Open Thread for July 18, 2016; Nelson Mandela International Day

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 7:00am

July 18 is the 199th day of the year. There are 166 days left.

18 is a multiple of 9, 3, and 6, leading to suspicions that it will generate unending fractions (more later)

18 is the sum of 3 of its divisors, 3, 6, and 9
18 is argon, a noble gas
18 is the group containing noble (inert) gases in the periodic table

The Mahabarata has 18 books, (including the Bhagavad Gita which has 18 chapters) and concerns a war between 18 armies that lasted 18 days

OK, deep breath, but first recall that 1/3 is .333 repeated forever, 1/6 is .666 repeated forever and 1/9 is .111 repeated forever.
1/18 = 0.055 repeat 5 forever
2/18 = 0.111 repeat 1 forever (1/9)
3/18 = 0.166 repeat 6 forever (1/6)
4/18 = 0.222 repeat the 2 (2/9)
5/18 = 0.277 repeat the 7
6/18 = 0.333 repeat the 3 (1/3 = 3/9)
7/18 = 0.388 repeat the 8
8/18 = 0.444 repeat the 4 (4/9)
9/18 = .5 (1/2)
etc.

In most countries, 18 is the age of majority
In most countries, 18 is the voting age
18 is the age of sexual consent under the Mann Act
18 is 6 pm

There are 18 chapters in Ulysses by James Joyce

18 BCE was the Year of the Consulship of Lentulus and Lentulus (That would be Publius Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus, and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus)
Caesar Augustus introduced two of the lex Julia, the Lex Iulia de Ambitu which punished bribery when acquiring political office and the Lex Iulia de Maritandis Ordinibus which restricted marriage between differing social classes
Juba II was King of Mauretania and Lugaid Riab nDerg was High King of Ireland

18 CE was the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Caesar
The Roman poet Ovid died

On this day in:
0064 -- The Great Fire of Rome burned for six days, destroying half of the city.
1290 -- King Edward I of England issued the Edict of Expulsion, banishing the Jews
1870 -- The First Vatican Council erroneously decreed the dogma of papal infallibility
1925 -- Adolf Hitler published Mein Kampf.
1936 -- An army uprising started the Spanish Civil War.
1942 -- The Germans flew the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet aircraft.
1969 -- Chappaquiddick

1982 -- Two hundred sixty-eight campesinos were slain in Ríos Montt's Guatemala (the Plan de Sánchez massacre). Rios Montt was one of those darlings of the US government, a brutal, fascist dictator who received support from the CIA and assorted other agencies. He graduated from the US run School of Assassins in Panama (now WHINSEC at Ft. Benning) and cut his teeth in the 1954 CIA organized coup d'etat against then Predident Jacobo Arbenz Guzman.

1994 -- The Rwandan Patriotic Front took control of Gisenyi and NW Rwanda ending the genocide.
1995 -- The Soufrière Hills volcano on Montserrat erupted and over time pretty much destroyed the island.
1995 -- Selena's Dreaming of You was released posthumously & became the best-selling Latin album in the United States.
2013 -- The Government of Detroit, filed for bankruptcy.

Ahhh, Montserrat, an island paradise beloved of boat folk

and Selena

Born this day in:
1659 -- Hyacinthe Rigaud, painter
1670 -- Giovanni Bononcini, cellist and composer
1718 -- Saverio Bettinelli, poet, playwright, and critic
1797 -- Immanuel Hermann Fichte, philosopher and academic
1811 -- William Makepeace Thackeray, author and poet
1853 -- Hendrik Lorentz, physicist and academic
1895 -- Machine Gun Kelly, gangster, also died on 7/18
1902 -- Jessamyn West, author
1903 -- Chill Wills, actor, singer, talking mule
1906 -- S. I. Hayakawa, academic, opponent of ethnic studies, and politician
1909 -- Mohammed Daoud Khan, a somewhat progressive Afghan politician & 1st President of Afghanistan
1909 -- Harriet Nelson, singer and actress
1918 -- Nelson Mandela, lawyer and politician, 1st President of South Africa,
1921 -- John Glenn, colonel, astronaut, and politician
1922 -- Thomas Kuhn, physicist, historian, and philosopher
1929 -- Screamin' Jay Hawkins, singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
1937 -- Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and author
1938 -- Ian Stewart, keyboard player and manager (The Rolling Stones and Rocket 88)
1939 -- Brian Auger, keyboard player (Brian Auger and the Trinity, CAB, and The Steampacket)
1939 -- Dion DiMucci, singer, songwriter and guitarist (Dion and the Belmonts)
1941 -- Lonnie Mack, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1941 -- Martha Reeves, singer, actress, and politician (Martha and the Vandellas and The Fascinations)
1950 -- Glenn Hughes, singer, dancer, and actor (Village People)
1954 -- Ricky Skaggs, singer, songwriter, mandolin player, and producer (New South)
1955 -- Terry Chambers, drummer (XTC and Dragon)
1957 -- Keith Levene, guitarist, songwriter, and producer (Public Image Ltd, The Flowers of Romance, and The Clash)
1962 -- Jack Irons, drummer (Spinnerette, What Is This?, The Wallflowers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, and Eleven)

Died this day in:
1100 -- Godfrey of Bouillon, knight & Crusader.
1566 -- Bartolomé de las Casas, historian who chronicled atrocities against indigenous people
1610 -- Caravaggio, painter
1721 -- Jean-Antoine Watteau, painter
1792 -- John Paul Jones, Revolutionary War admiral, US diplomat, and Russian rear-admiral.
1817 -- Jane Austen, novelist
1890 -- Lydia Becker, journalist, author, and activist, co-founded the Women's Suffrage Journal
1899 -- Horatio Alger, Jr., American novelist and journalist
1938 -- Marie of Romania, punchline for Dotty:

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea; 
And love is a thing that can never go wrong; 
And I am Marie of Romania.
 -- Dorothy Parker

1954 -- Machine Gun Kelly, gangster
1966 -- Bobby Fuller, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Bobby Fuller Four)
1969 -- Mary Jo Kopechne, educator and secretary
2001 -- Mimi Fariña, American singer, songwriter and guitarist

Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days and such:
Nelson Mandela International Day

So, for music we gots seriously contrasting bookends & --
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Ian Stewart
Brian Auger
Dion DiMucci
Lonnie Mack
Martha Reeve
Glenn Hughes
Ricky Skaggs
Terry Chambers
Keith Levene
Jack Irons
Bobby Fuller
Mimi Fariña

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Ian Stewart

Brian Auger

Dion DiMucci

Lonnie Mack

Martha Reeves

Glenn Hughes

Ricky Skaggs

Terry Chambers

Keith Levene

Jack Irons

Bobby Fuller

Mimi Fariña

OK, Open Thread, everybody have at it, but play nicely.

Hmmmm, Memphis, eh?

Just for grins

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Open Thread

Mein Kampf

Rios Montt

Montserrat

Thackery

Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Dion And The Belmonts

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Submitted by WoodsDweller on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 8:02am

People Focused on What Really Matters

Pokeman in Central Park

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Adtz5NljaIw]

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Submitted by eyo on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 8:35am

2 California men fall off edge of ocean bluff while playing

'Pokemon Go'

[...] In North San Diego County, two men fell off a bluff while playing the smartphone game, while farther north in Anaheim, a player was stabbed by group of men in a park recently.

The incidents come as law enforcement agencies across the nation are reporting a plethora of Pokemon-related attacks and odd happenings since the game was released last week.

On Wednesday, firefighters rescued two men who fell several stories off the crumbling sandstone bluff in Encinitas, according to authorities. The men, who were in their early 20s, were playing “Pokemon Go” at the time and likely were led to the cliff when they were trying to catch characters, said Sgt. Rich Eaton of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department. [...]

Don't say lemmings.

Submitted by riverlover on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 9:16am

No lemmings, cartoon prey drive.

Much worse. What does that co$t?

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 11:21am

Lemmings don't behave like that, but I hear that sheep &

ducklings do.

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Submitted by hecate on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 1:19pm

ducklings

are smart! They don't do any of that dumbness.

Also, you talk about noble gases, but how come nobody ever mentions the ignoble gases? Here they are, in a chart.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Tue, 07/19/2016 - 12:13pm

Goslings, then, somebody imprints. Nice periodic table.

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 11:19am

Lattest maddening fad. Our culture produces an

endless supply of them.

Great Kerouac quote, btw, which I dimly remember from my youthful reading.

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Submitted by hecate on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 2:17pm

a big man with a big dog

is hunting pokemon in the oak lot across the street. They are scaring and angering the crows, who have a great Hate for dogs, and who believe humans who walk along staring down at little screens need to go to evolution school.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Tue, 07/19/2016 - 12:15pm

Generally, I side with the corvids

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Submitted by Not Henry Kissinger on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 7:33pm

Pikachu!

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Submitted by eyo on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 12:00pm

Mandela Effect

Thanks EL if I turn 18 counter clockwise ~~forty five~~ ninety degrees it is like infinity underlined. My mom walked on when I was 18. On July 28th, what a symbolic day that will be (for me) the death of a major political party too. Here is the Mandela Effect site: Memories

Most popular alternate memories
[...] Many people — including me — remember Billy Graham’s funeral on TV. My own memories placed Graham’s death close — within weeks, possible a month or two, at the very most — to the time when Ted Kennedy died. I remember that the weather was warm in New England.

At the time, I didn’t think Billy Graham’s funeral was especially odd. I didn’t watch much of the funeral and burial coverage, but I can remember flipping through TV channels, and seeing most networks carrying the event. I remember thinking, at Ted Kennedy’s funeral, “Wow. We just had lots of shows pre-empted by Billy Graham’s funeral. I guess that kind of coverage has become standard.”

I clearly remember the funeral, and related TV coverage for several days.

In the comments many many people really do remember exactly things that never did happen. How is it?

Edit: the strikethrough. lol I thought hard about that too, not hard enough. thanks again el.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 11:22am

I think you mean 90 degrees. Thanks for the comment.

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Submitted by Lookout on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 8:51am

Green party efforts

There was good news from Arizona this weekend -Arizona Secretary of State Michele Reagan and the Arizona Green Party have struck a deal allowing the party’s presidential candidate on the November ballot despite the party’s failure to file its nomination papers for Electoral College delegates on time.

www.jill2016.com/events
Presumptive Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein will make a campaign stop in Stamford Thursday as part of a Connecticut tour to obtain signatures to place her name on the state’s November ballot. Stein is scheduled to speak at the Stamford Innovation Center, 175 Atlantic St., between 6 and 7:30 p.m. to promote her candidacy.

From Jill's facebook page
https://www.facebook.com/events/1752475508372908/

Our movement faces a burning question: Do we fall in line behind Clinton’s corporate campaign, or do we continue the political revolution and build a new party for the 99%?

Tens of millions are standing against the tide, resisting a Democratic Party establishment hell-bent on forcing Sandernistas behind Wall Street’s “lesser evil” candidate. But how can we build a political alternative to continue the struggle against the billionaire class?

Movement4Bernie and Socialist Alternative are organizing a series of forums across the country to debate these questions facing our movement. These meetings will feature a video address from Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and Seattle’s socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant, laying out the case against backing Clinton, a strategy to stop Trump’s right-wing agenda, and how we can build a left political alternative to continue the political revolution.

Join us to discuss how to help Jill Stein’s campaign make the biggest possible impact in 2016, how you can help mobilize for the protests at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 23-28, and how we can build toward a socialist alternative to this crisis-ridden capitalist system.

As Bernie folks rally to Jill I hope we begin to do a better job with information and publicity. The most common comment I'm getting is "Jill who?"

el thanks for the 18 fun facts and hope all you c99ers have a good day!

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Submitted by divineorder on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 9:37am

Here's the link to her campaign's scheduled events

http://www.jill2016.com/events

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 11:24am

Thanks.

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 11:23am

good news, thanks.

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Submitted by Azazello on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 9:14am

Good morning el,

Here's some more Selena:
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKGbjJarMeA]

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The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 11:01am

Thanks, I was aware of her existence and death, but

never listened to her music. That was pretty perky.

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Submitted by Azazello on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 11:30am

I'm a fan,

got a couple of her records. I think she'd have been big if she'd lived, bigger than Shakira.

Amor prohibido murmuran por las calles ... (Vid shot in SoCal, note Joshua trees.)

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvfZ95ueOcQ]

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The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 12:58pm

Very nice, thanks. I'll have to listen to more of her.

Thought I saw a cuple of jump cuts to scenery involving saguaro's, so maybe multiple locales?

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Submitted by Azazello on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 1:19pm

I saw that too.

I'm thinking fake saguaros, real Joshuas.

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Submitted by riverlover on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 9:19am

How many numbers are sums of their divisors?

Mild headache here. Storms blowing in, likely misses because I am now living in severe drought conditions (in NY!!!!).

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 11:16am

Well, 18 is the sum of only some of its divisors. "Perfect

numbers" are the sum of all of their divisors excepting themselves. There are some theorems about them, and it is unknown if there are an infinite number of them or not. The first 4 are 6 (1+2+3), 28 (1+2+4+7+14), 496, and 8128, so they clearly get scarcer and scarcer.

That doesn't address your question, but I would expect that numbers like 18, that are the sum of some of their divisors are more common, maybe a lot more common. It seems that one could create an infinite number of them by creating a series of even multiples of the known ones. 12 = 6+1+2+3, 24 = 12+6+1+2+3, 36 = 18+3+6+9, 72 = 36+18+3+6+9, etc.

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Submitted by Shahryar on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 12:44pm

it feels possible to work out the sequence

6, 28, 496, 8128....I just have a feeling there's a formula that would give us the next number. If so, I'm sure it's well known among mathematicians.

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 1:06pm

Yes and no, there is a formula, involving mersenne primes, but

Here's from da wiki

Euclid proved that 2p−1(2p − 1) is an even perfect number whenever 2p − 1 is prime (Euclid, Prop. IX.36).

For example, the first four perfect numbers are generated by the formula 2p−1(2p − 1), with p a prime number, as follows:

for p = 2: 21(22 − 1) = 6
for p = 3: 22(23 − 1) = 28
for p = 5: 24(25 − 1) = 496
for p = 7: 26(27 − 1) = 8128.
Prime numbers of the form 2p − 1 are known as Mersenne primes, after the seventeenth-century monk Marin Mersenne, who studied number theory and perfect numbers. For 2p − 1 to be prime, it is necessary that p itself be prime. However, not all numbers of the form 2p − 1 with a prime p are prime; for example, 211 − 1 = 2047 = 23 × 89 is not a prime number.[11] In fact, Mersenne primes are very rare—of the 9,592 prime numbers p less than 100,000,[12] 2p − 1 is prime for only 28 of them.

Over a millennium after Euclid, Ibn al-Haytham (Alhazen) circa 1000 AD conjectured that every even perfect number is of the form 2p−1(2p − 1) where 2p − 1 is prime, but he was not able to prove this result.[13] It was not until the 18th century that Leonhard Euler proved that the formula 2p−1(2p − 1) will yield all the even perfect numbers. Thus, there is a one-to-one correspondence between even perfect numbers and Mersenne primes; each Mersenne prime generates one even perfect number, and vice versa. This result is often referred to as the Euclid–Euler theorem. As of January 2016, 49 Mersenne primes are known,[14] and therefore 49 even perfect numbers (the largest of which is 274207280 × (274207281 − 1) with 44,677,235 digits).

An exhaustive search by the GIMPS distributed computing project has shown that the first 44 even perfect numbers are 2p−1(2p − 1) for

p = 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 19, 31, 61, 89, 107, 127, 521, 607, 1279, 2203, 2281, 3217, 4253, 4423, 9689, 9941, 11213, 19937, 21701, 23209, 44497, 86243, 110503, 132049, 216091, 756839, 859433, 1257787, 1398269, 2976221, 3021377, 6972593, 13466917, 20996011, 24036583, 25964951, 30402457, and 32582657 (sequence A000043 in OEIS).[15]
Five higher perfect numbers have also been discovered, namely those for which p = 37156667, 42643801, 43112609, 57885161, and 74207281, though there may be others within this range. It is not known whether there are infinitely many perfect numbers, nor whether there are infinitely many Mersenne primes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_number

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 1:10pm

Oops, a certain text attribute failed to post correctly.

The formula is 2 to the p-1 power times ((2 to the p power) -1); or

2**(p-1) x ((2**p)-1).

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Submitted by Shahryar on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 1:38pm

whew! Thanks!

I couldn't make out what was going on without those!

Submitted by Shahryar on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 1:56pm

so you're saying 8,386,560 would be one of these

so how does this work? The factors to get there are 2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*2*3*3*5*7*13. Do you also add in all of those 4s? All of those 8? etc?

(if I did this right. 2 to the 11th times (2 to the 12th...minus 1))

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 5:19pm

I think that factors only get to be used once, but the key is

that we aren't talking the repeat of any factor. The factors of 12 are 1, 2,6,3, 4 and12, but we don't count the number itself (12). We don't reduce them to 2x2x3 or 3x2x2. Similarly, for 24, we get 1,2,3,4,6,8,12, and 24 and toss out the 24. Alternatively, we define a perfect number as the sum of *all* of its factors, including itself, over 2.

The p in the formula is the same for all terms, for example 2**(p−1)(2**(p) − 1) using 11 for p would be 2**(11-1)((2**11)-1), or (2**10)((2**11)-1)

You'll note that perfect numbers will all include 1 as a factor, which is a pain.

Mersenne primes are primes that are one less than a power of two, like 3 (one less than 4) or 7 (one less than 8). They take the form (2**n)-1, but not all numbers of that form are primes: (2**4) - 1 = 15, which is not prime, but is a mersenne number.

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 6:33pm

Another attempt at clarification -

1) compute the result of the formula
2) independently find all factors of the result
3) add the latter excepting the result itself, sum should be result.

Example, computation results in 496 (3rd perfect #)
Factor: 496 = 2 * 248, 4 * 124, 8 * 62, 16 * 31, 1 * 496
add factors: 2+248+4+124+8+62+16+31+1 = 496

tadaaa!

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Submitted by divineorder on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 10:00am

Mandela, what an amazing history. What could we

learn from him that would help us now? South Africa is modern in many ways, but still facing huge income inequality generated problems which surely are daunting. One anecdote we were told that schools are being burned with the thinking 'if you won't build us schools you can't have them either.' but who knows.

We were in camping Kruger in SA again for little over a month. Historic drought is ongoing. Lions are doing well, but hippos, not so much. Grass is grazed down to nothing.

IMG_1549 (800x534)_0.jpg

We went from sighting around 50 lions last year to over a 100 this year.

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 12:02pm

Not good about the hippos, but thanx for the update.

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Submitted by shaharazade on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 12:22pm

Thank you EL

The On this Day In: section makes me think this was a really bad day in. I liked the XTC songnever heard their early work. They are one of my favorite bands from the 80's. Some people don't like the big hair era with the peep peep synthesizer pop tunes but i loved it musically. I like the arty fringe ones and sometimes the top forty songs. Maybe it was because I was going to art school and then working as a for hire art wrist and had a Walkman on my head for the entire decade. I could not abide Disco but even a few disco hits I liked.

From my singles 45 collection...

I know what it is to work hard on machines.. It's a labor of love

Your own personal Jesus

Hope you find your paradise..

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 12:53pm

Thanks. Disco was so damn omnipresent that I retreated

into a world of oldies, baroque, world/folk, and all that everything but mainstream type music.

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Submitted by Shahryar on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 12:57pm

some faves! Love this morning music.

Dion and the Belmonts!

The Rolling Stones with Ian Stewart on organ!

The Bobby Fuller Four!

Submitted by rmwarnick on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 2:21pm

Democrats Fear That Expectations For Donald Trump Are Too Low

Democrats Fear That Expectations For Donald Trump Are A Wee Bit Too Low

Paul Begala:

“Donald Trump has spent more time on camera before running for President than any politician except Ronald Reagan. He is a showman, and the convention is his show. Other settings challenge him more ― think debates. But standing before an adoring crowd is not actually the hardest part of running for President.”

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Submitted by dancingrabbit on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 3:17pm

G'day, el and fellow caucus99ers!

I hear the Parties are each throwing a Party both inside and outside their Conventions.

We're supposed to Vote for whoever throws the most entertaining Party - a Preview of the Presidency to Come.

Let the Parties begin, I say!

(Anyone know which Party is promising the most and best Bread? Are they Trustworthy?)

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Submitted by dancingrabbit on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 4:05pm

Not seeing right-side column

with Donate button, lists of OTs, Recent Essays, etc.

Can everyone else see it, or am I the only one who can't?

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Submitted by shaharazade on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 6:42pm

I'm seeing it

but sometimes on the video heavy OT's it comes in in pieces and slowly becomes whole. Refresh works sort of but mostly you have to be patient. Have you tried turning your computer off and on again as the guy from The IT Crowd always says..

show used to say...

Submitted by dancingrabbit on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 8:22pm

Ah, my phone is throttled, so

I have a very slow connection. Your reply explains what's going on. Thanks.

(Phone is throttled, because I used up my monthly high-speed limit early watching too many videos - plus just visiting c99p eats up bandwidth. I just can't afford to add more bandwisth in chunks of $30 for 3 gig, so I'm waiting till the 23rd when they'll unthrottle my phone.)

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Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 07/18/2016 - 4:52pm

Dion only wrote a bazillion songs, for hundreds of artists,

mostly after his stint with the Belmonts.

They always call to mind an old high school parody, to the tune of Teenager in Love

Each time I steal a hubcap
it almost breaks my heart

Why must I steal these hubcaps
why did I ever start?

Each night I ask the stars without fail -
Why must I be a teenager in jail?

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Submitted by lotlizard on Tue, 07/19/2016 - 4:56am

That's from a parody medley single by the Four Preps,

titled "More Money for You and Me"

Submitted by enhydra lutris on Tue, 07/19/2016 - 12:19pm

Thanks.

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That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --