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If I See That Hillary Ad One More Time...

Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Tue, 06/14/2016 - 6:37pm

I am going to destroy my monitor. Seriously. Every time I click another video on Youtube, this is the ad I get"Hillary Clinton tried to get us a Universal Healthcare system.' You know, the one Ted Kennedy was instrumental in getting through congress. Yeah, that's why you're fighting against it now, right? "Single Payer will never ever happen.' She said early in her campaign.

My Non-Political Happy Post of the Week

Submitted by Steven D on Tue, 06/14/2016 - 5:55pm

It may not make fans in Cleveland happy, but it sure helped me remember the best day I had all year, February 7, 2016, when the Denver Broncos, my team since I was ten years old, upset the Carolina Panthers and won Super Bowl 50. The team received their championship rings the other night and here is what it looks like:

SB50Ring.jpg

Video highlights of the game:

Tim Canova jumps the shark.

Submitted by The Voice In th... on Tue, 06/14/2016 - 5:27pm

Received an e-mail from Tim Canova. This time he has shifted his focus from DWS to Donald Trump.

The contribution e-mail says in part.

"which is why we’re asking:

Can you sign our petition pledging to do whatever you can to defeat Donald Trump in the general election? "

i.e. vote for Hillary Clinton. I unsubscribed, telling his campaign why. I regret the money I previously sent to his campaign.

The “Real” Definition of Democratic Socialism™

Submitted by LibRad on Tue, 06/14/2016 - 2:55pm

Before I get to my take on the “real” definition, the political scientist in me feels a need to define some commonly misunderstood terms of which socialism is a great example. Like many people here in the US, I have always been very uncomfortable with the word socialism, and in my case, I realize it is because that one word has many very different meanings.

It gets better

Submitted by WaveyDavey on Tue, 06/14/2016 - 2:41pm

Back in the mid-80s my friends and I were at the only gay bar within 100 miles in any direction and one of the only five in the entire state of Tennessee. It was the middle of summer and everyone had Saturday Night Fever. Being the only gay bar around it was always crowded on the weekends and everyone was in their groups. The lesbians were hanging out by the pool table. The preppies were in the corner booth. The punk and new wave crowd were in the darkest corner.

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