[Cross-posted from WayoftheBern]
Back in high school, the father of a close friend worked for Billy Graham. He was close to all of us, played foosball with us, drove us to all the tournaments, and I played a lot of chess against him. He was like our Den Leader. I liked him a lot.
Disclaimer: I am not a statistician; my background is in functional analysis, which includes probability, but I have not been in the field for many years. I am currently working on fast implementations of some classical statistical measures, but I'm nothing like an expert. My goal here is educational.
Good Morning 99%'ers. Today's Open Thread topic in another in the series on neo-liberalism. For those who may be interested in previous essays on this subject, here are the links to those essays.
The Sanders Institute will focus on elevating issues and ideas — through media and documentaries — that Sanders said the “corporate media” fails to focus on, including the disappearing middle class, “massive” income inequality, horrific levels of poverty and problems affecting seniors and children.
It looks like Bernie has a plan:
To chants of
CLEVELAND — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Tuesday night laid out what he called his “indictment” against presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Um, yeah. RNC Convention still just getting warmed up and the attack ads are already hitting the airwaves, apparently. Remember all that talk of how Bernie was un-vetted because the Republicans hadn't yet come after him? The DNC may want to walk back that bravado a bit.
So glad I don't have live television to be inundated with all this.
Ah, the old 'Two for the Price of One' theme:
Today, Tuesday, July 19, 2016, the U.S. is a corporate state oligarchy fast-transitioning into a full-blown fascist state. I don't make that declarative statement with the purpose of being hyperbolic, or dramatic, or to make any other point other than to state (what I believe to be) a fact.
I think we ought to be referring to our ultimate goal as that of "realignment." "Third party" is the phrase the Establishment to denigrate our cause and pronounce us as insignificant. Ideally we should want the Green Party to be a second party; the Democratic Party will be the other national party, absorbing the Clintonites and the establishment Republicans under one banner (hint: they're already doing this now).
I think most of the Caucus here is old enough to remember that phrase.
I also feel that as time has passed, a great many of us have evolved when it comes to how we understand gender.
So I can say the phrase "The Woman's Touch" is very sexist in its wording, yet at the same time feel comfortable believing the phenomenon that phrase describes is very real.
A case where the picture is worth the thousand words. Or one 'word' a thousand times rather. That 'word' would be "HA"
http://time.com/4412506/republican-convention-delegates-photo/
