From Twitter: Trump obituary.

We could use another pinned thread.

Or add to one that's already pinned. We need that chart with the two 538 projection columns, to make it easy to compare new polling on various states to his 'Bernie path to victory', as well as the links to the Huffpo and RealClearPolitics rolling polling averages for handy reference.

Ralston Reports: 'Reid-Culinary' Bond won Nevada for Clinton

What's for Dinner? Sun, Feb. 21, 2016

I'm guessing NJCher got held up doing something important in RL, so I'm going to post this one. I can always drop it again if she pops up

Tonight, we're doing butterflied (boneless) chicken breasts baked in an apple-cranberry chutney, with a side of steamed cauliflower baked just long enough to melt shredded sharp white cheddar into and over it.

It's smelling good, but won't be done for another half hour or more.

Six Seats Native Candidates Can Win to Flip Congress

Letter to Bernie on reparations.

Not sure where this was originally from, I spotted it on Twitter.



The letter does not diminish my support for Bernie, because it is a constructive criticism. Bernie is human, and like any of us, is not perfect. He has room to grow, and one of the areas he specifically has room to grow is in looking at wealth inequality in a longer term, more expansive way, rather than focusing specifically on the present. Embracing the historical context of wealth inequality, and its use of racism as a tool to maintain itself.

Likewise, he could stand to listen more to Native Americans. There's a post up elsewhere about how a co-founder of AIM was cut off for time constraints at a conference Bernie that was attending and where he was answering questions, and I posted this link in a comment there as well.

http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/02/12/few-notes-native-people-about-presidential-elections-neither-democrat-deserves-our-vote

I do not post these to attack Sanders, but to point out ways in which he can become a better candidate. I hope someone out there in his campaign is listening to these voices, and can share them with him. Those that society marginalizes need their voices heard by those who will be able to help them.

Words I never thought I'd hear coming out of Joe Scarborough's mouth...

'Barack Obama has been a great President.' - Joe Scarborough, Feb. 12, 2016.

Admittedly, it was in the context of defending the Justice Department and State Department against Hillary's claims that all of the investigations against her were politically-motivated, but there you have it, still.

Joe Scarborough thinks Barack Obama has been a great President. No backsies, Joe.

When he wins tonight, I suggest

that in our celebratory moneybomb, we end all of our donations with the percent with which he wins.

If Bernie wins with 65% donate xx.65, and so on. If you can afford it, donate 65.65 in that case.

And don't forget to use Omaha Steve's ActBlue links, whether it's the one here or at jackpine radicals.

What I learned in an Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles office today.

Went in to get my new truck tags for the ancient hunk of junk that occasionally gets me from point A to B, and, being bored, started watching this video screen that they had that kept cycling through odd facts. Learned that human saliva boils at 3 times higher temps than regular water, that 8000 people in the US are injured by musical instruments every year, and that Bernie Sanders followers had been banned from Tinder for campaigning on the platform and that Hillary and Bill Clinton had made $153 million since 2000 or so giving speeches.

Those last two struck me as oddly political choices of 'random facts' to be showing in a BMV. I also noticed there were no similar 'facts' about any of the Republican candidates in the cycle that kept repeating on the screen.

C-SPAN at the NH Democratic Fundraiser

Watching what I assume is a repeat of last night, and C-SPAN person in purple coat is interviewing various supporters. A couple of things I noticed.

First person I heard her talk to was a young woman who basically right out the gate when asked what drew her out was 'the gender card' and mentioned that her friends were even more involved than she was. So one for Hillary.

Next one up was a mother from NYC who'd driven over with her daughter and son, who both looked around 5 or 6 at a guess, said she'd driven over because she and her daughter were big Hillary fans, and wanted to do everything they could to make her win. She gave a reply that sounded like she'd given it many times before, probably going door to door for Hillary, hitting the whole checklist of Hillary world cloud positive adjectives - competent, experienced, etc. before getting around to 'woman' then staying on getting a woman into the White House for several sentences.

Reporter asked the son if he had a candidate, he went Bernie, asked why, he gave the kind of disjointed answer you might expect from a 6 year old, 'he'll help us raise taxes and with healthcare'. Then she asked the daughter why she wanted Hillary. Daughter answered, and then I had a double take. Instead of just taking her answer as she had with the son, the reporter asked her why she thought whatever it was she answered. And when the maybe 5 year old girl replied to that, she said 'And you believe her?'

WTH? First off, asking that chain of questions to anyone as a supposedly neutral journalist is out of line, unless you're asking supporters of both candidates the same thing. But of a child, no less? You're going to insinuate to a 5 year old that her chosen candidate is lying to her?

Reporter then spoke with a couple more Bernie fans and another Hillary fan, but it was the one with the kids that struck me as pretty unprofessional.