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Autumn

Autumn's Journal
Autumn's Journal
April 22, 2016

As soon as the gun issue doesn't benefit her she will get all Annie Oakley.

like she did in 08, looking back it was funny as all get out

April 20, 2016

Call it Skinner. nt

April 19, 2016

Are they saying the States Hillary won in the South are "Old America"?

Males sense. Not. But hey that should settle down the faux outrage of Bernie dissing the South I doubt it though

April 18, 2016

Two despised frontrunners, two dying parties and a deeply broken system: How did we get here?

Trump and Clinton may be the two most hated frontrunners in history, dueling symbols of a duopoly in decay

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To paraphrase a great American poet of the 1980s, this is not our beautiful house. We get a tiny breather in the political calendar this week, and it’s a useful moment to take half a step back from the most chaotic and disordered presidential campaign in living memory and ask ourselves the big question: What in the name of Jiminy Cricket is going on here? I spent the week digging into the past for clues to the strange dynamics of the present: To be clear, I did not conclude that Donald Trump is a new Hitler or that Bernie Sanders is a new Lenin, only that the parallels and the discontinuities were instructive.

So here’s what’s happening: Our political system is profoundly broken, and although many of us have understood that for years, this has been the year that fact became unavoidable. Both political parties are struggling through transparently rigged primary campaigns that have made that ludicrous process look more outdated than ever. Nobody cares about the Democratic vote in Wyoming and it’s not going to matter, but when Bernie Sanders dominates the caucuses in that empty, dusty and Republican-dominated state and wins seven of its 18 delegates, doesn’t that sum up the whole damn thing?

Both parties are also struggling to control long-simmering internal conflicts that have come boiling to the surface this year, and in both cases the leadership caste is wondering whether it’s time to burn down the village in order to save it. In the larger analysis, both parties are struggling to ignore the mounting evidence of their own irrelevance. One of them is struggling with that in a more public and more spectacular fashion at the moment, but the contagion is general. In my judgment, Democrats would do well to cancel the Champagne and refill the Xanax.

class="excerpt"]http://www.salon.com/2016/04/17/two_despised_frontrunners_two_dying_parties_and_a_deeply_broken_system_how_did_we_get_here/

A very good read I highly recommend it.

April 16, 2016

A question for Bernie supporters

Bernie was invited to the Vatican to speak at the conference. Bernie met the Pope, it was a planned meeting.

Now why is there a need to explain more than that to Hillary supporters?

You're not going to change their mind, they can read the truth as easy as anyone can. They are still going to spin it as Bernie stalking the Pope and crashing the conference at the Vatican. Don't play their game and let them ruin what Rome was about. Their posts about Bernie's trip is nothing more than a noise machine.

Don't let them ruin it.
April 16, 2016

He still makes less in a year than Clintom makes in one half hour speech

I and a lot of people are paper millionaires. We have pensions ,investments for old age and our homes.

Few people can go out and spend $50,000-per-week beachfront rental for a vacation like Clinton can.

http://time.com/money/4002916/hillary-clinton-vacation-rental/

The weekly rental fee falls just below the U.S. median household income.

Hillary Clinton released a new ad this morning reminding voters of her middle-class background. But there’s nothing middle-class about the way she vacations.

According to the Daily Mail, Clinton will spend her upcoming break from the campaign trail at a $50,000-per-week beachfront rental in the Hamptons along with Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, her son-in-law Marc Mezvinsky, and her new granddaughter, Charlotte. The four-bedroom Amagansett mansion, which Clinton is renting for the second consecutive year from Republican donor Andre Nasser and his wife Lois, features a 50 ft pool and a private beach. The two week rental will cost the Clintons nearly twice the U.S.’ median household income ($51,939, as of September 2014).

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