Thursday, August 03, 2017

Pretty Chair...have a seat!


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  1. Continuing with the voting machine discussion, I still like the Votomatic. I never used one myself, but I recall that there was a late model that did not use the sort of pre-perforated cards that caused problems in Florida; instead they used a plain card and a stylus rather like a small cork borer to cut holes out of said card. The last old-fashioned paper ballots I marked were in the 1970's; I remember when "long ballots" truly were long ballots--on occasion five or six feet long. Ballot boxes could be--and in some places were--stuffed. The Votomatic punched-card ballots were easier to count, but the vote totals were not announced much sooner--if sooner at all--than with the old hand-marked ballots.

    --Alan

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    1. Just as long as it is to t heir financial advantage.

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    2. Cat ~~ I must take strong personal exception to this. I have NO financial interest in touchscreen voting machines. I like them simply because they are so very much easier for me to use.

      Plus, I remember just how easy it used to be to stuff ballot boxes with paper ballots. But in both cases, the real danger lies in the County Clerk's office. Unless you have a county-wide organization, it's had to do much damage at the precinct level.

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    1. Mind you, the many video links below this article are fascinating and many give hope of this taking too long for it to actually happen. Gosh, I sure hope so. The judiciary seems to be no help.

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  4. Boy, Howdy! Those leaked transcripts of DT's phone conversations with Enrique Pena Nieto and Malcolm Turnbull are stupendous! No foreign leader in his or her right mind will converse with him in the future about much of anything. The point has been made that for experienced staff members to leak such documents, they must be desperate to stop Trump. Another point that has been made (before the current WaPo leaks news) is that Trump may well be weakening the power of the Presidency for his successors, which might not be a bad thing at all; the relative power of the Presidency in our government has been increasing ever since the Hoover administration, and at times seems to approach the imperial.

    Alan

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  5. There is a regular herd of political gnus in stampede today; top secret phone transcripts leaked, Robert Mueller empanels a grand jury, Dems up 14% in the generic ballot, in short it appears that THE GOP IS SO SCREWED! (Couldn't happen to nicer folks). How does an incumbent GOP politician get out from under it? Maybe resigning so s/he can spend more time with the family? I imagine the conversation: "Honey, couldn't you come down with cancer or something so I would have to quit my day job to be with you?"

    --Alan

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    1. I think a nice little heart attack. Nothing actually life threatening, mind you, just a wake up call as it were, that life is too short to waste it with shit like being the leader of the Free World and retirement to Trump Tower would be advisable.

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    2. I recommend retirement in Russia.

      Alan, I liked the way you said this: "(Couldn't happen to nicer folks)"
      So true!! 😄

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  6. Two words: Grand Jury.

    I am so grateful for Mueller.

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    1. If he keeps this up, he could deserve a medal. I see no clear evidence of any Republican members of Congress to equal those who stood up for the best interests of the country in the Watergate hearings.

      Alan

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  7. Mueller Is Following the Trump Money Trail[Click] “Sources described an investigation that has widened to focus on possible financial crimes… Even investigative leads that have nothing to do with Russia but involve Trump associates are being referred to the special counsel to encourage subjects of the investigation to cooperate.” Ah, encouraging them to cooperate; the old “head in a vise” technique; love it.

    —Alan

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    1. The other day one columnist was saying that he figured the really bad financial stuff Trump did or was involved in would be hidden in layers and layers of limited liability corporations, shell corporations, etc.; but the extreme agitation DT is showing about even the possibility of Mueller getting access to his tax returns leads the columnist to strongly suspect that there is really bad stuff to be found in the returns themselves. Hmmmmmm......

      Alan

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    1. This doesn't actually say that Putin will remove Trump from power, but that, in Medvedev's view, the Washington establishment will. I don't think they will actually remove him from power, although the argument that they will move to further limit his executive power is to a degree plausible.

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