This isn't Wizard Tiddlywinks at Hogwarts

Submitted by ek hornbeck on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 8:41am

If you search Google News for Jeremy Corbin you'll find that J.K. Rowling can't sleep nights over the prospect of the impending Corbyn romp over Owen Smith in the Labour Leadership election (about which more in a moment). Indeed 'Corbyn is no Dumbledore' and-

One day in the far distant future we'll look back and we WONT LAUGH, LABOUR, BECAUSE THIS ISN'T BLOODY FUNNY.

Now admittedly that last was tweeted at 3:31 in the morning last Wednesday after her earlier tweets had not met the customary adulation.

I'm a firm believer that Art exists independent of the Artist (one of many reasons I write pseudonymously) and finding out does not detract even the tiniest bit from my enjoyment of Harry Potter which I consider a modern classic. One wonders what she is thinking however, because she so obviously has got the wrong side of History on this issue (said we'd get back to it).

Ballots have been mailed this week and the latest (and probably final) poll by The Times/YouGov has Corbyn leading by a crushing 62% to 38%. This is a larger margin that his last victory (60% to 40%). He leads in every demographic and by political orientation. Smith is closest (but still loses) among those who voted "Remain" (remember the ostensible reason for this coup is that Corbyn was insufficiently zealous in his support) and gets thrashed quite soundly by Corbyn among party members (52% to 40%), registered (pre-January 12th £3ers and limited registration period £25ers) supporters (70% to 25%), and affiliated (Union) supporters (54% to 33%). Among Constituent Labour Parties (CLP) he leads 84% to 16%. The only group in which Smith has an edge is those who joined before May 2015 (about 25% of current membership) 68% to 32%.

Oh, and that "electability" thing? Members think 33% to 12% that Corbyn is more likely to win a Prime Ministership than Smith. 57% think he is doing "well" as Leader, 53% ot 25% agree with him on Trident (his position is that it's an expensive boondoggle for the Military/Industrial Complex).

All of this comes despite a campaign of systemic disenfranchisement led by the Blairite Tory-lites of the Parliamentary Labour Party (you know, the traitors who started the coup) on the National Executive Committee.

For them this is not just a fail, it is a legendary, epic, failure of catastrophic proportions.

If the traitors defect there are reputable reports that they will only attract 25% of PLP members and 18% of the regular ones, far short of any credible claim to the Party name and apparatus. In polls they fare even worse, attracting a mere 12% of the general electorate. In short, Liberal Democrats only more feckless.

Within the Labour Party their prospects are hardly better. Corbyn would have to be an idiot to give any of them a position of trust and responsibility ever again and even were he willing I doubt very much the membership would stand for it.

Indeed while mass deselection (think a combination primary/impeachment) is not currently in the rules (which could change with Corbyn's newly strengthened control of the National Executive Committee just as the membership was disenfranchised by the Traitors) once regular Constituent Labour Party meetings resume (suspended by the NEC in another example of disenfranchisement) there is nothing preventing them from replacing their Members of Parliament with others who are more... representative. Remember, this is a group which breaks 84% to 16% Corbyn.

For me this is a harder wait than the weeks before Christmas, but I'm fairly sure I won't get a lump of coal, and J.K.?

You're wrong. This is bloody funny.

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(Of course it's cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette and DocuDharma)

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Submitted by ek hornbeck on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 8:42am

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Submitted by HenryAWallace on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 9:16am

From played a prominent role in the 1992 election of President Bill Clinton – and served as Domestic Policy Advisor to the Clinton Transition – prompting USA Today to write: "The ideas at the crux of the Clinton candidacy were largely drafted by the DLC."[15]

Today, many of the ideas that comprise the core of the Democratic Party's agenda come from work done under From's leadership at the DLC. National service, an expanded Earned Income Tax Credit, welfare reform, charter schools, community policing, expanded trade and re-inventing government were all championed by scholars and analysts at the DLC before becoming public policy.[16]

In 1998, with First Lady Hillary Clinton, From began a dialogue with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other world leaders, and the DLC brand – known as The Third Way – became a model for resurgent liberal governments around the globe.[17]

In April 1999, he hosted an historic Third Way forum in Washington with President Clinton, Prime Minister Blair, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Prime Ministers Wim Kok of the Netherlands and Massimo D'Alema of Italy.[18]

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

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Submitted by Raggedy Ann on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 9:16am
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with real life. Wink

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Submitted by Crimson Buddha on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 9:19am

... are slightly more popular than her non-Potterverse novels.

ZING!

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Submitted by k9disc on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 9:20am
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parks are awesome.

If you are not tall enough to go on some of the rides, it kind of sucks. If you are not tall enough to go on any of them, it's horrible.

Many of us are not "tall enough" to ride the rides in modern society -- there's not enough money in our wallets or our bank accounts -- that changes one's perspective, for sure.

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Submitted by k9disc on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 9:24am
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scale of their bank account.

Like Bill Gates would be 1200 feet tall. I'd be 2" tall. Hell, maybe an inch.

Something like the L-Curve -- http://lcurve.org -- but with 48KM tall Bill Gates's.

Funny.

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Submitted by Hawkfish on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 12:01pm
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Most people don't get that the numbers need to be compared in terms of the number of zeros, not the amount. The wealthiest people in the US have six more zeros after their wealth than the median income for a family of four.

That L-curve is a good visual way of communicating the problem, especially since it is kinesthetic.

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Submitted by TJ on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 9:27am

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Submitted by Meteor Man on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 9:30am
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I'm not a role model... Just because I dunk a basketball doesn't mean I should raise your kids.

http://mobile.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/c/charlesbar386417.html

JK Rowlings meltdown could also be called "Ben Carson Syndrome". Lots of folks with Pretty Heavy Degrees are educated way past their intelligence and dumb as rockd outside of their narrow specialty of expertise.

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Submitted by Lookout on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 9:50am
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And it has warped her perspective. I've known a number of liberals that become rethuglican once they have enough money and want to keep it all for themselves.

Wishing Jeremy the best!

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Submitted by lotlizard on Fri, 09/09/2016 - 8:27am
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Allan Sherman’s “Harvey and Sheila” (1963; to the tune of “Hava Nagila”)

Harvey and Sheila, Harvey and Sheila,
Harvey and Sheila, oh, the day they met.
Harvey and Sheila, Harvey and Sheila,
Harvey and Sheila, no one will forget.

Harvey's a CPA. He works for IBM.
He went to MIT and got his PhD.
Sheila's a girl I know, at B.B.D.& O.
She works the PBX, and makes out the checks.

Then came one great day when
Harvey took the elevator,
Sheila got in two floors later,
Soon they both felt they were falling,
Everyone heard Sheila calling,
"Ring the bell,"
But they fell.
Harv and Sheila fell in love.

Harvey and Sheila, Harvey and Sheila,
Harvey and Sheila chose a wedding ring.
Harvey and Sheila, Harvey and Sheila,
Harvey and Sheila married in the spring.

She shopped at A & P. He bought a used MG.
They sat and watched TV on their RCA.
Borrowed from HFC, bought some AT&T,
And, on election day, worked for JFK.

Then they went and got a
Charge-A-Plate from R.H. Macy,
Bought a layette, pink and lacy.
Then they had twin baby girls,
Both with dimples, both with curls,
One named Bea,
One named Kay.
Soon they joined the PTA.

Harvey and Sheila, Harvey and Sheila,
Harvey and Sheila moved to West LA.
Harvey and Sheila, Harvey and Sheila,
Harvey and Sheila flew TWA.

They bought a house one day, financed by FHA.
It had a swimming pool, full of H2O.
Traded their used MG for a new XKE.
Switched to the GOP, that's the way things go.

Oh, that Harvey he was
Really smart, he used his noodle.
Sheila bought a white French poodle,
Went to Europe with a visa,
Harvey's rich, they say that he's a
VIP!
This could be,
Only in the USA!

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Submitted by gjohnsit on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 10:17am

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Just 29 per cent of British adults disagreed that the “mainstream media as a whole has been deliberately biasing coverage to portray Jeremy Corbyn in a negative manner” when asked by pollsters YouGov.

51 per cent of people agreed that coverage had been deliberately biased and while 21 per cent said they were not sure.

Labour voters were even more adamant with 69 per cent alleging bias, while a staggering 97 per cent of Labour members and supporters intending to vote for Jeremy Corbyn in the leadership election perceived bias.

It's almost like Brexit: the neoliberals have overplayed their hand.

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Submitted by gendjinn on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 10:31am
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Submitted by Shahryar on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 1:01pm
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he doesn't fit the Blair mold.

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Submitted by shaharazade on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 1:19pm
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Harry Potter disagrees with his creator. From 2105 when Corbyn kicked Andy's butt.

Daniel Radcliffe has endorsed Jeremy Corbyn to win the Labour leadership contest on Saturday, saying the left-wing MP reminded him of a favourite teacher from school.

The Horns actor told the Big Issue magazine Corbyn had won him over with an interview where he talked about his allotment and making jam. “He reminds me in the loveliest way of my English teacher," said Radcliffe, “who is someone I am very, very fond of – so he has a fast track to my heart!”

The 26-year-old praised the Corbyn for galvanising young voters and the disenchanted with his sincerity and conviction, describing the effect he has had on Labour party supporters as “incredible”.

UB40 disagrees also.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/sep/05/ub40-ali-campbell-astro-...

The Guardian is just crawling with Blarite New Labour. Every article about him is filled with the same negative crap that the media threw at Bernie. Good to read Jeremy Corbyn is electable despite what the now corporate Guardian says.

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Submitted by katherine919 on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 1:24pm

I do not presume to understand UK politics, although I lived there a few years long ago. I used to follow JK Rowling on Twitter and her philanthropy and witty commentary always seemed understandable until Brexit turned people so much against Corbyn. I do not get it, but look at people here who are mad,sad,broken-hearted over Bernie's "endorsement" of Clinton, etc. Rowling's leanings still are mostly quite progressive - she lost billionaire status due to giving away so much of her wealth, she supports their National Health Service and defends the welfare state which supported her when she was poor. It is like that Brexit vote just blew shit up and it may be awhile before things calm down. Unlike here, where we are setting ourselves up for a disaster. I cannot really dislike the woman who made my son LOVE books, but this took me by surprise.

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Submitted by Bollox Ref on Thu, 09/08/2016 - 7:34pm
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both (very strong Tories) agreed that they'd rather vote for Corbyn than Trump, if that were the electoral choice.

Make of that what you will.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.