Friday, February 12, 2016

Honest Abe


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  1. We have the power to elect Honest Bernie!

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  2. Cat--Flowering almond? I never heard of it. It certainly ought to be pretty.

    Hmmmm….. Thinking about the "Oh, God" sigh by the debate moderator, I wonder if someone might ask HRC if she supports the Nuremberg Principles. How about the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907? The Geneva Conventions? How about the Lieber Code (issued as General Order No. 100 by Abraham Lincoln), on which they were based? Or are those merely scraps of paper?

    --Alan

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    1. Looking into it a little more deeply, one probably would not want to emphasize the Lieber Code, since it has some bad parts by modern standards.

      --Alan

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    2. Don't even get me started on judging historical documents by quote unquote modern standards!

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  3. This is the first thing I saw on Facebook this afternoon.

    "Republicans in the West Virginia House and Senate overrode the governor’s veto making the state the 26th to be “right to work.” In his remarks on the veto, Governor Tomblin said: "…I have never had a company cite right to work as a barrier to relocating to West Virginia…. I do not believe West Virginia needs a right-to-work law, a law that would lead to little if any economy growth and may lower the wages of West Virginia workers." The law becomes effective in 90 days. ‪"

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  4. A Washington Free Beacon/Targetpoint poll in Nevada shows Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders tied at 45% each among likely caucusgoers.
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    Interesting if true; Bigfoot and Bill have both been suggested. I still think a Bernie Sanders/Nina Turner ticket would be a doozey.
    Clinton Finds Her Running Mate
    February 12, 2016By Taegan Goddard16 Comments
    This piece is only available to Political Wire members.
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    Bernie’s fundraising juggernaut [Click] Go down a ways and it talks about the folks involved in Bernie’s online presence—the group has good bones indeed. (Starting with the Howard Dean campaign.) And at the end it mentions something else that I have read that is truly interesting—and IMO should seem downright ominous to HRC: Bernie’s stump speech, his core message, has become so familiar to supporters that his rallies have taken on a decided call-and-response aspect. If that isn’t a sign of a movement, I don’t know what is.

    —Alan

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  5. Moments I love: that split second you *don't* stab yourself in the palm removing a pit from an avocado.

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    1. LOL Puddle. Yes, not stabbing yourself is always good. I've never had that problem, though, not liking avocados.

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  6. Oh dear--have to revise my human genome map. I thought all humans absolutely *adored* avocados on first taste! I was wrong?

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  7. Beyond Coal [Click] A very long read, but a good one. Shows the value of organization and steady action. I had no idea the Sierra Club program had been so effective.

    Alan

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    1. A dandy column, Cat; it could be a campaign flyer all by itself.

      --Alan (who will be absent from the blog over the weekend--working behind a firewall)

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  9. How's this for a first paragraph?

    "DATING is a treacherous business. There may be plenty of fish in the sea, yet many are unhygienic, self-absorbed, disconcertingly attached to ex-fish, or fans of Donald Trump. Digital dating sites, including a growing array of matchmaking apps, are meant to help. Their design owes more to hard-nosed economics than it does to the mysteries of the heart."

    Well, the last two sentences sort of spoil it, but it's a grabber. Comes from
    Optimising Romance - Click (from The Economist

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  10. One more not--something that really irks me about the current incarnation of HRC: that (seemingly to me) fake smile she so often puts on. Theatrical actors put on that sort of "smile" because from a distance it can be seen, and looks OK. Up close it is clearly not natural, but practiced. IMO. Do others here agree with me? If so, others should see it as well.

    --Alan

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    1. "One more not" should read "One more note." Freudian slip, most likely.--Alan

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