The last question on the thread last night was “How do the females here feel about Cruz”. I personally find something off putting about him. I like him on paper, but not in 3D. IF I vote this cycle, I will hold my nose, once again, and vote for him. No matter what I think of him otherwise, I do believe he is a man who sticks to his principles. (Which spelling is correct here?)
“”Democracy is supposed to be for all of us, but right now we have an out-of-balance system favoring the interests of big money. This can’t go on. I’m prepared to risk arrest to send a message that democracy should truly be of, by, and for the people,” Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s, said in a statement Monday before he was arrested.
Company co-founder Jerry Greenfield said he joined the movement because the current state of politics is “not what our founders envisioned, and it’s not what democracy is supposed to be about.”
“Democracy Spring, organized by 501(c)(4) group 99 Rise, started in Philadelphia nearly two weeks ago. Participants marched 140 miles to the nation’s capital, where they started five days of sit-ins outside Congress’ headquarters. On Saturday, the protest morphed into Democracy Awakening, which included teach-ins, a rally, march and lobbying.”
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They whine about money in politics, but what they mean is Republican politics. They’re fine with it on the Democrat side as a quick Google search shows. They’re two of many such cash cows on the left.
“Getting money out of politics seems like an idea that everyone can agree upon. That is the premise of a grassroots effort started by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream fame.
It is called The Stamp Stampede and its primary vehicle is to literally stamp paper currency with slogans such as “Money Is Not Free Speech,” “Not to be used for bribing politicians,” and “The system isn’t broken, its fixed.” Inspired by the Where’s George? website for tracking dollar bills, it is basically a guerrilla marketing campaign.
Started in October of 2012, its aim is to have a 28th constitutional amendment to declare that money is not free speech and that corporations are not people.”
“Now here’s for the double-scoop of hypocrisy: Both Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are active political campaign donors. Can you guess which political party they support?”
“According to Twitchy’s calculations (they’ve got more details on this), that makes a combined $51,550 to Democratic politicians, PACs, and the Democratic Party.”
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Not to mention what they privately give to pro-Democrat groups as well.
“Iran is our external enemy of the moment. Saudi Arabia is our enduring internal enemy, already within our borders and permitted to poison American Muslims with its Wahhabi cult.”
“Firm figures are elusive, but estimates are that the Saudis fund up to 80% of American mosques, at least in part. And their goal is the same here as it is elsewhere in the world where Islam must compete with other religions: to prevent Muslims from integrating into the host society.
The Saudis love having Muslims in America, since that stakes Islam’s claim, but it doesn’t want Muslims to become Americans and stray from the hate-riddled cult they’ve imposed upon a great religion.”
“Why did we let this happen? Greed. Naivete. Political correctness. Inertia. For decades, the Saudis sent ambassadors who were “just like us,” drinking expensive scotch, partying hard, playing tennis with our own political royalty, and making sure that American corporations and key individuals made money. A lot of money.
But they weren’t just like us. First of all, few of us could afford the kind of scotch they drank. More important, they had a deep anti-American, anti-liberty, play-us-for-suckers agenda.
And we let the Saudis exert control over America’s Muslim communities through their surrogates. No restrictions beyond an occasional timid request to remove a textbook or pamphlet that went too far.
Think what we’re doing: The Saudis would never let us fund a church or synagogue in Saudi Arabia. There are none. And there won’t be any.
Wouldn’t it make sense for Congress to pass a law prohibiting foreign governments, religious establishments, charities and individuals from funding religious institutions here if their countries do not reciprocate and practice religious freedom? Isn’t that common sense? And simply fair?
Saudi money even buys our silence on terrorism.”
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“It was the deadliest attack sustained by the CIA in 26 years, and according to a just-declassified U.S. intelligence cable, Pakistan’s military intelligence agency paid a notorious Islamist terror group $200,000 to carry it out.
State Department spokesman John Kirby, asked about the claim Thursday, declined to “speak about intelligence matters.”
The shock allegation – that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate financed the Haqqani network’s suicide bombing that killed seven CIA employees at Camp Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan on December 30, 2009 – is contained in a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document, marked secret and dated February 6 of the following year.
It was obtained, in heavily-redacted form, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the National Security Archive, an independent non-governmental research institute at The George Washington University.
Claims about collusion between the ISI and terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan are not new, but the document indicates that the military intelligence agency of a major recipient of U.S. military funding directly financed the costliest attack against CIA personnel since Hezbollah bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in 1983. (Eight CIA personnel were among 17 Americans killed in Beirut, where a total of 63 people died.)”
I liked Scott Walker but he was gone in a blink of an eye. Rubio was my preferred candidate.
I, too, will vote for Cruz. I just think we could have done better. I doubt anyone can heal the republic. But we can stop some of the damage from continuing perhaps.
I liked Carson — a lot — and was very open to him. But I was disappointed in his answers as the debates went on, it left me with the sense that he wasn’t doing a lot of homework on the issues.
Meanwhile, it’s Tuesday so there must be a primary somewhere …
Interesting column today by Micheal Barone, recalling the entertaining style in which he wrote the American Politics almanac for so many years, a staple in virtually every newsroom.
Noo Yawk. That’s the state with this week’s presidential primary, in which candidates who have spent time in New York recently are currently running ahead, according to polls. …
Trump’s lead in his home state is indeed enormous. He hasn’t gotten 50 percent of the vote in any primary or caucus held so far. But he has been getting over 50 percent in every poll of New York Republicans conducted since March 2015, three months before he declared his candidacy. The only state where he has gotten comparable poll numbers is in neighboring Connecticut.
…. In his 1988 book “Albion’s Seed,” historian David Hackett Fischer showed how different parts of the British colonies were settled by people from different parts of the British Isles with distinctly different folkways: New England by Calvinists from East Anglia; the Delaware Valley by Quakers and dissenting Protestants from the English Midlands; Virginia by Anglicans from England’s West Country; and the Appalachian chain by Scots-Irish from Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Their folkways have persisted to this day and still are traceable in political choices. New Englanders felt the allure of Barack Obama to which the Scots-Irish were entirely immune. Virginians have been readier than Pennsylvanians to support military actions. …
… New York has always believed in commerce and in tolerance, but has had little use for principle. Like Amsterdam in the age of Rembrandt, it is the greatest trading and finance system in the world, with a taste for high art and low life. In New York you are considered “old money” if you have held your fortune for 10 minutes.
New York was Loyalist during the Revolutionary War, pro-South in the Civil War. (Mustn’t let principle get in the way of making money.) In the first half of the 20th century it was the fulcrum point of American politics, a target state in any close election split about equally between upstate Protestant Republicans and downstate Catholic Democrats, with key votes cast by Jewish immigrants left of both parties on both economic and cultural issues. This gave both parties an incentive to champion liberal policies not just in New York but nationally. …
It’s a city that, like its son Donald Trump, loves winners — winners like the New York Yankees, hated in much of America but loved in New York. Longtime Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and on-and-off manager Billy Martin may have been brash and boorish, but they were loved in New York. Hey, they were winners.
Trump speaks in the accents and cadences of New York — not of the ancestral rich in Manhattan but in the upward strivers and figure-out-the-angles rich of the outer boroughs and Long Island suburbs. He talks of people “waiting on line” for his rallies — a phrase that may have puzzled most listeners who thought he was referring to computers. That’s New York talk: Sophisticated New Yorkers of my acquaintance are not aware that the phrase in the rest of America is “waiting in line.” …
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… He is crushing Hillary with young people, especially young women, whom she presumably considered safe when she entered this race. According to entrance polls in the Iowa caucuses:
• Women under age 30: Sanders 84%, Clinton 14%
• Women age 30-44: Sanders 53%, Clinton 42%
• Women age 45-64: Clinton 61%, Sanders 32%
• Women age 65 or older: Clinton 76%, Sanders 22%
This should make little sense. For one, he’s a thousand years old. He looks and talks like a resort standup working the Borscht Belt — but without the jokes. He hammers the gloomy reality of income inequality and greedy establishment corporatists with all the spunk and charm of an executioner. He was first elected to office the year MS-DOS debuted.
And yet, in the same way Tony Bennett and Betty White probably have more young fans now than they do boomers, Bernie is retro, old school, hip to be square.
Hillary is just square. …
… Bernie is a true believer. He’s local, where she’s global. He’s the artisan bacon selection at a hip Williamsburg microbrewery, and Hillary is a plate of loaded potato skins at the mall TGI Friday’s.
He’s a cause; she’s a corporation. He’s one of a kind; she’s a chain. He’s a bumper sticker; she’s an infomercial.
Her Goldman Sachs mess-up was just another fresh reminder that for all of her slick messaging and careful branding, Hillary doesn’t see that taking more than half a million from a Wall Street bank because “that’s what they offered” is off-brand.
But millennials do. Will they turn out in big enough numbers to give Bernie the nomination?
They might just surprise us.
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While the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency is a terrifying one, perhaps this is scarier: Facebook could use its unprecedented powers to tilt the 2016 presidential election away from him – and the social network’s employees have apparently openly discussed whether they should do so.
As Gizmodo reported on Friday, “Last month, some Facebook employees used a company poll to ask [Facebook founder Mark] Zuckerberg whether the company should try ‘to help prevent President Trump in 2017’.” …
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… while there’s no evidence that the company plans on taking anti-Trump action, the extraordinary ability that the social network has to manipulate millions of people with just a tweak to its algorithm is a serious cause for concern.
The fact that an internet giant like Facebook or Google could turn an election based on hidden changes to its code has been a hypothetical scenario for years (and it’s even a plot point in this season’s House of Cards). Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain explained in 2010 how “Facebook could decide an election without anyone ever finding out”, after the tech giant secretly conducted a test in which they were able to allegedly increase voter turnout by 340,000 votes around the country on election day simply by showing users a photo of someone they knew saying “I voted”. …
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s campaign paid Breitbart News national security editor Sebastian Gorka $8,000 for “policy consulting” last year, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
The filings show that the payment to Gorka was made in October.
Gorka is a professor at Marine Corps University and is the chairman of Threat Knowledge Group, a national security consulting group. He appears frequently as a counterterrorism expert on Fox News.
Gorka has been repeatedly identified on Breitbart as Breitbart’s national security editor, with an appearance on Monday on Breitbart chairman Steve Bannon’s satellite radio show being the most recent example. Gorka has also written frequently for the site, though not since December. …
I’ve wondered all along if the social media isn’t playing too big a part in the race. When FB controls the algorithms of what gets through and so can Twitter, who is influencing whom? 😦
Notice I didn’t mention the nightly news on television. I haven’t watched it in years and neither have any of the younger people I know.
“Via Drew McCoy and Just Karl, you mean the cake section at Whole Foods — in Austin(!) — isn’t a hotbed of reactionary anti-gay sentiment?
Watch Jordan Brown’s short video, posted below, for background. He claims he ordered a cake at WF that was supposed to say “Love Wins” and instead they handed him something that said “Love Wins, Fag.” Pay attention to the cake box, which he insists is unopened and unaltered. The label is on the bottom and the top of the box has a blue-green pattern on it. His video went viral and the predictable uproar ensued online, sending Whole Foods HQ into crisis management. In this case the crisis spin was easy: We would never write “Fag” on a cake, they insisted. And today they reiterated that claim — with evidence.
Whole Foods on Tuesday said it has investigated and said the man, Jordan Brown, made fraudulent claims and would take legal action.
“After a deeper investigation of Mr. Brown’s claim, we believe his accusations are fraudulent and we intend to take legal action against both Mr. Brown and his attorney,” the company said in the statement…
“We stand behind our bakery team member, who is part of the LGBTQ community, and we appreciate the team members and shoppers who recognize that this claim is completely false and directly contradicts Whole Foods Market’s inclusive culture, which celebrates diversity,” the company said.
It’s the surveillance video they posted that’s killer, though. Watch the second clip below. That’s Brown on the lower right in the orange shirt and blue pants approaching the register with a cake. The time on the video matches the time on Brown’s receipt.”
Wandering Views 
The last question on the thread last night was “How do the females here feel about Cruz”. I personally find something off putting about him. I like him on paper, but not in 3D. IF I vote this cycle, I will hold my nose, once again, and vote for him. No matter what I think of him otherwise, I do believe he is a man who sticks to his principles. (Which spelling is correct here?)
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I was for Scott Walker, but Cruiz is the next best.
And I agree with Mumsee about Ben Carson, but he won’t get ti.
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More hypocrisy from a couple of leftist weasels.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ben-jerry-arrested-in-d.c.-protest/article/2588873?custom_click=rss
“”Democracy is supposed to be for all of us, but right now we have an out-of-balance system favoring the interests of big money. This can’t go on. I’m prepared to risk arrest to send a message that democracy should truly be of, by, and for the people,” Ben Cohen, cofounder of Ben & Jerry’s, said in a statement Monday before he was arrested.
Company co-founder Jerry Greenfield said he joined the movement because the current state of politics is “not what our founders envisioned, and it’s not what democracy is supposed to be about.”
“Democracy Spring, organized by 501(c)(4) group 99 Rise, started in Philadelphia nearly two weeks ago. Participants marched 140 miles to the nation’s capital, where they started five days of sit-ins outside Congress’ headquarters. On Saturday, the protest morphed into Democracy Awakening, which included teach-ins, a rally, march and lobbying.”
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They whine about money in politics, but what they mean is Republican politics. They’re fine with it on the Democrat side as a quick Google search shows. They’re two of many such cash cows on the left.
http://www.ijreview.com/2014/02/114816-impossible-dream-getting-money-politics/
“Getting money out of politics seems like an idea that everyone can agree upon. That is the premise of a grassroots effort started by Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream fame.
It is called The Stamp Stampede and its primary vehicle is to literally stamp paper currency with slogans such as “Money Is Not Free Speech,” “Not to be used for bribing politicians,” and “The system isn’t broken, its fixed.” Inspired by the Where’s George? website for tracking dollar bills, it is basically a guerrilla marketing campaign.
Started in October of 2012, its aim is to have a 28th constitutional amendment to declare that money is not free speech and that corporations are not people.”
“Now here’s for the double-scoop of hypocrisy: Both Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are active political campaign donors. Can you guess which political party they support?”
“According to Twitchy’s calculations (they’ve got more details on this), that makes a combined $51,550 to Democratic politicians, PACs, and the Democratic Party.”
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Not to mention what they privately give to pro-Democrat groups as well.
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A few things to keep in mind as Obama bows to the Saudis.
http://nypost.com/2016/04/16/how-saudi-arabia-undermines-the-united-states/
“Iran is our external enemy of the moment. Saudi Arabia is our enduring internal enemy, already within our borders and permitted to poison American Muslims with its Wahhabi cult.”
“Firm figures are elusive, but estimates are that the Saudis fund up to 80% of American mosques, at least in part. And their goal is the same here as it is elsewhere in the world where Islam must compete with other religions: to prevent Muslims from integrating into the host society.
The Saudis love having Muslims in America, since that stakes Islam’s claim, but it doesn’t want Muslims to become Americans and stray from the hate-riddled cult they’ve imposed upon a great religion.”
“Why did we let this happen? Greed. Naivete. Political correctness. Inertia. For decades, the Saudis sent ambassadors who were “just like us,” drinking expensive scotch, partying hard, playing tennis with our own political royalty, and making sure that American corporations and key individuals made money. A lot of money.
But they weren’t just like us. First of all, few of us could afford the kind of scotch they drank. More important, they had a deep anti-American, anti-liberty, play-us-for-suckers agenda.
And we let the Saudis exert control over America’s Muslim communities through their surrogates. No restrictions beyond an occasional timid request to remove a textbook or pamphlet that went too far.
Think what we’re doing: The Saudis would never let us fund a church or synagogue in Saudi Arabia. There are none. And there won’t be any.
Wouldn’t it make sense for Congress to pass a law prohibiting foreign governments, religious establishments, charities and individuals from funding religious institutions here if their countries do not reciprocate and practice religious freedom? Isn’t that common sense? And simply fair?
Saudi money even buys our silence on terrorism.”
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And Pakistan isn’t an ally either.
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/no-comment-us-claim-pakistani-intelligence-agency-funded-deadly
“It was the deadliest attack sustained by the CIA in 26 years, and according to a just-declassified U.S. intelligence cable, Pakistan’s military intelligence agency paid a notorious Islamist terror group $200,000 to carry it out.
State Department spokesman John Kirby, asked about the claim Thursday, declined to “speak about intelligence matters.”
The shock allegation – that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Directorate financed the Haqqani network’s suicide bombing that killed seven CIA employees at Camp Chapman in Khost, Afghanistan on December 30, 2009 – is contained in a Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) document, marked secret and dated February 6 of the following year.
It was obtained, in heavily-redacted form, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the National Security Archive, an independent non-governmental research institute at The George Washington University.
Claims about collusion between the ISI and terrorists in Afghanistan and Pakistan are not new, but the document indicates that the military intelligence agency of a major recipient of U.S. military funding directly financed the costliest attack against CIA personnel since Hezbollah bombed the U.S. Embassy in Beirut in 1983. (Eight CIA personnel were among 17 Americans killed in Beirut, where a total of 63 people died.)”
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I was for Scott Walker before Ben.
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I liked Scott Walker but he was gone in a blink of an eye. Rubio was my preferred candidate.
I, too, will vote for Cruz. I just think we could have done better. I doubt anyone can heal the republic. But we can stop some of the damage from continuing perhaps.
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I liked Carson — a lot — and was very open to him. But I was disappointed in his answers as the debates went on, it left me with the sense that he wasn’t doing a lot of homework on the issues.
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Unlike Trump, who has thoroughly researched everything.
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Well, yeah, Trump. I know. 😦 😦
Meanwhile, it’s Tuesday so there must be a primary somewhere …
Interesting column today by Micheal Barone, recalling the entertaining style in which he wrote the American Politics almanac for so many years, a staple in virtually every newsroom.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/04/19/new_york_exceptionalism_and_donald_trump_130316.html
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Noo Yawk. That’s the state with this week’s presidential primary, in which candidates who have spent time in New York recently are currently running ahead, according to polls. …
Trump’s lead in his home state is indeed enormous. He hasn’t gotten 50 percent of the vote in any primary or caucus held so far. But he has been getting over 50 percent in every poll of New York Republicans conducted since March 2015, three months before he declared his candidacy. The only state where he has gotten comparable poll numbers is in neighboring Connecticut.
…. In his 1988 book “Albion’s Seed,” historian David Hackett Fischer showed how different parts of the British colonies were settled by people from different parts of the British Isles with distinctly different folkways: New England by Calvinists from East Anglia; the Delaware Valley by Quakers and dissenting Protestants from the English Midlands; Virginia by Anglicans from England’s West Country; and the Appalachian chain by Scots-Irish from Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Their folkways have persisted to this day and still are traceable in political choices. New Englanders felt the allure of Barack Obama to which the Scots-Irish were entirely immune. Virginians have been readier than Pennsylvanians to support military actions. …
… New York has always believed in commerce and in tolerance, but has had little use for principle. Like Amsterdam in the age of Rembrandt, it is the greatest trading and finance system in the world, with a taste for high art and low life. In New York you are considered “old money” if you have held your fortune for 10 minutes.
New York was Loyalist during the Revolutionary War, pro-South in the Civil War. (Mustn’t let principle get in the way of making money.) In the first half of the 20th century it was the fulcrum point of American politics, a target state in any close election split about equally between upstate Protestant Republicans and downstate Catholic Democrats, with key votes cast by Jewish immigrants left of both parties on both economic and cultural issues. This gave both parties an incentive to champion liberal policies not just in New York but nationally. …
It’s a city that, like its son Donald Trump, loves winners — winners like the New York Yankees, hated in much of America but loved in New York. Longtime Yankees owner George Steinbrenner and on-and-off manager Billy Martin may have been brash and boorish, but they were loved in New York. Hey, they were winners.
Trump speaks in the accents and cadences of New York — not of the ancestral rich in Manhattan but in the upward strivers and figure-out-the-angles rich of the outer boroughs and Long Island suburbs. He talks of people “waiting on line” for his rallies — a phrase that may have puzzled most listeners who thought he was referring to computers. That’s New York talk: Sophisticated New Yorkers of my acquaintance are not aware that the phrase in the rest of America is “waiting in line.” …
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Entertaining column from S.E. Cupp (from February, but still relevant)
Bernie is cool, Hillary is square
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/05/opinions/bernie-sanders-hillary-clinton-young-voters-cupp/index.html
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… He is crushing Hillary with young people, especially young women, whom she presumably considered safe when she entered this race. According to entrance polls in the Iowa caucuses:
• Women under age 30: Sanders 84%, Clinton 14%
• Women age 30-44: Sanders 53%, Clinton 42%
• Women age 45-64: Clinton 61%, Sanders 32%
• Women age 65 or older: Clinton 76%, Sanders 22%
This should make little sense. For one, he’s a thousand years old. He looks and talks like a resort standup working the Borscht Belt — but without the jokes. He hammers the gloomy reality of income inequality and greedy establishment corporatists with all the spunk and charm of an executioner. He was first elected to office the year MS-DOS debuted.
And yet, in the same way Tony Bennett and Betty White probably have more young fans now than they do boomers, Bernie is retro, old school, hip to be square.
Hillary is just square. …
… Bernie is a true believer. He’s local, where she’s global. He’s the artisan bacon selection at a hip Williamsburg microbrewery, and Hillary is a plate of loaded potato skins at the mall TGI Friday’s.
He’s a cause; she’s a corporation. He’s one of a kind; she’s a chain. He’s a bumper sticker; she’s an infomercial.
Her Goldman Sachs mess-up was just another fresh reminder that for all of her slick messaging and careful branding, Hillary doesn’t see that taking more than half a million from a Wall Street bank because “that’s what they offered” is off-brand.
But millennials do. Will they turn out in big enough numbers to give Bernie the nomination?
They might just surprise us.
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The young people think Bernie is “cute” kinda like a benevolent grandpa. Hillary is a screech owl yelling at them.
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Even as a conservative who would never, ever vote for either Clinton or Sanders — Hillary grates horribly on me; he doesn’t.
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Of course, Sanders’ politics are absolutely loon-crazy. 😮
But personally, he’s easier to take for some reason. Maybe Hil just has too much political baggage from being in the public eye for so long.
And then there’s the voice … 😉
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http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/19/donald-trump-facebook-election-manipulate-behavior
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While the prospect of a Donald Trump presidency is a terrifying one, perhaps this is scarier: Facebook could use its unprecedented powers to tilt the 2016 presidential election away from him – and the social network’s employees have apparently openly discussed whether they should do so.
As Gizmodo reported on Friday, “Last month, some Facebook employees used a company poll to ask [Facebook founder Mark] Zuckerberg whether the company should try ‘to help prevent President Trump in 2017’.” …
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Pt 2:
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… while there’s no evidence that the company plans on taking anti-Trump action, the extraordinary ability that the social network has to manipulate millions of people with just a tweak to its algorithm is a serious cause for concern.
The fact that an internet giant like Facebook or Google could turn an election based on hidden changes to its code has been a hypothetical scenario for years (and it’s even a plot point in this season’s House of Cards). Harvard Law professor Jonathan Zittrain explained in 2010 how “Facebook could decide an election without anyone ever finding out”, after the tech giant secretly conducted a test in which they were able to allegedly increase voter turnout by 340,000 votes around the country on election day simply by showing users a photo of someone they knew saying “I voted”. …
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Uncool.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/trump-campaign-paid-a-breitbart-editor-for-consulting-work#.ttYARrRJG
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WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s campaign paid Breitbart News national security editor Sebastian Gorka $8,000 for “policy consulting” last year, according to Federal Election Commission filings.
The filings show that the payment to Gorka was made in October.
Gorka is a professor at Marine Corps University and is the chairman of Threat Knowledge Group, a national security consulting group. He appears frequently as a counterterrorism expert on Fox News.
Gorka has been repeatedly identified on Breitbart as Breitbart’s national security editor, with an appearance on Monday on Breitbart chairman Steve Bannon’s satellite radio show being the most recent example. Gorka has also written frequently for the site, though not since December. …
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I’ve wondered all along if the social media isn’t playing too big a part in the race. When FB controls the algorithms of what gets through and so can Twitter, who is influencing whom? 😦
Notice I didn’t mention the nightly news on television. I haven’t watched it in years and neither have any of the younger people I know.
Sorry, Donna.
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That’s OK, I don’t watch “nightly news” (in a formal sense) either. Have no idea who the “big 3” anchors are anymore.
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Is this a bad thing, or yet another reason to vote for Cruz…. ? 😯
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/04/19/bad-news-from-peter-king-ill-take-cyanide-if-ted-cruz-wins-the-nomination/
“Bad news from Peter King: I’ll take cyanide if Ted Cruz wins the nomination”
😆
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Good. Examples must be made, it’s the only way to stop the hoaxes.
http://hotair.com/archives/2016/04/19/whole-foods-were-suing-the-gay-activist-who-claimed-we-sold-him-a-cake-with-a-slur-written-on-it-and-we-have-video/
“Via Drew McCoy and Just Karl, you mean the cake section at Whole Foods — in Austin(!) — isn’t a hotbed of reactionary anti-gay sentiment?
Watch Jordan Brown’s short video, posted below, for background. He claims he ordered a cake at WF that was supposed to say “Love Wins” and instead they handed him something that said “Love Wins, Fag.” Pay attention to the cake box, which he insists is unopened and unaltered. The label is on the bottom and the top of the box has a blue-green pattern on it. His video went viral and the predictable uproar ensued online, sending Whole Foods HQ into crisis management. In this case the crisis spin was easy: We would never write “Fag” on a cake, they insisted. And today they reiterated that claim — with evidence.
Whole Foods on Tuesday said it has investigated and said the man, Jordan Brown, made fraudulent claims and would take legal action.
“After a deeper investigation of Mr. Brown’s claim, we believe his accusations are fraudulent and we intend to take legal action against both Mr. Brown and his attorney,” the company said in the statement…
“We stand behind our bakery team member, who is part of the LGBTQ community, and we appreciate the team members and shoppers who recognize that this claim is completely false and directly contradicts Whole Foods Market’s inclusive culture, which celebrates diversity,” the company said.
It’s the surveillance video they posted that’s killer, though. Watch the second clip below. That’s Brown on the lower right in the orange shirt and blue pants approaching the register with a cake. The time on the video matches the time on Brown’s receipt.”
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I was prescient; this from Eric Metaxas today, FB taking down a post it didn’t like:
http://akosbalogh.com/2016/04/19/the-post-facebook-didnt-want-you-to-see/
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Wow.
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Here’s a news story on it:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/technology/facebook-accused-of-gagging-samesex-debate/news-story/d6278508f67d8cfc5ee5efe5147ff378
Well, big night for Trump & Clinton.
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