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    So again (5.00 / 3) (#16)
    by Ga6thDem on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 07:51:16 PM EST
    Hillary sez

    "I know that there are some on the other side who are seriously advocating to deport 11-12 million people who are working here."

    She continued, saying it was "the height of irony that a party which espouses small government would want to unleash a massive law enforcement effort--including perhaps National Guard and others--to go and literally pull people out of their homes and their workplaces, round them up, put them, I don't know, in buses, boxcars, in order to take them across our border."

    "I just find that not only absurd, but appalling," Clinton said.

    And the GOP starts screaming once again. I guess we can expect to spend 14 months of listening to them have a meltdown every time she points out how nuts they are.

    So Hillary is tired of calling Repubs (none / 0) (#22)
    by jimakaPPJ on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 11:18:23 PM EST
    terrorists.

    Now they are Nazis.

    Trump better man up and get ready.

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    She didn't say they were terrorists and Nazis. (5.00 / 5) (#26)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 03:08:56 AM EST
    But you just did. Way to go.

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    lol; he's finally right about something. (none / 0) (#47)
    by Mr Natural on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 10:16:44 AM EST


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    No doubt about it (none / 0) (#110)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 03:59:43 PM EST
    Hillary is mad.

    Next thing you know she'll be claiming Trump killed Vince Foster and that she knows what the meaning of is, is.

    lol

    Yeah, Donald. She did. It's her new strategy of trying to get people to believe that the Repubs have a "war on women" and that it is just evil to want people who are here without the knowledge or permission of the authorities to go home.

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    No, she didn't. (none / 0) (#132)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 08:53:58 PM EST
    But if you and the rest of your too-cuckoo-for-cocoa-puffs parallel universemates want to think so, and revel in your collective white-wing victimhood, we're obviously not going to dissuade you, so hey, knock yourselves out. It'll save us the trouble of having to do it to you ourselves, come November 2016.

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    Donald, quit hiding. Quit denying. (none / 0) (#155)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 08:13:55 AM EST
    I know it is a lousy strategy that shows how desperate she is and that it just runs off the Independents and many Demos.... but really.

    It doesn't mean she is a bad person.

    It is politics, Donald. People say bad things about each other all the time. Kinda like Obummer, The Won, etc., etc.

    But, no matter what, the email situation won't go away.

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    Nothing (none / 0) (#160)
    by FlJoe on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 08:33:51 AM EST
    new about this strategy. The war on women and the inhumane aspect of mass deportation have long been in the Dems arsenal.

    Hillary is choosing to throw few punches now, she does need to go on offense.

    I am astounded that the same people who applaud Donald's aversion to PC are squawking over Hillary's rather mild and well deserved swipes at the Republicans

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    "boxcars" is a very poor choice of words (none / 0) (#61)
    by Peter G on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 12:24:04 PM EST
    To many people, it would imply -- or subconsciously invoke -- a comparison to the Third Reich. But tied to "in order to take them across our border," I guess that cannot have been intended. "Across our border" does not mean or suggest "to relocation camps" (to invoke a U.S. historical analogy) or "to concentration or extermination camps" (the first thing that struck me). So I conclude, a poor choice of words to make what otherwise could have been a trenchant point.

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    I understand and appreciate (5.00 / 3) (#82)
    by KeysDan on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 01:42:12 PM EST
    the "poor choice of words,"  in "boxcars," but view its usage not as hyperbole or trivialization, but rather, as historical relevance. And, as a cautionary, and not unfounded,  interpretation of the Trump immigration plan to "move 'em out." ---all 11 million  undocumented (commonly called illegals).

    The Trump policy requires the flooding of  the country with police to round 'em up (tripling the number of Immigration and Customs Enforcement Officers), requires all immigrants caught at the border to be detained until they are removed from the country.

     It is conservatively  estimated that over $200 billion will be required to arrest, detain and legally process and transport the population over five years.   The Trump plan also calls for national E-verification of all potential employees (including US citizens applying for jobs) and, of course, a massive wall (just on the south, not north, thereby targeting particular ethnic immigrants), with deportation of all undocumented immigrants, letting the "good ones" to "re-enter."

    The Third Reich did not initially announce the ways and means for their horrors.  But, Trump's announced objectives need to be sorted through an historical perspective.  The Boston Beaters are but a natural course for "Making America White Again."   Mrs. Clinton's words were choice. Mr. Trump's words are the harbinger of evil.  

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    Let's (5.00 / 1) (#87)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 02:01:33 PM EST
    also not forget that Herbert Hoover repatriated millions of Mexicans starting in 1928 I believe it was using rail and buses. It's not like the Nazis had a monopoly on that type of thing. The logistics of what Trump is offering is a nightmare.

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    And in the 19th century, the U.S. government ... (5.00 / 2) (#101)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 02:45:19 PM EST
    ... used the railroads to remove Native Americans from their ancestral homelands in the western United States to Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). In the fall of 1877, over 400 recently surrendered Nez Perces were sent there from Montana via railroad boxcars; one-quarter of them did not survive the journey.

    And during the Second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), the British used railroad boxcars to effectively remove countless thousands of Boer noncombatants from their communities in the Transvaal and Orange Free State to concentration camps, where an estimated 20% of all Boer children under the age of 14 eventually succumbed to cholera and dysentery due to the appallingly unsanitary conditions.

    So, yes, the use of boxcars in the forcible mass relocation of people, as though they were cattle, should not be exclusively attached to the Third Reich. The Anglo-American use of that mode of transportation, as well as concentration camps, long predates the arrival of the Nazis on the world stage.

    Aloha.

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    If it ever came to shipping (none / 0) (#103)
    by fishcamp on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 03:20:36 PM EST
    Eleven million people to the border, which it won't, I'm sure they would use normal trains with seats.  Maybe some of the gang bangers would get a different ride, but actual illegal families are not going to be herded around like war prisoners.

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    Fishcamp, I am not so (5.00 / 2) (#114)
    by KeysDan on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 04:50:43 PM EST
    sure that the Trump immigration policy would pride itself in providing comfortable transportation for the round-up.  Even if Trump himself would not rule out trains with seats, his followers are not likely to stand for it.  Not just the costs, but the idea itself.  Or, as with the great wall, the deportee would be required to pay either in cash or serve as slaves--to work off the fare. A proposal that is not original (cf. Iowa).  No, "these people" are boxcar eligible.  And, that would be considered being nice.  

    And, Trump is not a kindly man.  Indeed, that is part of the baseness the Republican base respects. Recall, too, that Donald Trump is a protege of Roy Cohen, his friend and personal attorney, as he started out.  Roy Cohen liked upsetting the establishment,  working by bullying and bombast,  and would be proud of Donald.

    Cohen was the unethical and dishonest attorney, eventually disbarred, who prosecuted so aggressively Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, was counsel to the disgraced Senator Joe McCarthy, then a "socialite" NYC attorney to the rich and infamous.  Cohen, the tormented gay (a major character in Tony Kushner's Angels in America) who died of AIDS, argued that gays could be blackmailed by communists. President Eisenhower then issued executive order 10450 to deny gays employment in the government.  An order that carried on for years.  

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    Try this (none / 0) (#115)
    by KeysDan on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 04:55:49 PM EST
    link, please.

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    Well KeysDan, I hate to (none / 0) (#126)
    by fishcamp on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 06:47:18 PM EST
    Say it, but that's the way many of them travel from the border up into California and undoubtedly into other states from other border crossings.  I lived in Capistrano Beach years ago, and there were Mexicans draped all over and under the San Diegan, that went clear to the beautiful Los Angeles train station from down near the border.  That train stops at Disneyland,  Anaheim Stadium, Del Mar race track and more.  The Mexicans hop off along the way and blend into neighborhoods.  The Migras would just pluck them up and it's back to Tijuana, for another try.  They take them back in vans, but eleven million is a bit overwhelming.

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    Never saw that (none / 0) (#139)
    by MKS on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 10:24:56 PM EST
    Did see them take out the brush in the meridian of the 5 South through Pendleton--because too many would try and hide in the brush and then got hurt running across the 5.

    Draped people on the train?  I am skeptical.

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    I haven't seen "draped." (none / 0) (#143)
    by oculus on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 10:38:11 PM EST
    But have seen slumped in seat with hat pulled down, simulating sleep.

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    Oculus they were draped (5.00 / 1) (#161)
    by fishcamp on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 08:45:08 AM EST
    on the train axels, as in riding the rails.

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    MKS and oculus... (none / 0) (#165)
    by fishcamp on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 09:15:15 AM EST
    Where I lived in Capistrano Beach, there was the ocean, a row of houses, the long Capistrano Beach Road, the train tracks, and the freeway.  We were very close to the tracks, too close, and it was a place where the train slowed down.  I saw Mexicans on the roof of train cars, in the empty ones sitting in the doorways, and, yes draped near the wheels.  Many would hop off near our house to walk down the beach.  I often gave them water from the hose, and told them they would probably get picked up if they walked down the beach.  Some made it and some didn't.  The train went by 12 times a day, so I really saw a lot of what I'm saying.  This was all many years ago, so I'm sure the migras have stopped this method of travel by now. The train noise finally got to me and I moved up to Malibu.

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    MKS and oculus, (5.00 / 1) (#178)
    by fishcamp on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 10:45:13 AM EST
    It wasn't the freeway, but the old Pacific Coast Highway that ran alongside Beach Road and the train tracks.  Also every other train was a freight train, and that's what they draped themselves upon.

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    Do you have photographic proof? (1.00 / 1) (#197)
    by oculus on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 02:25:11 PM EST


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    Remember (5.00 / 2) (#198)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 02:40:39 PM EST
    Google is our friend

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    Not that hard to find them; (5.00 / 2) (#201)
    by Anne on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 02:56:27 PM EST
    try Googling "Mexican Death Train."

    Here's some photographic proof for you.

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    .oculus (none / 0) (#200)
    by fishcamp on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 02:50:45 PM EST
    No photos, sorry...

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    Exactly (none / 0) (#123)
    by TrevorBolder on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 06:29:55 PM EST
    Trump, lol, immigration plan is a non starter.
    Will never be enacted by Congress, at least portions of it.

    Is a vote getter for a percentage of the primary voters

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    Just gratituous (5.00 / 1) (#140)
    by MKS on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 10:25:48 PM EST
    Latino bashing, then?

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    I noticed that too (5.00 / 3) (#84)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 01:47:05 PM EST
    it seemed uncharacteristic.  I honestly minded it less than you but I noticed.   Almost felt like she was warming up for Trump.  One of the reasons I would love to see Trump/Hillary is because she would be unleashed.  She has a great and wicked sense of humor and I think Trump could bring it out.  She would feel unbound from any sense of protocol.  It would be epic.

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    You are kinder than I, Peter. (none / 0) (#80)
    by Mr Natural on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 01:34:29 PM EST
    I'd suspect she was trying to frame Trump's position.  She succeeded.  His position looks uglier for her having said that.

    The question is, how many picked up on the cue?  We're seventy years removed from the Nazi horror.  Does this even register with younger voters?

    IMO, tropes don't have to be homomorphisms.  Their job is to evoke.

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    Also honestly (none / 0) (#85)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 01:56:01 PM EST
    if your actual plan is to remove 11+ million people from a country - it is - boxcars actually does seem quite plausible.

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    Is "cattle cars" a better term? (5.00 / 3) (#95)
    by Anne on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 02:25:01 PM EST
    Because to me, that's pretty much how they are being characterized, as animals to be herded out of the country.

    And the other thing, of course, is that if such wholesale, large-scale, rounding-up ever did take place, how many people do you think are going to get rounded up in error?  And what fresh hell will they be trapped in trying to prove they should not have been picked up in the first place?  Who will they complain to, what kind of rights will they be deemed to have, will there be any recourse at all, for anyone, or will those herded out of the country erroneously just be deemed to be collateral damage?

    Honestly, the more you think about this, the more bizarre and authoritarian it becomes.

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    I think that's right (none / 0) (#98)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 02:29:00 PM EST
    and maybe that's the point.  What does it actually mean to round up 11 million people.  Logistically.  Among other things.

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    Yeah, it's not like (none / 0) (#88)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 02:02:59 PM EST
    they are going to be flown first class which would be the only other option outside of boxcars and buses.

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    I think it was appropriate. (none / 0) (#142)
    by masslib on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 10:33:25 PM EST
    If Trump's immigration plan were actually implemented, that's exactly what it would look like.  Pulling millions of workers from their jobs with their children and transporting them over the border would look as sinister.  I see no problem with pointing that out.

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    Ann Coulter (none / 0) (#99)
    by ragebot on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 02:29:16 PM EST
    who was the warm up act for one of Trump's shows, and most likely has some input for some of Trump's plans, has always maintained illegal aliens would self deport under her plan.

    Coulter basically says attacking the supply, which is what the current administration tries to do, is silly.  Instead of attacking the supply by deporting illegal aliens it would be better to attack the demand by punishing employers who hire illegal aliens.  Offering a $US1,000 fine for first time offense for hiring an illegal alien, $US10,000 for a second time offense, and $US100,000 and five years in jail for a third time offense would reduce the demand and the supply would self deport.  Giving 90% of the fine to bounty hunters would turn up lots of folks hiring the illegal aliens.

    The straw man of LEOs in the street herding illegal aliens into boxcars is just that a straw man.

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    Has anybody noticed (5.00 / 4) (#23)
    by Repack Rider on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 11:32:35 PM EST
    ...that since the GOP is the party for people who hate other people, somebody like The Donald can come to the fore because that's all he talks about, hating some other people for something.

    It's not like there's a policy or anything, it's just look at these moochers, furriners, anchor babies, mooslims, messican reporters.  Whatcha got?  

    It's not like only one candidate does it.  They all do.  Show me a Democrat whose campaign revolves around who they don't like.

    Yes, they all do. (5.00 / 1) (#89)
    by KeysDan on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 02:03:40 PM EST
    An example from the Bill Maher Show (August 28).  One panelist, Dana Rohrabacher (R. CA), agreed and laughed with Bill on the loutish antics of Trump, but it soon became clear that there was little daylight between the positions of Dana and Donald. And, of course, Rohrabacher is what passes as an Establishment Republican, former speechwriter for Reagan, supporter of Prop 8, ethics problems, and, funded by none other than Ollie North.  But, he did not "like" Trump.

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    Exactly (5.00 / 2) (#96)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 02:26:44 PM EST
    Donald is saying out loud what they nodded and winked for a generation.  How do you fight him if challenging him simultaneously pi$$es off your base and reveals you as a total fraud who has been playing them for decades.

    It's a pickle

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    I think to understand it (none / 0) (#33)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 07:54:16 AM EST
    it really helps to know the people he appeals to.   I get the feeling you probably don't know that many.   That's a good thing.  You should be happy and proud.  Sadly I know lots.

    They are a frightened bunch.  Deeply deeply frightened.  Everything they used to know is wrong.  We have a black president, let's start with that.  But he has given them a new and terrifying world in which they can no longer confidently make f@g jokes or get out of bed confident that a world run by and for white people will greet them.

    I think one of the most precious things about the Trump campaign is his "silent majority" thing.  Let's be clear.  They are neither silent OR a majority.  

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    I got into one of those Facebook discussions (5.00 / 1) (#194)
    by Militarytracy on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 01:07:31 PM EST
    This morning. Frankly though my dear, stick a fork in me I'm done! Alabama had their rebel flag rally, and now the photos are Facebooking and some retired military showed up with them.

    I posted under such photos that active duty soldiers consider that treason. He posted back that it hasn't been treason since Beauchamp. I said wrong, it is treason...because they talk succession, and it was on the sign in the photo. He told me nobody is serious.  Really? They spent a whole Saturday doing this and they're not serious? You could be doing anything with a precious Saturday, and this is what you choose and you aren't serious?

    The truth is though anyone who is in uniform or is a DAC (Department of the Army Civilian) cannot preform acts that disturbs, breaks down, or encourages the erosion of good order and discipline in the ranks. And before I could post that his post disappeared.

    Stick a fork in me though, I am so phucking done with this. The next person on the government tit sporting one of those piece of $h*t flags and I am making concerned citizen/outraged citizen phone calls to commanders. I AM DONE WITH THIS !!!!

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    Yes (none / 0) (#34)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 08:18:37 AM EST
    honestly I wish I didn't know as many people as I do that think like that. I think it must be especially prevalent in the south or perhaps people in the south are more willing to say it out loud.

    I understand completely the appeal of Trump to GOP voters. The GOP has been playing lowest common denominator politics for so long that it's virtually blowing up in their face. It was easy as long as there was a Soviet Union but since the collapse they seem to have to take it out on another group of people. In 2004 it was big time gay bashing. For years it was black people. Now the hated group du jour is Hispanics.

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    At Long Last (5.00 / 3) (#27)
    by john horse on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 06:56:52 AM EST
    Wife: you were talking in your sleep last night.
    Husband: What'd I say?
    Wife: You were saying things like "Oh I've missed you so much" and "At long last we are finally back together".
    Wife: You were dreaming about football again, weren't you?
    Husband: Hey I can't wait for the season to begin.

    What Jim said... (5.00 / 1) (#29)
    by kdog on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 07:36:21 AM EST
    1. A nation with open borders is still a nation, residents and citizens share many nations in the world. A nation with walls sounds more like an ugly prison.

    2. There are literally so many laws they can't all be counted, never mind enforced. If the harmful and tyrannical and inhumane ones can't be repealed outright, next best thing is to not enforce them.

    3. Our government hasn't served it's citizens properly for decades, it serves money. Any immigration plan must be humane and realistic. Immigration isn't even a Top 10 problem right now, though deportations and detentions might be. It's politicians stirring the nativist pot for hate and fear based votes. Don't fall for it...kicking the dog ain't gonna help you or the nation.


    Those three brilliantly (none / 0) (#31)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 07:47:27 AM EST
    insightful and challenging bon mots come directly from the "Donald Trump Immigration 'Plan'"

    I guess we have our first official Trumper.  How fun.

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    Unfortunately (none / 0) (#43)
    by TrevorBolder on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 09:54:03 AM EST
    Countries without enforced borders eventually give birth to very strong nationalistic political parties.
    Please see Europe as a current example, in addition to the USA. A tolerant nation such as Sweden is just the latest example.
    Recent polling has the Swedish Democrats as the most popular political party in Sweden.
    According to a recently published YouGov poll, an anti-immigrant political party in Sweden has become the most popular single party among the country's voters. The Sweden Democrats, which has previously been accused of having links with neo-Nazi organisations, has the support of 25.2 per cent of the voting public.
    Improving the legal immigration process, with measures to encourage assimilation to the immigrants new country seems to me to be the best approach to this problem.

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    There's always going to be a few (5.00 / 2) (#74)
    by jondee on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 01:08:25 PM EST
    Hitlerian types in every nation who will try to deflect citizen's attention away from their WTO-corporate-investment banker sugar daddies by appealing to the mob's primitive tribal-xenophobic instincts..

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    Almost makes you rethink the whole (none / 0) (#44)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 09:59:51 AM EST
    "parliamentary systems are better" thing.

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    The biggest movers and shakers (none / 0) (#68)
    by jondee on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 12:50:45 PM EST
    on Wall Street already live without any borders, anywhere.

    They talk frequently about not worrying about forcing people out of the middle class in the U.S because they're (singlehandedly, they like to think), lifting people into the middle class in China and India..

    Yet certain Americans want blame poor
    Mexicans for the struggles of American workers..

    The whole thing would be laughable if it wasn't so pathetic..

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    Don't hold back - tell us how you really feel... (5.00 / 2) (#97)
    by Anne on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 02:28:29 PM EST
    or maybe, not.

    Pretty generous use of the "people like you" meme against someone you really don't know, at all.

    What right-wing reservation did you get sent out from?

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    Wellll (none / 0) (#94)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 02:22:00 PM EST
    hes not the worst.   That would be the Lutherans.


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    Howdy (5.00 / 1) (#188)
    by sj on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 12:18:50 PM EST
    Don't ever stop commenting. I love your sense of the ridiculous.

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    Hal09 you will never get commentators here (none / 0) (#116)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 05:10:13 PM EST
    to understand that labor is a commodity and that by insuring a steady stream of workers who will work cheap and not complain about terrible, often dangerous, working conditions they are aiding the rich and semi-rich.

    I find it sad that a group that claims to be for the working man and woman supports actions that are clearly anti-union.

    There was a time in this country in which unfettered immigration was needed. We had huge expanses of farm land that needed farms and a budding industrial society that needed unskilled workers. That is no longer true.

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    Those (5.00 / 1) (#118)
    by Politalkix on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 05:33:34 PM EST
    who support anti-union laws in "right to work" states have no standing to comment about what is "anti-union".

    Capital does not recognize national boundaries. If immigrants did not come to work as labor in the United States, the billionaire class would be setting up shop in countries where these immigrants lived (China, Mexico, etc) without bringing them here.

    They have already done that!!!

    And the Chinese billionaire class is also doing the same. With the policies that you support, your grandkids will soon have to work in Chinese sweatshops in the USA to earn a living or try to illegally immigrate to China. link

     

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    No matter what you claim (none / 0) (#130)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 08:03:05 PM EST
    You are what you support.

    You support open borders.

    Look at the results.

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    Yes, look at the results. (none / 0) (#135)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 09:15:53 PM EST
    Our diversity can and should define us, without dividing us. We have a multicultural society that, for all its problems, is still the envy of the world, whereas you and the white-wing -- well, nuf ced.

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    Results!! (none / 0) (#147)
    by Politalkix on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 06:58:28 AM EST
    The results show that areas with the highest economic growth in the United States are also those with the greatest influx of immigrants.

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    Politalkix is basically correct (5.00 / 1) (#162)
    by ragebot on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 08:52:25 AM EST
    But what conservatives point out is the jobs produced by that "highest economic growth" have mostly/possibly all gone to immigrants.

    But to me there is a bigger picture.  When I was taking Photo 101 I took a pix of a factory belching out smoke across a dead calm lake with a perfect reflection of the factory in the lake.  I showed the pix to the man my grandmother married after my grandfather died and he said one word, jobs.

    Like many college students at the time I was against unbridled growth for the sake of growth.  As I look around the country I see a massive decline in available resources like water and fertile soil for crops.

    I have posted on this topic before and it is still my position that at some point America simply can't provide for the number of folks who want to enter the country.  Maybe a better question is at what point does increased immigration reduce the quality of life.

    For most of my life Ed Ball was the richest, and possibly most powerful, man in Florida.  He obviously had lots of choices but claimed Wakulla Springs was the most beautiful place in Florida.  He built his personal hunting lodge there and later donated most of the land to FSU for a marine lab and sold the rest to the state with the stipulation it would never be developed and would be a state park.  Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park use to have glass bottom boat rides which included viewing mastodon bones on the main basin floor 230 feet below the surfaced in the crystal clear water.  Since the city of Tallahassee built its waste water well field to help deal with its five fold increase in population the glass bottom boat rides have been curtailed due to poor water quality.

    At what point does quality of life decrease due to population increase come into play?

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    Oh really?? Let's see some (none / 0) (#159)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 08:30:01 AM EST
    links and let's look at the total picture.

    When did it occur??

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    You're grasping at straws, Donald (none / 0) (#158)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 08:27:55 AM EST
    You can be diverse without inviting in the whole world and destroying millions of jobs once held by Americans.

    Check out what has happened to the meat packing industry. Check out what has happened to the trades.

    I know you live in a little hot house supported by tourism and the military but things aren't so hot in the real world.

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    Actually things are quite hot in the real world (5.00 / 1) (#172)
    by CoralGables on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 09:59:31 AM EST
    It's called global warming.

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    Actually all of history's good times (none / 0) (#193)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 01:05:06 PM EST
    coincide with periods of warming.

    So why is the UN, and other power hungry groups, so worried??

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    Party (none / 0) (#195)
    by FlJoe on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 01:17:07 PM EST
    poopers obviously, no "good times" for us, no hot times on planet Earth if the UN has their way. They want to take the fun out of destroying the ecosystem, like I said party poopers.

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    You're grasping at straws, Jim (none / 0) (#203)
    by jondee on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 02:59:51 PM EST
    and obfuscating the fact that you've firmly thrown your lot in with the outsourcing, right-to-work Free Market barbarians and traitors.

    Donald isn't the one sucking up to the faction that has monumental hissy fits about any interference in the Market; that would be you.

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    Watching Wendell Pierce (5.00 / 1) (#37)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 08:27:07 AM EST
    (Bunk from The Wire) talk about NOLA.

    Which reminds me.  Thanks to everyone who suggested that series to me.  I recommend if there is still anyone besides me who has not seen it.  See it.

    Where else are you going to see insert shots of gangbangers cruising around in black SUVs raptly listening to Garrison Keeilor and the Prairie Home Companion?

    Also in Treme (none / 0) (#50)
    by jmacWA on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 10:50:22 AM EST
    And born in New Orleans, so it makes sense.

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    A very interesting article about (5.00 / 3) (#70)
    by oculus on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 12:54:57 PM EST
    a transgender trailblazer:

    Once a Pariah, Now a Judge: The Early Transgender Journey of Phyllis  Frye

    The Bern is rising (5.00 / 1) (#119)
    by Politalkix on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 05:50:55 PM EST
    link

    "This feels like 2008 all over again," said J. Ann Selzer, pollster for the Iowa Poll.

    In that race, Clinton led John Edwards by 6 percentage points and Barack Obama by 7 points in an early October Iowa Poll. But Obama, buoyed by younger voters and first-time caucusgoers, surged ahead by late November.

    In this cycle, Sanders is attracting more first-time caucusgoers than Clinton. He claims 43% of their vote compared with 31% for Clinton. He also leads by 23 percentage points with the under-45 crowd and by 21 points among independent voters.

    Bernie's on the tube this morning (5.00 / 1) (#179)
    by Militarytracy on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 11:04:14 AM EST
    And his hair looks really good.

    Oliver Sacks... (5.00 / 2) (#190)
    by desertswine on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 12:22:28 PM EST
    passes away.

    "It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me," he wrote. "I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers."

    Oh, that makes me sad (5.00 / 3) (#191)
    by sj on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 12:26:37 PM EST
    Such a brilliant, lovely, lovely man.

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    So very sad (5.00 / 1) (#204)
    by Zorba on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 03:03:36 PM EST
    May he rest in peace.

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    Howdy, you also want to avoid (5.00 / 1) (#206)
    by fishcamp on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 04:11:25 PM EST
    Colorado Springs where Cheyenne Mountain and the Air Force Academy is located.  They don't like people like us.  We used to ski race, at night under lights, at The Broadmoore Resort, once a year.  They don't like ski racers either.  It's also not far from Supermax in Florence, Colorado.  Also stay away from the four corners section,  since every year people contact The Plague from rodents.

    Scott Walker says ... (5.00 / 1) (#207)
    by Natal on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 06:00:21 PM EST
    Canada-U.S. border wall worth considering
    'That is a legitimate issue for us to look at,'

    Shooter, the reason the Holy Water is (none / 0) (#1)
    by jimakaPPJ on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 05:20:47 PM EST
    shining is that I am in Nashville for Grandson's ballgame.....

    And if you have to put up with the traffic I've seen this PM then you have my condolences.

    Cryptic (5.00 / 2) (#2)
    by fishcamp on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 05:47:23 PM EST


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    Incomprehensible does not equal cryptic. (5.00 / 3) (#3)
    by oculus on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 05:58:28 PM EST


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    Lordy, that was funny! (none / 0) (#4)
    by MKS on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 06:10:11 PM EST
    worth the visit here.

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    Well in that case, (none / 0) (#5)
    by fishcamp on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 06:10:46 PM EST
    Let me be the first to say Go Ducks.

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    Michigan, despite hiring Harbaugh, (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by oculus on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 06:11:59 PM EST
    is unrated.  

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    Illinois, despite firing Beckman today, (5.00 / 2) (#10)
    by CoralGables on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 06:23:09 PM EST
    is unrated.

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    Wow, one week before the season opener. (none / 0) (#15)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 07:19:36 PM EST
    I knew that Tim Beckham was under scrutiny for having allegedly mistreated injured players, but that mistreatment must have been very serious for the administration to take action one week out from the opening game:

    "During a preliminary briefing from the external reviewers, [UI athletic director Mike Thomas] said he learned of efforts to deter injury reporting and influence medical decisions that pressured players to avoid or postpone medical treatment and continue playing despite injuries. He also said in some instances student-athletes were treated inappropriately with respect to whether they could remain on scholarship during the spring semester of their senior year if they weren't on the team."

    It was also announced that offensive coordinator Bill Cubit will take over as the Illini's interim head coach.

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    Give Jim Harbaugh a few years. (none / 0) (#9)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 06:22:44 PM EST
    Either he'll have the Wolverines back on track and in Rose Bowl contention, or he will have worn out his welcome in Ann Arbor -- or quite possibly, both.

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    Saw VA is suppose to start (none / 0) (#59)
    by ragebot on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 12:08:48 PM EST
    Kinda shocked that the Ducks would start a QB who had only played with the team a couple of weeks.  Either VA is very good or Lockie is a lot worse than I thought.

    Not to mention starting him against his old team may put a bullseye on his back.

    I am still a little upset by what happened to the FSU DL last year after the Citadel took so many cheap shots.

    Still I am happy football is almost back.

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    Obviously you philistines (none / 0) (#75)
    by jondee on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 01:15:59 PM EST
    have never read the Egyptian Book of the Dead.

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    No search function, unfortunately. (none / 0) (#83)
    by oculus on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 01:44:31 PM EST
    Please clarify

    link

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    The translation reads like bible stuffings (5.00 / 1) (#86)
    by Mr Natural on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 01:58:46 PM EST
    thees, thou shalts, blah blah blah.

    I wonder what it really sounds like - to a reader of Egyptian.  

    That's not a trivial question.  A week or so ago Jeralyn posted a google translation of a Cartel prisoner's letter asking to die at home in Columbia.

    The translation was weird, not the way I read the original letter.  Context was lost.  I'm not a translator.  I don't know the technical terms for the loss or error.  

    It made me wonder how translation is handled in legal cases.  I could see defendants getting misunderstood and their actions misrepresented as a function of translator biases.

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    I see that none of you are Stephen King (none / 0) (#20)
    by jimakaPPJ on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 11:09:47 PM EST
    fans...and you never watched the ending of "Salem's Lott."

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    Yes!!! (none / 0) (#7)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 06:18:18 PM EST
    Go Huskies!

    Weird (none / 0) (#8)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 06:21:13 PM EST
    i just heard on MSNBC that Palin was interviewing Trump on "her new show" tonight.  This is on MotherJones-

    Fed up with media bullies attacking Donald Trump's purported Bible fanaticism, Sarah Palin announced she will be interviewing the GOP front-runner and nonactive church member for what's sure to be a circus of a conversation. In a Facebook post today, the former vice presidential candidate and fired Fox News host explained her plans:

    WTH, LAMESTREAM MEDIA! STAY OUT OF MY BIBLE
    WTH? Lamestream media asks GOP personal, spiritual "gotchas" that they'd NEVER ask Hillary, or they'd feed the question to her and/or liberal cohorts before they asked it on-air (we know how these things work, lapdog media... the public's on to you), so good on Trump for screwing with the reporter. By the way, even with my reading scripture everyday I wouldn't want to answer the guy's question either... it's none of his business; it IS personal; what the heck does it have to do with serving as commander-in-chief; and these reporters trying to trip up conservatives can go pound sand until they ask the same things of their favored liberal pals. I'll cover this in my interview with Donald Trump and other candidates tonight on the One America News Network show "On Point." The more the media does this, the more they empower America to reject them and their bias as voters run to the anti-status quo candidates daring to Go Rogue.

    the link at the bottom does not work

    So I googled "one American news" and found a website but it doesn't work either.  Have they somehow blocked lefties?
    I would totally watch Palin interview Trump.  

    Oh, (none / 0) (#11)
    by Ga6thDem on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 06:28:54 PM EST
    One America is the new Fox. Since conservatives believe either Fox has been lying to them (of course you and I know they have) or been scamming them, this One America is the "new thing" I have never watched the network.

    My computer says their page won't load. I guess too many people are trying to get on to see the Donald interviewed by Palin.

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    Damn (none / 0) (#12)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 06:29:35 PM EST
    ..... One America News Network Connie, we're not on DISH yet, but please reach out to them and ask for  ...


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    Where to stream it live: (none / 0) (#13)
    by oculus on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 06:50:13 PM EST
    unverified info

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    It's the same (5.00 / 1) (#14)
    by CaptHowdy on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 06:53:55 PM EST
    those links appear to be overloaded.   But thanks.  If you are in NY or your provider carries it.  Mine does not.

    I'm watching him on MSNBC.  He's talking about Karear.

    North Karear and South Karear.

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    That made me laugh out loud (5.00 / 1) (#25)
    by sj on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 03:07:20 AM EST
    which is pretty sad actually.

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    Gird yer loins (5.00 / 1) (#39)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 08:35:02 AM EST
    Donald Trump Sarah Palin Interview FULL HD VIDEO Palin Trump Interview One America News Network OANN

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    I have to admit (none / 0) (#40)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 08:52:34 AM EST
    the dog thing at the end made me laugh.

    Does that make me a bad person?

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    Howdy, the dog thing at the end (none / 0) (#41)
    by fishcamp on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 09:18:13 AM EST
    of the Trump/Palin interview was the best part.  Why didn't Sara have her wedding rings on?  If she's separated from her snowmobiler husband, and I missed that, I'm glad I did.  Thanks for posting the interview.

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    The dogs (5.00 / 2) (#42)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 09:35:20 AM EST
    sans everything else

    Jimmie pointed out what I did not notice.   Only the white dogs sat down

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    wait a minute... (5.00 / 1) (#48)
    by Mr Natural on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 10:19:17 AM EST
    ... the dalmatian still had his spots.

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    The number of debates (none / 0) (#17)
    by Politalkix on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 09:07:19 PM EST
    Only 6 debates have been scheduled for Democratic candidates contesting the party nomination for 2016.
    Debates build enthusiasm and make the eventual nominee stronger. Just look at the number of debates Democratic party candidates had in 2016.

    -------------------------------------------
    Democratic Party Presidential Primary Debates

    1. April 26, 2007 - Orangeburg, South Carolina, South Carolina State University

    2.  June 3, 2007 - CNN 7:00pm EDT - Goffstown, New Hampshire, Saint Anselm College

    3.  June 28, 2007 - PBS - Washington, D.C., Howard University

    4.  July 12, 2007-Detroit, Michigan

    5.  July 23, 2007 - CNN - Charleston, South Carolina, The Citadel military college

    6.  August 4, 2007 - Chicago, Illinois

    7.  August 7, 2007 - Chicago, Illinois

    8.  August 9, 2007 - Los Angeles, California

    9.  August 19, 2007 - Des Moines, Iowa

    10.  September 9, 2007 - Coral Gables, Florida, University of Miami

    11.  September 12, 2007

    12.  September 20, 2007 - Davenport, Iowa

    13.  September 26, 2007 - Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College

    14.  October 30, 2007 - NBC 9:00pm EDT - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Drexel University

    15.  November 15, 2007 - CNN - Las Vegas, Nevada

    16.  December 4, 2007 - NPR (radio only) - Des Moines, Iowa

    17.  December 13, 2007 - Johnston, Iowa

    18.  January 5, 2008 - ABC 8:45pm EST - Goffstown, New Hampshire, Saint Anselm College

    19.  January 15, 2008 - MSNBC 6:00pm PST - Las Vegas, Nevada, College of Southern Nevada

    20.  January 21, 2008 - CNN 8:00pm EST - Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

    21.  January 31, 2008 - CNN 5:00pm PDT - Hollywood, California

    22.  February 2, 2008 - MTV 6:00pm EST - MTV Myspace Debate

    23.  February 21, 2008 - CNN 7:00pm CST - Austin, Texas, University of Texas at Austin

    24.  February 26, 2008 - MSNBC 9:00pm EST - Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland State University

    25.  April 13, 2008 - CNN 8:00pm EDT - Grantham, Pennsylvania, Messiah College

    26.  April 16, 2008 - ABC 8:00pm EDT - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    I think more than 3 is overkill (5.00 / 4) (#18)
    by CoralGables on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 09:49:51 PM EST


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    Debates (none / 0) (#28)
    by TrevorBolder on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 07:12:59 AM EST
    are a excellent way for under financed grass roots candidates to help get out their message.

    Establishment candidates , and their backers look to minimize the number of debates.

    OMalley called out the debate process yesterday, per CNN

    And on Friday, he made the point directly to the very party officials who made the decision, using most of his speech at the committee's summer meeting here to not only question the number of debates, but to question his party as a whole.

    And Debbie was not thrilled

    O'Malley's remarks clearly riled DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who spent most of the speech looking down at a table just feet from the governor. She rarely engaged with the speech or clapped for O'Malley.

    When O'Malley was finished, he turned away from the podium and seemed to lean in to give a kiss on her cheek to Wasserman Schultz, who was assuming the lectern. Wasserman Schultz just looked at him, shook his hand and continued walking to the podium.

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    Martin O'Malley (5.00 / 1) (#30)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 07:38:40 AM EST
    is polling at like 1%. He's desperate for attention. And there is no guarantee the debates are going to move anyone in his direction.

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    As a voter, I don't want the (5.00 / 2) (#36)
    by Anne on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 08:25:11 AM EST
    national party poo-bahs rigging the process, and as far as I'm concerned, this pitiful debate schedule was set up for the express purpose of exposing as few people as possible to candidates-not-named-Clinton.

    You wait - if the first debate gives Sanders or O'Malley more traction, I think there's a real possibility that some of the remaining debates will get the axe.

    And I guess what really ticks me off is that this isn't just about the face-off between the Democratic candidates, this is about highlighting the contrast between the Democrats and the crazy Republicans, a way to answer the insanity they are pushing.

    O'Malley's right: you don't meet that kind of thing with silence.  And if you do, you do so at your own peril.

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    Rubbish (5.00 / 5) (#64)
    by MO Blue on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 12:30:50 PM EST
    Sprouting such nonsense is guaranteed to turn undecided voters against HRC. But then again, maybe that is the real reason for your posts.

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    I think (none / 0) (#65)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 12:33:45 PM EST
    that is the point.

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    I thought (none / 0) (#92)
    by Zorba on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 02:12:03 PM EST
    the exact same thing, MOBlue.  

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    Why should the DNC do the (5.00 / 4) (#71)
    by KeysDan on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 12:55:47 PM EST
    bidding of people not named Clinton?  They should not do the "bidding" for any particular candidate.  However, the candidates are running to be the standard-bearer of the Democratic Party. .  Hence, the candidates should earn their way through the party processes.  If the candidate is not able to exert influence within the party, he/she is not only at a disadvantage within the party, but also, potentially, outside of the party.  The party, after all, wants to both win the presidency and offer a strong ticket for the other races.

    Senator Sanders, although caucusing with the Democrats, is new to the party and, accordingly, does not have the intra-party structural relationships developed and nurtured over time.  It is not uncommon for those candidates less well-known to call for additional party exposure, especially debates. Or, for the expression of concerns for the role of "super delegates" of the party, as was the case for Mrs. Clinton in 2008.  Candidates need to enter the intra-party fray while the cake is being made, or at least, before it is baked.

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    There's (none / 0) (#46)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 10:11:28 AM EST
    no way they are going to axe any other debates. Well, Hillary for one has not met any of their stupidity with silence. Their heads seem to be exploding over her comments about how the GOP wants to treat women and immigrants but she should not be the one to have to tote the load so to speak.

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    That (none / 0) (#51)
    by TrevorBolder on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 10:53:42 AM EST
    Is the definition of a coronation.

    Who cares what the grassroots think...because we know better.

    If the candidate is good, they will flourish in the debates.
    If they are mediocre, they will up their game.
    If they stink, best you find out early.

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    Wow (none / 0) (#53)
    by TrevorBolder on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 11:07:03 AM EST
    This is a process designed to het her elected President. Nothing more and nothing less.

    Nothing more need be said.....

    Well "The Bern" did have something to say

    Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) believes the Democratic Party is using its limited primary debate schedule to rig the nomination process.

    "I do," Sanders reportedly responded when asked Friday whether he agrees with former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley's assertion that the debate system is "rigged." ...

    "At a time when many Americans are demoralized about politics and have given up on the political process, I think it's imperative that we have as many debates as possible," Sanders said in a statement earlier this month. "I look forward to working with the DNC to see if we can significantly expand the proposed debate schedule."

    "Further, I also think it is important for us to debate not only in the early states but also in many states which currently do not have much Democratic presidential campaign activity," Sanders wrote in a letter to DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) in June.

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    Oh no (none / 0) (#55)
    by TrevorBolder on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 11:23:13 AM EST
    Do you really believe she has some moral obligation not to take full advantage of her power?

    Oh no. Not Hillary.  The Democratic party however, risks  a lot in pursuing that "design"

    For the supporters of Sanders , may beg to differ, and call it rigged. You will not have enthusiastic   supporters if they feel their guy lost a rigged primary. Young voters will be turned off by the whole process, why bother, it is rigged.

    Let the elite, the 1%, determine who best to represent the party.

    Both political parties are playing with fire if it appears that the primary process has been rigged to benefit the Establishment candidate.

    Trust your candidate and the Primary process, there is no need to rig it.

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    Oh, geez (5.00 / 1) (#56)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 11:30:14 AM EST
    this entire thing is completely stupid. There are going to be debates. We have five candidates and six debates scheduled. The GOP has 17 candidates and 9 debates scheduled and so far their debates have not changed the trajectory of the process and it's unlikely anything is going to happen in those debates to change the trajectory on the D side either.

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    Hillary asks for more debates!!!! (none / 0) (#145)
    by TrevorBolder on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 06:27:26 AM EST
    Well, she did in 2008.

    After 18 debates through early February, approaching an important Wisconsin primary, Hillary Clinton launches her toughest ad yet, attacking her closest rival for only wanting to engage in a mere twenty debates.
    The ad begun Wednesday asks why Obama hasn't joined her in accepting an invitation to debate at Marquette University. 'Maybe he'd prefer to give speeches than have to answer questions,' the narrator says...

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    Speaking as a Clinton supporter, ... (none / 0) (#102)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 02:54:21 PM EST
    ... what MO Blue said. That's just rubbish. Further, it's undemocratic. Campaigns are not coronations. Mrs. Clinton does not fear the public conversation presently taking place amongst Democrats, and you shouldn't either.

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    I can't figure out if these (5.00 / 1) (#111)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 04:13:45 PM EST
    are the greatest group of sarcastic comments about a candidate that I have ever seen or the most revealing self righteous.

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    Should the Hillary campaign do what?? (none / 0) (#127)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 07:58:30 PM EST
    Would I vote for her??

    Are you just confused? Or not as sharp as you think you are?

    What's even more funny is that Hillary doesn't give a flip about me.....or you.

    And try to understand this. As long as she stays hidden and makes nutty comments she will convince the Independents, who will decide the election, that she is unfit.

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    Actually (none / 0) (#128)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 07:59:32 PM EST
    this troll has a point. Why should anybody care what you think? You're part of the 39% of the country that will vote for anybody the GOP puts up.

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    Bu-bu-bu-but, Ga, Jim's an independent. (none / 0) (#133)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 09:05:02 PM EST
    He's told us that he always carefully considers all sides, before deciding that everyone is wrong but him.

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    Yes I have, Donald (none / 0) (#157)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 08:21:39 AM EST
    And I grew up and figured out years ago that neither side gave a flip about me.

    Too bad you haven't.

    So I watch and listen. Apply some logic.

    Try it. You might, and I know that's a stretch, learn something.

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    We're right, we're righteous, (none / 0) (#129)
    by Mr Natural on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 08:02:04 PM EST
    - and you're wrong.

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    Exactly (none / 0) (#32)
    by TrevorBolder on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 07:53:41 AM EST
    Sanders also wants more debates.

    And there is no guarantee that the debates will help them.

    But without the additional debates, the under financed grass roots candidates have an even greater mountain to climb against the establishment candidate.

    All the additional debates would do is help even the playing field, grant some additional much needed exposure to the lesser known candidates.

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    O'malley (5.00 / 1) (#35)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 08:20:38 AM EST
    has no grass roots supporters. He has no supporters at all and that is his problem and as a matter of fact people complaining about the debates don't realize that they could actually hurt instead of help. If O'Malley goes into that debate and starts sounding like a Republican and attacking Hillary, he might as well fold up his tent and go home.

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    You are being dangerously clueless. (5.00 / 3) (#38)
    by Anne on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 08:30:33 AM EST
    Again.

    The last thing O'Malley's going to do is sound like a Republican, for heaven's sake.  He - and Sanders - are challenging Clinton from the left, but you seem to be oblivious to that, with your face pressed so close to the tree that you have no idea you're standing in a forest.

    The less challenge Clinton gets from the left, the more you are insuring that, should she be the nominee, the only one sounding like a Republican will be Clinton.

    Debates are a way to get the party's message out, and given the message the GOP is sending, I think that's going to be pretty important.

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    Subject and first word of comment. (5.00 / 2) (#66)
    by oculus on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 12:48:35 PM EST
    Why do you insult the commenter b/4 proceeding w/your comment?  


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    I am guessing (5.00 / 1) (#72)
    by Peter G on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 12:59:34 PM EST
    that Oculus's comment (#66) was directed to Anne @#38. Sometimes, it's necessary to identify precisely what or whom you are responding to, if you want to be understood.

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    It was. Cyrpyic, as I rely on (none / 0) (#73)
    by oculus on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 01:01:58 PM EST
    "parent"!

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    And check your spell check, BTW (5.00 / 2) (#91)
    by Zorba on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 02:11:19 PM EST
    "Cyrpyic" is entirely cryptic, unless this is a heretofore unknown language.
    "Preview" is your friend.  ;-)

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    Actually (none / 0) (#45)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 10:05:36 AM EST
    he started off from the left trying to take people away from Bernie and when that didn't work he started from the right. The truth of the matter is he's just trying to get some attention it seems to me.

    Honestly though outside of you and me how many people even watch the debates? Last time there were 19 debates and I think I only watched about three of them. Did you watch all 19 debates? I mean there is a point where you aren't learning anything new.

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    Yes (5.00 / 1) (#57)
    by Politalkix on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 11:35:14 AM EST
    I watched every debate. And because you watched only three debates you are so clueless!

    Interestingly, in 2008 when HRC trailed BHO, she thought that even 26 debates were not enough. She wanted more debates. Her supporters at that time (who may have not watched more than three)started to jump up and down for more debates parroting her line.

    Now they think that anything more than three debates is an overkill!

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    Well, (none / 0) (#62)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 12:28:14 PM EST
    I wasn't one of them but how many people watched all 19 debates? I'm willing to bet you were one of the few. Mostly the only thing I remember is that Obama was a terrible debater and one of his comments probably cost him the primary in NH.

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    The problem with limiting debates (none / 0) (#60)
    by ragebot on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 12:20:05 PM EST
    is that some folks think it is being done to prevent their candidate from getting a fair shot at the nomination.  Sanders always seems to draw much larger and more dedicated crowds than Hillary does, not withstanding Hillary's lead in the polls outside of NH.

    What happens to those Sanders voters (and all the rest of the voters not supporting Hillary) if they feel their candidate got the short end of the stick and it was Hillary's bidding that resulted in fewer debates.

    The analogy about LeBron was just plain silly.  Hillary not only has to win the nomination, she also has to get voters who supported other possible candidates to come out and vote for her in the general.  Limiting the debates will not help in this matter.

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    Right (none / 0) (#63)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 12:30:33 PM EST
    now it's not about Bernie getting the short end of the stick so much as the fact that apparently there is a belief that the debates will help Bernie. There's no evidence they are going to help him or hurt him.

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    Let me fix that for you (none / 0) (#77)
    by ragebot on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 01:24:28 PM EST
    Hillary is afraid the more she is exposed the more likely she will screw the pooch.

    Hillary already has lots of image problems.  Sanders seems to be beating Hillary in NH according to the polls.  Not saying NH is representative of the US but Sanders will get lots of good press if he wins in NH.  It will not help Hillary's image problem if she is seen as limiting the debates.

    You can say the loss will only be a tiny one, but that does not make it true.

    The way for Hillary to stop the bleeding is more exposure, not less.

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    That (5.00 / 1) (#78)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 01:26:42 PM EST
    is wishful thinking. Actually the more exposure she gets the more Republicans start screaming like a stuck pig. She knows exactly how to slice and dice them.

    I think you are projecting the GOP's problems onto her. The fact of the matter is the more people see the GOP the worse they look.

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    This strategy (none / 0) (#113)
    by Politalkix on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 04:43:23 PM EST
    is not going to work if the Republicans nominate Kasich or Rubio.

    Trying to show how extreme Republicans were did not work for many Democratic candidates in the midterms when GOP candidates could cover their extremism behind smiles and feigned earnestness.

    If at some point, the GOP establishment (money people) decide that Jeb won't cut it they will put their resources to get Kasich or Rubio nominated.

    Republicans will be perfectly comfortable letting Trump and Hillary wrestle in a mud pit till HRC becomes unelectable before handing the nomination to Kasich.

    You seem to have a very cynical approach to politics (very much like the Republicans).

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    You mean Mrs. Clinton will have to be worried ... (5.00 / 2) (#192)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 12:52:35 PM EST
    ... about a guy who until 2011 would regularly and publicly claim that his parents were refugees from Castro's Cuba, even though they had emigrated to the United States in 1956, three years before Castro ever came to power in Havana?

    I suppose we could also take note of Marco Rubio's years-long inattention to his own personal finances, and the fact that he got bailed out by a GOP sugar daddy who paid him $800,000 to write a memoir about being the son of immigrants. This is a guy who regularly lectures us about excessive government spending, while purchasing an $80,000 speedboat with his sugar daddy's money.

    There's a lot less to Rubio's presidential prospects than meets the eye.

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    Exactly (none / 0) (#121)
    by TrevorBolder on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 06:20:39 PM EST
    is not going to work if the Republicans nominate Kasich or Rubio.

    And Jeb has just lost some donors.

    Cruz is counting on Trump imploding, or just being one of the last men standing to corral the Trump supporters.

    Fiorina may also stick around longer than first originally anticipated.

    And Carson still has larger than expected support, just demonstrating the anti politician fervor on the Republican side

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    Sorry (none / 0) (#122)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 06:24:00 PM EST
    but Kasich and Rubio have issues too. Rubio has the same immigration problem Trump has and then Kasich is saying that Obamacare is a job killer yet at the same time touts job creation with a Medicaid expansion.

    No, actually have you paid attention? You like holding hands with the GOP and I don't.

    And they would destroy Bernie. Were you around in 2004?

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    All (none / 0) (#125)
    by TrevorBolder on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 06:43:55 PM EST
    Politicians have issues.

    It all depends on what issues the voters consider MOST IMPORTANT come election time.

    If the politician is strong on a issue where the voting population feels is most important , any "issues" a politician may have can be easily overlooked.

    Do not let The Perfect be the enemy of what is attainable

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    Just saying (none / 0) (#131)
    by Ga6thDem on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 08:19:18 PM EST
    those candidates have problems too. Yes, they all have problems but the worst problem a lot of them have in the GOP is the fact that they are Republicans and the GOP brand is in the trash can. Heck, even the GOP base knows this and that is why Trump is leading in the polls.

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    My point is (none / 0) (#100)
    by ragebot on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 02:37:28 PM EST
    by limiting debates Hillary is opening herself up to arrows from those who think she is being heavy handed in squashing Sanders and the rest of those running.

    It is a judgement call as to what will hurt Hillary worst, putting herself in debates and defend attacks from lesser candidates or ignore the lesser candidates and suffer arrows from not being open.

    We may have to disagree as to which choice is best.  But I would point out Hillary is losing ground nationally and in NH and Iowa.

    Guess my football instinct is kicking in but I think the best defense is a good offense.

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    Hillary (5.00 / 1) (#148)
    by jbindc on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 07:02:04 AM EST
    Showed herself to be a good debater in 2008.

    However, the whole idea of what constitutes presidential debates anymore is a laughable dog and pony show.  It's a chance for candidates to spout talking points, get asked a few questions (which are never followed up on), and then get in a few zingers on their opponents, which is all anyone talks about the next day.

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    Actually (none / 0) (#149)
    by Politalkix on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 07:33:10 AM EST
    I learnt that BHO would negotiate with Iran and Cuba and would go after Bin Laden in Pakistan (even if he did not get permission from the Pakistani government) from those debates.

    Yes, the debate moderators are awful; however the solution is to put more pressure on debate moderators to improve rather than reduce the number of debates.

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    Exactly (none / 0) (#150)
    by FlJoe on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 07:35:38 AM EST
    the debates are more like a game shows then anything else, call it "Zingers and Gaffes".

    Six is too many, this is not a prize fight.


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    Sanctioned debates (none / 0) (#90)
    by ding7777 on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 02:10:09 PM EST
    the DNC has sanctioned 6 debates in 2016 the same number as in 2004 and 2008.

    The difference this time is the DNC is requiring both the candidates and the sponsors to agree to the exclusively of the DNC sanctioned process (a violation would result in forfeiture of the ability to participate in the remainder of the debate process).

    The DNC debate/exclusivity was announced in May 2015 (before both Sanders and O'malley declared)

    Sanders, O'malley and Webb could force the issue by participating in a non-sanctioned debate leaving Hillary with no one to debate  

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    Halo9 (none / 0) (#21)
    by jimakaPPJ on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 11:16:26 PM EST
    What you must understand that for some around here the the answer is:

    All of the above.

    just keep kicking down (none / 0) (#69)
    by jondee on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 12:54:35 PM EST
    and kissing up, Jim.

    It feels so good in the moment, doesn't it?

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    Huh?? (none / 0) (#112)
    by jimakaPPJ on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 04:19:28 PM EST
    Did you read the question??

    Which part of the following do you disagree with?

    And my answer??

    Some...all of the above...

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    complaint re constitutionality of SMC 12A . . . (none / 0) (#24)
    by zaitztheunconvicted on Fri Aug 28, 2015 at 11:35:46 PM EST
    If constitutional arguments are of interest,

    here is a complaint shortly to be filed in King County .  . . alleging that the anti-voyeurism law found in SMC 12a.10.120 is unconstitutionally overbroad.

    forgive my not giving more exact citations on the subject of overbreadth and void-for-vagueness . . . I am sure that the judge and defendant will be able to quote them and cite them properly.

    Just filled up (none / 0) (#76)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 01:18:11 PM EST
    2.17 a gallon.  Damn.

    Nice (none / 0) (#79)
    by TrevorBolder on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 01:33:16 PM EST
    Not here. Vary from 2.59 to 2.79

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    Wow, we're $2.85... (none / 0) (#104)
    by fishcamp on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 03:29:50 PM EST
    And it's 20 cents more at a boat fuel dock.  Boaters must also have the new Federal TWIX card to enter the big marinas for fuel.  It's a background check card that ensures the Feds you will not blow up the marina.  Very strict down here.

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    Thats why I have a sailboat (none / 0) (#120)
    by ragebot on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 06:19:52 PM EST
    Last three month trip to DT I left Boot Key, Boca Grande, Marquesas, Dry Tortugas and back and I used just under five gallons of gas.  One jerry can filled up my tanks with some left over.

    But it still worries me that R90 costs more than any other gas.  Should be cheaper and is definitely better for engines.

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    The Parov Stelar Band is coming to NYC! (none / 0) (#107)
    by Dadler on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 03:48:03 PM EST
    In November. As well as DC. The band has NEVER played in the U.S., only Parov as DJ and two horn players. Here's a clip from last New Year's Eve, when they played a festival bash in Tiblisi, Georgia. (LINK)

    Supposed to announce a couple of west coast shows soon, which I am waiting on with rare excitement for my brooding ass. If any TLers back east want to see a great show that will make you move your feet seriously, check out the king of electro-swing with his band. Be the loudest, most chest-pounding bass experience you ever have. Peace, y'all.

    ROME (none / 0) (#108)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 03:52:32 PM EST
    rainy afternoon like me?  HBOZ is doing a marathon of this excellent series.

    today's questions on the HRC email controversy (none / 0) (#109)
    by zaitztheunconvicted on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 03:56:42 PM EST
    For btd and Anne and Donald and the others . . .

    have you or anyone you know and trust read through some or all of the available 30,000 emails hrc sent while sec of state?

    which of them, if any, contain classified information?

    If you and those you trust have not read all of them, what is your belief as to whether or not any of them contain classified information?

    Supposing it is true that hrc's predecessors and colleagues sent a lot of email, including perhaps classified information, via unsecured servers, do you propose that the law be changed or that the practice be continued?

    If by chance hrc sent classified information among the 60,000 emails she sent or the 30,000 emails to which we have access, would it have been contrary to the law for her to have done so via her unsecured and semi-private email server?  Maybe Rice and Powell and bush and Cheney all did the same things; maybe not . . .  I am just asking what you think the law is . . . about sending classified information in emails on an unsecured server or system!

    just for basic clarifications here . . .

    I don't think that every violation of the law is morally bad or needs to be prosecuted . . . sometimes laws need to be changed . . . sometimes people are simply ignorant . . .

    Speaking for myself only, ... (none / 0) (#136)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 09:20:09 PM EST
    ... I've already said everything that I'm going to say to you on the subject. Aloha.

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    do you wish (none / 0) (#137)
    by zaitztheunconvicted on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 10:05:56 PM EST
    Do you wish to provide me with a link to any of your posts which answer the questions I asked, or to the thread and post number in which you have answered or attempted to answer these basic questions?

    I am not trying to dictate to any of you what the answer is or should be . . .

    I am trying to understand how you folks, or some of you, or one of you, justify the conclusion which one or more of you have asserted with certainty, that HRC broke no law or laws in the matter of her emails . . .

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    No, we don't wish to provide you with (5.00 / 3) (#141)
    by Anne on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 10:31:54 PM EST
    links to comments that are all there, in both the e-mail-specific threads and many of the open threads.  There are links galore.  We've discussed it, ad nauseam, and there's just nothing else to say that hasn't already been said.

    You've been trolling this subject far longer than you should have been allowed to; go bother some other blog with it.

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    Patience (none / 0) (#144)
    by TrevorBolder on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 06:17:59 AM EST
    There is no conclusive answer, not yet.
    Wait until the IG's finish their review of the e mails, and the FBI finishes their investigation.

    Then we will know, one way or the other.

    Until then, this will be a cloud hovering over her campaign, and drip...drip...drip.

    It is dripping in Iowa

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    You guys are still sure something's (5.00 / 2) (#167)
    by Anne on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 09:21:13 AM EST
    going to come from Whitewater, and every other "scandal" that you've attached the name "Clinton" to, so I guess you're familiar with patience.

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    I'm waiting for the discovery (5.00 / 5) (#175)
    by Towanda on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 10:27:54 AM EST
    . . . in HRC's emails of messages from Vince Foster, from the grave -- which, of course, will be incontrovertible evidence for the CDS crowd.  

    We have not made much progress in the centuries since the Salem witch hunts.

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    That's (none / 0) (#146)
    by FlJoe on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 06:49:32 AM EST
    correct. There is a (hopefully) discrete end-point to all this nonsense.

    Your drip...drip...drip is merely naval gazing on the part of people who are always certain Hillary is up to no good.

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    Naval gazing is a delightful activity (5.00 / 2) (#182)
    by Peter G on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 11:18:05 AM EST
    watching the boats go by, and all. Navel gazing is a less rewarding use of time. Hat tip: one of my favorite sites, which because I love looking at it, is one of my favorite sights, and because I enjoy the opportunity to reference it, is one of my favorite cites.

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    Do (5.00 / 2) (#186)
    by FlJoe on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 11:57:19 AM EST
    you mean the battle of Trafalgar I have been observing in my belly button is merely a hallucination?

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    To be fair and balanced, I should have (none / 0) (#184)
    by Peter G on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 11:38:54 AM EST
    congratulated FlJoe, in my post at the same time, for successfully navigating the shoals of "discrete" vs. "discreet."

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    well, I did learn (none / 0) (#163)
    by zaitztheunconvicted on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 09:08:08 AM EST
    In reading more on this topic,

    I have read the following allegations . . .

    1) that it is possible and usual for an email server to be encrypted to reduce the possibility of hacking or surveillance AND that during the first 2.5 months of HRC's use of her server, it was not encrypted;

    at least, so says fortune.com . . . whoever they are .  . .

    2) that HRC's email server contains on it some data from a spy satelite and it is data which would normally be highly classified and not permitted to be shared with foreigners--but that item supposedly resulted from HRC receiving it in email rather than sending it;

    at least, so says John R Schindler in thedailybeast.com, whoever they are, and I don't particularly know .  . .

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    All you have "learned" is more (5.00 / 2) (#170)
    by Anne on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 09:42:11 AM EST
    speculation that just feeds the conspiracy beast and keeps these faux Clinton scandals alive.

    Oh, there's an audience for it, no question.  People who will latch onto anything if it means it might vanquish the Clintons.  You seem to be fully invested in it, but the thing is, while you think you are masking it with these disingenuous, dishonest comments, I can assure you that you are fooling no one.

    Parent

    One day try reading comments (none / 0) (#169)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 09:32:03 AM EST
    iLINK

    by CaptHowdy on Tue Aug 25, 2015 at 07:25:27 PM EST
    the author of that op ed John Schindler has some experience
    with email problems
    Remember John Schindler, the conservative talking head, retired NSA spook, and Naval War College professor who briefly went incognito after screenshots of (what appear to be) his penis leaked onto the Internet? While he has since reappeared to Twitter--where he first drew attention for defending domestic spying and criticizing Edward Snowden--he has refused to comment on the mysterious emails, sent to the Naval War College by an unnamed blogger, that prompted the school to place him on leave, and his penis under official investigation.
    The emails sent to NWC, which Gawker obtained under a Freedom of Information Act request, refer to Schindler's habit of calling himself a "spy"; detail his correspondence with an unnamed woman (who apparently received his penis photo); and, in a lengthy missive, accuse Schindler of staging "cyber warfare" against his online enemies, using "thuggish tactics" to silence NSA critics, and violating various federal laws.

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    Why your penis picture won't go away? (none / 0) (#134)
    by Militarytracy on Wed Aug 26, 2015 at 08:18:20 AM EST
    Is another good internet use topic :)

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    Ha! (none / 0) (#173)
    by zaitztheunconvicted on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 10:06:11 AM EST
    thanks for the info!

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    Hard to believe (none / 0) (#166)
    by ragebot on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 09:20:43 AM EST
    Donald will not make any more comments about Hillary's email mess.  There are sure to be lots more drips he will have to ignore.

    What's the over/under on when Donald comments again about Hillary's email mess?

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    Al and ragebot, Hillary probably (5.00 / 5) (#177)
    by fishcamp on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 10:33:55 AM EST
    Thought, like the rest of us, that  it's not illegal, all the other SOS's used different variations of handling their email, and why are you still talking about this stupid stuff?  I believe all that is still true, but the pesky news media just can't let anything go by that has the name Clinton attached to it.  I'm in the process of erasing all my cookies and emails on three computers, and erasing the trash 15 times over, on the hard drives.  This is in case KeysDan decides to enter the race for President and needs my help...ha

    Parent
    My comment (5.00 / 1) (#183)
    by ragebot on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 11:29:38 AM EST
    was about the over/under of Donald not commenting on the Hillary email mess.

    fishcamp's post confirms that it is a mess whatever side you take.  The press is not letting go of this until the FBI investigation is finished.

    Let's keep in mind that there is still a lot of things the FBI has to do before the investigation is complete.  It is easy to find reasonable time lines based on the number of emails the FBI has to go through and how many can be done each month.  The FBI also has the task of seeing just how much stuff is on the server after the wipe, which should be over fairly quickly.  The FBI is also investigation if there are any backups of what was on the server.  And this is just what we know the FBI is investigating.

    Bottom line is the FBI investigating the server of a former senator and SOS.  Anyone who thinks the press will ignore it if dreaming.

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    How do you know all this? (5.00 / 1) (#187)
    by mm on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 12:05:55 PM EST
    The FBI also has the task of seeing just how much stuff is on the server after the wipe, which should be over fairly quickly.

    On what pretext would they have to do this?

    The FBI is also investigation if there are any backups of what was on the server.

    This is already known.  There is nothing to investigate.

    Bottom line is the FBI investigating the server of a former senator and SOS.

    Again, how do you know this?  All reporting so far is that this is a disagreement over material that can be released to the public in response to FOIA requests.

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    Ragebot, sorry I meant (none / 0) (#196)
    by fishcamp on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 01:47:34 PM EST
    To mention that The Donald isn't saying much about Hillary's emails because he probably knows it's a witch hunt.  He does seem brighter than I thought he would, but has a long ways to go to catch up to Hillary' knowledge.

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    What I actually said to zaitz: (5.00 / 2) (#189)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 12:22:07 PM EST
    "Speaking for myself only, I've already said everything that I'm going to say to you on the subject. Aloha." (Emphasis is mine.)

    Please learn to read for comprehension, particularly if you're going to comment about what I wrote.

    And given your own fact-free speculation on the subject, I'd say that you're no better informed about it than zaitz.

    Aloha.

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    This Trump Thing (none / 0) (#124)
    by NYShooter on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 06:40:30 PM EST
    Is a watershed moment in a much larger phenomenon taking place.

    Trump will not be our next President; Trump will not be the Republican Candidate either. The large collection of billionaires supporting numerous other candidates plus the Power Brokers who, actually, control the Party won't allow it.

    They know what's going on, they know it's destroying the Party, and, most importantly, they know things about Trump that, if they choose to reveal it, would make him unelectable, even to the angry, uneducated, anti-social mob slobbering over him now.

    No, Trump is not the problem, per se. He is, simply, the canary in the coal mine, giving us a preview of a much darker, and, more sinister movement to come. But, he has broken the dam and unleashed the forces for a future, much smarter Leader to take over, and, to consolidate this new constituency into a truly dangerous force.

    There's no turning back now. We have suspected for a long time now that the inequality plaguing America would lead to social upheaval someday. And, I don't see anyone, except, perhaps, Bernie Sanders, who could, possibly, stem this powerful descent into anarchy.


    Des Moines Register poll (none / 0) (#134)
    by oculus on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 09:11:45 PM EST
    re Democratic caucuses:

    link

    Hannibal! (none / 0) (#138)
    by CaptHowdy on Sat Aug 29, 2015 at 10:21:39 PM EST
    perfect ending.   Just where I thought it would end.  But getting there was great.

    Next up Hannibal the Motion Picture.

    Variety (none / 0) (#151)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 07:57:03 AM EST
    How are chances of a revival looking at this point? Have you put a pin into it until after season one of "American Gods" is done, or are there still active conversations?

    Martha De Laurentiis is investigating financing for a feature film and there's any of a number of scenarios. Shows have come back years after they've been cancelled, and I'm never saying never because ... as creatively daunting as it would be to tell that fourth season of Will and Hannibal's story, I'm very excited by that challenge. If I'm terrified by something creatively, because I fear my ability to pull it off, that inspires me to work harder in order to accomplish it. So I'm inspired by it and I'm inspired by Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy as my partners on this show. That final exchange between Hannibal and Will, Hugh and I wrote that while we were talking about what the scene should be. I was like, "It's very simple, it's Hannibal saying this to Will..." and Hugh was like, "and Will would say `it's beautiful,'" and I was like, "I'm just writing this down now and we're gonna film that." I miss that collaboration and I would love to engage in it again.

    Finally, anything you would like to say to the fans as we close the NBC chapter of "Hannibal's" story?

    Yes, I'm very careful to talk about how this is the NBC series finale. [Laughs.] I will try but I don't think I'll be able to accurately articulate my appreciation for the enthusiasm of this fanbase that has taken this show, made it their own and created parallel worlds of fan fiction to this work of fan fiction -- because that's very much what this show is. I feel like it was a unique experience of myself as a fannibal, writing the show as I imagined it -- it was my fan fiction -- and then sharing it with other fan fiction writers who then elaborated on it in their own ways. It was a wonderful communal experience. I've never had a show in the thick of the Twitterverse like I did with "Hannibal," and it was a really fantastic, exciting experience, and hopefully one we'll be able to repeat on "American Gods."



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    Also Variety (none / 0) (#153)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 08:10:36 AM EST
    Neil Gaiman fans, rejoice! The author himself will be writing episodes for the upcoming Starz series based on his beloved novel "American Gods."

    The show's producer (Hannibal creator) Bryan Fuller spilled the beans to Collider at the Saturn Awards earlier this week.



    Parent
    Silence of the Re-runs? (none / 0) (#152)
    by Mr Natural on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 08:02:22 AM EST


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    And the OnDemand and the DVD (none / 0) (#154)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 08:12:21 AM EST
    but definitely not IMO over.  I still think there might be a season 4.  Not on NBC of course.  And they have said if not there will be a film.

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    Btw (none / 0) (#156)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 08:16:12 AM EST
    be sure not to miss the after credits scene with Bedelia

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    Left field (none / 0) (#181)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 11:14:04 AM EST
    i have a request for Christine or anyone else local to CO.  I can't always remember where people are.  I am about a year away from full retirement and strongly considering relocating to CO.  I would be interested in discussing that, location location location, with anyone familiar with the lay of the land.  Off line.  Use the email listed.    But be aware this is not urgent and i don't check that in box every day.

    Thanks in advance.

    Howdy, after living in Aspen (none / 0) (#199)
    by fishcamp on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 02:45:52 PM EST
    For 40 years I can definitely mention many places you do not want to live in Colorado.  Aspen will  be on that list unless you suddenly win the lotto.  My first choice would probably be the Paionia area, over where Joe Cocker had his ranch.  It's a kind of hip banana belt zone with lots of quite normal people.  Many Aspen folks moved to that area because the cost of living is far lower.  I'll work on a list for you.  Remember it gets very cold in Colorado and you will have to spend thousands for warm clothing, and even more for all the boots you you will need.  C'mon down here and wait patiently for fish to bite and hurricanes to arrive.

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    Fish (none / 0) (#205)
    by CaptHowdy on Sun Aug 30, 2015 at 03:07:09 PM EST
    i have some rich friends with a big house in Aspen.  Lovely.   But the last place I would live.  And they know nothing of normal life.  I am just interested in finding a legal place to smoke pot till I die.   In a good way.  Not really interested in urban.   But I know there are very conservative areas to avoid.  Currently I'm rural and it suites me.  I need air and a yard.  Everything else is negotiable.  
    Email me if you like I might have questions.

    Thanx

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