April 11, 2016

I guess this is GD...

I want to thank CNN and Kevin Spacey for the Presidential series. Assuming we survive, what a gift to future generations.

April 3, 2016

/alan-lomaxs-massive-archive-goes-online

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2012/03/28/148915022/alan-lomaxs-massive-archive-goes-online

[div class="excerpt"Folklorist Alan Lomax spent his career documenting folk music traditions from around the world. Now thousands of the songs and interviews he recorded are available for free online, many for the first time. It's part of what Lomax envisioned for the collection — long before the age of the Internet.

March 26, 2016

Go ahead Bernie - raise my taxes!

Saw this in the Hillary group. Can't reply because I'm banned by my own request, so as not to get myself in trouble. (I'm banned from the Bernie group - this happened very early! - for posts that weren't even in the Bernie group and in any case just expressed distaste for, IMHO, over-the-top rah rah.)

Anyway....

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/3/25/11293258/tax-plan-calculator-2016

Caveat - I have no idea where they got their numbers.

Assuming their numbers have some basis in reality, I'd be on the hook for quite a bit more with Bernie.

I DON'T CARE!

I'll admit I'd expect the money to be well-spent, and would be disappointed if it wasn't. But the money itself I can currently afford and would be willing to entrust to Bernie, if he was able to get his programs enacted.

GO BERNIE!

March 26, 2016

Does that mean you think Bernie will be the nominee?

If he is I will work my ass off like my life depends on it. Because I think it will.

Serious adrenaline rush as I was getting ready for bed.

I started out doing way more than I was comfortable with for Bernie, backed off to just money.

But I can ramp up again if I am seriously threatened.

I will do the same for whoever is the nominee.

March 22, 2016

Not this Democrat.

Just sent another $30, actually. In it to the convention!

(And in spite of my distaste for some, IMHO, over-the-top, non-productive rah, rah and threats to sit out the general, and some tone-deafness in the Sanders campaign, I'm considering reinstating my Bernie avatar. Yes, I'm watching the AZ rally. And I've been a monthly contributor since well before he announced. At least a year, I think, although I upped it drastically when he announced.)

March 19, 2016

On a lighter note (in some sense), Karen and Ella.

https://m.

Richard on PBS activated my middle-finger reflex, and I Googled this.

March 17, 2016

DWS/Canova primary is in AUGUST!

I had been thinking I was too late to make a difference - apparently I was wrong!

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/01/controversial-dnc-chair-debbie-wasserman-schultz-to-face-progressive-tim-canova-in-an-august-primary.html

https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/42087

ETA that I debated where to put this. It's not Bernie/Hillary, so...

March 15, 2016

Hey, y'all...

I flatter myself you might be interested...

Got the results from my first mammogram since my lumpectomy, and I am clean!

Couldn't resist adding this:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9552871

March 15, 2016

Just got the results from my first mammogram since my lumpectomy.

I am clean!

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=9552871

March 12, 2016

Finally, an explanation I can understand.

And if Ron Jr. says it, I believe it.

Nevertheless, how utterly tone deaf. Not thinking that family and the 1% may know this, but we peons don't.