Author: Simon
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Manipulation
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Conventional Wisdom – Negative Bounce
It looks like Hillary is getting a negative bounce from the DNC (Do Not Care) convention. (The full size interactive image can be found here.) Not even Facebook’s censoring of the DNC e-mail scandal has helped. And in other disaster news: Sanders loyalists bash Clinton nomination, clash with police. I expect to see stories in…
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Take A Load Off – The Weight
I had never heard this one before. And This one never gets old.
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Laboratory Equipment News?
I got this white paper solicitation in my e-mail from Laboratory Equipment News. Evaluation of Evaporative Techniques in the Extraction and Preparation of Cannabis Oil The times – they have changed. === For those with an interest: Laboratory Equipment News – main page
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Half Empty
About 3 minutes H/T Weasel Zippers I wonder if Trump has a plan for attracting some of those folks?
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Seen In Passing
The system isn’t broken. It is FIXED.
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Booed
Bernie got booed by his own supporters. Bernie got up there today and said that we need to defeat Donald Trump and we need to support Hillary Clinton, and his own delegation booed. It was one of the most insane moments I’ve ever seen. 1,900 people were booing Hillary Clinton and these were all delegates.…
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Should She Be Reminding Bernie Voters?
Liz(ard) Warren reminded Democrats in her speech last night that the system is rigged. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, facing down a number of supporters who were upset that she decided to support Hillary Clinton, railed against a “rigged” system… She also said: “Bernie reminds us what Democrats fight for every day,” she started in what would…
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Lives Matter
Shamelessly stolen from here.
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This Is Starting To Look Like Nostalgia Week
Somebody To Love – Jefferson Airplane
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Cop Lies – Hardly Anyone Notices
It is about the Sandra Bland case. A former guard at the Waller County Jail told the attorney of Sandra Bland’s mother under oath that he falsified entries on a jail log, making it appear as though he had checked on Bland in the hour before she was found dead, when he had not. According…
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False Positives
A Colorado town has found THC it its water supply. The police suspect criminal activity. This town on Colorado’s Eastern Plains warned its residents not to drink, bathe in or cook with its tap water on Thursday because officials said multiple preliminary tests of the water came back positive for THC, the main psychoactive compound…
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I Have Decided To Take Ted Cruz’ Advice
I’m voting my conscience. Trump ! 2016
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The Dominoes Are Falling
Canada will be legalizing cannabis in 2017. Health Minister Jane Philpott made the announcement during a special session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York regarding drug use and drug-related crime. “We will introduce legislation in spring 2017 that ensures we keep marijuana out of the hands of children and profits out of…
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I Was Having A Bout Of Nostalgia
Soon there won’t even be memories left. Just nostalgia. As usual.
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Tim Kaine Is F NORML
From NORML Political Ratings Well I wouldn’t be dismayed by that Mike Pence has a NORML rating of -20. The lowest you can get is -30. So Pence is just another Fer.
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Losing The Youth
The Republican Party has lost the youth. Pollster Frank Luntz hashed out the party’s millennial problem during a session at the RNC earlier this week. “We have lost [millennials],” he told delegates on Tuesday. “It’s not like we are losing. We have lost that generation.” Luntz blamed far-left universities for indoctrinating young people. The police…
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Hillary’s Defense – I Was Just Following Orders
Hillary admits Obama’s foreign policy is a disaster. You know Hillary, that is not a very good idea. Politically. Even if it is the truth. A new idea is taking hold in response to criticisms of Hillary Clinton based her tenure as Secretary of State—that the decisions were Obama’s and not hers. Trump said in…
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What Might Make Me Vote For Someone Else?
If Ted Cruz came out with, “Drug Prohibition is a HUGE failure. End it. Vote Libertarian.” Well, I’m in Illinois. I can do that.
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It Eliminated A Generation
Former Federal Judge Nancy Gertner: “This is a war that I saw destroy lives,” she said. “It eliminated a generation of African American men, covered our racism in ostensibly neutral guidelines and mandatory minimums… and created an intergenerational problem––although I wasn’t on the bench long enough to see this, we know that the sons and…