The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    THE ART OF THE DEAL

    Who really wrote Art of the Deal?

    The answer seems to be a guy by the name of Tony Schwartz?

    In the New Yorker, Tony Schwartz claims that he wrote all of the tome entitled: THE ART OF THE DEAL. He also claims he received half of the up front monies as well as half of the residuals via provisions contained in the original contract with the publisher.

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    PENCE!!!

    Thursday through Friday in the Republican nominee's life was just another chaotic episode which ended today in a Trump Egofest gone wild.  Today's Trump rally was supposed to be an introduction to the Vice Presidential candidate.  But anyone could have predicted, and no one should be shocked that the introduction would be all about The Donald.

    The Pence Pick Helps Trump

    For the record, I don't think Donald Trump will be the next President. Although a CBS/NYT poll published Thursday shows a tight race and oracle Nate “Tarnished” Silver now gives Trump a 1 in 3 shot at winning, I would argue the racist deadbeat's chances are more like 1 in 4 or less. For one thing, a slew of NBC/WSJ polls released Friday show Clinton with commanding leads in Colorado, Florida, North Carolina, and Virginia. Of even more consequence is the “hot mess,” in the words of the New Republic's Jeet Heer, that is the Trump campaign. Finally, Silver lost his air of infallibility by his insistence last year that Trump would not be the Republican candidate.

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    THE WORLD IS A TERRIBLE PLACE TO LIVE WITH TRUMP

    Trump was going to inform us of his VP choice today.

    But Trump told us yesterday that the destruction of humanity by a semi in Nice called for a postponement of his decision.

    And yet, today, the T-Rump announced his VP choice; some teapartier from Indiana.

    Those damn emails

     FBI director Comey contributed to Obama’s opponents in each of his  elections:  August 2008, $2,300 to John McCain ; 2012 ,$5000 ( the maximum )to Mitt Romney .Also $2,500 to Susan Brooks (Ind.), Brooks went on to win a House seat.

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    RUSH DEFENDS AILES

     

    Mussolini biografia.jpg

     

    HOW ARE YA DOIN?
    I was wondering how Mussolini might defend Adolf. hahahah
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini
    And then I ran into this:

    http://mediamatters.org/

    Just the facts, mam..

    Bernie:

    Burlington mayoral election, 1981

    Bernie Sanders (I) – 4,330 (43.43%)

    Gordon Paquette (D) – 4,320 (43.32%)

    Richard Bove (I) - 1,091 (11.76%)

    Joe McGrath (I) - 139 (1.50%)

     1983

    Bernie Sanders (I) – 6,942 (52.12%)

    Judy Stephany (D) – 4,086 (30.68%)

    James Gilson (R) – 2,292 (17.21%)

     1985

    Bernie Sanders (I) – 5,760 (56.09%)

    Brian D. Burns (D) – 3,275 (31.89%)

    Diane Gallagher (I) – 1,234 (12.0

    Bernie Delivers Strong Endorsement for Hillary

    Bernie Sanders, 'coming together, Hillary understands our diversity is our strength, most progressive platform in history, I have known Hillary for 25 years, she fought for universal health care and children, listens to scientists.. Hillary Clinton will make an outstanding president and I am proud to stand with her here today. .': prepared speech today in New Hampshire:

    The email number was 110

    at least so far.

    Hillary's "arrogant,selfish actions "   (Maureen Dowd) "contaminated......Barack Obama etc. etc.etc." by not  volunteering that there were  110 emails  with classified information among those she turned over to State.

    And "at least 3 " more classified emails among not turned over to State.

    This is nonsense.

    Neither State,the do nothing  Congress,  the FBI  nor us should be wasting time discussing 113 "classified" emails even if they were all classified for deep security reasons.

    And maybe they were.

    Or not.

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    No Subject

    I would like to humbly suggest that ridiculous, stupid videos, without any attempt or effort at explaining, evaluating or justifying them, should be a TOS violation based on pure laziness..  It does nothing to further conversation or enlightenment.  

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    AILES AILS AND THAT IS GOOD!

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    I have been reading about my old hero Cosby for sometime.

    http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/08/bill-cosby-rape-sexual-assault-50-accusers

    I began to become suspicious well before the first wave of women came out of the closet to expose this sexual predator. 

    It was an AR-15 Assault Rifle, Banned in 90's under Clinton

    And banned in California for a decade or more. California now also requires a background check for purchase of ammo. The American ritual after Dallas, the post massacre arsenal report. The right wing denial that any gun law whatsoever could have limited the recent massacre, in particular the 1994 Clinton Federal Assault Weapons Ban which Republicans let expire in 2004. Even today, right wing 'live in their own universe' websites, this one 'Controversial Times' (they thrive on controversy, abhor concensus/facts) are still trumpeting that the Dallas shooter did not use an AR-15, but instead used some antique WW2 rifle:

    The Gun Used by the Dallas Police Murderer is Revealed. It’s Not What Most People Thought.

    The Dallas families have had a terrible loss

    of the officers who were killed  doing their job.

    So have the families now waiting in anxiety for their wounded family member to recover.

    My heart goes out to them all.

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    WHY BLOG AT ALL?

    Engraving of Descartes

     

    I go through my old stuff sometimes, I have no life. hahahah


    A long time ago I wrote about Mr. & Mrs. Johnson

    http://dagblog.com/reader-blogs/ethics-19351


    Now, I miss a lot of peeps.
    I miss AA and I miss Resistence and Carol for chrissakes! ha


    I think I pissed them off. 

    What's Going On...

    Since Bernie grief, email/tarmac worries and Donald phobias have been rocking our free world way too much, thought it'd be useful to take a breather and discuss something else. And what an else...

    1) recent spate of cop-on-black killings re-ignites the Ferguson riot scenes from last summer. Will we actually do something about it, will it be left to Hillary, or will it be just part of America's pastoral gun-laden backdrop?

    2) Speaking of guns, still no new legislation despite Congressional sitdown. Nice symbolism, but...

    Cease fire

    I always liked the Tom Lehrer lyric that went

    We are the folk song army

    Everyone one of us cares

    We all hate poverty

    War and injustice

    Unlike the rest of you squares

    Somehow I'm unpleasantly reminded of it by the ever popular insult war  between the Dagblog Sander-rites and Hillary-ites.

    Just taking a stand

    As an unequivocal  Hillary supporter I think Bernie is quite right not to endorse her until the convention.

    Not just ¨ within his rights¨ but right. Full stop.

    He was not a marginal contender he was the major opposition. Not a frivolous exercise but something to which he devoted a year of his life at a time when that commodity is in dwindling supply. He has earned the right to be heard at the convention and to be allowed to make his case with respect to the platform ,meaningless as that document will ,as usual, be.

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    OBAMA REFLECTS OUR VALUES INTERNATIONALLY

    We as a nation need someone to represent us.

    We need someone who speaks to values.

    We need someone who speaks to friendship.

    We need someone who represents the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

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    Declaration Of Disillusioned & Disenfranchised Democratic Voters

    Many Bernie Supporters/Organizers created this document to send to superdelegates.  There is a version for voters that are not registered democrats as well.  Please add your comment, print and mail/fax, or scan/fax/tweet etc. this document to your superdelegates.  There are many lists of superdelegates out there, the one I am posting does allow for contact/corrections.  I will post links to .pdf versions here.  

    Registered Dems: http://docdro.id/nM0mebH

    Bernie, Hillary,Eric and Sync

    (From Harold Ickes  ´ diary)

    In 1933 FDR appointed William Woodin as Secretary of Treasury and Dean Acheson as  Under Secretary.

    During the appointment process Acheson joked he had no qualification for the post.  The joke ceased being funny , Woodin was in poor health  and Acheson soon was in effect the actual Treasury Secretary and

    FDR ś plan for Treasury was to  salute and say ¨yes sir¨ as he restlessly experimented to try to find a way to exit the Recession.

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    DONALD TRUMP & THE DEAD ZONE

    Donald Trump's campaign chair (Manaport) reported on Meet The Press that:

    "The good thing is , we have a candidate who doesn't need to figure out what's going on in order to say what he wants to do..."

    And I thought they got rid of Lewandowski because of his mouth and his assaults?

    Manaport is telling us that we do not need a President who has to at least attempt to discover the facts before he or she makes a decision?

    Warren vs. Kaine Smackdown

    So if Hillary goes for Warren, she risks losing the cross-over Republican refugees fleeing a sinking ship and brand the ticket too liberal for some.

    If she chooses Tim Kaine, she may miss the boat in inspiring the Sanders crowd as well as lose someone who seems to ignite a fire.

    Changes in the democratic primary system?

    I often wonder if a person's views change with the candidate they support. My opinions transcend the candidate I support. Every thing I'm posting here I not only believed before this primary but I believed long before the 08 primary. If TPM had saved it's reader's blogs discussions much of this post could be found there from ten years ago.

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    Surviving a Toxic Social Environment

    One thing that has been said by a friend to me about the 2010s is that it just has been a trip back to the 1970s. The 1970s were a chaotic and, in many ways, hate driven era of American politics, more so than typically: the Black Panthers, George Wallace, Richard Nixon, Kent State, Vietnam, Harvey Milk, Texas Chainsaw Massacre. When becoming president after the resignation of Richard Nixon, Ford referred to his presidency as the "end" of a long national nightmare.

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    This is NO ORDINARY PRIMARY = No Uniting Behind FRAUD.

    It's Pretty Simple Really.
    The Establishment Democrats conspired to make Hillary 'THE' Nominee before the primary had ever begun.

    If you consider superdelegates like 'judges' in a contest and those judges are supposed to 'weigh in' on July 25th, pledging themselves to a winner in the 'contest' before it begins is FRAUD.

    The DNC colluded with Hillary Campaign and corporate media to make 'her' 'THE' nominee even after others entered the race.
    That is 'rigging' a contest and a FRAUD against the public.
    (Class action suit re this FRAUD is being filed).

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