I saw my first “Bernie 2016” sticker today.
I would rather have Bernie than Hillary.
Bernie is a real wacko, but Hillary is a crook.
She would sell the country for personal gain.
Another washed-up singer (this one is called Bryan Adams) is refusing to “sing” in the South because he wouldn’t be allowed to go to the restroom with women and little girls. There is a clear lesson here. All Southern states should pass these religious freedom laws. They seem to keep out all manner of varmints and pests.
“The top US commander for Africa said the number of Islamic State group militants in Libya has doubled in the last year or so to about 6,000.
Army Gen. David Rodriguez heads US Africa Command. Rodriquez said local militias in Libya have had some success in trying to stop the Islamic State from growing in Benghazi and are battling the group in Sabratha. But he said decisions to provide more military assistance will wait for a national government.
The latest numbers for IS in Libya make it the largest Islamic State branch of eight that the militant group operates outside Iraq and Syria, according to US defense officials. The officials were not authorized to provide details of the group and spoke only on condition of anonymity.
The US has conducted two airstrikes in Libya in recent months targeting Islamic State fighters and leaders, but Rodriguez said that those are limited to militants that pose an “imminent” threat to US interests. He said it’s possible the US could do more as the government there takes shape.”
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Wow, 2 whole strikes. ISIS must be on the run now, huh Barry? 🙄
“Under pressure from Obama educrats, public school districts are no longer suspending even violent students; but now, under pressure from Black Lives Matter, they are suspending teachers who complain about not suspending bad kids.
In St. Paul, Minn., a high school teacher was put on administrative leave last month after Black Lives Matter threatened to shut down the school because the teacher complained about lenient discipline policies that have led to a string of assaults on fellow teachers.
Last month, two students at Como Park Senior High School punched and body slammed a business teacher unconscious, opening a head wound that required staples. And earlier in the year, another student choked a science teacher into a partial coma that left him hospitalized for several days.
In both cases, the teachers were white and the students black.
Theo Olson, a teacher at the school complained on Facebook about new district policies that fail to punish kids for fighting and drug-dealing. Like dozens of cities across the country — including New York — St. Paul adopted the policies in compliance with new discipline guidelines issued by the Obama administration. The Education Department has threatened school districts with lawsuits and funding cuts wherever if finds racial “disparities” in suspensions and expulsions, arguing such disparities have created a “school-to-prison pipeline” for African-Americans children. The agency claims such disparities are the product of racism in schools.”
“There are two ways to look at the problems of the black community. Either there’s something wrong within the community. Or America is racist.
The sensible liberals who used to be able to split the difference are dead or purged. The Moynihan Report is inconceivable in a Democratic Party which has gone all in on freeing drug dealers and bulking up the welfare state. Obama mentioned fatherlessness briefly in his Brother’s Keeper speech before pivoting to a call to dismantle the criminal justice system and school discipline policies.
Obama admitted that, “We won’t be living up to our ideals when their parents are struggling with substance abuse, or are in prison, or unemployed, and when fathers are absent.” But his solution is freeing drug dealers “who could be good fathers and good neighbors and good fellow citizens” if only they weren’t “languishing in prison over minor, nonviolent drug offenses.”
Some recent examples of such potential “good fathers” whom he freed include Vander Keith Gore, the son of a Democratic councilman who ran a drug ring which threatened to murder a cooperating witness’ baby. He freed Isadore Gennings, whose “minor nonviolent drug offenses” involved helping move $2.5 million in cocaine, Carmel Bretous, who helped smuggle in 110 pounds of cocaine, and Tommie Sand Tyree, who was described as having “a lot of blood on his hands.”
Freeing drug dealers also means that that there will be more parents “struggling with substance abuse” and that “drugs are plentiful.” But making matters in the black community worse was always the plan.”
“Disparate impact is the monster lurking in the cellar of civil rights. Once you reject the idea that black communities and individuals bear any responsibility for their actions, any disparate impact can only be due to racism. Poverty, broken families, higher crime rates and school discipline rates are purely the products of racial bias. And their existence justifies unlimited government intervention.
Inflicting misery on black people empowers government. This is the twisted liberal version of slavery.”
“The Obama administration is doing its best to give the nation another mortgage meltdown.
As Paul Sperry recently noted in The Post, Team Obama has pushed mortgage lenders to offer home loans to folks with shaky credit, setting up conditions for another housing-market collapse. Wasn’t the last one bad enough?
Credit scores of approved borrowers, for example, have been trending down, even as their debt levels have grown.
The Federal Housing Administration and government-sponsored “independent” lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been demanding lower credit standards — just as the feds did starting under President Bill Clinton, in pursuit of the same “affordable housing” goal.
Some borrowers need only put 3 percent down to get a Fannie Mae loan — even if the downpayment is a gift. Fannie also has started up a new subprime lending program.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency recently warned that mortgage underwriting standards have slipped and now reflect “broad trends similar to those experienced from 2005 through 2007, before the most recent financial crisis.””
Interesting piece on the open convention prospect (with some history — I never knew that Humphrey didn’t compete in the primaries in ’68. Or I had forgotten it. Or rather, the process has changed significantly since then so that now the primaries are much more prominent).
But what happens when no one rises to majority status?
…. If the primaries and caucuses produce no consensus candidate, then it is perfectly legitimate for the delegates to exercise their sovereign authority. In fact, it is essential for them to do so. Since the first party nominations— dating all the way back to the congressional caucuses in the Jeffersonian era— the mandate has been for a candidate to win a majority of the participants before he becomes the nominee, and for good reason. A party nominee is not running just as an individual, but as the representative of a coalition. If a majority of caucus members, delegates, or voters have selected somebody else, how can that nominee be said to be representative of the whole? This is the one constant amidst all the changes in the presidential nominating process from 1796 through 2016: The nominee must represent the whole party.
… What should we expect from such a convention? It’s hard to know. The delegates have total authority over all matters under their jurisdiction. There are rules to govern their behavior, but there are enough loopholes and contradictions to effectively liberate them. And, should worse come to worst, the rules can be suspended at any time by a simple majority of the qualified delegates. The floor of the convention is thus like the floor of the House: A majority can do pretty much whatever it wants.
It is far too early to say what this may mean in practice. The delegates could very well splinter into a number of factions: those supporting one candidate; those supporting another; those who have been itching for years to bring about party reform; those who will resist such changes by every artifice available; and perhaps other factions as well. Coalitions could form and disappear in an instant, because everything is up for grabs. There could be fights over the rules and fights over the credentials of delegate slates. There could be dilatory tactics, stalking horses, and maybe even dark horses. The history of actual conventions from 1831 through 1976 — not the boring, scripted ones we have witnessed ever since — demonstrates pretty clearly that almost anything can happen.
This might make for an unfortunate spectacle on national television — and goodness knows the mainstream media will look to paint the Republican party in the most unflattering light possible. Nevertheless, there is nothing inappropriate about such an unpredictable convention. It will certainly be an unusual occurrence — but familiarity and legitimacy are not the same thing. The process may be a bit convoluted, but sometimes that is how a republican result — one that fairly represents as much of the party as possible — can be produced. Indeed, the history of party conventions suggests that sometimes the only way to reach a fair outcome is through the seemingly underhanded legerdemain of the “smoke-filled room.”
So the Cleveland convention might be “contested” or “brokered,” which is just another way of saying that it could be equitable, proper, and necessary for the good of the Republican party.
It actually looks like the GOP convention will get some good ratings this time around. I still remember as a teenager watching the 1968 Democratic convention while on summer vacation from high school, it was pretty mesmerizing as I recall — although what was going on outside the hall was the most fascinating.
But who can forget Mayor Daley leaping to his feet, shouting obscenities and shaking his fist at one of the speakers? Awesome.
donna j
Was that in your misguided youth, when you were a Democrat? I too thought some weird things in my youth. In 11th grade PE one day, the loudspeakers came on and told us President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. I thought how now all the people who thought he wasn’t such a good President would forget all their previous disagreements about him and he would become a beloved martyr. Silly me.
I am sure that the scurrilous articles about Saint JFK’s sexual peccadilloes are just made-up stories with no truth to them.
I still don’t like him or any other Kennedys, “Lion of the Senate” my foot. Reprobate baby-murdering enabler.
Chappaqua , Chappaquidic…peculiar that the two names sound so related.
My SIL taught at that school, Anon. He did not put up with nonsense and had no problem maintaining order, himself. He did have some issues with paperwork way too often. He was more upset recently when a colleague at another school he now works at, took days off to be at the BLM protests. Those were paid days off. The person would also spend time at school on the phone dealing with such things.
Allowing young people to get away with this stuff is a form of child abuse. It will lead to no good for anyone.
I have written often about Charles Murray’s fine book on the white lower class: Coming Apart. Here is how the truths of that book look in a real family.
Unfortunately, instead of working hard, staying married and being active in their church, too many people are drinking, divorcing, living off the government, and then voting for Trump who blames others for their situation.
I’d read that Post story just the other night. This one linked by Ricky sheds much more light. 😦
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“The complex nature of the crisis should not be a license to avoid facing its ultimate truth head on: America’s working class is in the grips of a malady far more spiritual than material. We can spend trillions more, but safety nets won’t save the human soul.”
Wandering Views 
I saw my first “Bernie 2016” sticker today.
I would rather have Bernie than Hillary.
Bernie is a real wacko, but Hillary is a crook.
She would sell the country for personal gain.
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Another washed-up singer (this one is called Bryan Adams) is refusing to “sing” in the South because he wouldn’t be allowed to go to the restroom with women and little girls. There is a clear lesson here. All Southern states should pass these religious freedom laws. They seem to keep out all manner of varmints and pests.
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Who is Bryan Adams?
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Chas, There is a Bryan Adams High School in Dallas, but I don’t think it’s the same guy.
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Hillary and Obama built this.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/us-commander-islamic-state-has-6000-fighters-in-libya/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
“The top US commander for Africa said the number of Islamic State group militants in Libya has doubled in the last year or so to about 6,000.
Army Gen. David Rodriguez heads US Africa Command. Rodriquez said local militias in Libya have had some success in trying to stop the Islamic State from growing in Benghazi and are battling the group in Sabratha. But he said decisions to provide more military assistance will wait for a national government.
The latest numbers for IS in Libya make it the largest Islamic State branch of eight that the militant group operates outside Iraq and Syria, according to US defense officials. The officials were not authorized to provide details of the group and spoke only on condition of anonymity.
The US has conducted two airstrikes in Libya in recent months targeting Islamic State fighters and leaders, but Rodriguez said that those are limited to militants that pose an “imminent” threat to US interests. He said it’s possible the US could do more as the government there takes shape.”
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Wow, 2 whole strikes. ISIS must be on the run now, huh Barry? 🙄
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Do you think schools need to be safer?
If you answered yes, it’s because you’re a racist. 🙂
http://nypost.com/2016/04/10/youre-now-a-racist-if-you-say-schools-need-to-be-safer/
“Under pressure from Obama educrats, public school districts are no longer suspending even violent students; but now, under pressure from Black Lives Matter, they are suspending teachers who complain about not suspending bad kids.
In St. Paul, Minn., a high school teacher was put on administrative leave last month after Black Lives Matter threatened to shut down the school because the teacher complained about lenient discipline policies that have led to a string of assaults on fellow teachers.
Last month, two students at Como Park Senior High School punched and body slammed a business teacher unconscious, opening a head wound that required staples. And earlier in the year, another student choked a science teacher into a partial coma that left him hospitalized for several days.
In both cases, the teachers were white and the students black.
Theo Olson, a teacher at the school complained on Facebook about new district policies that fail to punish kids for fighting and drug-dealing. Like dozens of cities across the country — including New York — St. Paul adopted the policies in compliance with new discipline guidelines issued by the Obama administration. The Education Department has threatened school districts with lawsuits and funding cuts wherever if finds racial “disparities” in suspensions and expulsions, arguing such disparities have created a “school-to-prison pipeline” for African-Americans children. The agency claims such disparities are the product of racism in schools.”
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And if you answered no, you’re still a racist. We all are now.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/262413/everything-racist-everything-must-be-controlled-daniel-greenfield
“There are two ways to look at the problems of the black community. Either there’s something wrong within the community. Or America is racist.
The sensible liberals who used to be able to split the difference are dead or purged. The Moynihan Report is inconceivable in a Democratic Party which has gone all in on freeing drug dealers and bulking up the welfare state. Obama mentioned fatherlessness briefly in his Brother’s Keeper speech before pivoting to a call to dismantle the criminal justice system and school discipline policies.
Obama admitted that, “We won’t be living up to our ideals when their parents are struggling with substance abuse, or are in prison, or unemployed, and when fathers are absent.” But his solution is freeing drug dealers “who could be good fathers and good neighbors and good fellow citizens” if only they weren’t “languishing in prison over minor, nonviolent drug offenses.”
Some recent examples of such potential “good fathers” whom he freed include Vander Keith Gore, the son of a Democratic councilman who ran a drug ring which threatened to murder a cooperating witness’ baby. He freed Isadore Gennings, whose “minor nonviolent drug offenses” involved helping move $2.5 million in cocaine, Carmel Bretous, who helped smuggle in 110 pounds of cocaine, and Tommie Sand Tyree, who was described as having “a lot of blood on his hands.”
Freeing drug dealers also means that that there will be more parents “struggling with substance abuse” and that “drugs are plentiful.” But making matters in the black community worse was always the plan.”
“Disparate impact is the monster lurking in the cellar of civil rights. Once you reject the idea that black communities and individuals bear any responsibility for their actions, any disparate impact can only be due to racism. Poverty, broken families, higher crime rates and school discipline rates are purely the products of racial bias. And their existence justifies unlimited government intervention.
Inflicting misery on black people empowers government. This is the twisted liberal version of slavery.”
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Who’s up for another housing collapse? Again, Barry built this…
http://nypost.com/2016/04/09/team-obama-is-setting-us-up-for-another-housing-market-collapse/
“The Obama administration is doing its best to give the nation another mortgage meltdown.
As Paul Sperry recently noted in The Post, Team Obama has pushed mortgage lenders to offer home loans to folks with shaky credit, setting up conditions for another housing-market collapse. Wasn’t the last one bad enough?
Credit scores of approved borrowers, for example, have been trending down, even as their debt levels have grown.
The Federal Housing Administration and government-sponsored “independent” lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been demanding lower credit standards — just as the feds did starting under President Bill Clinton, in pursuit of the same “affordable housing” goal.
Some borrowers need only put 3 percent down to get a Fannie Mae loan — even if the downpayment is a gift. Fannie also has started up a new subprime lending program.
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency recently warned that mortgage underwriting standards have slipped and now reflect “broad trends similar to those experienced from 2005 through 2007, before the most recent financial crisis.””
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Fear not …
Interesting piece on the open convention prospect (with some history — I never knew that Humphrey didn’t compete in the primaries in ’68. Or I had forgotten it. Or rather, the process has changed significantly since then so that now the primaries are much more prominent).
But what happens when no one rises to majority status?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/fear-not-a-brokered-convention/article/2001899
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…. If the primaries and caucuses produce no consensus candidate, then it is perfectly legitimate for the delegates to exercise their sovereign authority. In fact, it is essential for them to do so. Since the first party nominations— dating all the way back to the congressional caucuses in the Jeffersonian era— the mandate has been for a candidate to win a majority of the participants before he becomes the nominee, and for good reason. A party nominee is not running just as an individual, but as the representative of a coalition. If a majority of caucus members, delegates, or voters have selected somebody else, how can that nominee be said to be representative of the whole? This is the one constant amidst all the changes in the presidential nominating process from 1796 through 2016: The nominee must represent the whole party.
… What should we expect from such a convention? It’s hard to know. The delegates have total authority over all matters under their jurisdiction. There are rules to govern their behavior, but there are enough loopholes and contradictions to effectively liberate them. And, should worse come to worst, the rules can be suspended at any time by a simple majority of the qualified delegates. The floor of the convention is thus like the floor of the House: A majority can do pretty much whatever it wants.
It is far too early to say what this may mean in practice. The delegates could very well splinter into a number of factions: those supporting one candidate; those supporting another; those who have been itching for years to bring about party reform; those who will resist such changes by every artifice available; and perhaps other factions as well. Coalitions could form and disappear in an instant, because everything is up for grabs. There could be fights over the rules and fights over the credentials of delegate slates. There could be dilatory tactics, stalking horses, and maybe even dark horses. The history of actual conventions from 1831 through 1976 — not the boring, scripted ones we have witnessed ever since — demonstrates pretty clearly that almost anything can happen.
This might make for an unfortunate spectacle on national television — and goodness knows the mainstream media will look to paint the Republican party in the most unflattering light possible. Nevertheless, there is nothing inappropriate about such an unpredictable convention. It will certainly be an unusual occurrence — but familiarity and legitimacy are not the same thing. The process may be a bit convoluted, but sometimes that is how a republican result — one that fairly represents as much of the party as possible — can be produced. Indeed, the history of party conventions suggests that sometimes the only way to reach a fair outcome is through the seemingly underhanded legerdemain of the “smoke-filled room.”
So the Cleveland convention might be “contested” or “brokered,” which is just another way of saying that it could be equitable, proper, and necessary for the good of the Republican party.
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It actually looks like the GOP convention will get some good ratings this time around. I still remember as a teenager watching the 1968 Democratic convention while on summer vacation from high school, it was pretty mesmerizing as I recall — although what was going on outside the hall was the most fascinating.
But who can forget Mayor Daley leaping to his feet, shouting obscenities and shaking his fist at one of the speakers? Awesome.
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donna j
Was that in your misguided youth, when you were a Democrat? I too thought some weird things in my youth. In 11th grade PE one day, the loudspeakers came on and told us President Kennedy had been shot in Dallas. I thought how now all the people who thought he wasn’t such a good President would forget all their previous disagreements about him and he would become a beloved martyr. Silly me.
I am sure that the scurrilous articles about Saint JFK’s sexual peccadilloes are just made-up stories with no truth to them.
I still don’t like him or any other Kennedys, “Lion of the Senate” my foot. Reprobate baby-murdering enabler.
Chappaqua , Chappaquidic…peculiar that the two names sound so related.
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“But who can forget Mayor Daley leaping to his feet, shouting obscenities and shaking his fist at one of the speakers? Awesome.”
donnna j
I don’t remember a thing about that Convention. I was busy being drafted by the US Army. 16 Aug 66 through 15 Aug 68.
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My SIL taught at that school, Anon. He did not put up with nonsense and had no problem maintaining order, himself. He did have some issues with paperwork way too often. He was more upset recently when a colleague at another school he now works at, took days off to be at the BLM protests. Those were paid days off. The person would also spend time at school on the phone dealing with such things.
Allowing young people to get away with this stuff is a form of child abuse. It will lead to no good for anyone.
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I would have been 16 (?) in the summer of ’68, but was already a budding political and news junkie 🙂
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I have written often about Charles Murray’s fine book on the white lower class: Coming Apart. Here is how the truths of that book look in a real family.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433920/white-working-class-deaths-spiritual-crisis
Unfortunately, instead of working hard, staying married and being active in their church, too many people are drinking, divorcing, living off the government, and then voting for Trump who blames others for their situation.
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Meanwhile Trump the “great businessman” shows he couldn’t effectively run a snow cone stand.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/433935/donald-trump-colorado-caucus
All he can do is demagogue, lie, insult, and whine.
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I’d read that Post story just the other night. This one linked by Ricky sheds much more light. 😦
__________________________
“The complex nature of the crisis should not be a license to avoid facing its ultimate truth head on: America’s working class is in the grips of a malady far more spiritual than material. We can spend trillions more, but safety nets won’t save the human soul.”
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