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tis not as deep as a well

By Flavius on Wed, 07/27/2016 - 12:07am |

nor as wide as a church door  but tis enough, twill do*

Night two  twill do.

As you think of Bill's reminiscence ,right now, you're smiling.   

Well at least I am. So that'll have to do. Do you remember anything about last week that makes you smile? Does "lock her up" do that? Or do you feel vaguely dirty? As if you see someone being beaten up, who deserved it. But enough already.

Day 1 was a success!

By Flavius on Tue, 07/26/2016 - 12:08am |

Despite where we started from, where we ended was quite OK.I'll take it !

Kaine,Catholicism and grammatical tricks

By Flavius on Sat, 07/23/2016 - 8:44am |

I was started down this path by the juxtaposition of two OGD links included  in  Michael's Freak Out Thread :

 Al Franken's MSNBC interview and a  Hillary ad . Franken described Kaine as a "progressive Catholic" ; the ad purported to show the children listening to Trump's tasteless insults to women who'd  outraged him by expecting  him to answer questions.

Those damn emails

By Flavius on Thu, 07/14/2016 - 12:37pm |

 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.

Just the facts, mam..

By Flavius on Tue, 07/12/2016 - 12:09pm |

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

The email number was 110

By Flavius on Sun, 07/10/2016 - 10:01pm |

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.

The Dallas families have had a terrible loss

By Flavius on Fri, 07/08/2016 - 9:36am |

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.

Cease fire

By Flavius on Wed, 07/06/2016 - 8:53am |

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

By Flavius on Fri, 07/01/2016 - 9:50pm |

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.

Bernie, Hillary,Eric and Sync

By Flavius on Tue, 06/28/2016 - 6:02am |

(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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