Month: March 2016

The Illinois Primary is coming up this Tuesday and D. Trump was in Chicago to speak. His rally got shut down by a mob. At least in ’68 the mob had sense enough to go after its own. One of those cheering the protestors had this to say: MAZEL to everybody who made this happen.…

    His insincerity     ==== This is the rule in politics. “Always be sincere whether you mean it or not” H/T Flanders and Swann.  

    Because you KNOW he is lying    

Someone else has noticed what I’ve been pointing out: the GOP’s unbound delegates may matter a lot. The ultimate result of the 2016 presidential election could yet rest on the likes of Erling “Curly” Haugland, 69, a businessman from Bismarck, North Dakota, who will be one of the 2,472 delegates to the Republican party convention…

Notwithstanding my last flippant post, I do have something good to say about this election: it is going to be interesting. A lot more so than those in recent memory. While digesting what we call “the news,” it has long been my habit to switch back and forth from CNN to Fox, so I can compare…

A conspiracy theorist I am not. However, occasionally I run into one which I find irresistible, and the latest involves speculation that Ted Cruz Is The Zodiac Killer. While there is a facial resemblance between Cruz and police sketches of the suspect, a friend pointed out that this seemed highly unlikely, because the Zodiac Killer’s serial…

So, that was interesting. Yesterday Cruz not only outperformed his Kansas polling by an astounding 31 points (+25 vs -6), he took Maine, the most Northeastern of all states, where he was not supposed to be competitive, by double digits — and won the Super Saturday delegate haul by a significant margin. So, what does…

I was looking at trivia and found this:     One cup of coffee contains over 100 chemicals.     How many chemicals are in two cups of coffee?    

About 2 minutes    

With the rise of Trump and Sanders we see the authoritarianism that has become currency in America unmasked. It is ugly. The problem is that they ALL do it. But in this election cycle it is nakedly on view. I had this to say about it in a comment I made elsewhere in a discussion…

I’m enjoying the irony of American Sanders supporters lecturing me, a former Soviet citizen, on the glories of Socialism and what it really means! Socialism sounds great in speech soundbites and on Facebook, but please keep it there. In practice, it corrodes not only the economy but the human spirit itself, and the ambition and…

The video is about 30 seconds. It doesn’t get good until about 20 seconds in. Mark Kirk (R) is running for US Senate reelection in Illinois. He is running on “Muslims need to be vetted and the government has no way to vet them.” In other words – Trump has coat tails. This is probably…