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YOU (me, we!) are having impact, folks! Delegate GoFundMe updates: Bryce in CA and Egberto Willies of TOP fame

Bryce in California is nearly there and someone named Susan Sarandon (really her? dunno!) just kicked in hard: https://www.gofundme.com/BryceHilltoDNCC

From Egberto Willies' gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/2abw4v38

The Great Financial Market Disconnect

The stock market gets all the financial news headlines, but it's the credit markets that hold the real power. Or to put it a more colorful way:
“I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or a .400 baseball hitter. But now I want to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody.”
- James Carville

Video News Open Thread: Stephen Colbert and the RNC

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Since we have been discussing a more video-oriented open news thread and since this week and next week, during the conventions, Stephen Colbert is going to provide coverage, I thought I'd post as I have time for these two weeks. Consider this an experiment as we mull over the best way to present video news.

It's not brain surgery, Ben

Really. I mean, I know that it is difficult for people who are not transgender to understand what it feels or means to be transgender, because it is a non-feeling to them, but Ben Carson purports to be the "smartest guy in the room."

But all he is proving is that he is the dumbest "smart guy" in Cleveland.

In an interview with The Hill newspaper, Carson felt it necessary to share his views on transgender. As is usually the case for Carson, his synapses appear not to be firing in good order at the time.

Little by little our eyes are being opened....but it is so slow and painful

We are about to see the end point of the Democratic Party scam that they called a "Primary". The Republicans are doing their version and the theater just gets more and more sickening.

Stealing the First Lady's speech has caused another wave of reaction to the well established disregard for truth or ethics that should be expected by now.

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