Once again, a lawsuit brought by the Libertarian and Green Parties against the RNC, DNC and The Commission on Presidential Debates seeking injunctive relief to allow them to participate in the upcoming Presidential debates was dismissed without any hearing on the merits of the case by a Federal District Court Judge yesterday.
There's a reason why Goldman Sachs is so profitable - they cheat.
If you are considering "wasting" {cough} your Vote this fall, consider this ...
Now that Hillary Clinton has wrapped up the Democratic Presidential nomination with the endorsement of Bernie Sanders, her supporters have transitioned to denigrating progressives who affirm they are “Bernie or Bust” by supporting Green Party Presidential Candidate Jill Stein over Clinton. [...]
I stole this from the Writers Almanac e-mail from Garrison Keillor
Hey! Mom said frivolity is ok on weekends.
White trousers, navy blazers. Classic, or "been done to death" unimaginative?
Apparently the new thing in the politics is for the mayors to become crime waves.
R. Scott Silverthorne, he is the mayor of Fairfax, Virginia. He also maintained a tube in which he offered methamphetamine to men willing to have sex with him and some other men.
Silverthorne, 50, indicated that he could provide methamphetamine for sexual encounters and undercover detectives agreed to meet for a group sexual encounter in exchange for methamphetamine, police said. Silverthorne arranged to bring methamphetamine and other men, police said.
Detectives met Silverthorne at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in McLean on Thursday and
he was arrested after he gave them methamphetamine, police said.
When you are an American, you are not allowed to have methamphetamine, when you have sex with the men.
Neither are you permitted to get naked with the minors and load them up on alcohol. That is why Anthony Silva, mayor of Stockton, California, he was put in the pokey. It seems that, when not mayoring, Silva runs himself a "youth camp," where he whips out the liquor and then invites the young people to join him in a game of strip poker. Suffering from some sort of Nixon disease, Silva decided to tape these encounters, and now Mean Police, they have the tapes, and Silva, he is in Trouble.
Previously Silva had some Trouble when a 19-year-old woman accused him of sexual battery, the city manager charged him with secretly taping their conversations (more Nixon disease), and there occurred a fracas in a limousine, which caused police to handcuff the mayor while a woman ululated that Silva had inappropriately gone Clenis on her. Silva also had a firearm that got itself stolen; the gun then fired into a house, before killing a 13-year-old boy who was standing in his driveway. The cop people are claiming that Silva is declining to provide information in the homicide investigation, apparently because he doesn't Feel Like It.
Released on bail, Silverthorne and Silva united to form the Meth & Minors party, with which they now seek to become the president, and vice-president, respectively. They have already seriously redrawn the electoral map, as political analysts expect the Meth & Minors party to prevail this November in at least West Virginia, where four years ago some 41% of the Democrats voted for a Texas prison inmate, rather than cast ballots for The Kenyan.
(In British- Scrapheap Poo Pit Challenge)
To start on a positive note, Michael Phelps is the leading Medal Winner participating in this Olympics. He's a swimmer (I swim) and has demonstrated remarkable longevity in his sport. He's anti-Steroid (well, never tested positive) and claims he's never been in a race without dopers. So U-S-A U-S-A to you.
On the other hand it could have been Ibtihaj Muhammad who fences in a hijab which is an unfair advantage in that it's a visible distraction and may cause you to misdirect your strike out of the scoring area (hey, I fence too).
Downhill from this minor distraction? Well, it's a mite grassy and rocky this time of year but I have some boards I can trash. Sure. Why not?
I heard this event mentioned on NPR tonight and wondered if taking a small number of questions was going to be billed as a presser. Yup...
When the media has reported on it, the Clinton campaign has ignored it.
But Trump started trumpeting on this and it seems maybe he's gotten under her skin just a bit:
The title here refers to people complaining about the state of many forms of media and entertainment today from Television to Video Games and Music to, yes, even Professional Wrestling. These cries of Political Correctness and 'SJW Censorship' have ruined everything according to some. There's just one problem with that: What many of these folks decry as Political Correctness Run Amok is simply a media response to changing and growing demographics.
I've had this fantasy for a couple of years now, and it's not a serious fantasy but it is also not completely unserious.
When Occupy Wall Street first came about, I thought about how I'd like to interact with those kids (I'm 61).
Around that time I found a YouTube of The Heart Sutra that just captured me. I found saying the sutra in Sanskrit was an interesting experience, this is one of the oldest languages on earth and you can feel that when you speak it.
