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¨ Imagine a summer evening if you please

By Flavius on Sat, 03/18/2017 - 11:31pm |

with music underneath the trees"

....begin some Noel Coward lyrics from ¨ Conversation Piece ¨  and end  

 

Men and women , superbly clad ,stroll

sip tea ,

¨and lightly discuss their monarch ...who is mad¨.

More specifically, raved for 58 hours. Sound familiar?

Like Trump. Not    ¨idiosyncratic ¨    Mad.

I don´t use these terms  casually -a family member  is institutionalized- but soon for his own sake and that

of the country Trump must be stripped of his authority.

Sometimes Trump ´s right department

By Flavius on Mon, 03/06/2017 - 9:58pm |

¨While Panasonic is the world ´s largest supplier of electric vehicle batteries globally, China ´s BYD and  CATL were just behind , according to figures collated by Bernstein ,the research group...............

In 2015 in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing,South Korea ´s LG  Chem opened a battery factory. The same year Samsung SDI followed suit. opening a plant in Xian in central  China and declaring that it would "forge  its foothold in the world'ś biggest  new energy vehicle market ¨. 

Just some numbers

By Flavius on Wed, 03/01/2017 - 10:13am |

             Presidential popular votes                    Elected to state assemblies                                                                   in millions

 

              Dem          Rep                                     Dem       Rep

2007                                                                2964       2399

2008         69.5        59.9                                      ?                                                                                  

Score card

By Flavius on Wed, 03/01/2017 - 9:53am |

              Presidential popular votes                    Elected to state assemblies                                                                   in millions

 

              Dem          Rep                                     Dem       Rep

2008         69.5        59.9                                      ?                                                                                  

2009                                                                 3058      2334                                                               

Trump's right.

By Flavius on Sun, 02/19/2017 - 11:46pm |

We shouldn't import anything .

Not if we can make it here.

The things that we can make but don't,  we should  resume making here.

This obscenely rich country shouldn't  have 50,000 homeless in NYC tonight. In 2018 that should be

5,000.  And 45,000 people should be making replacements for the Toyotas we won't be buying.

That is the only way we can make America a country that is great for the working class. We can't Globalize our way to full employment. We have to import- replace our way there.

Senator Warren forced not to quote Coretta King

By Flavius on Tue, 02/07/2017 - 11:03pm |

Around 9 30 pm Senator Warren, speaking  as part of the Democrat's opposition to  Sessions ,  attempted to provide relevant information about the 1986 Senate's  decision to reject him as a federal judge. After reading Senator Kennedy's  86 statement   she attempted to do the same with Coretta Scott King's 86 letter of opposition.

That's what did it?

By Flavius on Mon, 02/06/2017 - 11:28am |

During the campaign I thought Trump's chances would be affected by his "Grab a little pussy"  chat.

Or by has cheerfully agreeing  to allow Ivanka to be called on national TV " a nice piece of ass".

Or by the video of him in Australia humiliating Miss Australia  for not meeting his plane.

I was right,  It probably got him elected.

This is not a rehearsal

By Flavius on Sat, 02/04/2017 - 10:25pm |

It’s the way things are going to be from now on. Theoretically two minority members are supposed to be present when a senate committee forwards a Presidential cabinet nominee to the full senate.Except when they aren’t. This past week.

Supposedly it takes  60 votes to stop a filibuster.   Think a Democrats filibuster will prevent  the approval of about- -to- be Justice Gorsuch?  Along with believing in Santa Claus and the tooth fairy.

How could this have happened?

By Flavius on Sat, 01/21/2017 - 2:35pm |

That's easy.   Bernie ran and Hillary lost.Take Pennsylvania for example

 

                                        PA      Election results in thousands

QED

By Flavius on Wed, 01/11/2017 - 6:52pm |

IMHO in specifying today that the "Illegitimate son of Obama care"  will be passed on the same day as the burial of its oft-mocked predecessor Donald the T is committing that Trumpcare will offer equivalent benefits.

Particularly since he was extremely clear during the campaign that he agreed with Obamacare's pre existing condition clause.

Since s

1 Accepting pre existing conditions is a money loser. In spades.

2 To offset that loss on (1)  Obamacare  permitted Insurance.Co   to overprice everything else

3 with UsSGOV  subsidizing  (2).

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