sentimental. But battery ? and RC? I am sorry for no grandchildren. Lost possession of the Lionel train set after my husband's death. It was a very fussy item. New-fangled might be good.

https://smile.amazon.com/Lionel-Polar-Express-Ready-Train/dp/B01C35QC4W?...

medicine. Have a smoke-in, love-in, peaceful gathering. BYO munchies for later. Couch locking Indica indicated, keep going. Thanks Lookout. Here's What a Trump Presidency Means for Marijuana

For those who may not have followed Trump's pledges and proposals on the campaign trail, one such suggestion made by the president-elect is that he would reschedule marijuana from its current illicit status as a Schedule 1 substance to perhaps Schedule 2 or lower. Schedule 1 substances are considered federally illegal and perceived to have no medical benefits, whereas Schedule 2 substances and lower are considered to have medical benefits but are also perceived to have addictive qualities.

Huh, I call Opposite Day! You know what I mean? Because I was looking at this other article about Peter Thiel, he is buying up California politicians (property) like crazy. It is disturbing. Not for billionaires, that's my motto. Oh well. Big money: Paypal co-founder’s $2B firm investing in marijuana

Jan 8, 2015
NEW YORK — The pros are getting into pot.

Founders Fund, the $2 billion San Francisco venture capital firm run by Silicon Valley stars including Peter Thiel, co-founder and former CEO of Paypal, is investing in Privateer Holdings, a marijuana company that owns several pot-related brands.

The companies declined to disclose the size of the investment Thursday, but described it as a “multi-million dollar” participation in a $75 million fundraising effort by Privateer. The deal had been rumored last year.

~giggle~ thought bubble with Mr. Industry Trump and Mr. Fundamentalist Pence. They will flip a coin to decide where the profit and jobs occur, which is presently a prison industrial complex. Oh please land heads up or whichever side Peter Thiel and the magic herb wins. ~doink!~ See! Opposite Day. ;-D

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/technology/peter-thiel-bet-donald-trump-wins-big.html

Hillary Clinton’s campaign, Mr. Thiel said, forgot the motto that Bill Clinton had won the presidency with in 1992: “It’s the economy, stupid.”

“Somehow the Clintons did not remember,” he said. “It was a blind spot.” Mr. Thiel said that against Senator Bernie Sanders, who competed against Mrs. Clinton for the Democratic nomination, it “would have been much tougher for Trump to win, and a healthier race for the country. It would have been two candidates who agreed about the country’s stagnation but had very different policy prescriptions.” [...]

LOL Thanks?
edit: useless apostrophe in subject, now craving a sandwich.

thanks. My stomach tells me that there is nothing for me to say.

Have a good Sunday.

on us, the middle class(so called) will continue to disappear and those with a high school education, or less, will sink even farther in poverty and hopelessness. It is our duty to first understand the dynamic of global monopoly capitalism so we don't get suckered into identity politics where the 1% splits workers into manageable factions to compete with one another instead of working to end "grow and die" capitalism. We should accept half measures but realize that's what they are and press forward toward system change to displace climate change.

How would the world be different if the Sierra Club never existed? There would be fewer parklands but pollution and exploitation would be the same.

African-Americans have had one of their own as president for eight years and what positive do they have to show for giving the Democrats 90% of their votes? Are their fewer blacks imprisoned? jobless? homeless?

The Democratic establishment talks about the Hispanic vote as if those who speak Spanish have the same aspirations and needs. Spanish speakers have lived in what is now the USA since at least the 1600s in parts of California, the southwest, and Florida. The Puerto Ricans who have left that colony to live on the east coast are Hispanics but have little in common with the above people. The same can be said for Mexican Americans; those escaping murderous regimes in El Salvador and Guatemala and Honduras; and the Cubans who left after the Cuban revolution.

Chris Hedges seems to have a good grasp of the global problem and I look forward to reading his essays.

That line from Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" fell a little flat for me. I watched the open to SNL last night expecting to see Baldwin's Trump taking a victory lap. What I got instead was Kate McKinnon's Hillary singing a soulful rendition of Hallelujah.

McKinnon is quite a good singer and can tickle the ivories, who knew. But I didn't buy the message. That song is sooooo the polar opposite of Hillary. Anyway, for the Hillary fans in the house (is there even one?), here's the video. Watch, Weep and Heal.

Lookout, cudos on the essay today. Lot's of great links and loved the cartoons.

“The small and bullying leader of Russia is not dictating terms to the United States,” Pence said during the debate on October 4. “We have got to be able to lean into this with strong, broad-shouldered American leadership.”

“The provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength,” he added. “The United States of America should be prepared to use military force to strike military targets of the Assad regime.”

“We are going to rebuild our military. This whole Putin thing, look, America is stronger than Russia. Our economy is 16 times larger than the Russian economy. Our political system is superior to the crony corrupt capitalis system in Russia it every way,” Pence said, answering the question about a reason of Republicans’ confidence in the fact that Putin will respect a Trump-Pence administration, while he has no respect for Hillary Clinton and no respect for Obama. “When Donald Trump and I observed, as I said, in Syria and Iran and Ukraine that the small and bullying leader of Russia has been stronger on the world stage than this administration, that is stating painful facts,” he added."

Mike Pence