The past few weeks are making me rethink my stand on guns and the Second Amendment.

My wife is a person of color and my son is a mixed-race American. And right here in safe, blue San Francisco, a Latino woman was verbally and physically assaulted by a Trump-lover at Crissy Field. Someone attacked a woman in San Jose and ripped her hijab off in a deserted parking lot. These incidents happened in the deepest-blue parts of a blue state and I don't need to go into what's happened elsewhere. If we are not going to have a president or Justice Department that will not have our backs, it may be time to get our own backs and do something I swore I would never do. And that is to arm myself.

English Football Association looking into charges of sexual abuse of youth players.

Former footballers have been coming forward to say they were sexually abused as youth players.

The FA said: "We are working closely with the police to support their lead investigations and must ensure we do not do anything to interfere with or jeopardise the criminal process."

The FA has instructed independent leading counsel Kate Gallafent QC to assist it with its review.

The FA added that the internal review will look at what information the FA was aware of at relevant times around the issues, which clubs were aware and what action was, or should have been taken.


http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/38121724

Does a president REALLY need to live in the White House?

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton live in the NYC metropolitan area. Bernie lives in Burlington, VT and Martin O'Malley is in Baltimore. Given today's communications technology and the proximity to Washington, DC (with Sanders being a BIT further), does a president REALLY need to reside in the White House? Or is the White House uniquely secure in a way that makes it easier to gueard the POTUS and their family? What do you think?

SFs record-high number of voters continues to increase

The total number of San Francisco voters who cast ballots in the Nov. 8 election continues to increase past the previous record set in the November 2008 election, according to city officials.

As of Wednesday, the 19th preliminary election results report issued by the Department of Elections following the historic Nov. 8 election, there were 414,516 voters with ballots counted. That passes the record set in the November 2008 Consolidated General Election, in which 388,112 residents cast ballots.

The elections department has finished reviewing ballots, though the department will process any ballot cards found during its canvass of polling places.

The elections department planned to work Saturday in City Hall and at the department’s warehouse on Pier 48 to retrieve ballot cards associated with the manual tallying of ballots from 1 percent of the precincts used for this election.

The next report issued by the elections department, expected at 4 p.m. Monday, will include the remaining votes cast for write-in candidates.


http://www.sfexaminer.com/sfs-record-high-number-voters-continues-increase/

The Proclaimers - I'm On My Way (VIDEO)

I have one question for the people celebrating Castro's death in Miami

What are you celebrating? Fidel Castro died of old age, in bed years after transferring power to his brother.

The Big Lesson From 2016 Is That Neither Party Has A Winning Vote Coalition

Donald Trump won the Electoral College by a 306-232 margin, but lost the popular vote by a more than 2 million votes (and still counting) ― more than any previous presidential winner ever has in a split decision. How this happened is a complex story, much more nuanced than most “here’s why Trump won” stories imply.

Almost all of those stories contain a piece of the puzzle, but in order to see the real story you need to consider all of the explanations combined. Neither party has much reason to celebrate the outcome of the 2016 election. Republicans have a demographics problem, and Democrats have a geography problem compounded by turnout issues.

At the state level, the 2016 vote patterns seem to show a sea of red states with blues isolated to the coasts plus Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota and Illinois. Looking county-by-county, it becomes clear that the divide isn’t just coasts vs. flyover territory; it’s rural-urban. Pockets of blue in the major cities, college towns and a handful of majority-black areas in the South are evident in this view. The New York Times’ graphic below shows just how little actual land area went to Hillary Clinton at the county level: She won 15 percent of the land to Trump’s 85 percent.

Yet declaring the United States a country divided by population density overlooks several trends that are key to understanding Trump’s success. The urban-rural split is nothing new; perhaps it’s more exaggerated in 2016 than before, but we’ve known for a long time that rural areas are conservative and urban areas are liberal. But if we consider gradations ― not just dividing counties by which candidate a majority of voters selected, but shading by the proportion of Trump and Clinton voters in each county ― the story is far less clear.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/republicans-democrats-vote-coalition_us_583893a1e4b000af95ee2e52?bygy14i

Trump supporter calls passengers 'Hillary b----es' during rant on plane

A Donald Trump supporter yelled at fellow passengers on a Delta flight on Tuesday night, calling some people “Hillary bitches.”

"Didn't take long to notice that I'm back in 'Merica…,” a Facebook user captioned the 45-second video.
In the video, a man standing in the aisle of the plane is in the middle of a pro-Trump rant. “Donald Trump, baby!” he says.

“This man knows what’s up,” he says, pointing to a passenger.

“We got some Hillary bitches on here?” the man asks.

“Trump!” he says, clapping. “It’s your president. Every goddam one of you. If you don’t like it, too bad.”


https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/man-calls-female-passengers-hillary-bitches-during-pro-trump?bftwnews&utm_term=.trgvOYe2z#.hboMRLy6m

The election WAS rigged, but not in ways that you might think.

We have the most inefficient national election system imaginable, and that is why it is too difficult to sway by hacking. In Michigan, for example, all voting within a municipality is run by the City Clerk. There is a Dearborn City Clerk, a Detroit City Clerk, a Pontiac City Clerk, and it does on. So, in order to hack the state, you need to hack hundreds of local offices. What DID happen this year was as efficient as it was insidious.

1. Federal law enforcement, whose members favored Trump by for, beat the bushes for anti=Clinton stories in coordination with Comey and Giuliani.

2. Comey sent a letter to Congress, which protocol says he never should have done, exaggerated the significance of the duplicate emails found on Scott Weiner's laptop, especially since they had not yet obtained a warrant.

3. The fact the Huma Abedin doesn't know how the emails showed up tells me someone in the FBI accessed her account after it was confiscated in the sexting case.

4. Russian propaganda sources spread fake news stories all over social media.

5. Wikileaks, led by rapist and Clinton hater Julian Assange, undertook and unprecedented hacking of personal, campaign and party servers with the likely support of the Russian government.

This mix of foreign, government and criminal activity is what made the difference.

Marvels Inhumans TV Series Will Arrive via Imax Theaters

LOS ANGELES — One of Marvel Entertainment’s most sprawling superhero mythologies, the Inhumans, is headed to the small screen in a major way.

But the Inhuman likes of Black Bolt, Crystal and Lockjaw, the teleporting dog, will first appear on big screens. As in the biggest.

Imax Corporation, Marvel and the ABC broadcast network announced a partnership on Monday to introduce — and finance — a lavish new television series that will focus on the Inhuman royal family. Under the agreement, a version that combines the initial two episodes of “Marvel’s The Inhumans,” shot entirely with Imax cameras, will play exclusively for two weeks next September on Imax screens worldwide.

Shortly thereafter, the episodes — edited to include additional scenes — will run on ABC, with new installments unspooling in typical prime-time fashion. (The look of the series on TV will be enhanced due to Imax technology.)



http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/business/media/marvels-inhumans-tv-series-will-arrive-via-theaters.html