It's 2016 - everything's up for restructuring.
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Doesn't really dive into the desirability & workability too much, but at least factchecks the discussion a bit. As they note, $15 hasn't been well vetted by economists.
It's been a long time for Andrew. More convincing to analyze the historic currents - tyrrany is never assured, but the maybies keep us awake. Sully won't make any friends with this one, even taking a shot at gay liberals, but things are so bad he's even overcome Hillary Hate. Does that make him right?wrong? Irrelevant? At least it will revive memories of pivotal writings come and gone.
60-40 win (unofficially). And a caucus! Oh my. Most important, comes away 6 delegates up including supers; 1 more in pledged.
Tuesday 30 August 2011 12.10 EDT
"This is a bad time to be a black man in Libya," reported Alex Thomson on Channel 4 News on Sunday. Elsewhere, Kim Sengupta reported for the Independent on the 30 bodies lying decomposing in Tripoli. The majority of them, allegedly mercenaries for Muammar Gaddafi, were black. They had been killed at a makeshift hospital, some on stretchers, some in an ambulance. "Libyan people don't like people with dark skins," a militiaman explained in reference to the arrests of black men.
I was never so wrong about a guy. For a while there, I really thought Shaun King was a jackass. Turns out he's awesome.
Key line:
"I believe many independent voters will stay at home if Bernie Sanders isn't a candidate. It will be up to Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party to win them over, but they've expressed very little interest in such a thing thus far."
"Both parties ignored workers, spewed hate, enriched themselves, hollowed out democracy. Now the problem's populism?"
Good article. Basically what I've been saying for years. I don't quite agree that Clinton is Trump however.
Apparently I was more right about the Alternative Right than I ever thought.
Even after the costly annexation of Crimea and the revelations of the Panama Papers, Putin remains Teflon Vlad. For how long? Certainly sanctions aren't coming off soon.
So Hillary comes away from Indiana up 1 delegate after spending about nothing, compared to $1.8mill for Bernie's TV buy. Down 6 delegates if we dont count superdelegates, but why would we do that?
Meanwhile Trump's opponents dropped out, ceding him victory. Hillary's pretending it already happened - time to get real about the national contest.
A good reminder of the options available and not taken. Bush pioneered the no-stimulus recovery in 2001, to bad (but Republican) result. Obama largely played along to GOP TARP plans in 2009, including lowball public assistence and austerity. Hillary's wrapping herself around Obama as she must, but we know she's not a kumbaya idealist. Will she learn the real lessons behind the rhetoric - both in economic and foreign policy? How will/would she govern during the next crisis? I think it's a given she's not out to be either Bill or Barry's 3rd term. Will she find her own 3rd Way? Will she pull out her Saul Alinsky? Will she stay content with the 1 big idea per year mode? Or will she open up multiple fronts like FDR? We'll likely see come January. She's waited/worked a long time for that moment. Don't think there'll be a lot of cookies baked in the White House the next 8 years.
Thought I'd file this under the endless litany of who wears the MLK mantle, what would Jesus do and if FDR came back, would he drive a hybrid?
Of course MLK wouldn't be a woman, but he might friend one. Curiously he could be white. But possibly gay.
Would he have a biting sense of humor, or still rely on preacher's prose and metaphor?
Almost left out LBJ - would he eat a lo-carb diet and carpool? Post pictures of abused dogs to Facebook or Pinterest? Things do change as they stau the same. Perhaps Vietnam by drone wouldn't look the same.
Slate goes through a step-by-step Q&A about Bernie's lackluster effort. Is he lazy? Or what?
With most stalemated international negotiations, the reasons for both the impasse and the continuation of talks are easy to understand. A range of possible agreed outcomes exists, with some more favorable to one party and some more favorable to the other, and with each side naturally trying to get as good a deal as it can.
I encourage everyone here to read this. It is a interview with Nancy Fraser. She has been on the fore front of feminism and gender thinking and study for decades.
I come from this school of thought because of what I see with my own eyes. I have written about what life is like for many in the lower half of our society. I also wrote a great deal about what happened with Greece and keeping you informed during the crises. Most of my working career as been working in jobs were I was the only women and blazed my own trail.
I simply see Hillary Clinton with a different set of eyes because of my education and experiences.
White House hopeful Bernie Sanders, who has fought the Democratic establishment throughout his campaign, made an extraordinary appeal Sunday for party insiders to help deliver the nomination to him, even if he doesn’t catch rival Hillary Clinton in the remaining primaries and caucuses.
80 inmates still at Gitmo, most charged with nothing since placement there over a decade ago - many scheduled for release 7 years ago, but never released; others essentially sentenced to life without trial or release. Is Col. Jessup still defending American Way up on that wall?
We probably can't stand the truth. How many of us realized that in defending Saudi Arabia - right, that Saudi Arabia - we were capturing many of Gitmo's residents from Yemen? Not quite the Iraq/Afghanistan/Pakistan triad we might expect. When Trump says he'd do more than waterboarding, the awful fact is we've tortured much worse. Which candidate is likely to actually provide release?
Guantanamo detainees in numbers (source: Human Rights First/ACLU)
Total number of detainees ever incarcerated at Guantanamo: 779
Detainees currently held at Guantanamo: 107
Number of current detainees imprisoned for more than 10 years: 88
Age of the youngest detainee ever held: 13
Age of the oldest detainee ever held: 89
Children the US detained: 21
Detainees who have died at Guantanamo: 9
The youngest detainee to die at Guantanamo: Yasser Talal Al Zahrani (captured at age 16, died by apparent suicide at age 21)
Capture of Guantanamo Bay detainees (Source: ACLU)
Bounties paid by Bush Administration to anyone who would hand over a possible terror suspect: $3,000 to $25,000
Percentage of detainees captured by US troops: 5%
Percentage of detainees reportedly turned over to coalition forces in response to the bounty offer: 86%
Leaving Guantanamo Bay (Source: Human Rights First)
Detainees released under President George W Bush: over 500
Detainees at start of Barack Obama Presidency: 242
Detainees transferred, repatriated or resettled under Obama: 133
Detainees transferred to US for prosecution: 1 (Ahmed Ghailani)
Remaining detainees approved for release: 46
Detainees Obama Administration is holding for indefinite detention without charge or trial: 49
Yemenis approved for transfer: 37
Of these, 30 are held in "conditional" detention, pending improved security in Yemen or transfer to a third country.
Number of countries that have accepted Guantanamo detainees: 56
Tisch Sussman's father Donald Sussman has a net worth in excess of $900 million. Her grandmother's even luckier. Her total assets are valued at over $2.5 billion.
Unemployment? Yes, 2 or 3 percent of the working-age population has dropped out of the labor force, but the headline unemployment rate is 5 percent. Wages? They've been stagnant since the turn of the century, but the average family still makes close to $70,000, more than nearly any other country in the world. Health care? Our system is a mess, but 90 percent of the country has insurance coverage. Dissatisfaction with the system? According to Gallup, even among those with incomes under $30,000, only 27 percent are dissatisfied with their personal lives. Like it or not, you don't build a revolution on top of an economy like this. Period. If you want to get anything done, you're going to have to do it the old-fashioned way: through the slow boring of hard wood.
Ahhhhhhhhhh, yesterday
Seems like a short while ago.
Denny Hastert, the preserver of family values for the GOP is finally convicted of pedophilia.
This just got to me.
Hypocrisy is everywhere all the time.
BUT DAMN!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dennis-hastert-sentence-abuse_us_5713f320e4b0018f9cba558d
And we should endorse the GOP?
Anyway, the top GOP basterd has been sentenced for a period that does not even include penance for his real crimes.
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