Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[entropy]

Spice adds to the flavor, but if you can't taste anything else, the only point you're making is how much pain you can take. And I'm too old to care..

[AlabamAlum]

Spice adds to the flavor, but if you can't taste anything else, the only point you're making is how much pain you can take. And I'm too old to care..

Agreed. But some heat has to be there.

[Wild Hoss]

I see a lot more discussion of people want us to contract the size of our military and stop policing the world. I'd say that's more isolationist. I think the idea of the US protecting investments or key interest had lost some of its steam. That doesn't mean everyone feels that way or the majority. I think the there was some trending of larger support. jmo

Pretty sure the GOP at least is headed 180? the other way, but I hope you are right. The days of dropping smart bombs on old Toyota pickups while our roads crumble need to end. We need to grow up.

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[The Oracle]

What's funny about that is DSL trotted out that Morton's line like that's a good steakhouse.

Morton's is the A-1 Sauce of the premium steakhouse chains.

LOL

[froot loops]

I never thought I see the day when a Republican nominee would poor mouth the United States so badly. That Times interview should be a disqualifier for any candidate, but Trump has uttered 20 other disqualifies in this campaign and he is still running.

[entropy]

There are too many people on both sides that vote party lines.. regardless.

[Ghengis Jon]

Perhaps the ballots should not have party affiliation on them. You have to actually research who stands for what and vote accordingly. Of course, that would require literacy on the part of voters, a stretch at best. I guess it would descend into name recognition.


The chair recognizes the Senator from Ohio, Haywood Jablowme...

[Wild Hoss]

I never thought I see the day when a Republican nominee would poor mouth the United States so badly. That Times interview should be a disqualifier for any candidate, but Trump has uttered 20 other disqualifies in this campaign and he is still running.

If Trump doesn't like it here, he should move somewhere else.

'Murica...love it or leave it!




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[Dr. Strangelove]

Didn't the old school voting machines used to have a lever you could pull that would vote a straight party ticket, without you having to look at the ballot at all?

[entropy]

I think is some states you can do the same thing at the top of the ballot... just fill in All Democrat or All Republican

[Dr. Strangelove]

Roger Ailes officially out at Fox

[UMStan White]

The Republican controlled legislature in Michigan recently passed legislation prohibiting straight party ticket voting which a federal judge blocked by granting an injunction to prevent its implementation

[Ghengis Jon]

Didn't the old school voting machines used to have a lever you could pull that would vote a straight party ticket, without you having to look at the ballot at all?

Yes. I lived out in Iowa for a spell in the late eighties. Where I voted, they had the awesome 7 foot voting booths that both shut and opened the curtain. Brass, steel and wood with the little downward swinging lever-like switches for selecting individuals. Some of the booths had just another switch for straight ticket that locked out the rest of the machine while some had a small lever at the top. Those type you had to still select one switch to select the party before pulling the lever.

Those old voting machines were very cool. They looked 30's-ish.

[entropy]

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/garry-kasparov-donald-trump-vladimir-putin-enabler-article-1.2719178

From Garry Kasparov

My article today in The NY Daily News on Donald Trump's love of two of the most dangerous modern -isms: authoritarianism and isolationism.

Obama has walked away from the world. Trump would run away. Obama's apathy has made the world a more dangerous place and the free world needs greater unity today against the growing threats of global terror and autocracy. But Trump is eager to abandon NATO and to make deals with dictator Putin, the former (?) employer of several of Trump's top advisers.

I can imagine a Joe McCarthy or Richard Nixon today, waving a stack of papers and shouting, ?I hold here in my hand a list of names of people at the highest levels of the Trump campaign who have worked for the Russian government under the direction of a former agent of the KGB!? And it would be completely true! After months of mutual admiration between them, Putin finally got a return on his investment in Trump with a critical change in the GOP platform regarding Russia's invasion of Ukraine.


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[lineygoblue]

Much ado about nothing.

I stated before, and I'll state again.

Hillary can go home after the DNC, sit in her living room with a cold beverage, make a handful of campaign visits to friendly stops, tell Trump to "bite me" if he wants a debate.... and she'll still win. Not only that, she will win big. I'm thinking she'll win at least 52% of the popular vote, and over 300 electoral votes.

Its not even going to be close.

This will be akin to what LBJ did to Goldwater in 1964.