Bush is removing some senior staffers from his campaign payroll, dropping some consultants, and cutting payroll by 40%.

Hillary Clinton to Stop Taking Donatiodns From Private Prisons

Hillary Clinton has agreed to stop accepting money from private prison lobbyists and to donate the direct contributions received thus far.

It's a big deal -- for the past 40 years, private prison companies like Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group have spent millions to influence politicians that control criminal justice policy so they can continue to profit off anti-Black mass incarceration.

Elton John wrote the music for the stage play which was based on the movie. If you have not seen it, track it down.

Most probably know Maureen O'Hara her from the 1947 holiday classic "Miracle on 34th Street," while I first became acquainted with her in "Only the Lonely," an underappreciated 1991 romantic comedy for which she came out of retirement to play John Candy's loving but domineering mother.

Her screen credits include the 1941 Best Picture Oscar winner "How Green Was My Valley," a very good film which is perhaps remembered unfairly for having denied "Orson Welles' classic "Citizen Kane" the gold statuette that year, and the 1952 romantic comedy-drama "The Quiet Man" with John Wayne.

Playing the Christian Martyr Card plays well with the rubes.

"I'd prefer not to talk about security issues but I have recognized -- and people have been telling me for many many months -- that I'm in great danger, because I challenge the secular progressive movement to the very core," Carson told WABC radio's Rita Cosby Show on Thursday. "You know, they see me as an existential threat but I also believe in the good lord and we take reasonable precautions."

The pious Ben Carson has plowed past the braggadocious New York businessman to take the front-runner crown, unseating Trump as the most popular choice for president among likely GOP caucusgoers, the new Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Politics poll shows.

Carson, a retired neurosurgeon, is the favorite choice for 28 percent -- 9 percentage points ahead of Trump's 19 percent.

Now I am no Capt when it comes to predictions, but I did say if Trump stops being a an obnoxious dbag, he will slide.

It used to be Rubio and Jeb, but Bush surprised us all with just how incompetent of a candidate he is and by making W. look like the smart one.

Unfortunately, this appears to be incredibly biased.  I wish someone would make an unbiased version that looks at all the evidence.

 And, there is a lot for Jordan and friends to love: Ryan wants to turn Medicare into a voucher system, cut Medicaid, undermine Social Security with privatization, and abolish corporate income, estate, and alternative minimum taxes.

That is three, or 2 and a half, fewer opponents HRC had a week ago.  Bernie is literally, the last man standing.

Say What ?

Chafee ran a minimalist campaign, raising only $15,000 in the past fundraising period...

Anyways, in Odessa they turned a Lenin statue into a Darth Vader statue, it's pretty cool.

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Back to the Future writer Bob Gale has revealed that the trilogy's villain Biff Tannen is based on Donald Trump, putting an end to fan speculation.

The Telegraph | October 23, 2015
Eurozone crosses Rubicon as Portugal's anti-euro Left banned from power - "Portugal has entered dangerous political waters. For the first time since the creation of Europe's monetary union, a member state has taken the explicit step of forbidding eurosceptic parties from taking office on the grounds of national interest. Anibal Cavaco Silva, Portugal's constitutional president, has refused to appoint a Left-wing coalition government even though it secured an absolute majority in the Portuguese parliament and won a mandate to smash the austerity regime bequeathed by the EU-IMF Troika."

When a sovereign people are denied their right to chart their own course, for fear that the technocrats at the European Central Bank in Brussels would not approve, then the Euro itself has become antithetical to the concepts of democracy and national autonomy.

Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, will appear on CBS's "60 Minutes" on Sunday, days after the vice president he would not launch a 2016 White House bid, according to the network.

Lots of great stuff.   Great performances.  Great effects, of course.  Great cameos, like Brad Bird and Jimmy Buffett.  
We learned that the next one will most likely be about using genetically engineered dinosaurs as weapons in, most likely, the "war on terror".   That could be fertile ground for social commentary beyond ecology.

We learned that Bryce Dallas Howard can run in heels.   I loved that part.  He makes a comment about her lasting 5 minutes in those ridiculous shoes early in the movie and she has them on in the last scene.  And she does some RUNNING.  Not fake movie running but flat out track star running close up on the shoes.  I loved that part.

lentinel: "So he's one of the 'finest vice-presidents' because he was effective during the debate during the campaign of 2012. And ever since, he has been 'good and loyal'. OK. Effective during a debate in 2012. Good and loyal. Check. But, I don't think it is right to include, 'at age 74', as a reason for welcoming his imminent departure from public life."

I never at any time said that Joe Biden was one of "the finest vice presidents." Nor did I ever say that Biden should retire because he's 74 years old. So, let's be perfectly clear, those are your words and not mine.

Rather, given that Vice President Biden is in the final 15 months of his term, and further that he has no realistic prospects or options at this point for advancing his political career beyond the vice presidency, at 74 years of age he is obviously in the twilight of that career. Therefore, I said that "it's time for him to depart the public stage both graciously and gracefully."

And BTW, prior to Biden's recent declaration that he would not be a candidate, Jeralyn herself broached the legitimate issue of his age which you falsely attributed to me, in an earlier post from last Monday. She was quite blunt and not at all diplomatic about it, and you might further recall that a certain someone also chimed in by calling the vice president a "malevolent relic."

For whatever your reasons or rationale, you have this compulsion to be both contrary and argumentative, to the point where you often create your own strawmen to prove whatever you believe your point to be, as you did above. I think it's a shame that I should have had to come back here in order to clarify what otherwise should have been quite obvious to most anyone else.

Whenever you deliberately misconstrue the words of other people in pursuit of your particular agenda, as you did with mine, you show yourself to be really no better than some of TL's resident right-wingers. And in that regard, you make me regret even the attempt on my part to engage you in a polite and respectful conversation.