Just an open thread...

Sorry guys, but I needed a place to just drop a few things that won't really make up a full Journal. So feel free to talk amongst yourselves... Biggrin

First up is this new meme making the rounds of Face Book. I thought it appropriately and deliciously, ORANGE... Wink

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Really, they should.

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And in the rec list last time I looked.

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on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/SandersForPresident/comments/4c6ynq/evidence_of...? Sounds like NY might be the same kind of shenanigans that made AZ such a disaster

Article about it here: http://www.inquisitr.com/2930677/are-new-york-primary-voters-party-affil...

I realize there's not much to be done about it except be aware, but it just pisses me off that this stuff happens at all. So much for the "inevitable" candidate. If that were true, no one would trying to steal the primary for her...

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I was looking for a place to drop a couple of things off. = )

First, we all know that the majority of the media stinks. When we do find something good, we need to give the article(s) positive reinforcement. Why Bernie Sanders' West Coast Blowouts Matter is just such an article. Please go to the Comments and let them know that you appreciate the balanced reporting. Btw, I do this often. I let those who have misinformation know that I recognize the lie, and I let sites know when they have been fair. I often add something along the line that "I will remember that you have shown balanced viewpoints when I make my reading and viewing choices."

Second, check out the tending twitters for #BernieMadeMeWhite Most are hugely funny, and I think we could use some of that.

Third, I am looking for information about whether or not HRC has had any gains recently in super delegates. I noticed yesterday that while waiting for voting to start that several sites had posted delegates into HRC's blocks, and it occurred to me that she may have maxed out any SDs who are willing to endorse her at this point.

Storming here, better make this short. = )

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Should get here after midnight.

I have bookmarked the article to read in the AM. I will give it some love.

Not sure about Twitter. I don't have an account but I will try to take a look.

As for the super Ds....I noticed that they have been slowing down... we shall have to see if this is a trend.

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to just read the postings. They really are funny.

Huge thunder claps and rain, but seems to have mostly moved on right now. Enjoy! = )

SDs seems to be one thing that I have NOT written down to track. = )

Anything positive I think needs recognition. Encourage them to do it again. = )

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If there is no struggle there is no progress.--Frederick Douglass

I'm happy to see that almost all the articles that say "Bernie is a great guy but..." that are planted by the Hillary campaign on HuffPo and other high-profile websites have been flooded with comments supporting Bernie. I always add my two cents. Bernie is not going to the enormous effort of running for President just to get Hillary to talk like a progressive for a couple of months. He will win.

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from Sanders' supporters is very encouraging. I always delve at least a ways into comments, at least to the point where it starts to sound overwhelmingly like STOP. Lately, though, I have been concentrating my comments toward the biases or incorrect information in the articles themselves rather than those of the commentators.

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Can you recognize this famous speech (trumpified)?

It was a long time ago – I don’t think anyone can even remember, but I can remember, I have a great memory, I’ve got the best memory ever. These guys, they made the most special thing, really, really special. Where everyone was free and everything was great, just the way I’ve made America, I really, really mean that.

Now we’ve got these people – I don’t like these people, let me tell you, they’re really awful, they said, “Hey Trump, you’ve got small hands,” and so I went after them, I really did, I sued them, and what did they do? They decided they wanted a fight and I said, “Okay, we’ll see who’s still here in a few years,” and see, we’re still here, on this battlefield. It’s a yuge battlefield, and it’s really, really, great, it’s so special. See, we’ve built this cemetery, so how big it is? It’s so special. And these guys – we’ve got the best guys – they tell me, “Hey Donald, give us someone who can lead us and we’ll beat these rebels,” and so I made things happen – it’s what I do – and boom, look, we’ve got this big, big win. These guys died winning, and I’m sure that makes their families just so, so happy, all this winning. It’s really great that we can be here to make this place special because of all the winning they did.

But really, we can’t make this place any more special than they did by winning so hard, unless it’s to build a brand new Trump Towers – Gettysburg – that’s right ladies and gentlemen, that’s right, right here, right where you’re standing, we’re going to build this yuge tower, and oh my goodness, it will be so special, so big. You’ll just get sick from how big it is. You say to yourself, “Hey, I wonder if anyone will remember this place.” And now you don’t have to wonder anymore because you’ll be able to see it from miles and miles away, that’s how yuge it will be. We’ll make those rebels remember this place where they lost, where they became losers. I really hate losers. I hate them so much that we’re going to keep on winning, just to show them how much of losers they really are, that’s what we’re going to do. What these guys did – and they’re just the best, so special – well, we’re going to make sure that what they won for is going to be kept alive forever. Know what I’m going to do? I’m going to build a wall, a yuge wall, really, really yuge, all along the Mason-Dixon Line, and know what? I’m gonna make Jeff Davis pay for it, I really am. That guy’s such a loser, it’s why I hate him so much, and I think it’s what the guys that won here would really want. I’m just going to keep this great country really great, and yuge, just like me. We’re going to keep winning until we’re so tired of winning that you’ll have to thank me for making everything so great. My government is going to be around for a while, so get used to that winning.

Oh hey, look, we’ve got someone yelling about issues over there. What’s that? Slavery? Throw that guy outta here, get him out, this is about winning, and he’s a loser.

And in case you’ve forgotten the original. To maybe cleanse the palate.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Credit to: The Angry Staff Officer

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I kinda peeked to the end, though, cuz my eyes were crossing trying to follow that maze of verbal bloviation.

Speaking of Takei, didn't he also post one where Trump is answering the question of what is 2+2? Think I saw that one posted somewhere.

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ROFL ROFL

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And found out that the incense I'm getting for 2 bucks locally retails online for 8.

So, I'm assuming that means that the stuff just wasn't moving and the owner is selling it cheap. Time to stock up. Wink

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but its connection to the orange gives me a bit of a devilish delight.

well observed Martha!

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However, I think it would be great fun to find or start a petition to require Republicans to allow guns at their convention. If it is okay to open carry in schools, then what are they afraid of?

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Over 40k signatures so far. Now for the moral dilemma...to sign or not to sign. = )

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What could possibly go wrong? Wink

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More work for the Roofers' Local patching all the holes overhead from the celebrations. More work for the EMTs. More work for the cops, courts, judges, lawyers, funeral parlors, cemeteries, ...

And they these mugs aren't job creators. Sheesh!

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So Long time lurker at the site that shall not be named, usually more around election times then otherwise i will admit. Which is how I found my way here too. And haven't looked back since I heard the inmates are running the asylum and the rabbits are running the help desk *facepalm* Got some ideas on things I'd like to post, but it's still a bit of a jumble, and it still is a touch...combative? See the avatar as well, my personal motto right now as this season. As I'm a hardcore "Bernie or bust" individual and I seem to be burning more bridges and getting into more fights with friends I -thought- were progressives, but right now seem more terrified of trump then anything. To which I gave them my response to the "vote blue no matter who" mantra.

Though you have to admit, it does have that blind loyalty better dead than red vibe going on. Which is also (besides DWS, and the corruption) why my opinion on the two party system basically boils down to Washington's warnings against it. And enjoying the irony that he'd probably be banhammered you know where these days for not supporting democrats.

That said let me share the other thing I wanted to, my personal favorite song right now when I need to get more motivated, and one I feel works pretty well for the Sanders Campaign. If not a progressive movement in general?

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

On a non political note this song is from the podcast "Welcome to Nightvale." Which if you love sci fi insanity I highly recommend too.

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A. When it rains cats and dogs, where do the antelope prey?

B. If 2*Pi*R= area, how does one measure the volume of time?

C. If you shove enough Thyme in a bottle, will Jim Croce suffocate?

D. Explain why you always must wait for a doctor's visit, even if you come early, and then the time you spend with the MD and the time they bill for seem to be from entirely separate universes.

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such a cool image. It's great that Bernie can be the impetus for so many wonderful riffs... Smile

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got an email telling me about momentum, winning caucuses, cutting into Hillary's lead, the little bird on the podium and asking for a pretty minimal donation.

But, you know, after being burned by Mr. Fauxbama, the Bamboozler in Chief, to the tune of $2300 in 2008, I have sworn off sending any politician any money and I for sure am not going to buy any #$%& book!

Still, $3....it isn't a lot, yet I'm reluctant.

You see, there's all this talk about not letting the perfect be the enemy of the good and usually it's applied to really horrible stuff. With Hillary, for example, its "don't let no war be the enemy of war". With Bernie, on the other hand, it might really be "don't let perfect..." etc.

As mentioned here many times, Bernie is as far to my right as Hillary is to Bernie's. I think Bernie's half a great candidate but his foreign policy is pretty bad. So $3....maybe I should send him $1.50 with a note explaining why I won't send the whole thing.

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Thanks to John O'Connor for this... Liberal immigration ...

The flood of American liberals sneaking across the border into Canada has intensified in the past week, sparking calls for increased patrols to stop the illegal American immigration. The Republican presidential primary campaign is prompting an exodus among left leaning citizens who fear they'll soon be required to hunt, pray and live according to the U.S. Constitution and not Executive Orders.

Canadian border farmers say it's not uncommon to see dozens of sociology professors, global warming activists and green energy proponents crossing their fields at night. "I went out to milk the cows the other day and there was a Hollywood producer huddled in the barn," said southern Manitoba farmer Red Greenfield, whose farm borders North Dakota. "The producer was cold, exhausted and hungry. He asked me if I could spare a latte and some free range chicken. When I told him I didn't have any, he angrily left before I even got a chance to show him my screenplay, eh?"

In an effort to stop the illegal American aliens, Greenfield erected higher fences, but the liberals scaled them nonetheless. He then installed 5,000 Watt loudspeakers that blared Rush Limbaugh across the border, but they just keep on coming.

Canadian officials are particularly concerned about American smugglers who meet liberals near the Canadian border, promising them that they will be delivered to safe haven in Canada. They pack them into electric cars and drive them across the border where they are simply left to fend for themselves after the batteries die. "A lot of these people are not prepared for our rugged conditions," an Ontario border patrolman said. "I found one carload without a single bottle of Perrier drinking water. They did have a nice little Napa Valley Cabernet, though, and some kale chips, but they wouldn't share."

When liberals are caught, they're sent back across the border, often wailing loudly fearing retribution from conservatives, who will make them work instead of providing entitlements. Rumors have been circulating about plans being made to build re-education camps where liberals will be forced to drink domestic beer and study the Constitution.

In recent days, liberals have turned to ingenious ways of crossing the border. Some have been disguised as senior citizens taking a bus trip to buy cheap Canadian prescription drugs. After catching a dozen young vegans in blue-hair wig disguises, Canadian immigration authorities began stopping buses and quizzing the supposed senior citizens about Perry Como and Rosemary Clooney to prove that they were alive in the 1950s. "If they can't identify the accordion player on the Lawrence Welk Show, we become very suspicious about their age," the official said.

Canadian citizens have complained that the illegal immigrants are creating an organic broccoli shortage, buying up all the hip hop CDs, and renting all of the Michael Moore movies. "I really feel sorry for American liberals, but the Canadian economy just can't absorb and support them," an Ottawa resident said. "How many inept art and history majors does one country need?”

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I'm not seeing anything I posted in the last couple of hours.

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Miep's picture

Not picking up on anything else of mine gone.

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Stay on track. Stay in lane. Don't throw rocks.

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future historians will be confused.

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Well, I can understand him deciding that the time for solicited input is over until future notice.

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This shit is bananas.