I am teaching tomorrow on Matthew 8, about the Centurion’s servant being healed. But last Sunday, I mentioned the false prophets Jesus talked about. I said that when I first taught this, there were two types. (1)The mistaken, and (2) the deliberate. Then I said that in the 20 years since then, another has come. The non-religious. That is secularism replacing religion.
There is a movement to replace all religion with secularism. It had just come to me that week and I didn’t have time to get examples, other than abortion and same sex marriage.
Just this week, I found these examples.
In World there is an article that says a $13,000 judgment was upheld against a couple who refused to cater a same sex wedding. Another statement, same magazine, says “NORWAY: Child welfare officials removed five children, including an infant from their home on charges that the parents were committing “Christian radicalism and indoctrination”They didn’t say what “radicalism” consisted of.
An article in this week’s Washington Times tells that the US Supreme Court is considering a case where a church school wants to use county ground up tires for their playground yard. This is being contested because it is a church school.
A counter argument was that if the church were on fire, could a county fire truck respond?
Kim, I’d have to agree Cruz doesn’t have a good “face” for the media age. 😉
A GOP friend of mine cited that very thing — his face, second to his brashness — as reasons he wasn’t thrilled about him as a candidate.
As has been noted by others, there’s weirdly a bit of Grandpa Munster in Cruz’s facial characteristics and expressions (we used to spot “Grandpa” at LA Kings hockey games, by the way, the actor was quite the hockey fan in the late 1960s when a friend and I used to babysit for a couple of the team’s families so got free tickets on occasion; the actor, who died 10 years ago in his 90s, also was a left-wing political activist of many years).
Rubio, on the other hand, is helped by having a very pleasing, cute boyish face and a pleasant, natural-looking smile.
Not fair, I know — and not a good basis on which to select a candidate. But it does at least subconsciously play into our more visceral responses to a prospective candidate, fair or not.
A Facebook page for the radical left in Germany had a message for young women: “diversity is more important than your security.”
Rote Antifa posted a picture of young feminist on Thursday, holding a sign that stated she preferred rapists from Syria and North Africa over nationalists in Germany who have demanded Chancellor Angela Merkel stop taking in more refugees.
“Prefer sexually active fugitive as German racists,” was featured as the pictures caption
And I think women candidates are much more harshly judged on those things than men. Not fair, but it’s something that subconsciously seems to be almost hard-wired into all of us.
On the other hand, if Carly Fiorina had not been a woman, she would never have been the President of HP, and would probably never have had the opportunity to run for President and be called “ugly” by the lunatic Trump.
I find myself “judging” Clinton’s clothes, hair and makeup — a lot. 😦 (“Oh, she looks sharp in that outfit;” “Yikes, that’s a horrible jacket, it makes her look really old”)
But Carly still looks great in jeans. I’m jealous!
Trump isn’t attractive (though he kind of was when he was young). The weird hair, the scowl … But his personality is so BIG, I guess that overshadows everything else.
Tychious I have said fo r a long time that some hong about Cruz bothered me. Now that I know I am not alone and what it is I can be more aware of my prejudice against him. To me he loops lije a smarmy televangelist. He looks sor of like Jim Baker.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A prominent Democratic donor worried about the party’s chances of winning the presidency emailed dozens of fans of Vice President Joe Biden on Friday, urging them to remain prepared to donate if Biden jumps into the race.
The donor, Bill Bartmann, cited new polling showing Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont nearly tied with the Hillary Clinton, eroding the 30-point lead the former secretary of state held at the end of last year. Bartmann and other party insiders are concerned that Sanders, a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist, is too far to the left to win against a Republican in the Nov. 8 presidential election.
“We cannot afford to lose the White House,” Bartmann wrote in the email, seen by Reuters.
The email drew a string of affirmative responses, also seen by Reuters. …
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All I had was radio and I was late. I believe you. Perhaps Carson was thinking of what he would be saying, perhaps he is poor of hearing. I don’t know. But I don’t believe it was an intentional pause on his part.
But then Trump held back, too. So the two of them were just standing there as the other candidates walked around them. I wondered if they’d planned some strange, twosome demonstration or something …
Okay, I watched the video of it. He clearly knew when he was supposed to go, but missed the call when the crowd roared. Trump did the same. Both of them, the names were announced just as the crowd roar grew. Understandable. And Rubio called for Kasich.
They appeared to be discussing their bewilderment. I know if it was me, I would not have been able to hear over the noise. Which is why they have assigned arrivals, but were probably told to walk and then slow down until they heard their names. Which they probably could not do, beside the curtain and through the roar. I will give them both a pass on that one.
Ah, and both of them were called by the woman. I know my dad has not been able to hear women’s voices for years. Her voice did not carry like the other guy’s. Trump came in because he was told to, but was waiting for the call which was too quiet to hear.
Russia is the last Western country. The US and Western Europe are now atheist/perverted countries. Russia acts like England or the U.S. would have acted 120 years ago.
A 24 year old nurse who was in my Sunday School class in high school posted the following analysis of the debate on FB:
Christie has four chins.
Cruz has an annoying voice.
Rubio is very attractive; that is all.
Trump has distracting ear hairs.
Bush looks like her Middle School Band Director.
Carson always looks like he needs to break wind.
Who is Kasisch?
I shared her post (I am certain my older friends will be appalled). She and I then agreed that if we wanted to win in November, we must stop Four Chins from pounding our most attractive candidate.
Be sure to ask your Trumpster friends how they can possibly support a man with distracting ear hairs.
Well, Rubio got his ears boxed last night in some interesting exchanges. We’ll see where that goes from here, if it affects his poll numbers or the vote in NH, but I have to say, Christie got him good and made some fair & valid points.
I have a sense Trump is fading, but that’s not really based on anything but my own ‘feelings’ I suppose (and I’ve said that before and been really, really wrong). But I wonder if his “Strength with Trump!” schtick isn’t getting a bit old even for those who like him. He was pretty low key last night, I thought. I don’t think he’s getting the media attention he once did, reporters have kind of moved on.
Ricky, Jeb Bush was a cutie when he was young, he once came into our newsroom while he was in town on a campaign swing for his dad at the Port of LA way back when in the early 1990s.
He walked along the rows of reporters, shaking hands and introducing himself to all of us. The female reporter in front of me, after he left, turned around with stars in her eyes and blurted out “He’s so cute!” And he was. 🙂
But Bush has been a surprisingly poor candidate — kind of unexpected as I remember always hearing that between Jeb & W, Jeb definitely had more presidential potential.
Cruz will have some trouble with his accusation that CNN specifically reported Carson was “suspending” his campaign — apparently that was never said in the on-air report.
” … On the Gang of Eight and so on, Chris Christie reduced Marco Rubio. He reduced Rubio into a sputtering automaton. The software froze. The beach ball of death spun wildly. It was an event out of Twilight Zone. One almost expected Rod Serling to emerge from the wings of the stage and draw the moral of the story. … ”
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Another one of their posters had this to say about it, however:
I don’t know. The media is portraying his performance as bordering on the calamitous. I’m not so sure. It seems more likely than not that, at a minimum, Rubio will stall, but will he slide? Maybe. I wouldn’t be surprised if Rubio drops from second place to third or fourth.
“At the same time, I wouldn’t be shocked if he continues to advance. In some important ways, he’s a very attractive candidate and he did have some excellent moments. …”
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Interesting discussion about whether Obama is incompetent or really “knows exactly what he’s doing,” as Rubio pointed out — several times 🙂 . I’m with the idea that it’s a bit of both.
Interesting comment from Gloria Stienham on Bill Mahar; apparently young women are supporting Bernie Sanders (and not Clinton) because thats where the young boys are. Older feminists are attempting to shame young women into supporting Clinton. Maher was quick to note if he said something like that she would swat him. As a Gen Xer, Im amused that the entitlement attitude of the boomers is getting slapped down by a now larger cohort of voters. And as my daughter noted — a women isn’t necessarily the best feminist choice.
HRW, Many of us are rooting for Sanders, and not just because we think he is the easiest to beat. It’s true he is a commie, but I like to think he is an honest commie. Hillary made a deal with the devil to whom she is “married”.
veteran official with the Department of Homeland Security claims he and other staff were ordered to destroy records on a federal database that showed links between possible jihadists and Islamic terrorist groups.
“After leaving my 15-year career at DHS, I can no longer be silent about the dangerous state of America’s counter-terror strategy, our leaders’ willingness to compromise the security of citizens for the ideological rigidity of political correctness—and, consequently, our vulnerability to devastating, mass-casualty attack,” the former employee, Patrick Haney, wrote in an explosive column that was published late Friday on The Hill website.
Haney alleges that the Obama administration has been “engaged in a bureaucratic effort” to destroy the raw material and intelligence the Department of Homeland Security has been collecting for years, leaving the United States open to mass-casualty attacks
But most Americans were not aware that the Department of Homeland Security’s employees suffered enormous damage to their morale from Obama’s words, Haney said.
Further, many were infuriated “because we knew his administration had been engaged in a bureaucratic effort to destroy the raw material — the actual intelligence we had collected for years, and erase those dots. The dots constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe, and the Obama administration was ordering they be wiped away.”
I think both the Democrats and Republicans underestimate his appeal. Currently he polls better than Clinton against any Republican opponent. Rubio, by the way, is the only one who can beat Clinton and tie Sanders. Perhaps when the mud starts to fly, Sanders might lose a few points in the polls but for now he’s a better bet. And I don’t think the socialist tag will hurt him as much as people think — the cold war ended 25 years ago. There’s a whole generation of voters whose image of socialism is Sweden not the USSR. And Sanders is honest which may allow some on the right to tolerate his socialism.
Personally I surprised how well he is doing and don’t think it will last past the southern primaries but I do think Clinton needs to step up her game or Sanders will continue to surprise.
Thus the talk about bringing in a Biden or other Democrat. People are getting nervous.
For older feminists, having a female president (unless that would be a Republican, of course) is of the utmost, symbolic importance.
Younger women have come of age in a very different age, many of the glass-ceiling issues have been shattered. If there’s not a woman president elected in ’16, there surely will be one soon enough, that barrier has psychologically been broken in the U.S.
I don’t know that Hillary can “step up her game.” She is what she is.
If Clinton survives it will be entirely because of the black vote. Historically, if you could get the endorsement of black “leaders” the sheep would follow. In 2008 the black “leaders” found that none could lead their people to vote for Hillary over one of their own. In 2016 does their influence still matter?
HRW, I think you may be right about people underestimating Sanders just as we have underestimated Trump. If the Rs can nominate an obnoxious megalomaniac, why can’t the Ds nominate an admitted socialist? They have brainwashed their kids to be socialists for years. Our situation is not unlike Weimar Germany. Communism, socialism (of many stripes) and nationalist demagogues did well there.
Much of the speculation is due to the 24hr news cycle — they have to have something to talk about. And media and party elites are searching for ways to maintain control. Hence the hail mary discussion of Biden. Its too late — people aren’t going to switch from Sanders to Biden simply because the party has now given them permission to support someone slightly to the left of Clinton. The party elites foisted Clinton upon the masses and the masses are having second thoughts.
Similar to the party establishment, the “black leadership” is getting old and no longer garners the respect of the younger generation. Many of the younger black activists back Sanders. The idea of a central party or group authority dictating to grassroots activists has been dead for a quite a few years — this is evident in both parties.
The American two party system prevents a Weimar from happening. However, if the obnoxious megalomaniac ends up against the admitted socialist, I’d like to think most rational Americans would think better Sanders than Trump.
A Clinton presidency would have symbolic importance for many women especially older feminist but it won’t have a dramatic effect on the political system that many imagine a female leader would.
Given my age and profession, many would think I would agree that the younger generation is spoiled or entitled or …. yet I don’t see it. They incur more debt, housing takes up a greater portion of income, good private sector union jobs are hard to get, competition is intense for schools and jobs, education is harder (my daughter’s grade 12 courses resemble my 1st and 2nd year courses), expectations are higher, etc etc. I’m frankly impressed with most millennials.
That last is kind of surprising to me, HRW, as all of my children who have attended college have challenged and passed through the initial courses, particularly in math and English. Maybe Canada is ramping it up, but we certainly are not.
PISA (high school) rankings put Canada in the top 10 for science math and reading (China is represented three times; Macau, Hong Kong and Shanghai — I disregard them) while the US ranks between 25 and 35 depending on the subject. However, the US scores extremely well in the UN’s Education Index. What the US does well is post secondary education and not just their private schools, the state land grant universities also do well in international rankings.
I understand that is the reason their core courses have to start with such basic material. To get the Freshmen up to speed. Maybe they teach them to read, as well.
Wandering Views 
I got this from one of more more liberal friends but perhaps it does explain why I feel the way I do about Ted Cruz. I said earlier this week I couldn’t put my finger on why I didn’t like or trust him and then today I say this…
http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/politics/its-not-just-you-a-neurologist-breaks-down-exactly-why-we-find-ted-cruzs-smile-so-creepy/
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….and after more research it is not a very nice news source.
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I am teaching tomorrow on Matthew 8, about the Centurion’s servant being healed. But last Sunday, I mentioned the false prophets Jesus talked about. I said that when I first taught this, there were two types. (1)The mistaken, and (2) the deliberate. Then I said that in the 20 years since then, another has come. The non-religious. That is secularism replacing religion.
There is a movement to replace all religion with secularism. It had just come to me that week and I didn’t have time to get examples, other than abortion and same sex marriage.
Just this week, I found these examples.
In World there is an article that says a $13,000 judgment was upheld against a couple who refused to cater a same sex wedding. Another statement, same magazine, says “NORWAY: Child welfare officials removed five children, including an infant from their home on charges that the parents were committing “Christian radicalism and indoctrination”They didn’t say what “radicalism” consisted of.
An article in this week’s Washington Times tells that the US Supreme Court is considering a case where a church school wants to use county ground up tires for their playground yard. This is being contested because it is a church school.
A counter argument was that if the church were on fire, could a county fire truck respond?
My point? It’s coming to America.
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Attention Jerry Falwell, Jr. and Robert Jeffress, Could you come get your candidate. He is cursing in front of 4-year olds.
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Kim, I’d have to agree Cruz doesn’t have a good “face” for the media age. 😉
A GOP friend of mine cited that very thing — his face, second to his brashness — as reasons he wasn’t thrilled about him as a candidate.
As has been noted by others, there’s weirdly a bit of Grandpa Munster in Cruz’s facial characteristics and expressions (we used to spot “Grandpa” at LA Kings hockey games, by the way, the actor was quite the hockey fan in the late 1960s when a friend and I used to babysit for a couple of the team’s families so got free tickets on occasion; the actor, who died 10 years ago in his 90s, also was a left-wing political activist of many years).
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Rubio, on the other hand, is helped by having a very pleasing, cute boyish face and a pleasant, natural-looking smile.
Not fair, I know — and not a good basis on which to select a candidate. But it does at least subconsciously play into our more visceral responses to a prospective candidate, fair or not.
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KimH: That’s pretty dodgy stuff. I hope you don’t make your decision for President on the basis of that kind of rubbish.
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From Red Alert Politics
A Facebook page for the radical left in Germany had a message for young women: “diversity is more important than your security.”
Rote Antifa posted a picture of young feminist on Thursday, holding a sign that stated she preferred rapists from Syria and North Africa over nationalists in Germany who have demanded Chancellor Angela Merkel stop taking in more refugees.
“Prefer sexually active fugitive as German racists,” was featured as the pictures caption
Read more at http://redalertpolitics.com/2016/01/29/german-feminist-welcomes-refugees-better-rapists-racists/#sL9HiVpOaGTAfhGj.99
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Tychicus, On the other hand, it is support for my proposal to return to late 18th century voting requirements.
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Well, it does make you wonder about folks like Abraham Lincoln and whether they would have survived and been elected in our slick media age. 🙂
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And I think women candidates are much more harshly judged on those things than men. Not fair, but it’s something that subconsciously seems to be almost hard-wired into all of us.
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On the other hand, if Carly Fiorina had not been a woman, she would never have been the President of HP, and would probably never have had the opportunity to run for President and be called “ugly” by the lunatic Trump.
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I find myself “judging” Clinton’s clothes, hair and makeup — a lot. 😦 (“Oh, she looks sharp in that outfit;” “Yikes, that’s a horrible jacket, it makes her look really old”)
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But Carly still looks great in jeans. I’m jealous!
Trump isn’t attractive (though he kind of was when he was young). The weird hair, the scowl … But his personality is so BIG, I guess that overshadows everything else.
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Tychious I have said fo r a long time that some hong about Cruz bothered me. Now that I know I am not alone and what it is I can be more aware of my prejudice against him. To me he loops lije a smarmy televangelist. He looks sor of like Jim Baker.
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Bernie’s cute. 🙂 Love the crazy, fly-away hair (and he actually was very sexy-cute when he was young).
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Trump was rude to Barbara Bush. That is not okay.
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Didn’t see that, mumsee, but not surprised. He’s generally pretty rude. 😦
Interesting about the Biden talk by nervous Dems:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/democratic-donor-contacts-biden-allies-possible-run-010248619.html
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NEW YORK (Reuters) – A prominent Democratic donor worried about the party’s chances of winning the presidency emailed dozens of fans of Vice President Joe Biden on Friday, urging them to remain prepared to donate if Biden jumps into the race.
The donor, Bill Bartmann, cited new polling showing Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont nearly tied with the Hillary Clinton, eroding the 30-point lead the former secretary of state held at the end of last year. Bartmann and other party insiders are concerned that Sanders, a self-proclaimed Democratic socialist, is too far to the left to win against a Republican in the Nov. 8 presidential election.
“We cannot afford to lose the White House,” Bartmann wrote in the email, seen by Reuters.
The email drew a string of affirmative responses, also seen by Reuters. …
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If anyone bothers to go see 13 Hours they WILL NOT vote for Clinton
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Sounds like a hard film to watch, but I’ll probably watch it once it makes its way onto cable.
Almost time for the debate to start
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Donna it is worth seeing in the theatre. I would pay to see it again.
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Ben Carson.
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What was that all about — Carson (and then Trump) insisting on waiting in the wings and not taking their podiums?
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How can you be pro life when you are pro killing a child just because its conception was not optimal? Carson and Rubio are pro life.
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Some speculation that the speaker did not even mention Carson or at least not audibly.
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Strange, it was heard from my standpoint watching it on television …
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All I had was radio and I was late. I believe you. Perhaps Carson was thinking of what he would be saying, perhaps he is poor of hearing. I don’t know. But I don’t believe it was an intentional pause on his part.
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And, I read, that he was waved forward as well and missed that cue.
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But then Trump held back, too. So the two of them were just standing there as the other candidates walked around them. I wondered if they’d planned some strange, twosome demonstration or something …
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Okay, I watched the video of it. He clearly knew when he was supposed to go, but missed the call when the crowd roared. Trump did the same. Both of them, the names were announced just as the crowd roar grew. Understandable. And Rubio called for Kasich.
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They appeared to be discussing their bewilderment. I know if it was me, I would not have been able to hear over the noise. Which is why they have assigned arrivals, but were probably told to walk and then slow down until they heard their names. Which they probably could not do, beside the curtain and through the roar. I will give them both a pass on that one.
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Ah, and both of them were called by the woman. I know my dad has not been able to hear women’s voices for years. Her voice did not carry like the other guy’s. Trump came in because he was told to, but was waiting for the call which was too quiet to hear.
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Though it almost looked as though Trump was stopping to stand with Carson, but I don’t think he heard his name either.
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I was hoping for some drama with a walk-out or other kind of demonstration. 🙂 The reporter in me, I guess.
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“I quit!”
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So… I Guess we have now covered the debate???
🙂
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Cruz said Trump didn’t have the temperament to be President, then Trump proved the point when he told Bush to be quiet.
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Russia knows how to deal with sexual predators. Too bad we didn’t send Bill Clinton there.
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/refugees-harass-women-russian-nightclub-are-promptly-beaten-and-sent-prison/ri12684
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Russian knows how to deal with ISIS.
http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/syrian-air-force-pounds-isis-oil-route-turkey/ri12686
Russia is the last Western country. The US and Western Europe are now atheist/perverted countries. Russia acts like England or the U.S. would have acted 120 years ago.
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A 24 year old nurse who was in my Sunday School class in high school posted the following analysis of the debate on FB:
Christie has four chins.
Cruz has an annoying voice.
Rubio is very attractive; that is all.
Trump has distracting ear hairs.
Bush looks like her Middle School Band Director.
Carson always looks like he needs to break wind.
Who is Kasisch?
I shared her post (I am certain my older friends will be appalled). She and I then agreed that if we wanted to win in November, we must stop Four Chins from pounding our most attractive candidate.
Be sure to ask your Trumpster friends how they can possibly support a man with distracting ear hairs.
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Well, Rubio got his ears boxed last night in some interesting exchanges. We’ll see where that goes from here, if it affects his poll numbers or the vote in NH, but I have to say, Christie got him good and made some fair & valid points.
I have a sense Trump is fading, but that’s not really based on anything but my own ‘feelings’ I suppose (and I’ve said that before and been really, really wrong). But I wonder if his “Strength with Trump!” schtick isn’t getting a bit old even for those who like him. He was pretty low key last night, I thought. I don’t think he’s getting the media attention he once did, reporters have kind of moved on.
Ricky, Jeb Bush was a cutie when he was young, he once came into our newsroom while he was in town on a campaign swing for his dad at the Port of LA way back when in the early 1990s.
He walked along the rows of reporters, shaking hands and introducing himself to all of us. The female reporter in front of me, after he left, turned around with stars in her eyes and blurted out “He’s so cute!” And he was. 🙂
But Bush has been a surprisingly poor candidate — kind of unexpected as I remember always hearing that between Jeb & W, Jeb definitely had more presidential potential.
Cruz will have some trouble with his accusation that CNN specifically reported Carson was “suspending” his campaign — apparently that was never said in the on-air report.
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Funny description of the Christie/Rubio moment from powerline:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/02/after-last-night-9.php
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” … On the Gang of Eight and so on, Chris Christie reduced Marco Rubio. He reduced Rubio into a sputtering automaton. The software froze. The beach ball of death spun wildly. It was an event out of Twilight Zone. One almost expected Rod Serling to emerge from the wings of the stage and draw the moral of the story. … ”
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Another one of their posters had this to say about it, however:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/02/chris-christies-suicide-mission-may-make-this-a-good-night-for-trump-and-kasich.php
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” … How badly, if at all, has Rubio been damaged?
I don’t know. The media is portraying his performance as bordering on the calamitous. I’m not so sure. It seems more likely than not that, at a minimum, Rubio will stall, but will he slide? Maybe. I wouldn’t be surprised if Rubio drops from second place to third or fourth.
“At the same time, I wouldn’t be shocked if he continues to advance. In some important ways, he’s a very attractive candidate and he did have some excellent moments. …”
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Interesting discussion about whether Obama is incompetent or really “knows exactly what he’s doing,” as Rubio pointed out — several times 🙂 . I’m with the idea that it’s a bit of both.
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Interesting comment from Gloria Stienham on Bill Mahar; apparently young women are supporting Bernie Sanders (and not Clinton) because thats where the young boys are. Older feminists are attempting to shame young women into supporting Clinton. Maher was quick to note if he said something like that she would swat him. As a Gen Xer, Im amused that the entitlement attitude of the boomers is getting slapped down by a now larger cohort of voters. And as my daughter noted — a women isn’t necessarily the best feminist choice.
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I’m trying to decide what would be funnier:
Trump vs. Clinton or Trump vs. Sanders vs Bloomberg
Either way all we have to choose from is NYC liberals. Yes. Sanders is from Brooklyn.
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HRW, Many of us are rooting for Sanders, and not just because we think he is the easiest to beat. It’s true he is a commie, but I like to think he is an honest commie. Hillary made a deal with the devil to whom she is “married”.
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Excerpts from a long article
veteran official with the Department of Homeland Security claims he and other staff were ordered to destroy records on a federal database that showed links between possible jihadists and Islamic terrorist groups.
“After leaving my 15-year career at DHS, I can no longer be silent about the dangerous state of America’s counter-terror strategy, our leaders’ willingness to compromise the security of citizens for the ideological rigidity of political correctness—and, consequently, our vulnerability to devastating, mass-casualty attack,” the former employee, Patrick Haney, wrote in an explosive column that was published late Friday on The Hill website.
Haney alleges that the Obama administration has been “engaged in a bureaucratic effort” to destroy the raw material and intelligence the Department of Homeland Security has been collecting for years, leaving the United States open to mass-casualty attacks
But most Americans were not aware that the Department of Homeland Security’s employees suffered enormous damage to their morale from Obama’s words, Haney said.
Further, many were infuriated “because we knew his administration had been engaged in a bureaucratic effort to destroy the raw material — the actual intelligence we had collected for years, and erase those dots. The dots constitute the intelligence needed to keep Americans safe, and the Obama administration was ordering they be wiped away.”
Breaking News at Newsmax.com http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/dhs-isis-destroy-records/2016/02/06/id/713047/#ixzz3zWM3Qko0
Urgent: Rate Obama on His Job Performance. Vote Here Now!
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I think both the Democrats and Republicans underestimate his appeal. Currently he polls better than Clinton against any Republican opponent. Rubio, by the way, is the only one who can beat Clinton and tie Sanders. Perhaps when the mud starts to fly, Sanders might lose a few points in the polls but for now he’s a better bet. And I don’t think the socialist tag will hurt him as much as people think — the cold war ended 25 years ago. There’s a whole generation of voters whose image of socialism is Sweden not the USSR. And Sanders is honest which may allow some on the right to tolerate his socialism.
Personally I surprised how well he is doing and don’t think it will last past the southern primaries but I do think Clinton needs to step up her game or Sanders will continue to surprise.
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Thus the talk about bringing in a Biden or other Democrat. People are getting nervous.
For older feminists, having a female president (unless that would be a Republican, of course) is of the utmost, symbolic importance.
Younger women have come of age in a very different age, many of the glass-ceiling issues have been shattered. If there’s not a woman president elected in ’16, there surely will be one soon enough, that barrier has psychologically been broken in the U.S.
I don’t know that Hillary can “step up her game.” She is what she is.
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Of course, the millennials will be the utmost of “entitled” generations. They’ll be a real joy. 🙄
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If Clinton survives it will be entirely because of the black vote. Historically, if you could get the endorsement of black “leaders” the sheep would follow. In 2008 the black “leaders” found that none could lead their people to vote for Hillary over one of their own. In 2016 does their influence still matter?
HRW, I think you may be right about people underestimating Sanders just as we have underestimated Trump. If the Rs can nominate an obnoxious megalomaniac, why can’t the Ds nominate an admitted socialist? They have brainwashed their kids to be socialists for years. Our situation is not unlike Weimar Germany. Communism, socialism (of many stripes) and nationalist demagogues did well there.
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Much of the speculation is due to the 24hr news cycle — they have to have something to talk about. And media and party elites are searching for ways to maintain control. Hence the hail mary discussion of Biden. Its too late — people aren’t going to switch from Sanders to Biden simply because the party has now given them permission to support someone slightly to the left of Clinton. The party elites foisted Clinton upon the masses and the masses are having second thoughts.
Similar to the party establishment, the “black leadership” is getting old and no longer garners the respect of the younger generation. Many of the younger black activists back Sanders. The idea of a central party or group authority dictating to grassroots activists has been dead for a quite a few years — this is evident in both parties.
The American two party system prevents a Weimar from happening. However, if the obnoxious megalomaniac ends up against the admitted socialist, I’d like to think most rational Americans would think better Sanders than Trump.
A Clinton presidency would have symbolic importance for many women especially older feminist but it won’t have a dramatic effect on the political system that many imagine a female leader would.
Given my age and profession, many would think I would agree that the younger generation is spoiled or entitled or …. yet I don’t see it. They incur more debt, housing takes up a greater portion of income, good private sector union jobs are hard to get, competition is intense for schools and jobs, education is harder (my daughter’s grade 12 courses resemble my 1st and 2nd year courses), expectations are higher, etc etc. I’m frankly impressed with most millennials.
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That last is kind of surprising to me, HRW, as all of my children who have attended college have challenged and passed through the initial courses, particularly in math and English. Maybe Canada is ramping it up, but we certainly are not.
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PISA (high school) rankings put Canada in the top 10 for science math and reading (China is represented three times; Macau, Hong Kong and Shanghai — I disregard them) while the US ranks between 25 and 35 depending on the subject. However, the US scores extremely well in the UN’s Education Index. What the US does well is post secondary education and not just their private schools, the state land grant universities also do well in international rankings.
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I understand that is the reason their core courses have to start with such basic material. To get the Freshmen up to speed. Maybe they teach them to read, as well.
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