Looking around online the newspapers and Democratic Party blogs across the internet.
Trump is everywhere, the hours and column inches dedicated to him are simply astounding.
Hillary gets some mention when entangled in yet another mess of her own making.
President Obama has recently been on a "legacy tour" overseas.
Presidential legacies are notoriously hard to define because so much of depends on personal opinions. Only with the detachment of history do legacies become clear.
I have always tried to be able to 'do it myself', with a particular interest in keeping older skills alive. I am not sure it fits the definition here, but I think of it as a component of 'Resilience'...being able to do things for ourselves instead of relying on help, especially from far away.
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This scandal wasn't a Republican hit-job. It wasn't from a vast right-wing conspiracy. This news segment wasn't from the hacks at Fox News.
I'm sure most of you already figured this out about me, but I'm more or less a vehement anti-capitalist. Capitalism is a system that relies heavily on the worst aspects of economies: high unemployment, extreme poverty, wealth consolidation, authoritarian society and regimes, etc. As far as unemployment is concerned, folks with disabilities have a fairly high unemployment rate.
If Bernie got 72% except in NJ & DC where he gets 47%, it would be 2029 delegates for Hillary, 2022 for Bernie.
The same scenario but Bernie gets 73% in California, he beats Hillary 2027 to 2024.
If Bernie got 73% he could lose NJ and DC by 12% each and just beat Hillary 2026 to 2025.
Amos Beede, 38, was a homeless transgender man residing (if, in fact, a homeless man can be said to reside anywhere) in Vermont. Amos was found on the ground near a homeless encampment, unconscious, on May 23.
Beede suffered head trauma, including facial fractures, multiple blunt force injuries to his face and head and a number of broke ribs, police said. He had been diagnosed with bleeding on the brain known as a subdural hematoma.
What did Bernie just show us all? WE ARE THE CAMPAIGN......
Bernies online campaign tools are an exponential leap beyond anything we've seen. What do we do now? Learn field operations, run for office. Attend a Camp Wellstone campaign training. If you want to wield political power, you need to know how to run a campaign. If you're going to run for office you need to learn how to be a candidate.
On that Christmas Day Company I, First Platoon, was very hard hit. My good friend Oliver Coghill was on my right and a buddy named Palko was next to him. Both were killed, and I could hear Lieutenant Lawson calling for his mother.
- Excerpt from the written account of the combat experiences of Darrell Burdette Searls, former infantry soldier in Company I of the 290th Regiment of the 75th Division, United States Army, 1944-1945
Gopal Balakrishnan:
On numerous occasions since the 90s the left has rallied to a center-right candidate to ward off the far-right and the results have been disastrous. Not only is the far right strengthened by bolstering its credentials as the only real opposition force to the establishment, the left is drastically weakened at the expense of the center-right.
