Monday, February 25, 2019

Litter Sisters (really!)

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  1. I investigated my music link in yesterday's thread, and of the four musicians in the group (all unknown to me), I found two that just blew me away; herewith a single of each one. "Vietnam" nearly made me weep, and "Darlin' Cory" is not just a banjo standard, but is an incredible blusey take. Enjoy!

    Amythyst Kiah - "Darling Cora" [Click]
    Leyla McCalla - Vietnam [Click]

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    1. Unlike Dems in 1972 and 1976 and the GOP in 2016 the Dems today pretty much agree with one another ideologically. Consider Medicare as a public option and Medicare for all--very little functional difference. Ditto for Green New Deal as a legislative package tied up with a bow and as an aspiration. Same for social issues. Above all, they are unified in wanting to defeat Trump. So after the dust from the first Super Tuesday settles, the situation should be clear.

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    2. The details in both articles are outdated by now, of course. Silver seems at least partially concerned about the party elite getting its way. But as I mentioned a few days ago, I don't expect the party establishment to try to come together behind a single candidate. The sheer number of candidates, as well as the experience of 2016, works against that. And Silver's own data show that an insurgent candidate is not necessarily bad news in the general election. Kamarack reminded me of the 15% cutoff for delegates, which will indeed help winnow the field early. I still think there is a good chance of what I would call a brokered convention, with no candidate emerging from the primaries with a majority of the delegates, although I wouldn't be surprised if the brokering occurred and a candidate had been agreed before the convention started.

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    3. I don't agree that there is "very little functional difference" between Medicare as a public option and Medicare for All. But they do point in the same general ideological direction. And yes, despite Klobacher's attacks on "socialism," the ideological divisions among the candidates do not seem particularly hard and fast. There is no telling what might happen in the next 20 months, but currently there is no reason to think that Democrats will not be able to unite behind their eventual candidate.

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    4. I hope you're right, Bill.

      There are those, or at least there is one, that being my mother, who want HRC to jump in and earnestly believe she would win. My mother, Lord love her, is not what anyone would call an independent thinker. So, she must hear such garbage on MSNBC. God help us!

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  3. OK, Art class and lunch are over; before I get to work (I really should start pruning our tangelo tree), here is another tranche from the InnterTubes. Then I will shut up until this evening. [grin] Hi, Bill! Hi, Cat!

    The Battle for New Hampshire [Click]

    Reuters: Pivotal New Hampshire primary may come down to Sanders versus Warren [Click]

    Trump Underwater In 13 States He Won In 2016 [Click]

    Should Democrats Target the Rust Belt, Sun Belt or Both? [Click] Go for the gusto, say I!

    US negotiating position in disarray ahead of summit with North Korea [Click] Who could have anticipated it? Well, who needs a negotiating position if they have Donnie’s gut to guide them?

    ‘FarFarOut’: astronomer finds potential furthest object in solar system [Click]

    Snake on a plane goes 9,300 miles from Australia to Scotland in woman's shoe [Click]

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  4. Sanders Raised $10 Million In a Week
    February 25, 2019 By Taegan Goddard

    New York Times: “By Monday, after less than a week as a presidential candidate, Mr. Sanders has collected $10 million from 359,914 donors, campaign officials said. But perhaps just as daunting a figure for his rivals is this: Nearly 39 percent of those donors used an email address that had never before been used to give to Mr. Sanders.”

    “For Mr. Sanders, the flood of money from fresh email addresses suggested to his team that he was dramatically expanding a donor network that had already dwarfed his 2020 competition.”

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    1. I taped and am now watching Bernie's Town Hall on CNN. I couldn't watch it real time (at 8:00pm) because I was on a conference call for the National Nurse bill. I tell you, this is my kind of dilemma!

      Bernie has some really yuge idears. He sounds more spontaneous than last time. He has better segways and is more personally conversant. I'm glad for that.

      Bernie hopes to be the Democrats' nominee. If he is not, he pledged tonight that he will support the nominee.

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    2. Supporting the nominee is, of course, the right and proper thing for all the candidates to do. It does not mean, though, that the candidates' supporters are bound to do so. Never again will I vote for a lesser evil or an inevitable candidate in the interests of party unity. Been there, done that, and have been burned over and over again. What Eugene V. Debbs said is my watchword: It's better to vote for what you want and not to get it than to vote for what you don't want and to get it.

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  5. Today I downloaded from Audible and started to listen to The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump by Andrew McCabe, narrated by the author. He has nothing to lose by candor; and, it is evident even at the early stage I'm at that, shall we say, his opinion of Trump is not flattering.

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  6. Glad to hear that Bernie has improved as a public speaker; I also am pleased by it. Maybe I will watch it. It seems very odd to me that Bernie does not yet have a web site to speak of. Hmmmm...I'd better clear the cache in a browser and see if that makes the web site accessible. I'll get back on that shortly.

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  7. Still only a splash page, no web site, at berniesanders.com

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