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My Analogy of Bernie and the DNC

I was thinking about an analogy describing Bernie with the establishment, DNC and Clinton. I thought of the usual parodies, Bernie as a superhero, Bernie as Rambo kicking ass and Bernie as a saintly figure but they all seemed so passe. I then remembered a video I'd seen years ago and it struck me that this would be the perfect visual analogy of Bernie and his struggles with the "cysts" know as the DNC and Clinton. In this video, the man sitting on the chair with the issue represents the 99%.

Tearing us apart

 photo AJ_zps0bwbcw3e.jpgVermont is one of the states in which transgender people theoretically have equal rights.

I'm sure that's what AJ Jackson thought when he sheepishly walked into the boys' bathroom at Green Mountain High School in Chester, VT recently.

But the way some of his classmates see it, A J was still Autumn Jackson, a girl in boys’ clothing, who had violated an intimate sanctum, while two boys were standing at a urinal, their private parts exposed.

And that has led to students channeling their parents.

Meat Consumption's Hidden Costs to Climate Change and Wildlife

Meat production causes more environmental harm than any other single industry, endangering wildlife, contributing at least 14.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions and accounting for 80% of antibiotic use, 37% of pesticide use and nearly 50% of water use in the United States.

Resilience: Low-Tech Weather Forecasting How-To's

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We have the usual hi-tech weather guides. We have an electronic temperature sensor and I check the Wunderground (https://www.wunderground.com) 10-day forecast every day.
As always with hi-tech, it makes us dependent on them. We grow up "not needing" to know how to read the weather signs for ourselves. The neighbourhood squirrels are smarter than me about, well, a lot of things, weather being one of them :=)
I wanted to learn about weather myself and low-tech is the way to knowledge. More below

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