Monday Open Thread 03-02-15

Submitted by Cordelia Lear on Mon, 03/02/2015 - 7:45am

Good morning 99percenters!

Interested in travel? Well then, I’ve got an article for you. 52 Places to Go in 2015.

Top Ten:

  1. Milan, Italy
  2. Cuba
  3. Philadelphia
  4. Yellowstone National Park
  5. Elqui Valley, Chile
  6. Singapore
  7. Durban, South Africa
  8. Bolivia
  9. Faroe Islands
  10. Macedonia

What more suggestions inside the US?

13. Orlando, FL
16. Lower Manhattan, NY
19. Steamboat Springs, CO
21. Cleveland, OH
23. New Orleans, LA
30. Bend, OR
36. San Antonio, TX
39. The Catskills, NY
45. Miami Beach, FL
47. Tulsa, OK
50. Taos Ski Valley, NM

If you’ve visited, or lived in, any of these places, please leave a comment about what to do, or see, there.

This is an open thread so tell us what’s on your mind today, or write a diary of your own. The floor is yours.

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Submitted by Big Al on Mon, 03/02/2015 - 11:37am
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family vacations in a car people used to take in the sixties. I'm thinking about doing it again this summer or next and take
my granddaughter.

I've been to Bend, Oregon many times. When I worked for the Forest Service, I'd take trips to the National Forest and District Ranger
offices in Washington and Oregon. I would schedule a trip to Bend anytime I could (Deschutes National Forest). Beautiful area.
As with most beautiful areas though, the rich and wealthy found it and turned it into a capitalist enterprise in the high desert. A lot
more crowded than it used to be. Still, outside of Bend in Central Oregon are some awesome places to see.

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Submitted by Shahryar on Mon, 03/02/2015 - 12:50pm
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"Centrist Dems ready strike against Warren wing"

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/234224-centrist-dems-ready-strike-a...

Contains gems like these:

Centrist Democrats are gathering their forces to fight back against the “Elizabeth Warren wing” of their party, fearing a sharp turn to the left could prove disastrous in the 2016 elections.

talk about no awareness! But wait, they've rationalized it in a hilarious form.

Gabe Horwitz, director of Third Way’s economic program, said moderates have been arguing the case for rebranding the Democratic Party around “the middle class and middle-class prosperity.”

“In the last election, Democrats, as a party, offered a message of fairness. Voters responded, and they responded really negatively,” Horwitz said. “Democrats offered fairness, and voters wanted prosperity and growth.”

so, apparently, that means no more "fairness"! Wow.

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Submitted by Tammany Tiger on Mon, 03/02/2015 - 1:25pm
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To begin with, the party offered no message at all; and many of its candidates (I'm looking at you, Alison Lundergan Grimes) ran away from both Obama and the Democratic label. Which is why Democrats didn't turn out and those candidates lost.

In addition, voters made it clear that they want more cash in their pockets. Last fall, minimum wage increases passed in all five states in which they were on the ballot--including Arkansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota.

The fat-wallet donors to the party aren't worried about losing the election; they'll be fat and happy even if Jeb! wins next year. What they're doing is making it clear that they don't want Hillary the Inevitable to raise income disparity as an issue in her campaign for president. Not that she'll need much convincing to drop the issue.

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Submitted by gulfgal98 on Tue, 03/03/2015 - 5:39pm
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I have visited several of those places, notably Yellowstone during the winter when on a ski trip to Big Sky Montana many years ago. In the winter, you can see far more wildlife than during the summer months and the hot springs and other geologic features are even more beautiful in the winter. The day we spent in Yellowstone was spectacular!

Everyone should visit downtown San Antonio at least once if possible because they did such a wonderful job turning a flood control project into an amenity there. The River Walk area is so forward thinking when one realizes that it was first conceived and developed in the 1920's and 1930's! San Antonio took what had been a source of disaster and turned it into an amenity.

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