionally dependent on the organization. This here seemed like a tactful way of avoiding financial investment——-If your family member tries to recruit you into the MLM scam simply say “Your business opportunity is not a good fit for me.” If they are persistent say, “I would rather not discuss this now - let’s talk about something else. I don’t want to argue.” And “I am glad to have this time with you and let’s enjoy it.”
Mom Anon, best of luck helping your sister out of this mess. I hope the post I linked helps you and your parents chart a course for supporting your sister without bankrupting the family.
re: #364 The Vicious Babushka
You know how Trump punctuates every sentence with OK? Like he thinks it’s a period or something OK? It’s annoying, OK? It’s very, very annoying, OK?
Mkay.
re: #364 The Vicious Babushka
You know how Trump punctuates every sentence with OK? Like he thinks it’s a period or something OK? It’s annoying, OK? It’s very, very annoying, OK?
OK, I’ve noticed…OK?
This I can tell you…OK?
I’m glad he can tell us. I hope the American people tell him to piss off. OK?
re: #371 Big Beautiful Door
There is nothing in our Constitution that requires a two party system. We do that more out of institutional habit than anything else.
In many parts of this country there is only one functioning political party, the other national party being pretty much sidelined as irrelevant. So much so that some elections go unopposed.
re: #228 Tigger2
Dem’s better stop trying to be tricky we have to much to lose.
Time to pimp my page. Please tweet/share on Facebook if you agree.
Judge denies bail for New Hampshire man in Bundy Nevada standoff https://t.co/gCmGcLH0x5
— Reuters U.S. News (@ReutersUS) March 9, 2016
A judge has denied bail for a New Hampshire man accused of being a mid-level organizer in a high-profile 2014 armed standoff with federal agents at the Nevada ranch of Cliven Bundy.
Jerry DeLemus was ordered on Tuesday to remain jailed pending trial in connection with the standoff, which began when federal agents seized cattle at the ranch over unpaid grazing fees.
snip
In denying bail, U.S. District Court Judge Andrea Johnstone said DeLemus’ actions at the Bundy ranch indicated he could “pose a serious danger to the community if released.”
DeLemus’ attorney, Jonathan Saxe, had argued that while DeLemus held right-wing political beliefs, he was law-abiding and devoutly religious and had sought to bring a peaceful resolution to the standoff.
“The government knows he’s not dangerous because he’s been out for two years and he’s been in communication with the FBI,” Saxe said at a court hearing on Monday.
DeLemus, co-chair of the New Hampshire Veterans for Trump…
re: #375 freetoken
In many parts of this country there is only one functioning political party, the other national party being pretty much sidelined as irrelevant. So much so that some elections go unopposed.
Those parts of the country are called Texas.
re: #235 Dark_Falcon
I expect this to be played for effect better than the Palin family played Bristol’s appearance on the same show, if only because Ms. Maples, her ex husband and their daughter have IQs above room temperature.
Love that phrasing!
re: #375 freetoken
There is nothing in our Constitution that requires a two party system. We do that more out of institutional habit than anything else.
In many parts of this country there is only one functioning political party, the other national party being pretty much sidelined as irrelevant. So much so that some elections go unopposed.
And that discourages political participation and promotes political cynicism. Imagine a system of proportional representation, in which even if you are in the minority there is a good chance your vote will earn you representation from someone who shares your views.
re: #370 Lidane
So this is making the rounds on my FB feed today:
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Yeah I saw that. Quite compelling.
re: #372 KerFuFFler
I came across this post on how to deal with family members caught up in MLMs. Seemed like pretty good advice———avoiding overt skepticism, angry confrontations and declarations of “I told you so” so that the victim still feels the loving (emotional) support of their family. Don’t use the word ‘scam’. If people come across as too negative the victim may draw away from “the haters” and be even more emotionally dependent on the organization. This here seemed like a tactful way of avoiding financial investment——-If your family member tries to recruit you into the MLM scam simply say “Your business opportunity is not a good fit for me.” If they are persistent say, “I would rather not discuss this now - let’s talk about something else. I don’t want to argue.” And “I am glad to have this time with you and let’s enjoy it.”
Seems like something the Republicans should have done with Trump supporters.
re: #375 freetoken
This has to do with the stupid and undemocratic electoral college. Which has to do with overrated states’ rights.
re: #380 Big Beautiful Door
And that discourages political participation and promotes political cynicism. Imagine a system of proportional representation, in which even if you are in the minority there is a good chance your vote will earn you representation from someone who shares your views.
That’s part of the pro-gerrymandering argument, at least as I’ve understood it.
Gerrymandering can be used to keep a good ol’ boy network in power, but it can also ensure that the minority at least will always get at least one voice at the table.
re: #376 MsJ
Time to pimp my page. Please tweet/share on Facebook if you agree.
I saw your tweet on my page I retweeted it.
I think it would be great if there was a late March “Primary Day in America” where people of both parties all go to the polling places to vote for their favorite party candidate and there can be no cross-over. You have to be registered to your party of choice by the end of February and that is the party you vote for. The voting would be strictly by voting machines/ballots or whatever your state sets up and the process is the same as in the November general elections in the very same polling places.
Yes, that would be ideal.
Can you also imagine the crying that would cause with people like the media and all the pundit/wonk sites that have turned it all into a year-round process that starts one year after the last election? I mean what would Chuck Todd and Joke Scarborough do with all their time?
re: #384 freetoken
That’s part of the pro-gerrymandering argument, at least as I’ve understood it.
Gerrymandering can be used to keep a good ol’ boy network in power, but it can also ensure that the minority at least will always get at least one voice at the table.
Gerrymandering is designed to minimize the out group’s political power and maximize the in group’s. Proportional representation is designed to allow every group the same level of influence their numbers justify.
re: #386 ObserverArt
Yes, that would be ideal.
It would have resulted in Clinton winning almost without opposition in 2008, so I don’t think I can agree with your statement.
Baby Whiplash cracking the whip:
Your personal failures are likely of your own making. And you stealing my money makes you a thief. #TheTriggering
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 9, 2016
If you’re of minority ethnicity, your segregated “safe spaces” are precisely what Jim Crow racists wanted. Idiots. #TheTriggering
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 9, 2016
re: #378 Lidane
Those parts of the country are called Texas.
And this is the result:
Republican Morrow of the Bowl CutBlaming society for your problems in the United States is just an excuse for you to be a failure. #TheTriggering
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 9, 2016
Baby Whiplash, the Internet Trollre: #387 Big Beautiful Door
The problem is our laws and traditions about politics are tied to geography. We divvy up political power by geography more so than many contemporary “democratic” nations.
We Americans - we love our geographic boundaries.
A parliamentary system could bring about a more proportional representation, but I give the chances of us adopting that at less than our adopting the metric system.
re: #389 The Vicious Babushka
Baby Whiplash cracking the whip:
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He really is a condescending little asshole. What the fuck has he done so much worthwhile with his life? Oh you write for a publication for the constantly enraged. Try making a honest living for once shitbrain.
re: #388 Testy Toad T
It would have resulted in Clinton winning almost without opposition in 2008, so I don’t think I can agree with your statement.
This is for the future, not for the past. If one does apply it to the past, one cannot be selective and analyze a single primary season, rather one should apply it to all the primary seasons back to the beginning, and then the whole history changes.
re: #390 Dave In Austin
My very Republican co-workers were beside themselves when that guy won. It’ll be interesting to watch the Travis County GOP in the next few months. They’re going to go to war with each other to keep that guy as marginalized as possible.
re: #375 freetoken
There is nothing in our Constitution that requires a two party system. We do that more out of institutional habit than anything else.
In many parts of this country there is only one functioning political party, the other national party being pretty much sidelined as irrelevant. So much so that some elections go unopposed.
It’s the direct result of a winner-take-all system, an unintended consequence.
I’m wondering if I should tweet that meme to Baby Whiplash, but I’m afraid he might like it.
re: #395 Lidane
My very Republican co-workers were beside themselves when that guy won. It’ll be interesting to watch the Travis County GOP in the next few months. They’re going to go to war with each other to keep that guy as marginalized as possible.
Fine. It guarantees that a candidate who amasses colossal financial backing will be extremely hard to overcome, because there is no feedback mechanism that gets people to start paying attention to any candidate other than the one that will obviously* win.
To hell with Iowa, but Iowa (or some preferably-more-representative state) is cheap enough that a relatively less well funded candidate can still spread their message wide and deep among a smaller cohort and the rest of us can see how well that resonates, rather than getting swamped with ad buys all at once.
re: #377 Backwoods_Sleuth
Let’s not forget his wife who is a freaking elected official lying about Obama and her role in politics.
The whole family is nuts.
re: #399 Testy Toad T
Should it apply to the presidential elections?
re: #388 Testy Toad T
It would have resulted in Clinton winning almost without opposition in 2008, so I don’t think I can agree with your statement.
This is probably true. But then, if the practice was different everything would have been different so to me it is hard to really know how it would have turned out. We have gotten used to the way things are done for so long it is hard to see it another way.
Maybe a tight process would make the debates and all the rallies and speeches all that more important. It might be less costly too. Maybe it would take out some of the bullshit because the candidates would have to get right to the point and not play sections of the country differently as they go along. This is one country after all, and maybe a one day primary would make it all for one.
Just tossing around some different thinking for discussion.
This is what conservative, Ted Cruz voters really think of Israel:
#IStandWithIsrael #ccot #tcot https://t.co/zVh8RCRR0A@MtLadyPatriot @WeiseDame @Lost94133 @58163 @RNRMaryland pic.twitter.com/t7hBeS8h13
— Justice (@Time_4_Justice) March 9, 2016
re: #402 Nyet
Should it apply to the presidential elections?
Just as soon as you can have a presidential election with a ten- or fifty-to-one fundraising advantage on one side, sure.
re: #356 Lidane
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They have no choice but to commence impeachment proceedings before she is even elected…
What an utter fuckbag shitgoblin our Baby Whiplash is==>
Slaveholders were evil to deem blacks non-human because they were on their land. The same holds true of babies in the womb. #TheTriggering
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) March 9, 2016
re: #386 ObserverArt
I think it would be great if there was a late March “Primary Day in America” where people of both parties all go to the polling places to vote for their favorite party candidate and there can be no cross-over. You have to be registered to your party of choice by the end of February and that is the party you vote for. The voting would be strictly by voting machines/ballots or whatever your state sets up and the process is the same as in the November general elections in the very same polling places.
Yes, that would be ideal.
Can you also imagine the crying that would cause with people like the media and all the pundit/wonk sites that have turned it all into a year-round process that starts one year after the last election? I mean what would Chuck Todd and Joke Scarborough do with all their time?
States would never go for it. The early states get way too much money to let it go.
But in an ideal world, absolutely.
Coming from the guy who repeatedly dehumanizes people that’s pretty fucking rich.
re: #375 freetoken
There is nothing in our Constitution that requires a two party system. We do that more out of institutional habit than anything else.
That and the fact that our current electoral system makes the rise of a major third or fourth party nearly impossible.
re: #410 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
That and the fact that our current electoral system makes the rise of a major third or fourth party nearly impossible.
In the past 100 years third parties have only served to act as spoilers for one or the other major party.
re: #409 HappyWarrior
Just noting that Ben Shapiro, who spread the “Friends of Hamas” rumor, has also argued for Kahane-style forcible transfer of Palestinians.
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) February 20, 2013
Prominent Hagel Detractor Endorses Fascistic Vision of Israel
Shapiro is a literal neo-fascist.
I’m proBernie but would vote Hillary as I am a one issue voter and that issue is not opening the seventh seal and ushering in the apocalypse
— Ivan Hernandez (@ivan_hernandez) February 2, 2016
re: #412 Nyet
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Shapiro is a literal neo-fascist.
My shocked face.
Many of us have pointed out that as it becomes inevitable that Trump will be the Republican nominee that many Republicans will go through an acceptance process and indeed not turn on Trump but go along with him.
And this morning we see that at…. National Review, the very outlet that Trump trashed at his presser/celebration last night:
Michigan Shows Trump Could Redraw Electoral Map vs. Clinton
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The GOP establishment envisioned a path to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue this fall that ran through diverse states and newly engaged urban centers. They hoped that rather than trying to further run up the vote with whites, their eventual nominee would woo minorities, particularly Hispanics, in hopes of taking back states such as Florida (29 electoral votes), Virginia (13), Colorado (9), and Nevada (6). Some combination of those, on top of perennial must-win Ohio, would be sufficient to win back the White House.
Trump is taking precisely the opposite path. And after Tuesday’s Republican and Democratic primary elections in Michigan, there’s cause to believe he could actually be successful.
That’s by their chief political correspondent. Not hits against Trump in the article, just a fantasy that Trump could indeed win against the Democrats.
In the end, the inner-bigot of NR will find actualization through Donald Trump.
I dunno. I think why so few third parties have emerged is that most third parties aren’t practical. It’s all or nothing with them.
re: #415 freetoken
Many of us have pointed out that as it becomes inevitable that Trump will be the Republican nominee that many Republicans will go through an acceptance process and indeed not turn on Trump but go along with him.
And this morning we see that at…. National Review, the very outlet that Trump trashed at his presser/celebration last night:
Michigan Shows Trump Could Redraw Electoral Map vs. Clinton
That’s by their chief political correspondent. Not hits against Trump in the article, just a fantasy that Trump could indeed win against the Democrats.
In the end, the inner-bigot of NR will find actualization through Donald Trump.
NR will be praising Trump’s business acumen and anti-PC attitude by summer’s end.
Working in a dog friendly office is great 99% of the time. Rainy days are the other 1%.
It’s raining outside. The smell of wet dog abounds.
Trump modeling agency accused of cheating model out of $225,000 https://t.co/BIN4xnaHZV pic.twitter.com/k6tPGSHBEN
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) March 9, 2016
I’m going to guess that the “Trump Modeling” contract also implied that models might have a chance at the next “Mrs. Trump” gig if they provide a little appetizer.
re: #419 The Vicious Babushka
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Did the young ladies rush off to the rest room or dressing rooms to wash their mouths out and wipe off their lips after that photo was taken?
Oh the stuff models have to do. Ugh.
re: #421 ObserverArt
Did the young ladies rush off to the rest room or dressing rooms to wash their mouths out and wipe off their lips after that photo was taken?
Oh the stuff models have to do. Ugh.
Donald probably had “Prima Nochte” for the Miss Universe contestants.
(I just threw up in my mouth)
ooops!!!
Ryan Bundy with gun in hand from https://t.co/abqOsXLr9M #Oregonstandoff pic.twitter.com/p2YZnY7bDS
— Chris Giller (@chris_giller) March 9, 2016
re: #420 The Vicious Babushka
I’m going to guess that the “Trump Modeling” contract also implied that models might have a chance at the next “Mrs. Trump” gig if they provide a little appetizer.
Well, if you’re not constantly interviewing, you never know if you have the best piece of ass talent.
Trumphumpers are the stupidest shitballs on the planet.
Explain why you think “Donald cares” about anything except himself. Show your work. @Dereksnannalea @GammaRae206
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) March 9, 2016
This will be fodder for Trump:
Man Suspected of Killing 5 in Missouri, Kansas Captured
A Mexican national suspected of killing his neighbor and three other men at his neighbor’s Kansas home before killing another man about 170 miles away in Missouri was arrested early Wednesday, authorities said.
Pablo Antonio Serrano-Vitorino was captured without resisting shortly before 12:30 a.m. Wednesday following a manhunt. He was found hiding face-down in a ditch about two or three miles from the scene of the last killing, which happened Tuesday morning at a rural home near the small community of New Florence, Missouri, said Lt. Paul Reinsch of the Missouri State Highway Patrol. He had a rifle with him, he said.
[…]
Serrano Vitorino is in the country illegally, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a statement. He was deported from the U.S. in April 2004 and illegally re-entered the country on an unknown date. ICE said it would place a detainer on Serrano-Vitorino.
[…]
re: #416 HappyWarrior
I dunno. I think why so few third parties have emerged is that most third parties aren’t practical. It’s all or nothing with them.
Actually, it’s rather simple to show why we only have two major parties.
There are two groups, exactly opposite on all of the issues, and lets say they are the same size. Add one more person, who really only cares about one issue. How would this person vote? If she really cares about the issue, then voting for herself won’t help, because there’s not enough of her to overcome the size of the groups. So she chooses the party that matches her on that issue.
Give everyone the spectrum of issues they care about, with the spread of intensities that everyone has. We’re still going to group in such a way that our most important issues are reinforced by the group we’re in, because attempting to have two groups that are similar but don’t work together gets the other group elected. See Maine’s governor election, for instance.
We actually also see it in a parliamentary system, though not at the level of the voters. There can only be one Prime Minister, and so the elections produce individual groups that form coalitions, which leads to a main and opposition groups.
re: #426 freetoken
This will be fodder for Trump:
Only Americans are allowed to kill other Americans! It’s in the Bible.
re: #423 Backwoods_Sleuth
When your own video is used against you in a court of law… You built that.
The Bundy nuts should be going away for the rest of their lives.
re: #427 Belafon
Actually, it’s rather simple to show why we only have two major parties.
There are two groups, exactly opposite on all of the issues, and lets say they are the same size. Add one more person, who really only cares about one issue. How would this person vote? If she really cares about the issue, then voting for herself won’t help, because there’s not enough of her to overcome the size of the groups. So she chooses the party that matches her on that issue.
Give everyone the spectrum of issues they care about, with the spread of intensities that everyone has. We’re still going to group in such a way that our most important issues are reinforced by the group we’re in, because attempting to have two groups that are similar but don’t work together gets the other group elected. See Maine’s governor election, for instance.
We actually also see it in a parliamentary system, though not at the level of the voters. There can only be one Prime Minister, and so the elections produce individual groups that form coalitions, which leads to a main and opposition groups.
True good point.
Anonymous tip claims raw milk caused illnesses at Capitol https://t.co/D6ckmyT0F1
— WSAZ NewsChannel 3 (@WSAZnews) March 9, 2016
CHARLESTON, W. Va. (WSAZ) — In the weeks after passing a bill, allowing West Virginians to drink raw milk, one delegate brought the drink in to celebrate and, eventually, several lawmakers have gotten sick.
Some lawmakers say it’s just a coincidence and a stomach bug is going around.
But, now, health officials are planning on looking in to how this all started.
An anonymous complaint is in at the state Department of Health and Human Resources.
And now, state health officials have to investigate why at least one person is saying the raw milk was given illegally and got these lawmakers sick.
However, other delegates, like Pat McGeehan (R - Hancock, 01), who is quite sick himself, say that recent stomach bug has been making the rounds for weeks.
“There’s definitely…some other colleagues that have similar symptoms that I’ve been experiencing,” McGeehan said.
But the timing is coincidental.
McGeehan and some other lawmakers drank raw, unpasteurized, milk to celebrate the passing of a bill that makes it legal before getting sick.
This fucker thinks Teh Juice have hoarded up all the delicious briskets.
I need to live in a neighborhood with more Jewish friends. Had to drive all over town looking for briskets.
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) March 9, 2016
re: #426 freetoken
This will be fodder for Trump:
ICE actually had the guy set up for deportation 6 months ago but screwed up his paperwork and failed to take custody of him from local authorities.
re: #435 KingKenrod
ICE actually had the guy set up for deportation 6 months ago but screwed up his paperwork and failed to take custody of him from local authorities.
Obviously we should be increasing government funding so that the people responsible for this work are more qualified and under less pressure to process cases quickly.
re: #434 The Vicious Babushka
No Soup Brisket For You.
re: #435 KingKenrod
ICE actually had the guy set up for deportation 6 months ago but screwed up his paperwork and failed to take custody of him from local authorities.
Which just means Trump would have those ICE people executed for not performing. It wouldn’t be You’re Fired, it would be You’re Being Fired Upon.
Brisket is quite good. Did not know of its Jewish origins until VB told me.
re: #434 The Vicious Babushka
This fucker thinks Teh Juice have hoarded up all the delicious briskets.
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re: #436 iossarian
Obviously we should be increasing government funding so that the people responsible for this work are more qualified and under less pressure to process cases quickly.
Get Mexico to pay for it! Simple!
re: #439 HappyWarrior
Brisket is quite good. Did not know of its Jewish origins until VB told me.
Because of the requirements of kosher slaughter and preparation, the cuts of meat on the rear parts of the animal are not used. This leaves the brisket as the most popular cut of kosher meat. And now that it has become so popular among BBQ lovers, the price of kosher corned beef, pastrami and roast brisket has gone through the stratosphere, even causing many popular kosher delis to close down.
Kentucky again…sigh
Senate cmte approves SB 297, to end state safety inspections of coal mines, and SB 224, to end mandatory mine foremen safety training. ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) March 9, 2016
.@POTUS has written the foreword for the new Peanuts book. Watch the full episode >> https://t.co/Q8Sj617vnt pic.twitter.com/lTtx8R0CGo
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) March 9, 2016
re: #342 Nyet
The HillDem crossover was doubly dumb because the Dem primaries are not winner-take-all and every delegate counts.
The only bright spot I can see is that maybe the HillDems in the upcoming states will see the folly in crossing over and in thinking “ah, my vote won’t matter—she’s got this.”
re: #441 KingKenrod
Get Mexico to pay for it! Simple!
I was just reading some Napoleonic history and that was basically his idea too (though with Italy substituted for Mexico).
Let’s have a little think about how that ended up.
re: #443 Backwoods_Sleuth
Kentucky again…sigh
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re: #443 Backwoods_Sleuth
Kentucky again…sigh
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You’ll take what we allow you to have and you’ll be damned happy about it.
(spit)
re: #442 The Vicious Babushka
Because of the requirements of kosher slaughter and preparation, the cuts of meat on the rear parts of the animal are not used. This leaves the brisket as the most popular cut of kosher meat. And now that it has become so popular among BBQ lovers, the price of kosher corned beef, pastrami and roast brisket has gone through the stratosphere, even causing many popular kosher delis to close down.
Aha thanks.
re: #443 Backwoods_Sleuth
Kentucky again…sigh
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Yeah end the regulations of the coal mines. What a fantastic idea. God the right in this country really is regressive as hell. That’s just asking for tragedy.
There’s this:
Short men, fat women earn less; DNA to blame
Men who have more genetic variants that would make them short, and women who have more genetic variants that would lead them to have a higher body mass index, tend to earn less money, according to a study published in BMJ.
This phenomenon has been documented in the past, but earlier studies used mostly observational data. What’s different about this study is that it looks at a person’s genetic predisposition for height and weight.
Well, gee. What can I say?
But the next paragraph I think is written misleadingly:
That means there are no broader environmental factors at play here. Poorer people, on average, tend to have poorer childhood nutrition, which can stunt growth and may lead to obesity. But there may be more to it.
Not sure really what that sentence is supposed to mean.
But if the author is trying to say that genetics is deterministic about income, then that is incorrect.
The paper in BMJ:
Height, body mass index, and socioeconomic status: mendelian randomisation study in UK Biobank
Important bit from the abstract:
Genetic analysis provided evidence that these associations were partly causal.
Which seems to be different than the popular press piece I first quoted.
Their video:
There’s a really important little word in the first person’s explanation, and that is the word “if”. The problem is, our entire life cannot be dissected into completely independent variables. We are not just a simple sum of independent variables.
re: #450 HappyWarrior
Yeah end the regulations of the coal mines. What a fantastic idea. God the right in this country really is regressive as hell. That’s just asking for tragedy.
They’ll blame the lack of regulations, and that just proves that government doesn’t work. And people will vote for them for this reason.
It is here that I will note that “Little Marco” is considerably shorter than Donald John Trump.
re: #452 Belafon
They’ll blame the lack of regulations, and that just proves that government doesn’t work. And people will vote for them for this reason.
Yep. Sigh.
re: #442 The Vicious Babushka
The economics of kosher delis is screwed up to the point where delis that used to make the corned beef/pastrami in house with their own blends are using meats that were prepared centrally in an effort to keep cost down. That further reduces the quality IMO, and great kosher delis are getting harder to find.
/the great kosher deli lament.
re: #453 freetoken
It is here that I will note that “Little Marco” is considerably shorter than Donald John Trump.
I don’t buy Rubio’s listed height at 5’10. I dunno. I’m closer to being Rubio’s recorded height than Trump’s and I just don’t see it. I see Rubio as being in the 5’8/9 neighborhood.
re: #392 freetoken
The problem is our laws and traditions about politics are tied to geography. We divvy up political power by geography more so than many contemporary “democratic” nations.
We Americans - we love our geographic boundaries.
A parliamentary system could bring about a more proportional representation, but I give the chances of us adopting that at less than our adopting the metric system.
It may be that it will take a massive constitutional crisis before we change. It would be nice if we could correct the problem before that happens, though I recognize its unlikely. Obviously the two major parties won’t be interested in giving up their duopoly on political power, so it would take a huge popular movement coming from the people. I might page a proposal.
re: #456 HappyWarrior
I don’t buy Rubio’s listed height at 5’10. I dunno. I’m closer to being Rubio’s recorded height than Trump’s and I just don’t see it. I see Rubio as being in the 5’8/9 neighborhood.
I keep saying, look at the boots Rubio wears…2-3 inch heels on those things.
re: #456 HappyWarrior
And Hulk Hogan’s penis isn’t really 10”.
(see downstairs for the report from the Gawker trial.)
re: #455 lawhawk
The economics of kosher delis is screwed up to the point where delis that used to make the corned beef/pastrami in house with their own blends are using meats that were prepared centrally in an effort to keep cost down. That further reduces the quality IMO, and great kosher delis are getting harder to find.
/the great kosher deli lament.
I’ve noticed that too. :(
Today in Ooops! Gun-humper division:
PSA, if you are going to touch baby whiplash, touch him real good because he’ll sic the cops on you no matter what.
re: #410 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
That and the fact that our current electoral system makes the rise of a major third or fourth party nearly impossible.
There is nothing in the Constitution which prohibits House representatives from being elected through a system of proportional representation rather than by district. This should be a part of electoral reforms we need to make our government more democratic.
re: #455 lawhawk
The economics of kosher delis is screwed up to the point where delis that used to make the corned beef/pastrami in house with their own blends are using meats that were prepared centrally in an effort to keep cost down. That further reduces the quality IMO, and great kosher delis are getting harder to find.
/the great kosher deli lament.
My favorite kosher deli in Toronto closed its doors 5 years ago. I have heard that there used to be 10x as many kosher delis in New York as there are now. When I was in LA I was looking forward to a pastrami sandwich at Pico Kosher Deli but they didn’t have!
It must be global warming or something.
That genetics article originated at CNN. Here is the CNN headline:
Short men and heavier women earn less, can blame DNA
Note the subtle changes in the headline in the previous post.
However, the article is the same, complete with this sentence:
That means there are no broader environmental factors at play here.
re: #461 makeitstop
Today in Ooops! Gun-humper division:
She posted racist shit like this==>
Gun advocate, Cruz supporter, shot by her 4yo @jamiegilt is also a racist. Who woulda thunk it?#UniteBlue #tcot pic.twitter.com/8rS1Wb8SYG
— LiA (@LibsInAmerica) March 9, 2016
Man, now I am hungry for pastrami and/or brisket. Thanks, guys.
re: #461 makeitstop
Today in Ooops! Gun-humper division:
No guns were harmed, so nothing to see.
Responsible gun owner shot by irresponsible toddler who failed to check that safety was on, chamber had round in it, and that it was just there. Or is it irresponsible gun owner shot by responsible toddler.
re: #468 lawhawk
Be sure to check out the tweet VB dug up, from the mom’s account.
re: #416 HappyWarrior
I dunno. I think why so few third parties have emerged is that most third parties aren’t practical. It’s all or nothing with them.
No, third parties are common in most democracies. We rig our system with gerrymandering, district voting and limited ballot access to create near insurmountable barriers to third parties.
re: #461 makeitstop
The victim was transported to University of Florida Health in Gainesville and was last reported to be in stable condition.
Saved by a publicly-funded university health system! Now that’s irony.
Jake’s deli in Milwaukee is the best in town. 4 carvers during lunch to keep up. Costly but oh so delicious.
re: #464 The Vicious Babushka
My favorite kosher deli in Toronto closed its doors 5 years ago. I have heard that there used to be 10x as many kosher delis in New York as there are now. When I was in LA I was looking forward to a pastrami sandwich at Pico Kosher Deli but they didn’t have!
It must be global warming or something.
It’s capitalism. Chicken wings used to be throw-away food that cost next to nothing. Then wings became a thing and now they cost as much as the breast does.
re: #458 Backwoods_Sleuth
I keep saying, look at the boots Rubio wears…2-3 inch heels on those things.
I’ll have to look heh.
re: #443 Backwoods_Sleuth
Kentucky again…sigh
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However, the Democrats retained control of the House in yesterday’s special elections, so those bad Senate bills will continue to die in committee, for now.
re: #471 Big Beautiful Door
No, third parties are common in most democracies. We rig our system with gerrymandering, district voting and limited ballot access to create near insurmountable barriers to third parties.
That is true.
re: #461 makeitstop
Today in Ooops! Gun-humper division:
Hopefully it makes her rethink her stance but after seeing the shit she’s posted from VB, I doubt it.
re: #465 freetoken
That genetics article originated at CNN. Here is the CNN headline:
Short men and heavier women earn less, can blame DNA
Note the subtle changes in the headline in the previous post.
However, the article is the same, complete with this sentence:
Is there any link between short GOP candidates and their performance in polls?
re: #478 HappyWarrior
Hopefully it makes her rethink her stance but after seeing the shit she’s posted from VB, I doubt it.
The replies on this tweet are priceless.
Got to play with my new toy today! Time to clean it! pic.twitter.com/1lkYo8b3sh
— jamie gilt (@jamiegilt) January 24, 2015
Arizona federal court decides son of Cliven Bundy to stay in custody https://t.co/m23L8TGPM8
— KTNV Action News (@KTNV) March 9, 2016
PHOENIX (AP) - A federal judge in Arizona decided that an adult son of jailed Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy should remain in custody pending his transfer to Las Vegas to face conspiracy, assault on a federal officer and other charges.
Records show that U.S. Magistrate Judge David Duncan in Phoenix signed documents Friday to allow Melvin Bundy to be moved to Nevada.
re: #481 Amory Blaine
How do you stop a bad baby with a gun?
“My right to be careless with my guns trumps your right to be afraid of what could happen as a result of my kid firing it!”
re: #472 iossarian
Saved by a publicly-funded university health system! Now that’s irony.
And an exceptional one at that. Go Gators!
re: #482 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Michael Twitty is on live:
@KosherSoul marries culinary history with family history. Listen to him live now: https://t.co/BRJaFYZe0S pic.twitter.com/jrqplLllPQ
— The Kojo Nnamdi Show (@kojoshow) March 9, 2016
re: #480 withak
The replies on this tweet are priceless.
She deserves every bit of that ridicule. Maybe she’ll smarten up now.
Oh, what am I saying? Probably not.
LOSERS!!11!!
My birthday made the news again this year. Which means I’m still famous, losers! Deal with it! https://t.co/gBKLg3lKFs
— Yes, Nick $earcy! (@yesnicksearcy) March 7, 2016
re: #480 withak
The replies on this tweet are priceless.
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Her husband is looking at her phone saying WTF.
re: #490 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOSERS!!11!!
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I thought Searcy left Twitter. Or was that another right-wing asshole?
re: #489 makeitstop
She deserves every bit of that ridicule. Maybe she’ll smarten up now.
Oh, what am I saying? Probably not.
Nah, she’ll just double-down and arm her whole family, even the pets.
re: #492 MsJ
I thought Searcy left Twitter. Or was that another right-wing asshole?
I thought he left, too.
Guess he just couldn’t stay away…
Firefighters have extinguished the fire at 85th and Greenwood. pic.twitter.com/JHxrdEo4hF
— Seattle Fire Dept (@SeattleFire) March 9, 2016
All 9 firefighters injured in this mornings explosion have been released from HMC. Thank you for all the kind words and thoughts.
— Seattle Fire Dept (@SeattleFire) March 9, 2016
Twitter is often not kind. Especially to idiots. This is from her timeline.
@Packet_editor @JWilsUSA @EDMforTrump @jamiegilt Oooh…shoot out in the Silverado!
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) March 9, 2016
I read this interesting comment at Balloonjuice:
Anyone else find it rather ironic that a lot of the people who think Clinton should be disqualified for the presidency because she had classified documents on her server when she was Secretary of State are the same people who think Edward Snowden is a hero for taking classified documents and giving them to reporters?
Any thoughts lizards?
(Cole’s whole post about supporting Clinton even though he really does like Bernie a lot is a good read too.)
re: #495 Backwoods_Sleuth
Students at Greenwood Elem. showing support for firefighters & businesses in the area leveled by a gas explosion. pic.twitter.com/fQ0r88pSKs
— KING 5 News (@KING5Seattle) March 9, 2016
re: #490 Backwoods_Sleuth
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You know there are a lot of conservative actors out there whose work I genuinely appreciate. Nick Searcy really isn’t on my radar and it’s got little to do with him being a wingnut desperate for attention.
All the lies Donald Drumpf told in his election night infomercial
Man, even R-Money can get into this guy’s head. What a wuss.
re: #497 KerFuFFler
I read this interesting comment at Balloonjuice:
Any thoughts lizards?
(Cole’s post about supporting Clinton even though he really does like Bernie a lot is a good read too.)
I think he brings up a valid point. The more I think about Clinton and people who dislike her. I do think there is some sub-conscious sexism involved. Overt too but there’s some sub-conscious too among some of the people who insist that her being a woman has nothing to do with it. I call bs.
re: #493 withak
Nah, she’ll just double-down and arm her whole family, even the pets.
How do you stop a bad dog with a gun? A good, good dog with a gun! Yes, yes you are a good dog! Wait, don’t point that at me, no, no bad dog!
VA Senate is back from recess. Vote on #antichoice Ken Cuccinelli for VA Supreme Court coming up soon. Follow us & #KeepKenOut 4 updates!
— NARAL Pro-Choice VA (@NARALVirginia) March 9, 2016
Gov. McAuliffe spokesperson calls Cuccinelli nomination “a disgrace”: https://t.co/nZ8FawxhKT #KeepKenOut
— NARAL Pro-Choice VA (@NARALVirginia) March 9, 2016
FYI: Cuccinelli once compared his agenda to outlaw abortion to the fight to end slavery. #KeepKenOut https://t.co/65PHyLG8Ui
— NARAL Pro-Choice VA (@NARALVirginia) March 9, 2016
We’re here, and we’re watching. Cuccinelli does not stand with Virginia women & families. #KeepKenOut. pic.twitter.com/VruRD4K9N0
— NARAL Pro-Choice VA (@NARALVirginia) March 9, 2016
re: #474 MsJ
It’s capitalism. Chicken wings used to be throw-away food that cost next to nothing. Then wings became a thing and now they cost as much as the breast does.
Same with cuts of beef like skirt and flank. And, The Brisket.
Looking at Trump’s schedule for the coming week, it looks like he is giving Ohio his attention. Evidently he feels Florida is a wrap.
re: #501 HappyWarrior
I think he brings up a valid point. The more I think about Clinton and people who dislike her. I do think there is some sub-conscious sexism involved. Overt too but there’s some sub-conscious too among some of the people who insist that her being a woman has nothing to do with it. I call bs.
Also, I think a lot of the right wing smearing has been unconsciously been absorbed by everyone, including the left.
re: #504 Backwoods_Sleuth
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This pisses me off so much. I thought we were done with this bigoted asshole. Did the fact that he got beat by Terry McAuliffe mean nothing to Senate Republicans.
re: #497 KerFuFFler
I read this interesting comment at Balloonjuice:
Any thoughts lizards?
(Cole’s whole post about supporting Clinton even though he really does like Bernie a lot is a good read too.)
I have been saying that same thing. Along with Apple giving the Feds a way to get around iPhone encryption, seriously, so many roads lead back to Snowden. He proved that government data is vulnerable.
Further, I would lay odds on Clinton’s server being more secure than the .gov.
re: #508 gwangung
Also, I think a lot of the right wing smearing has been unconsciously been absorbed by everyone, including the left.
Absolutely. I’ve heard it with my own ears. And I have to admit that I myself was guilty of it a little too.
.@ChuckGrassley GOP position on Obama #scotus nominee “isn’t any different” president telling Congress he will veto bill before passage.
— Hannah Hess (@ha_nah_nah) March 9, 2016
re: #500 makeitstop
All the lies Donald Drumpf told in his election night infomercial
Man, even R-Money can get into this guy’s head. What a wuss.
The story of “Trump Winery”. In short, just another sleazy Trump deal.
Trump Winery (formerly “Kluge Vineyard and Estate”) is a Virginia winery situated on Trump Vineyard Estates in Charlottesville, VA. The vineyard was purchased by American business mogul Donald Trump in April 2011[1] and was officially opened in October 2011.[2] President Eric Trump, Donald Trump’s son, oversees everything from winemaking and marketing to global distribution and sales.[3] Donald Trump no longer owns Trump Winery as he gave it to his son Eric.[4][5]
Trump bought the 1,300-acre vineyard and winery for a fraction of its original value. Patricia Kluge had owned the property and spent much of her $100-$200 million fortune over two decades developing it into a winery; as her finances dwindled, so did her chances of retaining the property. Bank of America owned the mortgage on the mansion itself and was foreclosing, but the surrounding property remained in a Kluge family trust. Trump, a longstanding friend of Patricia Kluge, bought the 200 acres surrounding the property directly from the Kluge family for less than $500,000; he then placed “No Trespassing” signs around the property and allowed the lawns to become overgrown. This warded off potential buyers and gave Trump the appearance of exclusive access to the property (although the bank’s property interest in the main house included right-of-way easements). This gave Trump the opportunity to buy the land from Bank of America for $3.6 million, a fraction of the nearly $16 million the bank had paid at the foreclosure auction to retain the property.[6] Development and renovation of the property was given to Eric Trump, who also supervised the acquisition.
Cuccinelli is a persistent son of a bitch, isn’t he?
re: #512 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Uh no Chuck it’s not. Give the fucking nominee a hearing already you dipshit. I know you’re rightfully afraid of a lot of the terrible things that Scalia stood for being reversed. Well tough shit.
re: #501 HappyWarrior
I think he brings up a valid point. The more I think about Clinton and people who dislike her. I do think there is some sub-conscious sexism involved. Overt too but there’s some sub-conscious too among some of the people who insist that her being a woman has nothing to do with it. I call bs.
Not only that. but it’s looking like their issue is control of people, not control of information. White men like Snowden are not supposed to be under someone ele’s control, but a woman like Hillary or a man of color like Obama should be under someone’s control, not independent in any way.
re: #499 HappyWarrior
You know there are a lot of conservative actors out there whose work I genuinely appreciate. Nick Searcy really isn’t on my radar and it’s got little to do with him being a wingnut desperate for attention.
I loved Art on Justified. Then Searcy opened his yap. We never looked at his character in the same way again. I was glad he wasn’t on as much in that final season.
re: #514 Eclectic Cyborg
Cuccinelli is a persistent son of a bitch, isn’t he?
This time he’s got help from the Republicans in the State Senate. I believe he and my state senator are the state chairs of Virginia for Cruz who by the way did even worse than Rubio here.
re: #516 wrenchwench
Not only that. but it’s looking like their issue is control of people, not control of information. White men like Snowden are not supposed to be under someone ele’s control, but a woman like Hillary or a man of color like Obama should be under someone’s control, not independent in any way.
It’s also about tone and things like that.
re: #517 MsJ
I loved Art on Justified. Then Searcy opened his yap. We never looked at his character in the same way again. I was glad he wasn’t on as much in that final season.
He actually had a small role in a movie I loved as a kid with Kevin Costner and Elijah Wood, The War if you’re curious. Nice movie but he’s just a dick about his views. Honestly, it amuses me all these conservative actors who like to play the victim when Hollywood in the 40’s and 50’s actually literally did blacklist leftist actors and crew. So you’re being made to feel uncomfortable in an environment full of liberals. Tough shit.
There are a lot of recesses and “at ease” breaks. Maybe there’s hope Rs are trying to find way out of the mess they’ve created. #KeepKenOut
— Julie Emery (@jaemery) March 9, 2016
Cuccinelli is “not a political pawn,” amidst speculation this move is only to keep him out of the Governor race for Gillespie. #KeepKenOut
— Nicole Grim (@NicoleLGrim) March 9, 2016
Woman raises that she has power and is willing to use it, she’s a power hungry bitch. Man does it, he’s assertive. Hillary gets visibly upset. She’s too soft for the job. Man does it, hey let the guy be upset. I mean the total dismissal that there is sexism going on against Clinton by people who should know better because of their own prejudice against her is annoying as hell. I’m not even a huge fan of hers and I see it.
.@CentralParkNYC SMASHES record high at 1 PM w/ temp of 74. Still climbing! Previous record 69 set in 2000. @NBCNewYork
— Steven Sosna (@SteveSosna4NY) March 9, 2016
re: #505 Le Lapin Tueur
Same with cuts of beef like skirt and flank. And, The Brisket.
Skirt steak is one of my favorites and has been since I was young. I almost died last time I got one. $20 bucks for a not too big cut. A piece that size used to cost like, maybe, $7.00.
re: #521 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Ah that does make sense. Honestly, I think Gillespie got really lucky from a low turn out in 2014 when he ran against Warner. Plus I think Lt. Governor Northam is going to be a very good candidate for the Democrats. But still we do have our odd tradition of voting against the party of the recently elected President.
re: #497 KerFuFFler
Dunno, but I suspect Bernie has the Snowdenite vote.
re: #526 Nyet
Dunno, but I suspect Bernie has the Snowdenite vote.
I believe Greenwald has praised him and has in his usual dickhead fashion been dismissive of Clinton.
I wondered where John Locke would have stood on pasteurization, and Google did not fail me: https://t.co/Jfa3ANxPda pic.twitter.com/qg6fQbqDmr
— Matt Pearce (@mattdpearce) March 9, 2016
Heh!
re: #514 Eclectic Cyborg
Cuccinelli is a persistent son of a bitch, isn’t he?
They all are. Once they get a taste of power, influence, government pay and benefits, why do anything else (except maybe lobbying, because the perks are the same).
There are people who truly want to serve Americans. Most, I think, don’t give two shits about us. They care about themselves.
This is why we can’t have nice things==>
Duggars return to TV, because money trumps child molestation, sexism and hypocrisy to the good folks at TLC https://t.co/f2w3FRdPIc
— Eric Sipos (@dawkinsjr) March 9, 2016
en.wikipedia.org
This is the likely Democratic candidate. Northam is a doctor by training as well as a veteran.
re: #512 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The only way the analogy would hold is if the President refused to sign any Bill whatsoever regardless of content, which of course never happens. In the cases where they issue a veto threat they’re talking about a specific, known quantity that they’ve read and fully comprehend.
re: #520 HappyWarrior
He actually had a small role in a movie I loved as a kid with Kevin Costner and Elijah Wood, The War if you’re curious. Nice movie but he’s just a dick about his views. Honestly, it amuses me all these conservative actors who like to play the victim when Hollywood in the 40’s and 50’s actually literally did blacklist leftist actors and crew. So you’re being made to feel uncomfortable in an environment full of liberals. Tough shit.
And let’s not forget perpetual victimhood. Angie Harmon bitched and moaned about not being able to get a job in lefty La La Land, except she was almost always working, most recently in Rizolli and Isles (sic) which has been on for years.
re: #533 goddamnedfrank
The only way the analogy would hold is if the President refused to sign any Bill whatsoever regardless of content, which of course never happens. In the cases where they issue a veto threat they’re talking about a specific, known quantity that they’ve read and fully comprehend.
Correct. Grassey is talking about rejecting any Obama USSC nominee. That’s entirely different from Obama seeing that the Senate Republicans are again to pass an ACA repeal and saying that he won’t sign it. He really is trending on desperate waters here. I think it will cost him his Senate seat or make him have to fight harder for it than he would if he hadn’t played the partisan hack game.
Runaway piglet named “Janice” stops traffic in San Francisco https://t.co/MldIguykFW pic.twitter.com/DkS6EIdiRC
— CBS News (@CBSNews) March 9, 2016
re: #529 lawhawk
Yunno, someday if we are able to develop full traceability for all foods you consume and all toxins and pollutants you inhale, then I would have no objection to abandoning laws regulating them: affected individuals will be in a position to sue the perpetrators directly.
But until Mrs McGillicuddy is able to prove that 80% of her asthma is related to the emissions from a particular factory, I believe we need to stick to those cumbersome government regulations.
re: #527 Le Lapin Tueur
Kojo is awesome.
We use the laptops to stream a lot of WAMU because the local station is so lame. It was off the air for a week this month.
Conservatives Blame Obama For Creating Trump With Partisanship, Despite Republican Vows Of Gridlock
Dogdamnit, conservatives really are society’s lowest common denominator.
re: #535 HappyWarrior
Correct. Grassey is talking about rejecting any Obama USSC nominee. That’s entirely different from Obama seeing that the Senate Republicans are again to pass an ACA repeal and saying that he won’t sign it. He really is trending on desperate waters here. I think it will cost him his Senate seat or make him have to fight harder for it than he would if he hadn’t played the partisan hack game.
It is also Congress’ mandate to advise and consent with the President on a replacement, and it is sheer negligence to reject any cooperation outright.
re: #534 MsJ
And let’s not forget perpetual victimhood. Angie Harmon bitched and moaned about not being able to get a job in lefty La La Land, except she was almost always working, most recently in Rizolli and Isles (sic) which has been on for years.
That’s what I mean. They bitch about how hard they got it and yet I’m still seeing many of them with jobs. As I said, when you consider that many lefty actors and crew were literally blacklisted rather than being a political minority in their career of choice then it’s hard to feel bad for them. Besides if any of them are assholes like Searcy is, it’s easy to see why they’re not exactly in the in crowd.
re: #540 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
It is also Congress’ mandate to advise and consent with the President on a replacement, and it is sheer negligence to reject any cooperation outright.
Correct. If Grassley had just said, we’ll reject any nominee we deem too liberal, that would be one thing. Making it an absolute is going to fuck the Senate Republicans big time IMO. McConnell’s stunt isn’t popular with voters. Of course, Mitch himself just got re-elected so he knows he can get away with this for himself but his fellow Republicans may not be so lucky.
re: #536 Backwoods_Sleuth
The piglet, who has since been named “Janice,” was eventually captured by Brother Damian with the Society of St. Francis, a nearby Franciscan society.
“Only in San Francisco could a wayward piglet expect to be rescued by a representative of the patron saint of animals,” Campbell said.
re: #526 Nyet
Dunno, but I suspect Bernie has the Snowdenite vote.
If the kos Berniacs are indicative, he does. There was a diary the other day saying Snowden was on the Nobel short list (which is, of course, a bunch of malarky because they don’t release that list for 50 years) and the Berniacs were out in force, praising Snowden and Greenwald to the hilt.
Grassley is such an institution in Iowa that I think it is nearly impossible to vote him out.
#HB203 to end death penalty in Kentucky is up now in House Judiciary Committee. #kyga16
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) March 9, 2016
but after a lot of debate:
#HB203 does not pass, death penalty here to stay in Kentucky. (until #SCOTUS does away with it.) #kyga16
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) March 9, 2016
re: #481 Amory Blaine
How do you stop a bad baby with a gun?
Maybe making sure that they’re buckled into their booster seat — and can’t reach the gun from their booster seat — might be a good idea. Just maybe. Assuming you can’t be bothered to put the gun in a place that the 4-year-old can’t get to at all.
I will grant you, many a 4-year-old knows how to unbuckle their boosters, but it’s telling that the officer reported that the boy wasn’t strapped in.
That poor little kid.
re: #534 MsJ
And let’s not forget perpetual victimhood. Angie Harmon bitched and moaned about not being able to get a job in lefty La La Land, except she was almost always working, most recently in Rizolli and Isles (sic) which has been on for years.
See also Heaton, Patricia.
re: #545 freetoken
Grassley is such an institution in Iowa that I think it is nearly impossible to vote him out.
That’s quite true but I hear the Dems got a great candidate for the seat. It wouldn’t be the first time that this happened. But we’ll see. I think Grassey finds himself in a tougher fight than he otherwise would have if he hadn’t done what he has. Not saying he’ll lose but it’ll be one of his toughtest re-elections.
Water fountains shut off at 30 Newark schools due to high lead levelshttps://t.co/Jltd3w5Qjc pic.twitter.com/VnhIsCMtPu
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) March 9, 2016
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s largest school district has shut off water fountains at 30 school buildings because of elevated levels of lead.
Newark Public Schools on Wednesday temporarily shut off the fountains where elevated levels of lead were recorded.
The state Environmental Protection Department says parents should have no concerns about their children’s water and food consumption at school. The DEP says drinking water alone is not typically associated with elevated blood lead levels. Alternate supplies of water have been brought in for drinking and food preparation.
The district on Monday notified the DEP that annual testing found levels ranging from non-detect to above the EPA’s action level for lead, which is 15 parts per billion.
The DEP has confirmed lead has not been found in the city’s water supply.
re: #538 wrenchwench
It’s my local station and I have watched (listened) as it’s penetration has markedly increased throughout the country. Diane Rehm and Kojo Nnamdi being local celebrities and then making it Nationwide is awesome.
Ryan Bundy’s attorney tells Judge Brown that Bundy plans to represent himself in the trial #Oregonstandoff
— Conrad Wilson (@conradjwilson) March 9, 2016
Read the new indictment in @OregonStandoff here (new charges, new defendant) https://t.co/y6714sLrAC
— Colin Miner (@cominer) March 9, 2016
re: #546 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Not that there was any chance it would pass the Senate and be signed by the Governor, but it would be nice to make them vote against it.
re: #552 Backwoods_Sleuth
I am very happy that the charges on destruction of an archaeological site are in there. That part really cranked me off. In addition to all the other cranking off that the whole mess did to me.
re: #551 Le Lapin Tueur
It’s my local station and I have watched (listened) as it’s penetration has markedly increased throughout the country. Diane Rehm and Kojo Nnamdi being local celebrities and then making it Nationwide is awesome.
The Big Broadcast is a must for Mr. w, who remembers the original broadcast of a lot of that stuff, and Hot Jazz Saturday Night is a treasure.
I’ve been watching the #tcot feed and in the past 24 hours there has been NOT EVEN ONE TWEET (except the ones posted by LIBTARD TROLLS like that Vicious Babushka) about the NRSC tweet about Tammy Duckworth. When you know that if a Democrat dissed a veteran they wouldn’t shut up about it.
re: #550 Backwoods_Sleuth
And let’s not forget that Gov. MIA vetoed a lead paint abatement bill just a few weeks back.
The lead poisoning issue is most acute in poor urban areas, since those areas are often the last to see rehabilitation and remediation to eliminate lead from structures.
So it’s not surprising that lead was found in Newark schools’ water.
The issue is why this was not discovered sooner.
re: #392 freetoken
The problem is our laws and traditions about politics are tied to geography. We divvy up political power by geography more so than many contemporary “democratic” nations.
We Americans - we love our geographic boundaries.
A parliamentary system could bring about a more proportional representation, but I give the chances of us adopting that at less than our adopting the metric system.
The borders are between cultures than states: The eleven American cultures.
re: #560 The Vicious Babushka
I’ve been watching the #tcot feed and in the past 24 hours there has been NOT EVEN ONE TWEET (except the ones posted by LIBTARD TROLLS like that Vicious Babushka) about the NRSC tweet about Tammy Duckworth. When you know that if a Democrat dissed a veteran they wouldn’t shut up about it.
You’re allowed to diss veterans if you’re a Republican.
When you hear the GOP complain that Obama is hindering economic growth which ought to be in the 3%-4% range, remember that in reality our population is aging which is what is actually slowing growth.
teh horror…
Rafael Cruz To Breitbart: Donald Trump Will Appoint Pro-Gay SCOTUS Justice And … - https://t.co/pH6dglpnop pic.twitter.com/7zB6DpjJ6m
— JoeMyGod (@JoeMyGod) March 9, 2016
re: #560 The Vicious Babushka
I’ve been watching the #tcot feed and in the past 24 hours there has been NOT EVEN ONE TWEET (except the ones posted by LIBTARD TROLLS like that Vicious Babushka) about the NRSC tweet about Tammy Duckworth. When you know that if a Democrat dissed a veteran they wouldn’t shut up about it.
yeah but they deleted tweet so shutup you PC libtard.
/
re: #565 Backwoods_Sleuth
teh horror…
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So Caitlyn still want to be his son’s ambassador to the Trans community? Maybe that’s mean but Cruz both father and son are fanatically anti LGBT.
I’ll just…..leave this…….right….about…..here
Michael Savage: Obama Hired A 2K A Day Hooker To Murder Scalia
P.S. NOT The Onion
re: #550 Backwoods_Sleuth
I was planning to go to the Newark Museum later this month to see the special exhibit they’re having on Islamic art as a birthday present to myself. Guess I’m gonna avoid all water fountains.
re: #514 Eclectic Cyborg
Like all fungi.
re: #565 Backwoods_Sleuth
That old man is crazy as a shithouse rat. Ugh.
Extreme #flooding slams regions of #LAwx#Louisiana #FlashFlood #Emergency Declared
WATCH: https://t.co/cseyQd7R2p pic.twitter.com/OxaWMhH6Re— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) March 9, 2016
I saw other photos from Louisiana this morning of houses in floodwater to the rooftops.
re: #559 makeitstop
A fool for a client, as they say.
I swear I think they’re still living in some made up world inside their heads where any day now the rest of the country will realize what noble patriots they are and rise up en masse to… something. Or maybe he wants to ensure that he goes to prison so he can have lots of martyr cookies. Those people are mental.
The bill to abolish Kentucky’s broken #deathpenalty did not get enough votes to make it out of the house judiciary committee. #hb203 #kyga16
— KCADP (@kcadp) March 9, 2016
The good news though: ALL of the reasons lawmakers gave for supporting KY’s #deathpenalty were misinformed. #hb203 #kyga16
— KCADP (@kcadp) March 9, 2016
We look forward to further educating Kentucky legislators that the #deathpenalty is not a deterrent #hb203 #kyga16
— KCADP (@kcadp) March 9, 2016
KCADP is the Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
re: #568 Dr. Matt
Funny how he is ready to slime his favorite judge to get back at Obama.
Oh wait, #TeamFloof is mammals only? Ok, have this “fluffy” dear I saw last year ;) pic.twitter.com/aQU98LA0Oe
— Bird and Moon (@RosemaryMosco) March 9, 2016
re: #575 Nyet
Funny how he is ready to slime his favorite judge to get back at Obama.
Didn’t you know: All 2K prostitutes are also trained ninja assassins. This one just slipped up and left the pillow.
//
what a Hillary vs Trump debate would look like
#GOPdebate #ImWithHer pic.twitter.com/CpSZxF6nLn— Patrick (@Patrickesque) March 4, 2016
re: #575 Nyet
Funny how he is ready to slime his favorite judge to get back at Obama.
When Scalia died my thoughts as to the cause didn’t jump to expensive hookers.
re: #565 Backwoods_Sleuth
Rafael Cruz To Breitbart: Donald Trump Will Appoint Pro-Gay SCOTUS Justice
He says that like it’s a bad thing.
re: #520 HappyWarrior
He actually had a small role in a movie I loved as a kid with Kevin Costner and Elijah Wood, The War if you’re curious. Nice movie but he’s just a dick about his views. Honestly, it amuses me all these conservative actors who like to play the victim when Hollywood in the 40’s and 50’s actually literally did blacklist leftist actors and crew. So you’re being made to feel uncomfortable in an environment full of liberals. Tough shit.
I didn’t know Searcy was in The War. Really good movie. It was filmed near my cousins’ home in Senoia, GA. The crew used a lot of stuff from my cousin’s hardware store, and Kevin came in a few times. They said Costner was nothing but a gentleman.
re: #568 Dr. Matt
I’ll just…..leave this…….right….about…..here
Michael Savage: Obama Hired A 2K A Day Hooker To Murder Scalia
P.S. NOT The Onion
Bastard!
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The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
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