Monday, January 04, 2016

Raindrops on Apples...


13 comments:

  1. Crabapples, if I am not mistaken. And here's to Howard Dean, who helped so much to show the way!

    Just what I wanted to hear, from politicalwire.com:

    Sen. Bernie Sanders has quietly assembled an extensive ground game in Iowa, “with 100 paid staff members and with trained volunteer leaders for each of the state’s 1,681 caucus precincts,” the New York Times reports.

    “The field team is meant to be the engine for a Sanders upset in the caucuses on Feb. 1 — the vehicle to turn out the tens of thousands of grass-roots supporters who show up for Mr. Sanders’s rallies, even if they no longer earn him headlines.”

    --Alan

    P.S.: Notes left on previous thread.

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    1. Re the final post on the last thread:

      You call yourself a geezer? Why, I bet you don't even remember harry Truman giving 'em Hell just like Howard did. Except in both cases the candidate wasn't really giving them Hell. He was just telling the truth and they thought it was Hell.

      Bernie is pretty good about giving them Hell, too.

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    2. LOL Alan, you're forgiven. And I won't even make you say three Hail Marys.

      Geezerdom is relative. At times listening to my forty-year-old sister, with her worldview and the things she doesn't know or remember that I take for granted, I feel old indeed. Thus it has always been, I suppose.

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    3. Later this year I will turn seventy, so I figure it is a bit of a stretch to insist that I remain merely a proto-geezer. At Job No. 1 I take notice of how many people die younger than I am, and at Job No. 2 I am now noticing how many people are in nursing homes at younger ages than myself. But we are doing pretty well. Then again, take a look at Bernie!

      --Alan

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    4. YAH! Bernie makes us older people feel like slackers! :-D

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    1. 19F sounds warm to me! We're excited that we might make it up to 18F tomorrow!! :-) Last night we broached the minus mark, today we got only to 3F and tonight we're going to dig down a bit deeper, with parts of Vermont reaching -15F. But it warms into the 30's again later in the week. Not really much of a cold snap. Not enough, yet, to keep away the poisonous creatures.

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    2. Yeahbut. . . . My state started the Civil War on the side of the Confederacy. . . . i.e., we're below the Mason-Dixon Line.

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    3. Where is global warming when one needs it? And what kind of poisonous creatures have you in mind, listener? Nineteen degrees sounds pretty chilly to me.

      --Alan

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  3. WOW!! Thanks for the link to the article about Bernie's ads, Alan! I really like the first ad shown. Oh, I do hope the revolution is silently building steam. We have such an opportunity as we may never see again.

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    1. My pleasure, listener. I liked the first one better too, but I think it was significantly longer. I figure that even if this is only a marker on the way, things are likely to continue evolving in the way they are going. I am very much encouraged to hear that Bernie's campaign has not just a hundred paid campaigners on the ground, but leaders assigned to EVERY Iowa caucus! I wouldn't mind it one bit if the punditocracy were blindsided by a wave of Bernie voters they don't even imagine exists. The more I reflect on it, HRC bringing Bill along on the campaign trail in New Hampshire seems like quite a gamble; it could miscarry very easily.

      --Alan (now going to bed far too late--had a lot of discovery to review for a public defender)

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    2. Good point, Alan. Mah*Sweetie says he'd feel a bit concerned about letting B.C. loose in the White House again.

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