Chicago Election Issues:
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This is a good summary of NY election issues:
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Careful readers may remember that while I have studied at many institutions, none of them were the University of Michigan or Michigan State. They hate each other with the white hot passion of a thousand burning suns. The only things they have in common is, well... Michigan of course, a mutual hatred of Ohio State that exceeds their disdain for each other, and Leonard Falcone.
Well, perhaps I should amend the above because I was a student of his in a summer music program at Michigan State (he thought, correctly, I was hopeless) but I'm sure my schadenfreude about any U of M misstep is transmitted genetically through my parents, Richard and Emily, who met at State. Go Spartans!
The back story goes something like this- the University of Michigan School of Economics has for years produced a highly influential consumer sentiment survey. I'll let Bill Black take it from there.
Put on a hazmat suit before reading the full article. Every paragraph drips with acidic condescension.
Thanks for all the great responses to my blog about hope. I will never give up hope nor my way of viewing the world as a big interconnected system.
I wrote that blog because I was observing the inevitable workings of this sick system of ours. First let me remind you of the summary of our book:
On Monday we had AG Lynch putting the full weight of the Justice Department behind transgender people.
Let me also speak directly to the transgender community itself. Some of you have lived freely for decades. Others of you are still wondering how you can possibly live the lives you were born to lead. But no matter how isolated or scared you may feel today, the Department of Justice and the entire Obama Administration wants you to know that we see you; we stand with you; and we will do everything we can to protect you going forward. Please know that history is on your side. This country was founded on a promise of equal rights for all, and we have always managed to move closer to that promise, little by little, one day at a time. It may not be easy – but we’ll get there together.
--AG Lynch
Today the Department of Education joined in, issuing guidelines that say that "transgender students deserve a supportive and nondiscriminatory school environment.
There is no room in our schools for discrimination of any kind, including discrimination against transgender students on the basis of their sex. This guidance gives administrators, teachers and parents the tools they need to protect transgender students from peer harassment and to identify and address unjust school policies.
--AG Lynch
Saturday May 13, 1916
Dublin, Ireland - Socialist and Labor Leader, James Connolly, Executed
Like Paul Krugman and Nate Silver, Jon Stewart could do no wrong with Hillarybots.
But now he's gone rogue.
Go 26:30 into the video.
My first post here, so hello everyone. I am 70. I have never bothered with American politics except asking my family members who live in the USA to vote for Nader. When i was in the University I supported the Socialist Party. I am a Bolivian citizen living in the Windward Islands (Caribbean), member of Evo Morales party Movimiento Al Socialismo and before that whatever old school anarcho-communist party was running.
