Today’s program from our podcasting affiliate, The Bob & Chez Show:
Fascinated with Sex: The Latest Polls and Democrats Getting Too Happy; Republicans are embracing Trump; Spineless Jason Chaffetz endorses Trump; McMullinmentum; Megyn Kelly destroys Newt Gingrich about Trump’s sexual assaults; Trump surrogate threatens Kelly; Trump will imprison and audit journalists; and more.
You know how frustrated you are after 17 months of Trump & Company? Now imagine 4+ years of it.
Vote accordingly, goddammit.— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) October 29, 2016
What adults to privately and mutually consentingly is of little concern to me, but here the issue was about a lack of consent or even basic respect.
I enjoy the commentary of Bob & Chez, but I really really really really really really really really really really really really wish they would ease off the FM radio morning zoo shtick a few notches.
re: #1 Sionainn, the Nasty Devilbitch
Reposting since I ended up posting at the end of the thread.
Yep. Really. With the motto “Putting America Back Together.”
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Something tells me that they’re not like the 2 Live Crew…
I went and voted this AM around 9:00. I am in the DFW area and was ready to stand in line due to all of the stories of ginormous early voting turnout in Texas, I walked right up to the registrar and was promptly pointed to a booth.
My neighborhood went for Romney 2 to 1 in 2012, the only other people voting were a couple who appeared Latin and two young ladies who came in together. There was an elderly white guy pulling his big ass sedan slowly into the parking lot as I was leaving and that is it.
fwiw
Saw this on my FB just now. In fact. Someone I know made it a point to tag me and call me out after I posted about that crazy Trump lady in Des Moines who got busted for voting more than once.
Won’t link to SMOTI where this originated, but Snopes instead.
JUST TOLD MY MOM IM NOT VOTING FOR HILLARY CLINTON AND THIS HAPPENED 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/bUUkzgOA2E
— kenny (@xxxjayglo) October 28, 2016
How many people here are worried about how the email story will impact the race?
Am I just being too much of a worry-wart.
Seems like the FBI is about to have an issue.
Re: anger within @FBI at Comey. I am getting this at the Special Agent, ASAC and SAC level. Those are the troops. (Most of em GOPrs)….
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) October 29, 2016
re: #9 Ziggy_TARDIS
How many people here are worried about how the email story will impact the race?
Am I just being too much of a worry-wart.
Personally, I think this is shaking out very well for Hillary.
I drove through the sea of Trump-Pence signs in southwestern New Hampshire to the kid’s soccer game. We were greeted in the parking lot by a small crowd waving Clinton-Kaine and Maggie Hassan signs. It was a nice surprise. Drove home a different way and passed a truck all decked out with American flags, Trump stickers, and a big sign saying “Her lies matter.” Then went past the house with Hillary in a cage in the front yard…. Sigh. I don’t know if the Trump supporters are the majority, but they sure are active.
Women Everywhere Cringe in Horror Watching Donald Trump Sexually Humiliate a Woman for Revenge via @politicususa https://t.co/vberFdwxno
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) October 29, 2016
Women may be cringing. But I’m here to tell you … men get a little pissed off as well. https://t.co/2GungmyOgJ
— John Moffitt (@JohnRMoffitt) October 29, 2016
re: #9 Ziggy_TARDIS
How many people here are worried about how the email story will impact the race?
Am I just being too much of a worry-wart.
Yesterday on a 1-10 scale I was about a 6, today I’m about a 3.
re: #12 Barefoot Grin
I drove through the sea of Trump-Pence signs in southwestern New Hampshire to the kid’s soccer game. We were greeted in the parking lot by a small crowd waving Clinton-Kaine and Maggie Hassan signs. It was a nice surprise. Drove home a different way and passed a truck all decked out with American flags, Trump stickers, and a big sign saying “Her lies matter.” Then went past the house with Hillary in a cage in the front yard…. Sigh. I don’t know if the Trump supporters are the majority, but they sure are active.
Yesterday I took a very long walk through the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles to check out the yard signs. When I took the same walk the week before the primary, I saw signs for Hillary, Bernie, Cruz and a significant number for Gary Johnson. 4 years ago I saw a scattering of Romney/Ryan signs. Yesterday I didn’t see a single Trump sign. BUT, I saw several Halloween displays with Trump piñata’s dangling from porches and trees. A couple of those displays had Gary Johnson lawn signs. There sure were a lot of Hillary signs!
Interesting
re: #15 Joe Bacon
Yesterday I took a very long walk through the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles to check out the yard signs. When I took the same walk the week before the primary, I saw signs for Hillary, Bernie, Cruz and a significant number for Gary Johnson. 4 years ago I saw a scattering of Romney/Ryan signs. Yesterday I didn’t see a single Trump sign. BUT, I saw several Halloween displays with Trump piñata’s dangling from porches and trees. A couple of those displays had Gary Johnson lawn signs. There sure were a lot of Hillary signs!
Interesting
Good! I think the HRC supporters are mostly confined to Manchester and Concord. But those are the population centers near me.
re: #14 b.d.
Ok. I will try to keep that in mind. I do have Generalized Anxiety Disorder, so I am practically nervous all the time.
…for Comey to have so angered ppl at the field office level is really, really bad.
— Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald) October 29, 2016
I think Comey may end up resigning in order to prevent a mutiny at this point.
re: #16 Barefoot Grin
Hillary supporters are largely in cities, with the exception of those who live in areas that are minority heavy.
re: #16 Barefoot Grin
And New Hampshire is NOT minority heavy, so you can guess what happens.
Whatever the hell you’ve go to do, do it - Trump tells crowd about voting
— john r stanton (@dcbigjohn) October 29, 2016
re: #19 Ziggy_TARDIS
And New Hampshire is NOT minority heavy, so you can guess what happens.
That’s why I’m confused. In several polls Hillary is leading; Hassan also is very tight with Ayotte. I think the Trump signs are probably static, but it is a little stressful driving around. There are several new Trump billboards that have gone up, too.
[/private]Just buys had a nice long chat/argument with my older brother about his belief that Trump may get elected after this latest email debacle. He totally buys the Wikileaks dump about the DNC screwing over Sanders, brushes off the fact that Trump hasn’t released his tax returns and talks about the fact that the Clinton Foundation has had to multiple amended returns, and belives that the Clinton Foundation only pays out 6% of its proceeds of charity. He’s retired military, serving two decades onboard the Silent Service. He firmly believes that Hillary should be in jail, and that the FBI agents are in revolt because of the fact that Hillary skated due to political meddling and that no grand jury was called. When I told him many career ex-military aren’t as a RWNJ as he his, he said “I don’t think so”. His big wishes were that if Trump would win, he would appoint a Scalia clone to protect the 2nd Amendment and get taxes back to Reagan levels and to prosecute Democrats for corruption. So needless to say, we’ll never see eye-to-eye on politics at all. Outside of that, we get along great.[/private]
re: #22 Eric The Fruit Bat
you borked your opening private tag
re: #9 Ziggy_TARDIS
How many people here are worried about how the email story will impact the race?
Am I just being too much of a worry-wart.
I don’t think it’s going to change much, really.
Going on what we know now…
The emails were not to or from Hillary.
The emails were not from her server.
Many of them have turned up earlier in the investigation and are redundant.
Chaffetz looks like a partisan ass, as does Comey.
Bernie dead-enders and Trumpanzees will whoop it up for a couple of days. Anyone who reads the stories instead of just the headlines aren’t going to give a crap.
I’m more interested in seeing where this internecine FBI battle is going. Ultimately, I think Comey will either jump or be pushed from his job.
re: #22 Eric The Fruit Bat
I honestly would cut myself off from that sort of family member.
re: #18 Ziggy_TARDIS
You would be wrong making that sweeping generalization.
re: #19 Ziggy_TARDIS
And New Hampshire is NOT minority heavy, so you can guess what happens.
jeebus, stop that nonsense.
re: #22 Eric The Fruit Bat
Your private tag is broken, yo.
re: #9 Ziggy_TARDIS
How many people here are worried about how the email story will impact the race?
Am I just being too much of a worry-wart.
Yes, you are.
re: #21 Barefoot Grin
That’s why I’m confused. In several polls Hillary is leading; Hassan also is very tight with Ayotte. I think the Trump signs are probably static, but it is a little stressful driving around. There are several new Trump billboards that have gone up, too.
For some people it’s really too easy to knee-jerk react by making snide comments about rural people.
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
There is an Urban-Rural Split though. There are exceptions, one of which does actually seem to be Vermont and New Hampshire, so I will admit to be wrong in those 2 cases.
But look at that map. The difference between Rural and Urban is pretty big.
re: #29 Ziggy_TARDIS
Democrats generally do better in Cities, and worse in Rural areas with some exceptions.
Maps like this show that.
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OH! Look at another bullshit red/blue map!
So the fuck what?
Scroll through these comments
Some sharp Comey quotes in this @ryanjreilly @danielmarans joint https://t.co/hqeHWrEk6T pic.twitter.com/rQs2Dm5Sot
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) October 29, 2016
I’m not concerned about this latest email imbroglio for the same reason I haven’t worried much this whole election.
Women, Hispanics, and African Americans HATE Trump. Despise him.
And anyone that thinks mightily pissed-off women are going to stay home this election is not comprehending the sheer contempt we have for that creature.
We’re disgusted and we’re voting. And so are African Americans and Hispanics. No one is staying home and there are very few undecideds left.
Don’t let this discourage you, it’s not worth it. Get out and vote and then breathe for a bit longer. We got this.
Seems to me there’s more backlash against Comey than there is Clinton on this so far.
re: #22 Eric The Fruit Bat
You need to remove the / in your top bracket to make this private.
re: #32 Ziggy_TARDIS
There is an Urban-Rural Split though. There are exceptions, one of which does actually seem to be Vermont and New Hampshire, so I will admit to be wrong in those 2 cases.
But look at that map. The difference between Rural and Urban is pretty big.
The map is stupid and you are getting on my very last nerve implying that map represents every single person in every single rural area.
Guess what? We aren’t all stupid white people, no matter how many times you keep saying it.
re: #32 Ziggy_TARDIS
There is an Urban-Rural Split though. There are exceptions, one of which does actually seem to be Vermont and New Hampshire, so I will admit to be wrong in those 2 cases.
But look at that map. The difference between Rural and Urban is pretty big.
Wait ‘til you really drill down for the details: the rural/frontier split!
re: #35 BlueGrl21
I’m not concerned about this latest email imbroglio for the same reason I haven’t worried much this whole election.
Women, Hispanics, and African Americans HATE Trump. Despise him.
And anyone that thinks mightily pissed-off women are going to stay home this election is not comprehending the sheer contempt we have for that creature.
We’re disgusted and we’re voting. And so are African Americans and Hispanics. No one is staying home and there are very few undecideds left.
Don’t let this discourage you, it’s not worth it. Get out and vote and then breathe for a bit longer. We got this.
Those are my thoughts as well and why I’m not worried. Trump has alienated so many key demographics in this country. We’re going to see record turnout I feel like in Hispanic voters which is very bad news for him in a must win state like Florida.
re: #33 Backwoods_Sleuth
It shows that there is a difference in voting. I think that much can be admitted.
Factors are that Rural areas tend to be older, the education systems in the area tend to be somewhat poorly funded, and that they have been increasingly left behind as industries die and evolve.
They want the good times back, but they won’t be, at least not the old ways.
re: #41 Ziggy_TARDIS
It shows that there is a difference in voting. I think that much can be admitted.
Factors are that Rural areas tend to be older, the education systems in the area tend to be somewhat poorly funded, and that they have been increasingly left behind as industries die and evolve.
They want the good times back, but they won’t be, at least not the old ways.
That map shows nothing. It doesn’t even say what the different colors mean. It doesn’t say when or what.
I really don’t have time for your chicken little stuff today.
But for all concerned, Comey not only non partisan in job but consistently put constitutional equities at center if thinking
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 30, 2013
How Democrats spoke of Comey in 2013 when Obama appointed him as FBI Director: https://t.co/1sFU0Tfgbo
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 29, 2016
Do better research, Glenn. That’s what I said yesterday after this news emerged. https://t.co/yvpDDD7yB9
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) October 29, 2016
Glenn Greenwald, the world’s only totally consistent journalist. [cough] @joshtpm https://t.co/UDLRWwsNZd
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2016
re: #39 wrenchwench
Wait ‘til you really drill down for the details: the rural/frontier split!
I remember hearing a joke. A Yankee is all Americans to a Briton. A Yankee is all people north of the Mason-Dixon line to a southerner. Then to people north of the Mason-Dixon line, a yankee is someone in New England. And finally to the New Englander, a Yankee is someone in a very rural and isolated part of Maine. Shrug. I live in a suburban/rural area but I’ve gone to school and work in suburbia and the city. People are people. I let people talk before I assume. NPR had a couple interviews with Trump and Clinton supporters. One was a 32 year old woman software designer and the other was a 60 year old man who drives a truck with a CSA flag and is a retired ironworker. If we just played assumptions, we’d assume the man is the Trump supporter and the woman is the Clinton supporter. Individuals are individuals. I’m learning that with my Dad who is a definite minority in his demographic being a staunch Clinton supporter but it doesn’t change that he is a Clinton supporter and strong opponent of Trump.
re: #36 HappyWarrior
Seems to me there’s more backlash against Comey than there is Clinton on this so far.
One thing about this election…a lot of people have made political decisions and moves that have gone off and blown up in their faces.
All the money spent, all the strategists, surrogates, advisers…poof!
So it would stand that Comey is about to get his. He put himself in a no win situation and he is still losing!
I should add that if we drove just a little further west we would have been in The Peoples Republic of Keene, where the divide is more between Dems and Libertarians. Probably very few Trump supporters that way. I know it’s not safe to draw conclusions from yard signage; I just get depressed—especially this election—thinking about how many delusional people live around me.
re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth
I honestly don’t think I am chicken littling on the Urban-Rural thing.
The Darker the colors, the larger the percentage for the winning side in that county, going from 90+% for the deepest shades, all the way to under 50% for the lightest, and separated by groups of 10% for each side.
“They should spin the cameras around and show the crowd, but they never do. They never do,” says the Bigly Cheeto one second after MSNBC showed the crowd (if you can call it that).
re: #39 wrenchwench
…….The Texas Panhandle is the frontier?
I can understand Utah being the frontier, but the panhandle?
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“I definitely not Chuck Johnson! This is me, Malik Obama, on the twitter.” @Gus_802
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2016
re: #46 Barefoot Grin
I am trying to figure out what is in the deep blue county in South Dakota. I am guessing a Native American Reservation.
re: #32 Ziggy_TARDIS
There is an Urban-Rural Split though. There are exceptions, one of which does actually seem to be Vermont and New Hampshire, so I will admit to be wrong in those 2 cases.
But look at that map. The difference between Rural and Urban is pretty big.
Seems to be reversed in Alaska….
“… the e-mails are on Anthony Weiner’s… wherever. Wherever.”
re: #51 Ziggy_TARDIS
I am trying to figure out what is in the deep blue county in South Dakota. I am guessing a Native American Reservation.
Or a university town? That’s the case in south-central Indiana (Bloomington) in a sea of red usually.
re: #50 Charles Johnson
@ObamaMalik @wesearchr you had a guy who is permanently banned from @twitter teach you Twitter?
— Bob Richardson (@Rb_richardson) October 29, 2016
re: #51 Ziggy_TARDIS
It is a county that is 94% Native American, and is completely inside Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
It is a Dry-County, and is the most impoverished county in the US.
“The murder rate is the highest it’s been in 45 years. They don’t tell you that.”
re: #52 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
That’s true. The reason there, I would guess, is the Native Alaskans are in Rural Areas, and White Americans are in the Urban areas.
re: #57 De Kolta Chair
“The murder rate is the highest it’s been in 45 years. They don’t tell you that.”
Wrong and even that was true, why should we elect you a man who still insists the Central Park Give were guilty despite them being cleared.
re: #57 De Kolta Chair
“The murder rate is the highest it’s been in 45 years. They don’t tell you that.”
They don’t tell you that because it isn’t true.
re: #57 De Kolta Chair
“The murder rate is the highest it’s been in 45 years. They don’t tell you that.”
“Under the lonesome plains are an entire race of mole people living in a complex system of tunnels and caves. They don’t tell you that.”
re: #55 De Kolta Chair
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Yep, being taught how to use Twitter by someone who thinks you’re scientifically inferior.
What a world we live in.
re: #51 Ziggy_TARDIS
I am trying to figure out what is in the deep blue county in South Dakota. I am guessing a Native American Reservation.
The red corner in northwest New Mexico is Navajo.
But generalize away.
re: #62 Timothy Watson
Yep, being taught how to use Twitter by someone who thinks you’re scientifically inferior.
What a world we live in.
Also taught him that stupid Trump hand gesture.
re: #54 Barefoot Grin
Or a university town? That’s the case in south-central Indiana (Bloomington) in a sea of red usually.
With Virginia, it’s even more interesting since we got what are called independent cities. I was in Rockingham County, Virginia recently, a quite red county but within its border exists the town of Harrisonburg where James Madison University is located.
re: #61 Barefoot Grin
“Under the lonesome plains are an entire race of mole people living in a complex system of tunnels and caves. They don’t tell you that.”
Hillary says she does yoga. This is a lie from a drunk lying woman.
— Malik Obama (@ObamaMalik) October 29, 2016
Great. Twitter verified a guy who tweets things like this. https://t.co/5E2rz8diCB
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2016
re: #65 HappyWarrior
With Virginia, it’s even more interesting since we got what are called independent cities. I was in Rockingham County, Virginia recently, a quite red county but within its border exists the town of Harrisonburg where James Madison University is located.
And Fredericksburg surrounded by the beat red Stafford and Spotsylvania counties.
re: #52 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Seems to be reversed in Alaska….
It’s a stupid blue/red map that lacks any information other than visual “OMG LOOK AT THOSE RED RURAL AREAS!!!111!!!”
Looking at it, if it is indeed some sort of indication of voting as ziggy insists, I can tell you right now that there are several counties in my general area on that map that are marked in red/shades of red that is complete bullshit.
re: #56 Ziggy_TARDIS
The conditions in Pine Ridge Indian Reservation are atrociously bad.
As of 2011, population estimates of the reservation range from 28,000 to 40,000. Numerous enrolled members of the tribe live off the reservation.
80% of residents are unemployed;
49% of the residents live below the Federal poverty level (including 61% of all those under the age of 18);
Per capita income in Oglala Lakota County is $6,286;
The infant mortality rate is 5 times higher than the national average;
Native American amputation rates due to diabetes is 3 to 4 times higher than the national average;
Death rate due to diabetes is 3 times higher than the national average; and
Life expectancy in 2007 was estimated to be 48 for males and 52 for females.[61]
re: #68 Timothy Watson
And Fredericksburg surrounded by the beat red Stafford and Spotsylvania counties.
Yeah. I believe Charlottesville is the same too. I think we’re pretty unique in that but I’m not sure having never lived anywhere else. Now OTOH you have Falls Church and Alexandria surrounded by other blue areas.
re: #67 Charles Johnson
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I suspect he won’t be on very long. He’ll probably get bored after the election.
re: #61 Barefoot Grin
“Under the lonesome plains are an entire race of mole people living in a complex system of tunnels and caves. They don’t tell you that.”
re: #72 Belafon
I suspect he won’t be on very long. He’ll probably get bored after the election.
When his sponsors get tired of him & kick him to the curb.
re: #67 Charles Johnson
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According to Trump, Hillary is too busy sleeping to get drunk. Who to believe???
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re: #71 HappyWarrior
Yeah. I believe Charlottesville is the same too. I think we’re pretty unique in that but I’m not sure having never lived anywhere else. Now OTOH you have Falls Church and Alexandria surrounded by other blue areas.
Yeah, I think half of the independent cities in the United States are in Virginia. The only ones outside the state that immediately come to mind are Baltimore and Saint Louis.
So Obama, Bill, and Carter too…
Does Hillary have any weird/special brothers we need to ignore?
The “liberal loser media,” in this case MSNBC, just showed Trump entire speech and then immediately follows it with projectile vomiting by Trump senior advisor Jason Miller. Goddamn liberals.
re: #77 Timothy Watson
Yeah, I think half of the independent cities in the United States are in Virginia. The only ones outside the state that immediately come to mind are Baltimore and Saint Louis.
Oh yeah that’s right Baltimore and St. Louis are. You’re right. Can’t believe I forgot Baltimore being one with the amount of time I spend there.
re: #52 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Seems to be reversed in Alaska….
It’s correct for Alaska. The deep red is the Anchorage/MatSu Valley area. Lot’s of Tea Partiers (think Sara Phalin). The northern blue parts are mostly Native Alaska areas plus the SE Panhandle where the State Capitol is located. SE Alaska is fairly liberal as that is where many State employees are located.
re: #82 freetoken
The funny thing is I’ve read that Trump’s older sister is a respected judge. Maybe this means that Pence has a sibling somewhere that isn’t a judgmental asshole.
re: #83 HappyWarrior
Episodes such as these led Hillary Clinton’s White House staff to refer to Tony and Hugh as “the Brothers Rodham”,[16] extending the American tradition of troublesome presidential siblings to the brother-in-law category.[7] One senior White House official would be quoted as saying, “You never wanted to hear their name come up in any context other than playing golf.”[16]
I’m sure we’re going to hear much more about them.
re: #82 freetoken
Ah yes, I vaguely remember some of that.
Of course she does.
Long ago I read a science fiction short story wherein there was a gaggle of sentient robots of varying IQs needing to move to another place. They wished to avoid detection by humans. One robot said something like “there is more countryside than city, so we should move through the cities because there should be fewer humans there”.
Those red/blue county maps remind me of that flawed reasoning when I hear of someone referring to one, claiming that it shows the country to be conservative and therefore should be majority Republican.
re: #39 wrenchwench
Wait ‘til you really drill down for the details: the rural/frontier split!
Complete with authentic frontier gibberish?
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re: #84 freetoken
I’m sure we’re going to hear much more about them.
I’m surprised we haven’t already.
re: #17 Ziggy_TARDIS
Ok. I will try to keep that in mind. I do have Generalized Anxiety Disorder, so I am practically nervous all the time.
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I think Comey may end up resigning in order to prevent a mutiny at this point.
He’s a Republican. They don’t resign no matter what they do.
re: #89 thedopefishlives
I’m surprised we haven’t already.
Having asshole brothers would humanize Hillary as its a problem many people have. The GOP doesn’t want anyone being able to relate to her as a human being.
re: #88 TedStriker
Complete with authentic frontier gibberish?
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In English, Spanish, Navajo, and a few other dialects.
“This episode has exposed a troubling character flaw that calls into question Comey’s very fitness to lead the FBI.” https://t.co/LdcHAN9JwA
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) October 29, 2016
re: #90 Skip Intro
I’m not so sure. He is now under attack from a large number of groups, and it sounds like many of the people lower down in the FBI are pissed. He might find it impossible to carry on with anything.
To no one’s surprise, Forbes published a piece by Roy Spencer deriding Clinton for being more talkative about climate change.
The folk over at climatefeedback.org though went through the effort of debunking it, getting comments from various scientists:
Analysis of “Hillary Clinton Boards The Climate Crisis Train To Nowhere”
This commentary by Dr. Roy Spencer published in the opinion section of Forbes makes a number of inaccurate and misleading scientific claims. For instance the article claims that climate change would be so slow that “it cannot be observed by anyone in their lifetime”, which is demonstrably wrong. It also misrepresents the impacts of climate change and makes claims about sea level and temperature records that are not supported by the evidence.
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Looks like TV News is promoting a bullshit angle.
Clinton campaign wages new war against FBI Director James Comey - https://t.co/4kGK7T758Y https://t.co/JakXhNX73F
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) October 29, 2016
re: #93 Ziggy_TARDIS
Well, he can always become the head of the RNC.
He showed up to the charity event in the photo, forced his way on stage, acting like he was a donor - he wasn’t.
See Kathie Lee & Frank Gifford, who were.
The chess team needed $5,000. Trump showed them a fake million-dollar bill. Then he gave $200 and took off. https://t.co/VsFXTokjdR
— Steven Ginsberg (@stevenjay) October 29, 2016
Drive-by post. Couldn’t decide which crab pot float to post a picture of, so I got all of them currently staged across the street on my walk with Banjo. Putting it in a spoiler because I don’t want rage furby or any of the other asshole trolls who lurk here to hit my fb page.
re: #98 Stanley Sea
He showed up to the charity event in the photo, forced his way on stage, acting like he was a donor - he wasn’t.
See Kathie Lee & Frank Gifford, who were.
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What an asshole. He could have picked 5 grand out of his bellybutton.
re: #98 Stanley Sea
He showed up to the charity event in the photo, forced his way on stage, acting like he was a donor - he wasn’t.
See Kathie Lee & Frank Gifford, who were.
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Chess teams don’t fall for that shit. They be smart.
I’m sure this has been posted already but I had to laugh at “Dickileaks” - Love good word play - even when they’re easy to hit softballs like this one (soft balls, get it?)
Today’s cover: New Clinton emails found during Anthony Weiner sexting probe https://t.co/YZRGSe3ueR pic.twitter.com/pIuikvdwB7
— New York Post (@nypost) October 29, 2016
‘Murica:
Fringe ‘Church’ Founder on MMS: It’s No Cure
[…]
The founder of a fringe “church” who had claimed a chemical solution could cure virtually any disease, from autism to cancer to herpes, said he takes it back — just days after ABC News tracked him down in Mexico to ask about the dangerous game prosecutors say his church is playing with desperate people.[…]
But while federal prosecutors say MMS, Miracle Mineral Solution, is really just industrial bleach, Humble maintained in his note that it, along with “various other important health tools,” can “combat the ill effects of poor foods, and chemicals that make us sick.”
[…]
More than 500 people reached out to the ABC News producer to tell their stories of using MMS, many, like Grenon, accusing ABC News of being beholden to “big pharma.”
“You need to get a real job,” wrote one Humble follower. “You need to stop harassing wonderful, honest hearted, good people like Jim Humble. You need to stop the lies and wake up.”
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re: #104 freetoken
‘Murica:
He and all his brain-dead anti-vaxer followers giving their kids bleach enemas need to be in jail.
re: #104 freetoken
Industrial bleach?!?
Seems like it would have been safer to use actual snake oil.
Stumping now in Austin: @JulianCastro (front) and @JoaquinCastrotx, who are making five GOTV stops across the state today. pic.twitter.com/K7e2mNYDlI
— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) October 29, 2016
re: #104 freetoken
Reminds me of the Laetrile shtick back in the 70s. Had a friend d suffering from breasted cancer who did Laetrile and she waited too late for chemotherapy.
Nate Silver and Sam Wang agree. This email story is bullshit.
The FBI story also broke at the exact time when the media was eager for a dramatic twist/complication in the “Clinton coasts” narrative.
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) October 29, 2016
yup - stories get boring. Though it does seem like the press’s emotional temperature changes shortly after polls plateau or reverse a little https://t.co/GslJdccQHF
— Sam Wang (@SamWangPhD) October 29, 2016
re: #108 Joe Bacon
Reminds me of the Laetrile shtick back in the 70s. Had a fried suffering from breasted cancer who did Laetrile and she waited too late for chemotherapy.
“Helped” to kill Steve McQueen too, IIRC.
Read this one - from 1997 when Trump was principal for a day.
Horrible human being.
@Fahrenthold Did you look into if Trump ever actually bought those kids sneakers from the 1997 NYT story?
— Akiva Wienerkur (@Keev26) October 29, 2016
This is the amazing, incredible NYT dispatch on @realDonaldTrump’s visit to P.S. 70, written by @pambelluck. https://t.co/rAbG6RnMgv https://t.co/Stey5hEfyK
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 29, 2016
Has there been any TV Coverage, aside from Joy Reid, to point out how much bullshit this is.
Jose Fernandez was drunk & had coke in his system.
Stupid & sad.
BREAKING: Marlins star Jose Fernandez was legally drunk, had cocaine in blood when he died, medical examiner says https://t.co/R6KrMl1qUC pic.twitter.com/QvK85IsE8N
— Miami Herald Sports (@HeraldSports) October 29, 2016
re: #108 Joe Bacon
Reminds me of the Laetrile shtick back in the 70s. Had a fried suffering from breasted cancer who did Laetrile and she waited too late for chemotherapy.
Really, these people are scum. They’re giving their autistic kids these bleach enemas and as shreds of their intestinal lining comes out, happily sharing pictures of the “worms” they’re driving out of their bodies. (Of course, it was originally “toxins” they were flushing out, but I’m sure Big Pharma gives you autism-causing worms too.)
re: #113 Stanley Sea
Jose Fernandez was drunk & had coke in his system.
Stupid & sad.
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Two things I will never understand: Driving a motorcycle while drunk or piloting a boat while drunk.
re: #114 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Really, these people are scum. They’re giving their autistic kids these bleach enemas and as shreds of their intestinal lining comes out, happily sharing pictures of the “worms” they’re driving out of their bodies. (Of course, it was originally “toxins” they were flushing out, but I’m sure Big Pharma gives you autism-causing worms too.)
That’s fucked up.
Newt looks like a befuddled old dog in that pic.
/Head tilt
re: #115 Timothy Watson
Two things I will never understand: Driving a motorcycle while drunk or piloting a boat while drunk.
IN THE DARK
I did see someone make the point with the ABC poll that it is unlikely that Clinton was ever at C+12. Instead what is being seen is the model going from one extreme to the other.
Though, I would love to see the news actually report this accurately.
re: #109 Ziggy_TARDIS
Nate Silver and Sam Wang agree. This email story is bullshit.
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re: #122 Brian J.
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If we’re talking about Nate Silver, in what sense has he “sacrificed his career for the Golden Fascist Boy”?
While American conservatives twist themselves into a pretzel to justify supporting Trump, we have this from North of the border:
In September, farmer and mechanical engineer Michael Nowak sent a Facebook message to fellow nomination candidate Brandon Purcell, saying he might withdraw from the race so that Purcell could “throw that Muslim trash to the curbside” - a comment that referred to fellow candidate and lawyer Goldie Ghamari.
For reference the PCs are the main consevative party in Ontario.
I am glad most Canadians, Liberal, Conservative or otherwise are sane enough to say “fuck that guy” when this happens and take action.
With the election approaching, federal employees are reminded about the Hatch Act, which governs their political activities. pic.twitter.com/rTejvtxcQK
— U.S. Dept of Defense (@DeptofDefense) October 29, 2016
Hard to read this as anything but the Pentagon sending a shot across Comey’s bow. @DeptofDefense @FBI @TheJusticeDept https://t.co/DHQvIMc0sW
— Frank & Steinly (@goddamnedfrank) October 29, 2016
re: #124 freetoken
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If we’re talking about Nate Silver, in what sense has he “sacrificed his career for the Golden Fascist Boy”?
His forecasts have consistently been more favorable for Trump than any others, they’ve included polls most pollsters ignore because of obvious methodological shortcomings and/or partisanship, and he hasn’t been consistent in his own methodology (hence why Hillary Clinton’s chances are now worse than Obama’s in 2012 despite a much larger poll lead which is much more consistent across the states). He’s also taken GOP money to give them his own briefings, although I don’t think he’s been telling them anything he hasn’t told anyone else. Basically, he’s been on the pro-Trump extreme of serious analysis, and being on the extremes is a great way to blow a reputation.
re: #124 freetoken
Yeah, I think his model is overly reactive, but I think that is because he belongs to the Frequentist way of thinking, and that he includes too many polls, many of whom are questionable.
But he has spoken against Trump.
I do notice on 538 that both Ohio and Iowa are now light pink.
Probably we are seeing a long term degradation of the FDR-Democratic heritage. If Drumpfskind does carry those states it will be an indication of the weakness of Hillary as a candidate. While both states have been “purple” for a while, Drumpfskind’s appeal in those states have to arise from cultural issues more than anything else. Iowa has amongst the lowest unemployment rates. Ohio has had a much larger hill to climb being part of the rust belt, but it is hardly an impoverished state. Coal mining in the far southeast is under pressure but it is a small part of the economy.
Both states though have large conservative Christian populations. If it wasn’t for Cleveland, Ohio would be a red state.
re: #126 goddamnedfrank
Maybe, but it’s not unusual for agencies to issue Hatch Act advisories during election season.
re: #129 freetoken
True, but looking at the polling, I noticed some problems.
In Ohio, I tracked down Remington and CNN’s polls, and both had some rather baffling results.
The CNN one was the one that had virtually no minority responses, and was skewed heavily towards the older side, as fewer than 20% of responses were from people under 49.
Then, the Remington shows some rather baffling results too. Namely, 20% of African Americans and 40% of Hispanics in the state going for Trump.
Survey Monkey has also been good for Trump, but SurveyMonkey is hot garbage, as it is a self-selecting online poll.
re: #127 Brian J.
=Basically, he’s been on the pro-
TrumpHorserace extreme of serious analysis, and being on the extremes is a great way to blow a reputation.
Fixed. Nate’s bias since selling out to ESPN has been towards generating clicks and selling ads. If the two candidate’s positions were switched his model would be bending over backwards to improve Hillary’s perceived odds. That’s why he’s using t-distribution and the trendline adjustment, because they build uncertainty (a tendency to want to return to 50/50) into the model. Even if the polls don’t change at all Nate’s new model will want to rubber band back to that point.
re: #129 freetoken
Also, Remington is headed up by a guy who would later be the head of Ted Cruz’s campaign. Not exactly neutral.
Trump Melts Down And Accuses The US Postal Service Of Stealing The Election For Clinton via @politicususa https://t.co/fNp88aZSam #p2 #ctl
— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) October 29, 2016
Trump warned his supporters that the US Postal Service is trying to steal the election for Hillary Clinton in Colorado.
At a rally in Golden, CO, Trump said:I have real problems with ballots being sent. Does that make sense?
Like people saying, “Oh, here’s a ballot. Here’s another ballot. Throw it away. Oh, here’s one I like. We’ll keep that one.”
I have real problems, so get your ballots in.
Trump also accused election officials of throwing away ballots, as his rally was a mixture of claims of voter fraud and baseless speculation about Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Donald Trump appears to be losing his mind. He also seems to think that accusing the US Postal Service and election officials of stealing the election for Hillary Clinton is going to motivate Republicans to vote.
re: #133 goddamnedfrank
Fixed. Nate’s bias since selling out to ESPN has been towards generating clicks and selling ads. If the two candidate’s positions were switched his model would be bending over backwards to improve Hillary’s perceived odds. That’s why he’s using t-distribution and the trendline adjustment, because they build uncertainty (a tendency to want to return to 50/50) into the model. Even if the polls don’t change at all Nate’s new model will want to rubber band back to that point.
Maybe you’re right, although Silver’s professed support for Republicans makes that less likely. But then, not since Election Night 2004 has a Republican led the national Presidential race for any period of time, and most of these modelers, including Silver, haven’t been around that long.
1/Interesting! After not responding to Q’s for days, Trump spox @borisep sent a statement 5 mins after story posted….
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 29, 2016
Ultimate Trump Voter Quote, from Crystal: “Oh I think he’s crazy, and he may get us killed, but at least he’s going to be truthful with us.” pic.twitter.com/Qz4u7OIzB0
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 29, 2016
re: #125 Eclectic Cyborg
While American conservatives twist themselves into a pretzel to justify supporting Trump, we have this from North of the border:
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For reference the PCs are the main consevative party in Ontario.
I am glad most Canadians, Liberal, Conservative or otherwise are sane enough to say “fuck that guy” when this happens and take action.
What happened to the SoCreds, anyway? Of course here in Washington the only Canadian politics we’d hear about would be in BC, and it seemed like the only two parties were the New Democrats and the Social Credit Party. Are they still around?
re: #139 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Disappeared in 1993.
Astonished by the all-out assault on Comey by Team Clinton. Suggesting he is a partisan interfering with the election is dangerous & unfair.
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) October 29, 2016
Irony is dead. https://t.co/ENLvZEMcfD
— Neera Tanden (@neeratanden) October 29, 2016
re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth
He’s such a self-parody.
But his followers, the Drumpfskindanhangers, are in some sort of fantasy land. Look at that picture - bales of hay, a couple of saddles.
This is a wild-west cosplay set.
A very clear picture of atavism, symbolized by two 19th century items.
Nostalgia is a problem when it comes to living real life. It’s fine for escapist entertainment value but terrible as a method for making decisions.
re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #139 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
What happened to the SoCreds, anyway? Of course here in Washington the only Canadian politics we’d hear about would be in BC, and it seemed like the only two parties were the New Democrats and the Social Credit Party. Are they still around?
The BC provincial party fell apart after losing the 1991 election; it continued to formally exist until 2013, but had no leader after 2000 and never ran more than two candidates in an election after 2001.
re: #136 Brian J.
Maybe you’re right, although Silver’s professed support for Republicans makes that less likely. But then, not since Election Night 2004 has a Republican led the national Presidential race for any period of time, and most of these modelers, including Silver, haven’t been around that long.
I have no idea what you’re talking about. Nate’s a liberal gay man with slight libertarian leanings. Any bias he has at this point is towards making money off the election, and that means selling a horserace.
re: #143 wrenchwench
That stage backdrop kinda promotes the horserace thing.
Just needs a feed bag hanging around Trump’s ears/neck.
Astounding two paragraphs from @Fahrenthold. https://t.co/GrnQvnHhQr pic.twitter.com/djoSmG3SyV
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 29, 2016
re: #145 goddamnedfrank
I have no idea what you’re talking about. Nate’s a liberal gay man with slight libertarian leanings. Any bias he has at this point is towards making money off the election, and that means selling a horserace.
There are plenty of gay men who think the GOP’s platform is intended to punish those other gay men.
re: #146 ObserverArt
Just needs a feed bag hanging around Trump’s ears/neck.
The best feedbag! The biggest oats!
Here is Hillary Clinton’s full statement from Dayton Beach on the FBI release: ‘Voters deserve to get the full and complete facts…’ pic.twitter.com/MUpA4Ow5gB
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) October 29, 2016
He’s telling obvious lies about it. Do your jobs and fact check him instead of foisting it off on “Hillary Clinton says.” @ABC @donnabrazile
— Frank & Steinly (@goddamnedfrank) October 29, 2016
A police officer’s wife vandalized her own home and blamed it on Black Lives Matter. https://t.co/ELRoNE23De pic.twitter.com/cdDF3AO1zt
— Mic (@mic) October 29, 2016
re: #149 Brian J.
There are plenty of gay men who think the GOP’s platform is intended to punish those other gay men.
You made an overt assertion that “Silver’s professed support for Republicans,” was the issue at play, so the existence of a slim minority of gay conservatives is neither here nor there. He’s done nothing I can see to support that claim. Can you back it up?
re: #156 goddamnedfrank
You made an overt assertion that “Silver’s professed support for Republicans,” was the issue at play, so the existence of a slim minority of gay conservatives is neither here nor there. He’s done nothing I can see to support that claim. Can you back it up?
This is the speech I was referring to.
And I was pointing out that there are plenty of gay men who “know” that when Republicans fulminate about homosexuals, they don’t mean wealthy men in or near liberal cities; they “know” that the snake-handling wing of the party must be appeased so that they can get their tax cuts.
re: #106 OhNoZombies!
Industrial bleach?!?
Seems like it would have been safer to use actual snake oil.
Snake oil actually has some minor health benefits (it’s similar to fish oil)
One other key difference that explains the uncertainty in Silver’s 2016 model vs 2012 is the existence of third party candidates in the polling. Now you can reasonably argue their mere existence should perturb the numbers as much as they do given Clinton’s increased lead over Trump compared to Obama over Romney at the same point. However there’s no reason whatsoever to conflate that with a bias towards Republicans. Not when Occam’s razor usually tilts towards self interest, and it’s in Nate’s interest to please ESPN and make all of them as much money as possible.
re: #146 ObserverArt
Just needs a feed bag hanging around Trump’s ears/neck.
Wrong end of the horse.
re: #157 Brian J.
This is the speech I was referring to.
It says right off the bat he was paid, which I’ve been saying all along is his primary motivation. He likes money. We all like money.
Silver was paid to give the presentation by the American Opportunity Alliance, a group led by some of the biggest GOP donors in the country, including hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer and the Ricketts family, which owns the Chicago Cubs.
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Attendees noted to The Hill that Silver gave them no advice on strategy.
Nice day to hang out with dinosaurs. pic.twitter.com/TseTgqWB1o
— Andrés Almeida (@andresdavid) October 29, 2016
This fucking guy! https://t.co/jvbSOAA2NB
— David Waldman (@KagroX) October 29, 2016
lol, the douche got served and came back with the lamest bs excuse evah:
But for all concerned, Comey not only non partisan in job but consistently put constitutional equities at center if thinking
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) May 30, 2013
How Democrats spoke of Comey in 2013 when Obama appointed him as FBI Director: https://t.co/1sFU0Tfgbo
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 29, 2016
@joshtpm I didn’t say and wasn’t implying you specifically changed your view- just that that tweet was reflective of 2013 Dem view on Comey.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 29, 2016
Billy Bush returns to social media after Today show exit — see his first post: https://t.co/8LROnUzO6t pic.twitter.com/LJvXaDZ3fH
— Us Weekly (@usweekly) October 29, 2016
I’m a little booked-up right now but I promise I’d read his post just as soon as I’ve read every other word on Earth. https://t.co/vncnumo5Ey
— quinn cummings (@quinncy) October 29, 2016
But, shouldn’t that now equate to two votes for Clinton, because RIGGED?
Trump supporter Terri Lynn Rote charged with voting twice in Iowa: https://t.co/MT2Cd6rmIn
— Amy B Wang (@amybwang) October 29, 2016
She said she voted twice because she feared her Trump vote would be switched to Clinton. So phantom vote fraud fear results in real fraud. https://t.co/AtbyX43ZTG
— Dan Eggen (@DanEggenWPost) October 29, 2016
re: #165 b.d.
lol, the douche got served and came back with the lamest bs excuse evah:
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So if you praise someone in the past, you can’t criticize them later? Glenn really wants to play that childish game?
My favorite twitter rock star—THE Propane Jane. @docrocktex26 Becoming Propane Jane https://t.co/gqyr8fYJf7
— Jean Sheldon (@penultimatepen) September 28, 2016
re: #168 HappyWarrior
So if you praise someone in the past, you can’t criticize them later? Glenn really wants to play that childish game?
It’s Twitter’s fault that Glenn is a jackass.
@bbsmyth @joshtpm Maybe you’ve heard that Twitter has severe space constraints, which enables, even ensures, ambiguities in meaning.
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) October 29, 2016
re: #170 b.d.
It’s Twitter’s fault that Glenn is a jackass.
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.@germanrlopez really gets to the heart of it on patriotism and who gets the benefit of the doubt. https://t.co/IzYrbLRGyy pic.twitter.com/WctPnXjoch
— Libby Nelson (@libbyanelson) October 28, 2016
re: #170 b.d.
It’s Twitter’s fault that Glenn is a jackass.
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whoa! Human Rights Campaign just un-endorsed Mark Kirk — unprecedented for them — after he questioned Tammy Duckworth’s heritage pic.twitter.com/GcU5Fhqv5j
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) October 29, 2016
re: #171 HappyWarrior
He’s a childish dick. He’s never wrong ever.
I would admit it if I ever do anything wrong
re: #175 FormerDirtDart
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Good. Kirk needs to have consequences for being a bigoted douche. I don’t know why HRC was supporting him in the first place. I get that he doesn’t have an anti-gay record like many Republicans do but it’s not like Duckworth had a poor record either.
re: #165 b.d.
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Glad to see someone as smart as Josh school Glenn “I WILL DESTROY AMERICA WITH MY DYING BREATH!!” Greenwald, but like I said yesterday, I’m not buying Josh’s “Comey isn’t purposely damaging Clinton” line of thought.
I just found out yesterday that Comey had some part in the Whitewater bullshit from years back.
So, we have a Republican who tried to take down Bill Clinton, presented with the opportunity to damage HRC’s run for POTUS, in an environment were practically every Republican wants to see her in prison.
He basically told his bosses “Fuck you, I’m releasing this.” It strains incredulity that he didn’t know that the GOP would run riot with this.
Why the fuck should I even entertain the idea that this wasn’t what Comey had in mind?
vox.com
This is German Lopez’s entire article. He makes some really really good points about how minorities get treated when they speak critically about the state of our nation i.e. Colin Kaepernick and when when white people do i.e. Trump himself.
Hillary has cancelled all campaign events in FL, OH, and NC
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 29, 2016
Clinton speaking in Fla. in 15 mins. Personally campaigning in Ohio, Ariz., and NC. Surrogates in Ohio, Mich., Fla., NC, and Wis. So…yeah. https://t.co/jeQxpZqRIV
— T. Becket Adams (@BecketAdams) October 29, 2016
re: #180 FormerDirtDart
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One for Ziggy_T to parse:
Election season in semi-suburbia. https://t.co/jMka5ABAou pic.twitter.com/TPbWR8INN1
— johnrobertson (@jrobertsonNM) October 29, 2016
re: #178 Mattand
And I forgot: can Lynch fire his ass on November 9th, or can Obama do it?
I guess Obama can, but I guess my bigger point is this something Comey can get fired for?
Because if it were me, I’m not sure I’d wait for Nov. 9.
A “Christian” haunted house had depictions of the Pulse massacre. At an elementary school. I am without words. https://t.co/VwpyNZZrOs
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 29, 2016
Sam Wang via politicalwire.com
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Mrs. Clinton’s average margin over Mr. Trump of five points has been enough to make her the first candidate to maintain a durable lead in an open presidential race since Dwight D. Eisenhower defeated Adlai Stevenson in 1952
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re: #184 Stanley Sea
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re: #182 wrenchwench
Horsey!
I honestly don’t get why pointing out differences in voting patterns is bad.
re: #187 HappyWarrior
Wow.
There are so many ways to analyze this campaign that are either just surfacing or are ignored completely.
I.e. re this latest email thing- for it to totally reverse and trump win would be the first time ever someone came back from such a deficit.
Remember trump has not ever led electorally. Not even one day
re: #183 Mattand
And I forgot: can Lynch fire his ass on November 9th, or can Obama do it?
I guess Obama can, but I guess my bigger point is this something Comey can get fired for?
Because if it were me, I’m not sure I’d wait for Nov. 9.
Lynch told him not to do it:
Attorney General Lynch advised FBI director Comey against releasing letter on Abedin emails: report
I’d fire his ass in a hot minute.
re: #187 HappyWarrior
Question is, who is correct.
Nate Silver’s Frequentist logic, or Wang’s Bayesian logic.
re: #190 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Unless I am mistaken, Comey can not be fired.
Hillary has cancelled all campaign events in FL, OH, and NC
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 29, 2016
@JackPosobiec Here we see a Trump organizer deliberately spreading lies. None of these events are canceled. https://t.co/ebHtGYru6D https://t.co/WrdKxijS65
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2016
re: #189 dangerman
There are so many ways to analyze this campaign that are either just surfacing or are ignored completely.
I.e. re this latest email thing- for it to totally reverse and trump win would be the first time ever someone came back from such a deficit.
Remember trump has not ever led electorally. Not even one day
That is a good point. Trump’s never led electorally. He’s gotten close but he’s never had an actual lead.
re: #191 Ziggy_TARDIS
Question is, who is correct.
Nate Silver’s Frequentist logic, or Wang’s Bayesian logic.
Magic Eight Ball says ask again on November 8.
re: #188 Ziggy_TARDIS
Horsey!
I honestly don’t get why pointing out differences in voting patterns is bad.
Because when you’re pointing out ‘patterns’ across broad groups of people (ruralites), you’re stereotyping. Do you need to know what’s bad about stereotyping?
re: #131 worldknot
Maybe, but it’s not unusual for agencies to issue Hatch Act advisories during election season.
The fact that this one was very, very public following Comey’s BS statement with suspect timing speaks volumes.
re: #188 Ziggy_TARDIS
Horsey!
I honestly don’t get why pointing out differences in voting patterns is bad.
What’s bad is how you consistently claim that rural people are the bad guys, no matter the topic.
re: #193 Charles Johnson
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re: #177 HappyWarrior
Good. Kirk needs to have consequences for being a bigoted douche. I don’t know why HRC was supporting him in the first place. I get that he doesn’t have an anti-gay record like many Republicans do but it’s not like Duckworth had a poor record either.
It was tempting to give the guy credit for positioning himself as the most moderate Republican in Washington. Sure, it was a function of being a Republican senator from a deep blue state…but it was SO rare it was refreshing.
Then, of course, he began walking back his formerly reasonable stance on climate change last year.
There is also the fact he is being VERY cagey about his health and his recovery from a serious stroke. There is no doubt he made huge strides, but keeping Mitch McConnell as majority leader is not a compelling reason to send a man back to the Senate who is not up to the task.
Maybe his nasty remark the other night was a function of losing his “filter” post-stroke. The article linked above suggests this is the case, and offers his “bro with no ho” slur of Lindsey Graham as an example. Maybe he is just a bit of a racist and/or asshole.
In any case, he will have a LOT of time to focus on his recovery starting in January.
@Green_Footballs @HillarySpeeches We supply all your funky needs
— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 29, 2016
OK, start here.
1. OK, let’s break this down. Since the 90s, every single thing Hillary Clinton has done, from her style to her career has caused outrage.
— And Peggy (@IowaPeg) October 29, 2016
re: #200 b.d.
If I remember from Gus and others on Twitter correctly, the head of the FBI is independently nominated and appointed to a single 10 year term. In theory, anyway.
In response to Hoover’s lengthy tenure, Congress imposed a term limit of ten years for future directors, which was waived by the Senate for Robert Mueller on July 27, 2011 due to serious security concerns at that time.[5] In theory, they serve ten-year terms unless they resign, die, or are removed, but in reality, since J. Edgar Hoover, none have served a full ten years, except Robert Mueller, who served twelve years.
People who really understand funk have no need to lie. @JackPosobiec
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 29, 2016
re: #202 bratwurst
It was tempting to give the guy credit for positioning himself as the most moderate Republican in Washington. Sure, it was a function of being a Republican senator from a deep blue state…but it was SO rare it was refreshing.
Then, of course, he began walking back his formerly reasonable stance on climate change last year.
There is also the fact he is being VERY cagey about his health and his recovery from a serious stroke. There is no doubt he made huge strides, but keeping Mitch McConnell as majority leader is not a compelling reason to send a man back to the Senate who is not up to the task.
Maybe his nasty remark the other night was a function of losing his “filter” post-stroke. The article linked above suggests this is the case, and offers his “bro with no ho” slur of Lindsey Graham as an example. Maybe he is just a bit of a racist and/or asshole.
In any case, he will have a LOT of time to focus on his recovery starting in January.
Sounds right to me. I don’t wish ill on him but he shouldn’t be in the Senate if he’s going to make remarks like that.
re: #206 Stanley Sea
It resonates with me, a woman. So common.
It resonates with me, a person. OK a dangerous one….
re: #208 HappyWarrior
Sounds right to me. I don’t wish ill on him but he shouldn’t be in the Senate if he’s going to make remarks like that.
You push a lot of these folks enough something true to nature slips out and the curtain is pulled back
re: #210 dangerman
You push a lot of these folks enough something true to nature slips out and the curtain is pulled back
Kind of like Romney went from being a guy who tried to distance himself from Reagan-Bush when running against Ted Kennedy for the Senate to someone who used POTUS’s declaration of personal support for same sex marriage to accuse him of “pushing gay marriage.” Romney had as a Senate candidate tried to out-liberal Teddy Kennedy on LGBT rights.
Ok, it appears what I was reading was wrong. He can be fired.
However, doing so right now would be a drastic mistake. It would backfire on Obama and Clinton.
So, for political reasons, he cannot be fired.
re: #213 Ziggy_TARDIS
Just let Comey sit there and broil under the heat.
I guess I’m missing something but couldn’t a dozen FBI agents review 1,000 emails over the weekend?
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) October 29, 2016
I read this
“FBI actually had a duty to determine if emails were not duplicates first, b/c if they are, it’s *not* even new evidence”
Though it being in a new location could mean something…
re: #213 Ziggy_TARDIS
Ok, it appears what I was reading was wrong. He can be fired.
However, doing so right now would be a drastic mistake. It would backfire on Obama and Clinton.
So, for political reasons, he cannot be fired.
Probably right.
Till 11/09
re: #201 Ziggy_TARDIS
Yes, I know Democrats are also out in the country.
There are all kinds of people out in the country. Some of them lived in the city last week. Some of them spend half of each year in the city. Some of them think I live in the city (there are 10,000 here.)
re: #211 Backwoods_Sleuth
New Hampshire is 93.2% Non-Hispanic White, when the US as a whole is 63.7 the same.
That’s a statement of statistics, New Hampshire is whiter than the US as a whole. I am just saying the statistics, which is why I am so baffled.
re: #216 dangerman
I read this
“FBI actually had a duty to determine if emails were not duplicates first, b/c if they are, it’s *not* even new evidence”
Though it being in a new location could mean something…
That e-mails have recipients<?/em>
re: #220 austin_blue
Emails get sent.
Emails get received.
YOU CAN’T ‘SPLAIN THAT!
re: #219 Ziggy_TARDIS
New Hampshire is 93.2% Non-Hispanic White, when the US as a whole is 63.7 the same.
That’s a statement of statistics, New Hampshire is whiter than the US as a whole. I am just saying the statistics, which is why I am so baffled.
You just do not freaking get it, do you?
NH is whiter than the US as a whole and this somehow baffles you?
Your problem this time (and it is a HUGE problem) is that you are lumping ALL WHITE PEOPLE into a monolithic block as a problematic thing for your precious statistics. That broadbrushing thing you do all the time has shot up to new elevations.
re: #220 austin_blue
That e-mails have recipients<?/em>
That depending on the contents of the email and did weiner have access to the device
re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth
I am a White Person voting for Clinton.
I knew that New Hampshire is whiter than the US as whole already. My point today was, probably poorly written, that white people living in Rural areas tend to skew towards being conservative. I was not trying to lump people together, I was just trying to state what tends to be obvious when you look at an election results map.
Yes, I made an incredibly toxic comment a few days ago on this, but in my mind, I was not relating that previous comment to today.
I was simply trying to provide what I thought was a reasonable explanation for the Trump signs.
re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth
You just do not freaking get it, do you?
NH is whiter than the US as a whole and this somehow baffles you?
Your problem this time (and it is a HUGE problem) is that you are lumping ALL WHITE PEOPLE into a monolithic block as a problematic thing for your precious statistics. That broadbrushing thing you do all the time has shot up to new elevations.
I’ve made it a personal lifetime mission not to be a conventional and representative part of the monolithic white
Reposting for anyone who missed it.
Must read from @fahrenthold
A man walks uninvited into a charity gala. Steals the seat of a top donor. Walks out & never gives money. GUESS WHO. https://t.co/ZpQfLBowm9
— Amy Argetsinger (@AmyArgetsinger) October 29, 2016
White people:
🗣WE GO THROUGH THIS EVERY YEAR.
YOUR RACIST COSTUME IS NOT IRONICALLY FUNNY.
IT IS REGULAR RACIST.— Brittany Packnett (@MsPackyetti) October 29, 2016
An hour later:
My mentions look like 🚮.
That should tell you all you need to know.
Y’all can give the PSA next year. No doubt we’ll need another.— Brittany Packnett (@MsPackyetti) October 29, 2016
re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth
Demographic categories tend to break down upon close analysis anyway.
Let’s take this one currently popular among pollsters: Non-hispanic white.
What does that mean?
As I noted before, “hispanic” comes from the Latin term for the Iberian peninsula.
So does “hispanic” mean someone who speaks Spanish as their first language? Or maybe their parents spoke Spanish but they don’t?
Even worse is the term “white”. This is a substitute for “European”.
But most people from the Spanish speaking portions of the Americas have dominantly Native American or Sub-Saharan African ancestry, if one maps their DNA to populations (e.g., 23andMe.)
If one was really into this idea of categorizing stuff, if only minor (less than 50%) percentage of ancestry of an American happens to be from Sub-Saharan they can still identify as “black”. However a “hispanic” may have actually a larger share of Sub-Saharan ancestors. So when speaking of “Hispanics” how come we don’t have a category “Non-Hispanic Black” instead of “non-Hispanic White”???
re: #184 Stanley Sea
Wait until they see the Benghazi vignette!
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re: #230 freetoken
Demographic categories tend to break down upon close analysis anyway.
Let’s take this one currently popular among pollsters: Non-hispanic white.
What does that mean?
As I noted before, “hispanic” comes from the Latin term for the Iberian peninsula.
So does “hispanic” mean someone who speaks Spanish as their first language? Or maybe their parents spoke Spanish but they don’t?
Even worse is the term “white”. This is a substitute for “European”.
But most people from the Spanish speaking portions of the Americas have dominantly Native American or Sub-Saharan African ancestry, if one maps their DNA to populations (e.g., 23andMe.)
If one was really into this idea of categorizing stuff, if only minor (less than 50%) percentage of ancestry of an American happens to be from Sub-Saharan they can still identify as “black”. However a “hispanic” may have actually a larger share of Sub-Saharan ancestors. So when speaking of “Hispanics” how come we don’t have a category “Non-Hispanic Black” instead of “non-Hispanic White”???
There are also Hispanic Asians as well. It’s all so confusing.
re: #226 Ziggy_TARDIS
I am a White Person voting for Clinton.
Well, good for you. Have a cookie.
I’m just some old white lady with a master’s degree who lives in the ignorant rural part of this country that’s horrible red, but somehow still manages to vote like some smarter-than-me white urban guy.
But free to keep insulting all of us rural folks because lord knows we need constant reminding by urban folks that we are all stupid.
blech…
WW - haven’t seen this guy in a while!
Stab a styrofoam container
— Streetcrow (@streetcrow) October 29, 2016
re: #230 freetoken
Right now, Arabs, Iranians, and Turks are included under “White” for census reasons.
However, for the 2020 Census, there may be MENA line on the census form if Obama gets his way.
re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth
I wasn’t trying to insult you today! Honestly, I wasn’t.
My mind was going at it from a completely statistical viewpoint today.
Just saw a @realDonaldTrump campaign ad during college football…in Boston. pic.twitter.com/GTxUVoYC8F
— Nasty Hombre (@franklinftw) October 29, 2016
re: #234 Stanley Sea
WW - haven’t seen this guy in a while!
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I thought I had buried him. My twitter feed is out of control. I’m now following 1,001. But I see you have three times as many, so I’ll shut up now.
re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth
What kind of cookie?
re: #237 Franklin
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I mean I could get that if it was in the part of Massachusetts that borders New Hampshire since I imagine that part of Massachusetts gets NH’s ads but Boston. Smart move, Donald.
re: #228 Stanley Sea
Reposting for anyone who missed it.
Must read from @fahrenthold
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This clinches it for me; the icing on the cake and the cherry on top. The distilled quintessence of Trump in a single four letter word.
BOOR
The man is a boor.
re: #230 freetoken
Demographic categories tend to break down upon close analysis anyway.
Let’s take this one currently popular among pollsters: Non-hispanic white.
What does that mean?
As I noted before, “hispanic” comes from the Latin term for the Iberian peninsula.
So does “hispanic” mean someone who speaks Spanish as their first language? Or maybe their parents spoke Spanish but they don’t?
Even worse is the term “white”. This is a substitute for “European”.
But most people from the Spanish speaking portions of the Americas have dominantly Native American or Sub-Saharan African ancestry, if one maps their DNA to populations (e.g., 23andMe.)
If one was really into this idea of categorizing stuff, if only minor (less than 50%) percentage of ancestry of an American happens to be from Sub-Saharan they can still identify as “black”. However a “hispanic” may have actually a larger share of Sub-Saharan ancestors. So when speaking of “Hispanics” how come we don’t have a category “Non-Hispanic Black” instead of “non-Hispanic White”???
As I’ve said before, to most RWNJs, “Hispanic” means “Looks like a Southwestern Indian”. If you look like Charo, you’re not going to get asked for your papers. If you look like George Lopez, keep them handy.
re: #236 Ziggy_TARDIS
I wasn’t trying to insult you today! Honestly, I wasn’t.
My mind was going at it from a completely statistical viewpoint today.
Well, good. But do you now understand what today’s insult is? My guess is that you still do not. You have got to stop with this rural vs urban crap. Because that’s what it boils down to…just crap.
Never trust a cat. pic.twitter.com/RX7DfOP5eZ
— Sam Kalidi (@samkalidi) October 28, 2016
re: #219 Ziggy_TARDIS
New Hampshire is 93.2% Non-Hispanic White, when the US as a whole is 63.7 the same.
That’s a statement of statistics, New Hampshire is whiter than the US as a whole. I am just saying the statistics, which is why I am so baffled.
re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth
You just do not freaking get it, do you?
NH is whiter than the US as a whole and this somehow baffles you?
Your problem this time (and it is a HUGE problem) is that you are lumping ALL WHITE PEOPLE into a monolithic block as a problematic thing for your precious statistics. That broadbrushing thing you do all the time has shot up to new elevations.
re: #226 Ziggy_TARDIS
I am a White Person voting for Clinton.
I knew that New Hampshire is whiter than the US as whole already. My point today was, probably poorly written, that white people living in Rural areas tend to skew towards being conservative. I was not trying to lump people together, I was just trying to state what tends to be obvious when you look at an election results map.
Yes, I made an incredibly toxic comment a few days ago on this, but in my mind, I was not relating that previous comment to today.
I was simply trying to provide what I thought was a reasonable explanation for the Trump signs.
re: #233 Backwoods_Sleuth
Well, good for you. Have a cookie.
I’m just some old white lady with a master’s degree who lives in the ignorant rural part of this country that’s horrible red, but somehow still manages to vote like some smarter-than-me white urban guy.
But free to keep insulting all of us rural folks because lord knows we need constant reminding by urban folks that we are all stupid.blech…
OK, folks, punching out for a bit till it calms down…I’m at work anyway:
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re: #242 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
As I’ve said before, to most RWNJs, “Hispanic” means “Looks like a Southwestern Indian”. If you look like Charo, you’re not going to get asked for your papers. If you look like George Lopez, keep them handy.
I think even some non-RWNJs are confused by the concept of Hispanic too to be honest with you. My grandmother and my mom too were very confused when my SiL told them that her dad’s mother is light skinned. A lot of people don’t understand how diverse a place Latin and South America really is. That’s part of why I took Latin American history. I’ve had so many Hispanic friends and now extended family and I wanted to know more about their history and region.
re: #235 Ziggy_TARDIS
From the beginning of US Censuses with family information (1850) place of birth was indicated. Then place of parent’s birth was added for a couple of censuses.
Demographic categories were there from the start. But census takers sometimes strayed from the instruction sets.
Today though these categories are rapidly losing their ability to describe. In your example, many MENA immigrants’ children will marry with Americans from a wide variety of backgrounds, most not MENA. So the category loses its descriptive power for these people.
This is a problem that has surfaced in this election, mostly due to Drumpfskind’s bigotry, but simmers under all sorts of social studies, including censuses.
Self-labeling is important to us humans. The current polls are rife with it (mostly with the hot buttons “conservative” and “liberal”.) But this is about our need to identify, a way of placing ourselves in the larger group. Our choices to self-label are tied to our emotions and self-worth.
re: #247 Dr. Lexus
No way man! Give me chocolate chip or I’m voting for Trump.
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More Russian Tea Cakes for me then!
You know, they ask you your ancestry on the census too. To be honest, I have no idea what i would say. Part of me would say Irish since I most identify with that part of my ancestry but my surname is German but at the same time I’m most genetically Eastern European as well. I like being my unique self though. Lots of different people over literally millions of years contributed to making me the individual I am today.
The Latest: Alaska’s first marijuana shop opens to long line
Alaska’s first marijuana store is now in business, drawing a crowd from all over the state.
Herbal Outfitters’ owner Richard Ballow says his store in Valdez accepted customers as planned Saturday, at “high noon.” He says more than 250 people were waiting in line to get in his shop.
[…]
So, with this movement now spreading nationwide, how long until the Food Network allows recipes for special brownies on one of their shows?
re: #249 HappyWarrior
I think even some non-RWNJs are confused by the concept of Hispanic too to be honest with you. My grandmother and my mom too were very confused when my SiL told them that her dad’s mother is light skinned. A lot of people don’t understand how diverse a place Latin and South America really is. That’s part of why I took Latin American history. I’ve had so many Hispanic friends and now extended family and I wanted to know more about their history and region.
Where you come from what your culture or ancestry is or your ethnicity or religion. All of these thing s are fluid cannot be determined by looking and are not indicators or predictors of individual behavior or thinking
re: #250 freetoken
I do concede your point.
What will happen with the MENA children marrying into different groups is that the next-generation would all under Mixed-Race, which is already growing.
re: #254 freetoken
The Latest: Alaska’s first marijuana shop opens to long line
So, with this movement now spreading nationwide, how long until the Food Network allows recipes for special brownies on one of their shows?
We can only hope. Plenty of good boozie recipes. Why not some good pot recipes as well.
What to expect when Rand Paul and Jim Gray finally debate Monday nighthttps://t.co/cJb1scS3ZF pic.twitter.com/3Pq9iUSr0K
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) October 29, 2016
Personally, I expect Jim Gray to be the grownup in the room, giving thoughtful answers, and Rand Paul to rant about government overreach, End The Fed!, too many regulations, etc, etc, ad nauseam.
:Headdesk:
No women ever invented an atomic bomb, built a smoke stack, initiated a Holocaust, melted the polar ice caps or organized a school shooting.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) October 29, 2016
Two of Soviet Russia’s most important atomic spies were women - their espionage gave Stalin the H bomb three years ahead of schedule https://t.co/CNXa4I8IXf
— Greg Jenner (@greg_jenner) October 29, 2016
Very true. It’s worth remembering that Ethel Rosenburg was no saint. https://t.co/HzsGPjqfE9
— Kurt Akemann (@Dark_Falcon7) October 29, 2016
Finally found how far I had to get from Austin in order to find open display of Trump signs - the answer is past Smithville (45 miles or so). Smithville and Bastrop themselves had quite a few Clinton signs, a nice reminder that not everyone out that way is a Jade Helm nut.
Eric, wastrel son.
On radio, discussing inner cities Eric Trump makes claim Obama hasn’t been back in Chicago once. He was there three weeks ago.
— andrew kaczynski (@KFILE) October 29, 2016
re: #255 dangerman
Where you come from what your culture or ancestry is or your ethnicity or religion. All of these thing s are fluid cannot be determined by looking and are not indicators or predictors of individual behavior or thinking
Absolutely. I’m just saying that I’ve seen many people who are from bigoted be confused about what Hispanic means. I remember being a kid and one of my best friends from Peru being shocked that his Dad was light skinned like my own Dad was. I didn’t put it together until later that South America especially its larger countries like Argentina and Brazil had a ton of immigration for all over. Pope Francis’s father I believe was an Italian who fled Italy to escape Mussolini for example. Salma Hayek is part Syrian.
re: #259 Ziggy_TARDIS
I decided a long time ago that nothing good will come (anymore) from Michael Moore interactions.
re: #254 freetoken
The Latest: Alaska’s first marijuana shop opens to long line
So, with this movement now spreading nationwide, how long until the Food Network allows recipes for special brownies on one of their shows?
1977?
re: #259 Ziggy_TARDIS
I should clarify there, it is to everyone there.
Everyone there is being a bit misogynistic, and the Rosenburg thing smacks of the stuff when we hear police officers say something to justify their shooting someone who should not have been shot.
re: #255 dangerman
Where you come from what your culture or ancestry is or your ethnicity or religion. All of these thing s are fluid cannot be determined by looking and are not indicators or predictors of individual behavior or thinking
Good thing for me. Nothing to be proud of in there.
International wagering on Trump again dropping, on HRC again increasing as cravenness of Comey/Chaffetz sandbag becomes evident: pic.twitter.com/DTSRYYscxH
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) October 29, 2016
Hillary Clinton just went on major offense against the FBI: https://t.co/l28hLLKRJC pic.twitter.com/jarr7X0wli
— Matt Wilstein (@TheMattWilstein) October 29, 2016
re: #250 freetoken
From the beginning of US Censuses with family information (1850) place of birth was indicated. Then place of parent’s birth was added for a couple of censuses.
Demographic categories were there from the start. But census takers sometimes strayed from the instruction sets.
Today though these categories are rapidly losing their ability to describe. In your example, many MENA immigrants’ children will marry with Americans from a wide variety of backgrounds, most not MENA. So the category loses its descriptive power for these people.
This is a problem that has surfaced in this election, mostly due to Drumpfskind’s bigotry, but simmers under all sorts of social studies, including censuses.
Self-labeling is important to us humans. The current polls are rife with it (mostly with the hot buttons “conservative” and “liberal”.) But this is about our need to identify, a way of placing ourselves in the larger group. Our choices to self-label are tied to our emotions and self-worth.
You mean part of the larger group like…human?
Because with all the geographic and ethnic background mixing that exists being labeled human is the consistent.
So take away all the check boxes!
re: #272 ObserverArt
You mean part of the larger group like…human?
Because with all the geographic and ethnic background mixing that exists being labeled human is the consistent.
So take away all the check boxes!
One of the tragedies of civilization is as we grew more advanced and more self-aware, we began to find ways to separate ourselves. And now I sound like Rust Cohle but I wouldn’t say that human consciousness is a tragic misstep of evolution either.
re: #259 Ziggy_TARDIS
Michael Moore thinks “no woman invented an atomic bomb” is a compliment. His counterparts on the right think it means women are dumb. I’d say, both Moore and his counterparts are dumb.
re: #272 ObserverArt
For the purpose of our Constitution, I believe the only boxes to check are citizen (born or naturalized) or not.
Given modern technology, I would be for the Census leaving a blank field to allow one to write in an identifying ethno-cultural group, if one is so inclined to do so.
re: #274 Nyet
There were women as part of the Manhattan project, and who worked later on nuclear weapons.
re: #274 Nyet
Michael Moore thinks “no woman invented an atomic bomb” is a compliment. His counterparts on the right think it means women are dumb. I’d say, both Moore and his counterparts are dumb.
Bingo, was thinking the same thing.
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re: #274 Nyet
Michael Moore thinks “no woman invented an atomic bomb” is a compliment. His counterparts on the right think it means women are dumb. I’d say, both Moore and his counterparts are dumb.
All three statements came off patronizing to women to me.
re: #276 freetoken
There were women as part of the Manhattan project, and who worked later on nuclear weapons.
Lise Meitner discovered fission, although Otto Hahn got the Nobel for it—he never did understand what was going on until after the war.
I’m surprised the following story has not been exploited by the Drumpfskind machine (well, perhaps there is no functioning machine) as a warning against a Hillary presidency:
Thousands protest in South Korea, demand president quit over scandal
Thousands of South Koreans rallied in Seoul on Saturday demanding the resignation of President Park Geun-hye, as a crisis deepened over allegations a friend exerted inappropriate influence over her and interfered in state affairs.
The street protest came as prosecutors investigate presidential aides and other officials to determine whether they broke the law to allow Park’s friend, Choi Soon-sil, to wield undue influence and gain financially.
[…]
Prosecutors are investigating two of Park’s aides who allegedly helped Choi get access to drafts of Park’s speeches and set up two foundations with about 50 billion won ($44 million) in contributions from conglomerates that she later benefited from, South Korea’s Yonhap news agency reported.
[…]
re: #274 Nyet
That’s why I clarified that it was towards everyone.
Although, you can’t even give him credit for that. Because he said that about Smokestacks too. And unless you are going to say that we should have remained pre-industrial, smokestacks are a sign of progress.
Even non-Carbon facilities have them, look at Nuclear Power plants.
Madame Curie’s research had a lot of relevance to atomic testing didn’t it? I must admit that I’m not as well read in science as some of you are though.
re: #281 freetoken
That scandal makes Watergate look mundane.
re: #280 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
A lot of women discovered things that men got credit for.
I’m watching Showtime’s Masters of Sex. Some of it is fictional but there’s no doubt that Virginia Johnson contributed heavily to modern understandings of human sexuality. Does anyone else watch that show? I find it fascinating.
I worked with my mother to vote her ballot since she’s legally blind. I had to get my brother to vote the presidential slot though, because hell will freeze over before I vote for Donald Trump. I did vote all the other people she requested, as requested.
Later. Always later. This is why there is no substantial mitigation against AGW:
Shipping Industry Postpones Climate Plan Until 2023
A firm plan for potentially easing the shipping industry’s impact on the climate will be delayed for seven years under a roadmap drafted by a United Nations agency on Friday.
The lackluster outcome at the end of a week of environmental talks in London deepened the disparity between ship and plane operators and much of the rest of the world when it comes to tackling global warming. The shipping industry participated in the negotiations on behalf of some nations.
[…]
This is my favorite bakery in town. It’s on the other end of town for me so I only go there when I really have a hankering. When my nieces were younger I would buy Simma’s fancy pastries for tea parties we’d have under gramma’s table when they’d visit. Now they’re all grown up. :’(
re: #290 mmmirele
I worked with my mother to vote her ballot since she’s legally blind. I had to get my brother to vote the presidential slot though, because hell will freeze over before I vote for Donald Trump. I did vote all the other people she requested, as requested.
Ugh, why would your mother want to vote for the orange-faced fascist shitgibbon? Please tell me you don’t live in a swing state -_-
A.J. Delgado tweeted that “dozens” of Trump supporters were demonstrating at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
But somehow, when Jim Hoft posts the story, it turns into “HUNDREDS” of Trump supporters, even though he included Delgado’s tweet right there in his post.
Not a single commenter noticed the rather large discrepancy.
re: #292 Dr. Lexus
This is my favorite bakery in town. It’s on the other end of town for me so I only go there when I really have a hankering. When my nieces were younger I would buy Simma’s fancy pastries for tea parties we’d have under gramma’s table when they’d visit. Now they’re all grown up. :’(
YUM
This Muslim clinic, treating mostly Latinos, is what “makes America great” already https://t.co/iADePocnWL #PavingTheWay via @TheWorldPost
— Michael F Ozaki MD (@brontyman) October 29, 2016
re: #292 Dr. Lexus
This is my favorite bakery in town. It’s on the other end of town for me so I only go there when I really have a hankering. When my nieces were younger I would buy Simma’s fancy pastries for tea parties we’d have under gramma’s table when they’d visit. Now they’re all grown up. :’(
I can still sit under a table. I’m a niece. Any other requirements?
re: #240 HappyWarrior
For all practical purposes, the Boston market serves New Hampshire. WMUR, Manchester was the only commercial TV in the state for a very long time. New Hampshire cable carries almost all Boston TV.
A lot of the no-taxes, “independent” crowd (and Boston Herald readership) in Massachusetts are leaning towards Trump.
re: #297 wrenchwench
Try not to spill too much tea on the floor and wear your gloves. :D
re: #292 Dr. Lexus
This is my favorite bakery in town. It’s on the other end of town for me so I only go there when I really have a hankering. When my nieces were younger I would buy Simma’s fancy pastries for tea parties we’d have under gramma’s table when they’d visit. Now they’re all grown up. :’(
Bet if you bought some of the pastries and invited them over they’d squeeze under happily.
re: #294 Charles Johnson
Samuil Marshak:
A lady came to the station
With a pan
A divan
A basin
A box
With three locks
A valise
And a tiny Pekingese
She insisted at the station
On the proper registration
Of her pan
Her divan
Her basin
Her box
With three locks
Her valise
And her tiny Pekingese
The redcap puffed a cigar
As he loaded the baggage car
All aboard! We’re off on vacation
With a pan
A divan
A basin
A box
With three locks
Her valise
And her tiny Pekingese
But when the platform was bare,
The puppy was still there
The train arrived at Gissing
With one piece of baggage missing.
They counted in frustration
One pan
One divan
A basin
A box
With three locks
Her valise
Hey boys, where’s the Pekingese?
They happened to see a Great Dane
Sniffing around the train.
They caught him without hesitation
And put him aboard with the basin
The pan and the divan
The box
With three locks
The valise-
In place of the Pekingese.
When they came to Bowling Green
Redcap number 15
Unloaded at their destination
The pan
The divan
The basin
The box
With three locks
The valise
And the dog, last but not least.
The dog began to growl,
The lady began to howl:
Thieves! Robbers! Hold the train!
This beast is a Great Dane!
And she gave a swift kick to the pan
And knocked aide the divan
The box
With three locks
The valise…
” Where is my Pekingese???!”
Excuse me, ma’am, the slip
They wrote at the start of your trip
Says you checked into the station
With a pan
A divan
A basin
A box
With three locks
A valise
And a tiny Pekingese
Maybe
During the trip
Your little pup
Grew up!
re: #294 Charles Johnson
A.J. Delgado tweeted that “dozens” of Trump supporters were demonstrating at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
But somehow, when Jim Hoft posts the story, it turns into “HUNDREDS” of Trump supporters, even though he included Delgado’s tweet right there in his post.
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Not a single commenter noticed the rather large discrepancy.
And why are they protesting at Trump Tower? Aren’t you preaching to the choir? I know it’s New York, but shouldn’t you be knocking on doors or something?
re: #294 Charles Johnson
Wasn’t there another pro-Trump gathering that was supposed to take place in DC this weekend?
@goddamnedfrank @ABC @donnabrazile like we r suppose to believe fact checkers? already proof of them being in her pocketbook! Wikileaks!!!
— Lora (@lh3550) October 29, 2016
re: #299 Dr. Lexus
Try not to spill too much tea on the floor and wear your gloves. :D
Will these do?
They’re the easiest to grab. And grab with.
re: #306 wrenchwench
Those gloves look uniquely designed to send a mixed message.
re: #305 goddamnedfrank
@lh3550 @goddamnedfrank @ABC @donnabrazile Congrats on a nice parody* of a deranged wingnut! (* I sure hope so)
— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) October 29, 2016
re: #302 William Lewis
Amazing the things you can find on Youtube if you can avoid the nuts and CTs…
Like this really amazing version of an older tune…
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Damn William, you are touching on a lot of my love for rock background today.
Chicago was my first big concert with my friends and not an elder brother or cousin. And they were just like in the video you put up. One fine show really, and Terry Kath was really good that night…he got into some extended Hendrix-like lead solos. Great first big concert memory.
re: #294 Charles Johnson
Looks like they may have 50 or 60.
#TrumpTrain 🚂 out in full force outside the Tower today. pic.twitter.com/GH2aAP4YUh
— Cliff Sims (@Cliff_Sims) October 29, 2016
SAD
Wow. The father of Kayla Mueller, the young aid worker who was held hostage by ISIs and killed, is here in Phoenix speaking before Trump.
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) October 29, 2016
re: #307 stpaulbear
Those gloves look uniquely designed to send a mixed message.
I got those for the cops two years ago when they were kitting up for a cops-on-bikes seminar. I got some very well-written statements in my accident report a few short weeks later.
re: #313 GlutenFreeJesus
Counting intestinal flora.
re: #309 ObserverArt
Damn William, you are touching on a lot of my love for rock background today.
Chicago was my first big concert with my friends and not an elder brother or cousin. And they were just like in the video you put up. One fine show really, and Terry Kath was really good that night…he got into some extended Hendrix-like lead solos. Great first big concert memory.
Good show to see I’ll bet. Kath was so underrated.
Been finding a lot of old “Midnight Special” videos today too. Like this when the fellow still had a head of hair…
re: #259 Ziggy_TARDIS
Nuclear fission was codiscovered by Lise Meitner, who was female, of Jewish heritage and of German nationality. She ultimately ended up in the United States, but she was, like so many other women scientists of the period, cheated out of her Nobel Prize. (Rosalind Franklin and Jocelyn Bell come to mind here.)
re: #293 Interesting Times
Ugh, why would your mother want to vote for the orange-faced fascist shitgibbon? Please tell me you don’t live in a swing state -_-
We live in Arizona, which may swing this year. As to why she would vote GOP, she’s an elderly white woman with only a high school education. I did talk her out of voting for Sheriff Joe Arpaio (she didn’t vote on that line).
re: #241 Grunthos the Flatulent
This clinches it for me; the icing on the cake and the cherry on top. The distilled quintessence of Trump in a single four letter word.
BOOR
The man is a boor.
You misspelled “shit.”
re: #316 mmmirele
Nuclear fission was codiscovered by Lise Meitner, who was female, of Jewish heritage and of German nationality. She ultimately ended up in the United States, but she was, like so many other women scientists of the period, cheated out of her Nobel Prize. (Rosalind Franklin and Jocelyn Bell come to mind here.)
Jocelyn Bell undoubtedly was cheated out of a Nobel, as was Meitner. Franklin, unfortunately, died 4 years before the Prize was issued. We’ll never know whether she would have been included instead of Maurice Wilkins, whose contribution was to give Crick and Watson her crystallography results without her knowledge. So—probably not.
re: #7 GlutenFreeJesus
Saw this on my FB just now. In fact. Someone I know made it a point to tag me and call me out after I posted about that crazy Trump lady in Des Moines who got busted for voting more than once.
Won’t link to SMOTI where this originated, but Snopes instead.
I like how Snopes wrote up their assessment of this:
Dougherty’s jape produced the usual hyperbolic hand-wringing from factually-challenged political sites such as the Gateway Pundit
re: #201 Ziggy_TARDIS
I never said they were the bad guys today.
Yes, I know Democrats are also out in the country.
I should say that the rural area I was driving through is not the rural New Hampshire of Robert Frost “flinty” New Englander days. These are the homes of wealthy people, for the most part. They do pay hefty property taxes since we have no state income tax, but I think a lot of them also hate the idea of Syrians coming into America and feel somehow that a wall between Mexico and America would make them more secure in their large homes filled with guns.
re: #309 ObserverArt
Damn William, you are touching on a lot of my love for rock background today.
Chicago was my first big concert with my friends and not an elder brother or cousin. And they were just like in the video you put up. One fine show really, and Terry Kath was really good that night…he got into some extended Hendrix-like lead solos. Great first big concert memory.
I saw Chicago (CTA at the time) in a high school gym in Bucks County, PA when I was 16. I stood right in front of Kath all night. He was really good, and the band overall was excellent.
I think I paid $3 for the ticket IIRC.
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