Open Thread for May 2, 2016; We Shall Overcome
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 05/02/2016 - 7:00am
So we're looking at 2 this Monday

So we're looking at 2 this Monday

Dildo Baggins - this made me laugh uncontrollably! Enjoy!
Edit: Oooooh, crap! Playback has been disabled on other sites! URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63ffv4f7ADc
Holy mole with guacamole!
Watch!
http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7350377/u2-the-edge-sistine-chape...
I'm trying to grasp the cultural, implications. I'm reasonably certain that Ted Nugent is not on the short list of musicians scheduled to play The Sistine Chapel, but righteous indignation is certain to follow.
If we estimate the number of Dem and Reepo voters at 30% each leaving 40% for all Other of those participating (as opposed to eligible) voters and a reasonable estimate of 40% as the portion of Dems that support Bernie, then we arrive at an estimate of 12% of the American voting public who are Dems supporting Bernie. I submit that if one half of these voters refused to vote for $hillary, then she would lose the general election.
85 in the House and 22 in the Senate. Not to mention state house. Some have lost their primaries like Fetterman in PA.
85 Berniecrats are running for a seat in the House.
22 for a Senate seat.
Was a beautiful day in Portland today. (Apologies for the small photo size. My camera takes HUGE pictures, and the compression tool I have kinda sucks...)

at certain times? There are plenty of photographs showing up now, but for those of us house-bound, or city-bound, or grey-day depressed, would it be nice to try to set up a cooperative schedule? I am not an organizer, but I put this idea out, knowing it's been discussed here re: some people who we enjoyed elsewhere.
Joining the Green Party (GP) en masse may be seen as similar to coming here from TOP. The main difference, of course, is that the GP is a political party that has tried to directly influence national policy rather than indirectly reporting, commenting on, and discussing it. It has a larger membership that has held true to their beliefs through 16 years of mockery, approbation, guilt tripping, and shunning.

