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This is the part of the day I look forward to most. I know there's something bizarre out there. I just don't know what it is yet.

—Walter Bishop

The 2016 presidential campaign, it is now officially stupid and boring. And it needs to go away.

In the Republican version of making the president, that irredeemable fathead, The Hairball, he is poisoning all of the air, up to and including the outer stratosphere, with his embarrassing, incontinent whining about how They are "stealing my nomination." Because, as a moron maximus, The Hairball, he believed he could somehow become the president, simply by wandering the land, like some two-headed ewe in a traveling freak show, ceaselessly bleating about all the ways he would hurt and kill the brown people. The Hairball, not until very recently, did he awaken to the fact that, to become the Republican nominee to be the president, he actually had to secure delegates.

Which is something that has long been known to the creepy, sinister vampire who is The Hairball's opponent, the unholy onanist Zed Crud. And to Crud's campaign manager, Fish Roe. The latter, he is a beastie-boy of dark and massive proportions. A man who makes Lee Atwater look like Mary Poppins. Roe, he once ran a campaign wu2eOsml-360x440.jpgwherein he drove the opposing candidate to suicide. And didn't give a shit.

And so, as Crud, and Roe, they methodically scoop up The Hairball's would-be delegates, The Hairball himself, he remains consumed by distractions like suing to protect his penis.

Regular readers of the Sesames and Tummlers may recall this piece here, where it was revealed that The Hairball, he possesses a micropenis. This news of The Hairball's microscopic member, it was there illustrated by the image reproduced, again, there to the right. The work of artist Ilma Gore. Who maintains "I don't believe I did anything wrong. It's my work and I'll stand by it no matter what." By seeking to enforce copyright over Gore's painting, The Hairball, and his people, they are implicitly conceding that The Hairball's penis is, well, a pinhead.

By this past weekend, Republican National Committee chair Rinse Pubis, he was so fed up with The Hairball, that he went on all the Sunday shows, and there described The Hairball as a "big-mouth bitch bully," and "the biggest scumbag on the planet." Among other pleasantries.

Meanwhile, no one knows what has happened to Death Of A Salesman, the third man allegedly in the Republican race. He has disappeared as completely as Malaysian Airlines Flight 370.

Over in the Democratic version of making the president, the Hillbillies, they are ceaselessly voiding their bowels, like people in the last stages of cholera. Simply because The Cranky Brooklyn Deli Man, he was invited to a conference at the Vatican, and there met the pope.

To attempt to explain away this apparent anathema, the Hillbillies, they have concocted two competing narratives.

First, the Deli Man, he is a rude, pushy Jew, who elbowed himself into a conference where he wasn't wanted, and then hung around in a hallway, like a wino, so he could rush out and pester the pope like some peddler.

Second, the Deli Man, he is an insidious, scheming, controlling Jew, who possesses some dark, aphotic power over the Vatican, and can effortlessly bend it to his will.

The Hillbillies, they could give two shits, that here they are trafficking in two of the more pathetic libels oft ladled upon people of the Hebrew persuasion. Because all that matters, to them, is their candidate. The Mad Bomber. Uber alles.

A convocation of extraterrestrials recently convened to get to the root of The Mad Bomber appeal. There seemed, to them, no real reason why a human—any human at all—would want The Bomber to be the president. But the extraterrestrials, they figured there must be some rational explanation. Until, in the end, they threw up their tentacles in despair. Support for The Mad Bomber, they concluded, is simply inexplicable. Like tulip mania. That made no sense, either. And yet, that was a real thing. Lemmings leap off cliffs, to drown themselves in the sea; oompa loompas, they pound the calliope, for The Mad Bomber. That's just the way it is, sometimes, here on this planet.

The Hillibillies, they might reflect that their own candidate, The Mad Bomber, evinces behavior that Bill_Clinton_begging_sign_0.pngcommonly constitutes yet another libel against Jews: she is all about money. The Bomber, she doesn't want to go anywhere, unless there is money there. Lots and lots and lots of it. Of money, she can never get enough. And neither can her husband, The Clenis. These two, they can be millionaires. And yet, publicly, she will weep, and she will rend her garments, that they are, both of them, "dead broke."

Of course, The Bomber is not Jewish. For Jews, they have standards. And The Mad Bomber, she does not measure up. They won't have her.

In this slam-the-Jew thing, as in everything else in The Bomber's campaign, the fish rots from the head.

For, on Passover, The Bomber inscribed, for a Cro-Magnon Israeli newspaper, a piece in which she goysplained why she is, in truth, a better Jew, than The Cranky Brooklyn Deli Man.

This is pandering comparable to her claim, when campaigning in the states of the south, that she bore Martin Luther King's love child. And her rust-belt assertion, that she was once a nun, murdered for her faith, down in El Salvador.

As soon as she was finished sharing her bat mitzvah photos with the Times of Israel people, The Bomber flapped over to a black radio station, where she was asked what she always carries in her purse.

"Hot sauce," The Bomber answered. "Yeah."

"Now listen," one of the interviewers responded, "I want you to know that people are going to see this and say, 'she's pandering to black people.'"

"I know," replied The Bomber. "Is it working?"

Then she rattled on about how "I've been eating a lot of hot sauce. Raw peppers and hot sauce. I think it keeps my immune system strong. Hot sauce is good for you."

Oh dear lord. She wants us to think she's Beyonce. With "hot sauce in my bag, swag."

The horror. The horror.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrCHz1gwzTo]

This hideous campaign, it could end as soon as today. Because, today, it is scheduled to be, like, doomsday.

[People] should watch out for two events that would take place simultaneously on April 19 in New York City and London, Christian author Michael Synder says.

On that day, reproductions of the arch that stood in front of the Temple of Baal in Palmyra, Syria are going to be erected in Times Square and in Trafalgar Square. That would coincide with an occult festival related to the worship of a demon named Baal.

Writing for Charisma News, Synder wonders whether the arches to be installed would be the giant "welcome signs" for the Antichrist.

"April 19 is the first day of a 13-day period of time known as 'the Blood Sacrifice to the Beast' that culminates on the high occult holy day of Beltane on May 1," he says.

Synder wonders: "Is it just a coincidence that we are erecting arches for this ancient deity in New York and London on a date that is exceedingly significant for those that worship this ancient deity? Could it be possible that there is more to these 'gateways' that are being constructed than we are being told?"

The author notes that mankind has entered a period of time known in the Bible as "the last days."

"From this point forward, things are going to get much, much stranger. Ultimately, the world that we live in is going to come to resemble something out of a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel," Synder warns.

Well shit howdy. The Antichrist. That's all we need.

While researching this terrifying Baal erection, I came across a doomsday I had somehow hqdefault.jpgmissed. That was February 19 of this year. To wit:

Based on breaking news and events, it appears that CIA Headquarters beneath Lake Geneva is plotting a man-made Doomsday asteroid attack. Although a major asteroid, comet or meteor has not struck Earth since the Dinosaur Age, one is expected on Friday, February 19, 2016, nonetheless.

The would-be Nostradamus who penned this boner, he is an interesting fellow. His most recent piece, it is titled "Obama 666: Will America's First Dictator Please Stand Up?", and it is longer than War and Peace. Therein we learn, among other things:

Based on where the Obama family reportedly emanated from in Ried bei Kerzers, Switzerland, as well as Obama’s physical traits and personal mannerisms, it appears that Obama is a hybrid descendant of Septimius Severus, the first African Roman Emperor, and the late American civil rights leader Malcom X.

Obama was given the birth name of "Barry Soetoro" which he retained until circa 1980 when he was subsequently re-named Barack Hussein Obama II. The fictitious name of "O-bomb-a" was created to foreshadow the impending nuclear attack on America which will ultimately elevate Obama to dictator status.

The fact that Obama's motorcade is officially entitled "The Beast" is no accident for it was designed to foreshadow the rise of the Anti-Christ, the dreaded "Mark of the Beast" (i.e., "666"), and the "End Times" which is why the world is now suffering unprecedented chaos, climate change, disease, terrorism and war.

In short, Obama is the Anti-Christ long warned about in the Holy Bible (the allegorical and metaphorical history book of the Roman Empire) who was genetically spawned by the CIA in Switzerland to counter the arrival of the Messiah and the Apocalypse which, contrary to popular belief, does mean the "End of the World".

You see! It is all connected! The Baal arches, they are going up today, in London and New York, to welcome the Antichrist, who is Obama!

I am happy, to figure this out for you. It is my duty.

Maybe all that, it seems a bit far-fetched. But, you know, things, just as strange. Certainly have happened.

Like, when the chief law-enforcement officer of the Americans, he was a person who lost an election to a dead man. Rubbed himself up with Crisco, before taking the oath of office. Abjured calico cats, as agents of The Evil One. Threw a shroud over a statue of the Spirit of Justice, lest her bare stone breasts wreak havoc across the land. And publicly brayed hymns to Satan.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sMDG_bpBAk]

So the bus driver today, as he was humming his vehicle through the town, he was whistling "Low Rider."

I thought that was pretty cool.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUT46ZR5CC8]

Also kinda cool, is the electronica track, "Exit," wherein Edward Snowden, collaborated with Jean-Michael Jarre.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOxHeQ9kDgY]

Next, Snowden should collaborate with Pussy Riot. Of course, they won't be able to record in the same studio. Because Snowden, he can't leave Russia, without going into the jail. And Pussy Riot, they can't go into Russia, without going into the jail.

"Nations." So stupid.

Billions of cicadas are preparing to descend upon the northeastern United States.

They are after The Hairball.

Dogs, they are now flying the airplanes.

No.

Have you ever wondered if maybe you're schizophrenic?

Now, 12157-2rwvft.jpgthere is a quick and easy Science Man test, that can answer that question for you.

Gaze at the image there to the left.

If you perceive the mask as convex, which it is not, you are not schizophrenic.

If you perceive it as concave, which it is, then you are schizophrenic.

I cannot determine if I myself am schizophrenic. Because I can't seem to puzzle out what "convex" and "concave" are.

At least, I do now know. That I am a moron.

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Ghost-busters!!!

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until voting irregularities commence. Set your watches.

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on those negative waves.

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To this day I still maintain that "The Puppet Masters" could have been an incredible movie, if they'd just have done the most logical casting and cast his son AS his son...

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An island in a sea of insanity.

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Oasis is funny. But it is late and soon.

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And since, today, they are making the president, there in New York, I will, today, be a Coney Island. Baby.

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And some persons said it served him right for using heroin.

Humans. Not recommended.

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Because he knows this:

some people like to go out dancin'
then there's other people, baby, they gotta work
—you better watch me now—

there's some evil mothers
they'll just tell you that life's just made out of dirt
that pretty women baby they never really faint
and villains always blink their eyes
that children are the only ones who blush
and that life—LIFE—that life is just to die

but i want to tell you somethin':

anyone who had a heart
they wouldn't turn around and break it
and anyone who's ever played a part
they wouldn't turn around and hate it

they'd say: jane
sweet jane
oh jane
sweet jane

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Here is a vulva poster.

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Suppressed Histories Archive. I love love love Max's work.

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Some kind of general notification here when people stop talking about these people so much?

I liked your Catch 22 comment a great deal. Make it go away....

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The Arabs are one of the least developed cultures. They are typically nomads. Their culture is primitive, and they resent Israel because it’s the sole beachhead of modern science and civilization on their continent. When you have civilized men fighting savages, you support the civilized men, no matter who they are.

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Americans had with this woman. Completely beyond me. She is still pulled out of the archives and graveyard for incomprehensible reasons. I wonder when she will be finally buried and completely forgotten.

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Planning on what to do when it goes away. I gather it will be winter around then. That's a lot of prep time for casting solstice spells.

I am not generally long on men assuming the garb of female goddesses, but your history suffices to allow me to cut you some slack on this one.

I have my own dark space decorated with gorgeous posters of goddesses, vulva stones, wondrous primitive art of the female essence. I am sufficiently acquainted with you to feel confident that your response to viewing such would be pretty much a mix of wonder, pleasure, appreciation, awe, and respect.

I don't make stuff up like this. I see things at times. I see you. Thank you for being here.

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sun and moon conjunct in Leo, ascendant 30 degrees Pisces, born during a lunar eclipse. She was there in my cradle.

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Well, that explains a fair piece. I've been drawn to Leos before. I am sun in Libra, Scorpio rising, moon in Gemini. Recipe for trouble.

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Gemini rising. 5 planets in Libra. Libra is about balance. Neither black nor white, I live in the grey area in between.

I'm a slow reader, hectate. And I'm always in awe how you use every so carefully. Thanks for this morning's musings.

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wrote a farcical astrology column. Called "Sign Here." By "Elmo." I had to give it up. Because a reader took it seriously, and so jettisoned her partner. I had written that the partners of Capricorns, they were all replicants. She believed it.

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Over 24 hours.

I watch climate stuff a lot. The jet stream bumped this over there. It could have as easily bumped it over here.

How long before humans start a religion based on praying at the jet stream?

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It is called meteorology. They put up cartoon maps and sway about jet stream meanders. Aeronauticalists do that as well. Oh, look! Flood warnings in Houston area and fire weather in PA and lower NY state. Where there is a primary election. How...Biblical. And some of us just go for equinoxes and solstices.

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They say down here that if you think you can predict the weather, you are either mad, or new in town.

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Visual Essay - Real life on the rez
by Louise Bernice Halfe
Photography by Larry Towell
October 15, 2014 • 2,243 words

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a great day. Here's to a day where Bernie voters all succeed in overcoming the voter suppression and flood the election with Bernie votes: a day that turns into a loooooooong night ending in a Bernie victory that changes the race. w00t!

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a mythical being. That is you.

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Not for sale.

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What I experience as a dualistic mind-body is only a brief temporal event within the gradating field of consciousness. We can have sensory perceptions of how the human "mind-body" has no boundaries; only matrix effects.

But enough of reality. Let's talk about the play we're in :=)

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I like As You Like It, but that one's pretty hopeful at the end... Smile

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Well, that could lead to this...
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Mostly because I am so tired of predictable elections. It would be so boring and tiresome if Clinton won. A Sanders win would be more interesting.

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I get a small smile when I can upset the applecart (has anyone actually seen one of those?)

In my heart-of-hearts, I am a pot-stirrer.

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And I have seen an applecart. I left it alone. Apples are sacred. Had it been a banana cart, I gladly would have overturned it.

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"I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” —Malcolm X

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I always love what you write, but today's was wonderful. I wonder who will really "win" New York? I guess it does not matter because they will not let the Cranky Brooklyn Deli Man win, no matter what. And so we will end up with more of the same.

I love the "Exit" recording, btw. Clapping You educate me every time you write. Smile

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Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?

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Awesome video. Thanks for posting. Hopefully the C99%-ers who have sworn off TOP will get a look at it here. I know that I'm a true Bernie partisan, but how can ANYONE watch this and support anybody but Bernie? His words come from the heart. He says what so many are thinking. HRC? Scripted and measured. I'll say it again, Bernie may just be America's last best chance.

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are not alone. And that's a big deal". Bernie Sanders.

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that you were alone." Sublime statement for me, and I knew I was not alone, just thought it was a minority view. And now we look at each other, and it's still building.

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if Europeans (Germans) would understand the United States better and would see the whole life story of Sanders, they would warmly love and receive him as the last man standing in the political landscape of the United States and I hope Germans will support him strongly in expectation he will implement major changes in foreign policy issues of the US.

May be I am too sentimental or too old and detached from today's German younger people, but what Sanders talks about and how he acted as a politician his whole life, is what you can't help but deeply respect. I hope he wins. It would be exiting to see what would come out of his Presidency. Gosh, the campaigns and elections are killing me. If you just would change them so that a normal old lady like me can survive them without fainting and going nuts.

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What if the Catholic church in the US had declining numbers. And much of the decline was among young people. And what if a public figure came along who was incredibly popular with the young demographic. Might the church want to associate itself with such a person?

I will also state with no personal uncertainty that the fact that Bernie is not winning by a 99% margin is a monument to the stupidity of the American public.
C'mon NY, show us how intelligent you are. Go Bernie!!

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which means I am not schizophrenic...which seems more convenient, to me. And a dog is willing to take my job. That's even more convenient. Maybe then I can finish my qayaq.

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there some kind of pilots' union, that can prevent the dogs from flying the airplanes?

Dogs. Are they concave? Or convex? What about airplanes?

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Shush, two doors up, an Alaskan Malamute, looks positively convex when you first see him. But get him wet, and all the fur sticks to his sides, and he is obviously convex.

Dogs have a union.

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dog union, it is noisy and bad.

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that the registration has expired on The Hairball's airplane? Does this mean he can be pulled over and towed?

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thirties in the daytime, if you could call it "daytime" as it was heavily overcast each day. Which, of course, means rain, and plenty of it. Even a light dusting of snow on one occasion. In short, typical late Fall weather. Which of course it isn't. It's Spring. Supposedly.

All during this time, in the front yard in a garden underneath the dogwood, bloomed a lone daffodil through the rain, wind, and chill. A bulwark, if you will, a place holder for Spring's promise. I admired that daffodil. I was gratified to see it's incongruous tenacity in the face of the weather gods determination to see it fail.

But it is they who blinked first. Daytime temps returned at first to the 50s, then the 60s. And every day since Friday they've been in the 70s, with clear blue skies and nary a hint of rainfall -- certainly nothing of snow.

And the daffodil? Like a warrior whose stand has won the battle but at great cost to himself (or herself, as the case may be), the valiant little plant began to visibly wither, the petals curl, and the trumpet close up and sag. Today it is merely a green stalk with something sadly drooping and brownish atop it.

I salute that daffodil and its perseverance. Well done, soldier, well done.

Sad to say, I find it exceedingly difficult to match such fortitude. Wake me on November 9.

Oh, and good morning Wink

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-- John Lennon

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You are here! And thus, all is right with the world. Including: The Cranky Brooklyn Deli Man. He is the president. Already happened.

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Archaeologist in the ruins of Carthage.
Apparently as time went on the practice of Sacrificing infants became more and more democratic. In the initial stages it was only the royalty, but slowly expanded as the population grew to infanticide as a sacred form of birth control.
Course It does have a certain honesty about it, as opposed to the "Exposure" tactic of the Romans.

Still pretty twisted.

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well-known Christmas song, "Carol Of The Baal." Based on a Ukrainian folk chant, celebrating, in mid-April, the coming of spring.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCf3lvUpWL4]

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Published on Monday, April 18, 2016

Once Ahead by 60 Points, Clinton National Lead over Sanders Has Dwindled to Zero
Latest NBC/WSJ poll shows Clinton holds just 2-point advantage

*snip*

Though Clinton led Sanders by sixty points when he entered the campaign less than a year ago, a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released Monday shows that lead has been "all but eliminated" – with only two percentage points now separating the Democratic candidates.

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Okay, I am busy at work or at least trying to be, but can anyone please share what are some of the indicators to watch regarding returns tonight? For example, strong returns upstate is that a good sign for Bernie, etc? Also, do we need to see certain levels voters or difference of voter totals in from the various parts of the state to see how Bernie is doing overall?

Thank you in advance to anyone able to share this information

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will tell us all those things tonight :=) I'm also hoping Cenk does his Iowa yell, "Here Comes Bernieeeeeee!," all night long! Looking forward to chatting about all this tonight, mate. I'm hoping Alphadog does his usual OT election watch.

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of the race by the MSM.
Very late (Sanders is up 7% everywhere but somewhere there's just got to be enough votes somewhere for Clinton) in that they won't call it for Sanders until everyone has gone to bed and they have a chance to spin it.
Early as in one minute past the polls closing and not bothering to count the votes if results have Sanders leading immediately. I can see them simply announcing a Clinton victory, reporting it everywhere, then issuing a correction a week later that Sanders "seems" to have won, but that it doesn't really matter.
The only way we see any sort of normal reporting is if Clinton is up 10% in the first results, then Bernie catches up and passes her as the evening progresses. That shuts out the early call strategy, leaving the refusal to recognize his win as their only choice.

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and watch the election results with the Young Turks on Youtube. If I'm gonna get biased reporting, it might as well be our bias eh? :=)

BTW, you had once briefly described some of your vision for how human communities could live into runaway climate using technologies for underground living. I wonder if we could hear more about it when you have a moment or so? I would really like to learn more. I'm helping my kids build an earthship home in the next year or two. Knowing more about underground technologies, would help me to advise them better on how to proceed in the community side of things. Cheers,

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The mad bomber is exactly that. She can use her lust for war to appeal to those who also lust for war, such as certain members of Likud and AIPAC, but she will never pass in any broader sense for she cannot reach beyond her mad lust for power in all its forms. She cannot reason, discuss or even intelligently kibitz and is therefore confined to the fringes.

Beyond that, she is the eternal Crusader, irrevocably Medieval, Christer and Goy. The crusader shield and banner simply cannot be confused with a menorah.

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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 --

and stand there quietly, raise my hand in the air, extend my thumb and forefinger in the universal sign for 'this small' and smile.
I'm too sick to get beat up though... somebody else is going to have to risk it.
Just do it!
You'll feel good!
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He would be 106 if he was still living. He would hate it that the OKC bombing took place on his b'day - he died the year before and knew Waco was on his b'day. I miss my dad, desperately.

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Anniversaries. I miss my father and my uncle, Charlie. They would be spinning in their graves, but cremains don't spin. They do other things. A hug to you, RA.

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We have much in common. Wink

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remember me like that one day. Your Dad would have enjoyed Bernie taking NY by storm tonight :=) Perhaps you could celebrate that with him tonight? For he is not far at all.

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My dad is the reason I love politics. We used to discuss the candidates, the race, everything. His job required him to be political and he was a person who had the courage of his convictions. He stood up. I loved that about him. In 1970, he stood very tall as a regent at the university I was attending and we took over the administration building. He came the next day and spoke to the students. It was a powerful moment for me. I was 17 (yes - already in college, but that's another story).

When I was a whistleblower, I wished, everyday, I could talk to him - get his advice, his counsel. He could have guided me through it. I got through it, though - I knew he had my back. An interesting thing is that my attorney was a fellow that was at that very demonstration in 1970. It was a poignant moment for me to recall it with him. When I stood up, he stood with me, which is why I miss him so much now.

I hope we will be celebrating tonight. He would be so thrilled with Bernie, because they are very similar beings.

You have a wonderful evening, CuzG!

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Just wondering if anyone heard anything about this morning voting?

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OIL AND GAS WORKERS RESPOND TO ALBERTA BUDGET: POSITIVE STEPS ON TRAINING AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

Iron & Earth are highlighting four items contained from Alberta's 2016-17 budget that are particularly positive for workers:

•$3.4 billion will be invested in large-scale renewable energy projects and technologies that have significant job-creation potential
•$25 million will be invested directly into new apprenticeship and training opportunities
•$25 million will be invested in startups that can create jobs in areas like clean energy and clean technology
•Communities that will be affected by the coal phase-out will get direct support, including a commitment to train workers and help them transition into other areas of the economy

“This budget is a big step forward towards creating renewable energy jobs in the province, and now we need the details," said Bascu. “We are hoping the government will use this budget to get some of our out-of-work members into training programs, and into renewable energy jobs.”

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It's so disturbing and yet I can't stop looking at it and cringeing. Much like the man himself.

*shudder* Thanks so much for posting that drawing, hecate, which makes me seriously question myself for finding it horribly fascinating.

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I see the painting and hear De Niro saying 'Little bit'.

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drawing? That's a photograph. ; )

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Robert Reich: Why Is Everyone Ignoring One of Sanders' Most Important Proposals?

After all, Americans pay sales taxes on all sorts of goods and services yet Wall Street traders pay no sales taxes on the stocks and bonds they buy.

...The U.K. has had a tax on stock trades for decades yet remains one of the world’s financial powerhouses. Incidentally, that tax raises about 3 billion pounds yearly (the equivalent of $30 billion in an economy the size of the U.S.)

At least 28 other countries also have such a tax, and the European Union is well on the way to implementing one.

...It’s hardly a radical idea.

Between 1914 and 1966, the United States itself taxed financial transactions. During the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes urged wider use of such a tax to reduce excessive speculation by financial traders. After the Wall Street crash of October 1987, even the first President George Bush endorsed the idea.

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...and Entering The Symbiocene
by Glenn A. Albrecht

I am still digesting this concept...MPS

I argue that the next era in human history should be The Symbiocene (from the Greek sumbiosis, or companionship). The scientific meaning of the word ‘symbiosis’ implies living together for mutual benefit and I wish to use this profoundly important concept as the basis for what I hope will be the next period of Earth history. As a core aspect of ecological and evolutionary thinking, symbiosis and its associated symbiogenesis, affirms the interconnectedness of life and all living things (Scofield and Margulis 2012).

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we desperately need to get back to it. I think we're getting a big nudge in that direction.

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be humans left after the Anthropocene to symbiose with anything?

"I be back."

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Of "Man after Man"
Because that one was just freaking DARK. (Essentially theorized that humans would try to engineer ourselves for survival in a resource poor world, and it went HORRIBLY wrong. Also theorized space travel and that the humans who eventually came back would treat their ancestor like livestock... Sometimes Scots can be REALLY messed up.)

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place. He seems to be describing the stages of human evolution up to the invention of agriculture. The San people (the "Bushmen") of southern Africa lived like this up until the middle of the 20th c., when colonization reduced them to remnants in the deepest parts of the Kalahari desert. His essay gives a philosophical look at what this human-nature symbioses would entail in the future. It's all idyllic. But there are two major problems with his argument.

The first problem is his assumption of human survival. He gives summary paragraph of some of the (initial) horrors of the anthropocene. But he gives no explanation of how he thinks humans are to survive all this as a species. There's no indication he grasps enough of the science. IMO, it is magical thinking to assume the human survival of runaway climate change without giving or pointing to detailed globally-scaled projects already in existence that would provide some basis for preserving enough of the human biosphere for some human survival.

His second problem is that nowhere does he give any account for how humans - including human nature - would "devolve" back into a symbiotic human-natural world symbioses. He gives no indication of understanding the massive, massive skills degradation that material prosperity has wrought. My word, most western people would starve within a week if their automatic can-opener died. The other part of this problematic is human nature. Since the invention of agriculture, the human consciousness has evolved into a ferocious greed is good mode of human being. He gives no indication of how he expects modern, urban humans to "devolve" into cooperative clans and tribes. And all this in the howling wind of runaway climate change.

Now, none of my questions are meant to denigrate Mr. Albrecht at all. He says he is a retired academic philosopher who farms in Oz. He's a heckuva lot closer to the goal of personal resilience then I am. And I've known a lot of Aussies: they're tough, fun-loving, outdoorsy, practical people. His local community is fortunate to have him around. Maybe he could get symbiosis going in his locale. I would be very interested to read about how he is getting people into "symbiosis" mode.

Thanks for this very thought-provoking essay. Enjoy the Bernie show tonight :=)

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and I am still trying to digest what Albrecht is proposing. That said, I am, for my own reasons, (and baring a literal Earth ending disaster like a meteor or comment strike) much more optimistic that Humankind will evolve and survive. It is what we do... Humans are probably the best species at adaptation than any other... how else could we have survived in a wild and ferocious world where the logically only the strongest survived. It is actually, the smartest who survives.

We will of course fall a long way down before we can crawl back up... but I honestly do not think we will cease to exist.

As an aside, I have always been puzzled how agriculture is blamed for the state of Humanity now. If anything, I would think it would be the concept of ownership that has led to our greed and corruption.

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Have you read the massive climate essay at Nature Bats Last? http://guymcpherson.com/climate-chaos/
It really is massive: if you to visit, go take bite-sized bits and pace yourself. I've been reading it since close to it's inception many many years ago.

About agriculture; think of it this way. Hunter-gatherer clans and tribes are nomadic. Only the most needed things can be taken along, carried on people's backs. This means that most things are owned communally, for they are used to process food and medicines and clothing for the clan. The hunters would "own" their bows and swords and clubs in trust for their family and pass them along to the first sons. Iow: real, practical socialism. Then comes agriculture. It means a settled life in one place, so people can accumulate things. Land and implements and seed and stuff can now be "owned" by individuals, usually the head of a family. Capitalism and culture can happen because more people are settled. Greed can become good. In ways that nomads could never fathom; for nomads have to take care of their clan to survive as individuals.

Seriously, to grasp it, I always propose that folks watch the old movie "The Gods Must Be Crazy." It is a movie about a San person who learns about the world of settlers. It's a wonderful story with high comedy. And it tells a very important story about humanity.

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agriculture didn't have to mean ownership of anything... and if we get a second chance I would hope that we do things a little differently.

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Just heard this interesting tidbit. The sparrow that landed on the podium in the Portland rally, is called a Lincoln Sparrow. The animal totem stands for: honesty, integrity, community and strength in numbers.

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frightened me very much. I perceive it as neither concave nor convex, something in between. If I stare at it long enough, it can go either way.

Peace and love be with you, reader.

I went back and looked again. The mask is terrifying. The face of the actor in costume is a little less terrifying.

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Depends upon which side interpretation begins on. But that mouth slit is creepy. Cover it with floral and think of it better.

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