I still remember how Nancy’s red coat stood out in that crowd on that cold day in January, 1981. What a great speech the President gave! What an eight years!
An increasing number of public canteens, child daycare centres and schools have stopped serving sausages, bacon and ham over religious considerations.
Now members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party are fighting to keep pork on the menu, insisting the consumption of pork is part of German culture.
Daniel Günther, party representative, claimed that pork products were being taken off the menu in schools, nurseries and canteens across the country.
He said: “The protection of minorities – including for religious reasons – must not mean that the majority is overruled in their free decision by ill-conceived consideration
They never made those adjustment for Jews.
For centuries, they went about their business, now allowing for Jewish customs.
Makes you wonder what this is about?
The Jews weren’t killing people because of their religion. Anyway, EVERYONE knows that Jewish people love sweet and sour pork from the local Chinese Take Out. 🙂 At least one of my college room mates always got me to order it and then she ate it.
… I think former Secretary of State Clinton will emerge a terribly flawed and easy-to-beat candidate because of the continuing scandal that is her server and the compromise of national security it represents. The GOP nominee, whoever it turns out to be, will have to remind the public every day of Clinton’s fecklessness and selfishness and the enormous damage it did to America’s security. I do not believe she can win the election.
But the GOP can lose it. Very easily.
Right now the GOP convention in Cleveland appears almost certain to be “open,” that is, without any of the would-be nominees possessing the allegiance of the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination outright. That will mean most delegates will be set free on the second ballot in the rough seas of an “open” or “contested” convention. There aren’t any “brokers” to control or even guide them. (I’m not even sure it is a crime to bribe them, though I suspect it is.)
Whoever gathers 1,237 will be the nominee. …
… And hopefully, whether it is Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. John Kasich, Sen. Marco Rubio or Donald Trump, or someone the convention turns to rather than choosing from among a fractured field, he or she and their spouse will greet the Cleveland audience and world with the same charm, cheer, good humor, elegance, rhetorical and policy muscle and resolve the Reagans did in 1980 and again in 1984.
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“On Saturday, pastor Tim Remington put his arm around Ted Cruz and then delivered a rousing invocation at a campaign rally in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Now Remington is on the receiving end of prayers after being shot in the skull and back after his Sunday sermon.
Early Monday morning, authorities identified a suspect in the unholy shooting: a 30-year-old local man and former Marine named Kyle Andrew Odom.
As authorities launched a manhunt for Odom, questions remained over a possible motive, particularly whether the shooting was in any way related to Remington’s appearance with Cruz roughly 24 hours earlier.
“Odom should be considered to be armed and dangerous,” Coeur d’Alene Police said in a statement posted to Facebook.
Some members of Remington’s Altar Church speculated that the shooting might have stemmed from the pastor’s efforts to help drug addicts.
Remington’s supporters, meanwhile, called his survival nothing short of a “miracle.””
Mumsee, I didn’t spend a lot of time researching the candidates (because we don’t vote till May, and there’s no point in researching 17 candidates when you know most will be gone by the time it gets to your state), but I was inclined to think that Carson, Fiorina, and Cruz were all decent candidates, maybe one or two others. Carson was probably my first choice, but again I never did detailed research. Of those that are left, definitely Cruz. Rubio is the one the establishment backs, and Trump is a bull in a china shop, and not a Republican bull, either.
The latest installment of How the GOP Race Turns features two worthwhile articles, both of which suggest some level of optimism that Donald Trump can be stopped. Jay Cost of the Weekly Standard presents the current delegate count — which shows Trump having collected 43 percent of the delegates awarded so far via caucuses and primaries — but points out that a 103 delegates will be going to Cleveland uncommitted.
Taking these delegates into account reduces Trump’s percentage to 39 percent. Ted Cruz follows with 30 percent. Marco Rubio is at 15 percent.
By this reckoning, Trump needs to win 59 percent of the remaining delegates to obtain a majority, not an easy task. Cost concludes that the best way to make sure Trump doesn’t get this share is for all of Trump’s remaining competitors to stay in the race.
Consultant Red Janhcke, writing in the New York Sun, believes there’s is a path through which Ted Cruz could win a majority of the delegates. This is one of three possible outcomes he perceives, the others being an outright Trump victory and a scenario in which no candidate has enough delegates going to into the convention.
Jahncke thinks Trump is in real trouble …
… Even if Cruz can’t win a majority of delegates headed into the convention, I think it’s very important that he have more than Trump. That way, if Cruz gets the nomination, he can persuasively say that he won it fair and square. If he (or Rubio or Kasich) wins the nomination having come to Cleveland with fewer delegates than Trump, the recriminations and resentments will plague the GOP in the general election.
In any event, Jahncke is of the view that Trump clearly has stalled and, as I have suggested elsewhere, recent evidence supports that view up to a point. …
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Cheryl, there’s an “establishment” even left?? I don’t think so … 🙂
Should be interesting going forward — what happens in this election will determine whether the GOP survives or has to be rebuilt (which could mean as a more centrist party, so be careful what you wish for).
I do think support for many of the social issues we hold dear here have faded nationally and are simply not very popular with many voters. We may have to simply accept that we’ll be on the “outside” of those culture war issues for a while (or maybe for a long while).
A FB friend just asked why all the people disgusted with the thought of a Trump presidency are talking about moving to Canada. Why doesn’t anyone talk about fleeing to Mexico?
Michelle – I saw something similar on Facebook that said that “privileged Americans” who say they will leave the country if Trump is elected assume they can go anywhere in the world they want to go, but don’t want refugees coming here.
Wandering Views 
All the people who used to say terrible things abut Nancy Reagan are now saying nice things.
Something must have happened.
😦
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I still remember how Nancy’s red coat stood out in that crowd on that cold day in January, 1981. What a great speech the President gave! What an eight years!
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We are usually 8-10 years behind.
From Drudge:
An increasing number of public canteens, child daycare centres and schools have stopped serving sausages, bacon and ham over religious considerations.
Now members of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party are fighting to keep pork on the menu, insisting the consumption of pork is part of German culture.
Daniel Günther, party representative, claimed that pork products were being taken off the menu in schools, nurseries and canteens across the country.
He said: “The protection of minorities – including for religious reasons – must not mean that the majority is overruled in their free decision by ill-conceived consideration
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They never made those adjustment for Jews.
For centuries, they went about their business, now allowing for Jewish customs.
Makes you wonder what this is about?
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I suspect there are a lot more Muslims now than there ever were Jews in those countries. And they’re a rapidly growing population.
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The Jews weren’t killing people because of their religion. Anyway, EVERYONE knows that Jewish people love sweet and sour pork from the local Chinese Take Out. 🙂 At least one of my college room mates always got me to order it and then she ate it.
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Hugh Hewitt:
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/prepare-for-that-brokered-convention-with-the-reagans-in-mind/article/2585088
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… I think former Secretary of State Clinton will emerge a terribly flawed and easy-to-beat candidate because of the continuing scandal that is her server and the compromise of national security it represents. The GOP nominee, whoever it turns out to be, will have to remind the public every day of Clinton’s fecklessness and selfishness and the enormous damage it did to America’s security. I do not believe she can win the election.
But the GOP can lose it. Very easily.
Right now the GOP convention in Cleveland appears almost certain to be “open,” that is, without any of the would-be nominees possessing the allegiance of the 1,237 delegates needed to secure the nomination outright. That will mean most delegates will be set free on the second ballot in the rough seas of an “open” or “contested” convention. There aren’t any “brokers” to control or even guide them. (I’m not even sure it is a crime to bribe them, though I suspect it is.)
Whoever gathers 1,237 will be the nominee. …
… And hopefully, whether it is Sen. Ted Cruz, Gov. John Kasich, Sen. Marco Rubio or Donald Trump, or someone the convention turns to rather than choosing from among a fractured field, he or she and their spouse will greet the Cleveland audience and world with the same charm, cheer, good humor, elegance, rhetorical and policy muscle and resolve the Reagans did in 1980 and again in 1984.
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This one is pretty bizarre.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/idaho-pastor-shot-in-the-skull-after-praying-with-ted-cruz-manhunt-underway-for-former-marine/ar-BBqqKhy?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=U142DHP
“On Saturday, pastor Tim Remington put his arm around Ted Cruz and then delivered a rousing invocation at a campaign rally in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Now Remington is on the receiving end of prayers after being shot in the skull and back after his Sunday sermon.
Early Monday morning, authorities identified a suspect in the unholy shooting: a 30-year-old local man and former Marine named Kyle Andrew Odom.
As authorities launched a manhunt for Odom, questions remained over a possible motive, particularly whether the shooting was in any way related to Remington’s appearance with Cruz roughly 24 hours earlier.
“Odom should be considered to be armed and dangerous,” Coeur d’Alene Police said in a statement posted to Facebook.
Some members of Remington’s Altar Church speculated that the shooting might have stemmed from the pastor’s efforts to help drug addicts.
Remington’s supporters, meanwhile, called his survival nothing short of a “miracle.””
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I might vote for Cruz.
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I have to decide for tomorrow.
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Cruz is the best we have left.
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Mumsee, I didn’t spend a lot of time researching the candidates (because we don’t vote till May, and there’s no point in researching 17 candidates when you know most will be gone by the time it gets to your state), but I was inclined to think that Carson, Fiorina, and Cruz were all decent candidates, maybe one or two others. Carson was probably my first choice, but again I never did detailed research. Of those that are left, definitely Cruz. Rubio is the one the establishment backs, and Trump is a bull in a china shop, and not a Republican bull, either.
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Makes sense:
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/03/nine-days-that-will-shape-the-gop-race.php
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The latest installment of How the GOP Race Turns features two worthwhile articles, both of which suggest some level of optimism that Donald Trump can be stopped. Jay Cost of the Weekly Standard presents the current delegate count — which shows Trump having collected 43 percent of the delegates awarded so far via caucuses and primaries — but points out that a 103 delegates will be going to Cleveland uncommitted.
Taking these delegates into account reduces Trump’s percentage to 39 percent. Ted Cruz follows with 30 percent. Marco Rubio is at 15 percent.
By this reckoning, Trump needs to win 59 percent of the remaining delegates to obtain a majority, not an easy task. Cost concludes that the best way to make sure Trump doesn’t get this share is for all of Trump’s remaining competitors to stay in the race.
Consultant Red Janhcke, writing in the New York Sun, believes there’s is a path through which Ted Cruz could win a majority of the delegates. This is one of three possible outcomes he perceives, the others being an outright Trump victory and a scenario in which no candidate has enough delegates going to into the convention.
Jahncke thinks Trump is in real trouble …
… Even if Cruz can’t win a majority of delegates headed into the convention, I think it’s very important that he have more than Trump. That way, if Cruz gets the nomination, he can persuasively say that he won it fair and square. If he (or Rubio or Kasich) wins the nomination having come to Cleveland with fewer delegates than Trump, the recriminations and resentments will plague the GOP in the general election.
In any event, Jahncke is of the view that Trump clearly has stalled and, as I have suggested elsewhere, recent evidence supports that view up to a point. …
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Cheryl, there’s an “establishment” even left?? I don’t think so … 🙂
Should be interesting going forward — what happens in this election will determine whether the GOP survives or has to be rebuilt (which could mean as a more centrist party, so be careful what you wish for).
I do think support for many of the social issues we hold dear here have faded nationally and are simply not very popular with many voters. We may have to simply accept that we’ll be on the “outside” of those culture war issues for a while (or maybe for a long while).
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A FB friend just asked why all the people disgusted with the thought of a Trump presidency are talking about moving to Canada. Why doesn’t anyone talk about fleeing to Mexico?
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Michelle, it has to do with global warming. Soon it will be too warm to live in Mexico and Canada will be balmy.
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Michelle – I saw something similar on Facebook that said that “privileged Americans” who say they will leave the country if Trump is elected assume they can go anywhere in the world they want to go, but don’t want refugees coming here.
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