Sunday, October 28, 2018

9: My name is ZEPHYR


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  1. Voter Enthusiasm Reaches Historic Levels [Click]

    An Extremely Volatile Backdrop for an Election [Click]

    Super Bowl Is Political Minefield for Advertisers [Click]

    Trump outdoes even himself with lies at rally [Click]

    I haven’t had the heart to watch this, but expect people should.
    From Talking Points Memo: Trump’s Embrace of Anti-Semitism:
    We should, among all priorities, not be silent, now more than at any time. Let’s not forget that President Trump closed his 2016 campaign with a final ad rife with anti-Semitic themes and imagery. [Click] Right out in the open.
    —Josh Marshall

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  2. Link repaired--Alan

    Growing Map Means More Trouble for House GOP [Click] “…the bottom is falling out at the worst possible time.” Bottom falling out? Works for me, indeed it does.

    How to Get Rid of a President: History's Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable, or Unfit Chief Executives [Click] “A vivid political history of the schemes, plots, maneuvers, and conspiracies that have attempted--successfully and not--to remove unwanted presidents.”

    From politicalwire.com
    Quote of the Day
    “What I can tell you is in 2016 we saw a 34 percent increase in acts of harassment, vandalism and violence against the Jewish community. But last year, a 57 percent increase, the single largest surge that we’ve ever seen in anti-Semitic acts in the United States.”
    — Anti Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, on This Week.

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  3. In case someone else wondered, the Philadelphia synagogue gunman was/is reportedly registered to vote, but with no party affiliation.

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    1. Do you mean the Pittsburgh synagogue gunman? I did wonder, actually. Thanks.

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    2. Yes, I meant Pittsburgh. Thanks for the catch.

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    3. Thanks. I caught someone on social media trying to paint him as a Democrat. Fat chance.

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  4. Prophet of Freedom—a new biography of Frederick Douglass. Interview with the author. [Click] A new to me and very practical political dictum: ”…in 1855, in Rochester, [Douglass] said: ‘I would unite with anybody to do right, and with nobody to do wrong.’”

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    1. Amen, brother! What a refreshing, simple yet revolutionary idea. I'll stash that away with Eugene V. Debbs' "It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it."

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  5. I was thinking I ought to memorize it; guess great minds work in the same way!

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    1. Thanks, Alan. Not feeling much like a great mind at the moment.

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