@dervish

#3 [video:https://youtu.be/Ls3PFjfempc]

@dkmich they have paper ballots from what I read.

I am late today, but I hope everyone has a good one.

On a personal note, my walking partner and I did Burrell Mountain on Wed. which got me 7.3 miles, a lot of which was uphill (33 sets of stairs according to my watch). Then yesterday she took me on our steepest climb which I call the mountain, even though it is not a mountain and I ended up with 4.5 miles and 20 sets of stairs. As a result, this morning I could hardly get out of bed. Luckily she was out of town so I did not have to walk.

#4

Once again Europeans prove they're smarter than Americans.

@mimi thanks, maybe it would be different if he hadn't been complicit from the start:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/clinton/interviews/reich.html

So you were considered an FOB; you were considered a friend of Bill.

I guess I was considered a friend of Bill, although this is a man who has many, many friends. There must be at least 15,000 FOBs. It wasn't a particularly small and distinguished category.

15,000 FOBs is how Ds began matching Rs door-for-door with the revolving corruption in D.C.. It's how the Clintons got stinking rich, Reich was totally fine with it, in my memory. He is still doing fine.

But it counted when he became elected president. You had given him some advice during the campaign, correct?

Yes. I certainly was one among many people who provided him a lot of free advice. The poor man had read every one of my books. And then I recall, just a few days after the election, I came back from class. I had been teaching. Got a telephone call, and the operator said, "One minute for the president-elect." Well, I had never even heard of him called the president-elect before. That was kind of a startling emotional reality. And then he got on the phone and said, "Bob, I need you down here. I need you to put together the economic team. . . . Can you come down and just put everybody together, so there's at least a group that helps me plan my first budget, and helps me get started? And I'd like you right away."

Well, I couldn't say no exactly, but I had two young boys and a wife, and I had my class, and it wasn't easy to just get up and leave. I said, "I'll call you back." And I talked to my wife, and talked to my little boys, and talked to even my class, because I had promised them I was going to teach them for the rest of the term. And everybody said, "You've got to go down. This is not a matter of committing yourself to any position of the government. This is just a matter of helping the guy out for the next two months, for the economic transition." So I called him back. I said, "Sure, absolutely, I'll come down."

And we spent a lot of time. It was a very heady, very exciting time, trying to decide basically how bad the economy was, how large the deficit was. All those projections were subject to some interpretation, and then coming up with a little bit of a blueprint.

That blueprint was the problem, and still is the problem only worse.

I get the same kick-guts any time I hear Stephanoplous, is he still spewing on ABC? I don't know. They should both STFU and admit they failed millions of people, that's what I think. They are tools of the status quo, one step forward two steps back. Not progress.

#8
I can't trust Robert Reich's comments. The only reason given here by some commentators is that he supported "Medusa". OMG.

I go through his Robert Reich twitter feed and at least understand what he is saying. His arguments and bullet points don't sound unclear or sensationalized or unjustified to me.

Yet what counts for many here is "he is bad because he had supported Clinton". Who cares for Clinton any longer? She will be investigated, hopefully put out of business. End of story.

Gosh, I am so frustrated.

@mimi you don't stink. The cycle of livelihoods don't stink neither. It's the dregs we detect. Without a way forward, sweet smells seem rotten sometimes. And otherwise..

#8
I can't trust Robert Reich's comments. The only reason given here by some commentators is that he supported "Medusa". OMG.

I go through his Robert Reich twitter feed and at least understand what he is saying. His arguments and bullet points don't sound unclear or sensationalized or unjustified to me.

Yet what counts for many here is "he is bad because he had supported Clinton". Who cares for Clinton any longer? She will be investigated, hopefully put out of business. End of story.

Gosh, I am so frustrated.